The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-09-17
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are the Vaucluse and the Gers. The
former is a very wealthy and very Red
department, and has for it's chief town
Ayignon. into which. before it was annexed
to France, the violent men of the south,
Tying from. justice, used to congregate.
Its population still savors of this origin.
But apart from violence they are an essen
TALLY virtuous people in the chief town of
the Department of Vauciuse
Paris is sink of corruption if judged
by DR.. Bertillon's maps. Why it should
appear so requires some explanation.
When a provincial girl meets with mis-
fortune which causes her to be shunned by
her neighbors she turns her face Paris
ward, and comes here to make new de-
parture, Other girls are attracted By the
| high wages given to domestic servants,
and the glamour of the dazzling city; while
vast number who desire to reap the wa
ges OF sin and amuse themselves immensely
in reaping them, desert farms and work
shops in small towns to join the army of
vice. The largest proportion OF recruits
from this direction is furnished by Rheims
and it's enyirons. Why this is so is not
explained by the statistician I,haVe named.
1t is probably due to the poverty of the
IChampenois soil and the exciting nature of
the wines of the Marine valley, Poorly
fed women have not vital energy enough
to face bravely life of hard work. An
@mia follows on insufficient nutrition, and
laziness On anemia. The well-fed robust
Norman peasant girl is courteous and sell
fish, but it is not her way to seek liveli-
hood in vice when che comes to Paris.
The high rents of lodgings in the de-
partment of the Seine is serious impede
ment to marriage A workwoman can
live pleasantly in garnet where two would
be miserable, and an infant would soon
perish from the heat of the slate roof i'm
mediately overhead in summer, or from
the cold in winter. The NoTd, take it all
in all, is the most vicious department in
France. Factories. drunkenness, and
1 gross appetites, render the towns pande-
moniums. Sunshine, fruit, and olive oil,
are great boons Of heaven to the inhab-
itants of the southern provinces and con-
duce to health contentment and longevity,
when once the infantile diseases are sur
mounted. But the principle of natural
iselection operates severely there on young
lchildren. ...-....
liz the right wing of the Trocadero there
!, are fifteen small rooms devoted to French
photographic exhibition. 1t shows the
progress of this nation towards civilization
from the prehistoric period, when men
lived entirely 10 caves and holes scooped
out 10 hillsides, and carved rude images
on the tusks of elephants which then
roamed 10 the jungles of Western Europe.
Here skulls OF a very remote period may
be seen, and there is but little difference tc
be found in the skull of the Troglodyte OIL
that time and the Uranium of the better
sort of ape, The artistic aspiration,
scientific theorists tell US, proceeded from
the superior quality of the brain, In the
lacustrian period progress toward eiviliza
ton made long stride. Living in habi
tations resembling those of beavers anC
defended from their natural enemies, tht
carniverous beasts, by the waters that en-
ylroDed them, our ancestors took up Sc
dentary habits and occupations. Thei
waffle huts, constructed on islands apC
dams, became to some extent workshops
and when the lacustrians quilted thei
water defended homes to live on teri;
a frma they had acquired habits of sociabil
ity and mutual dependence. The food OF
which they lived amid the lakes was plea
tory, no better food for the brain, scientist
/. tell US. The early Gauls left the deepes
F traces of their foot prints on the upward
path towards civilization in the graves o
: their progenitors by them implements o
bronze were manufactured; the altar be
came the meeting place of the tribe; pro
= cessions were organized, and in Druidica
rites those glimmerings OF science AM
philosophy which were casting light on th'
Gallo brain were brought into focus. 1
E. literary element was brought in by tn
y, high civilization of Rome which next cam
upon the scene. The church, as in th
d time of the Druids, was the synthesis {
ct art, philosophy and science. As compare
with pagan antiquity, Christendom wa
very benighted under the Merovignian an
Carlovignian dynasties, but an inspectio
of this photographic museum will convinc
: many that the darkness of that era hs
been oveTrated. In the 18th century Il
= drama began to evolve itself in the pas
sion plays" and mysteries. We find
this section seven scenes painted on car
vas. The actors placed themselves befol
each in succession to make time and pla'
cohere until they had got to the end
their play, Those curious to know Il
] infancy of the modern drama should i
spect the stage accessories of this exhib
G. A. S.