New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-03-04
An Unborn Boy.

What shall we do with our boys? is q
problem as pcrplexing for French as
for English parents. A case has just;
been before the Paris correctional
tribunal which will show what great
Importance some French parents at
tach to the future trade or profession
Of their offspring. M. and Me. Pane
ton, during the fifteen years they have
been married, have had but one quar-
rel, or rather the same quarrel, for the
motive Of it is always the same. Here
is how it usually begins: Paneton,
journeyman mason, comes home at Z
for dinner, as they say here; in England
We should say supper. Paneton's brow
is clouded. He throws himself into q
chair and says: What q dirty trade!
How can parents be SO stupid as to
make masons Of their sonsP My son
shall not be a mason. O., no, Motif I
know it." 20, you're right there" re-
piled Nine. Paneton, while cutting
bread into the soup. ..He shall be
cabinet-maker," continues Paneton.
Never while live, !" replies madame,
she shall be wood-turner! "a wood
turner!' retorts monsieur; .'catch me
making wood-turner Of my boy! I
know ten Of my ,chums who made
wood-turners of their sons, and every
one of those lads turned bad charac-
ters.' Rubbish! Our boy shall be a
wood turner.'' II tell you he shall be
q cabinet-maker.'' '.My son paste
pot! would rather strangle him with
these hands" GU are not mother
to the boy; you are q stcp-mother.' 1T
is you, rather, who are step-father."
At that Paneton seizes. the first thing
that comes to hand and hurls it at
madame head. She returns the fire..
and the row is renewed regularly every
night.
The circumstances in the case are
that they have no children, though they
have been fifteen years married. To be
brief, cries Of murder" are heard.
The neighbors rush in, restore peace
and go away, knowing they will keep
quiet for the next twenty-four hours.
The nuisance, however, has become so
intolerable that we find them at length
summoned before the correctional tri-
bunal. The first witness, N. Blanchard,
deposcth: .Paneton and his missus are
the incest people you can wish to see
but they are always going on with the
same quarrel, and sometimes they
spend the whole night fighting. just
imagine, your worship, they are not
very young, and they can have no fam
| lily, which embitters their moral quail
titles; but that is not the fault Of the
Ineighborhood, which has often said to
them: 'If you keep on this racket we
will go and complain TO the police COM
missary, al the more, yonr worship,
because the older they get the less hope
they have Of posterity TO that
Nine. Paneton replied It IS you who
makesa mistake, NJ. Blanchard; you
must not talk of what you don't under.
stand. q ..5#
Here the Judge interfcred and said.
gu disturb the tranquility 81 your
neighbors BY = dali scandal and that
Eapropos of the trade "a which you will
lspnt 4 son who IS mot born Z He
EthcnS sentenceI each speuAe q q Emo
Isof five francs for nocturnal disturb
lanccs llIpaY it when you like, =
Icried Paneton; but heS mall IS 8 cab
linet He shall be awood-
fell Oh, = retorted Nine z.
Turn them ont. usher. "a they 90
ling to- begin again herr Pc excl aimed
f1he Judge IL ans cement JIG Vidont
EthAt the future child NIL ~ either I
Icsbinet 81 i J wood HI &
boy PIT snpp POSING i = 81 g. so