Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-14
StOD ScOWljng.


Don't scowl, it spoils faces. Before
you know it your forehead will resem,
BILE small railroad map. There is a
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 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 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
frowns' when something fails to suit.
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.
worried to death about the old folks,
and as for ourselves, we can't help it.
But we must Its ref1eXt influence
makes others unhappy; for face answer
eth unto face in lite 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 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 scolI-
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-
tion of New York city. tits commonly
spoken of as a city substantially foreign,
and many well-informed persons think
the foreign population exceeds the ma
tive, but this, it seems, is not true. The
native population exceeds the foreign by
fully 125,000 The common belief is
that in New York city there are 400, 600
Irish, 300, 900 Germans, 25, 600 French,
and $4,000 Italians, Spaniards, and Gu
bans; but this is an eXaggeration. The
census of 1870 put the foreign population
of the city as follows: Irish, 2O1, ,999; /;
English, "a, 4,442; Scotch, 1862; Germans,
l5l,2l6; French. s,265; Italians, 2,795 +;
Austrians, 2.737; Poles, 1893; Swiss,
2.17S; Hollanders, 1887; Russians,
l,l5l. This makes total of 405, ,974, a
large number of foreigners, but not so
large by 10000 as is generally supposed.
In 1870 there were l3, 7O2 colored persons
in New York city, and there is no doubt
but that this number has largely in
creased since tl.at time. The Chinese,
too, have added to their number very
largely. In 1870 there were only twelve
in the city, and now the number is esti-
mated at 1000. The excess of women
over men at the last census was 5000
and it is believed the disproportion will
still be greater at the next census. The
census next year will show a large In
crease of population, as several subur.
ban towns have been taken within The
corporate limits since 1870, besides the
natural increase that has taken place.