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EDITORIAL RAGE The Atlanta Georgian THE HOME RARER THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Afternoon Except Hu nr! ivy By THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 110 East Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga. Entered as aerond-class matter at post of flea at Atlanta, under act of March 3.1873 Subscription Price- Delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week, By mall. $5.00 a year. Payable in Advance. , . ______________ Mothers, Keep Your Babies’ Hands Covered And Train Them From the Beginning to Keep I heir lingers Out of Their Mouths Copyright, 1913. Millions of mothers worry because "There is something wrong with the child’s stomach,’’ Digestion is bad, sleep is irregular, the lips are crackled, un healthy looking—there are signs of the dreaded colitis, which takes so many thousands of children to the grave. False diet, foolish feeding based on ignorance, AND EAT ING AT IRREGULAR HOURS, menace the health of many children. The mother that has lost one child or more lives in constant apprehension, and is almost in despair when signs of illness show themselves. We want to-day to impress upon all mothers ONE THING THAT THEY CAN DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN One of the most famous and one of the ablest doctors in this country was called in by a mother to take care of a child that showed signs of illness, and his first question was this: "Does your baby put its fingers in its mouth a great deal?” He then impressed upon the mother—the child was not quite two years old—that she must above all things prevent her baby from putting dirty fingers into its mouth. And this is the idea that we want to impress upon all moth ers TO-DAY, and that without putting them to the expense of seeing the doctor quoted above. From him a few words of ad vice would cost twenty five dollars. Remember that children arc sometimes poisoned by disease germs IN THEIR FOOD But FAR OFTENER THEY ARE POISONED BY GERMS STICKING TO THEIR FINGERS WHICH THEY PUT INTO THEIR MOUTHS. It doesn’t matter how careful you may be, your child is bound to creep on the floor, to fall down upon its hands on the sidewalk, to grasp a railing, etc. Whenever a child’s hands touch the sidewalks, or railings, or the floor, THEY ARE APT TO COME IN CONTACT WITH GERMS THAT PRODUCE DISEASE. In the big cities especially this danger is great. Ignorant men who should be controlled and punished by law sit upon the benches in the parks, spitting upon the sidewalks j where little children are put to play. This is actually a crime against human life—a crime none the less dreadful because it is based upon ignorance. To see a consumptive sunning himself on a bench in the public park is pitiful. You pity the unfortunate man, as he coughs painfully, and he deserves pity. But, as he scatters about him the germs of his disease, he is actually endangering and often destroying lives of healthy children that go to play in that park. It is impossible to keep children shut in. It is impossible to keep them from the parks and the streets and from crawling about on the floor. BUT IT IS POSSIBLE TO PROTECT THEM. To the mother whom we have mentioned the able doctor said: “Keeping your child’s hands washed frequently is a good thing—but it is no protection. “Keep COTTON GLOVES ON THE CHILD’S HANDS when it is playing anywhere outside of its nursery—and, better still, keep them on also wnen it plays on the nursery floor. “A child will not put cotton gloves into its mouth—it doesn’t like the feeling.” There is very simple advice for mothers that worry about their children’s health. If your baby is in the teething stage, you know how the wise old mothers will tell you that you must EXPECT trouble at that time. You are told that teething affects the stomach and causes sickness, bowel complaint, etc. Teething DOES affect the child's DIGESTION. But it does not actually introduce into its system the germs that produce disease such as the dreaded Summer complaint. Children are subject to disease especially when teething, BECAUSE WHEN TEETHING THEY ALWAYS HAVE THEIR FINGERS IN THEIR MOUTHS, and they are always introducing dangerous germs into their systems in that way. Two pairs of cotton gloves for the baby would not cost very much—and we wish that the managers of big stores would put such gloves on sale as an act of public usefulness, and advertise •them at the very lowest possible price. Occasionally a child suffering from teething will put its fingers in its mouth in spite of wearing cotton gloves. In such a case very rough woolen gloves may be procured that will cer tainly answer the purpose. Mothers can do much, also, by making it a habit from the baby’s first day to train it to keep its fingers out of its mouth. A gentle touch of the hand each time that the little fingers are put toward the lips will gradually accustom the child to the notion that its hands and its mouth must be kept separate. Meanwhile we advise mothers of children under five years of age—and, better still, up to seven years of age—to try this ex periment of keeping them gloved with cotton when they play on park sidewalks or street sidewalks exposed to disease germs. P. S.