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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. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of Ma-ch 3. 187 S Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week. By mail. $5.00 a year. Payable in advance. Cruel Frightening of Children 1 , , , 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 i?/ 'f. d i SO ’ wfl * I Wittl xhjbsff WBn JL \ /®? ■.* \ / MS H Ah /Z \ --s x - w 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.