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SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION. Wwemen steal Much Less Frequently Than tien Do —DifXterences In the Impulses | Which Actuate the Two—Ylrequently the |

Woman Steals Uader a tlan’s Iniluence.

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such as visible policemen iu the shops Which principal), ie 6 kind of semideli ‘lous act miter. porary, after reiiection, however, dismiss- gs this suggestion as impracticable, the shopkeeper who resorted to it being nearly ettain to lose ail custom, and we rather doubt, from the police records, whet her the offense is increasing as much as the writer fancies. Every form of interesting crime gens to increase nowadays because it is more commented on. Women of a certain kind have always been addicted to shop- jifting, and their inclination has always attracted attention, partly from its ex- treme inconvenience to shopkeepers, whose yery business compels them to expose their goods to this risk, and partly, we imagine, pecause men are so accustomed to trust in the honesty of women that this particular aberration from their usual habits excites a sense of surprise. Women have much Jeas opportunity of stealing than men, as they could herdly take to burglary, high- way robbery or the work of the footpad, women, we notice, being rarely accused even of snatching jewels or purses from other women, though they can approach them so closely. They are, besides, we feel gure, more honest. ‘They feel the tempta- tion of money less and the sense of its im portance and of their own trusteeship in regard to it much more.

That is the universal opinion of the con-

tinent, where women are implicitly trust- ed with the till, and we notice that the practice is spreading here, so that charge of the cash receipts of shops is becoming one of the most frequent of female employ- ments, If they would get up their arith- metic a little more perfectly and be a little less irritable when overhurried—men un- der such circumstances display a silent ob- einacy rather than irritation—they might obtain @ monopoly of this sort of work, greatly to their own relief, for the occupa- tion suits them, and to that of the men, who suffer both in health and spirits from @oxfinement in little glass boxes where they can hardly stretch themselves and from an occupation which, though most respectable, allows no scope for energy or for the exertion of physical strength.

There are bold female swindlers, but they generally swindle by using their ca- pacity for histrionics. The charges of em- bezzlement alleged against women are ex- ttaordinarily few, while their honesty as srvants, when they must often be griev- ously tempted, is really marvelous. ‘The ordinary well to do housemistress takes no nore precautions against her maids’ thiev- ing propensities than against her daugb- ter’, and if she is a shrew dilates upon ev- ery fault porsible except this one. Nine times out of ten when a maid steals it is under the influence of some man outside, & remark which experienced policemen say is true even of the strect girls, who are sc frequently charged with the offense. Wom- en, in fact, steal much less frequently than men do.

The fact, as contrasted with the other fact mentioned by our medical contempo- rary—viz, the addiction of some women to shoplifting—suggests an inquiry of some intellectual interest, 15 it possible that the ot furendi, as the lawyers call it, the a ual Jnotive for stealing, differs in the e cae in kind aswellas in degree? We se = = that this may be true and ae vs s saa 8 desire to thieve is ex: ile ces whit to possess the visible arti. craving for the os oer do ae te tehich the ania a Pleasures or the idleness ee te ro stolen will purchase. He thin Y, in faet, while che seeks as és. Only an old and experienced re.

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qucs.con wilt any exactness as regarus orc thieving classes, but among the educated tuis is almost certainly the case.

Educated men embezzle, forge and swin. dle often enough, and indeed it takes some education to be successful in those lines of villainy, but they are rarely convicted o! shoplifting, while that is the special of. feuse of educated women who take to this description of crime. The latter very rare. ly forge, which is remarkable, for, being less controlled by commercial opinion. they undoubtedly attach less opprobrium to this form of crime than men do, whil« they are quite as competent to commit forgeries, but they take things out of shops, the reason being that the things attract them more than the abstract wish for money does, We do not mean that they are influenced by kleptomania more than men are. ‘There is such an impulse, and it is exceedingly strong in both sexes, as al) men know who are familiar with ships, barracks, clubs or public schools, but it is not ungovernable—the belts of the soldiers govern it very effectually—and it is con- stantly pleaded where it does not exist. True madness which takes that form, though it exists, is rare and is usually ac- companied by other recognizable signs.

But we fancy that with some women there is a distinct pleasure in acquiring things without paying for them, in part independent of their money value, te which there is nothing corresponding in the minds of males. There is something of the spirit of adventure in the effort as well as greed and something, too, of that overweening and indeed inexplicable idea uf their own claim to the portable proper- ty they want, which is so frequently ap- parent even in women who are genuinely respectable. —London Standard.

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At a luncheon the girl with yellow hair and expressive eyes was asked to tell a story. Without a moment's hesitation, lift- ing her Irish eyes to the only man present and drooping them with the proper effect, she prefaced one thus: ‘'I have told this simple tale to a lot of Englishmen, and it fell flat. ‘Therefore you may know the ir- resistibility of its mirth’’-—and then she told a highly amusing incident. After the applause had subsided the yellow haired recounter lifted her eyes and impidly look- ed at the only man present. Every one no- ticed that she turned pale and her smile vanished. Then every one looked at the ently man. ‘They understood. He isan Englishman.—New Orleans Times-Dem- oora*.

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A SMOKESTACK PROBLEM.

Many Schemes That Failed Before the High Chimney Was Painted.

At the cement works on the west shore of Hempstead harbor there is a smokestack 123 feet highan feet in diameter which has long ne. paint- ing. The manager thought the — ad come to dispose of the job. Two of the foremen, the shovel cer and a young carpenter set their wits to works to contrive a way of getting a rope up

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be rigged to hoist the painter.

One of the Italians suggested letting a pigeon loose to fly up inside of the stack, but this solved only half the prob- lem. Another workman suggested a small balloon. The first one to formu- late what seemed a feasible plan was the head foreman, who fastened 10 feet of small brass chain to a rocket, and to that acord, and then sent them skylark- ing through the pipe. As a spectacle it was fine, but the heat from the powder burned off the chain, and the string ‘was left at its starting point. Then the yeunger foreman tried. He had made a kite having two strings, one of which went through a pulley attached near the kite, which had a small iron weight fastened to its upper end, the intention being to fly the kite until it was direct- ly over the smokestack, and then lower the weight down into the interior,

The kite worked beantffully until it svas time for it to be useful, when it turned a somersault, tangling itself in the pulley tackle, and the whole thive came to gricf. Then the carpenter began to talk. He, too, remembecsed boyish pastimes and believed they could im turned to uccount. His idea was to as- cend the cable tower, 90 feet. distant and 130 fect high, and from this pr<i- tion throw into the amokestack a wright tied toa string. The wind was blewiig a gale, but this did not discourage the man, and be, with the two foremcn, as- couded the tower for performance No. 3.

To throw a two pound weight fasten- ed to a string was Lo easy matter, ind it was exceedingly difficult to kerp a foothold on the tower. After three triais, however, the weight fell as planned, save that the string broke. Later the carpenter tried again, casting the weight four times before it entered the stack.

When the rigging to hoist the painter was in order, there was a call for vol- unteers, bat ohly one man respouried. He was the shovel engineer, Will Sny- der, from Chicago. He has had an ex- perience in work in high places, for whenever the steel cable, 140 feet above the ground, needs tarring Snyder gets a paint pot, swings himself astride the framework of the traveler and paints the cable as the traveler goes back and forth on its regular business.

Several of the men employed at the cement works seem to be born acrobats, and they work far upin the air as easily as on the ground, so that when repair

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and cool, level headed men must be had there has never been any necessity to go outside of the regular force.—New York Sun.

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