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NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2(5, 1900
OPPOSE WOMAN SUFFRAGE,
MIIS. II. Jf. ,TOUNSOX TELLS WHY
aim deems it vset.ess.
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A statement has been issued by Mrs.
Helen Kendrlck Johnson, head of the
committee of Anti-Woman Suffragists
which recently went to Washington to
present their views, giving reasons
against the further extension of the
suffrage' movement. Mrs. Johnson
says: i
1 "The suffrage movement is more than
fifty years old, and has therefore run
parallel with the progress of women
which haa marked this era. Suffragists
declared that much of this progress is
due to the woman suffrage movement,
which opponents of such suffrage deny,
, because they believe that the principles
and results of the suffrage agitation are
at variance with any true advancement
either of women or of the state. Evi
dence that woman suffrage is not :
deemed progressive is seen in the fol- j
lowing facts:
"In making up their reviews of the
year's progress the public prints make
no mention of the successes of woman ;
suffrage.
"The states where woman has made
most progress are those in which woman-suffrage
bills have been most
Steadily and decisively defeated. '
"There has been slight, if any, im
provement in the laws of the states
where women vote, due to the fact of
that vote, and In some ways the pro
gress of those states is behind that of
other states.
"If the suffrage movement were to
disband to-day and no woman ever
' vote, not a singly great interest would
Buffer. None of woman's wide philan
thropies would be' harmed, the women's
colleges would be unaffected, the pro
fessions would continue to give dlplo
mas to qualified women, tradesmen
would still employ women, good laws
would not be repealed and bad laws
would be no more likely to be framed,
literature would not Euffer, homes
would be no less secure, woman's civic
work would not cease, nor would there
.be any more disposition than there is
to-day to remove to a state where wo
man still had 'freedom.' (It is interest
ing to note that there has never been
, euch a migration of women to the suf
frage states as to overburden the pop
ulation.) "The suffrage movement is to-day al
lied with co-education as against wo
man's higher education in colleges of
her own, with 'isms' as against tried
principles, with prohibition as against
temperance, With Mormonism as
against separation of church or state,
with socialism as against representative
government, with radical labor move
ments as against thebest organized .and
unorganized efforts of wage-earning
men and women, with 'economic' inde-
pendence' and the co-operative house
hold as against family life and home.
"Higher education for woman has
, been the special mark of her progress
.n this era, but the men ana women woo
founded , her colleges received neither
, inspiration nor aid from suffrage work
ers, who strove chiefly to 'break down
the sex barrier in education,' and direct
ed their efforts to the advocacy of co
education rather than to the establish-
"Enlightened discussions of great
public questions of public policy should
be called out by the suffrage Idea, but
there are none on record. For example,
divorce for several causes was the flrBt
legislation demanded by the suffragists,
and to-day their standing committee on
the 'divorce reform' demands joint leg
islative action by women, concerning di
vorce, but makes no suggestion as to
the value or trend of such action.
- "Nor do 'they give intelligent reasons
: for such bills as the one so long urged
by them, asking that the wife should
have separate earnings and a valuation
placed upon her labor In the household.
It is most fortunate that no amount of
euch pressure has made American leg
islators look upon marriage as a busi
ness copartnership or consider that pro
gress required them to place wives in
the attitude of hired servants to their
husbands.
"Education as well as religious decen
i cy received a blow from these professed
friends of woman's progress when the
authoritative members of the associa
tion issued the 'Woman's Bible.'
"The hollowness of suffrage claims to
lie progressive may be further Judged
by the fact that no writings concerning
the condition or needs of the public
schools have been published by those
who were using school suffrage as a
stepping stone to political advance.
