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ARE'CHIL OF YOUNG-PARENTS WEAKLZr TGSV DREN HZL V :J--r "rr. t r ; J-" .- ' By P ROF. V.G;'' S T A N L E Y HAL L T. :" ' ' !' " ' .' rV'r-' ' "' Z'- ?T7; T.;' -: .... -'""'.'-.,1V.,.,-.-' ' ' "'' 'TJ Jtr-rrJ" , ' (CoeyrlrBt ,w b' W' Heart.) -f I I HE comparative strength, mcntal " I end phyaleally, of children on ' I the basts of tha agea of their - parent I one of the most cora pleg and Important topic in the world. The fullest figures ever road out on the subject were, compiled or Hun " tartan profeaaor. .From bis tablea It la .', manifest that .the ace for the greatest lfe ability' f children la when "the father la between (1 and (I years' old and tha mother about Dve years younger. Other tablea on thla question have been compiled la England, but not to any great extent. Not even complete enough te draw sny .coneiss opinion. In this " country our tables are even, mora in- complete than la England, n - v In England there Is a wider range . and the averages differ considerably. - Very often people Of have not aa - '; vigorous children aa those that marry at an immature aga.v -" . " - Another thing has bean agreed upon r. within tha last 1 years. Whenever one parent, especially the father, la a good 1 - deal over on side of the limit. It is lm--i porUnt:that tha other parent should be : f-a good deal on the-other side. ' That Is, suppose the man Is 41 years ' ' '-, .'' old. He should take a wlfs very much younger, and vie versa.. But this, ee peclally appertains to tna man. una , prominent writer says that the beat re- , " suits are obtained when tha combined ages of the parents Is ft or CI. In considering fecundity. It is apparent : ' that the number of children born to pa rente who are under the - limit if ,' greater than to those that are aver the limit. Tables la Austria and Germany : show that the fecundity is greater when he wife is It. or 18 and the other parent Ira years older. Every year . added diminishes the number of chil dren. When a girl Is young the fee r undlty Is greatest At the age of IS i man has reached tha greatest stage of ndlty. Cliildren porn or immature parents ar not likely to live.: ' Children of parents that are slightly under the age of maturity are healthy and happy, but are a little liable not to com to full and complete maturity of body and mind. But a more striking trait in children of parents who are past mature age la hat they are rather precocious and nervous. -.","' . Francis Galton of England baa for yeara been: gathering figures on ihfl subject He is an advocate of eugenics." Mr. Geltoa has formed a society la ' England, which had Its first meeting Isst year. I have a complete report of what A Solution pf tke Divorce Evil By EVERT i and thea there Is a stir and cry over the 'divorce evil." but beyond discussion and censure heaped upon - the di vorced and those who remarry there la no effort made to remove the evil or ... 4 prevent tha need cf Its occtrrrtng noth ing done to strike at th root X)f the 1 ..-41 .kA m aholtah It -.r . AH civilised and moral' people agree that marriage la and ought to be a holy and sacred relation a relation not on- ' tered upon without . due inougnt ana preparation. ' ,v - Ixrva should be tha controlling ln ' floence on both sides. Only the highest '" ideala of Ufa should be held by-those "who tske npoa tbemeelvee the -awful rfiponsibUlUes of this stats. Both men - . and women should be In perfect condi tion, physically, mentally and morally. Each should be willing to yield to th other when It Is necessary. ' There should be absolute harmony ' in tastes, mirs nits and Ideals Vf life- absolute confldencoHapQrrual8a.li tn j the other. To these propositions au will agree,' Now let us see what tha real facta are In the case. What Is done on both Uun ItXiJi; the boy and man baa been taught that whatever be does la right Sin for Mm la not sin, but only folly. He must sow his wild oata, must. see the world, have a -good time with the boys and such similar Ideas are forced upon him by society at large, and sven possibly by the parents who gave him birth. " . After awhile be tires of thla and wants to settle down to matrimony. What-a preparation for the grandest,-! the highest and honest relation in au the world! v He marries a pore aweet girt whose Idea Of marriage - is aa far from th . truth . as -the- heavsna - are above the earth. la It any wonder when her Ideala crash, thai she seeks relief In divorce? She Is still young and baa a right to love and be loved and a right to be a mother. Can we deny ber these rights when we have allowed such conditions . for the man - to prevail? Those who Why Tkcre Will Be No R evolution in Russia 'Z"'Br M. GIUSEPPE SERGI, Profcgsor of VhT Univfcritjr of Romt. HEN. noma months ago, the news of the massacres of Russian worklngmen at St Petersburg : waa cabled to all 'parts of the world there were many Who thought that this wss-to be tbe be ginning of a revolutioa as bloody and violent aa that which shook France at the end of the 18th century,' and for Home tune tha papers of all countries "Vers predicting inf fall 114 aimthftaT tlon of the Imperial house of the Ro manoffs. .. ... , . - It was all a mistake. . The hundred thousand strikers went unarmed to tbs Winter Palace to hand a petition to tbe Csar, and wben they -were turned back they made so restarts no whatever to ! 