—Some mothers will say: "Well, my baby always had his hands in his mouth, and HE didn't have gloves, and HE didn't get any disease.” We are glad to hear it. But what is true of one child is not true of another. And what is true of a child one day is not true of the same child ANOTHER DAY. A child absolutely healthy and strong is able to throw off and get rid of the disease germs that get into its system. A per fectly healthy child with a heart acting strongly and the blood in good condition could swallow a good many tuberculosis germs without getting consumption. But as soon as something happens, when the vitality is low, the heart action feeble, THE GERMS ARE NOT THROWN OFF They establish a foothold, they breed with lightning rapid ity, and then it is too late to save the child. Prevention is better than cure, and there is no better prevention than keeping the child's own hands from putting diseases into its mouth. 1 EGGS IS EGGS Absolutely the Last Egg Joke. The Fall of New Orleans By DR. T. B. GREGORY. r 1 >HR fall of New Orleans f>1 [ years ago—was a blow to the Confederacy from which it never recovered. At the time Farragut and Por ter were steaming triumphantly up to the levees of the Creole city the mouth of the Father of Waters. McClellan was gath ering his mighty host for the “On to Richmond'' campaign which was to end. a little while later, in ignominious defeat on the banks of tht .lames; and. guided b> the matrjileas genius of Lee. the Army of Non hern Virginia was to store victory after victory on the soil of the Old Dominion; hut at New Orleans the Fed eral© held the grand strategic point, the key to the great river which penetrated far into the territory of the acceded States, and divided from its eastern half the rich cornfields of the West and Southwest, upon which, later on. the Confederacy was to de pend for the bread and meat that wus to maintain its armies. The Blockade Policy. The policy of holding New Or leans at all hazard, as the one su premely vital point on the line of defense, seems never to have en- tred the minds of the Confeder ate authorities; and the city was surrendered without a tenth part of the resistance that was after ward made at many points of much less strategic importance. From first to last the Missis sippi River was the key to the military problem with both sides Which side commanded that river would also command the issue of the struggle. It was no new thought. From as far back as the earliest period of the French explorations on the North American Continent, it was clearly perceived by the explorers that Uiw wus, us well in political as in geographical sig nificance. the master feature of the whole situation. That was why Frenchman. Spaniard and Englishman looked upon the mighty stream with such greedy REV THOMAS B GREGORY. eyes, and resolved, come what might, to contend for it to the last man. Jefferson saw the political im portance of the Mississippi, and it was for that reason that he was most anxious to consummate the “Louisiana Purchase,” or. if that was impossible, to at least se cure possession of the city of New Orleans. The country that held New Orleans would hold the Mississippi River, and the coun try that controlled the Mississippi River would control the political fortunes of the North American Continent. American history, from the treaty of Ghent straight down to the final rounding out of the Republic with the successful negotiations of the Gadsden Pur chase, i© full of diplomatic gym nastics regarding the Mississippi River. In the light of all this, it will he seen how great a victory it was that Farragut won w hen he silenced Forts St. Philln and Jackson and steamed on to the capture of New Orleans. Pertinent Paragraphs When the first symptoms of love’s young dream do not cause a fellow' to have a frog in his throat, they are not real. The under dog does not care much for the sympathy that can not be touched for a loan. When a man can not carry his good nature home he had better drop it altogether. A young woman in a dream gown is often a rude awakening in the matter of a disposition. Seek the truth, but do not im agine that every man you meet is handinsr it to you. It is often hard in our dealings to curb the clamor of prejudice. The man who pays as he goes does not go at such a rapid pace. Many a well-meaning cuss dis plays poor marksmanship. The most dangerous lie is the one that is half true. Breach of Promise Suits 1 ><»rothy I )i.