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Show Tho Children of Age. Really, this Is very confusing. Hero Ls Dr. Osier saying that a man isn't good for much after ho Is -to, while Mr. C. L,. Red-tleld, Red-tleld, a civil engineer of Chicago, has accurately ac-curately figured out that a man Isn't lit to be a fathtr until he is past 10. "Savagsa marry savages In mere youth and other savages are born." explains Mr. Redflcld In the Chicago Tribune "whllu David was tho eleventh son of his father, and David's son Solomon was born when tho psalmist was 52 years old. Moses was born 1S5 years after the birth of his greatgrandfather, great-grandfather, while tho modern Moses-Abraham Moses-Abraham Lincoln was tho product of a grandmother and grandfather each tho baby of their respectlvo families, and of a father and a mother ench the youngest child In their famlllos. Benjamin l-'rank-,lln's ancestors lq tho malo lino on the Franklin side wero tho youngest children for llvo generations back, while tho father of Audubon was 51 years old at his boy's birth, and himself was tho twenty-first child in his own family. "Looking for tho reckle-ss, adventurous, dissipated, aggressive types of men I have found extreme youth In their parentage almost without exception, while tho great thinkers and philosophers of tho world havo been born of parents who have reached mental maturity "No man should bo allowed to marry before be-fore ho ls 25 years old, and no woman until she ls 20 at least. If no person In tho United States were allowed to marry beforo be-foro the ago of 2G years, two generations of such marriages would wipe out virtually virtual-ly all tho poverty, crime and vlciousness of tho country. "When a parent, and especially a father, has passed 00 years old. ho ls at the maximum max-imum of his knowlcdgo and experience. Ho Is Inclined to mortality, philosophy and a greater toleranco of tho world and lta vngarles. Ho has time for thinking and for self-analysis. Shall one doubt for a moment that a man becoming a parent at such a time In lifo reflects his acquired nature In tho child?" |