The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-11-13
Stop Sc8WIing.

Don't scowl, it spoils faces. Before
you know it your forehead will rescm-
BILE small railroad map. There is
grand trunk line now from your cowlick
to the edge of your nose, intersected by
parallel lines running east and west,
with curves arching your eyebrows, and
oh, how much older you look for it.
Scowling is a habit that steals upon us
unawares. We frown when the light is
too sstrong, and when it is too weak,
We tie our eyebrows into II knot when
we are thinking, and knit them more
tightly when we cannot think. There is
no denying there are plenty of things to
scowl about. The baby in the cradle
Constitutional scowl," we say. The
little toddler who has sugar on his bread
and butter tells his trouble in the same
way when you leave the sugar off.
Gross" we say about the children, and
worried to death about the old folks,
and as for ourselves, we can't help it.
But we must. Its refiext influence
makes Others unhappy; for face answer
eth unto face in life as well as in water.
1t bellies our religion. We should pos
sess our souls in such peace that it will
reflect itself in placid countenances.
If your forehead is ridged with
wrinkles before forty, what will it be at
seventy There is one consoling thought
about these marks of time and trouble
the death angel always grasses them.
Even the extremely aged, in death often
wear a smooth and peaceful brow, thus
leaving our last memories of them calm
and tranquil. But our business is with
life. Scowling is kind of silent scold-
| ing. For PHYS sake, let us take sad
iron, or glad iron, or smoothing tool OF
some sort, and straighten these creases
out of our faces before they become in
delibly engraven upon our visage.
The Population OF New York City.
An erroneous impression seems to
prevail in regard to the foreign popula-
ton of New York city. 1t is commonly
spoken of as city substantially foreign
and many wellinformed persons thinl,
the foreign population exceeds the ma
tive, but this, it seems, is not true. The
native population exceeds the foreign by
fully l25,OOO The common belief il
that in New York city there are 400, ,00(
Irish, 200, 900 Germans, 5000 French
and $1,000 Italians, Spaniards, and Gu
bans; but this is an eXaggeration. TIL,
census of 1870 put the foreign population
of the city as follows: Irish, 20l, ,999
English, "a, 442; Scotch, 7,562; Ge-mans
Isl l,2l6; French. S,265; Italians, 2,795
Austrians, 2,737; Poles, 1898; Swiss
2,l78; Hollanders, 1887; Russians
: l,l5l. This makes total of 405,974,
large number of foreigners, but not S
, large by 10000 as is generally supposed
! In 1870 there were l3, ,702 colored person
/ in New York city, and there is no dout
: but that this number has largely il
-. - -
Z too, have added TO their number ver
. largely. In 1870 there were only twely
: in the city, and now the number is est
e mated at 1000. The excess of womt
n over men at the last census was $500
g and it is believed the disproportion wi
still be greater at the next census. I'll
census next year will show large i
crease of population, as several subj
Ie ban towns have been taken within Il
3 corporate limits since 1870, besides Il
natural increase that has taken place.