Suffrage agitation has secured school
suffrage for women in twenty-five
states, but it has not succeeded in in
ducing any great number of women to
go' to the polls and vote on schoql mat
ters. On the contrary, the unwise
pressure brought to bear on legislatures
and public officials by suffrage workers
has hindered the natural progress of wo
men in connection with non-political
public school work, The small, fluctua
ting and somewhat manipulated school
suffrage vote Is proving of little advan
tage and an expense, and therefore in
two states, Connecticut and Ohio, Its
abolition has been proposed. School
suffrage bills have been defeated In five
states during the past three years, and
a bill making women eligible as school,
trustees was defeated in Kentucky in
1897, and one requiring that at least
one-third of the members of boards of
education appointed by mayors should
be women was defeated in New York in
1891
'" "Suffrage leaders claim that the
change in laws, making them more fa
orable to women, is largely owing to
their demands, but this can be distinct
ly disproved. In their published hirto
rv the leaders say that one of tile causes
that led to their movement was 'the
discussion in several of the state legis
latures of property questions in regard
to married women,' showing that this
agitation preceded the work of the suf
frage organization. The suffrage
moement btgan in 1S4S. but in 1x44
Rhode Island had passed such laws, and
Connecticut, Massachusetts. Texas and
New York passed such laws in 1R4X-9.
In 1SS1 the suffrage leaders in New York
inquired, 'who was responsible for the
Married Woman's Property Rights bill,
and whether any debates had preceded
ItY To which the Hon. George Geddes
replied that Judge Fine was responsible,
and that there were no debates, and but
one petition, which he (Mr. Geddes) pre
sented from personal friends. Mr.
Geddes added: 'We all felt that the
laws regulating married women's as
well as married men's rights demanded
careful revision and adaptation to our
times and pur civilization.' In 1S50-52
Alabama and Maine passed similar
laws. In lSi3 New Hampshire, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Iowa made radical
changes. In 1S49 Ohio, Maine, Indiana
and Missouri had passed laws giving to
married women the right to their own
earnings.
"The New York State Suffrage asso
ciation reports that during twenty-two
years it had urged but three bills rela
ting to anything but suffrage, and that
those three did not originate with them.
Twanty-one suffrage bills -were defeat
ed. Of these susuffrage bills, three re
fer to school-matters, of which two were
lost. ,
"The professions were not open to
women through suffrage agitation. Al
ready, when that movement began, a
dozen women were studying medicine in
this country, and the medical mission
ary , was the pioneer. Here, again, it
was co-education, not education, that
suffrage leaders urged. As to the min
istry, two of the early suffrage leaders
were preachers.
"In 1851 Mrs. Stanton wrote to a suf- j
frage convention: 'The trades and pro
fessions are all open to us." Mrs. Dall
said: 'I do not believe any one In this
room has an idea of the aenues already
open to woman. Make her equal before
j the law, and wages will adjust them
selves. To-day women are equal before
the law, but wages have not become
equal. Meantime, the self-respecting
workingwoman shows plainly that she
does not want the ballot.
"Ths life of modern scientific lnves- '
tlgation is embraced in the period of !
which we speak, and its powerful voice '
is uttered against putting woman In !
man's place. Sex antagonism is the cor
ner-stone . of the suffrage movement,
while sex harmony is the foundation of
woman's progress seen in the light of
science and Christian civilization.
WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS' REPLYi
referendum in Massachusetts on which
Thomas Russell dwelt at the hearing,
proed the same thing by an official
count. On that occasion 22,200 women
voted for suffrage and only SCI voted
ugainst it.
An influential Man Suffrage associa
tion of which Mr. Russell was treasurer
flooded the state with large posters
urging women to vole no. Yet in 23S of
the 322 towns of Massachusetts not one
woman voted in the negative. Every
question submitted to the vote of men
is decided by the majority of those who
care enough about the matter to ex
press themselves upon it. The antis
charged the suffrage cause with being
"a minority movement." Their own
movement is that of a much smaller
minority.