9TJ fokl!r" Wb hot "V! cut them down. "They almply gathered their wounded and dead and '.returned to their homes to pray for the health of the Csar. The same thing hag happened In many places . In Rnssrta; th worklngmen have made a demons! rat inn. . hav ... . been , jDoV-dftsra. -mncr have mate no resistance. . .. - Why is It that tbe Roseko people, - though, sighing for freedom, will make no -violent effort te take -what they-can never reach by peaceful means?.., '.- Tears ago, when . reading Tolstoi's i- great work. "War and Peace." I became familiar with men who are typical rep ' resent attves of the Russian people, and who were described so la such a roaster lv war by tbe great author and philoso pher thst you can never forget them. , It seemed to m then, as It eeemt to rn now;- thst Count Tolstoi himself stands as a living type of the character- was done at the meeting' The purpose of the society is to encourage marriage among the fit' He proposes to sid by actual gifts young people whs ought to marry, a slight dower to obliterate the excuse for not marrying that they are too .poor. Several large donations have already been received. ...', .. Mr. Oalton is of the" opinion that the people In this country-should be Inter ested in this matter, in .view jf Hie fact that male graduates of colleges here do not marry at all or marry very lata In life, and still mors female graduates never marry, or enter the stag when they ar a long way over the limit' . "V By Vrof. Caspar &. es6V! ?- ' - Savages marry savages In mere youth and other savages are born, while David was th 11th son of bis father, and David's son- Solomon , was - born when the psalmist wss St years old. "Moses was bora 115 years-after the. birth -of bis great-grandfather, while th modern Moses Abraham Lincoln was the pro duct of a grandmother and grandfather, each, th baby of their respective' fam ilies, and of a father and a mother, each th - youngest child In their families, mill further -to tha point Benjamin Franklin's sncestors In the mala line on th Franklin ' sid .war- tb youngest children fbr five generations back, while the father of Audubon was CI years old at his boy's birth and himself was the .1st child in his own family. Delving for years Into the history of men I have .'made some classified de ductions as to the position in life to b counted upon for children born of parents In pertain age groups. Looking for the reckless, adventurous, dissipated, aggres slve types of men, I have found extreme youth in their parentage almost' without exception, while the great thinkers snd philosopher of the world have been born of parents who have - reached mental maturity. ,. . V . -7 ' - Th child, 1 under " whatever circum stances. Is the child of his parents aa thee parents ar at tha time of his birth, .Which Is to say that If the wild young . Richard Roe's first son 1 Is born within jl-year of his -father's runaway match . with John ' Doe's daughter, who is barely of age, that particular first child has altogether different parents than are those parents who msy be re sponsible for the being of the eighth, twelfth or sixteenth member of the grow ing Roe family. ' No una n should be allowed to marry be fore he-is K years old, , and no woman until jihe is 20 years at least while, on GERTRUDE T. BOD FISH. would Impose social .ostracism upon the remarried divorcee ought to have lived during the Dark A gen, la the time of the Spanish Inquisition, In the time when people were burned at the stake for proclaiming a truth or doing right . And now let us look at the other naif of the quaatlon-'for It la not one-skied affair by.-aay--inaas.' ;. , , What la dons to prepare the girt for the "holy stats of matrimony T" . What she knows about her own nature Is often-tlmes aa pernicious as what the boy knows, but she loses thla aa aha grows older. No proper Instruction Is I given uvr mm rvMrntum n : ,un,i"n v wife or the sexual relation. 