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All Odd Sui-gliMl (Iptral Ion Causes ft
-ArlHO Hit- Oii,-hiiiu, "I l.;,t j Curable
Uy Snidery?" A I'ltyniciun's t ..miiient
on the Sulijprt I'cilurr Itrsearcli.
now in:ii:y feli.ikesi)eares have we
lost by pkull pinching? How many
Plulos liavo gono down to the grave us
non compos mentis?' Can idiocy be
wholly abolished?" Thus asks a Home-
; what prominent medical authority and
newspaper writer.
Tho world of possibilities in tho above
snestion i.-? tho or. t growth of a recent
surgical operation performed in London
on the skull of an idiot child for tho pur
pose of releasing the brain from the con
Jinement of a malformed bono case. The
experiment was entirely successful. The
subject immediately began to develop
a brightened intellect, while evil effects
upon the nervous system were practically
unnoticed.
The problem presented by this result
is a very wido and a very complex one.
If the darkness of idiocy in a few cases
can bo banished by lifting tho brain
covering, thus permitting tho brain's ex
pansion to the limits which nature
doubtless intended, why may it not
prove effective in the great majority of
cases of young children now doomed to
live out their lives in eternal gloom?
To those who delight to wander in tho
realms of the fanciful, and trace still
greater effects and results from similar
causes, it will not appear unreasonable
to say that tho conformation of the skull
is, after all, the incident which deter
mines whether a human being is born
to bo a Nero or a King Arthur, a Cleo
patra or a Florence Nightingale, a Napo
leon or a nobody.
CTJLTCKE OF THE SKULL.
There was a case in a Philadelphia
hospital not many months ago which
was not dissimilar to the one in London.
An epileptic was relieved, perhaps re
stored to perfect health, by an'operation
which lifted the bone pressure upon cer
tain nerve centers in the brain. Cer
tainly there are mental idiosyncrasies
inherited for generations where the brain
case varies most remarkably in form.
But when we find a peculiar trait' sud
denly bursting out in one of our chil
dren, a trait unlike parent or grandpar
ent, are we quite sure that it is not ow
ing to some modification of the 6kull
case? Most assuredly, if it is finally de
termined that the pressure of bone on
the brain determines the mental ability,
6hapes the character and molds the ten
dencies, we shall have to recast all our
theories of heredity.
Here, then, is presented a new problem.
Is not the question of brain culture
about to become to a greater extent a
question of cranium culture? If it can
be demonstrated that an idiot can be
made by pinching a skull, and unmade
by the knife and saw of a surgeon, have
we not a new and wonderful field of ex
periment before us? Dr. Brinton tells
us that experiments on the lower ani
mals prove that the skull is easily mold
ed by trifling causes; that is, in the
earlier stages of growth. Darwin found
that he could produce long or short or
non-symmetrical skulls in rabbits by
training.
Ethnologists affirm that the skull ia
modified even by the cradle and the pil
lows on which the infant Bleeps. Dr.
Jaralld proves from his own observation
that the skull may be modified from the
head being held in an unnatural posi
tion. POSSIBILITIES OF THE FUTURE.
If this new line of investigation can
be pursued persistently and successfully
it will result in disproving the belief
that idiocy in children, outside of cases
of hereditary mental defect, is a visita
tion upon the children for the sins of the
fathers, and showing that it is an un
natural but essentially curable physical t
condition. The abuity to cure idiocy
will therefore depend entirely to what
extent the bony case has closed its sutures
and hardened itself to the brain.
Dr. Maurice, the authority quoted at
the beginnirig of this article, in discuss
ing this range of subjects, a few of
which are embraced in the above, closes
by saying:
The world has of late grown enor
mously in its tendencies toward the pres
ervation and merciful care of the mal
formed and helpless. Civilization has
badly overloaded itself by merciful ten
derness toward criminals and diseased.
Are we at last to find relief by discover
ing that crime and disease and idiocy
are all curable? And the next stage,
what will that be? Possibly the marked
decrease in human fertility and the in
crease of our average life quite beyond
what now seems possible. The removal
of life's social terrors must precede the
largely prolonged and happily continued
existence. Philadelphia Press.
News Agencies in England.
"Reuter" is a word which is pretty fa
miliar to most newspaper readers, yet
few are aware that Renter's system of
news supply is practically not more than
thirty years old. In 1849 Baron Reuter
tried to introduce his agency into the
metropolis, but the London newspapers
would have nothing to do with him. At
first he confined his attention to the sup
ply of financial intelligence, but in 1S59
he managed to be first in the field with a
report of the speech delived by Napoleon
III at the New Year's reception in the
Tuileries, and from thenceforward Rent
er's agency became an established fact.
The Press association, or "P. A.," as it
s called by newspaper people, is an even
more recent institution, trior to ioa
it was unknown. Chambers Journal.
The Humps of Camels.
The humps of camels are mere lumps
of fat, and not provided for in the frame
work of the skeleton. When the animal
is in good condition the humps are full
and plump. On a long journey where
food is scarce the humps are entirely ab
Borbed, the skin covering them hanging
over the flank like an empty box. St..
Louis Renublic
THOL! Zi JT CXCHANaZ."
Senator Ktaii;t-r CrivMlf Sei-rfl.irjr'a
;:. .. r. , JljJ,, t)f A ill i:srnnn I .
