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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913.
CONTRIBUTING CAUSES OF VICE.
* The recent International Purity
Congress, held at Minneapolis, proved
of real value in one respect at least,
that of giving publicity to some il-;
laminating facts, obtained by official I
investigation, on the contributing'
causes of vice in the large cities.1
The papers read and addresses made
by those in position to speak with au
thority served in a large measure to
counteract the impression that low
wages has been a chief factor in forc
ing women into the life of the un
derworld. The showing at the con-1
gress was that ignorance and men
tal deficiency take more women in
to the underworld than any other :
cause
The record of the Chicago morals \
court were cited to show that most j
of the fallen women brought into that |
court left scho 1 before they had j
passed the fifth grade. Since April !
last, 3548 cases have been handled j
by that court and the school records I
of 564 of the women secured. Of that !
number only fifteen had passed the
fifth grade in school and only
one high school graduate was- found
among all the women who passed i
through the court in seven months.
The records of the Wisconsin indus- j
trial school were quoted to show that j
65 per cent of the inmates were men-;
tally deficient. Probation records of
New York City were cited to show
that the majority of girls under ob
servation, from 16 to 20 years old,
have a mentality of not more than ;
ntoe or ten years.
Perhaps the most striking address 1
on this subject was that by Judge
01..on, of the Chicago Municipal court,
who c'ted cases which came in his
court to show that lack of education
and menial deficiency were the chief
causes of commercialized vice in Chi-I
cage. Judge Olson told this of an;
investigation of one of the more pre- ;
tent ions houses of ill repute in Chi '
cage, operated by a keen, intelligent,
but vicious, woman:
It was reported that this woman
had among the inmates in her house,
graduates of well known women’s
colleges. Our inquiries showed that ;
not a single girl in the house had
passed the grammar school grades; ]
nearly all admitted having diseases, I
and it was plain that some were!
feeble-minded. All claimed to have!
entered the life of prostitution at
early ages—before 17. If this ‘high .
class’ house had inmates all of whom ‘
were ignorant,most of whom were dis- '
eased, and many of whom were fee
ble-minded, what could be expected
of the minor houses in the slums?”’
These authenticated statistics make •
all the more hideous the crime of the*
men and women who profit by com
mercialized vice, because they prey;
on the mentally deficient. If it is;
(rue that 75 per cent of the fallen !
women are mentally deficient, and |
this seems to be the conclusion of j
those who have made the most care- I
ful investigation of the subject, then |
it becomes the duty of society to lo
cate and properly care for the sub
normal .children, male and female.
Judge Olson recommends that the
mentally deficient be segregated and
that their care and custody be pro
vided for, even, if necessary, to the
isolation of them in farm colonies, the
sexes in separate institutions. In the
meantime, he urges relentless war
against those who commercialize vice,
as he contends thtU vice will not
flourish when the profit to its pro
moters is cut off.
And the Purity Congress statistics
again' emphasize the fact that edu
cation, in the home and in the school,
* to a more potent weapon against vice
than all the laws and police regula
tions in existence.—Ex.
Pennsylvania legislates that no
woman may work more than 54 hours
a week, or 10 hours a day, or six
days a week. Always excepting farm
ers’ wives.
Whoever succeeds Huerta will have
- a man’s job on his hands.
Subscribe for the Prospector.
“CIVILLY DEAD.”
The ruling of a Brooklyn justice
that a man, serving an indeterminate
term in prison is “civilly dead” opens
an interesting held for speculation.
It is to be presumed that “civilly
dead” means the forfeiture of the civ
il rights of citizenship, but as the rul
ing this case had' to do with the right
of the wife of a convict to remarry
without obtaining a divorce, and as
foreigners who have not the rights
of citizenship may marry, the ques
tion is raised as to the scope of “civ
il.” Distinction certainly must be
drawn between “civilly dead” and “le
gally dead," for the latter would in
volve the payment of life insurance,
inheritance of property and other
contingencies not contemplated by any
law bearing on punishment of crime.
Accepting “civilly dead,” however,
as applying to this case, in which it
was held that the woman could re
wed without a divorce, what would be
the status of the persons involved if
a full pardon should be granted? All
civil rights would be restored to the
convict and he would be “civilly,” as
well as actually, as much alive s he
aad ever been. What, then, would be
:he relationship between the man and
lis former wife? There would be no
livorce on record, no decree, no writ
ten order absolving tne union. Would
she be a bigamist? Or would the ab
surd contention hold that she had
Seen freed by the “civil” death of a
lusband who later came to life again,
ind, having once "died,” he had no
lurther claim upon her, any more than
voiild be true if the departed spouse
)f a widow had actually come back
:rom the grave?
