The National tribune., 1910-02-24

II one believes in heredity at all, the
must concede that the children of Grim
inals are very likely to inherit a menta
twist predisposing them to the develop
ment of criminal tendencies. Man,
physicians now believe that this abnor
NAL point of view is the direct result
some inherited physical arrangement
which causes the mental twist, an
which, if the child is taken earl,
enough, can be cured and made use
full member of society, instead of beln;
allowed to swell the ranks of that grea
criminal army. The appalling numbel
of young offenders. against the law al
over the country has made thoughtfu
people realize that something must b'
done TO save these children if possible
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt is very much IN
terested in the matter, and has spen
much of her time this Winter in the
Children's Court of the Metropolis. New
York, Chicago and some of our Other
cities have already established inStitu'
tions where these children can receive
medical treatment. The idea seems to
be to connect these with the Children :
Courts, into which this river of youth
full criminals flows, and by giving them
er surroundings see if the criminal
tendencies cannot be eradicated. 1t GER
tainly is we'll worth trying, and would
be less expensive to the public than the
confinement of these youthful Offenders
in charitable institutions and later IN
reformatories, prisons and warehouses;.
1t has been found that reformatories
and workshops do not reform. Let us
see if healthy body will do the work
The Princess de Sagan, one time
Countess de Castellane, earlier still
Miss Anna Gould, of New York City, is
beginning to realize good and hard that
life is full to the brim of disagreeable
experiences 1t seems when she mar
ried gay little Boni, Boni of the light
heart and winning ways, she agreed to
pay certain sum annually to his faith
er and mother; indeed, it was so writ
In the bond OF the marriage settlement.
When she divorced her expensive do
mestic appendage she refused to con-
tribute any longer to the support of her
former mother-in-law and father-in-
Gw, who have consequently Instituted
quit against her to recover some S13,6OO
back pay. She is also having trouble on
account of Prince Helle, her present
husband. Owing to a little matter of
by him and his father before him, this
gentleman has been deprived for some
Sfne past of the enjoyment of his es-
Sates in that country, and had persuad-
ed his Princess to pay off this indebted
ness, that he might once more obtain
control of them. She promised to do
this, but now the cruel lawyers repre-
senting the Gould estate refuse to per-
nit it, having had all they can do. they
of nj
a blow fiat in the face for the poor
Prince, who, aside from the mental re-
lief which he expected to experience
from the lifting of this burden of debt
was so certain that the money would
be forthcoming and everything be all
right that he invited a lot of people to
visit him on these self-same estates for
the autumnal shooting. The situation
is full of crushed hopes and mortified
pride.
In spite of the eloquent protest of
Col n. P. Hallowell, an active movement
is on foot to honor the Harvard Con-
federate dead by erecting a tablet to
them in Memorial Hall, one of the
handsomest buildings OF the college
campus. This edifice. it will be remem-
bered, was built by the great university
to commemorate those of her students
and graduates who bravely donned the
blue and went 10 the front TO save the
Union, and a very large number of peo-
pie feel that the name of no Southern
er, no wearer of the gray, should find
place within its walls. Still, there are
others who think differently On this sub
feet notably Col. Thomas Wentworth
Higginson, who is in entire sympathy
with the idea, and who feels that such
a tablet will undoubtedly be erected at
no very distant day. It is not the in
tention OF those favoring the movement
to place individual tablets in the build
ing for these sons of the South, but
single tablet on which all their names
will be inscribed. There could have
been no better Union man than Col
Higginson. He graduated from Har-
ward IN 1S41, and entered the ministry
Later he relinquished his pastorate, be-
came Free Soil candidate for Con-
gress, was defeated, after which he de-
voted himself to literature. He wss
conspicuous as an anti-slavery agitator,
and assisted in organizing Free State
emigrants to Kansas, becoming himself
q Brigadier-General on Gov. ]. II.
Lanes staff in the Free State forces.
He was Captain in the 51st Mass. and
afterwards Colonel of the 31st S. c.,
who were the first freed slaves mus
tered into the National service. He re-
signed from the army in 1864, devoting
his time from then on mainly to literary
pursuits.
And now 1T is pink hens, red eggs
and black roses. What next? Usually
the new thing is supposed to he an i'm
provement on the old, but who can say
that with the creation of these freaks
would come any improvement? Some
one has succeeded in raising black
roses, Mr.. Burbank, / believe. But
why a black rose? Nature has shown
this to be a tabooed color Iif COLOR
in her laboratory, by making nothing in
the floral world black. Can anyone i'm
agine the lover saying TO black rose
GO, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When ] resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be. -
Never, Of course. And as for pink
hens and red eggs, what do We want
with them? 1t can be done, the experts
say. But why? Hens are pretty enough
now, and their nice white eggs a thou
sand times more tempting than red
ones would be. The province of your
hen is to lay eggs and rot look pretty.
If these people who burn the midnight
Oil studying how TO make q pink or green
hen for the sake of the novelty pure
and simple would put their wits to
work trying to discover some means OF
making the hen Law more eySs tbaD