The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-06-10


GENERAL PRESS REVIEW.
The Chicago Inter Ocean csu say good
word when it wants to, and in the following
does so;
More than half century ago the Ameri-
can Home Missionary Society was organized
10 do the work at home that the American
Board of Foreign Missions was doing abroad.
The question as to the comparative necessity
among the heather al home is broad one,
and need not DO discussed here, but the sue.
cess which has attended tho labors of the
American Missionary Association demon
strstes the requirements OF the field. The
organization has been, perhaps, the most eff
fectiye agent 10 the advancement of civiiZs-
ton, following, as it has, the march OF EN-,
pire westward, establishing churches. schools,
and colleges among the pioneers of the great
west and stfordiDg opportunities of educa.
ton and religious worship for communities
that were too poor and tco scattered to Sc
cure them for themselves; and not alone
has this great work been done, but the me-
elected classes in the cities and towns of the
eastern states have been attended to, the
Door aud sick have been relieved. the prsu ns
visited, and Christs command for christian
libC fulfilled. During its existence the ssso.
citation has expended over len millions of
dollars in this work. As each year enlsrges
the field, so has the energy and benevolence
of the society increased, and it meets to-day
at Central Music Hall to commemorate an
anniversary and gather strength by an. inter.
change of plans and opinions. The hospi-
tsity of the city ia extended TO this noble
body of christian workers, and it is to be
hoped that its sessions here may not only
stimulate its members TO larger endoavors,
but enlist the cooperation of Chicago enter
prise in the great work.
The following from the New Orleans
Democrat not only gives some pleasing in
teligence, but it contains valuable advice
and suggestions which we earnestly COM
mend to our city fathers:
The probabilities are all in favor of q
healthy summer, and the rigid quarantine
that is being msintsined-a quarantine that
held over such distinguished gentlemen as
ex-President Grant and Capt. E,ds in its im.
partial and rentless grasp for the full term
inspires confidence not only here but else
where, that not single case OF yellow fever
will be permitted to pass up the Mississippi
river. The intensely aud unusually cold
winter, the late and cool spring, the excellent
health of the city, aside from the ordinary
complaints incident TO the season, change OF
diet, ETC., and the strenuous exerIions being
put forth by the auxiliary sanitary associa-
ton and the state and national boards of
health. all tend to strengthen the belief that
the summer of 1881 will be an exceptionally
healthy one; but these things, while crafty
ing, should not induce us to relax our efforts;
they should on tho contrary stimulate us to
renewed endeavors to cleanse and purify the
city 80 that not even the most csrpng and
i'll natured critic could fine an excuse tor in.
furious representations DR.. Jones very
truly observes that 10 this climate it is essen
tally necessary to be prompt in suppressiDg
uncleanliness, and that conditions that in
more northern cities would not excite COM
ment would here c. este alarm. Hence the
necessity Of eternal vigilance on the part Of
our whole people in matters of nitation,
and hence, too, the wisdom of holding up the
hands of cur auxiliary sanitary association,
and of aiding them with our means in the
really grand work in which they have en-
barked of making for the city reputation
for cleanliness-s reputation which she has
never enjoyed heretofore, and which would
be worth untold millions to her people. II
there is any one thing that should enlist the
esrnest and active sympathy ofevery citizen
merchant and property owner in New
Orleans, it is the effort of teh public spirited
gentlemen of the sanitary association tc
cleanse the city. They are laboring gratui-
tously and zealously for the common good
and they are determined, if the people viii
sustain them, to cause living streams of pur
water 10 flow continuously, during the no
summer months, through every gutter il
the city, to clean out and keep clean tn
receiving canals in the roar, and never TO res
until the death rate of New Orleans shal
proclaim her among the very healthies
cities in the world.
The St. Louis-Post- Dispatch gives som
good advice concerning children, and show
that tits not Herod seeking their destruc
tor, but rather their salvation, both as Il
health and morals. 1t says:
Some of the watering place hotels are fol
lowing up the edict against Hebrews with
uksse against children. Hereafter onl
adults will be admitted and the happy circu
VI III suo losouous SoiAiuoi w "
thing of the past. People should not TAXI
children to fashionable watering places an
how, and this move on the part ofthe hote
people is a good one. Boys and girls shout
have their summering out among the hay
cocks and the cool, shady creeks in the veri
table country, not cooped up in hotels an
thrown into the vortex of dissipation befor
they have shed their milk teeth. The gres
trouble with this country Is that we hav
too many little ladies and gentlemen and nc
enough boys and girls.
The Louisville CouriertJ ournsl COILS o
from the heated exercise or I.ical discus
sion by indulgiug in sclen,if, discussion
penning learned dispositions on rae
changes, saying:
Everybody who has given any thoughtfr
attention to the science of races knows tn;
the physical characteristics of race arc nj
necessarily permanent. 1t depends upon Il
conditions in which a race is plAced-ElhiC
plan physiognomy, for instance, is not in
mutable. II freely changes with extern
conditions. Negro races, which do not con
in contact with civilization, or make lit
progress in civilization in temperate climate
because Of slavery, retain the original pros
nathous character. Their physical chsra
teristics change as they emerge from barb
rism or slavery, under civilized tutelage.
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