The Indifference of the mass of wo
men is claimed as proof that the grant
ing of suffrage would be wrong. George
William Curtis said that "the assertion
that when a majority of women ask fo,'
equal political rights they will be grant
ed is a confession that there is no con
clusive reason against their sharing
them. And, if that be so, how can
ttheir admission rightfully depend upon
the majority? Why should the woman
who does not care to vote prevent the
voting of her neighbor who does? Why
should a hundred girls who are content
to be dolls and do what Mrs. Grundy
expects prejudice the choice of a single
one who wishes to be a woman and do
what her conscience requires?"
It is a simple historical fact that ev
ery Improvement thus far made In the
condition of women has been secured,
not by a general demand from the ma
jority of women, but by thevarguments
and entreaties of a persistent few. In
each case the advocates of progress
have had to contend not merely with
the conservatism of men, but with the
indifference of women, and often with
active opposition from some of them.
When a man in Saco, Me., first em
ployer a saleswoman, the men boycot
ted his etore, and the women remon
strated earnestly with him on the sin of
which he was guilty in placing a young
woman in a position of such publicity as
behind a counter. When Lucy Stone
tried to secure for married women the
right to their own property, women
asked, with scorn, "Do you think J
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Answer Arguments Made Before Con- would give myself where I would not
gresslonal Committees and Contend
for Right to Vote.)
The following statement has been sent
out by the National Woman Suffrage
association in reply to the arguments
presented by the antl-suffragists at the
congressional hearing recently given be
fore the suffrage committees in the
house and senate:
With entire respect for the good In
tentions of the anti-suffragists, we be
lieve that all their objections are found
ed upon ideas which are to-day either
obsolete or obsolescent.
The arguments made by them before
the congressional committee fall un
der three main heads the military ob
jection, the objection from prophecy,
and the objection that women do not
want to vote.
The military objection is perhaps the
weakest of the three, since in not one of
the forty-five states of the Union is any
man's right to vote made dependent on
his ability to bear arms. Secretary of
the Navy Long says: "Imagine
arguing. with a sober face against any
man whose brains are reduced to such
j a minimum that he solemnly asserts a
I woman should not vote because she can
I not fight. In the first place, she can
j fight; in the second, men are largely ex
empt from military service; and in the
third, there is not the remotest, relation
between firing a musket and casting a i
ballot" . .
All men over forty-five years of age
are exempt from military service, yet
they vote. Doctors, lawyers, ministers
and about twenty other classes of men
are exempt from jury duty, yet they
vote. , Military statistics taken during
our civil war show that out of every
one thousand lawyers in the prime of
life examined for military service, 544
were found to be physically disqualified;
of doctors, 670; of journalists, 740, and
of preachers, 974. Whenever suffrage
Is limited to men who are able and wil
ling to perform military, police and jury .
duty, a fair argument may be made for
debarring women on this ground. But
as long as the old, the infirm, the halt, 1
the lame and the blind among men are
freely admitted to the ballot-box, some
better reason must be found for exclud
ing women than the fact that they do
no; fight.
prophesied that the inevitable result of
prophesledthatthe inevitable result of
equal suffrage would be the neglect of
homes and children, and a variety of
other disasters. This is no longer a
question of theory. Women are now
voting throughout a considerable part
of the English-speaking world. Ii Ire
land more than one hundred thousand
women, both married and single, can
vote for all officers except members of
parliament, and Lord Mayor Tallon of
Dublm says that they do it "without
loss of either dignity or domesticity."
I In England more than two hundred
thousand women have municipal suf
frage, and Gladstone acknowledged that
I they had exercisad it "without detrl
! ment, and with great advantage." In
New Zealand 109,461 women registered
to ote at the first election after they
had obtained the full bllot. . In Austra
lia, Canada and five of our own western
states, women have the suffrage: in
some of them they have had it for a
1 generation. '
The only evidence offered at the hear
j lng to show that equal suffrage had
worked badly in any of these places was
three letters from two men and one
woman , in . Colorado. The woman in
question (Mrs. Vail) was the chief oppo- j
nent of equal suffrage in Colorado he-
fore it was granted, and she is of the 1
same opinion still. On the other hand,
in Colorado and all the other places
where eqtaal suffrage is in operation un
der normal conditions, the most es
teemed and distinguished men and wo
men testify in large numbers that the
results are good, and that none of the
predicted disasters have happened.
give my property?" When Elizabeth
Blackwell began to study medicine the
women at her boarding-house refused
to speak to her, and women passing her
on the 'streets would, hold their skirts
aside so as not to touch her. Mary Ly
ons' first efforts for the higher educa
: tion of women were received with lnfi-
nite ridicule, not only by the mass of
! men, but by the mass of women as well.