Throughout the country conviction
of crime is made ample grounds for
divorce. It would seem that the wo
man in the Brooklyn case might far
better have gone through the formal
ity of having a decree entered on
these grounds than ttflhus hastily re
marry, with a "civilly dead” husband
ablet to reappear in the flesh, and with
all his rights, at the pi asure of the
state’s executive.—Ex. »
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Tobacco.
(By George Fitch.)
Tobacco is a weed which is raised
at great care and expense in the
night-riding portions of the United
States and elsewhere, and is totally
consumed by fire later on, there be
ing no insurance.
In fact, three-quarters of the arson
in the world is committed upon to
bacco. Every’ day a million dollars of
tobacco goes up in smoke, and yet no
effort is made to treat it with asbestos
or to make it fireproof in any partic
ular. Many substitutes for tobacco
are often used, such' as rope, cab
bage, excelsior, tar paper, jute bag- |
ging and twine, but unfortunately the j
substitutes burn as readily as the to
bacco.
in iaci, uiis is ei en more uniortun- ;
ate than the inflammability of tobac- j
eo itself. j
Tobacco is grown in the warm sun
shine and consists of large bunches
of flat, broad leaves which absorb the j
said sunshine and convert it into nic- ,
otine, a deadly poison which is said |
to be able to kill a man at forty paces
if it cared to. When the tobacco is
ripe it is chopped off and dried in ■
bundles, after which it is made into j
cigars, torches, fumigators, plug cut j
cigarettes, snuff and other contagious
articles.
Tobacco jras first used by the In- :
dians and discovered by Sir Walter '
Raleigh, who made cigars out of it and
used them to divert his mind from !
his seasickness on his way bacn to ,
England. When Sir Walter lighted
up his first cigar in England and be- j
gan blowing double rings of dense j
smoke through his mouth and nose j
and ears his servant threw a pail of :
water over him and called out the fire '
department. This method of breaking
the cigar habit is not in vogue to- ■
day.
Tobacco can be smoked, chewed, in- j
haled or eaten with equally distress- !
Ing effects upon those who do not use (
it. Most boys begin the use of to- I
bacco at the age of ten and continue ;
until their fathers discover the fact— i
after which they discontinue the cus- j
tom until they are too 4arge to
thrash. Tobacco readily becomes a
habit and fastens - talons of steel up
on its victims, who will somet'mes
sell their vote or their everlasting
friendship for a good cigar.
* uere are many Kinds or tobacco.
Some kinds will remove the lining of
the throat neatly in a few minutes,
while other kinds, cost U king’s ran
som and smoke like rarifled velvet.
Some tobacco when smoked, will at
tract the attention of the health de
partment four blocks away, while oth
er kinds when made into cigars sell
for $1 apiece, and make kings content
ed with their jobs.
The United States could save a
million dollars a day by refraining
from tobacco. This would be glorious
if we could be convinced that the mil
lion would not be spent for gasoline
or cabaret dinners.
~ LEARNING A, LANGUAGE.
It la hn Easier Task the Younger It la
Taken In Hand.
The time to learn u language la when
you are young, the younger the bet
ter. We learn our own language as
children. The older we grow the hard
er it is. because It rneuns not merely
learning by heart a great many words,
not merely training the palate and
tongue to produce different sounds, but
adopting a new attitude of mind.
Nothing definite has been discovered
as tp the localization of faculties In
the brain, therefore nothiug certain Is
known, but It has always seemed to
me and to others whom I have con
suited that when you learn a new Ian
guage you are exercising and develop
ing a new piece of brain.
When you know several languages
and change from one to another you
seem definitely to change the piece
of brain which actuates your tongue.
You switch off one center and switch
on to another.
You will always notice in yourself
and others that there is a definite
pause when the change of language Is
made. Now it becomes- every year
more difficult to awaken an unused
part of the brain and bring it into ac
tive use. and to begin at twenty-three
is late.—Atlantic.
FIRST POSTAL TRAIN.
It Was Tried In 1864 and Proved a
Thorough 8ucceee.
