The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1874-10-03

Pyrenees; they have the air neither to be sad nor
cav. and indulge bat little in conversation among
themselves when in public. Perhaps the dons are
aware, that however welcome may DC the oenoras'
their place i not to admire the civil war which Is
tearing their beautiful country Il pieces, from 3 chair
in the Champs Elystes. .
Having 50 long been occupied with the Rights Of
Man. France Is a. last resolved - deal sikh the
% rights Of babies" severe law L beng P,repard
10 subject the children given out 20 nurse 10 humane
control. From the results q the Commission Of
Inquiry, 10000 R0aTTiss0Hs die annually in France
from hunger, misery, absence Of care and proper
surveillance. This IS sarcastically called the con-
~scription - Of first age. OF the 5000 children born
IN Paris, the moieiy die before a year, and the death
rate, if sent into the country to De reared, IS often as
high as so per cent. In the South Of France DR..
Monet states the object Of n woman is not 20 be s.
mother bat a nurse, and her confinement over, she
emigrates TO Paris, leaving her own offspring 10 live
or die as II may, and her husband to become demon
allied in the wine shop; their wives generally return
eucieRte, a dishonor the husband accepts, provided
the wife's absence has been Pecuniarily profitable in
all respects. There are retired nurses who travel
over the country 10 hire nurses and bring them to
Paris, while Transporting babies 10 be reared outside
the capital Often the homes Of the little strangers
are deficient in the decencies as well as the common
necessaries Of life; women accept the care Of half q
dozen children who can neither give them the breast
or the bottle. These are the haunts that the new
law intends to place under supervision, and although
a private society exists, offering the services Of its
medical inspectors free, not FIVE per cent. Of Their
mothers avail themselves Of the Christian assistance,
and some even prohibit the nurses from receiving
the inspecting physician. 1t is a common trick
with these nurses, these cherubim and seraphim
manufactures as they are called, 10 continue to draw
the monthly allowance for their care of q baby, when
the poor infant has been months dead and buried.
Beyond doubt many mothers do not care whether the
child lives or dies: il is an inconvenience, and yet the
vast majority Of French children are thus reared
away from their parents, and the latter cannot be
accused Of want Of affection when the children return
either from the nurse or the school
DIR. Due who shot but did not kill his wife for her
notorious adulteries, has not been set at liberty
either with or without bail. On the contrary he has
been transferred TO q stronger prison. 1t would
seem the examining Judge does not view the tragedy
as the public did he evidently thinks a husband
that waits some hours at q railway station for the
arrival Of his wife and her paramount, and then coolly
takes her arm, conducts her 10 their carriage, drives
home, and shoots the sinful woman with a revolver
prepared in advance, could not have had his feelings
after all at a very white heat. French judges are
proverbially just in all these matters, and almost
never err in their appreciations Of painful situations.
Suicides continue TO be j amentably numerous, and
among the unfortunates, youth is sadly prominent;
there is also to be remarked, especially with aged per-
sons who have been foiled in their first attempt at self
destruction, a return to the same folly in precisely
the original conditions.
y young stakeholder on the eve Of being married,
has had a sad end; he casually called on some friends
and found them playing at cards; he joined the party,
and lost, and finally lost all he possessed. His COM
panions invited him for the next evening to take his
revenge; he rose from his chair pale and agitated,
stated he had played for the last time, had lost not
only his own fortune, but money confded to him; he
staggered, fell, and was raised up dead.
The pecuniary condition of the city theatres is very
bad, and the government and the municipality are
invited TO promptly deal with the matter. They are
the only establishments that rarely suffer from bad
politics or revolutions; like paYnbrokers they are
most patronized during hard times.
The loaning Of curls, a chignOn, plaits sc. for a
bride, is advertised from five francs upwards.
a la1v encountered Ouiftinp q Dprfumpr'a shoD
with several packages, embarrassingly explained,
she had invested in half a dozen tooth brushes; pre-
cisely one for each tooth said triumphantly her rival
in beautiful for-eVerness.