I On eastern countries, where women
are shut up in zenanas and forbidden to
walk the streets unveiled, the women
I themselves are "among the strongest up
holders of these traditional restrictions,
which they have been taught to think
add to their dignity. The Chinese lady
Is as proud of her small feet as any
American "anti" is of her political disa
bilities. Pundita Ramabi tells us that
the idea of education of girls Is so un
popular with the majority of Hindoo
women that when a progressive Hin
doo proposes to educate his little daugh
ter, it is not uncommon for the women
of his family to threaten to drown
themselves. t
All this merely shows that human na
ture Is conservative, and that it Is fully
as conservative In women as In men.
The persons who take a strong Interest
In any reform are always comparttive
ly few, and they are habitually regard
ed with disfavor even by those whom ,
the proposed reform is to benefit. !
Many changes for the better have
been made during the last half century
in the laws, written and unwritten, re
lating to women. Everybody approves
of these changes n'ow, because they
have become accomplished facts. But
not one of them would have been made
to this day if it . had been necessary to
wait till the majority of women asked
for it. The change now under discus
sion is to be Judged on its merits. In
the light of history the indifference of
most women and the opposition of a few j
must be taken as a matter of course. It
has no more rational significance now
than It has had in regard to each pre
vious step of women's progress.
The statement Is signed by Susan B.
Anthony, president; the Rev. Anna H.
Shaw, vice-president at large; Rachel
Foster Avery, corresponding secretary;
A'llce Stone Blackwell, recording secre
tary; Harriet Taylor Upton, treasurer,
and Catherine Waugh McCulloch, auditor.
HURCH WARDEN PIPES.
"There is a demand just now for
churchwarden pipes.'J remarked a
Chestnut street tobacconist yesterday.
"Maybe you don't know what a church
warden pipe is.' You can't exactly be
blamed if you don't, for of recent years
they have rather sunk out of sight.
They are the old stemmed white clays,
such as you see old Tony Welier smok
ing In the illustrations to old editions of
'Pickwick Papers.' Now tliey are com
ing in vogue again, but largely, I fancy,
because they have certain decorative
properties. Young bachelors who live
in apartments come here and buy them
by the box. They are hung about the
From Maine' to California and from
the lakes to the gulf the press congratu
lates the League of American Wheel
men upon its divorce from evele rac-
ing. For four years the question of
whether the League should discontinue
I its control of a racing department has
agitated the organization ' and wheel
men generally. During the past year
the question assumed an acute stage
owing to the opposition of a purely rac
ing body and because of the stand tak
en against the department by many of
the leaders of the League. The state
ment was. repeatedly made that racing
troubles were the cause of the decline
in League membership, and that if the
National Assembly discontinued this
feature the organization would receive
many applications from wheelmen who
take greater Interest in the more digni
fied objects of the League, such as high
way improvement, securing of whcel
mens rights and privileges, hotel ac
comodations, road maps, and touring fa
cilities and the many other objects for
which the L. A. W. has been constantly
striving. .
Since the Assembly almost unani
mously decided to drop the racing de
partment those who have constantly op
posed It as well as those who favored
It have congratulated the. League and
freely predict that the organization will
immediately feel the effect of the action.
In the centres of population thia effect
is already being felt, and it will prob-
j ably soon extend itself to the other lo--
calitles of the country. The larger cities
have usually taken the lead In League
i recruiting, and as they have been the
I moet opposed to racing it is natural to
suppose they will be the first to show
j the favorable effect of the action.
