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and Middle States, and the residents of California, there is as much 

 difference as between the people of New York and the peoplo of Liver- 

 pool; and it is no less obvious a fact that the climatic difference on this 

 coast is in the direction of an Anglo-Saxon type. When our forefathers 

 landed on Plymouth Bock they were burly, ruddy, full-veined, and 

 stalwart Englishmen. The influence of climatic extremes in the long 

 interval that has elapsed, has changed the type, and we find to-day that 

 the typical male American of the Eastern States is lank, gaunt, narrow- 

 chested, spindle-shanked, lantern jawed, with high cheek-bones, deep-set 

 eyes, and sallow complexions; while the female American of the Eastern 

 States is delicately trained, of fragile proportions, premature develop- 

 ment, exquisite complexion, great nervous activity, and short-lived 

 beauty, both of face and form. And now mark the magic transforma- 

 tion effected upon these people by a ten years' residence in California. 

 The gaunt form of the man fills up, the narrow chest expands, the 

 spindle shanks acquire robust calves, the lantern jaws plump up, the 

 sallow skin clears and brightens, the haggard, anxious look is replaced 

 by one of genial comfort and enjoyment of life. With the Eastern 

 women, assuming her to be moderately youthful, the change is not less 

 surprising. The fragility, which in her old home made her resemble a 

 delicate porcelain figure, gives place to a vigorous health that laughs 

 at double windows and rejects registers; her waxen pallor disappears, 

 and the rich blood mantles brilliantly in her well-filled cheeks. No 

 longer is she languid and enervated, but throws herself into all the varied 

 occupations which present themselves with an energy and vivacity 

 unknown before. In a word, our Eastern cousins are metamorphosed 

 into Anglo-Saxons. Despite themselves, and without the least regard 

 to their possible prejudices, nature has transformed them into capital 

 tyj3es of the best breed of Englishmen and English women. Eastern 

 travelers constantly notice this striking change, and the Englishmen 

 who have passed through the States on their way to this coast are 

 amazed to find themselves, in the streets of San Francisco, among a 

 population whose leading physical traits remind them of nothing they 

 have seen since they landed on Castle Garden, but recall at once the 

 faces and forms which they have been accustomed to regard as dis- 

 tinctively English. Nobody ever saw in the Eastern States children 

 that look like those of California. Nowhere is those regions is there 

 found the abounding health and animal force that mark the rising gen- 

 eration here. It is not to be denied that Eastern parents living in Cali- 

 fornia have done their best to spoil their children by subjecting them to 

 the abominably unwholesome dietary which has grown into favor among 

 that sallow and dyspeptic people; but nature is too strong even for a 

 steady course of hot cakes, leaden pastry, and clogging sweets. Some 

 day we hope Californians will learn to cook. They know nothing about 

 it as yet, and nearly all their ideas upon the vital subject of foods are 

 crude and wrong. But when we see what the magnificent climate does 

 for mankind in this high favored region, it seems to us that there is 

 justification for the belief that California may be marked out for the 

 production of a world shaping race, and that here are destined to be 

 cradled the men and women who shall mold the future of this whole 

 continent. Certainly the conditions of social development are nowhere 

 else so favorable. Nowhere else is the soil so fertile, the atmosphere so 

 genial, the local influences so inspiring, the capacity to live with every 

 sense and faculty so perfect. And where else, this being so, than in Cali- 

 fornia, should the coming race be nurtured and developed? — Sac. Record. 



