The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-02

hibits symptoms of old age similar to
the old age of individuals in it's en-
famed, morbid nerves, and their
language bears this out. The French
man speaks more words to the second
than the Englishman or German, be-
cause his muscles and nerves work
more rapidly than theirs. Compare the
beauty of a Partisan woman with that
of a Londoner and notice how dress
makes up in the one for the real love-
iipess of color and feature of the other
Both sexes in France show the ex-
cessive emotional life of the people,
and the accelerated nervous rate is re-
Elected in the dry lined faces of the
boulevards.
France has lived rapidly and her
nerves are shaken. The revolution Of
1889 was a shock from which she has
not yet recovered. She is a warming
perhaps to no country more than to
the United States.
I'VE Americans have rested long in
tire conviction that we were Anglo
Saxons, but we are finding that ner.
vously we resemble France. Germs of
disorder and disease are in the body
polite that may develop. Already we
are taken by the other nations as be-
ing less serious than the English, and
Serious" translated into nerve terms
indicates much.
Other qualities" said the speaker,
continuing, also liken us to the
French. We are satisfied, for in
stance, with less than the real thing
Our sense of veracity is not keen. Wit
ness the flimsy goods we turn out, the
grandiloquent titles we childishly de-
light in. Our current literature indi-
Gates an unhealthy taste for the mere
tricious; and our humorous papers al
most outnumber those of Paris, while,
on the ether hand, we have fewer mag
azines devoted to serious reading than
the English. James Muirhead, the
young Englishman who spent three
years here preparing the American
Baedecker, noted unfavorably our
American spirit of irreverent fun-mak-
ing. Our churches are descending to
low and shameful level of COMPETE
ton with lecture bureaus, and our lee
ture lyceums have degenerated into
vaudevilles. Morally, we are living in
glass houses You would look long
in Paris before you saw on the stage
the immodest costumes that are worn
at some of our beaches. We do not
have the same indifference toward mar
ried infidelity as the French but dual
households are growing among us rap
idly, while our divorce laws are derided
even by the French. Bishop Potter
has pointed out that we are threat
ened with a parallel decline of France
and the United States, the decay of
latter country being accompanied by
the decay of the national life, and DR..
Watson Clan MacLaren) has noted
the extreme restlessness of the Amer
lean.
"A bright woman said to Dr. Wat
son, We can't stop to rest because we
are so tired. 1t was a significant re-
al
fatigue is the inability to stop work
The American restlessness displays it
self in the workman who will accom-
plish from 25 to 80 per cent more work
in q day than his English brother, a
gain which is partly due to the eli
mate. The American climate is cleo
trical and its electricity has gone into
the people. Each man is like a YES
sci charged to a certain number of
volts, and all we have to do is to
apply him to a pulpit or a desk and
he discharges himself. Sometimes this
process goes on so rapidly that all the
electricity is exhausted, then the man
has to go off to Colorado for year,
after which he returns and is good for
perhaps another ten years, when, with
out any warning this time, his heart
stops or his brain clouds, and then we
have to get a new man. This same
4NeNhitS' say . Ii. w ciloOlls llic1rNcS lllS
woman the
BRIGHTEST ON THE EARTH.
I'VE must not continued the
speaker 're-echo the word, tickle
France, for we have been guilty of an
act of fickleness never surpassed by
Rome or France What mad rivalry
was shown to honor the hero of Manila
when he first landed, and what furious
and insane denunciation he brought
upon himself because he disposed Of
his property in accordance with his af-
lection for his wife. We, the people
out of whom this outburst came, do
well to study ours elves.
I'm admitting our diseases and
DANGERS said Mr.. Bradley in conclu-
sion. sit must be always remembered
that we are still young, and that not
even a national type has yet been
evolved. By reason of free communi-
cation with other countries and the
coming Of new races to the country
we shall escape the deterioration which
has beset some European nations, and
can eliminate our weaknesses and in
tensify our strong and excellent quail
tiles. And a race shall result that shall
be clear-eyed, quick % hand, sure of
foot; that shall be quick of perception.
steady of execution, and shall combine