Richmond Palladium

Rev. Orville Dewey, in his late work entitled "The Old World and the New," makes the following, among other ingenious comparisons:

Eating. The Americans and the English are the greatest eaters in the world--the most voracious devourers of meats, and the most eager of high, hot and stimulating wines. Meat enough is put upon an American dinner table every day, to keep a family of Frenchmen, Italians, or even Germans, a full week, if not a month; meat, too, at that very season of the year--the hot season--when its stimulus is too strong, and when the system demands the relief of vegetable diet. In the south of France, meat is eaten by the peasantry only once a week; on Sunday, generally. In England the poorer classes, who are far the healthier for it, do not have it more than twice a week, and often not even once. The French so mingle their meat with sauces, vegetables &c., that but very little is eaten, though much may seem to be.

Female Dress. The dress of woman (among us) is undoubtedly the cause of her bad health--consumption, &c.; but as they prefer death to wearing thick slippers and warm stockings, and leaving off tight corsets, there is no hope of reforming them.

Bringing Up. Children in the cities of Europe, are brought up better than ours are. The nurses do not keep them in their chambers, fondling over them all day. The children are made to exercise in the open air. There they stay all of the day that the time from school or from meals will permit. The consequence is, that they grow up with health and with ruddy physiognomy.

Exercise of Males. The great cause why the Europeans appear ruddier and healthier than we do, it strikes us, is that they exercise more, and live more in the open air. Parks in England are every thing. In Italy, and France, and Germany, the people live much out of doors. Every day their Boulevards are not full, but their Batteries are. Their Coffee houses are out of doors. Families sit as much as possible in gardens, and in public places. Their windows are all tenanted. Not only every city but every town has its public park, adorned with trees, by the water side, wherever it is possible; and every thing is done, which can be done to make it comfortable and refreshing, as well as fashionable. The sons of the first families in England are often seen in Switzerland, with their packs upon their backs, walking amid the mountains, at the rate of forty miles a day.