New-York tribune., 1907-01-11

Speaking before the American Medical Associa-
ton not long ago, Dr. Kopf urged that the thou
sands OF acres which. every largo CITY, are de-
voted to the dead should be over to the uses
Of the living His work among the consunpt,ve
poor, he said, had made him an advocate OF cre-
nation, especially IN largo communities and for
poor and only moderately we'll -to-do people. "One
and one-fourth times more money is expended an
nually in funerals in the United States than ia
spent for public school purposes Many hundreds
OF acres OF valuable land annually consecrsted
to the burial OF our dead. The danger OF propaga-
ton CT tubercuoss through graveyard as COM
pared with other diseases is comparatively small
But the thousands OF which, near large cities
are devoted TO the dead and thus useless We
need for the living. How many model tenement
houses where people might get light and air. could
be built IL the dozen more graveyards Of many
OF our large cities were laid out in building lots
sbr1T4unded py little Parks and playgrou1ds where
our laboring men could get breath Of air, Which
Is SO o. d'fSuit @ TO ges IN the present crowded con-
Al the recent memorial meeting 10 DR.. Mary Put
nam Jacob. held at the Academy OF Medicine
Richard Watson Glider recalled an essay Of hers
published in the old "Scribner's' of August 1911
on Some French Leaders when she was In Paris
in her early twenties.
II thought them said he 'as I think now, that
it Of the best essays ever published in an
American magazine. We don't often see better
essays to-day. II Is impossible to read II without
seeing It's intellectual and mastery grasp of her
subject.
Had it not been that medicine drew her more
strongly than literature our literature might have
been enriched by writings of great exactness, wide
scope and cutting wit. II is possible that when
turned TO medicine we lost essayst OF rank.
perhaps a writer of American romance OF the ser-
BUSINESS and high learning OF George Eliot.
There was in Mary Putnam Jacob a great de-
sire 70 help her fellow nortals. She would help
her neighbor. she would serve her sex. she would
help the And all she did she did in a WON
method
What delteate little Jeanne Jeanne dare she was
woman only i've feet fal opening the FTench
schools to all womenl How strange It seems to us
she must come nm 5 ess ciotbe e9 o ses tna{ @
nine attire! What courtesy and consideration she
Her life was as successful and renowned as it was
n 1ha sS 5 ss WHAT sb ed d with t the
herself. but for the women who came after her.
There is much common sense and not little
humor In the suggestion that it would be q good
thing If legislators were made to sample all the
laws they airily promulgate." said
lecturer the other day. persons who accidentally
pass day or two in jail unanimously agree In pro-
nouncing the whole penal system rotten. A grad
ual reformation, accompanied by the dropping OF
many foolish laws might result IL legislators could
be put through the penal mill just for once
periencng the full the possibilities Of the posi-
tion even to the time when. discharged prison
ers. they found themselves friendless and starving
and bounded away from honest employment.
IF. by the same token, prominent educators could
at o'clock to deliver newspapers hot bread.
wearing through the weary day in a dull school,
as at 10 saFn might wrought IN
S be9 OF ne bS ay might take
turn with the harassed rnotorman. the p2llce
experiences there is no doubt that many laws would
be changed