Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-12-27


main as they are, provided the climate
underwent no radical change ana they
were not interfered with by man. 1t is
for The vegetable psychologist to say
why this fineness of the soil is unfav0r-
able to the growth of trees; it is for the
geologist and physical geographer to
set forth the facts which they may OBJ
serve within the line of their own pro-
tessional work.
Arctic Cold.
When snow becomes hard as rock, its
surface takes a granular consistence like
sugar. When it lies with its massi7e
wreaths frozen in the form of billows our
stepsresound, as we walk over them with
the sound of a drum. The ice is so
hard that it emits a ringing sound;
wood becomes wonderfully hard, splits,
and is as difficult to cut as bone; butter
becomes like stone; meat must be split,
and mercury may be fired as a bullet
from gun. If cold thus acts on things
without life, how much more must it
influence living organisms and the pow
er of mans will! Cold lowers the beat
of the pulse, weakens the bodily SEN
Sations, diminishes the capacity OF
movement and of enduring great IA
tigue. OF all the senses, taste and
smell most lose their force and pungen-
cy, the mucous membrane being in a
constant state of congestion and ex-
cessive secretion. After time de-
crease OF muscular power is also pre-
ceptible. If one is exposed suddenly to
an excessive degree of cold. involun-
tarily one shuts the mouth and breathes
through the nose; the cold air seems at
first to pinch aad pierce the organs Of
respiration. The eyelids freeze even
in calm weather; and to prevent their
closing, we have constantly to clear
them from ice, and the beard alone is
less frozen than other parts of the body,
because the breath as is issues from the
mouth falls down as snow. Snow
spectacles are dimmed by the moisture
of the eyes, and when the thermometer
falls 81 degrees (C) below zero they are
as opaque as frost-covered windows.
The cod, however, is most painfully
felt in the soles Of the feet when there
is a cessation Of exercise. Nervous
weakness, torpor, and drowsiness fol-
low, which explains the connection
which is usually found between resting
and freezing. The most important
point, in fact, for sledge party, which
has such exertions to make at very
low temperature, is to stand still as
little as possible. The excessive cold
which is felt in the soles of the feet
during the MONDAY rest is the main
reason why afternoon marches make
such a demand on the moral power.
Great cold also alters the character of
the excretions. thickens the blood. and
! increases the need of nourishment from
the increased expenditure of carbo,-.
And while perspiration ceases entirely,
F., The secretion of the mucous membranes
of :.he nose and the eyes is permanently
increased, and the urine assumes al
most a deep red color. At first the
;owels are much confined, a state
which, after continuing for five and
sometimes eight days passes into
diarrhea. The bleaching of the beard
under these influences is curious fact
The Lands Within the Arctic Circle.
The Faults Of French Female Edu-
cation.
In France, where public opinion is so
much more severe with unmarried
women than with wives, we cannot but
suspect that the purity of girls Is val
ued rather from the sensuous point Of
view than as "a pledge of future chas-
tity. The more debauched the men,
the more they will be influenced by this
sensuous attraction; and, moreover.
the more their own icentious life has
impressed them with the frailty Of
woman's virtue, the more severely will
they guard their daughters. At any
rate, it will be conceded TO us that a
species of purity which can only be Sc
cured by claustratlon, does not COM
mand much respect. French writers
i'm general seem to think this claustra-
ton warranted by the inflammable tenn
permanent of their race, by their prox-
unity to the South, by their hot blood
and impetuous desires. George Sand,
for instance, in her novels usually i'm
plies that a man who spends ten minutes
alone with the woman he loves without
forgetting his good manners, deserves
considerable credit for his self-pos-
session. Michelet is of the opinion that
after the age of four or five, the two
sexes ought to be kept carefully apart.
Tame relates that in certain schools it
has been found necessary to exclude all
male professors, even such as are old
and ugly. Scraps of letters addressed
to these prosaic, unsuspecting Romeos
of fifty have been discovered in the
desks of the young ladies. A former
pupil of the great Legion Of Honor
school at st. Denis, into which no man
is allowed to enter, tells us that on one
occasion the authorities were greatly
scandalized by the discovery that the
word "Amouri" had been scribbled all
over its walls. For our part, we think
that the mental and physical state, in
dicaied by these or similar occurances,
would be remedied rather than aggre-
waited by enfranchisement. The physi-
cal appetites of the French are not by
any means ferocious; their sensuality
lies chiefly in their imagination; now
nothing stimulates the imagination so
much as mystery and restraint. Fresh
air and exercise provided for the body,
together with interest provided for the
mind through more rationa, course of
study, and especially through the pros
pect opened to women of utilizing their
studies in subsequent professional pur-
suit, would prove far better checks than
1 convent walls The very fact alleged