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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St., Atlanta, Ga. Kntered sb second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of March 3. 187 S Subscription Price —Delivered by carrlM-. 10 cents a week. By mail, 15.00 a year. Payable In advance. Cruel Frightening of Children r * ,r A Human Being Should Be Able to Do for His Own as Much as a Hen Can Do. The most acute suffering is that produced by FEAR, and those who suffer most acutely from fear arc YOUNG CHILDREN. Who does not remember the intense agony in youth based upon the superstitions teachings of some foolish older person " Anti how many children are made miserable through the hid eous fear that comes from threats and from punishment postponed? If a man should be whipped incessantly for three or four hours he would think his tormentor a monster of brutality. Yet you say to a child . “T will whip you for that tomorrow. ” You sentence that child to hours of the most acute mental suf fering. and if the child be nervous and unusually sensitive yon may permanently injure its health. Here is a scene unforunate.ly not rare in this country : A thin, nervous little boy, perhaps ten years old. was walking along a suburban street. Suddenly, on turning a corner, he was con fronted by a man. apparently his father. The child stood trembling. The man, in a voice of cold, con centrated anger, said : “Didn't I tell you to come early.' You go to the house and jWAIT THERE TILL I COME BACK AND FIX YOI '' The man walked on. to get the drink of beer or whisky that should add to bis natural cruelty, and the poor child, without a word, started for homo to await the coming punishment. No more cruel treatment was ever endured by any human being than the punishment inflicted by that thoughtless man on the ner vous, helpless child placed in his power. Later, of course, there followed the punishment; a huge, pow erful man striking repeatedly the delicate body of the child, empha sizing the brutality of his blows with more brutal words, and feeling when it was over that he had gloriously done his duly as a typical American father. Os course, the actual brutal beating was only a small part of the child s ordeal The most horrible part was the waiting for the punishment. No man in the death cell ever suffered more than thousands of children suffer every day waiting for the brutality which is to exemplify our savage notions concerning the education of children. If such a monstrous parody on a father should bo mot in some lonely wood by a huge gorilla and treated as that father treats his own son. he would complain bitterly of the gorilla’s ferocity. Yet it would not equal in any way his own brutal and less excusable cruelty. If a parent says that he can not bring up his children and con trol them without beating them, you may say to that parent: You never struck a child in your life except when you wore angry, and you would not have dared to strike it if it had been of your own size. Children born of decent parents can he brought up. and ARE ' brought up, without beatings, and if yours are a different kind of children It is a reflection on YOU. and on your whole brood and family The poor, ignorant hen can teach its yonng ones to scratch and hunt worms, and acquire whatever education they need, without hurting them, and a human being should be able to do for bis own as much as a hen can do. i The Italians Made a Good l Beginning With the Turks The Turks are out nf place in Eiyope. and they should have no room there. The Italians, in the righteous war that they have waged against Turkey, have made a good beginning. They have remedied injustice, they have brought the mur derous Turkish Empire to its knees. Now war breaks out in the Balkans, the people of Mont enegro have united with other brave men in that corner of Eu rope so long oppressed. And it is to be hoped that this out burst of indignation will send the Turks once and for all across the Balkans and back to Asia, whence they never should have come. Cruel, immoral, treacherous, the Turkish policy has been a policy of murder where people were weak, of lying and evasion when dealing with the strong, a policy of poison and the bow string at home in the imperial paiace. There is no good thing in Turkey—no thought, no aspiration, no civilization. Turkish rule in Europe has been a curse to every one con cerned. It has been tolerated because the other powers, jealous of each other, have left, the Turk in charge of the Bosphorus, in charge of that passage that might give to Russia or another power control of the Mediterranean —if the Turk were put out. The other nations have looked on like so many dogs in tin manger—leaving the unspeakable Turk in his place for fear that some civilized nation would take the place in his stead The time for shuffling and evasion lias gone. Italy has made an admirable beginning May the Balkan powers, u bo have so lona resisted Turkish tyranny in their mountains, remain united and deiorumed until rule on European soil shall have become a memory. The Atlanta Georgian Clues Extraordinary—-Tell-Tale Blood Crystals A Modern Method of Solving a Murder Mystery i ' s®. 1 ’ ’ “2 I M; > 3 / \ / A ''' J , LHVk Ji h = W i’. A <'•«’ Ase, . fJA ■ A SwwF ' X |S\ zvix jC. A/♦ /&A . \/• 'X® X •' / \ . ■ >''YAUZM'Z ' T / - ♦ n’UM' ..