The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-20
100 YEARS HENCE.
In the Days of Cur Grandchildren.


Bottled ozone may be purchased of the
druggist, and with it tuberculosis and
other Ills may be driven from the body
PRISONS Will have ventilation and sun
ileht ana bathrooms and libraries and
humane influences which will be re-
formatory instead Of damnatory
The habitable portions of the earth will
be a continuous succession of suburbs
and houses will be heated in winter and
. cooled artificially in the summer.
The advance in medical science and
heredity will do much toward reducing
the ratio per thousand of deaf dumb
blind, feeble-minded, insane and other
forms OF constitutional Affections.
In 1000 it may take majority vote to
decide case. Now one stubborn Juror
can delay or forestalI justice The star
chamber method of the grand jury NAV
also be improved upon by that time.
On account of the fast and cheap travel
cities will become groups of suburbs. and
an the poor VIII have air, sunshine and
nght. Suburban fare, twenty miles Will
be 1 or cents, on what are called zone
tickets.
Fish Will be a source of food more i'm
portant than now. Land will be so occu
pied for dwellings and horticulture and
1ntenslhed agriculture to such an extent
mat animals for food cannot be raised as
cheaply as at present.
The sanitary condition of cities will be
vastly improved. The principal streets
will be double decked. with moving side
walks and elevators connecting the lower
and upper decks. The street car system
will be owned by the municipality, Or
else fare will be a cent q, ride.
with the elements Of water and air, and
a few earthly salts, the good housewife
during dinner, will compound electrical
energy, or, as is now done by the leaves
OF plants, make the starch, sugars and
protein the human body has learned to
habitually use.
Living in a better age, with better
knowledge of physical laws and hygienic
requirements, the race will gradually
overcome many hereditary taints, and
poster1ty will be stronger, handsomer
and free from organic complaints, and the
term of life will be longer
The smoke nuisance will be abated, and
the dust will no longer be flung by every
pie Street cleaning will have become SO
perfected that dust Will be kept out OF
slght and the air rendered pure and free
from odors.
Electricity may be generally employed
as servant to cook feod. All that the
famlly of 2GO0 need do is to be seated at
the table and attach a. wire to the cleo
tr1c fixture overhead, and on a neat slab,
heated by electricity, cook eggs, steaks,
and, cakes exactly to suit individual
tastes, to say nothing of the enjoyment
of having everything fresh and steaming
hot.
The criminal classes will be handled
from the standpoint of reformation, and
not from an idea of vengeance or punish
ment Heredity characteristics and ten
denotes will be recognized and studied
The born or natural criminal and the ae-
cidental or unfortunate criminal. the man
who violates law through apparent neces-
sity or distress, will be treated upon en-
tirely separate plans.
The divorce laws will become uniform
not only in America, but there will be
before 2GCO an adjustment of the princi-
pie Of the home life international. All
international law is founded on that
monogamic group of society. If Mr.. Dea-
con fails to secure a divorce in Europe
he proposes to apply to the courts OF
America, and vice versa the man who IS
interested in such procedure may change
his base OF operations