The first trial of a postal car service,
in which mall matter is assorted while
in transit, was made in 1804 on the
Chicago and Northwestern railway.
The scheme was a thorough success,
and railway mail service was iuaugu
rated that year ou several of the Im
portant railway lines and was gradual
ly extended all over the United States
and adopted by other countries.
In 1874 the American railway mall
system was thoroughly organized on a
permanent basis, with eight territorial
divisions, each iu charge of n superin
tendent subordinate to a general chief
at Washington.
This service was among the first tc
adopt a modern classified civil.service
appointment of railway mail clerks
having always been made for a proba
tionary period, permanent employment
being conditioned on satisfactory serv
ice and conduct and removal based on
good cause only. The service lias been
gradually increased and new division)
organized and Is now operated oil prac
tically every railway—St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Swordsmen of the Sea.
Tlie swordsmen of the sea are the
sawfishes, spearfishes. sail fishes, sword
fishes and the narwhal, with Its spiral
ly twisted straight tusks. Sawfishes
inhabit the warmer sens, while the
narwhal is a creature of the Arctic.
The tusk of the narwhal is hollow
nearly to the point and is spirally
grooved. It uses its tusk as a weapon
of defense and to plunge through the
ice to breathe, the uarwhal being a
cetacean. Sometimes when a boat
lias been caught in the ice great dam*
age lias been inflicted by the inquisi
tiveness or blundering of this great
creature, that sometimes reaches a
length of fifteen feet, with a tusk of
from six to ten feet in length As a
rule, however, the narwhal uses its
tusk for the purpose of killing llsh for i
food. In the castle of Rosenberg the j
kings of Denmark have long possessed j
a magnificent throne made of tusks of :
this cetacean. These tusks are harder
and whiter than ivory.
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Author Who .Wrote Legibly.
No author, or any one else, for that
matter, could possibly have written
more legibly than Frauds Thompson.
He wrote frequently in pencil in a
careful rotiud baud tbat would hav*
put a schoolboy at the top of bis writ
ing class. His copy was always "good"
for the compositor, which was fortu
nate. for there was always tlie great
est difficulty iu getting biin to correct
the proofs of his reviews. 1 have the
manuscript of one of his later poems .
which a child of ten coiild read with
ease.' though it Is written partly iu •
ink and partly iu pencil und carefully .
stucktogether where lines have been
snipped out with scissors. He was
probably the only writer of genius wbu
used penny exercise books as manu
script paper.-London Spectator.
Tennyson and a Telescope.
Sir Heglierc Heerbntiui Tree In
"Thoughts mnl Afterthoughts" tells
this tale of.Lord Tennyson: The poet
was invited to 11 certain country house,
nntl nil the neighboring liimlnmies of
tile county laid been invited to meet
him. After dinner Ills host asked
whether he would like to look at the
stars. Tennyson took up ttip tele
scope and. forgetting nil else, gazed
for twenty minutes at the wonders of
the heavens. "Well, what do yon
think. Mr. Tennyson?" Inquired Ills
host. "I don’t think much of our
county families." Tennyson replied.
T umblers.
Drinking glasses called tumblers owe
their uame to the fact that they are
the successors of the little round sil
ver bowls, so perfectly balanced that,
which ever way they were tipped
about on'the table they tumbled Into
position again nnd there remained with
thfe rim upward.
Fairly Lazy.
"Is Jones lazy?"
"Lazy's no name for It. Why, he’ll
go Into a r -valving door end then wait
for sitmclmly to come In and tnrn It
around " - Judge.
He that cornea unbidden will alt dowu
unasked - Irish Proverb.
507 507 507
Clearance Sale of Toys
at Half the Regular Price.
We havens tar ted taking stock and in order to close out our toys before stocktaking
and save'packing them up we will sell for the next few days
All Toys at Half Price
$3.00 Dolls $1.50 $5.00 Toy Doll Buggy for $2.50
$2.00 Dolls $1.00 $4.00 Toy Doll Buggy for $2.00
$1.00 Dolls 50c $5.00 Electric Trains $2.50
r All $1.00 Toys 50 cents
All 50 cent Toys 25 cents
bk. We have quite a few MechanicalfToys, Children’s Books, Animals, etc.
One-half of regular price.
We will Sell these goods regardless of cost.
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Graduate of National University
l Washington, D. C."
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