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step, fuller chest, and ruddier cheek of the Nova-Scotian girl foretell still greater differences of color, form, and strength that England and the Continent present. These differences impressed one who passed through Nova Scotia not long ago very strongly. Her observations upon them are an excellent illustration of our subject, and they deserve to be read in this connection. Her remarks, moreover, are indirect but valuable testimony to the evils of our sort of identical education of the sexes. “ Nova Scotia,” she says, “ is a country of gracious surprises.”
“ But most beautiful among her beauties, most wonderful among her wonders, are her children. During two weeks’ travel in the Provinces, I have been constantly more and more impressed by their superiority in appearance, size, and health, to the children of the New-England and Middle States. In the autset of our journey, I was struck by it; along all the roadsides they looked up, boys and girls , fair, broad-cheeked, sturdy-legged, such as with us are seen only now and then.