\ Says That Every Man I las a Right to Change His Mind— No Woman Who Is Really Hurt Will Drag Her Wounds Before the Public For Money. By DOROTHY DIX. A TELLING blow for >*ex equality has Just been struck by a Brooklyn Su preme Court Justice who has I ruled tljat the right to change your mind is not the sole pre- 1 rogative of woman. Mere man has the same privilege. In a breach of promise case, in which a fair lady was suing a faithless swain for renegging on his promise to marry her the Justice made the following rule: “In the modern days of suf frage agitation,” he said, “we must not be too severe with the men. as long as no unfair ad vantage has been taken of the , women “I am not going to let this young man rot in jail because he has changed his mind about mar rying this* girl. We must remem ber that the lady always reserves to herself the right to change her mind at any moment, and it seems to me the man ought to have the same right,” Good for the Judge! That de cision is based on good sound sense and justice. Moreover. It proves* what wo suffragists have always contended, and that Is that equal rights for women will mean equal rights for men. and be Just as much to men’s advantage as they will be to women’s. The breach of promise suit has never been anything more or less than blackmail disguised as senti ment. No woman whose heart was really hurt would drag her wounds before the public for the sake of a little money. No wom an with a vestige of delicacy or refinement in her composition would try to force a man to mar ry her who had tired of her and was trying to get rid of her. Not a Business Deal. ,11 is absurdity to contend that a proposal of marriage is in the same class with a b mi ness prop osition. and that a man should be held financially responsible for not carrying out a matrimonial en gagement as he would be for not fulfilling a business contract. The very essense of courtship are the emotions of love, attraction, fasci- natipn and desire that a woman rouses in a man’s breast, and when these are gone—when he no longer loves her, when she no longer attracts nr fascinates him and he has ceased to want her— her claim upon him is forfeited, and as a matter of fact, it would be a nice point of law to decide whether the woman who can no longer deliver the goods isn’t the one who has defaulted on the con tract. and not the man. Moreover, Cupid is no piker. He is a dead game sport, and when ever a man or a woman sits down to tho love game he or she must play the limit and take the risks. In addition, this is also to be said that although women generally get a cold deal in matrimony they hold tho trump hand in courtship. For it is the custom of men to wdo maids with flowers and candy, and books and theater tickets, and restaurant feeds, so that Romeo has paid his score as DOROTHY DIX. he went along, and even if he balks at the altar the account still stands in the woman’s favor. Truly, ’ti« better to have been wooed and jilted than never to have been wooed at all! In deciding that a man has a right to change his mind about getting married and cannot be as sessed heavy damages for doing so the Brooklyn Justice has done a notable service ^to humanity. The breach of promise ease should he thrown out of court and a man not only given the privilege of withdrawing from a matrimonial engagement if he decides that for an\ r a son it w ould he best for him to do ^-o, but he should be backed up by public opinion in doing it. Thousands of men, carried away by the impulse of the mo ment or some wave of transient sentiment, have popped the ques tion to girls that they knew' were unfitted to be their wives, and rued their folly before the words were off of their lips. Thousands of other men have honestly thought themselves in love at the time they became engaged to women, but found themselves disillusioned long before their wedding day. Thousands of men are so completely out of love and disenchanted with their prospec tive wives that they would rather face the hangman than the preacher on their marriage morn. Want to Be Jilted. These men would give ten t years of their lives to unsay the words they have uttered, to take back the promise they have given, to be free of the women that they know will hang like millstones about their necks, but they lack the courage to break their en- a gagements. Many a man does everything in his pow’er to force • the girl to jilt him. He picks quarrels with her. He neglects her. Sometimes he even tries to tell her that he doesn’t love her any more, but the more he at tempts to break away, the tighter she clings, and the more she weeps, and in the end he gives 1n and lets himself be led like a lamb to the ©laughter because he hasn’t the nerve,to hurt her or to be branded as a quitter. Let no man think that he is do ing a noble and heroic thing to marry a woman after he has ceased to love her. He is doing her the most cruel wrong that one human being can inflict on. another, and it would be a kinder act if he killed her than it is -to nfrarry her. He is sure to neglect her. to let her see how she bores him and what a burden she is on him, and to break her heart with a thousand little evidences of his indifference. It takes his martyrdom out on her. and she pays every day of her life for his having been co erced into an unwilling marriage. The affection of a man for his wdfe cools down from the boiling point to sub-normal even when he’s crazy about her when they got married, but Heaven help the * unfortunate wolaan whose