."Did you v r hear about McCarthy's
'Thought Rxchange?" on'.; of a group
asked in a rf.-'-Kir.iTit the oilier day.
"Who's Mi-r.-.:l:iy?" some', . ly aVked.
"Why, John li MrC.::!iy. Senator
Stanford's private pec-ret-trr." said the
first. "If ""s an odd genius, and s handy
that the California inillionare trives hiui
his own salary of f.i.OW) a year in addi
tion to the $!i a day allowed by the gov
ernment to attend to hU affairs. I'm
reminded of Ins 'Thought Exchange' by
reading the .story of Cly.-itt, the London
reporter, who had vitTu s-ed ;)W execu
tions." The gt-Tith n present saH they had
never heard of the "Exchange."
"Well." .said the first speaker. "Mc
Carthy used to be a nowsprtper reporter.
He has worked m New York and in San
Francisco, and a good many towns le
tween them. Before he became Stan
ford's secretary he w is in Washington, a
reporter on the old National Republican.
He complained that life was so dull Sun
day nights that it wasn't, worth living,
so lie organized the 'Thought Exchang".'
He printed a notice in The Republican
that such an exchange had- been organ
ized, and that nil people who had any
views on any subject would be welcome,
and invited to Fpeak. He rented a hall
on Tenth street, and tho next Sunday
night about fifty were present.
"There were Spiritualists who wanted
to give exhibitions of their powers.
There were labor agitators. There were
socialists and temperance workers.
Everybody was allowed to speak. The
following Sunday tho attendance w.t:
larger and the speakers of about the
same sort. The hall rent was eight dol
lars an evening. A collection was taken
up which usually amounted to a dollar
or two more than that, and that was
clear profit. The thing went along until
the owner refused to rent tho hall, and
so the 'Exchange was about to move out
to a little hall near Twentieth street and
Pennsylvania avenue: but it did not
make the change."
"What has this to do with a man who
had seen 300 executions?" some one asked.
as l saiu, iucuarthy used to le a
newspaper reporter. He had seen hang
ings in a dozen states about forty in all
is his record, I think, no saw Guiteau
executed, and had been present at
lynchings in Missouri and elsewhere.
un tne last mgiit tne 'Jxcnange was
to meet in the lentn street hall no
speakers came forward. Something had
to be done, and McCarthy was equal to
the occasion. He went upon the plat
form and announced that he would give
a lecture. His subject would be 'The
Comparative Merits of the Long and
Short Drop at Executions.' He went at
it and discussed the subject as coolly as
one would discuss whether Washington
or Napoleon were the greater general.
He talked for two hours. He cited sev
eral executions he had witnessed as
showing the merits of the two S3'stems.
"He described one or two horrible af
fairs where a rope, and a mob, and a
bridge were the principal accessories.
The ladies present got up and went away
at that, and the others of his audience
were either dazed or charmed with his
audacity. After talking for two hours,
he announced the change in place of
meeting for the next week, and said he
would deliver another lecture on the
same subject, giving especial attention
to lynchings.
"One of the long haired men present
came to him after the lecture and said.
Of course your lecture was very fine,
and it certainly shows you have had
some remarkable experiences, but don't
you think it would be wise for the next
time to take something in which we
could all be interested? Next week
there was no audience, and the 'Thought
cchange was dead. It wasn't long aft
er that that McUartny was appointed
private secretary by Mr. Stanford."
New York Times.
Public Opinion and Morality.
The Rev. Dr. Wayland thus happily
describes the attitude of public opinion
toward morality: "We go along and
wink with both eyes at the wrongdoings
and shortcomings of A and also of B,
and eke of C, and all the rest of them;
but by the time we get to O or P, we
pull up and cry aloud that this thing has
gone too far, and we must make a stand;
and so we come down upon P, who is
not a whit more guilty than any one else,
his only crime consisting in the fact that
he chanced to be standing just in the
place where the lightning struck; and
we denounce P; we excoriate P; we os
tracise P.
- "Having done that, our virtue, wearied
with the unwonted exercise, falls asleep,
and all the other letters go along doing
exactly the same thing, until finally, by
the time X is reached, we wake up again
and go through the same process. If one
wants to go astray with impunity all he
has to do is to select his time and run in,
as it were, between the spasms of public
virtue." New York Tribune.
An Artist's Wife.
I worked hard, though there was little
to show for it, as my wife told me when
she turned over my many sketches.
"What, three shiny poles and a lot of
green water!" she exclaimed. "Was
that all you did in a day? Why didn't
you paint a whole view?"' I do not like
her to criticise my studies. She handles
them unlovingly, looks at them upside
down, and says, "If you would only en
large that and make a picture of it, and
put in some figures, I might have the
pink dress, after all." Three palaces,
several gondolas and a flock of pigeons
mean the pink dress, and six palaces,
more gondolas and more pigeons, mean
Paris. Von Degen.
Use This in Case of Fire.
A wet silk handkerchief tied, without
folding, over the face is a complete se
curity against suffocation from smoke.
It permits free breathing, and at the same
time excludes the smoke from the lungs.
It is a wise thing when traveling always
to keep a Eilk handkerchief within easy
reach for the emergency of fire. New
York- Journal.
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