The sun., 1894-10-21

| tho life of women. I have como 10 recognize
vrse.ps se Tps Of fe ressn are are n greet proportoB
| sbeltered from the moral disorders which ha v
y any d snx which sssrs osssws S . Es%
in tleir works, and which are next 20 insyitabl,
when men allow thsmsslyss 70 BE- guided B,
nssses.' EniIle zola looks At things IN a differ.
ent way THE coming century belongs 70 Ia.
he the shade, had Of the social law Of tomorrow that
law Of iabo.V for sl, l.bcr that rsealates and
%sseS ney w f"Ss be ' society 70 which each member
brings HE col Sistent portion ot work! a man
,Ss s.s ssSSS can as ne be-
lief In the eificao Of duty done"
Charles Dnppy tso pre;sSnt m S prne Minister o.
time when al Frsp, ,6mSn shal be content witt,
I'VE ahniI see all FIR, r,pchmen. who owe them
Ing AZ cur instlt,tions. ~. would be strange TO
out % profit for The whole ctpntry. The. republic
!. TIE yor @, no TSe TRs editor sT"
Whose o. infucnce M @ % has been = great as that Of
many Prime Ministers. is NOR k'keptlcal yet not
without measure. of French gayety., The
ssties ss ~ modern fe l. not as the past
I believe that the fufure WI prove still
the he sensitive. There viii be certainly less
art and less refinement. Men viii think less;
doab oa shey there S "Sa %i Se s~sT wre@Sed
materially: but morally, there will lie as many
sa s9T e ss ss
comfortedi roses shall bloom forever"
After al the most comforting pre,disaion an may may
bis % prediction "ThnnEs to very emple measures
see the time when ali the great evils Of conngion
which have aye dseims'ed humanity may be sihed
It is also interesting to hear what Jules Simon,
the contemporary of Gladstone. has to say about
ths fsVoiatons;s No saw that the title Of his book
on this subject should have been, Woman in
the Seventeenth Century, ,I He certainly @ Sl az
rnptiy with the past lie disclaims any deair,
OF demanding new political rights for women. on
serious reforms on which he Insists. ~ com
plain of that article Of the French Civil Code
%"'' OF Children Hn' OF Of I Tnmarried ed girls. am
not with my century when it renders
da dCTe sight orSaden Ass ose when k
places education with an orgle q instfuction."
Gustsye simon the ,p son trsss who Is psysIieia N
the duties of mothers and nurses and Of hygiene
and physical exercise for women: He insists
ing out drrgs. He winds up. as Frenchman
should. by saying that u woman who negects
0Ghss by way S Of contrast, 70 to show what we and
science together are coming to- nothing can DC
oee sn,o .eson ae Of the french Academy Of
Medicine on "Hysteria in Babes" 1t Ia based
on the observation Of over 200 cases, and pur,
%DeT ye1y o %aS what age; called nature IN young
lowed by trembling and rolling rs In rage upon
the bed, or again IN those bursts OF laughter for
That irYsteria I l. disease Of the day comes out
very plainly from another French medical re-
sanized foi the great Palais de Justice in Paris
with its assernblage of courts OF law. DIR. Flo
s. II ,a s dnnr ss Ss
sessions of cOur,. He has been called on to care
for 800 patients. who have given him 400
sensa tional book 81 Max Nordau. declaring
going crazy. In his turn. VI. Bal, the eminent
alisnist has giysn az Interesting Sn , or
lie meetings and especially ot the discussion
Of legislative matters Among many curious
ence, he detailed at length the history OF lie
Ciou. whom he had carefully examined. This
mnniclpai Councilors. but Imagined himself to
be constantly prosecuted by them He made
and gained a certain renown in demanding TO be
paid by the hour. NJ. Bal said that che things
tsRs "nG the
between them was insane The newspapers of
aEee say that they I've nsS the y .
eminent professor concerning political madness.
But Il becomes more serious TO wind up with the
as NJ. Jules Lemaitre. He adds TO the common
causes of madness, which Is so characteristic Of
this IN de SiSels. debauchery and alcohol, and
then goes on with an uncomfortable prediction:
e have the feeling that there ~ another cause
which Is more general. Weare all VI us isolated
AS isolated in Paris in the fuu midst Of the
crowd as In the deepest desert. There. are no
beliefs accepted once ror all which are common
to MS with a grea; number OF our fellows. and
which are thus n security to rs by being at once
a bond and an anchor. kemark that Jhsre are
no crazy men, next TO none. among simple
people: none In armies nor in active religious
cun gregatiOns. The s,ibin ssiOn of minds. "A
I in incnriousness and the community Of moral
Hfa are excellent preservatives against
demeutia. But each one of US 20 longer holds
to anything. Either live without faith
we are obliged tn make faith for ourselves
with little Happiness and at our own risk and
peril. We are, 30 to speak, cut Off from the rest
OF the world In tins aud in snace. We 10 not
feel any support around us. We are really lost
In the universe and IL Is this isolation which is
fatal. Yes. helieve that there Is la society q
constant relatisn betsyern the development of
indiv vilnalism aud the Increase In number of
those stricken with dementia complete or par
tial. In proportion as the human Intelligence
increa4es. sO also increases that which throws 10
Uff ths track. Wait only two Or three thousand
years. Perhaps IL is not by fire nor by cold that
humanity is to perish. but by uniyeral and furi-
nus fully" STERLING HELLO,