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340 A recent writer on America has informed us that there is a disinclination among the wives of the luxurious cities of the Atlantic sea-board to become mothers. I found, after inquiry made everywhere on the spot, that this indisposition to bring up children, is not confined to the wives, or to the cities this writer's words indicate, but is participated in, to a large extent, by the husbands, & is unclear with the American Union. It is just as strongly felt at Denver, two thousand miles away, as at New York; & is almost as much practised at New Orleans as at Chicago. The feeling--or it might be said the absence of natural feeling--may easily be explained. The expenses & annoyances of house-keeping are in America very great; & young couples, except when they are rich, & such cares must always form a small minority, generally escape them by living in Hotels. Hotel living is always according to unclear, so much a week for each person. To a couple living in this way, & barely able to find the means for it, the cost of every additional child can be calculated to a dollar, & is seriously felt. As long as they are without children they may get on comfortably enough, & go into society, & frequent places of unclear. But if encumbered with the expense of a family, they will have to live a far quicker, & less gay life. They cannot give up their autumn excursion--they cannot give up balls, & dresses, & concerts, & carriages?. Therefore the husband & wife come to an understanding that they will