New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-02

Mrs. George King. the wife OF an English editor
has just been decorated by the Russian govern
nent for her services in tho Turco- Russian War
Of lS77-'7S Russia cannot be accused OF having
acted hastily twenty-six years having elapsed
since Mrs. King then quite a young woman. went
out TO nurse the soldiers in the Ievant with eight
other women from the Protestant Deaconesscs' In
sttutior. The hardshius trials which tho little
band Of heroic women endured boeEar description.
At cne time TWO hundred patients. in scattered
huts among the hills. fell L, Mr.. King cEarg,
In walking from TO the other she was exposed
to attacks from the famished Wild dogs that infest
vas as isolated from England and her friends as
at the close of the war. Mrs King-or Sister Janet
NewcastIe-on- Tyne IIosritaI serving later IN the
zulu ,. FOR her work in South Africa she re-
by queen Victoria with the Royal Red Cross.
magazine, cites The loss OF self control as one Of
the most disquietng signs OF the times and Of
modern social conditions tn England. Women. OF
course are supposed 10 be nervous. yet a state OF
panic in the face of bodily or mental pain is by
no means confined women Miss Dixon thinks
Men are nearly as ueurotic women. infaIlible
sign In both sexes being their dread OF response
hllty. Tho power Of swift judgment and rapid
decision. the ability act ones own inlative-
these qualities OF the strong minded. Another
sign of control. OF latent strength IL the ability
TO bear pain. so tho author thinks. and hero the
modern generation shows unmista kably its loss OF
self-COutrOl. Before the invention OF anRStnctCS
tho most appalling surgical operations had to be
performed patients the full possession Of their
senses. Now people VIII not endure u toothache
thetics and narcotics. OF the obvious answer
TO this is that ancestors bore pain because
they had to. ana that if they had had any anses-
thetics 20 they would have used them. There
IS nothing very the heroic IN bearing pain for
tie mere sake OF bearing il. and there IS nothing
TO Toe gained by it.
SUl another sign % deseneracy. according 70
Miss Dixon. IS the lack Of Self-contrO which people
exhibit in their matrimonial relations. I ne little
chickering's. jealoUsies and disputes incidental
married life which sensible people used 10 make
light % now masuiuod ny young couples unto
serious difficulties difficulties which they declare
are not 10 be overcome and which they mako no
effort 20 endure.
The late Frances Power Cobbe NJ the
persons who chung 10 the OF the word brute"
10 designate a dumb animal Among the
which she advocated with all the powe= at her
command were anti-y1visecton and wOmens rights
The claims nf women and brutes." she herself
phrcSed H., keTt her perpetuaiy Dusy In writing,
organizing and agitation. Very few people now
adays. this country, ever apply this harsh,
hard word o animalS-they il
beings. Americans who have dogs and cats around
their houses and horses ip their stables would
greatly surprised 10 have their companions and
pets cnaracte. lied as brutes.
What IL entertaining? In Of the English
magazines there IS essay which from the
English point Of view, seems 10 compress the
whole philosophy Of the subject into a nutshell
He Was 50 quiet so gentlemauly, and so bored
and I had tried my best 10 say things At last |
cried IN dispair. You Englishmen are so hard 10
entertain" To which nc replied in slow slIrurise
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