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Cruel Frightening of
Children 1
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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 are YOUNG CHILDREN.
Who does not remember the intense agony in youth based upon
the superstitious teachings of some foolish older person'.’
And 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 he nervous and unusually sensitive you may
permanently injure its health.
Here is a scene unforunately 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 mail, apparently his father.
The child stood trembling. The man, in a voice of cold, con
centrated auger, said :
"Didn’t I tell you to come early ? You go to the house and
.WATT THERE TILL I COME BACK AND FIX YOU."
The man walked on. io get the drink of beer or whisky that
should add to his natural cruelty, and the poor child, without a
word, started for home 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 st riking repeatedly the delicate body rtf 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 duty 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.
Ts such a monstrous parody on a father should be met 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 beat ing them, you may say to that parent:
You never struck .1 child in your life except when you were
angry, and you would not have dared to strike it if it had been of
your own size.
Children born of decent parents can be 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 young 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 his own
as much as a hen can do.
The Italians Made a Good
Beginning With the Forks
The Turks are out of place in Europe, 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 lias 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 palace.
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 o*f that passage that 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 the
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 has gone. Italy has made
■'hi admirable bi’gmninc.
May the Balkan powers, who have so long resisted Turkish
k yranny ,n their mountains, remain united and determined until
F Tuik on j/ urO p pau go jj have become a memory.
The Atlanta Georgian
FRIDAY. OCTOBER IS. 1912.
Clues Extraordinary-—Tell-Tale Blood Crystals
A Modern Method of Solving a Murder Mystery
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BLOOD CRYSTALS WHICH AID THE DETECTIVE; PROOFS OU THE EXTRAORDINARY
DIFFERENCES IN TILE RED CORPUSCLES OF ANIMALS.
Mo. 1 Blood crystals of a baboon. No. s—Blood5 —Blood crystals of a man. No. B—Blood crystals of a sheep.
No. 2—Blood crystals of a dog. No. &—Blood crystals of av orang- No. 9 Blood crystals of a cat.
m o q Ri.-voD • a. No, 10 —Blood crystals of a qoose.
N 0.3 B ood crysta sos a guinea pig. outang. No. 11—Blood crystals of a horse.
ino. 4 Blood crystals of a chimpanzee. No. 7—Blood crystals of a pigeon. No. 12—Blood crystals of a white cat.
e’lpvll AT the haemoglobin, or red coloring matter of
I the 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 University of Pennsylvania, in association
with Dr. Amos Peaslee Brown, professor of mineralo
gy anil 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 discov-
:: A Consistent Man at Last ::
N’OT 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 g n
erally supposed. It appears that
this view of the matter was errone
ous. At least one man protests
against it. and has written th<rfol
lowing letter to me:
"Dear Madame—You bet your life
men marry women for their looks.
That’s all thej' know about a wom
an until they are married to her.
Then if she is a lemon in every
Other wax she 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 i ook or housekeeper, but wore
that all 1 wanted 1 could have
hired a domestic by the month. I
wanted a companion some one to
look at. and to talk to. and to go
out with. When 1 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
tinued beauty to the fact that she
is well taken cate of. She is not
compelled to <iiiiilge or fag herself
out. She does as little work as
possible, ami let- me do the worry
jpg. This is the secret of keeping
your youth and good looks, ladies.
Were T to treat my wife as most
no n do theirs, she would be getting
w r nkli s by now , too."
I shall not divulge the name of
the man who writes this letter for
fear that his homewhich is in
Yonkets would be stormed bv an
army of envious women, trying to,
snatch tills jewel of a husbaiu/
away from his own fireside.
f'or here is a consistent inau al
last. Here is a man who. valuing
beauty In his wife, takes every
Bv 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 eook stove and
still have it come out peaches and
cream.
The imagination, at least the
feminine imagination, loves to dwell
on this paragon of n husband. One
can see him cheerfully getting up
in the cold and stilly hours of the
night and walking the baby when
it has the colic, so that his wife
may not be 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 her in a gorgeous frame.
This man wants his wti to stay
voting 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 ladi> “ to
iio 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 bovv the back of Diana her
self
Mow is tin woman who wa-hes
©red 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 tnole
ular structure. This structure can be studied only by
the polarizing microscope.
;• Hie 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 broom 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 she is a
scintillating companion?
A woman’s beauty is a cult, a
profession, an occupation in itself.
To preserve it requires ease of
inind and body and time and mon
ey. And to expect a woman to be
one of the kind of good lookers
that make people turn to watch
them on the street, and for her to
be a household slave ami 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 from 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 ey es. But the point is that
the living pietuiv and tin eook are
never one and the same person,
and that a man has to choose be
tween them.
Tin theory of the Yonkers man
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
mar her good looks, is an interest
ing <>n , and one to which all wom
en will subscribe with enthusiasm.
After this there will be no excuse
for a husband neglecting his wife
because she has lost her looks. It
will !>■ his fmlt because he hasn’t
taken the proper ca.e of her. In
gamblers’ phrase, |>e will either
hav c to i’iil up or shut up.
THE HOME PAPER
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
rhe 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 1 saw the
smoking woman in one of her
most displeasing aspects. She in
habited tlie 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 1
speak of her in the singular num
ber for convenience. Her age va
ried from twenty or twenty-five 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 ft 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 unfemlnine 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 hey 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. I 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
The Spendthrift
By MINNA IRVING.
WHEN fire 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 conies 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 all his gold.
Till stripped of all bis fortune,
With Winter drawing near,
In rays behold October, *
The spendthrift of the year.
1 ’’ 1
v WSH'
• well as in our virtues. No bonder
she smashes shop windows and re
sorts to the methods of rowdies in
order to gain a footing in politics.”
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 interests
of her sex.
Most men are not thinkers ex
cept in the line of their personal
occupations. In other things they
go by first impressions. This is a
critical period In 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 alwaj s
there. The women themselves
should make a crusade ag'ainst it.
They should recognize the fact that
it is a question affecting not only
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 levels
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 ami
counsel in all human affairs be
cause HER NATURE IS FINER
THAN HIS, AND MORE FREE
FROM VICE.
But just because woman’s naiure
is finer tha.n man’s the inroads of
masculine vices upon it when once
they have become established are
certaJn to be more rapid and more
destructive. It is an old adage that
a bad woman Is worse than a bad
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, invaria
bly accompanied by drinking, and
by conversation which, to say the
best of it, is far from elevating,
or either morally or intellectually
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 before
• she becomes established.