Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1896-12-22

NAL, when transplanted to this
country. and propogated for any
length Of time, undergo a variety
of changes. These changes can
be prevented to a certain extent
by artificial cultivation and pro-
tection-that is, by making the
conditions surrounding the indi-
vidual as near alike to it's aborig-
inal home as possible. Still, art
cannot entirely prevent the influ-
ence of climate, SO that all living
beings have, to q certain extent,
to contend with hot summers
and cold winters, wet and dry
seasons, certain seasonal winds,
depending on physical geogra-
ply, elevation of land, distance
from the ocean, soil exhalations,
mineral constituents of water,
etc., etc.
By acclimation, in the broad
sense of the term, we mean a
change in the physical constitu-
ton, so as to, in a measu re, adapt
US to climatic conditions here.
But thorough acclimation in the
human family to a new and radi-
cal different climate is the work
of centuries. It is, in fact, a
long process of wedding out of
the weak and delicate individuals
and the perpetuation of such and
their offspring, as by variations
and physical peculiarities are
suited to the climatic conditions.
Our ancestors in Northwestern
Europe have passed through this
process for centuries. A type of
constitution now inhabit these
countries especially adapted to
it's climatic conditions. Hence
the people there, when provided
with reasonable food and shell
ter, present that rugged, ford,
healthy constitution from youth
to old age so seldom seen in this
country among their children
here. The reason that many Of
the old people of our foreign
born population are more robust
than their children, even after
many years residence in this
country, is that they passed
through youth the formative
and basic period in life-in the
old country on their indigenous
soil, and laid the lasting founda-
ton for physical vigor. After
the body had passed the devel-
opment stage of youth, the
changes to a foreign climate
could not so readily affect them,
and in many instances they re.
main vigorous in old age.
But with their children born
and raised here 1t is different.
Although endowed with vigor-
Gus physical constitution at birth,
our native born children of for
eign parents are nevertheless ex-
otics 10 illustrate this let us
take, for instance, q child-a girl,
we will say-whose ancestral and
indigenous home is on the shore
of the Baltic. If of healthy
parentage and surrounded with
proper conditions of food, shelter
and care, the result will be a nor
NAL average development to full
maturity in a period of not less
than eighteen years, and perhaps
twenty. At thirty she is still
young-perhaps only married a
year or two. At forty she is a
young wife still. At ffty-wen,
just matronly enough to appear
such. Most everybody here
knows that this is not exagger-
ating. Now transfer this child
in infancy to Minnesota, we will
say, and climatic conditions here
are not very much different from
the shores of the Baltic. Our
climate here is, on the whole, as
healthy, and more SO, perhaps,
than the climate there, and what
would be the effect on the deyel-
opment of this same Individual?
The first effect would be a forced
maturity two, three or four years
earlier than normal for her type.
Ten degrees of latitude further
south and cloudless skies in sum-
mer time forces not only vegeta-
ton, but all chemico- vital pro