Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-10-17
NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS.
How Che Country Marks the Man Tn
 Hurrying Aansrican.

Hurrying American.
 The American is recognizable from whatever part of our country he may have come, not only because he is lmbued with the American spirit which crops out and betrays him, but also from his American physique the elongated head, the fine and transparent skin, the quick glaneing eye, the mobility and fiexibility of body. the changing features. the gen nine laugh. the nervousness of his movements. But if the four present types of Americans from the north, south. east and west are brought to- gether their likenesses are not so ap- parent.
 There yet remain differences due to climatic influences and the topog- raphy of that particular section of country from which he came. en- vironments that declare for him what manner of man he is Never could 1 persuade the old darky woman of the south, the "auntie' whom everybody knows, that I was southerner. ''Ah, boss, she used to say, 'yous come a long way north of hyer.
 The Yankee is recognizable every where; there's no mistaking him. The figure of Uncle Sam is the tladi. tional Yankee. Here in New Eng land the people grow tall and lank, and their temperament becomes vital and nervous. I believe the New Eng land people are becoming nervous and dyspeptic, although born in q rugged, picturesque country that is reputed to and should produce a rugged. characteristic race. They eat little and hurriedly; they sleep little; they have a burned out look that bespeaks nervous strain and malnutrition. They worry and they trenble. The women lose their TO- tundity. and the men strive, and both grow thin.
 The southerner comes among Us from the land of flowers and ease and with the grace of one accustom- cd to repose and leisure. But before the Indian summer Is over and the birds are flown the feeling that he must hurry begins to possess him, and by the ides of March he IS on the run with the rest
 The foreigner comes to us from the rational living. slow going countries of the old world. At first he is as tonished to see us get up from the table and leave him to take his des- sert alone. He breaches moderation, but the wild race of the people and the climate will not let him have 1t.
 And the German of today, whose grnndfathels landed here POO years ago, Is no longer Q German in ap- pearance. The country has trade marked him. In spite of the lynn phatic, phlegmatic temperament of his ancestors, who were thickset. broad shOuldered. beer loving and sausage eating, he has the refinement of figure and the vital temperament of the Yankee. He Is the Euro pean, as somebody has said, with a drop of nervous fluid added.
 Gladstone's longevity may be due in part to this act of his life-that he never cuts a string from bundle, but he takes time to unite the knot. What are we born and living forl Is it to hurry For mOneyi For dys- pepsial For a pain in the side, the virtues of which we recite every morning at tsblel For the bauble of a reputationl Or is it rather for hap piness and usefulness, so that some one at least may say of us when we are gone that be has been happier and better because we have ivedl- Boston Medical and Surgical Journal