Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-09-12
PECULIAR
Practice for the Treatment Of Con-
sumption, in Paris.
Paris. September A 1900.


Paris, September A, 1900.
To the Leader
Limoges Is not far from Paris, and a
story comes from there showing SO
much mistaken piety and benevolence
that | cannot refrain from telling it.
The heroine of it Is a Mademoiselle
Noualhier, young, good-looking and
rich and she has a very peculiar
mania, for l call 1t nothing else. Her
mania is to bring carriage-loads of
incurable consumptives from the Paris
hospitals to die in her hospce at LII
moges, because she is certain that they
will make good Christian ending.
They are dying in the hospital, their
lives are not prolonged by a 300-mile
train journey, it may be in the depth
are few or no exceptions, they do die
shortly after their arrival at Limoges.
To compensate them for their journey
and the added suffering it entails, they
are sure of receiving the last sacra-
ments surrounded by nuns and priests.
Within the last three years six hun
dred consumptives have been thus
brought from Paris Mile. Noualhier's S
hospice. Not one of them is now alive.
This has been going on for the last
twelve or fifteen years.
But what, it may be asked, is Mile.
Noualhier's own justification of her
conduct. She came to Paris the other
day and published a statement of it.
1t is, as might be supposed, purely
sentimental and pious one-that as the
forms of unhappiness and illness are
multitudinious, the forms of benevo-
lence to cope with them must be mui-
titudircus too. She alleges, moreover,
that in the last three years sixty pat
tents have been cured by her or sent
much improved in health to their
homes. Against this there is a fact
that before the hospital lets the pat
lent go, the patient is declared incur
able. Mile. Noualhier also asserts that
the houses on either side of the hos
pice are partially occupied, but on the
other hand there is the testimony of
numerous house owners that their
houses, once full, have now ceased to
let The case on the whole is, as any
one can see, an extremely curious one
and unique in the annals and methods
of benevolence.
Let me correct and at the same time
expand a statement published by the
Associated Press to the effect that
Americans who were in Paris during
the Spanish American war state that
the impression in the United States
that France was anti-American was
unjust" This is not correct state
ment of the fact Right through the
war France was to man pro-Spanish
and ti-American, and proofs of it
from the mouths of the people who
were ShlHeTtu Ill lHe TdulDOuTS 81
Germain as well as in the quarter of
st. Denis. True the French govern
ment was neutral in its public policy
and it deserves every credit for its at
titude, but when the man divested him
self of the minister over an after-din-
ner cigar, with no Americans present,
neutrality was not at all his attitude
The feeling of soreness has now hap
PLY passed away and no nation is
more popular than America. But that
Latin sentiment will ever be complete
ly at one with American sentiment is
an extremely doubtful thing to say and
why pretend that France is friendly at
heart to any people but the French?