HEAVEN, AND OUR BEASTS 



customs of child exposure in China to the modern 

 Suffragette outrages. And already the boundaries on 

 this speculative field have been extended so as to include 

 members of the community whose defencelessness or 

 unimportance preclude unpleasant reprisals. How many 

 unfortunate patients, for instance, are quite unnecessarily 

 operated upon in our great hospitals? Within our 

 narrow personal experience we have known cases where 

 life has been absolutely sacrificed to the " knife mania/ 7 

 Loki's Grandmother, who feels very strongly on this 

 subject, has always wanted to write an article giving 

 chapter and verse of the facts. She would have headed 

 her instructive pages with the title " Killing no Murder " / 

 but she knows no magazine would publish them because 

 of the storm it would raise. 



During a recent severe illness of hers, one of her nurses, 

 whom she used to call her " ministering devil/' was very 

 fond of entertaining her at moments when the patient was 

 too weak for speech with the hopes which many eminent 

 men of science now entertain of being able, some day, to 

 get a bill passed permitting vivisection on the condemned 

 criminal ! 



Why speak of such abominations in these pages dedicated 

 to kind, happy days and sweet garden thoughts ? Only 

 for this reason that it is the policy of ignoring, of 

 cowardly turning away from unpleasant subjects, on the 

 part of the great majority of the world that makes the 

 thing possible at all. 



One of the first orders we give a new gardener is that 



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