hus- * band's love was at the zero point on their wedding day! Believe me. she knows what a long, cold winter is like. Therefore, in justice to himself and kindness to the woman, any man should take advantage of his # right to change his mind if he de- * cides that he has changed his heart, no matter how many en gagement rings he has given, nor how many vows of constancy he has ©worn. Let him duck and " run, though he were at the very foot of the altar. It would save his life, and be a blessing to the woman. What Are the Real Wonders of the World As it Exists To-day? By GARRETT P. SERVISS. ^ /j AM convinced,” says an I epistolary friend, "that the Panama Canal is th greatest wonder of construction that the world has ever known, and I don’t see how it is over to be exceeded, unless the United States should carry out Mr Hiker’s idea of diverting and con trolling the Gulf Stream by means of a gigantic jetty thrown across the banks ol Newfound land. But I should like tq know whether you regard such things as a true measure of the su periority of modern times. Couldn’t you make a list of s con modern wonders that would hot ter represent the real progress of mankind ?” Has Been Going Forward. If I were going to offer a list of seven modern wonders, con ceived in this sense, of the ap plication of the mind to some thing outside Itself. I should wish, find, to define the term “modern.” and I would make it include the three centuries that have elapsed since the days of Galileo. The world has never gone backward since his time. He was the first great experimental philosopher, and when he dropped a ten- pound and a one-pound cannon ball from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and proved, by occular demonstration, that they took the same time to fall to the bottom, he overthrew forever the ancient method of drawing blind infer ences about the physical world out pt the mind, instead of using the senses as a teat and the in telligence as a guide and inter preter. So, I should head the list of seven modern wonders with the discovery of the Law of Gravita tion. which Galileo began experi mentally. and Newton completed mathematically. To that law—although we do not yet know what gravitation is \ in its essence—we owe not only ' our accurate knowledge of the univ* rse, but many of our great est engineering triumphs. Second on the list, in the order of time, might stand the Invention of the Telescope, which, as a means of research, must also be credited to Galileo, w'ho worked entirely in the modern spirit of GARRETT P. SERVISS. using the mind as a means ami not as an end in the exploration | of the material world. By the In ver-l ion of the telescope, and its coralIary, the microscope, modern man enabled himself to penetrate, at the same time, the mysteries of illimitablt space and the secrets of the realm of the infinitely lit tle. Third, let us place the devel opment of the science of Chemis try, which has taught us so much about the constitution of matter, and w r hich, some think, may yet rewal the secret of life itself. To reveal only a small part of what chemistry has achieved would, in* itself, require a long article v There is hardly any part of human life and activity in which it doe6 not play its role. But there are certain things that have grown out of chemical experimentation which are, perhaps, worthy to stand by themselves in our list. Among these I would put, as the fourth wonder, Photography. Be ginning as a means of obtaining pictures of the human face, more accurate in their details than the hand could draw, photography has now become a means of discov ering things invisible to the eye, both upon the earth and in the heavens. The greatest astronom ical discoveries of recent years have been effected by photogra- ^ * phy. By using the X-ray, and by * selecting certain chosen wave© of light, we can picture., by photog raphy. things hidden behind bar riers impenetrable to ordinary vision, and things on distant bod ies in space which are veiled from the eye by the confusing effects of too many kinds of light f f Fifth, I would put the inven tion of the Spectroscope, an in strument which enable© us to analyze light and to use it a© a means of investigating the nature of substances and bodies, not only upon the earth, but also tn the sky. To the spectroscope we owe our knowledge of the consti tution of the sun and the other stars. Present Inventions. Sixth, comes the use of T0teo« tricity, in telegraphy, and in th» production of light, and the transr* ference of power. These thing# are so recent that everybody knows all about them, or, at least, knows what their nature is. Seventh, the establishment of the l.aw of Evolution. The “idea of some such law was dimly prea- •ant in the minds of some anolent philosophers, hut, after their man. ner, they never thought of teat, ing it by close observation of na» ture. Most of them used their minds with about as much practi cal effect as a miller would use his mill if he merely set I he i wheels turning, grinding only air and getting nothing but air out of 1- - 1 - -