Milwaukee Preparing to Meet,
j Now that it has been definitely de
' elded that the L. A. W. national meet
will be held In Milwaukee thin summer,
: the wheelmen of that city are making
active preparations for the reception
1 and entertainment of the prospective
l guests. The Citizens' Business League,
i of Milwaukee, Is co-operating with the
I Wisconsin Division of the L. A. W., and
; the result should be one of the most
! suctesful meets in the history of the
League. Milwaukee has been extending
an invitation to the League, chiefly
through F. P. Van'Valkenburg, for the
past two years, and now that the
League has given Its official acceptance
the Milwaukee city may be depended
upon to do the honors In befitting fash
ion.
A Net-Work of Side-Paths.
In line with its good roads work the'
League of American' Wheelmen will
place all Its machinery of agitation into
the movement for side-paths, where en
tire good roads are not emmediately
practical. Under the leadership of the
League hundreds of miles of these
paths have been built during the past
year, and hundreds of thousands of dol
lars have been spent in thdr construc
tion. In the State- of New York alone
nearly $200000 were collected for elde
path building, and much of it has al
ready been expended. The New York
division of the L. A. W. Is to be credited
I with the introduction and passage of
! this bill and for the good work follow
ing. A similar bill was passed by the
Pennsylvania division, and other States
are following the lead thus given. So
successful has been this project thus
far that it is freely predicted that many
of the States will be a net-work of the
paths within a short time.
AVhlle all of this good work ha been
done by the L. A. W. during the past
year, much more will be accomplished
during the present year, for the organi
zation has learned by the year the les
sons of experience, and will be able to
improve its work in every direction.
Thlc is a question which is of the' ut
most Importance to every bicycle rider,
for the building of paths, when under
taken In an organized way, 1b very sim
ple and easily accomplished. But it is
necessary for greatest success to have
united effort, and the League expects
many recruits to its ranks from this
work alone. If it secures them the
nlde-path movement will assume propor
tions, which will be almost astounding.
Good Roads for Government Office. "
For several years the Department of
Agriculture has maintained an office of
road Inquiry, upon which devolved the
duty of circulating and collecting in
formation regarding the good roads
movement in this country. The office
has had only a very small appropria
tion; so email, in fact, that coniributiins
for its support have had to 'oe made by
those interested in Its malntenace. This
condition of affairs is one of which the
Government should be ashamed In view
of the progress made in the same direc
tion by eeveral of the European gov
ernments. At the present time this office Is with
out even a competent head, General
Roy Stone having left the directorship
ests of farmers, wheelmen and the pub
lic generally, and the League requested
in its resolutions that all classes sup
port the bill by communication with
their representatives in Congress, ask
ing them to vote fo rthe measure. In.
the debate which followed the introduc
tion of the resolution many strong rea
sons for its passage were brought out.
Among them was the fact that Congress
annually appropriates millions of dol
lars for river and harbor improvement;
that subsidies have been given for rail
road building and for steamships. Alt
cf these, it was stated, are forms of
highways, yet the National Government
has done nothing for a half -century for
better road highways, which would di
rectly benefit the farmers and indirect
ly be of untold value to the commerce of
the entire country.
The action taken by the Assembly
calls for united action by all of the di
visions of the L. A. W. and the farm
ers' associations in all sections will be
called upon to assist in getting the
measure through. The L. A W. ex
pects that if this bill is favorably acted
upon, the building of roads under the
appropriation will prove such an object
lesson there will be no resisting future
requests for Congressional appropria
tions. The. bill will be supplemented by
the usual State bills, and altogether the
L. A. W. will have a very active season
Iri its good roads work.
orang;, explaining that It lacks suffi
cient jaw strength to bite hard enough
to injure a person, and has only the
arm strength, Its legs being too short to
be of much use, It is explained that
Ham must be treated much like a child
from his age and general charasterls
tlcs. For that reason he is given ho tea
or coffee to drink for fear of its effect
on hi3 nerves and digestion. Baltimore
Sun.
