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Show GOOD DONE BY THE CHILDLE88. Many Examples of Unselfish Lives of Bachelors and Virgins. There aro parts of the world where girl babies mo drowned llko superfluous superflu-ous kittens, and othcis In which It Is not uncommon for the daughters In the largo families of the poor to be sold by their parents Into lives of prostitution. On the other bund, the pages of history his-tory are tilled with examples of the devoted lives or childless men nnd women who have worked unselfish!) for tho good of their kind Bachelors and virgins have been tho saints of the not Id, ami the childless are tho philanthropists the rounders of col leges, hospitals, nit collections, and 'IbiatUw, the philosopher, the gicat wrlteis. leaderb and thinkers of tho nice. Plato, .loan of Arc. Savonarola, Clcorge Washington, David Hume. I.ocke, Spinoza, Thomas Cailyle, Florence Flor-ence Nightingale, Huskln and Herbert Spencer nie only n few of the groat names In this class. An Interesting volume cot.ld be wilttrn on the Indebtedness Indebt-edness of the world to childless men ami women. The pat, em of civic vlr-lure vlr-lure with twelve unkempt children and a Jaded, careworn wife has been held up for our admiration long enough Wll.iout clecr)Ing matrimony we ma) now s eal; a good word for 'he respectable celibate. Now York -Medical Journal. |