8h khowa still leas about -motherhood and has a dread and - fear of childbirth, and so tries to .avoid tbls condition, . which would add so greatly to ber happlneea and increase her strength and nobility of character. If she only knew It.;., Thus w get th childless wife, th frivolous woman the society women whonrailsTb respond to tne deftrei and Wishes' Of her husband. He In time finds his' Ideals crash : -to the ground, becomes discontented and seeks conso- euier divorce. . - Who is to blame? - What Is to be don about it? Can w censure him-because he, too, crave sympathy and love, and ao remarries? - In both cases It aeema this Is the time to live up to the very letter of the Golden Rule.' What la the remedy, then, to apply to the "divorce evllT' Are we retro grading as a nation because wa allow men and women to gain a divorce and lensu 1 y fBrrnonieahs."rICis just the opposite. The higher a woman's- Idea of marriage the less willing is she to remain the wiie or a man wno is a moral monstrosity, in bondage to a man who subjects ber to the vilest relations that can exist between man and woman. There would be far more divorcee to day than 'there are 'were It not that women dread the publicity and suspic ion that already attaches to a divorced woman. Women do not seek and ob tain separation or divorce on frivolous latloa which ar predominant In the Russian people. ,- .' .; ' ' In hut character asceticism and pas sive submission are the main traits no reaction against 7 any .- violence. - A poor peasant - tsken prisoner ,' by, the French at Moscow, embodies, according to Tolstoi, th perfect type of the true Russian Karateleff ! lis, submits te every tnrt.nf tJbeen dures all privations without a murmur and finally dies without complaining of his fata Tolstoi shows him to us a type of. the Ruasisn people. - -- ; Asceticism Xand self-denial- bordering on fatalism are the most prominent characteristics In the Russian charac formed unions and even begun to strike. ter.- Nevertheless the worklngmen have and in great number they have turned out to ask not only economical, but also for political reforms. . - - - Qnt in reality, they have understood nothing of it at all, they have even no Idea of what those. 'Oii"m teal snd poj IlOcal reforms, mean. ' They have been forced ahead by tselr leaders, bsvs been mads to strike by them and the demand have. been, formulated . by their leadesa without consulting them. " - Driven by their fatalism they marched to the Winter Palace with their wives and children, to pray to the cruel end merciless God. whose representative the Csar Is, according to their Ideas. They met- desth, and. like Karateleff, they submitted tft it without a murmur, with out a complaint And. he who gave the order -to-shoot, them tfewn wss Ignorant ' Snd Is still Ignorant of the face that Umts pas as tha- other hand. . every man should fee married by tha time h Is SO, and every woman 'by the time' she is SI Regard ing ; thes observations, I will ' say that if persons in th United States war not allowed to marry, before th ag of 16 years, two generations of such marriages would wipe out vlrtually.all jth poverty, cVlrn and vtdousness of th country, v There . are certain possibilities In this philosophy of later marriages which" are not - to be escaped by one who "will In vestigate as I have don. The keynote to my philosophy Is a something which I hav styled dynamic heredity. . Heredity, as I have found It involves .the two poa- Mme. HumLert Smarter Ttan T HIS Mrs." Csd wick - Is f nothing more or less thsn a pew edition of Mme. ' Humbert Th only difference between th .-two Is that ih former Is American, while th latter Is French. Both are bold. Intelligent and skillful, but their ability Is not tbs same. f -Mrs. Chadwlck found It much easier than her sister to cheat bankers out of their money, she also swindled more, but eh has not Shown as .much skill as Mm. Humbert to elude the law. - Tha reason for this difference we may find In tb fact that on was born la America, while the other was born Is France.,' ' -t " ' :": i During my long, experience I hav had occasion to deal with criminals of all kinds and nationalities, and hav com to th conclusion that there Is no more Intelligent dating and terrible criminal than th American In th planning' and execution ' of - his deeds. At tb 'same tlm bs la th easiest one to be brought to bay. : ' 1 . - - An American criminal- would make a materpiec of his work, and then heap error, upon afror,. after '-tha work Is done. - ... The French criminal does hot Reveal so much skill In the preparation oT hia plana, and. aa a rulala far less botdr In carrying them out, 'but he knows better than-hia -"confrere" of, th newoofU ncnt bow to avoid the police. grounds. - What often Is - given as a public reason. "Incompatibility of tem per." Is merely done to cover up th truth And thus sav both parties shams And suffering, and the shock to public morals. - Men are far 1 more liable to seek divorce unjustly and obtain It Il legally than women. This is proves by-i statistics in ths courts. No msn or woman can be a happy and useful mem ber of society whose married llfs Is a mild rnrerno from year's end to yeara end. ' The influence upon tna cnuaren la blighting In the extreme. Let ua begin, then, at thla end 'of Hha trouble, but seek out tha sou res aa far as we are able and apply tha remedy there. ' The first and - most forceful method of reform. Is to turn the search light cf truth upon our marriage laws. for ths present benefit of humanity and the welfare of future generations. We should allow no one who la the vic tim of a terrible disease, inherited or acquired, to enter the married