The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1897, Page 21

] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER e 7, 1897. " 2 ] SHOULD mar soev essed aen dan Jor: is to ples must sands of d upon 0 act as ts did not to othera, s taught us h are are eve in- case 1t defini- recast, natural clearer in- med e suffered to wro tonall a that als are 1 e<pect urs to the you ard girls Dy ac E by the e nd a matter rse of irue love is c objections, the in- nced cruel and brutal, ed in this age nierfering even to a proposed tendenci s the famil Yet inderstood than that y d that it will appear and :neration to generation s extinguished. Attempis succeed for a tine, e st of consumption in the organs or and notk th it n abriag- MARRIAGE LAWS wavs hered- h n And it is not at all tirst itself i ulosisin the ancestor will In some entirely differer Hereditary tai variety of shapes. ive ma tim to kard may t 2 of the 1 the fam stages the taint is the ps a variety brain an epilepsy certai wed have coholism; ra out a thi 5 n sumy sou ymes bec of them to one and the s gards them all as s triticn of the b He observes that all ve found alter: given family, on ng from oae and another from anot He notes ient ho consents to his s marriage with a pr girl, the daughter of a confirmed d rd or the niece of a woman in the | im and who is mightil grandson turns o! guard, or his granddaughter takes to the ned black- streets. Moreau dwells upon the same tenden of heredity to distribute it-elf along vari- ous lines. He notes that the family of a man who dies of consumption or convul- sions do not necessarily show 1ploms of tuberculosis or epilepsy; they m idiotic, paralytie or scrofulous. To | sy in each new generation for a return of the | identical phenomena observed in the pr ceding cne would indeed be to misappre- hend the law of heredity. What the par- ent tr mits is not his only particular disease, but a constitutional defect which may manifest itsell in a score of different | forms. Herein lies the danger of a mar- riage with a person of di stock. You never know wuere to loo symp: the outbreak of the recurrent toms of malady. | Mandley furnishes instructive illustia- tions of the tendency of a constitutional to vary its manipulations. He men- ons the case of a tipsy brawler who was killed in a fight 1n a tavern. His son be- a paralytic; his son was a hypo- diiac: bis son was an idiot. Accord- 10 this writer there are three classes ta ame of criminal crime by want or adversity. 2—Those who have in their natures a taint of crime v be corrected by favorable cir- Those of a radically bad nese last he considers ¢ irreclaimable. They inherited anization by descent from a waich ma nction of the family. murderer or burglar, aced by the ext t member, muy worz out on the gallows a virusin the blood which was uothing more than in the ancestor. be blood, science bas thus far proved | Dr. Puu Jacoby bas applied the princi- ess (0 extirpate it and the ttmost | ples of heredity to the royal families of thst dociors can do is to remove the Passing over the houses of Lan- jatiert to a vicinity where the disease York, who were both degener- germ shall for a thme be comparatively in- | ate, the former being fools ana imbeciles active and the fatter knaves, be draws attention nts are the more reluctant to inter- | to the Tudors, who descended from Henry igre 1a affairs in which one of the | VII, the murderer of Warwick, the per- is consumnptive because such un- | secutor of the Lollards, cutoff by orzanic rates experience the pas-ion of love | disease in midlife; his son, Henry VIII, i inte Young persons | was cruel, bloodthirsty and profligate; ais " intof tupercnlosis in their sys- | scn died in boyhood, an unfailing sign of tem ave, st {0 say, more attractive to | degeneracy; his daughters, Mary and the oiher sex than the healthy. Their | Klizabeth, were childless and unwhole- counteuance exuibits a delicacy of com- | some. The Stuart dynasty’ descended plexion which is allurine. Their malady | from James V of Scotland, who Imparts a tor which in the girl craves | was insane; his grandson, James affection in the boy inspires tender- |1, was a foolish, fanati stut- ness and hy. They are|terer; Charles [ was a perfidions drawn to marriaze by the very reason | cowzrd; Charles II was a depraved epi- which should induce them to eschew it. . | leptic; his brother Jzmes was vindictive, Nor ar: they at a loss to find arguments | cruel and mendacious; his daughters died torepel the dictates of science. They will | without offspring; the Iast of the race, the 1—Those who are driven te | Lintis ineradicable and can only be | F2EEET) —\ P streets, position wasan enormous success as well as arust cally, and tho-e who had the pleasure of being pros- entsay that the California exhibitsloome | up well and were appreciated by every one who saw them. RN i Judging by the pictures secured