The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1904, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL g ¥y 2 man the from and with ging . nd as sure as a w sun, y Give ught” and sh and her talent, too, d, to set ot ind of wielding a heavy aceo ough to ught of house- her regard her a Prince Charming o deliver her from c drudgery and carry s and luxury of ern apartment hotel, or -house. If you want a love a thing it is a mistake to a task. But there are er and more effective ing a little girl's eyes and future “home” and king beds us her mother will walk through the ment of a modern store her TEACH HEE TO POUR 7LA D SERVE SALAD - the wise and wonderful toy- 's have hit upon for training a = mind. There are toy musical in- nents for cultivating the musical ict of the baby, toy engines to in- the boy in the science of me- chanics, toy jewels, toy golf sets and toy automobiles. In fact, every inter- g article that is made exists in for the miniature men and Among all these toys there are none so numerous or so wonderful as those made expressly for the little girl who would play at “housekeeping” and “mother.” Dolls are so wonderfully constructed that one almost expects to to life. They talk, sing, laugh, walk and go to sleep. Dolly's bed is ideally built and fitted up; her terest miniature nen m come bathtub, her «toilet set, her clothes, jewels, hats and furniture, from her kitchen to her piazza hammock and garden hose, are all as complete as urs or mine, and all so cheap that wonders how they can net their manufacturer anything. Put your money in some of these and see the ef- fect upon your daughter. v ttle girl has a whole room you say, “and yet she emain a tomboy. I buy *h dolls and she plays with her brother’s steam engine and base- ball bat. I buy her brooms and dust pans and she keeps the nursery looking as though a thunder storm had swept t CULTIVATE THE 7R small girl is like “buying” servants for a big one. What you have got to do is to teach her their use—to “play’ with your baby until she Jearns to love the right kind of play. The very beginning of a girl's domes- tic training is the cultivation of the “mother instinct.” If your little girl S7 OF ALL MO THER" INSTINCT /N HEE love them. If she looks upon them merely as pretty trinkets of bisque and sawdust, teach her that they are her own babies, just as she is yours, and as such should be cared for. Get her a doll that she can wash and dress and comb and put to sleep; then teach her how 1o do these things for it. If you “home” eyes will fall upon a thousand devices But merely “buying” things for a does not love her dollies, teach her to wish her to grow up to become a good - 4 N 5 - | | e | | By Maynard Shipley. } . : =" 5 — - - g F Crete d her Minos, China her Koreans cling tenaciously to their an- highway and an ax is laid by her, with classes of crimes which are punished not only decapitated, but thelr hands Yeo and E d her Alfred, dur- clent customs, borrowed as they are Which all passers by, except noblemen, by death. The following are consid- and feet were also cut off, after which ing whose reigns a bag of money from the most ancient Chinese sources. are obliged to give her a stroke on ered by the Koreans as the most the mutilated body was exposed in a left by the wayseide would be left So ancient, indeed, are some of the the head untll she is dead. The whole heinous offenses: public place for three days. t people of Korea a golden age when mno barred and all men lived e under the eight just laws ir first ruler. Ki-tse, or he is s s called, an the great Conrucius, was a Emperor of China, who, gusted with the evils of art life, set out for Korea, establiched a court of his ¢ werful King, and was all for his humanity and s in the first quarter h century, B. C. when the simple code of y Ki-tse no longer suf- ex civilization which a. Naturally the na was drawn elaborate juris- ng the ascendency of of Minh (1368-1644), the al code attained the form e of a body of laws which en handed down in all their generation to generation little improvement., Twice since the severity of the Korean code was mitigated by royal edict, but n provisions it remained In untouched, so look back to doors we an honest th me more The recent attempt to graft the clem- ent jurisprudence of the West on the crude and cruel Mongollan stock has so far proven abo Having re- celved no preparation for the institu- tions of Western civilization, the borrowed customs of Korea that even the tardy Chinese have outgrown them. Thus we find Chinese elements in Korean life that are more Chinese than in China. As in nearly all countries where slavery exists, the slave was subjected to the most inhuman punishments. While it was regarded as hardly a misdemeanor for a master to murder a slave, even upon the slightest provo- cation, yet the slave who resented his master's blows by killlng him was cruelly tormented to death. First trampling him nearly to death, they then poured vinegar down his throat through a funnel. When his stomach was properly distended, they beat him with cudgels until he burst. The pun- ishment for theft, until 1885, was al- most equally severe, thieves also being brutally trampled to death. In spite of this horrible punishment, theft has always been a very common crime among the Koreans. Treason, as in all absolute monarchies, is still pun- ished with the greatest severity, and the penalty involves not only the actual offender but the lives of all his kin. Desecration of graves is another capital offense, which involves in its punish- ment all the male relatives of the of- fender to the fifth degree. The males are beheaded, while the mother, wife or daughter are usually poisoned. There are, indeed, a few cases where the husband is decapitated without the wife being officially poisoned. If a woman kills her husband she is buried up to her shouiders in a town in which the murder was com- mitted is in temporary disgrace; the Judges are suspended, the Governor removed and the town made subordin- ate to another place; or at best only & private citizen is left in authority. This punishment is now legally if not actually abolished. The wife is still looked upon in Ko- rea as the personal property of the husband and her life is wholly in his hands, so much so that he may kill her summarily for any grave crime, acquitting himself of all wrong by merely producing proof of his wife's guilt. The Korean jurisprudence permits no conviction on a charge of felony unless the man accused acknowledges. the crime, hence the introduction of torture. Theoretically the torture is applicable only in cases where the evi- dences of the prisoner’s guilt are very strong, if not conclusive. Only a light form of torture is legally allowable in cases of misdemeanor. The torture of witnesses is not permissible under the law. But the Korean Judges have sel- dom scrupled to pervert or ignore both the spirit and the letter of the law and Judges have been known to torture fatally men merely suspected of a crime. On the other hand, ac- cused persons are frequently acquit- ted for a consideration, though the evidences of their guilt are conclu- sive. Since 1895 a mixed commission, with the constant advice of the dis- tinguished jurist, M. Cremazy, has done much to soften the cruelties of a criminal code which is scarcely equaled for its barbarity. There are stlll fourteen different 1. Crimes against the state. Crimes against the person, the sepulchers or the residence of the sov- ereign. A person found gullty even of climbing the wall of the Emperor’s residence is put to death. 