| Show A PR irn frh N LESSON eor yop tile tiie UNITED STATES M EUGENE simon ahra just published in la louvelle Jo uvelle revue an article entitled la famille ChIn nolee olac based on his ten yearb years experience as a french consul in china he finds that im many respects france is more in need of 0 missionaries than the tha celestial empire he especially mades a strong point against infanticide which la Is so 0 o very much commoner in france franca than in china and he linda that children as aa a rule are better looked after among the chinese than among the french while the murders suicides and accidental d deatha eat ha are less in proportion iho kho boston herald remarks athis this is a comfortable nut to crack 21 2 1 wo we think it would be a rather uncomfortable nut for the molars of french social scientists and still moro mone so BO for the religious and moral reformers and heathen converters of the tho united states france finds it necessary to encourage family increase by legislation it is proposed to reward the parents of given numbers of children in this way every eveny head of a family who has more than four children shall be entitled to a reduction of 15 per cent in hi his annual taxes and to an additional reduction of 5 per cent for each child in excess of nive rive in case the head of the family pays no taxes or if his taxes do not exceed francs a year then he shall be entitled to a premium of WO francs for his fifth child and to another premiums premium in each case larger by francs than the preceding for each additional child he may have the reason offered by bym M the author of the measure which he introduced into the chamber of deputies is that the population 01 france la is at a standstill if not actu ally aily diminishing according to authentic statements the penn pern pernicious lelou example exa mple of lin Jin limiting alting the tha number of children is bet set by the upper classes of society among the wealthy and middle middie classes large fA milles families are looked upon as nals rals fortunes not so 10 much on amount account of the immediate expense attendant upon the birth support and education of children as on account of the necessity of making the provisions for their future that the social customs of this nation enforce two or at most three children are admissible and there are very few families in essy eany circumstances that exceed that number so deep ly has this feeling become rooted in the soam social life of the nation that parents who have large families are looked upon as being culpably and indecently improvident it is ia the custom in france prance for parents to sel eel aside a certain surn sum annually to provide a dot or dowry for each girl ra AS without it there is biffl culty in finding a husband for her and it is also necessary to make provision for the boys to give them a start in business it Is therefore a question of economy whether it la Is baster taster to pinch and save for a number of children ox or take talie me means to prevent increase now it Is well known that hir hia hla the french dot matoin custom does odea im hot prevail in the united Stat stated states esth ih french brench methods of bf family limit tion iiii are being widely adopted h k this country and the motives thu tig thy prompt these measures are af th lowest character selfishness lata ia moving cause and it is in refill refo refi a and nd educated circles that the 4 f famous a and unnatural custea chiefly ob obtains bight right in the vet ven heart of religious community where immense bums bumb are colleen for the purpose of bonding sending bibi babl biola and preachers to the heathen bs called christian women kracl i this horrible and ungodly thing abt a their husbands connive at it vm tile tiie p professed r dressed ministers of the lot got a pel pei wink at ac or condone it am alzi these are they who would stamp mi v mormon plural marriage by tir tin roughshod roughs rough shod bod heels heals of violence or t unyielding provisions of arbitral law if they do not urge them then the sterner kemu measures res reb they add and albect act grei krei concern for the soula souls of the tb a benight ed cormons mormons Mor mons 1 and desire tocol tocci to co vert them thern to the christian civik I 1 i tion tiou which permits these evils we would hike like them thein bohnow to 0 w th tit tho the cMor mormon mon mou women whom tle tie look down upon or pretend to would rather aufner bunner any trial d q mind or body than get down to th level levei of their degradation beuer beuel to drudge and toll ton in honorable isba ilba for the dear little ones that are aie g i once the offspring of natural affe t tion and precious gifts from UK tio i eternal father than to revel h luxury and fritter time away in 14 j nesa ness and practice the of french and american high at taa society when our pure minta wives and mothers with the their irna numerous progeny stand in theuret the ohe pret ence gnoe of the holy ones they will wll bilao fairer and brighter than tue thi angels and join with sara and ee 16 becca and deborah and nannah hannah allt alit the honored women of old wha while the tainted and spotted cr esturel who have sinned against god and k their own bodies denuded of raint paint and powder fashions arts hypocrisies will be whelmed with shame and mu eca tempt i both branco brance and the united I 1 states had far better look to the weakness and rottenness under th thethis ethin the thin polish of their hoew systems than to io yearn af atter aften ter ten heath en conversions conver Blons or burn bulb to smite other people for daring to introduce innovations novat ions and to depart from the ways waya of an effete civilization |
