The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-10-07


AS rule, blue eyes go with fair hair,
and fair hair is an index of Teutonic
origin, unless we consider with DIR.
Barnard Davis and DIR. Beddoe, that the
combination of black hair with dark blue
eyes pr gray eyes indicate Celtic blood.
A German or Norseman with fexen
hair and black eyes is not as rare as
Spaniard or an Italian with blue ones,
SO that it is safe to say that nation
with preponderence of blue eyes has
also majority of fair-haired citizens,
and therefore marked prevalence of
the Germanic, Celtic and possibly the
Slav elements in its population. Now
we know that the latter race emigrates to
the new world in numbers SO few as
scarcely to effect the general result,
while the Latin races, with dark eyes,
seek, for the most part, new homes In
more southern ATTITUDES than the United
States. The glass-eye statistician uncon-
sciously brings out this point. Twenty
years ago many more dark than light
eyes were sold in America, but from
that date there has in the sale of dark
eyes been a preceptible falling off.
About twenty light eyes are now sold to
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even higher, viz: about thirty-five blue
or light eyes are sold to one brown,
while, on the other hand, in New Or
leans fifty dark eyes are sold to one light
one. Now, were it possible to change
the color of the eye to be matched, it
might be supposed that the facts noted
were due to the change in taste, which
recently described fair hair as the fash
ionable hue. This is, however, out of
the question. Hence, the only explana-
ton is, that the vast German and Scan
dinavian immigration of the last two
decades have utterly swamped the mix
ed English population which previously
occupied the Northern and Western
states of the Uuion; while in the South
the original French and mixed negro
races have not yet been diluted by the
fair-haired northern arrivals. Curiously
enough the recent census entirely con-
firms this theory deduced from the re-
turn of glass-eye sales. In Nevada, as
might be expected, 20 per cent. of the
Inhabitants are of foreign birth; in Cal
ifornia, 81; in Arizona, 50 1-2; in the
northern and older western states, about
80 on an average, while in the most OF
the hotter southern states there Is prac-
tically no foreign element whatever. The
same assertion may bemade for the purely
rural districts Of New England, the I'M
migrants finding homes chiefly in the
large manufacturing towns. In the
cooler, ex-slave States there is on an
average 10 per cent. of foreigners; IN the
others less than per cent, while In
North Carolina the people of foreign
birth resident in the State are barely IA
of per cent. But this immigration con-
sists almost entirely OF the Teutonic and
Celtic races. The agricultural States
are peopled by preponderance OF Ger
mans and Scandanavians. Whole dis
tricts are inhabited by settlers from
Mecklenburg, Denmark, Sweden or
| Norway. The German tongue is often
the only one generally spoken over one
or two counties, ana in others Morse will
as generally be the language in which
! the vernacular non-official intercourse Of
the settlers is carried on. In Canals
| there are Gaelic races. But In the
States the Highlanders mix with the rest
of the population. Comparatively few
of the Irish or French-out Of Canada
! take to farming, and Erin is in the new
world an unknown tongue. In parts Of
Louisiana. Florida, Arizona, California
and New Mexico, there was, and still is
large Spanish element. But it is dis.
appearing before the Anglo.Saxon and
getting confined to certain districts; SC
that even there the blue eyes are begin
ming to predominant, except in the
warmer regions which have no attrac.
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