The Red Cloud chief., 1878-05-02

With III. peculiar tastes and Acvonplt.h
sn.nis. aud often With the idiosy acrN.
sic., II the portfaNcr The t~ailConls,.
for INSTANCE. l. surv that ID, coming
man ~ili ride the ave aud Sud srrrnr
midway tgtwtsl sea and armament;
the sk-tsic dcalss ucs that when 80
man coiurs, he vii lie wholly ,mancis
psied irom tradition and superstition
to the socialist. the coming man Will.
with angelic cumposurv. divide Wy his
yearly gains With his neigheor, The
Nautilus an will have the coming man
cease 10 rrckiesslN o,cr.pupulN,r the
clot- Much NIGH, To- said. to,. ~
" ha, the coming woman will DO and
b-. She has her prophets and pruph.
r,csscs too. She Will. me- doubt. arriNr
at the pcrtectpn " combined convent.
.ncc and grace In drr~. pc.hAp. n,
viii vote aud preside over Legislative
~rangl-s, aud din. A. envoy At ROYAL
tables.
Mr.. Charles Rcsdc. with a wit and
invention tina, might bc expected from
his performances in imaginative ltcrs.
tnre. has discovered n new attribute
which he thinks j. certain the coming
man aud woman will po>scss. What Is
remarkable -, that this attribute. though
suggested 10y a brain which !. above sll
fanciful, Is y severely practical one. lie
saws that the human phenomenon ui the
future will I've an '~'ambldeytrr. ar both
handed person. Bringing the whole
force of his hrillian, rhetoric Ia bear
upon this subject, MIR Reade arrsigns
the distinction between the right aud
the left hand ~ u relic of remote bar
barism To think. he SAYS. that the
left hand j. unlucky, il tn subscribe la u
heather mythology. II was u tradition
| Of the Juvenile world" ~ he calls what
We commonly know n anci.nt. times
| The according of distinction and suIc-
rior skill Ia the RICH, hand has no war
| rant. either in the structure Of the organs
or even In human instinct. II il wholly
a matter of custom 10y Inheritance, Yet.
In n long array of very rich historical
| learning. he shows how universal. In
time and place, this custom has been
We find Il In the Bible. Jacob was 'the
| son Of Rachcl's right hand" Jacob
blessed Ephraim with the RICH, hand
According Ia Moses. II was the Lords
right hand that gave the Law. solomon
seated his mother on his right hand nj
a mark II honor. Homer and the Greek
writers. Virgil and the Latin ones.
closely follow the traditional Use aud
symbolism III the two hands. ''lbex.
ferrous came from the Latin word
meaning right hand, and sinister"
from tina, meaning the left. Even in
modern tongues the anne ''superstition'
Is fixed deep the French use ''droi,,"
the English right" for n moral si,ri.
quite as well as for a physical locality {;
the French ''gauche,' or awkward.
means also left" The same significant
peculiarly Is to he found In Spanish
and Italian. Always II is seen tha,
words derived from right" are eulo-
CYSTIC. those from the ''lei,' uncompli-
mentary aud sometimes ~disgraceful.
Mr.. Resde unlocks all this store 81
Learning 70 prove that the distinction u
traditional. and not instructive; and he
urgss the world 10 hasten the coming
II the ''Both-handcd." by beginning
now la teach children to use each hand
with equal skill. There would. no
doubt. be great advantages in this but
we fear that Mr.. Resdc's own expo
sition shows mankind to bc too closely
welded Ia ''right-handedness' Ia make
the reform a rapid or easy one.-ipptc-
tons journal.