Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-28


been done at the Johns Hopkins Univer
sity In Baltimore. Mr.. Reid, in his speech
In the house of commons In 1888, referred
to one particular set Of thirty-one expert
Prof. Rutherford of Marlborough. The
process was as follows: The dogs were
starved for many hours; they were then
fastened down. The abdomen was cut
open, the bile duct was dissected oEt and
cut, and glass tube was lied iato-st, and
brought outside the body. The duct lead.
Ing to the gall bladder was then closed by
a clamp; then various drugs were put into
the upper part Of the intestines. These
experiments were performed without an
aesthetics. DR.. Berdoe says: For eight
hours the wretched animals had to endure
this awful agony-worse than the horrible
every now and then by the reopening of
the wound in the abdomen for the purpose
OF injecting the drugs into the opening
made in the duodenum.'
"One OF the worst experiments known Is
that Of recurrent sensibility, as it is called,
ana consists In opening and dissecting out
a nerve, and then applying electricity to 1t.
This has been done by Brown-Sequard and
to have a nerve accidentally touched at
the dentists. You may then imagine-only
/ don't believe you can imagine-what 1t
would be to have an electric shock instead
Experiments upon the tender maternal in
stinct OF dogs have been made over and
over again, suggested, as we can only
think. by stony hearts and depraved i'm
agiEations. canine mother has a litter
Of pups; she displays them with pride and
joy to the vivisector who visits her, re-
policing at seeing him. and little suspecting
his fell design. He takes out his knife
and extirpates all the lacteal glands. She
can then give no milk to her little ones.
The next day when the vivisector visits
her she regards him with adherence. Her
pups die Of starvation. and she soon fol-
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he has known this to be done many times
on the continent of Europe. Another ex-
pertinent in testing the strength of
maternal affection. of which we have q
heart-rending account, is where a mother
dog was taken and cut and mutilated, I'M
til she was. as might be supposed. in the
direst agony, and almost ready to die,
when the ruthless experimenters placed
them in various ways, to see IL she would
still try to protect them. am glad to
record to the credit of that poor mother
that she did try In her wretched condition
to defend and shelter her young
Now, ladies and gentlemen. I ask you
If the perpetrators Of these cruelties ought
not to be called Thugs instead of Chris
tians? Is 1t any wonder that Ghandie. the
Hindoo, who lectured here in Washington
lately. said that he never could become a
Christian while the Christians defended
vivisection?"
Mrs. Mary F. Lowell Of Bryn Mawr con-
the world" She maintained that the REM
edy was special legislation. Observation,
scientific observation, would produce all the
results which are falsely claimed by the
vivisectionist.
The Double Moral Standard.
The first address under the second sub
Ject of the evening was by Mrs Charlton
Edholm, purity evangelist of Chicago. who
sICke on Zone Result of the Double Moral
Standard"
Rev. Ida C. Hultin of Illinois Spoke on
Morality VS.. Moral Codes" Moral ten
dency, she said which, from the beginning
of human evolution. indeed, from the begin
ming Of all evolution. has been issuing in
concrete expression, has not always found
in that expression real fulfllment. HUI
manity must grow in its moral conceptions
and applications, as well as in its dis
coveries, inventions, literature AMI arts.
The moral standards of one generation are,
or ought to be, found incapable of express
Ing the moral growths and attitudes OF the
next. Only so can there be moral religious
growth.
The greater freedom Of woman, or the
realness of thought and speech and action,
is ultimating in a finer conception OF the
relations of things and better realization
of the unvitiated nature of the moral ten
dency of the universe, and with this finer
insight Is coming greater power to ADJUST
herself to the world around her-greater
sense persuades her it ought to be. She Is
beginning to teach that one code of morals
must do for both men and women-that
there Is but one moral tendency, and there
must be but one humanity.
She is demanding purity for purity, self
respecting manhood for self-respecting wo-
manhood. Unto the best manhood and the
best womanhood of the age has this ideal
been revealed, and together they move to
its realization in themselves and in the
race.
Miss Hultin concluded her remarks with
an attack on DR.. Parkhurst for applying
the epithet "andromaniacS" to women. He
had previously declared that nothing could
defeat Tammany Hall unless the women
came to the rescue. and this was how he
rewarded them. Thank God" she added,
1--WE do not care how he rewards u.s."
This and the reading of some announce
ments closed the meeting of the evening.
There will be special dress reform meet
ing for women at pm. Saturday. A num-
Der of reform costumes will be displayed.
A reception was rendered the members of
the National Women's Council by Miss
Adelaide Johnson yesterday afternoon.
Miss Johnson was assisted by Mrs. Sewall,
Mrs. Bagley, Miss Anthony, Mrs. Richard
son of Boston, Mrs. Cheney of New Hamp
shire, Miss Seavey of Boston. Mrs. Mary
Chisholm Foster, Mrs. Lippincott, Mrs.
Grannis of New York Mrs. Isabella Charles
Davis, Mrs. Mary Lowe Dickinson, Mrs.