COMPRESSED AIR
Carpet Cleaning Works,
No, 106 Court Str3t.
Carpets called foe uud delivered.
CurueU cltiuued nud luiil. hIho mmln nvp
In fuct, sverytlilug doue iu Uiu Carpet line.
All work satisfactorily and promptly dona.
Telephone call Uli-2. Give ua a call.
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HOTEL GARDE,
Opposite Cniou Depot,
X13W HAVEN", COX.N".
Connecticut's Largest Hotel.
American Plan.
feH
Strictly Transient.
VERS LIKE A MAN.
drops in has his own pipe. Ha writes
his name on the white bowl, and there
after that pipe is hie, and his only.
They really make an odd effect strung
around a room, and the autographs on
all the bowls add to the charm. It
seeme to be quite a fad, judging from
our sales." Philadelphia Record.
WILL OP SAMUEL COWLES.
T.-.2 o!Iic;
elation sy that the majority of women
do not wish to vote. The majority of
women are indifferent on the question.
Of these who take any lively interest In
the subject either way, the great major
ity are in favor. This has been conclu
sively demonstrated wherever the mat
tor has been brought to a test. For the
la?t quarter of a century in New York,
Massachusetts:. Maine, Illinois, Iowa
in short, in every state where petitions
for suffrage and remonstrances against
it have been sent in. the petitioners
have always outnumbered the remon
strants at least five to one. and oftener
fifty or a hundred to one. The so-called
A New Haven Nephew Remembered.
The will of Samuel N. Cowles, late
of Hartford, was admitted to probate
Friday afternoon. An annuity of $120
is to be paid to the testator's wife, Em
ily A. Cowles, by the executor and al?o
a bequest of $500. Walter G. Cowles
and Arthur T. Cowles, sona of the do
ceased, are given the sum of $.100 each.
The tctntor srivp. tA qrclrons
Francis W. Cowles. Donald Cowles and
Frederick Cowles, the sum of $50 each.
To a niece, Carrie Hughes of Brook
lyn, and l;o a nephew, Walter Gray of
New Haven, are given $50 each. The
remainder of the estate, both real and
personal, is bequeathed to . the sons,
Walter Q. Cowles and Arthur J. Cowles,
to be divided into equal shares. Walter
O. Cowles and-Aithur 3. Cowles are
named as executors.
walls of the den, and every fellow who i vacant. These facts were called to the
attention of the Government In resolu
tions passed by the L.' A. W. Assembly,
which follow;
j Resolved, By the National Assembly
' of the League of American Wheelmen,
that we heartily recommend the passage
of the bill now pending in Congress
making larger appropriations for the
IT. S. Office of Road Inquiry, to enable
it to be permanently established, and
able to respond to the calls continually
made upon it io educational assistance
In its field of work in the interest of
American agriculture.
We respectfully urge that the selection
of a new director of said office. should
be made on the baels of fitness alone,
and recommend, as the best available
man for the position, Mr. Otto Dorner,
of Milwaukee, who has for years devot
ed himself to the &tud ar.J aJvucacy of
good roads: who is pronounced in agri
cultural circles as the leading good
roads advocate in the United States:
whose work for good roads has received
the enthusiastic endorsements of agri
cultural bodies, and whose writings en
joy greater popularity than anything
else which has ever been printed on the
subject.
Congressional Bill Strongly Endorsed.
The National Assembly of the League
of American Wheelmen strongly indons
ed the bill presented to Congress, call
ing for an appropriation of $5,000,000 for
highway improvement in the various
States. The bill is framed in the inter
OASTOHTA.
Bears the m """
Points of Resemblance Between the
Orang Outang and the Human Crea
ture. Ham, Jr., the educated orang-outang
of the Zoo, was taken before the Johns
Hopkins Medical society in the assem
bly rooms at Johns Hopkins hospital.
