Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-08-19
WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.

Chicago statistics reveal the startling
fact that two hundred babies have died
in one week in this city Mothers, who
call themselves such but have no claim
to the title, refuse to give their offspring
natural nourishment for fear of leaving
traces of maternity in face and figure
Instead, they procure for them a prepar-
alton of milk, sold by druggists, the
principal ingredient of which is starch.
Now this very indigestible substance the
young stomach is not strong enough to
digest, and as it therefore never receives
enough nutriment to satisfy the pangs Of
hunger, the babe dies inch by inch of a
slow, cruel starvation. The mother thus
becomes her own child's murderer in
the sight of God, and should be in the
sight of the law. Great heavens that
little life of few months should know
the dreadful. gripping clutches of human
hunger, before the agony of which many
strong man and woman have quailed
and PRAYED for death Is it a marvel
that the babe is Puny, siczly and fretful, !,
"Wnining low
To itself. and not It's mother,
From mere habtt?"
We know that infanticide is practiced
among barbarous nations, and to some
extent in every civilized country that
the sewers of Paris, that notoriously
prohigate city, reveal horrible truths
but a shadow of mercy partially wells
them, for Death came swiftly and die
his work in a few moments,-only
gasp, a gurgle, and all was over. Yet
to h1e and slowly SkarUs,-a babe, the
nearest thing on this earth to heaven,
with no power to redress wrong, because
without language for expression
you, reader, grasp the enormity of 1t :
/ wonder God sanctions motherhood tC
such women, and that no human law
has been enacted that can reach them
Just now all New York is stirred to it
centre by the butchering of one of its
millionaireS, and large reward IS offer
ed for the detection of the assassin
while behind many of its brown stOnt
fronts the massacre of the innocents
goes on by an assassin of the house
hold with those small. nameless weapons
that are beyond the reach Of the law.
Soft words and airily-tinselled phrases
do not beft such ugly truths; only hard
plain Anglo-Saxon becomes them, as
plain, dead colors do a homely face.
Said a medical gentleman of this city
Yesterday: at is alarming, the preva-
iency of this custom. even in my own
practice. No longer than a week ago a
gentleman. whose wife moves in fashion
able circles, came to my office and asked
me if | did not think his wife should
nurse a child of a few months, stating
that it was puny, sick and constantly
fretful replied, certainly, sir. if your
wife desires a living child. To-day he
came to me for a certificate of death.
In the time of our grandmothers a
woman was congratulated on having a
large family, and like the noble Roman
matron, counted them her family jewels.
To-day it is Just the reverse a woman
is congratulated if she has q small fami-
", or none at all, and she counts the
Jewels of traffic more valuable than the
soul-jewels that God gives her. The
babe has fought for his breath, has be
come the blood-mark on the door OF
many a city mansion, and when God 5
81 will hangs over any man or woman
the execution of it will, sooner or later,
surely overtake them. rs it well with
the child 1t is well ?
ETIQUETTE IN sTREET-CARs.
As far as my observation goes every
body takes care Of number one, "A lady
must possess one Of two indispensable
req QulSlteS II any consideration - sAtS
her on account of sex. If she has me
all-potent charm Of beauty, she holds
the KEY 60 every masculine heart allo
through that inipressible organ TO a com
fortabie seat. II she is ugly but elegant
Il dressed. the latter is wand which she
5ronGIy swavs, and 10 a dozen seats
prc vacant as il by magic, If she be
both ugly and poorly clad. then the good
angels help her! She possesses neither
lSeV nor wand and will have TO stand il
out. even though she be faint with ex-
naustion or frail from overworS, and her
arms full of bundles or small children,
unless some great-hearted, great-souled
hero of a man promptly offers her ms
own place, or, if he, too, be standing,
lust as promptly takes one Of the many
penteel dandies. who throng the car, by
the collar and courteously lifts him from
his reserved seat.
aAiasl for the rarity
or human charttyP
Alas for the age in which beauty, not
principle, is the worker Of miracles {;
money the root of power. and power on
~ another name for tyranny