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CIVILISATION MAKING US SOFT.
MODERN WORLD'S CHANGED SENTIMENTS ABOUT
CRUELTY.
[BY THE VERY Rev. W. E. INGE, D.D., DEAN OF ST.
ILLNESS AFTER USE OF HAIR DYE
A WARNING NOTICE.
"WOMAN'S ACTION FOR
DAMAGES.
Allegations of negligence against. London" hairdresser in the use of hair-dye were made during the bearing of an action for damages for personal injuries which came before Mr. Justice Honridge and a special jury in the King's Beach Division on January 9th.
The plaintif was Mm. Dora Caben, who, with her husband, Mr.
Do civilised peopls feel pain more . What has led to the change is than barbauine? Anul do we sentiment? Why are we now so moderns feel pain more than our much more sensitive about inflict susestors" did in the Middle. Ageing pain! The humanitarian move- Is it possible that casier conditions mens began to be important in the of life have brought about a eighteenth century, and was one of Harry Cohen, of Biddulph-man- sions, Elgio-avenue, · Maida Vale, phytxiological change, a heightened the factors in the French Revoluated Mr. George Basel, a hair sensibility both to suffering pain {tion. Things were not worse in dresser, of "Oxford-street, London. France than they had been; they Rossel had applied to her scalp and to witnessing it in others 1
Mrs. Cohen complained that Mi. The first question must certainly were better." But,
Horbert hair & harmful preparation which answered in the affirmative Spencer has said, the more things contained an ingredient known as Even in the Balkan States, which improve the greater the outery pera-phenylenediamine.
The defence was a denial of Mr. de Windt described in the about them. In France the move-
negligence, ae' no representation book impolitely named Through mant and nothing to do with rewas made or warrantly given that Savage Europe," the callousness of gion, unless by a great though not the preparation men in bearing pain, not to speak impossible stretch of language we call Voltaire a Christian. It was of inflicting it, was noticed by our indeed the cruelties practised in geone and nurses during the war, the nine of the Church which The As for real savages, they seem to aroused most indignation.
French humanitarians were often have no nerves, An Englishman
avowed Atheists, and I do not think once gave a pair of boots to a
the Church did anything to support mative, who found that his ab- the movement, » normally long grent toes preventeď him
from getting into them. Rather than lose the coveted prize, the savage whipped out a knife, chopped alf a joint from each great los, and walked off triumphantly in the boots We may hope that the Red Indians did not feel very acutely the "ghastly tortures they inlisted on each other. Whether the Chinese, a divilised people, but til recently almost equally cruel, were as insensitive I do not know. The barbarity of the Middle Ages, so dear to romanticis, was appall ing. Italian tyranta ke Ezzeling turned torture into a fine art. And what shall we say of the Inquisi tion M, Bernard Shaw, in his fainous play" Saint Joan," would have us believe that we are not much more tolerant end humane
shan the medievale. He gives us sort of apology for the In. quisition. I do not suppose that te is serious; it amuses him to pre- end that the modern Englishman, who is the most sentimentally humane man on earth, is at heart u better than Torquemada.
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́was harmless. There was a notice in the saloon and cubicles which read: "No
responsibility for the results of hair dyes. Notice is hereby given. that there are about two persons in a thousand who cannot her a As it is impossible to know these hair dye without pausing ill-effects, few without a test, we are willing to give this trial on the customer's all dyes in use in our saloons." own responsibility. This includes
#Severo Irritant."
In England most of the cruelties which excited the wrath of Voltaire and his friends thd not exist. But our humanitarians found plenty of
the prison system, the treatment said that his client asked Mr. Ros work to do in exposing the horrors Mr. L.. S. Green, for Mrs. Cohen, of maties, the slave-trade, the insel to dye her hair jet black. Mr. fiction of capital punishment for Rossel gave how a test on a small sinnil offences, and the ill-usage of place behind her left ear. The next dustries. All was evidently part and discharging women and children in many in- day Mrs. Cohen's head was swollen She was found of the same quickened sensibility to to be suffering from dermatitis. cruelty, injustice, and oppression. wherever they were to be found. But in England the movement was as definitely religious as in France it was ärveligious or even anti- religions. This seems to me to raise very interesting problem, What is the real relation of the humanitarian movement to Chris- tramity 1
Mrs. Cohen in evidence said that she did not see any notice that the hairdresser was not responsible for the results of hair dye.
Dr. Alva Benjamin. of Eigin- avenue, Maida Vale, said that he was called in by Mrs. Cohen, and when he examined her he found that she was suffering from severe. inflammation on the left side of the scalp. Pera-phenylene diamine, the ingredient in the dye known as Komayo," which was used on Mrs. Cohen, was the same in- gredient as used in "Inecto" hair- dye. "It was a very severe irritant.
Mr. Cartwright Sharp (cross- examining) There are some people who cannot take a normal dose of quinine without, very bad results!
That is so.
