x() fj English and American Physique. [February, 
hut these days are so small a minority of the whole year that 
they do not foster or inspire a habit of out-door life , thus, 
we stTy in-doors even more than is necessary in our own 
climate^ One of the great advantages, possibly the chief 
aStage, in many cases, change of air for consumptives, is 
that they live out-doors; and, provided they can get an 
abundance of out-door air, it matters less than many sup- 
pose where they go— whether to the mountains or to cold or 
Wa N^t C only t are there many more days of rain in Great 
Britain than in America, but there are more clouds in the 
skv even when it does not rain. Clouds, by well-known 
uhvsical laws, interfere with evaporation; and ^us the 
dampness remains longer in the earth than in a land where 
sunshine is more free. Thus, the number of days of rain 
and the amount of rain being the same in Great Britain and 
America Great Britain would be more moist. This persis- 
tent moisture, as is well known, is the cause of the green- 
ness and long-continued beauty of the foliage °I G ^at 
Britain of Ireland, and of the Scottish lakes. Certain 
threads’ and cloths, I am told, can only be manufaftured at 
the hiehest advantage in this moist atmosphere. . 
My friend Professor Ball, of Paris, told me there is a great 
difference between Great Britain and France. In Paris, at 
i where the sky is far clearer, more like that ot 
America the streets dry up much more quickly after a rain. 
The French, as also is well known, are more nervous in 
some respefts than the English, with a finer type of organ- 
isation more nearly resembling Americans. . . 
Fither climate, that of Great Britain or of America, is 
i -j t fi rs 4- t 0 bear • when we become worn to either we 
vrlt it to the other I am told by one who well knows 
Fi! i n, ite a number of Englishmen and Scotchmen who 
have lived in this country and acquired property, returning 
to their homes, after a time came back to America ; they 
missed the noise, the hurry, the struggle to which in the 
life of business they had become accustomed here, and the 
mother-land seemed dull and cold. 
Americanisation of Europe. 
Observations in both continents bring into view two pro- 
cesses^ That are of supreme import in their relation to the 
future of mankind. One is, the Americanisation of ^urope 
the other the Germamsation of America, l hat Americans 
were more rapid in their movements, more intense in their 
