El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-07
F FRANCE MUST
STOP DEATH
INCREASE
Country Is Being Decimated
by Disease and Lack Of
Adequate Hygiene.
STATESMEN WARN
PEOPLE OF DANGER

~ ARTS. France, June 7.-"Freuch
~ people are becoming Obiterated;
= alcoholism, tuberculosis and the
absence of adequate hygiene decimate
the country" is the opinion Of Alex
andre Ribot a former premier Of
France. as expressed recently before
the Hygiene Social Alliance Our
people must be instructed III the perlls
that menace US, the speaker cOnun-
ued; 1T viii require all the resources
and strength OF the government sue
cessfully to combat the dangers
This peSs1m1stlc view OF the future
or the french people was shared Dy an
other prominent F'renchman, Leon
Bourgeois, who also has served his
country as premier. IL Bourgeois de-
tuberculosis had FALLEN in England and
Germany TO II Tor 10000 population the
rate IN France was 20 for 10000. The
general mortality IN france nOEWlLn-
standing the progress OF medicine and
surgery, was still from IS to 10 per
1000, while in England, in Holland and
in Scandinavian countries the mOrtali-
" did not exceed IA per 1000.
Indifference to these conditions and
lsuence or the french people, was the
closing declaration Of NJ Bourgeois.
Many tlIiIliOnafres'' DIE.
SIX hundred and stxty-siX million
aires, in francs. died in France in 1912
Reduced TO dollars and cents, this puts
any man having 100000 in the million
are class Nevertheless, the total in
herlLanceS IN the republic Tor rhe year
amounted to S71,000.0O0, and 80 Of these
600 men OF wealth left fortunes greater
Lhan $1,000, 900.
These statistics show that in France
wealth IS comparatively wen distrib-
ured among the population Three hun
dred and one Of the 666 left fortunes
ranging from 100000 TO 100000 and
SO from 100000 to 81, 900. 900 OF the
very wealthy. three men left fortunes
greater than S1O000,0O9-
Is fms 70,
Alfonso, OF Spain, has a peculiar
aversion to gloves. and he refuses TO
wear them, even on great state Occas-
ions. In the beginning the strict ETH
Quet Of the court Of Spain was
shocked, but now the young kings in
dependence is taken as matter OF
course
Alfonso has also a keen and quick
eye and he relates this story Of an
incident in the Pyrenees. Passing
through a little village the royal auto
mobile misbehaved and the royal
traveller aliShted 20 direct the royal
chauffeurs in making repairs The
mayor OF the village struggled into q
white collar and his best clothes ard
came forward TO offer assistance. The
king asked him to show him around
the village and the two men left the
car in the road and walked through
In the office Of the mayor was a
picture Of Alfonso, but wearing white
gloves This caused the king to ap-
preach and examine the print closely
Never nave worn white gloves.
muttered Alfonso. Then the mayor
came forward. covered with confusion,
and explained. The picture was orig
1naly Of Alfonso XII, the kings IA
Cner- w nen son followed father to the
throne the thrifty mayor decapitated
Alfonso XII, and had the head of Al
1onsO XIII painted on the original
canvas He. had not however. known
ABOUT the gloves.
worth millions: Hangs PAPER.
Followers in Paris OF the doctrines
Of the late count TOlstOy are inter
ested in the example set by a Russian
Of great wealth, Alexis Sayaroff, VINO
spends One-halt of his day as a man
Of fashion and the other half as a
paper hanger. earning So a week
NJ Savaroff does not carry his mas
ter's precepts so far that he denies
himself the pleasures offered by his
wealth, but he believes. and tries to
affirm by his life that each man ought
to do his share in the worlds unpleas-
ant work He arrives at his JOB
each morning in his automobile, gets
into his Overalls. and begins work He
is employed by a St Petersburg firm
Of contracting interior decorators, and
lately was promoted to the position OF
foreman When the whistle blows ar
the end Of the day SaVarOff returns
home and there begins his life Of So
cial prominence and obligation He
has been doing this for six years, and
declares himself happy and contented-
King Has 7O4 Wives
King CrOWfa Maha VajiraTudh, the
ruler Of Siam. is credited with a total
Of 704 wives. according to a Paris
newspaper, and he is in constant
danger of having their number added
TO, for by an ancient Siamese custom
he must espOuse any young girl who
offers herself in marriage In this
way he is said to have married re-
Gently a Siamese girl who had been
brought up in an English family and
educated in the doctrines Of the SUI
fragets. Soon after her marriage this
young woman started sudraget
campaign among her cOwives. with the
result that the unfortunate king now
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