Deseret Evening News | 1908-05-21 | Page 4 | Decadent France

DECADENT FRANCE IndIanapolis News antI sIgnificant are 1110 the French vital statistics which havo just beti compiled for fOI 1007 1001 and which are ro from rom Purls today Phe an annual nual In the tho birth rate ralo for tor tM tho past 11 st seven years has hns nel averaged about hut tho shrinkage during 1907 was The census ot of death ox ex b by the tho number ot of births birth The calls colls for tor the undertaker were 1010 mulch moro more frequent titan the tho demands for tOr the The coffin catlin business was moro more active than Ihan the tho IndustrY The to hi headed time wrong Wily 11 the 1 past time annual number o of births birth from flOm to The fhe Is It tint not Indeed sensational The idly large de decrease In the tho num number er ot of birth certificates recorded In the republic lost last year Is in III part llY by the tho and crisis itt In districts and b by the poH tI which thoo tho country Ihl of the suicide In lire Plum obI ebb or of tue tho rate tato regular excess of ovel births indicate a 11 decadent drift rho situation with its ItA sinister canoe culls calls for Cor II a ot oC seine somo ot or the Iho French mm II ot of practices an tendencies Inko the tho future futuro or of the tho 1 republic Is likely to bo be loss less titan its Ita past