The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-09-29
DANGEROUS BOSTON cRAxxs.
Garisttsn s~i~nes Mothers sessss chItarea
OCT - spread cs.ssag ts.sa.

| With how Iuu.h viCl.ssCs that yaggayy
/ ki.oxu ~ ~ 49, 81 :.i4,.s. 4 ta1Hes sael
Is Faith tssln, .M.cd Cure" auG
Christian s.c.e ase~--fa- l.sspite tie iat4e
,!is' tlcs,.4'sz wErfvh Ire f,lI wees Of lhS.se
/ falls lrs.ssc a!.so.sx tna-iuzslA ~ fhere Is no
| question taai IN The ,l.d Ill tiscAe things
eorla ~ a,s2G. The same thing. despite,
| whatever Glssiiz4iiariiy Of title--Slas
broken out In Chicago have no espc
cial knowledge, bat phase Of the mat
| ter which has recently presented iiseli
| 10 Boston il likely TO caIse a good 2eAl
| Of trouble end not a little hssanesss bo-
/ fore all Ia said There has teeu solas
wonder expressed at the spread anon
| the children Of tie city who arv T1oa,
carefully guarded from contagious dir
eases of such ailments as scarlet Sever
chicken pox, whoopiug congh ana fhf
| like.
IL is now evident that the chief faet5g
in the distribution Of these trouUiea las
| been the children of tho Christian Sci
ence theorists. There are "A nuInher OF
| instances known in which persons who's
! children have been afflicted with con
tagious diseases have let them 20 unre
! strictediy among their usual cosrralc.
''!Jecatise Of course there Is 40 resi- dis
ease and there can be 10 such thiag 81.
contagion. The children imagine thH
! they are sick, but it would IL foolish =,
encourage that fancy in them by zh'c
| ting them off from others" car thu
| beautiful basis of logic IS based the plan
Of allowing the children t. spread ,al-
! tagion unrestricted.
4 fine Ecere was enacted In an eicc .ric
car coming Into town from the suburbs
last week. a women vino is OF social
! standing and whose husband IS man q
| wealth started to come into town. HGg
little daughter had slight case Of scar
latina, the mother, of course, insisting
that there was really nothing the matter
| except that the child's imagination was
somewhat astray and wishing TO keep
| the patient under her influence Mrs
/ Blank took her along into the car bound
for town. Unluckily for the Christian
Scientist, when she got into the car she
found there a physician who lives close
| by her and who was aware of the state of
| the case. There We're children il the
car, and when the mother and daughter
appeared he sprang up and called to the
conductor to stop.
Mrs. Blank" he said, "you cannot
| bring that child into this car. She has
the scarlatina and should not be out
| You shall not expose the other children
here if you do not choose to take proper
care Of your own child"
The sensation may be imagined. Mrs
Blank at first refused to leave the car
and the other mothers began inconti-
nently to hurry their offspring out at the
| most remote door, but the physician
stood his ground.
II am very sorry, Mrs. Blank" he
said, ''but / cannot let this thing 90 on.
| shall be forced to call policeman II
you persist, and l beg that you Will not
| force me to do that"
She attempted TO explain that the
child really had nothing the matter with
her beyond the distortion of her fancy,
but he still insisted that the childs dis
ordered fancy should be taken home and
/ put to bed. The conductor Joined in
roughly, declaring that the car could
not wait forever, and that If the doctor
dld not call policeman he would. IL
the end Mrs. Blank had to return home,
whore she was soon visited by health
officer, who put her in quarantine. Sha
probably looks upon herself as a martyr
in the cause of truth, but there is gen
eral feeling against her which would
possibly make her anything but com
Portable were it made manifest to her.
Fortunately, the type Of all these dis
eases for the last two years has been
light here, fact for which the Christian
Scientists take all the credit to them
selves. Parents whose children have
had to lose their schools for the winter
through the willfulness Of these crankE,
however, are not inclined to accept tins
theory as a sufficient compensation for
the damage Conclusion Cor. Chicago
! Tribune