Since Victoria Was Crowned

Great social reforms belong to Queen Victoria's reign, writes William George Jordán in Ladies' Home Journal, narrating the progress of the world since Queen Victoria ascended the throne GO years ago. The degrading practice of flogging has been abolished in the arm tes and na vies of America and England. Children are no longer perruitted to work in the mines of Britain. Press gangs no longer force men into the service of the queen's navy. The lied Cross society, approved by 49 nations, has sof tened the horror of war. The transportation of crimináis, with its many evils, has been suppressed. Executions are no longer conducted in public. The treatment of crimináis has become humane. Factory laws and building acts make life easier for the poor. Inventive science has made marvelous progress in every department during Victoria's 60 years as queen. Cantilever bridges have surprised the world. Travel has been wonderfully quickened by street cars, cabs, trolleys, cable cars, elevated roads and other triumphs of invention. In 1837 there were no typewriters, no passenger elevators, no modern bicycles, no soda-water fountains, no horseless carriages, no chemical fire extinguishers, no ironclads, no perfecting presses. Fully chronicling the inventive progress of the last six decades would make it seem as if nothing of real consequence to man's comfort had been done before 1837.