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O With intervals of varied excitement of mind and body, are amons 
white population that does not travel, that does not receive 
_ an agricultural product in the country, growing up in men a 
et T aes as in corn and cattle, where the soil is good. oe 
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gambling spirit well developed. It has, indeed, its actual mani~ 
festation as such, for groups of men may be seen any evening — 
gaming by the hour for pennies,—exactly what one might expect 
as the outcome of such surroundings. But the climate alone 
tells in the plainest way as a depressing, energy-robbing factor. q 
Hence the people will do without fish rather than expend the 
necessary energy to secure the much-needed nitrogenous food 
A diet largely starchy will never produce the highest things, 
physical or other, in any race of men. 4 
women, and an equal lack of comeliness of feature and beauty 
of expression, call for explanation. 4 
It is to be borne in mind that, while there have been some 
emigrants, there have been but few immigrants; for thirty oF A 
forty years the community has been a stable one. Among 7 
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explanation, I am quite sure. Long ago, Dr. O. W. Holmes, 14 
ais own inimitable manner, struck the key-note of the solution, — 
in that remarkable book, “Elsie Venner.” “Human beauty 
make music to our eyes require a combination of favorable oF 
cumstances, of which alternations of unburdened tranquillity 