stata ThlsTholfli sumption. W ought to prohibit the marriage of ths criminal, the insane ana me laiot, the victims of chronic alcoholism and tbe chronic paupefr WheiTweshows much Interest In the mating of human beings ss ws do In the culture of fruits snd flowers, and in tbs mating of horses and dogs, then wa may begin to cry halt at ths divorce evil. We ought to make our marriage laws so rigid on these points thst no one could be rich enough or sufficiently - powerful , to evsde their enforcement And while we are attending to the adult side of the matter we should not be unmindful of our duty to the children the boys and girls-of our land, who Will soon be ready to enter the married state. Let us see 'to it thst they are well prepared by Instructing them on all necessary subjects. - - The silence that we maintain on these subjects Is aa senseless aa It Is unjust and wicked. Much of th immorality that surrounds us is due to this very silence the fact that we do not tell the truth at a proper age to the children 33 33 reason to kirf them or to treat them cruelly; he saw them coming in a crowd of thousands, wss scared,- and in hia terror gave the order which resulted in a massacre. -..., -- . Ths masses of' ihe Russian people. wbo have been driven to strike, have not the slightest intention of making a rev olution. " They abhor violence, they ab hor . the Nihilists, and Anarchists who musdar and ssssfcslnala. The people of Moscow nearly tor to pieces th msn who killed Grand Duke Sergius; they cun near killing the students at Mos cow when tbe rumor spread that -they were responsibls for the murder f the Csar's uncle whom they had no reason to love and had tnsny reasons to-hate.. They consider themselves born to sub mit to ths will of ths authorities, to suffer" everything even death from their hands, bee Jt ll is fat that this should be ao; bat they get into a rage whenever any one . dares to raise his fsmily.- . - : Russia hss .Its advocates of revolu tion, but they are only a handful' and their words find no response in the hearts of the people. Terrorism by a few Russia msy see, but revolution never. At least not foq generations yet ' Another Bailway Jfsvy Bead. .' From the Chicago Journal. ; , The, new first lordof the British ad miralty. Earl Cawdor, has been a rail road msn for over 10 yesrsl so-that Mr. Roosevelt's spnolntment of Paul Morton as secretary, of the navy gets a aort of airltlsa Indorsement - - , . , ibtllUes of .structural, beredl Jty. which it regard to concern form and slse. -without force and energy, or this dynamic heredity, which Involves force, power and energy without regard to form., Th ap plication is .that a child may resemble a parent la face and. figure, no .matter how young -the parent -may be at .tb tlm of the child's .birth; while as cer tainly this same child cannot .resemble the parent In brain fore and power as a tenth or twelfth child mighi do after the youthful -father had acquired his owit ' brala force and power from a ripened , knowledge and experience. As a general proposition I wtll say the chances jot position la ltfs for the chil Bj CESARE LOMBROSO. Cesar Iombroso,1 the - great - European- criminologist has writren espe cially for- The. Journal an interesting analysis of Mrs. Chadwlck HI compari son . with Mme, Humbert bar French prototype.1 He incidentally points out the difference between th criminals of both races In their method of opera tion, The article la as. follows: ; , , "And ths .motive Is pore and simpl a psychological ciuL - ; '. . , . - Th Americans, as a rule, are physio ally strong and bravev They possess the vigor and, at tha same time, the dog 11k determination characteristic - of young races. -1 Tothlng is mors distasteful to . the American than to yleld.With or with out reason or 'right' they. Ilk to bold th ground, never thinking of the con venience of a timely retreat ' Many examples of this they, offered during their civil war, , when .they fought for days against overwhelming odds and In circumstances In which sny other army would have broken ground. "As a matter of fact this virtue (If a virtue w may consider - it) doe not belong solely to th Americans. It is one of the characteristics of ths Anglo Saxon' race. Th English also showed th same tenacity at Waterloo. Th result , of this belief hat " to about, us. -Habits of 'vice are begun which ar' difficult " of --eradication. Tastes ar acquired through ignorance of nature's laws, and we have later In life the moral -pervert either man or woman. Tha ain be upon our heads If we allow it to continue! - . " The mysteries and beauties -of botany SJid soology sre taught eur children our boys and girls but tbe great sacred mysteries of human life are as a sealed book to them, to be opened -alyly and surreptitiously and possibly with a vlc tous older companion aa a teachsrt What wonder that we have si! 