428 CLIMATE, ETC. 



Canadians are simply Englishmen who have been taken 

 out of the nursery, and transplanted into a new field. As 

 the strongest plants are generally chosen by the gardener 

 for planting out, so in emigration it is generally the men 

 of most strength, spirit, energy, and ambition that leave 

 the old country to push their fortunes in the new. 

 Conquering the wilderness, and making homesteads out 

 of it, is an occupation calculated to stimulate, and not 

 to subdue, those qualities of mind and body, such as 

 self-reliance, energy, patience, on the one hand, and 

 hardiness, strength, and activity on the other, which are 

 supposed to be characteristics of Englishmen. There is 

 as much difference between the United States citizen and 

 the Canadian as between the Englishman and the French- 

 man. By blood the American of to-day is a strange 

 mixture of all the Old- World races European, Asiatic, 

 and African. He is famed and feared all over the world 

 for his cleverness and shrewdness, or 'cuteness. But even 

 the least observant traveller cannot fail to discover that 

 he has cultivated his brains at the expense of his body. 

 The citizen of the United States has also fought against 

 and conquered the wilderness ; but he has done this not 

 with his own strong arms, like the Canadian, but with the 

 hands of the Chinaman, the African, and the Irishman. 



I suppose in considering the future of the two peoples, 

 an ethnologist would study the women more than the men. 

 There is quite as great a difference between the American 

 \vomen and the Canadian women as between the men. 

 American women who have not to work for their living 

 object to any sort of exercise except perhaps dancing. They 

 neither walk nor ride. They go by rail and drive in car- 



