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Tims, we have all kinds of " national dances," so called. Oddly 

 enough, the national dance of Hungary sets forth the drama of 

 courtship the shy advance, the maidenly modesty and retreat, 

 the proposal, the rejection, but finally the open-armed acceptance. 

 (See illustration.) 



Finally, dancing follows a general law of mental evolution, 

 namely, that practices which occupy an important place in the 

 minds and daily doings of people in a savage stage of culture sur- 

 vive only as matters of amusement, or perhaps of aesthetic feeling, 

 in a period of civilization. And such is now the place occupied by 

 the eldest of the arts. When we regard the pavan, the gavotte, 

 the minuet, the Sir Roger de Coverle3 r , or the waltz, we may see 

 in them the survivals of that primitive impulse which we often 

 fail to recognize in camp -meetings and church " revivals." 



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THE NATIVE AND FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION. 



VIII. LESSONS FEOM THE CENSUS. 

 By CARROLL D. WEIGHT, A. M., 



UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OF LABOR. 



THE native and foreign-born population of the United States 

 has been given to the public in Census Bulletin No. 194. 

 The designations of the foreign-born as to countries from which 

 they came are not included in the bulletin. It is impossible, 

 therefore, to consider any question beyond that of the distinc- 

 tion between native and foreign-born, with the addition of im- 

 mediate parent nativity. 



Native and Foreign-born Population, 1890. 