'sorts of moral monstrosities mental and moral wrecks before the character bag hardly begun to develop! . Uvea of tangled skeins that no on can unravel! is it any wonder that mistakes in 'marriage result? Let us begin with our boys and glrla, and be Just honest and fslr; that Is all they will ask of us when they get older. After we iave done al these things th uivorc evil win nave cvaseu w uuv HYMNS YOU OUGHT. TO KNOW. V NEARER MY GOD, TOTHEE" " ' (By Sarah Flower Adams.) ' ' , , 1 Mini 1 - 1. ' .... 1 . m , 1 -' t Bar ah Flower Adams (Great Harlow. England, Feb. 22. 1806 London, August 1S4 Is th author of the hymn which is the best known of all those written by women. She was the daughter of th editor of the Cambridge Intelll gencer. and wss married to William. B. Adams, - a celebrated engine r and- in ventor. Though written aa recently as 1840. "this -hymn stands amongst, the foremost in the list of the 10 great hymns of th Christian church. In ths United States it would be impossible to find a hymnal from which It Is omitted. This msy be due. In part, to the tune to which It was set by th father of American church music. Dr. Lowell Mason. "Bethany" is wedded . to the hymn here, while in England, where it la sung to other tunes, it is not nearly so well-known. . Written y an English woman, this hymn has been carried to all parts, of the world -by .American travelers, and American - missionaries have translated it Into tha tongues of the strange tribes In all landa 1 ... ' f .. v: - Nearer, my God, to" thee, ,, Nearer . to' thee, . E'en though it be a cross . . ' That rslseth me; t -. . Still all my song shall be. - Nearer, my God. to tbee, . . -. , .Nearer to thee. , .';. Though "'ilk 1 the wandsrer, The aun gone down, Xarkneaa b over me, -.'-My rest a' stone ' Tet In my dresms rd be ', Nearer, my, God, , to thee, "Nearer to. tbee. .i v ... 0 .: ' ; .1 There let the way appear nteps unto heaven; All that thou sendest me, ' ' In mercy given; . " i'. Angels to beckon me . , .Nearer, my God. . to thee,. , Nearer to thee. ( - Then with my waking thoughts, Bright with thy praise,' ' ,, . Out of my stony griefs - . Bethel I'll raise; 80 by my woes to bs -' .Nearer, my- Clod, to thee, ' jNesrer o thea . 1 y 11 Or if on joyful wing,' Cleaving tbe sky, Sun. moon and stars forgot t'pward I-fly, . " "" T Still all my song ehsll be, .. Nearer, my God,-to' thee. Nearer to ,the. .. . Tbe Oldest Elk. - . - V- From the St. Txiuls Globe-Democrat The tldest Klk In the world has now begun to die as regularly as the oldest Mason. .But the popular opinion hss been thst sn Elk never dies, hut Is waft ed sway to psrsdlss Id tha full posses sion of his acuities, , . : dren of parents of varying ages promise in uus general omen .-.,.....; The child of a father SI years old and more belongs to th group to be described as moralist -. philanthropic , and ', philo sophic; the child of the. parent aged 41 to . CO yeara may attain th group of atatesmanahlp; fathers 1 to 40 years old will hav children devoted - to - music, poetry, art and literature, whlle -fathers under. ST yeara old "will "have progeny tending to militarism and the aggressive occupations of the world. ' ' Tb whole underlying prlnclpl la dyns- mlo heredity. When a parent, ana specially a father, has passed W yeara Mrs. Ctaclwick yield, -to fly. Is not worthy of men. Is that Americans are very proud of them selves and In many lnatanoea they carry the confidence they have In their own powers and ability a little too f ar, The American criminal la not free from this Influence, snd I nave vry reason to bell ere that after th crime Is committed and be himself an outlaw hia racial pride becomes aroused and he does not feel that it would be manly to run and bide from the police. ; . No other reason could be 'offered to explain the fact that such an Intelligent and cunning criminal as Mrs. Chadwlck was during , the period on preparation and execution of the deed should become a fool after the commission of the crime. ln Mrs. Chadwlck we have ah example of the typical American criminal. Bhs laid her plans snd executed them with wonderful accuracy; yet she did not know,, or did not feel Inclined te cover her tracks. , : '. ' ." ' Mm. Humbert, , on the "other hand, wss perhaps less successful than her American affinity' .In obtaining money from .her viotlms, - but' aa a compensa tion, she so prearranged and managed her retreat that It waa with great dlffi--culty that ahe waa convicted, and even now ah has plenty of money and quite a number of friends, while Mrs. Chad wlck all but delivered herself up to the authorities., made no friends and, Z be lieve, has not saved a cent-"?-- --- Tte '.3 - -:: (Oepyrltbt 1IKS, by W. B. Hearst H - HET cam from under a hedge ton the sunny dlde of the hilt Ev erything about ' them' waa still winter-bound. The hedge be hind them showed no sign of life. The Drancnea or tha tree above them were cold and black. ,-..