the ex- | posi ion was much like any held in our i own State, and were they not known to be | authentic the views could be mistaken for portions of a State fair at ramento or | corners from the Mechanics’ exhibit in this city. For instance, the wines that have helped | make California famous among all loy- ers of Omar’s much-praised beverage are seen; the sleek and seedless raisins that | one may eat witbout fear of appendicitis, fat and juicy peaches, oily nutsand olives. The golden grain sheaves are entwined with vines, and figs, canned apricots, piums, graves, jams and jellies catch the | eye at every point. | It is not d.flicult to imagine how the to lid Germans contemplated all these rich things with a feeling akin to joy. They ave thought of the wonderful Goi- State beyond the great seas whither | so many of their own sons had gone, | | wkence so many had returned to them | laden viith riches and sounding the praises { of the Golden State. California was well advertised at the ex- position and Americans had good reason | to be proud of it; for Hamburg 1s, next 1o | London, the great commercial center of | Europe. 1In fact, in several wi Ham- | burg has wrested the paim from London, | notably in the coffee trade. Tnen, again, the merchants of the city are capable and | energetic men, and are tot likely to have | given so much attention 0 Western i vs, ! ways have a good time when they setabout i\ i tdede | g 1A (RN 1 o) Pt cesahy, ety e T e ;{\\)') RIS { )33 D { S TR TR 3 ‘| m it in way | substantial, and as the seasons changed they 1d beauty. ‘Lhe rrounds were tastefully out, and the trees that were covered with a fresh green foliage when the expo. sition was opened were Jeafless and som- ber when it saw every satisfied with th The cit ns of Hamburg, moreover, al- it, and this exposition of theirs was no ex- ception to the rule. The diffe tbuildings on the grounds were not enly artistic but | its close. Pretender, was died drunken paralytic, who S5 time to time ihe in- 1es V of Scotland reappeared endan's of the house of never Queen Victoria has a fit of low spirits the court agonizes over thie areaa that the curse is going toappear in her b.ood. There never was a genera- tion ch the virus in the Bourbon h showed itself in L uis XTIV iisappearance in the fam 1e or other, from the time of d Monazque to that of the Count oi Chambord, A similar uniformiiy of U oundness may be traced :n the dynas- ties of R Spain, Portugal and Svoy Different forms were assumed. the victim’s weakness was moral, some- times physical; but it was always there, paipable and recognizable evidence of a congenital defect. Biue blood involves a prima facie assumption of degeneracy. The more high!y developed our social alinns become the more the individu-l s subordinated to society and the wore sacrifices he is required to make for the general zood. Parental authority, which used to be all powerful and is still potent in some countries, as in France and Cni is with us passing into the hands of the state. Pers. 1 liberty bas to give way to the interest and the convenience of the people at large. eral approval, when we require a house- holder to keep his back yard clean and to om blood w. 1id n did r in some sk ihe G drain his premises: when we quarantine his house in cae of diphtheria and require the inmates to be. vac- cinated against smalipox; when we forvid the conduct of evil-smeiliag laboratories near inbabited dweliings, and regulate the traffic in poisons, high explosives and intoxieating liquors. Yet while the law tries to prevent, as far as 1t ci the dissemination of disease from adles visible to the naked eye, we care- fully refrain from interfering with dis- eases whose cause 1s latent, though equally discernible by the experienced ob- | server. We send the larcenist to jail, and let him ou: when his malady has be- come constitutional; when he repeats his cffense, we coudemn him toa longer term, so0 as to make sure that he shall grow worse; we adhere to the pol cy in the ca:e of his thira and fourth offense, each time increasing his sentence, so that it would have been simpler to send him up for life at first. | Woe place the man or woman who was { tainted from birth in a position where the taint may be thrown into general circula- tion. Wesay to them: “You were doomed from the cradle. Your father was a drunkard, your mother is a consumptive, | your uncie bad fits, your aunt is in a luna. | tic asylum. But wnat? Shall we punish the child for the sins of the father? God ! torbid! Go and marry and engender a | family of children who atter a probation- | ary stage in the ginmill and the country picaic will presently loom up as felons or narlots in the penitentiary or on the sireets.”’ That is modern civilization. When it is proposed to piace restriction on marriage, a churchman rises on his hind legs and protests that such crank notions will in- | duce young lovers to dispense wiih the | offices of the minister or the justice. There have been times and places when 1th might have been said with truth. Borrowe, in his “Wild Wales,”’ uses the | arzument against marriage fees. Butin such communities as ours it is safe to rely |upon the woman's sense of proprioty as a | zuarantee that she will become a wife be- | fore she is a mother. Thers are excep- | tions to the rule, but they are rare and threy cannot be reached by law or public opinion. | Very few pirls woula want to marry a m=on as to whom it was officially declared | that by reason of constitutional defects he was unfit to be a husband; and stiil | fewer would be willing to encounter the | risk of bringing into the world children | who would probably be weaklings, or de- praved, or incurable invalids, or lunatics. But, says a philosopher, the proposed restrictions would debar u large number ot young persons, male and female, from tne joys of conjugal life, including some who are unaware of their latent heredi- | tary defect. The point is well taken. | The answer is that the interests of the | few must give way 1o the interests of the many. It 1s better that some families should become extinct than that pestilence—moral and physical—sboald spread among the people at large. Better that the race of the Guileausand the Durrants should perish from off the face Sometimes | SOME OF INDIA’S STRANGE ARCHITECTURE It is invaded, with gen- | ) of the earth than thatinnocent girls and | honorable men should carry their lives in | their hand, and society shouid go on for- ever hunting down and executing mon- sters. Many think with Ma world is inconvenient'y and thata few people ) without :njurv to civilization or detri- ment to humanity. Do:tors are asking for le.ve to put deformed infants out of their pain. It is even suggested that| there was a substratum of common-sense lin that South Sea Island law which provided that incurable invalids whol the now, lthus that crowded nght be spared | Travelers through India usually cross ! | Hincustan frem Bombay to Calcutia, comparatively ‘ew visiting the Dravidian country, which occupies the peninsula | from Madras 1o the | and vei in this far-off land are to be seen | the most unique and wonderful temples | in the world. | Madura, the capital and chief city of the Dravidians, is about 125 miles south of Madras, Many hundred years before Christ the Pandyars dynasty reigned | there, and has continued to rule more or less inden ently until the seventeenth century. From the third to the thirteenth | | | | | Wil Provsrrop T L century A. D., Madura was the greatest center of Tamul learning, and students from all parisof the Orient strove to at- | tend its university. In regard to tne | curious temples, however, the sp-ll of! ant quity must be broken, for most of | them date only from the sizteenth or the ‘eventeenth centuiy. Madura architecture attained its greal- est glory during the reign of Tirumulla | Nayak (1623-1659). It was he who built | the most wonderfu! of all Dravidian tem- ples, costing abouv $20,000,000, and adjoin- | of this style of architecture; they are!statues of the ancient Kings of Madura, | others. soutkern exiremity, | ¢ appeared clothed with a new grace | changed to skies that were leaden in hue, and the warm spring breeze gave at last the first warning of the approach of the stern northern winter. But from first to last the exposition was well patronized, | and will be remembered as the best that Biue skies has been given of late years in Europe. who-e father was a confirmed drunkard or insane, and whose mother is coughing herself into the grave, may step up to the constant pain and mad- | we dangercus should >m a world that had no possi- were men in who be | either. Th difficult prob- | marriage bureau and obtain from )[r.; ems must b= ieft 1o the solution of the | Danforth a license to marry a pure young social philosopher. They do not touch rl, who, had her iot {failen in other| the question r 1he unforiunate, | places, might have become the mother of | whose blool is tainted with an 1r cable rood of t.ealthy, virtuous children; or, and bereditary v shait be permitied | on the other hand, a pretty girl to perpetuate his species; and that qu whose sisters and brother have all tion must b» determined, not upon nar- | died of tuberculess may captivate row con-ideration of the wishesot the in- | a young man nd wed him witn dividual, but upon broad survey of the | flowers and mu and orange blos rights of society at la soms, to the contentment of her fami At the present time a young man, | and to her own ecstasy. Standing in the | mony. i ptuous palace, overa mile in | pyramidal in form and consist of many ¢, alabyrinth of galleries and | stories, alwa, of brick ecuvered with ce- orgeously sculptured. Here | ment or te \tta, and profasely deco- ndor more duzzling than | rated with sculviure; the