The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-11-20


sake of weeping, we may be pretty sure
that they are losing proper hold upon
world in which there is always suffi-
cient cause for melancholy without
creating artificial misery. When they
delight in descriptions of the horrible
or the nallseous, it is plain enough that
such lram-drinking implies depraved
appetite, or, in other words, a harden
ing of the natural emotions. When
such tendencies are strongly marked,
us is generally the case with declining
schools, we cannot doubt that the pleas
TIRE is of an enervating tendency
London Saturday Rerie'c.
| CULTIVATE KINDNESS IN CONvERsA-
TIoN.-There is no way which men can
do good to others with so little expense
and trouble as by kindness in CONVEX
sation. "Words" it is sometimes said,
"cost nothing" at any rate kind words
cost no more than those which are harsh
and piercing But kind words are often
more valiant than the most costly gifts,
and they are often regarded among the
best tokens of desire to make others
happy We should think that kind
words would be very common, they
are SO cheap; but there are many who
have large assortment of other Ian
guages except kindness. They have
many little words, and witty words. and
learned words in abundance but their
stock of kind words is small. The
churl, himself, one might suppose,
would not grudge little kindness in
his language, however closely he clings
to his money; but there are persons
who draw on their kindness with more
reluctance than on their purses.
Some use grating words because they
are of a morose disposition. Their
show an unfeeling heart. Others use
rough words out of affectation of frank
ness. They may he severe in their re-
marks, but they claim that they are
open and Independent, and will not be
trammeled. They are not fatterers,
they say, and this they think enough
excuse for all the cutting speech they
employ. Others wish to be thought
witty, and they will with equal indiffer-
ence wound the feelings of friend or
foe, to show their smartness. Some are
envious, and cannot bear to speak kind
ly to others, or of them, because they
do not wish to add to their happiness.
Others are so i'll bred that they seem to
take delight in using unkind words,
when their intentions are good and
their feelings warm. Their words are
rougher than their hearts; they make
a sacrifice of ease and property, to pro-
mote comfort, while they will not deign
to employ the words of courtesy and
kindness. OF these the Scotch have
an impressive proverb that their bark
is worse than their bite"
An eminent Englishman of science
reports, after careful investigation,
that the physical stamina of the child
dren employed in factories is steadily
deteriorating. This is attributed less
to the hard labor these poor little crea-
lures have to undergo than to the
wretched habits of the factory opera
tives. Too early marriages, slovenli-
ness, intemperance, want of proper
open air exercise, and the excessive use
of tobacco, are noted, as main causes of
the deterioration. Whatever the
causes, the fact is an alarming one.
1t is serious question whether child
rem should be allowed to engage in ex-
hausting factory labor at all-whether
the devotion to this hard work from an
early period is not in itself a prominent
cause of the bad habits observed. But,
if children are to be so employed, there
is no doubt that their hours of labor
should be limited, and further duty is
cast on the mill owners This is, to so
look after the habits of their operatives
that the children may have chance of
entering upon their cherries life with
tolerable good constitutions In Ger
many parents are not allowed to derive
any income from the labor of their
children until they have had a
thoroughly COOP schooling, and have
grown well-nigh to manhood and wo-
manhood; theeonsequence is, that Ger
many contains both the healthiest and
most efficient race of laboring young
men and women in the world. The |
English law is as yet VIGOROUSLY defici-
ent in protecting the health and con-
dition of the children of the manufact-
uring districts and unless more Wig
orous reforms are made, the prospect |
is that factory labor will become more |
weak and more scarce, while the bill |
for parish relief will become heavy |
burden to the taxpayers and dis
enlargement to the philanthropist.
ROBERT LAWSON, M. B., pathologist |
to the West Riding Lunatic Asylum,
contributes to the Lancet paper on
brains and intellect, which, in addition
to the many interesting facts presented,
contains an ingenious defense of the |
universal insanity theory. We CON
dense from the communication as fol-
lows: AS opposed to the popular idea
that the weight of the brain bears
direct relation to the intellectual capa-
city of the individual, we learn that,
though Cuvier, Abercrombie, Simpson,
and others, were found to have possessed
cerebral centres of considerably more
thun the average weight, yet even
these did not attain to the known
maximum. The siXty-fOur-ounceb brain
of Cuvier is, in some respects balanced
by the sixty-fve-oumce brain observed
by Tiedemann, and the sixty-one and
sixty-two ounce brains commented on
by DIR. Peacock, the living representa-
tives of which did not seem to possess a
corresponding superiority over their
smaller-brained contemporaries. 1t
furthermore appears that, if all the
elements of the case were considered,
the heaviest brain on record would be
found to be. that of Il senile dement,
died at the West Riding Asylum at
the age of seventy, and which then
weighed sixty-one ounces. Additional
evidence in support of these views Is
cited from the official records of this