-' ' It seemed almoet a sin to nick them. and yet who could resist the first prim roses? So picked they were, and carried off from their sheltered sunny birth place down to the village, where the childrenpcoming out from school bslted me as I passed with the primroses in my hand. - . "Primroses." they said to each other, and ran off at Once to the hill wher th famous primrose Isne cut across ths. woods.- But the primroses went further still, for that night they stood In their little cup on the cottage wlndowstll, and if they were wise looked up Into the wonderful sky, with Its clear stars. ' ' But next day they started once, more on their journey, it was only a short iQUTMyonrnejrgoul-J long wsy for the primroses. As the train flew on they left behind theiM lOthtnggiamllUr. Soon tha land of wild flowers was past and "they came to a country of dreary lanes, where no flower dare show itself, or else It would be rooted tip and car ried off. Dreary lanes that pretend to be the country; trut I know, and the children who play-there know,-the dif ference. .'.'-..: Soon we passed these gloomy out skirts and came to a land of walled-ln gardens and houses, then houses and I '.:-.- ' w' ;" By LADY HENRY SOMERSE J. i walled-ln spaces, filled, not .with flow-ffhe ersLbut with clothes-lines and -mud. To m there Is , something unspeakably tragic in a Journey from -the country to a big towrt Every time I take this journey I have to take a fresh hold of my faith In God and man. It is so essy to have faith when' you live In the country I find it almost . Impossible when I pass by these rows and rows of squalid house that mark ths boundary between God's country and man's town. But I had passed It often .before.. I wondered what the primroses thought A Fat It f .' By (Copyright 0n8, by W..B. Hearst) 7 ! s O much has been written on the aubiect of tha Mothers' congress that it has occurred to me that much good might be aocom- nl lulled bv the organisation of a Fath erV congress. For, after all, fathera should be Just as much interested In the children of -the nation as the motners. especially in tbe matter of the training snd flttlngi for Ufa QI-Mmaie portion of tha population. Their example snd Influence should be ss potent as mat of th mothers, and there Is no ovldeitc that they hav not aa much to do with th formation of th chsracters of their sons -aa "mothers hav In that of their daughters. "Like father, like son- is an old-adage that baa been of (times illus trated.. .."- - . -' - . r.ir Btockralaers' In the propagation" or th animal species psy far mor itten tlon to the aire than tha dam, and thers Is no ground foran, Jtrgument iihal thers la no. rsasonVwhy-the-oeme rule should not be observed In the propaga tion of ths human species, who are only animals of the higher order. The prob abilities fcre that the non-obeervsnce of this law may explain., tne numoer -01 weaklings that are bora Int ths world. If the "father belongs to the puerile clar lift rrtatfer how fine a woman may be ths mother ov-nis ompring, tney sre liable to be a reproduction of. himself. Nature Is 'not always sble to produce only the best. Like begets like nine iimea nut nf ten. People are .in-th , Jisblt'Of scoring the-mothers for delin quencies in tneir amies, sna many men enjoy castlgatlons thst sre bestowed on the weaker sex, without for one mo- old. be Is af ths maximum of hia knowl edge ana experience. He Is inclined . t morality, philosophy and a greater toV eranos of the world and It vagaries He hss time for thinking and for self. analysla Bhall one doubt for a mo ment that a tuan becoming a parent at such a time In life reflects his acquired nature In the child? Otherwise, .why should a long line of ancestors who are 4 college men be "regarded a promising in every way to the culture and mentality 01 tnetr aescenaantiT'. . Economic conditions .in . ths great cities have been complained of for caus ing belated marriages, but L while so. knowtedgtng the economic cause of this. see in it only another beautiful adjust ment 'In the lew of evolution. Early marriages tend to : the production o paupers snd criminals; civilisation la too .greatly burdened with these types at ths; present , time; economic condi tions that are. Interfering . with early marriages will adjust th difficulty In later born and better - born children. If these, later children, too, are the better born and tha more valuable cltl sens, so, too, aa the ages of parents, in crease there Is sn Increase in the long evity of the children. . Tracing genealo gies has shown that in, families where four sons reach maturity without the Interfering factor of war, and crime. and accident the .eldest son lives to be nearly ft years old. the second reaches f, the third resches 70 yeara; and the fourth becomes "1 year! and over. . . I -will risk 1 the statement that for every four years' difference In- sge on the psrt of the father st the birth of his children' he will sdd ons year to each succeeding child's chances of life. Not only this. 1ut with each increase of the kind in 'his own age, the disposi tion is to nut-the child 'In 'a higher ranllnP0sltlQnlnith - worfd's work and leasen the possibilities of his degen erating