Show immorality a cause caus of blindness at the renowned reu owned eye dinie clinic of prof fuchs a fow few days ago I 1 witnessed I 1 a case which I 1 will not soon soo u forget A young inot mother lier canie came in in with two beautiful babies twins boell having avery a very severe inflammation of the eyes tho disease had existed a number of days and as is the case in many mandof of the poorer families no nob t much enuch stress had 1 been laid upon the care of tho the affected members member upon ex examination anlin the lids were f found to ba b exceedingly swollen and painful to the touchy touch between the lids and the eyeballs could ue de seen a great deal of pus and the eye itself had a large ulcer one in each alii child id upon tile the i interior portion I 1 or of the globe just in the line lilie of th pupil cultures were taken and found to contain the germ gonococcus and the results of this is infection will be a permanent blindness in one eye of each aach win will NY yh enever that father looks sporn his children lie he will remember thai that his 9 guilt Is fastened up on oil him but NI what nihat hat must ie be f the I 1 le remorse of parents sahn ahen a total lo 10 loss of sight in children result from immorality by either parent if I 1 should tell you that one third of tile blindness in our varius various institutions is ik due to immorality would you not consider it a grout great ni menace ellace to society it is claimed that more than one half of the young men in ill our large cities today nave had attacks kasof of gonorrhoea this disease enters the family in ill no other way but through immorality A young man mail thinks lie he should sow his wild oats he visits the pub 1 lie ic d dance ellice halls and meets with the blie girls eirls of the underworld im p roper proper relations r elat ions follow nothing more is i thought of it for a few days suddenly lie he notices a burning se sensation and then lie he becomes sick A doctor is consulted and improve improvement ment follows the offender considers himself well by ruid and bye he has it a ate steady a girl they become becom e edgag engaged ed and decide to marry never dreaming but that all will be well they enave on oil their wedding trip happiness with then them is fleeting ting young wife is suddenly taken ill with bevere pains the doctor discovers an all infection she is sent to the lios hos pital and an operation if Is gaces sary the return home is not so BO t triumphant as their lea leaving ving be calls causo the partner of his life is an invalid alid through a sinful act of the husband which lie ho won would id givs give anything now to undo this is sad indeed but what of the woman wema u whose life is if sacrificed through just such a cause you bear that she lied died of the opera aaion but tile the probabilities are that the husband was lier mur derer what of the thousands of infants whose eyes become of ef cited at birth with this germ gerin causing blindness in so many cas es it is bad enough when one is robbed of gods inin sunshine shine wid and the bea beauties aties about us ms through a accident or pere perchance liance cf misfortune of some kind but when ignorantly or otherwise one parent or the other conveys or causes to be convoyed conveyed disease to all the yeb eyes of ofilio the babe with it a resulting blindness then I 1 say it is time for boruh us to shake off the mantel of mock modesty and prepare to redeem the community from such a curse this debease may rhay he transmitted long after the patient thinks himself or herself well our young boys and girls need clear matter of fact ideas along these lines A moral education should be undertaken immoral I 1 dise diseases les their cause sli should oulI be brought out into the light af 7 day and such a warfare instituted that ri no 0 one need complain i n of ignorance as a subterfuge 0 e for having meet with any of t these I 1 i e sia wandering disease germs gerim dr J 0 robison vienna au austria the above is from a former fillmore hoy boy whom we all remember ed |