Intemperate Mothers

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

Intemperate Mothers.

ON the suppression of the Commune in Paris, among the prisoners taken were five hundred boys of ages averaging from nine to fifteen. Of the many atrocities committed, the most fiendish were by these lads. While the murders and incendiarisms were perpetrated by men during an attack of political fury, the assassinations committed by these boys were done solely out of a spirit of cruelty and mischief. The Government, not liking to treat these lads as political criminals, sent them to the reformatory at Rouen. Shortly afterwards, two eminent physicians reported their mental and physical condition. They found that out of the five hundred youth, three hundred and thirty-seven were of very delicate physical form and stunted growth. They were among the most mischievous of the whole, and all the children of drunken mothers.