-"A: X. jn Ksi&iJMw J w c W BLOOD CRYSTALS WHICH AID THE DETECTIVE; PROOFS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY DIFFERENCES IN THE RED CORPUSCLES OF ANIMALS. No. I—Blood crystals of a baboon. No. s—Blood crystals of a man. No. S—Blood crystals of a sheep. No.2—Blood crystals of a dog. No. 6—Blood crystals of an orang- cr y stal ® of a cat - N«. .0-Bbod o, . . ood crystals of a chimpanzee. No. 7 —Blood crystals of a pigeon. No. 12—Bleed crystals of a white cat. f | HA I’ the haemoglobin, or red coloring matter of | I' l *' blood, forms crystals has been known for a long time. In connection with this old fact, Dr. Edward Tyson Reichert, professor of physiolo gy in the I niverslty of Pennsylvania, in association with Dr. Ames Peaslee Brown, professor of mineralo gy and geology in the same university, and an ex pert crystalographer, has now made discoveries of signal moment, in the light of which zoologists have begun to revise their facts. The practical, apart from the purely scientific, value of the discovery is in re lation to murder trials. Some years ago. a certain test —not depending on blood crystals—was diseov- :: A Consistent Man at Last :: NOT long ago I wrote an article in which I expressed the opinion that most men, judging from the looks of the wives they had picked out. were not such worshipers of beauty as was gen erally supposed. It appears that this view of the matter was errone ous. At least one man protests against it. and has written the fol lowing letter to me: "Dear Madame—You bet your life men marry women for their looks. That’s all they know about a wom an until they are married to her. I'hen if she is a lemon in every other way site is at least good looking—and, believe me, that's some satisfaction. I have been married for five years and my wife is prettier today than when she was a girl. She is far from being a good cook or housekeeper, but were that all I wanted 1 could have hired a domestic by the month. 1 wanted a companion—some one to look at. and to talk to. and to go out with. When I was a single man I always chose a good looker for that. Why change now ” 1 am not on the shelf yet. My wife can attribute her con tinu< In only to tire fact that she is well taken care of. She is not compelled to drudge or fag herself out. She do< s as little work as possible, and blsmedo th worry ing. This is the secret of keeping your youth and good looks, ladies. Were I to treat my wife as most men do theirs, she would be getting wrinkles by now. too.” I shall not divulge the name of the man who writes this letter for fear that his home- which is in Yonkers wouM be stormed by an army of ent ious women, trying to snatch this Jewel of a husband away from sis own fireside. I'" he. ■- consistent nan at last. Hire is a mat: who. valuing beaut.' in liis wife, takes every FBI DAY. OCTOBER 18, 1912. By DOROTHY DIX. method to preserve and enhance it. instead of expecting, as most men do. that it will survive any sort of treatment, and that you can fry a complexion over the cook stove and still have it come out peaches and cream. The imagination, at. least tiie feminine imagination, loves to dwell on this paragon of a husband. One can see him cheerfully getting up in the cold and stilly hours of the night and walking the baby when it has tlte colic, so that his wife may not he deprived of her beauty sleep, and show heavy and luster less eyes the next morning. How one's fancy likes to dally with the thought of how he keeps from her all the little worries and unpleasantnesses of life, so that anxieties and annoyances may plow no wrinkles in her smooth cheeks. How one gloats over the picture of his urging his wife to get half a dozen new hats, and never mind the price, and not to stint herself in silk and lace negligees, nor im ported frocks, nor rich furs, be cause a woman’s clothes enhance her beauty, and he who wants his wife to be a living picture should put he.- In u gorgeous frame. This man wants his wife to stay young and pretty, and he takes the scientific means of keeping her so. other men probably' want their wives to stay young and pretty also, but they expect the ladles to do it by some mysterious and mi raculous process that won't involve spending .money, or interfere with their also being household drudges. Yet how is a woman to keep her figure slender and straight and lis some when she has to strain on the collar like a dray horse helping to pull the family load” That kind of work would hump the shoulders and ’now tile back of I Mana In : - self How is the woman who washes ered by which it is possible to distinguish between the blood of primate and that of other creatures. The bloods of man, ape and monkey can not, however, be distinguished from each other by this test. For this reason the blood-crystal test is much more sensitive, because with it the differentiation can be made. Al ready Dr. Reichert has discovered that there is a dif ference between the blood of the white man and that of the negro, a fact of immense medico-legal importance in crime cases in countries where the negro flour ishes. The differences in the crystals are expressed in part in their form and particularly by their mole ular structure. This structure can be studied only by the polarizing microscope. • the dishes and the pots and the pans to keep her hands white and manicured and in a squeezeable condition ? How is the woman who spends hours over the kitchen range and the bloom and the scrubbing brush to keep her skin like a rose leaf? How is the woman who slaves all day and night for a houseful of children to keep her spirits joy ous and brilliant so that site is a scintillating companion? A woman's beauty is a cult, a profession, an occupation in itself. To preserve it requires ease of mind and body and time and mon ey. And to expect a. woman to be one of the l«nd of good lookers that make people turn to watch them on the street, and for her to boa household slave and a model of economy at the same time, is as absurd as to expect a draft horse to be also a race horse. Os course, whether one wants a wife to look beautiful across the table front one. or to have cooked a delectable meal is a matter of taste. It may also depend upon whether a man is strongest for his stomach or his eyes. But the point is that the living picture and the cook are never om and ths same person, and that a man lias to choose be tween