Into a pauper or criminal.' I have found some remarkable demon strations of this early marriage evil in the South Seas. The Andaman Islanders are among the lowest creatures In the form of men, snd there the child-wife and the child-husband are universal. In the same South Sees are the Polyne-J slsns, ons of ths finest people in -the small islands- of th South Pacific. " , But smong the Polynesians the same early marriage rites ere observed. This balked me until my further Investiga tion . I learned that.among tha Poly nealans it -was a venerable custom 'for the first three children inr every family to be killed at birth, while la reality. Early P rimrose s - as they, too, passed it for the first. tlm - They set me wondering what an angel fresh from heaven-would think.- What would ths angel think of that. child's face, seen for a moment as we passed on a level with a dirty window in a dirty bouse?,.. Just a little white face, with two . great staring eyes . looking out to see the train go by. All there Is to see, except a clbthes-llns full ' of clothes, that look as if they hsd been dipped In gray water and hung--eut , to catch tha imutfc-r-,. j. Down In the ' country ' the ' children have left school anei are racing along the prlmroee-'lane--Jn search of early flowers. There k re 00 rr 1 m roee lanes and no flowers in the life of the child we have psssed at ths dreary window. . The - difference between richest'- and poorest ia not so grsat aa the difference between that child at the' window and the children in the primrose lane.' But I do not suppose the bunch of prim roses considered this, ' though they might have had a chance to consider It and the train had not rushed on so fast ThenwelJfassadaori ths great vaulted station and soon left the train behind and passed out through the busy streets. There a re -days when London Is full of the voices of things beyond; when the wind, and the clouds and tha aun bring newa of another land. The ehsdows chased each other through the streets, as I have seen them chase each other across the hllla. The wind was full of tales of spring for those -who hsd ears to hear, but -no one seemed to listen. A I went along Btrapd every one was too busy, too full of their own world, to think or God's world-outslde. Omn Ibuses went past In long rows, cabs flew by, newspa per boys on bicycles carrying Jhe latest racing news to all parts of ths city. How foolish to think of primroses in a place like the Strand! i Suddenly I heard a voice 'behind ma "Primroses, mste!" I looked up. Two workmen .. wr passing me, two big. strong men in tholr working clothes,, evidently going home from work. . er.s C-ibngfre s s .MRS. JOHN A. JLOGAN. ment- thinking that they themselves ar tar mor delinquent man it is possible for women to be .as they csn and do run away from outcries of their chll drrn, while women must remain at their potts In sickness and In health, v - A fathers' . congress might , evolve som plan to prevent jhe marriage tof their daughters to besotted and grossly iMmoraJmen. They, might , discover that they bad been criminally neglect ful in tbslr paternal duties in that they hsd permitted" them to receive and to merry- men whom they knew : to be roues In every sens of th word, and that they had been accessory to the crucifixion of their own children by furnishing the money to psy the debts and illegitimate entanglements of profli gate - men wbo desired to lead their daughters to the altar. They might also discover thst their, own, escapades not' caloiiTkTW to mfcea lr.'ief impression upon their sons, who gener ally know, at a very early sge fsr more of the rwu character, of their fsther than raosi fathers imagine. They might by comparing notes learn that tbev had been anything but kind to the wlvoa they had aworn to love and cherish In sickness and ' In health by keeping them, waiting hour after hour ror their companlonshlp, while they tar rled at their cluba or other resorts en gaged in diversions and dissipations they would not care to see. In print. AH children are not begotten' as God Intended they should he. The condition of the faTTier has frequently been trans mitted, as subsequently developed In th child , We are told that "the In- five or seven, or nine of them might be killed before the children ef th later births were allowed tq exist for th re- -production 6f th race, . , The child of the young parent1 Is more likely to survive infancy than Is the child of the older couple, but the Infant portion of Its life, ones' passed, theJiancft Jt the vounseat ntilljf n a family are greatly better for a long life. But between the sges of Is and 40 years" parents are 'young enough to acquire ; families promising the elimination of the most vicious thst Is In human na ture and th raising of all thsrstand-' srda' of the besj thst Is In life, i The philosophy Is doubly true thst "a' man's education should begin with his grand father." but If that grandfather has be come the fsther before he , has educai . tion worthy