Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-11-11
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Her Hard Fate Among All the Nations
OF Earth-Regarded as One of
the Dangerous Diseases,
That DsmPnd Desperate Remediea~-s
1ohean Newspapers, bat verS seri.
Gus Aalter Elsewhere,
london Telegra

SHSS n4SLIS pVpuihL-ADO even cow
not altogether neelected-novelist has
made one Of MS heroes deliver himself,
under trying circumstances, of the re.
mark that dangerous diseases demand
desperate remedies" The particular
disease TO which he referred WAS that Of
Pfosestanigm; the remedy limited at was
to consist IL IAe ignition Of certain
baFre!5 CT guGpowder in the vaults De
Meath the houses O. Parliament; and the
utterer Of the pregnant spnCrisu was, i.
IS needless 20 sGd, the famous Mr.. Guido
FsWkes, thsn undeF examination before
his Msiesty's PnVy Council. History,
IS written by Mr.. Harrison Aine-
worth, records that the defence
avsiled the arch conspirator moth
ing, and, in tru.h, it might have been
felt By more i1dulgslt cssuists than wers
likely to be found among the lords CT
James rs council that the excu5e was
one which would carry man far. Had
they admitted it In extenustion q
FAHke's piccadillo the plea might have
been drawn into miSchie Vous precedent
ard have been resorted to sfterTard TO
justify some really serious ofense. 1t is
the duty Of all who administer the law,
capacity, 20 keep this confederation
always in view; snd we CANNOT
doubt thai It was present to the mind
Of the police authorities at Vienna in the
circumstances about TO be described. Ii
seems that policeman on duty recently
in tie R=nnWeg, enc OF the most fre-
Quented streets Cf the Aus risn cspitaI,
was invited TO remove = suspicious lock
ing apparatus which had been discovered
st the entrance CT one Of the houses On
his beat. o. ego Try he ascertaiued that
the tenant u thG lOuse in question lived
On tad teEUs with his wife, and publiC
Tumor delegated him as The author II
the supposed piQ.. Eventually ne Wac
arrested, ard Admitted thst he placed lhe
Internal InncLine Wiere Il had been fouCd
in the hope Of keeping his mother in-law,
who wss tha cause OF his dCmestic
troubles, away from the house. When the
apparatus came TO be more closely exam
med Il prCysd,fo be q ehrspnell shell,
tiled WIKI No m0fs leth2l substance thsn
cosl dust. issslted, howeV,r, that the
police authorities decided to prosecute
the offender. and we think they we're
right. The police authorities In Vienna
exercised IS Iiss & discretion bs the
Privy Council in FkWkeEr Tease in refusing
to regsri the graS,fY Of the emergency az
excusing desperate mode OF deal
ing with It. Il once H. became q recog-
med doctrine thai internal machines
might be "set" for mothers.in-.sw, there
is no saying where the practice would
stop. Il might be adopted for the settle.
u1ent otd. msstic difficulties of every kind.
Sal, il will be universally felt inst the
administrators Of the law IN ViennS have
had stroI z pre-possesglons OF their CHn
80 overcome before they could bring
themselves to treat technical breach e
the law IN 50 rigorous fashion. WIZ
this feeling should exist to SO vide On
extent is question 10 when 1t might be
difficult to fad! sn adequate answer, but
OF its existence there can be no manner OF
literature Of proverbs IS full c!
references to it; zthe = novel
and sill more the drama have utilized
II for their purposes q thousand times.
Tn French thes.er' has worked the
mJther-in law "moiiW threacoAre, AID
the English stage, after It's wont, hiss
borrowed the outWorl material TO re-
fashion sgsin and RgG!u into presents0.e
theatrical Shares. Countless are the
ep'gr&:ue ara Ctjurgaions OF waich
I'D Arrest m:nuA" mas. been tie 81 CT,
and int xhsush5le are the forms in " ticc
her dreSd Tyranny over the household has
been imagined as displaying itself The
ancient world knew nothing Of, the
mother-inIsw. UldeT the marriage Gus
tons { cis' s.cSl antiquity the wife passed
TOO completely under the dominion OF the
husband 10 admit Of her introducing
"desresS msmma" into the family circle,
except by special marital !Syar. Arc
among polygtmous Oriental races it is
obvious tast Ger rule could never arise
Even part from the practice Of secluc
ing 'ae inDEses Ct hsTeTs, there would
De "sEfely IN Numbers" 50 far as tbs
husosnd VAS concerned. We might IN
fer tails, indeed. from the circumstance
that the HdeGregt mamma" difiicVity
never seems.to have sIlseu in Sxtt Lake
CITY, even al the f-esides OF the most
ms.TIed ot its eldaTS. We c9n We'll under
st1ndthHt twenty nother6.1C-IaW you'd
neurSlEs- each other, SId this. the TWEEN
ty times son ia.laW might occupy much
the same position as thst Of the ''pO!rft Ct
calm" st the center Of Lie cyclone. Even
O second mo!her-in-laE might, on tie
counteriTrl.Snt principle, operate IS n
.I:r Ithetic agent n relief 81 the al Z
tio1s caused by the fist. Among lee
montgtm Gus races Of the modern wore,
however, the name OF the w!f-'s
mother if IS prOyeyoiEI synonym for
m schief making Sud the Concentration Of
con 1ub!sl qusyrei as WAS ttGt Of Ste, .
uotlsr Tor hGrshness and lnhumsni 2
among the sHcients. Ovid describes the
golden age as one in which the "loVeIcA"
had not yet learned to mix accni!e for the
murder OF her young charges; and the
Gre,k poet fei. t6sE he could convey
no stronger impre sslon OF the piteous
cruelty of the ssa than By calling it
"the stepmother Of ships Had the
Greeks taken that view of the mother.
in.lsw which is current these days II
would SesuredlY have left its traces In the
legend and literature Of HellRs. Probsoly
we should have heard that DiscordiG,
uthe kbominSble that invited came, and
cast the golden fruit upon the board, and
breed this change" was in reality the
mother-iu Law Of Menelsus, and thRt she
deIibere.ely brought about the abduction
O. Helen and the siege CT Troy, in order
10 ,yspgs herself Cor successful revolt
OF her con in law sgainst her power. To
saw thst there is no foundation in fact for
ali this concensEs OF hostile opinion
wouId hs going too fSr. popular idea
so widely spread has generally some ROOT
in the realities OF life; but no man If
csndor and observation will deny that
the idea in question is monstrous
eXsggerstion. As mstter OF fsct, It's
existence is rather tribute to the i'm.
mense power Ct tce Mother-in-l law than
TO the frequency Of its abuse. The wife's
mother occupies so commanding posi-
ton CT sttsc6; she possesses, IL she
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