The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16

what becomes OF MS deuOI NAL LSSN anu
ears and other physical irregular
tiles"
This is an easy one. AS soon as the
degenerate criminal becomes regener-
ated his big ears gradually shrink in
size and become symmetrical, the re-
suit being a beautiful shell.like ear
not an oyster shell. His nose straight
ems out and becomes GreCian, his enor-
nous mouth contracts to Cupids
bow, his beetle brows lose their over
hanging cliffs and become arched TO
suit a geometrical taste, his big feet
are reduced from eleyens to sevens,
his long ape-like arms no longer reacn
to his knees, the hair grows again on
his bald head, his degenerate teeth,
that once made his mouth like an open
sepulchre become white, hard and reg
ular, his CLASSY stare is replaced by
look of intelligence, his stoop by an
erect carriage and in all respects he
develops into Just as beautiful a man
physically as those who have dissected
and analyzed and criticised him always
are.
In form like an Athenian statue, in
mind equal to the sublimest politician,
in morals not inferior to Carrie Ma
ton, he is a living monument Of the
normal human critter, and his evolu-
tion is an example of encouragement
to all Of us poor, lank, lopsided, splay-
footed, knock-kneed, cross-eyed, bald
headtd, spindle-shanked old degen-
crates, showing us what we can be II
we will be.
We reproduce the above as much to
,ysI N frni I a hi q
style of humorous sarcasm as to hit
off the class Of crIminologists referred
to. If these expert criminologists
would eXpenG a little of their talents
and a modicum of their means in
helping to prevent, in practical way
the manufacture instead Of the iden-
| tification or reformation of criminals
society would be more berefted and
humanity would score a signal tri-
umph. The following case Of Grim
inal' is submitted illustrative Of our
| text:
(Foreign Paper)
! AN instance of social misery, as
| cruel as any student of sociology can
remember, occurred in Brunner, Aus.
tria. A mother killed her own child,
I because she did not have the heart to
! see it starve in her arms She had not
| been able to procure food for 1t for
several days An unhappy woman Of
| the people she was, and she had suffer
| ed terribly, A few days ago she was
arrested. She did not attempt to deny
I her awful deed, but followed the po-
| liceman to the court house as quietly
I and unconcernedly as if nothing had
| happened. There, in a calm and com
! posed manner, she related her sad life's
/ story.
"Franciska Kwasny is the name of
| the unfortunate woman. She is thirty
years Of age, and was married in God
4 ing. Her husband was a day labOrer
In her pregnancy, as she could not
work as hard and as steadlly as she
used. he ill.treated her in the most
brutal way, and when finally she could
not work at all, he left her. With nc
home, no means of support, no one tC
rely upon, she was left to fight her way
out of her difficulties alone. She OBJ
tained admission into the Drummer
State Confinement Institute, where on
the 7th of February she gave birth To
a girl. On the 10Th of February she
left the institute with her young child
but where to 30? No spot on the
wide earth to which she had right tC
go. and no way Of gaining a living was
hers. So, there she stood on the street
The child in her arms, wrapped In
but one single rag, whimpered from
cold and hunger. Painless and aim
less. she wandered the streets of the
city, until just at nightfall she found
herself near Kenigsfeld. The whole
4 ~ ahilf
had tasted food. A storm began e
rage furiOusly, her limbs were grow
ing stiff from cold and WEAKNESS. she
pressed her Child closer to her breast
as though in that way she might bet
ter protect herself and 1t; finally sh'
sat down under a bridge that led t
tRothen Muehle in Kenigsfeld, anC
there she spent the night.
"The next day she took up the aim
| less wandering again, and at night sh'
again found shelter under the bridge
\ Another day Of wandering, and then
in despair, she stretched out her hands
and begged for a few pennies; hut NJ
one paid any attention to her, and
frally. when some one did fling her
few pennies, they were not sufficien
to procure food for herself and som,
Ihot milk for her babe; for to hel
grief she could not furnish it its nat
lural nutriment. She could not attend
to her child in any ay for fear of ex
posing il to the freezing winter air
But in this miserable condition the!
! lived through four terrible days.
"The woman became a prey to uttel
despair; she was scarcely conscious II
/ her keen suffering. A dreadful though
had been creeping into her bewildereC
IuinG for several hours, and despai
prevailed. She saw the child in he
arms benumbed and almost dead. II
Iher frenzy over its suffering, she sud
denly dashed the child's head agains
| the brick wall of the bridge. 1t wa
dead in an instant.
she buried the little body in tn
snow. and without it she staggered OF
Ialone. The next day, the little corps
| as found by a day laborer, 1t wa
talked about at the police station, ant
one officer remembered having seen
about three days efOre woman will
red shawl on her head, carrying
child in her arms. Two days later h.
saw the oman without the child, ant
had told his comrades about it. Th
next evening a policeman met a won
an with a red shawl over her head
, and he arrested her He had the righ
| woman.
"Franciska Kwasny did not den,
anything-she told him that she hat
killed her child and quietly FOLLOWED
him to the station. She will be deliy
cred over to the criminal court 70
trial for her crime
But the crime of society, which j
bad through and through and rotten
what of that? When shall it meet IT
trial? To force a poor woman out int
the cold with an infant only twelv
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