Doctors and students who were presrent
were much Interested in the littie.anl
mal and shook hands with him. Owing
to the length of the programme which
was presented before the society there
was not time enough for a close ana
tomical examlntnlon of the. strange ani
Dr. Clement A. Penrose, 413 North
Charles street, took the animal from the
Zoo to the hospital, being accompanied
by Ham's captor and trainer, Captain
Frederic D'Osta, and by Mr. Louis J
Berth, representing Mr. Frank C. Bos-
toek. Dr. Penrose is a close student of
zoology, and was especially struck with
the value to his profession of a view of
the" strange animal which so much re'
sembles man- in Its anatomy. He In
troduced Ham by saying.
"This interesting little creature was
captured in July, 1898, by his owner,
Captain D'Osta, on the Island of Borneo
about two hundred miles up the Chlm-
pan river. The mother was also taken
but died about enght days later. The
father, which was about five feet eight
Inches In height, escaped. The little
ona was injured in the arm from falling
from the tree which was cut down
"Ham, Jr., Is now two and one half
yeras old, has cut all his first teeth, is
very affectionate In his disposition and
conveys his wishes by guttural sound
and signs. He eats oatmeal, toast and
sweetened water for breakfast, meat
once a day, and after his act at night
has a Welsh rarebit. Ham takes cold
very easily, has had pneumonia. He is
Inclined to constipation and is then
medicated like a human being. He is
wsahed every day with alcohol; twice a
week with cod-ltver oil and once a week
with milk. I
"The orang-outang, Malayan for nwn
of the woods, mlos, Simla satyrus, fami
ly simidae, belongs with gibbons of
eastern Asia, the chimpanzee and godll
!a of western Africa, to the group an
thropbmorpbla, or1 manlike apes. It in
habits the wooded, swampy lowlands of
Borneo and Sumatra. In a wild state
the animal is a vegetable eater and ar
borlal in its habits, building rude shel
ters In the trees.
"The male attains a stature of five
and one-half feet; the. relative propor
tion of arms to legs Is, therefore, much
greater than in man. The erect atti
tude is difficult, constrained and not or
dinarily assumed. In trees It displays
great agility. The hands and feet are
long, with bent knuckles, so that the
soles of the feet and hands dq not strike
the ground completely. The big toe
and thumb are quite short In compari
son with the other digits.
"The face, hands and feet are naked,
and the fur Is scanty and thin, of a
brownish or auburn color. The orang
possesses great strength, and, accord- j
lng to some authorities, If wounded is a
very dangerous animal. The adults
have well-marked warty prominence on
both cheeks, but no cheek pouches for
food.
"The skeleton of the orang has in the
loose lumbar curve a resemblance to
that of a child. In the chimpanzee and
gorilla it is more like the adult human
being. The orang has twelve ribs,
whereas the chimpanzee and gorilla,
unlike man, have thirteen, and the gib
bons fourteen. The thorax is wide and
fiat, and the sternum may ossify from
a double series of longitudinal centers,
as sometimes occurs In man.
"The orang's skull has greater brain
capacity than the chimpanzee or gorilla,
and owing to the smallness of the brow
ridge the forehead is better seen. The
nasal bone Is flat, and none of these
apes have an anterior nasal spine.
(Thsi forms the bridge of the nose.)
The scapula or shoulder bone of the
orang is like that of man; the long,
straight clavicle, or collar bone, Is less
like man's than in the case of the chim
panzee or gorilla. There are nine wrist
or carpal bones in the orang, as in man,
only eight in the gorilla and chimpan
zee, the magnum there being absent.
"To briefly summarize, the orang
comes nearest to man in the number of
ribs, the form of the cerebral hemis
pheres and their convolutions, but In
the shape of the body, size and relative
proportions of the limbs to the.,v body,
they differ more than the chimpanzee
or gorilla."
, Captain D'Osta said afterward that
he doubted the savage qualities of the
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