The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-10

the people will cling to the green grass
of its sires and refuse to adopt it,
BESSIE CHANDLER
~ have no views at all, yet burial seems
to me the most natural method, aud with
out graveyards we should miss much, [
should at least-of poetic and religious asso-
citation with the departure of friends into
the unseen" Lucy LARCOM
Fifteen years ago | wrote directions to
have my own body cremated at last, and
the only horror death holds for me is that
the wish may by any chance be unfulfled.
How can we leave our friendless dead to the
slow change and deformity of the graves"
SHIRLEY DARE.
81 believe in cremation for four reasons.
1st-It insures one against premature bur-
ial. 2d-It is more healthful for the liv-
ing. Silt is more agreeable to contem-
plate. 4th-It seems to finish up the bust
ness of living in more complete and salts
factory Manner
OLIVE THoRNE MILLER.
''To me it is pleasant thought that the
beloved object can be reduced to ashes
without passing through all the loathsome
stages of putrefaction. The unavoidable
phenomenon that we call death even pres
ents to us less repulsive aspect when we
reflect that the cherished form need not be-
come hideous, but can be at once reduced
to clean white ashes that we may keep if we
care for mortal remains.
Apart from this, the good of the many is
what we must always consider, and the
laws of hygiene certainly call for all meas
ures that may keep pure the atmosphere of
this little planet. That there is nothing
new under the sun most people are willing
to admit, and the disposal of the dead by
means of cremation is as old as the hills.
The ancient Egyptians, having no fuel to
burn their dead, made point of embalm-
ing, and afterward burying them above
high water mark of the inundation. In
modern times the jewellers on the banks of
the Nile inter their dead around the cities;
the result is cholera and other pestilences.
All the wisest nations of antiquity were
accustomed to burn the corpses, except
when unable to obtain fuel, then they
mumified them. Even in Central America
the 'extinguished,' as they call the de-
parted, were given TO the warm embrace of
the purifying flames
"'fhereis not the least doubt that if when
the fever broke out in jacksonville, crema-
ton had been insisted on and adopted in
every case, the disease would have soon
died out. AS it is, the same sickness will
most likely reappear in the spring"
ALICE LIE PLoNGEoN.
'While it may be wise as a sanitary meas
ure, | cannot as yet be willing to see it
adopted with regard to those who are dear
to me-" SARAH K. BOLTON.
Cremation as method of disposing of
the untenanted human form has never been
repugnant to my thoughts. 1t Is simply a
more rapid method of combustion, and
combustion is but one kind of decomp1si-
ton and tine least offensive kind In the inter-
ests of the living cremation has always
seemed to be the most unobjectionable way
in which to dispose of that which is dead.
1t is doubtless true that il the body was
laid in the earth with no interposing barrier
of indestructible coffin or casket between
the kindly mould and the dauntless form, it
would be resolved back into its elements in
a vastly more rapid manner than it is now,
and in a more natural and harmless man
uer too" FRANCES e. WILLARD.
"While / confess to the prejudices of
earlier thought in favor Of the old method
of interment, there can be no doubt that the
sanitary considerations in favor of crema-
ton are of overwhelming Importance"
LILLE DEvEREAUX BLAKE.
''I have a great aversion to this strange
idea of cremation, and trust no friend of
mine will desire it-'Dust thou art and to
dust thou shalt return, but prefer to 60
by the natural way and not by fire. Yet /
am not prepared to give any good reason
for the aversion save my own personal dis
like OF so disposing of the bodies of our
friends" MRS. HENRY WARD BEECHER.
"While the arguments in favor of crema-
tion arc many and excellent, l Tee moth
ing against It but tradition. prejudice aud