Show THE AMERICAN PEOPLE They are Emphatically 3Ierrja Restless and Surprisingly Energetic We are emphatically a people til nerve says the American Mygaxiae Visitors from other lands are estoa ished at the fierce activity that pervades per-vades our most insignificant actions but they themselves speedily contract restlessness and no longer marvel at wonderful developments of invention and speed of oractical application A portion of this energy is doubtless doc to American climate which reaches is a vigorous and obtrusive manner ihs quiet and rest do not form part of tha natural law in this country but ifc Le far more a result of our newness OTae youth in the family of nations Scarcely out of our swaddling clothes of history we are called upon to standup stand-up squarely in competition with a thousand thou-sand years of past and show the ok3 fogies a new thing or two And tra have done it are doing it bOW and ap parently have shouldered a contract co keep in the lead for all time to come What with new instruments for anni hilation of time and distance limited express trains across the continent art unlimited chances for express speed in dissipation the American temperament has already grown to be one of great delicacy of nerve Our children at sis age when their contemporaries in oilier lands are still at school relegate tha bid folks to the rear and fathers pinion is voted as good of couraj but belongs to a past period II Yet in all this mad speed there is season sea-son It does not follow that we lira shorter lives than elsewhere even ns length of years that is not the casa We are not lees capable 01 keen appreciation appre-ciation goodthiiigs when once they are introduced to us on the contrary we are apt to see beauty and say eo too when not even a glance of pleasure shows that our slower neighbor baa noticed it But from a medical point of view our temperament is a dangerous danger-ous one to the state in that it doess most distinctly repress reproduotfos The future American will be conglomerate conglom-erate the blood of forefathers will ba so far diluted that its characteristic will be lost in foreign overflowing tide which if eluggish in its flow may still be of service by reclaiming from too much nervousness our fidgety people |