Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-07-17 | Page 4 | Morbidity of the Moment.

MORBIDITY OF OP OJ THE FIlE riE MOMENT MOMEN O r Morbid tendencies exist in every community In greater or less leS de degree legree rec In York such tendencies were noted tho the other day when a n human being was rent asunder b by a train and when the thc morbidly curious crowded aboul about sections of the thc remains elbowing one otto another to catch a of them They are arc noted when men are arc pitted one Otto against another in the thc strife to lo determine which shall outlast prodigIous prodigious ious ions slugging They are arc noted when men an and women take tale their heir lives In their thel hands to perform some somo useless but feat fal and when gaping crowds pay to look on Hundreds o of Illustrations might be set down No moro more shining example of morbid morbid- ily ity iy ma may be cited citel probably than thanin in the mailer mater of 01 the Iho Thaw shooting Columns upon columns havo have been eel devoted to lu the or Ol le less unfit nl to rca I sometimes revolting and invariably deplorable to the normal mind Th The newspapers of the the- metropolis ha have hac c contained d page pasc upon page pase of graphic portra portrayals als of how Thaw appears In his cel cell how Mrs Thaw wears her hair hal how ho Stanford White lie lived li and how he lie died Have Havo the Iho newspapers nothing better beller to lo print Or 01 are arc they printing what their readers demand The llie fact that countless countes thousands devour our de these columns and pages should aid In determining the answer The Tho people make male tho the papers In even greater degree than Is conceived abl ably The Tho number it I appears who want vivid accounts of tragedy of social scandal and of matrimonial In Intrigue intrigue In- In Is prodigious But Bul Is It growing grow grow- grow grow- lag Ins Or Is the tho sphere of discerning l' l readers adel widening I Tho Thaw develop developments vel p- p ments seem to that the num num number ber bel o of morbidly curious Is lar larger er than ever Morbid mind means diseased mind Is it Il to be he supposed that the thee the e editors lols lol's of oC the country shall treat disease