of the name, where, are the son and grandson, to profit? ' England. Is demonstrating thla fact la her great men of all time. Bhe has found It Impossible that one family should produce-really' great men down, any long line And why? Because n---la the first born son. generation efter '1 generation, who Is married early In tna hope of the birth of a grandson early ' to be In line of accession. The result Is that England's great men would have ' become extinct had not Ita peerage been ' fed by those' rising Jrom ths masses ' thrnnghthe virtue of their accomplish- " inents. '.: v, ' y rtofeseer Wtlllaja O.' Farrabe. , -Beyond a few" general facts, anthro- poioglnts . know little of the relative strength of children,' as based on the " comparative ages of their parent a. It Is unquestionable, however, that children':., of parents who are to yeara or over are I atronger than, those whose parents ar yonngeri. "Physically, tbs woman Is cs- - pahle of -bearing a stronger child at 0 -thsn when younger. . . i- -- . : Btni, - snthropologists advise esrlv marriages for. the. destruction it will bring to ths race suicide evil, and the resulting good to the race. 1 We harmon ise both beliefs by showing that perhaps the third or fourth child of an early marriage- ma v be somewhat stronger than th earlier children. To apply any of these general state ' menta of facU to New England In par ticular might be a dangerous thing en account of the .different - races which mak up oar population. Further In vestigation, of the - subject will Drove profitable and Interesting to scientists. - tThem'a th first I've seen thla year," said the other. - Then-they were gone. Fr a moment -1 felt inclined to run ' efter them and give them the flowers, but I hesitated and they passed.,, , - I went on myself; curious to see what further adventure the ' flowers - would -have. The next was a woman.. Just stepping into a cab. She had tired. . faded face, but she , was - elegan'l r dressed and carried an expenslvs bunch of pale pink tullpa She stopped' for a . second on the pavement' and looked at my flowers. I saw the look In her eyes. I saw her lips form the words "Prim roses." - Then I saw her sigh,- and ahe ' stepped into her cab and was gone. - I should have liked to have gone on carry. Ing my bunch of flowers and- watching ' their welcome in this, great hurrying ' world, but I abrpptly brought their ad ventures to aa end. 1 . .-. Oolng down a little aide street, I saw ' a- narrow- court, and In a -moment-I realised that I could cut off a big corner by this shorter way. I thought no mora of my primroses and hurried on. Then uiayv Then "lldy, lldy. lidr!" It rund me.I1id fbrnttn 1K t- chlldren. and - they ' seemed to hsve sprung from every doorstep at tbe sight cf my .flowers. - - - , . "Give us a flower!; They were all saying It In chorus. I looked around them. - There were too many to.eliare, but who wanted them - most- It was hard to tell. for every hand - was stretched out. and "Please" waa on ev cry Up. - . . . "I decided on tha yongest a baby le a purple cape, with dirty white face. a. dirty white satin bonnet and a face that ahowed the coming of death. The baby fingers closed over the flowers. ... -v "What's her name?" I asked. "Vllet Maude," answered - half dosen. - ; .- , ;:.,- "I brought the primroses for her," 1 ' said,, "so don't let any one take them awsy." . ..'. "No, lldy," they answered. - The bsby waa pressing her tragic- lit tls face sgainst th bis bunch nt u,i. blossoms ss I looked back from th end of the court . , lqulty of the fathers fa visited upon the children and upon th children's chil dren unto the third and fourth genera-" tlon." .Therefor purity in. men wha desire to marry -our daughters" should be demanded juat the" same aa purity in tha women whom they marry. Men who marry women whom they gnow to be without virtu are tostra- eiai fry m.r y.t Ttry dr of the year Innocent pure women marry men wnom tney and tneir families know to be libertines and dissipated, aad their ' ' fathers, brothers, mothers and friends shower them with congratulations. iTn -til the standard of morality' in alt men Is raised ths nation wllfnot reach the point-of perfeetlon-to-wtrh"wr aspire 'r", theoretically. ' ' - ;-'' 'AH men are not immoral anymar thaw all women. But laxity oi morals condoned Tn men, DDI not In women. It should flot.be In either for the sake of the future of.- the - race, as . hnth r. equally responsible 1 In ths langusge of the president "The welfare of the state depends absolutely upon whether, or not tne- sverage family, th sverase man and woman and their children represent the kind of cttlsenshlp lit for the foun dation of a grest nstlon; and If we fall to appreciate thla we fall to appreciate ths root morality upon which all healthv civilisation la based." Hearty co-operation between a Math. ere' and rt hers'-congress tot the at tainment of perfection In-future gener ations . would doubtless bring sbout speedy results for the betterment af mankind.