them. Tin theory of the Yonkers matt that it is up to a man to pre serve his wife’s beauty if he values it. by cherishing her and protect ing her from the things that would mat her good looks, is an interest ing one. and one to which all woni ( n will subscribe with enthusiasm After this there will he no excuse for a husband neglecting his wife bemuse she has lost her looks. It ' ill be his fault because ho hasn't taken the nroper cure of her. In gamblers' "braso, ho "ill either THE HOME PAPER Garrett P. Serviss Writes on The Smoking Woman How She Does Harm to the Great Cause Which Her More Sensible Sisters Uphold. Bv GARRETT P. SERVISS. DURING my trip home from Europe this fall I saw the smoking- woman in one of her most displeasing- aspects. She in habited the smoking- room of a big steamship together with the men smokers, and she set me thinking on the problem of her influence upon the cause of equal rights, which so many of her sisters now have at heart. (There were, in fact, three or four of her, but I speak of her in the singular num ber for convenience. Her age va ried from twenty or twenty-flve to fifty.) She smoked, and she drank, with the men. She was as skillful in imitation as the Japanese, but, un like them, she chose to imitate a vice Instead of an excellence. She was, indeed, more graceful than the men in the art of handling the cig arette. With its gold tip. it be came almost a thing of beauty in her slender fingers. But when she set it at a saucy angle in her lips, applied a match and blew the smoke through her nostrils, all the charm vanished. All Fascination Gone. When she clasped it between her fingers, and took a sip of coffee or chartreuse between puffs, all the fascination of her sex was gone in an instant. When she replaced the cigarette in her mouth, leaned back in the padded seat, crossed her knees and blew clouds of smoke toward the ceiling, she needed only the armholes of a. masculine vest in which to hook her thumbs in or der to give her the look of an angel transformed into a clubroom or barroom loafer. The influence of the environment and of the unfeminine act she was performing changed her whole na ture. She became “loud" in voice and In manner. Her laugh pene trated even partially deaf ears. She assumed a defiant air and glanced around her with a look which said: “If you don't like it you can—go elsewhere. I'm chic and up-to-date." The pretended, and possibly real, admiration of the thoughtless young men who surrounded her encour aged her in her defiance of the old fashioned fellows who, as she was perfectly aware, could not approve of her conduct. For my part I was still sorry for her sisters. She was putting an argument in the mouths of the opponents of woman suffrage more powerful than many of them would have thought of for them selves. T know this, for I heard the remarks of the men who were not in her immediate circle. They said: “This Is what the mod ern woman wants, is It? Along with the ballot, she wants the cig arette, the cigar and the pipe! She wants to imitate us in our vices as :: rhe Spendthrift :■ By MINNA IRVING. , WHEN lire is in the stubble. And frost is on the grass. And wild ducks flying southward Like aerial armies pass. And earlier each evening Departs the orb of day. Then comes the heir of Summer In cloak of scarlet gay. Along the dusty highway. And o'er the withered mold. And in the cottage gardens He scatters ail his gold. Till stripped of all his fortune. With Winter drawing near, In rays behold October. The spendthrift of the year. Itr - ■ well as in our virtues. No wonder she smashes shop windows and re sorts to the methods of rowdies in order to gain a footing In politic*.- Men Won’t Discourage It. Os course, such remarks were terribly unjust. The modern wom an fighting for the rights of her sex usually wants none of these things. On the contrary, she ab hors them. Under her influence. If It could be Justly exercised, the vices of men would be diminished. Instead of encouraged and imi tated. But the smoking woman unconsciously to herself no doubt, strikes a blow against the interest* of her sex. Most men are not thinkers er cept In the line of their personal occupations. In other things they go by first, impressions. This is a critical period fn the woman move ment, and the slightest influence calculated to prejudice men against it is of great Importance. Men are not likely to do much to discourage the growing habit of smoking among women, except in their own families, and not always there. The women themselves should make a crusade against it. They should recognize the fact that it Is a question affecting not onl\ the moral but the social standing of their sex. When woman deliberately throws away the sources of her charm over man by adopting his vices and sinking herself to his lowest level" of self-indulgence, she cuts away her own hope of advancement, which can only come through the con scientious recognition by him of the fact that he needs her aid and counsel in all human affairs be cause HER NATURE IS FINER THAN HIS, AND MORE FREE FROM VICE. But just because woman's nature is finer than man’s the inroads of masculine vices upon it when once they have become established are certain to be more rapid and more destructive. It is an old adage that a bad woman Is worse than a bed man. “But is smoking such a ter rible vice?” some one may ask Smoking Leads to Drinking. In itself it may not be very ter rible, but smoking leads to drink ing, and Is. in clubs, restaurants, steamship smoking rooms and oth er places of public resort, Invarin bly accompanied by drinking, and by conversation which, to say the best of it. is far from elevating, or either morally or intellectual!' improving. I should advise the woman suf fragists to take up this subject very seriously, and to make an effort to abolish the smoking woman bef"re she becomes established.