apper story be- “Arabian Nights.”” Strange ing covered with leather, gilded. These eath that great monarch met his 3 structures are buil: solid with the excep- in this verv palace. The legend i tion of a sp. left for one room in each while se hing for concealed treasures | sto center staircase mounting to | he was led into asubterranean apartment, | the top which is ofien iiluminated by where he was locked in by couspirators | lamps. In this temple there are nine of ana ieft to starve to death in the founda- | these beautitul ateways, the largest tions of the palece he had built. | measuring 153 feet high, 110 feet wide, The great temple at Madura is the | 60 fzetthick. They are covered with won- greaiest temple in the world. It covers | derful scuipture and strange barbaric le- twenty acres and is built after the general | gends, presenting an odd miugling of the TEMPLE AND ROYAL' SEPULCHER OF MADURA L plan of all these southern temples. The |erand and the grotesque rarely to be idol was placed in a ~mall shrine inclosed | found in so marked a degree in any other by a rectangular wall contaiuing gopuras, | country. or catewavs. Th:re. as opportunity oi- | The great choultrie leads through an fered, other r.ciungular inclosures were | indefinite number of pillars before r tban the one preceding, | reaches the minor sbrine. These pillars and cont Thus the specintor sees at first glance | the most maznificent part, the grandeur | resembling a lion standing on an ele- diminishing unal the small center shrine E phint while another animal is suspended is reached. tetween the two; others depicting sub- The great gateways are the chief feature | jects ' relating to Hindu mythology, COUNTRY BE REFORMED? i | | | it | beautiful on the evening of its bre imposing gateways. | ure all elaborately carved, some orna- | 100,000 lighted mented with sculpture of & huge animal | floated over the w corner of the reception-room, the grave old doctor looks into the future and sees a visit of weakly babies, whom he will have hard work to keep alive With drugs nd codliver oil, or pernaps a still darker vision of a boy who has been the delight of his parents and who has been brought home from college because he has moross fits and fancies that hi« professor is trying to poison him. Not that father nor that mother would then see hardship in a law providing that oniy those who are fit to vrocreate healthy offspring should be allowed to enter into the state oi matri- Joux BoNNER. and also of Tirumulla N k, his six wives, the favorites of the 360 beaulies of his harem,and their attendants, besides lion-monsters and horses. great hall is roofed with nuge flat stones aecor- ated with signs of the zodiac. When gazing into the mysterious denths of this dimly lighted forest of fantastically sculp- tured piilars a weird feelinx takes posses- sion of one which is furthered by the coo- ing of sacred doves as they fly in and out betweeu the piliars. In the midst of this great temple lies the Golden Lily tank. Tt is s to have sprung from a blow of Siva’s wand and to be filled with water which is supposed to flow through subterranean passages from the Ganges, over a thousand mtles distant. It takes its name from a legend about a golden chest, and also because of the gold and jewels used in the religious cere- monies. The pillars of the corridors sur- rounding this tank are elaborately sculp- ured and on the inner walls is a series of pictures representing the building of the temple. Then follow many corridors all elaborately sculptured with barbaric mag- nificence, mostly representing events in the life of Siva and his wife, as well as the statues of kings, horses, elephants and all kinds of monsters. There are also veiled shrines containing gilded images of Siva and his wife. In front of these may be seen devotees from the far~ thermost parts of India. “The Unfinished Temple,” which stands in front of the choultrie, gave promise of being the most beautiful of Southern India. Its chief features are its fluted columns, the strange monumental-looking pillars half-way down either side, the two door posts elaborately carved with scroll foliage, each post a single block of granite, and the gateway at the end of this ma- jestic avenue. The beautitul Teppa Tank, or Tirumulla | Nayak’s Tank, is only a short drive from Madura, and is exceedingly picturesque with its wooded island in the center, on which is a very pretty little temple. The Facade of the Great Temple at Madura. tank is surrounded 4 granite wall, at the corners of which are grot sque scuip- turcs. This is the fashionable drive for tha people of Madura. Lt is esvacially e day, of tne tank are hung with ps, and the idols are ater on a r.f, whence when the bank its name, Teppa Ta There are u&mul thirty Dravidian tem- ples of the first¢ s, but the shor ness of this article precludes a cescription ot the Mary W, Agrols.