Punishing Cruelty. Let us consider for a moment the subject at cruelty to animals There is no question that at the present time in England cruelty to children and animals rouses aux in tensity of indignation which is hardly felt in the case of any other trong doing. Most of us profess to have discarded the vindictive theory of pumistment. But most of us would like to punish cruelty vindictively. If the champions of the lower animals, were pot for the most part averse to corporal punishment, we should probably suggest that if any have had a demand to dog wanton tormentors of cats and dogs. This feeling is almost wholly absent in Roman Cathoke countries. It is
If anyone wishes to know what the Inquisition was really like, let him read Lea's famous history, the truthfulness of which has been in pagned, but quite unsuccessfully. Let han read especially the précis of a trial by torture, such as the examination of an unfortunate lady who was accused of wearing clean linen on Saturday, and of anot eating pork. Her frivolous ex- planation, that he liked clean wen and disliked pork, was of course not accepted. She was strip- ped stark naked, and subjected to several ingenious and excruciating tortures, which so confused her mind that it was only during the second application (half an hour was the usual time allotted to the tormentors) that she lethought her self of saying that she repeated" of any Jewish predilections and asked pardon of Holy Church. The précis is most circumstantial: we can hear the groans and screams,
And consider the fact that rogal A New Type Of Christianity. weddings in Spain were often celebrated by an Auto da Fe. As Mr. Arnold Luna sage in a recent believe that a new type of Chris. book: "Men who could conceive of tianity is developing among us, a na more attractive entertainment type which Catholicis cannot a for a young bride than the spectacle similate, and which Protestantism of a beretic being roasted alive can can, but only by striking out very new path. All the have suffered very little imagina-boldly on a five distress from the thought of advances in secular civilisation any torture which might be inflicted science, scholarship, political and by the Almighty on the inhabitants elal reforms were not welcomed of hell" They suffered no imagina- by Luther and Carin, but they tive distress at all. St. Thomas were in part welcomed and accept- holds out as a prime treat for the ed by the persecuted step-children saints in heaven that they will have of the Reformation, the indepen-
a perfect view of the tortures of dent sectaries.. the damned."
plainly no part of traditional Christianity, and has remained outside the sphere of religion in those countries which resisted the Reformation.
Was humanitariahsin part of the creed of the Reformers of Luther. Calvin, and Knox I speak under correction, but I think it was not And yet it is most certainly part of our religion to-day; I might al- most say that it is more deeply and universally felt than any other part of our religion. No one, I think. | need be ashamed of this; no one can deny that sympathy, pity and kindness are part of the teaching of Christ
Guy Fawkes.
substance which an ordinary person Is not pero-phenylene diamine a can have applied without say armful reeuls Certainty, some do.
woman wants her hair dyed she has to run ariak !—Any dye might affect some people
dresser adopt than to make a test What viser course can any hair-
before he applies either of these hair dyes?-It is a very reasonable precaution,
All Dyes Dangerous. "Mr. Justice Horridge-All these hair dyes are dangerous. I sup pose women will go on using ther for ever.
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Mr. Green (counsel)-I afraid there are some members of the opposite sex who copy their example. (Laughter.)
The Judge Perhaps so. Dr. James Johnston Abraham, a surgeon, of Harley-street, said pera-phenylene diamine analine dye used for commercial purpoers, "like making rabbit
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These men were often in advanes of their time, and, they are now coming into their own. An entire- The Protestant countries were notly new development of Protestan: much more humune, before the tiam is in progres, which in falling eighteenth century. As boys we all into line with all that is best and gloated over the tortures of Guy most progressive in secular civilian Fawkes in Harrison Ainsworth'stion, and among other things has novel. And I wonder if many of cordially accepted humanitarian my readers have seen the old dun- ism, for which traditional Chris geon at The Hague, There are tianity provided only an unsatis several rooms, each prepared for a factory substitute in "works of separate torture, all in working mercy and charity We are all order. And all these were in use aware of the differences between at the time when Rembrandt and Protestantism and Catholicism; we Franz Hals were painting their much more often forget the very wonderful pictures. In Scotland, great diferences between the re- where judicial torture was much ligion of an educated Englishman more frequently applied than in-day and that of the old-fashioned England, James I.'s favourite Protestant. engine, the boot, was in regular
It is not necessary here to dwell use, as readers of "Old Mortality" on the numerous exaggeration and will remember.
absurditics which have brought the name of humanitarian into con- tempt. We are a nation of fad dusts, who can make any cause ridi
Much later than this, we hear of an incredible number of lashes be ing ordered to delinquent soldiers; and it must be remembered that the culous. This quite posible-in-
of
laughter.
Opening the defence, Mr. Cart-, wright Sharp said only a handful of hairdressers took the precaution of applying the test. Mr. Roszel had tested between nine hundred and a thousand persons, and only in three cases had there been a reaction.
His Lordship painted out that culese Mr. Rossel could establish a warning of some sort he could not succeed in the action.
The hearing was adjourned.
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old method of hanging, by strangu- deed, I think át is certain that we WHIRLED INTO HAPPINESS lation, meant several minutes of are getting too soft and afraid awful torture, which the spectators physical hardship. A little stoicism witnessed unmoved.
would do. us no harm. But on the WHIRLED INTO HAPPINESS
From the Lyric Theatre, London.
Where it ran for Over 15 Months."
It is said that torture has been whole we must wonder that the re- used quite recently in the prison nt rolt against senseless and unneces Barcelona; and of course the Bolsary cruelty was so long deferred. shevists have employed it unspar- There are many thing which were Engly, with the help of Chinese ex done a few generations ago, is THE BIGGEST & MODE AMBITIOUS PRO perts in the art. The toleration of civilised countrica which now fill us. cruelty is mainly a matter of with stupefaction. Perhaps our habituation, and it would be dracendants will think that even in strange-if-the-Great War had not the twentieth century the quality caused a set-back in the progress of of mercy was not quite always humanitarianism.
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