The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-12-01

r~anent which will make your hair STAND
on ends
He did. but as the asa does not at
all apply to American conditions. viii
cut out the details of the narrowing
tale. Among the 'heayies,'" said the
official, "delirium treIDenS is almosl
epidemic. Few above % have suffered
from 1t, many are attacked three or
four times before they end their mjser-
able existence. Look st he traNaii-
leurs of middle age. Their noses are
red and swollen, their eyes ~5loodshot.
Those who are strongest at " are
surest to die of consumption before
they reach twice that number of years,
Why? Because they can earn the most
money and because their proWess is an
incentive to alcoholic excuses. The
broad chest of which they were so
proud fiattens and becomes hollow,
quick consumption sets in and the
odor of death precedes and follows the
absinthe wreck. It's awful"
Wives Forced to Work.
The city of Paris proudly publishes
the fact hat it employs no unskilled
labor below the daily Wage OF 81. SIX
francs so, however, is the average PAD
by Industrial concerns all the year
around. With that amount, even with
, ILlItS " Jay, IL ID pcDE4lJlN - - So
10 bring up a small family honestly
and deCently, for outside the big o
tells and the Elysee quarter, where
Americans and other foreigners dwell,
life in the city of light is decidedly
cheaper than in the small towns of the
American west. Yet ninety-lYe out OF
every 100 traEailleurS' wives are obliged
10 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
gin 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 Sun
day as we'll, the debauch incapacitating
him for work On Monday. Hence the
~"heavy's' wage never amounts 10 more
thar 40 francs a week under the most
favorable circumstances-SS. of which
amount the head Of the family ahsorbs
$2.86 for drink and from Sl,40 TO Sis
for meals.
out OF the remaining 81 or there
,abouts the wife has TO clothe him n
her. pay rent, buy food for the house
hold, pay the doctor, druggist coal
merchant. She has to pas"for bringing
children into he world and schooling
them, for in France education is any
thing but free.
Effect Seen in Work, Too.
But the effect of alcohol is not only
felt by the consumer and his family,
1t tells III the work, too. Nowhere in
the world do public works progress SO
slowly as in Paris. The son of Italy,
whom we employ in the Unitei States,
though a dwarf compared with the
average Paris heavy" moves in eight
lEst-af ,-a,1y. o. -1r aA,,t 49, l.
or other materials than his French
colleague does in ten or twelve hours.
The heavy" knows that the wage
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" ne argues, " a mans
muscles begin to relax and decay. and
II my muscles are playing out, Who viii
pay me the wages? l know that the
green fairy is the bride of death. Have
l not seen hundreds of my colleagues
go that way? What matters it? a
short life and a merry one."
Home Conditions Denlorahle.
Statisticans point to the average
understood French soldiery OF today.
They argue that there viii be no Paris
'heavies" left in a decade or two. And
1t looks, indeed, as If they We're right.
Only & return TO the old fashioned life.
az a. DHIhpCitS OIL 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
anywhere near his place of business.
He is obliged 10 repair to the dirty and,
consequently, unhealthy suburbs; to
chambers devoid of sanitary ang
ments or any comforts whatever.
Home is nothing but an III smelling
stable 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 z faint ]elinIner Of hope in
a new undertaking of the Roihschilds.
who have decided to invest $20.0O0.000
or s50,0o0.o00 in hygienic worgmen's
homes within easy reacn OF Paris,
These homes are to combine sanitari-
ness with comfort-a splendid prospect.
promising heavy financial returns if
carried Out well.
The American workman I'm the most
squaiid American town is a hundred
times better off than his most favored
colleague in the City il Light.