The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-12-02
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anent which will maize your hair .tanc
on ends"
He did. but rs the case does not al
all apply to American conditions. I vii
cut out the details OF the narrowing
tale. among the 'heavies.'" said the
official, "delirium trenens is almost
epidemic. Few above % hav suffered
from 1t. many are attacked three OF
four times before they end their miscr-
able existence. Look at the travail
leurs OF middle age. Their noses are
red and swollen. their eyes ~bloodshot
Those who are strongest at 20 are
surest to die of consumption before
they reach twice that OF years
Why? Because they can earn the most
money and because their proWess is an
incentive to alcoholic eNccsses. The
broad chest of which they We're SO
proud tlattens and becomes hollow,
quick consumption sets in and the
odor of. death precedes and follows the
absinthe wreck. 1t is awful"
Wives Forced to Work.
The city of Paris proudly publishes
the fact that it employs no unskilled
labor below the daily wage of 81. Six
francs 80. however, is the average paid
by industrial concerns all the year
around. With that amount even with
. francs n day. it is possible in Paris
to bring up Il small family honestly
anu ueteitlS, lpT OUTSIDE luc DIE no
tells and the Elysee quarter. where
Americans and other foreigners dwell,
life i'll the city of light is decidedly
cheaper thar in the small towns of the
American west. Yet ninety-tive u of
every 100 travailleurs wives are obliged
to so out to work to keep themselves
and children. for the husband uses
more than one-half of his earnings for
himself.
saturday being pay day, the number
of hours the heavy spent outside the
sin mill are figured up and he is given
his wage. To celebrate he doubles his
usual allowance of liquor during the
rest of the day. the evenings. and I'M
day as We'll. the debauch incapacltating
him for work Oh Monday. Hence the
"heavy's'' Wage never amounts to more
than 40 francs a week under the most
favorable circumstances-SS, of which
amount the head of the family absorbs
S2.66 for drink and from. Sl.40 to Sl.75
for meals.
out of the remaining 81 or there
abouts the Wife has to cIothe him and
her. pay rent, buy food tor the house
hold. pay the doctor, druggist. coal
merchant. She has to pay for bringing
children into the world and schooling
them. for in france education is any
thing but free.
Effect Seen in Work, Too.
But II effect of alcohol is not only
felt by the consumer and his family.
it tells on the work, too. Nowhere in
the world do public works so
slowly as in Paris. The son of Italy,
whom we employ in the United States.
though a dwarf compared With the
average Paris heavy moves In eight
hours work 80 per cent. more earth
or other materials than his French
colleague does in ten or twelve hours.
- Ia ,-,-'' r-,Nr-- tl,-e ~ $500
of alcohol is earthly death. but does
not worry as long as he keeps out of
the hospital ere he reaches his fortieth
year. After 40" he argues, " a mans
muscles begin to relax and decay, and
If my muscles are playing out, who will
pay me the wages? 1 know that the
green fairy is the bride of death. Have
go that way? What matters it? A
short life and a merry one"
Home Conditions Denlorable.
Statisticans point to the average
French soldiery of today.
They argue that there will be no Paris
"heavies" left in a decade or two. And
1T looks. indeed. as if they We're right.
Only a return to the old fashioned life,
once the backbone of prosperity among
the French working classes. can fore
stall or prevent such a calamity. AT
present the average Paris workman
finds no home deserving of the name
near his place of business.
He is obliged to repair to the dirty and,
consequently, unhealthy suburbs: to
chambers devoid of sanitary arrange
.nents or any comforts whatever,
Home is nothing but an i'll smelling
table to sleep in Is the usual excuse.
What shall we do there, between cry
ing babies. dirt. slovenliness. and fight
Ing women? Better delay going home
as long as possible.
There is a faint gllmmer of hope in
a new undertaking of the Rothschilds.
who have decided to invest 500, 900. 900
or s50,0Oo,00O in hygienic workmen's
homes within easy reach of Paris.
These homes are TO combine sanitari-
ness with comfort-a splendid prospect.
promising heavy financial returns if
carried out we'll.
The American workman in the most
squalid American town is a hundred
ines better off han his most favored
colleague in the City if Light.