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An ERA or SCIENTIFIC CoNGRESsEs-A CONGRESS
OF DENUGRAPHY-THE ETHNOGRAPHIc COL
LECTION IN THE PALACE OF THE TRoCA-
DERo, ETC, ETC.

An ERA or SCIENTIFIC CuNGRESSS-A CONGRESS
OF DENJGRAPHY-TnE ETHNOGRAPHIc COL
LECTION IN THE PALACE OF THE TRocA-
DERo, ETC, ETC.
PARIS, Aug. 80, 1873.
y lew weeks ago there was published, in
list Of nearly a score of scientific congresses
that were to be held in the Palace of the
Trocadero, congress of "demography"
DR.. Bertillon, distinguished savant. is the
inventor of the science of demography. or at
least Of the name. His excellent maps enable
one to take in rapidly the part.
of France where legitimate prevail
ever illegitimate births. where irreg-
ular unions are most frequently .'reg-
ularized, " and natural children recognized
by their fathers; where there is most
drunkenness where crime is violent and
barefaced and where it skulks where pri-
mary instruction IL most general along
what rivers cancer, or Group, or bronchitis,
or typhoid fever, or pulmonary consumption,
prevail the statistics of disease at rivers
mouths and rivers sources the climates and
soils most fatal to infants, to youths, and to
young girls for the geographical conditions
that suit the male organization in youth are
often pernicious to the female and rice rersa.
Two of the most moral departments,
il morality is to bo tested by the
scarcity of illegitmatc children and
the frequency of marriages. are the
Nauclusc and the Gers. The former is a
very wealthy and Il very Red department,
and has for its chief town Avigron, into
which. before it was annexed to France, the
violent men of the south, flying from Justice,
used to congrcgate. Its population still
say0rs of this origin. But apart from vio-
lence they are an essentially yirtuous peo-
pie in the chief town of the department of
Nauclusc.
Paris is sink Of corruption, if judged by
DR.. Bertillon's maps. Why it should
appear 50 requires some explanation
When provincial girl meets with a mis- |
fortune which causes her to be shunnsd by |
her neighbOrs, she turns her face Parisward |
and comes here to make a new departure.
Other girls are attracted by the high wages |
given to domestic servants and the glamour of |
the dazzling city while vast number " 10 |
desire to reap the wages of sin and amuse
themselves immensely in rcapng them,
desert farms and workshops in small towns
to Join the army OF vice. The largest pro-
portion of recruits from this direction is
furnished by Rheims and its cnvirons. Why
this is 50 is not explained by the statistcian
| have named 1t is probably due to the
poverty of tho champenois soil and the
exciting nature of the wines Of the Ma-ne
valley. Poorly-ied women have not vital
energy enough to face bravcly lite of hard
work. Ar1ma follows on insufficient nu-
triton, and laZincSs on ar;umia. The we'll
fed, robust Norman peasant girl is coyetous
and selfish, but 1t Is not her way TO seek
livelihood in wee when she comes to Paris.
The high rents of lodgings in the depart
mcnt OF the Seine il serious impediment to
workman can live pleasantly
IN garrett where two would be miserable.
nnd an infant would perish from the heat of
the slate roof, Immediately overhead in Sum
rncr, or from the cold in " inter. The Nord.
take 1t all in all, is the most vicious depart
mcnt in France. Fact ries, drunkenness
and gross aPperites render The towns pande-
Inoniums. Sunshine, fruit and Give oil arc
great boons of heaven to the inhabitants of