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Show the" review. 4 'The Review. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. ANNIE M. BBADLEY, - - of it in the . Editor, E. South Temple St. MABGARET E. WALLACE, Business Manager. 241 Address all communications to The Review, 241 E. South Temple St. One Year. Six Months, Entered at subscription : - classes. than outside, among the same much General Wistar maintains, and - $1.00 .50 . the Poet Office at Salt Lake City as Second close matter. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1608. INCREASE Op CRIJVIE. furnish greater is feigned opportunities to for escape. of Another cause of the increase is crime, in General Wistar's opinion, the delay and uncertainty in punishment. For this criminal jurisprudence is at fault. The appellate courts, he not says, appear to devote themselves, to the trial of the criminal, but to the trial of the judge that convicted him, in the hope that they can prove their astuteness by showing that he committed some error. In some extreme cases new trials have been granted bewords in the legal cause of documents. One way to reform this, suggested by General Wistar, is to deny the right the right of appeal in mis-spelle- Some unpleasant facts in regard to the increase of crime in the United States, and some of the causes which have produced it were recently laid before the social-scienc- e department of the Philadelphia Civic Club by General Isaac J. Wistar. Passing over the statistics, which were not new, General Wistar s views as to the cause of the increase of crime may be briefly summarized. One of these causes, in his opinion, is that the prisons methods of punishmeut are not deterrent. He asserted, on the authority of the Pennsylvania Board of n Charities, that many of the jails in that state are nests of crime, maintained for the pecuniary benefit of county politicians, where the sheriff is the boss politician. In some of these jails, he said, indecent pictures are hung on the walls, and the prisoners are supplied with cards so that they may spend their evenings pleasantly. A prison, Gen. Wistar continued, should be a place of punishment, and above all a place where the prisoner cannot be further contaminated. To this end separate confinement he regards as necessary, and he is not shaken in this view by the claim that separate confinement largely increases cases of insanity. There is no more insanity inside a prison sixty-seve- d criminal cases. This, he claims, would not be a hardship, inasmuch as the criminal has four trials, the first the sparkling jewel, the sunshine, the light. A child will reach out her arms to the lady drdssed in light or bright colors, when a lady in black absolutely repels her, and she will scream in terror if overtures are made to her from such an one. The child will delight in wall pictures or any mural decoration long before toys or books will amuse her. It would seem as though, knowing these things, every mother would try to minister to the aesthetic instinct of her child. It is well that the home should contain the .elegant reception room, the sumptuous dining hall, the luxurious library, the dainty sleeping apartments, but better than all these, beyond and above, should decorators of home interiors insist that the children's room should have its share of beautiful artistic mural decorations. Make the walls where the baby opens her eyes beautiful with the artists mst exquisite handiwork. Let thae walls tell the Mother Goose tales of delight; the dear old story of Mother Hubbard and her dog. Then the scriptures are full of countless treasures from which to glean for the prison system on the English plan, by nursery walls: Little Moses in the which in Great Britain the number of bulrushes, down beside the river criminals has been reduced 51 per Nile; the Babe in the manger, and cent, in twenty years. General Wistar countless corceptions of the Mother did not believe the people here were and Child, the myriad pictures of the worse than in England, and there was cherubs and angels. no reasm to believe that remedial The nursery should be the sunniest, measures which are successful in Great brightest, pleasantest room in the Britain would not be successful here. house. To make the child happy, is as before a magistrate, the second before the grand jury, the third and the fourth (a retrial) before the higher criminal court. Other remedies are suggested by the causes that show their need. Still another advanced would be the reorganization of the N. Y. Post Decorating thz Children's ifcom. In the child the love of the ful is beauti- Yet how often do we mother's forget this. Forget too that a beautiful environment does much towards the formation of a beautiful character in the child. A babe in arms delights in color in-bor- n. and sparkle. The bright knot ribbon, Have You Seen the LADIES SILK SKIRTS & ' much the parent's duty as to feed or clothe it, and verily children are happier in an environment that tends towards the beautiful. Let the whole house be beautiful, but the nursery the most beautiful spot in the whole house. Pioneer Women Journalists. Of the newspapers in the American colonies at the time of the Revolution several were owned thirty-seve- n BeautimhTof LADIES SHOULDER GAPE ' imasnES The Very Le.t Nos. 17 mid 1!, Noreltle.. 12. 1st South. prluB Goode Constantly ArrivinB lu All Department.. |