3. Disloyalty to country. 4. Crimes against the law of hu- manity and nature, such are parricide, matricide, the murder of one's own children, etc. 5. The theft of official documents, seals, goods or treasures. Insurrection. Burglary, theft piracy, ete. 8. Murder, attempted murder, homicide committed in a quarrel, kid- naping with violence a married woman or a young girl and many other crimes of a similar character. Many crimes not mentioned in the code are also punished by death ac- cording to the method of interpreta- tion, called by the Chinese “pifuyu- yuanyin,” namely, by a system of an- alogy. As a matter of fact, until the conclusion of the Japan-Chinese war in 1895, capital punishment in Korea was inflicted much at the will of the so-called judge. Persons merely sus- pected of crime were often so cruelly tortured by their inquisitors that kind death many times extended the hand of mercy refused by the officers of jus- tice. As in China and Siam, two legal methods of executing criminals are commonly employed—decapitation and strangulation, though the old methods are frequently used, copntrary to the new code. Until quite recently, culprits who were executed by the sword were with violence, Since 1895, the death penalty has been usually carried out without corporal punishment anterior to the execution, and torture has been formally abolish- ed. The present law provides that exe- cutions take place within closed doors, in a retired room within the prison. Criminals convicted of political crimes are beheaded, while executions for crimes of common right are by stran- gulation. The gallows was introduced into Korea by Clarence R. Greathouse of San Francisco, while he was legal advisor to that Government. ‘Witnesses are still thrown into prison in Korea together with the condemned criminals, but a new code is about to be promulgated (the “Code Penal de la Korea,” drafted by the present learned legal advisor, M. Cremazy) which will abolish this last legal bar- barity. The legal abolishment of barbarity in Korea does not, however, necessarily imply the actual disappearance of primitive cruelties. Though torture, as sald above, was legally abolished in 1895, it is still practiced to a great ex- tent even in the prisons of Seoul, and it is the common rule in the interior. Another vestige of barbarity which is also met with in the interior is expo- sure of the bodles. At present there seems to be a general tendency, all over Korea, to revert to the old cus- toms regarding punishments, In conclusion it may be said that Kcrea now has an elaborate and thor- oughly modern legal machinery—on paper—but the provisions of its codes are daily violated, not only by the grossly corrupted officials, but even by tacit consent of the reigning monarch. LIAX IV GHT. mother, teach her to love her toy “child” with that mother instinct that is born in every girl baby. Once you have accomplished this and have in- stilled in your little daughter the feel- ing of responsibility for her doily’'s wel- fare you have sown the seed of domes- ticity in her soul and heart and it will grow as you water it. If the modern woman fancles her life is complete without children it is because as a lit- tle thing she was not taught to love and value her dollies. Every little girl should have a com- plete housekeeping outfit. She should have a bedroom set with a bed, which she can be taught to make up regu- larly every morning: a full outfit of bed llnen, pillows, etc. Teach her to LACH T T el MA HOUSEHOLD AET manipulate her small fingers carefully and skillfully, to beat her feather pii- lows each morning, to turn her mat- tress regularly, to spread her sheets neatly and tuck them in at the corners, to launder her linen and change it at set intervals, and to keep it properly darned and mended, even If you, your- gelf, have to tear it on the sly occa- slonally. Some day she will have to see to the making and keeping of com- fortable beds, and is not this way of training her mind and fingers more agreeable and ‘more impressive than by punishing her by making her exert her tiny strength to make up a large bed? HER “OWA CHRILD® " CLOTHES %I}L BECOME A R THE USE OF R AT e Her toy house must, of course, have its kitchen and therein every article of domestic use, from the teakettle to the washtub, with all of which she should become perfectly familiar. With such appurtenances, the making mud pies will become a sclence as as a pleasure and the laundering of her dell's frocks a familiar duty. soon understand the use and a of every pot, kettle and pan and will to handle an ironing board room. When she has finished she should be trained learn how and shining and in their ¢ her 1 sorts of d »st importa atfit. Sc yme day ace: mplishment right Teach her the value of te linen and shining silver: tcach h tea and make a salad fror for there is nothing so istinguishes a girl as her ¥y ng. Of course, as soon as your girl grows large enough to like duties as duties she will put aside her baby toys d tra learn to do s in grown-up fashion. But if she h ady gotten the do- mestic fever, if she has already ac- quired the home instinet, if she has al- ready learned “something about every- thing” in a house, it is very likely that she will, of her own accord, enter upon domestic dutles with a vim, a delight, a confidence and a skill that would have been impossible had those duties suddenly been thrust upon her. ery curly-haired girl who bakes mud pi and plays “make belleve” with your chubby-flsted boy is a pe sible future daught maker of er-in-law, a possible - happi- to be responsib the other wom is nothing which attractive and tasei a man's eyes as perfect ea in the dozen and one little ¢ accom- plishments—the ease and skill that come only with the training that the wise mother begins in her daughter's babyhood.