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Show ;? j 1 " Yihu Ifae Mhindtt Mth Th Most Bdbwf Liipp fwdprf mx- w w -w 77ie lrfisf, t7?e Philosopher, the Clergy Have All Recognized Instinctively the Glory of Motherhood, 7 Science Reveals Its Discovery That Nature Compensates but Not Until Now Has Science Been Able Also to Add the Interesting Fact Thai Mature Ma-ture Itself Appreciates Values and Rewards the Mother. This Famous Painting of Mother-hood Mother-hood by Sir John Lavery Typifies Art's Recognition of Her Wonder, and Beauty. ike Motker witk Better Healtk and monger Years the More Completely Ske Performs - Her Duty 17, 1905. using her toes, she wrote a letter to Eugene Davenport, of Urbana, 111., and signed it before a notary. She also trained her toes so that she could use them to thread a needle and do sewing, make drawings, etc. By exercising the powers she had. Kittle acquired powers In her toes beyond anything she inherited, and beyond anything which ever existed in any ancestor. "The facts relative to the development of powers by exercising them would fill a large book, but the examples given will serve our purpose. When the powers developed de-veloped by exercise exceed any possible Inheritance there can be no doubt about the thing being an acquirement' in the strictest meaning of that term. Having made this point clear, we can return to our women with large families. "When a woman produces a child she exercises certain bodily organs which are not exercised by women who produce no children. Exercising those organs builds UP power in them, as evidenced by the fact that a. woman who has had several children accomplishes the feat of producing produc-ing others with comparative1 ease. 'Building 'Build-ing up power' is simply another way of saying that the energy within the system Is increased, and increasing the energy is providing a greater margiu of safety so that death is pushed into a more remote future. "And a woman who produces many children chil-dren is kept busy caring for them. She has to be active, both physically and mentally, men-tally, a good many hours each day, year after year for many years. While this activity approaches, it does not usually reach, the limit of her capabilities, and hence it is the kind of activity which results re-sults in developing the greatest store of energy in the system. "The reason why women who have many children live longer than other women wo-men is because they acquire extra length of life by their own exertions they build an addition onto their inheritance. And "OR as long as the memory of man-"f man-"f kind runs the greatest, the most reverent homage has been paid to itherbood. Religion, art all the emo-nal emo-nal forces of humanity have recognized true beauty and its wonder. The )ther is the bridge between nothingness d life. She is the true miracle-worker thout whom there could be no life. She the great barrier between the race and ;rnal death. And often she goes down the very gates of death to bring back a w life for earth; too often passes rough them, never to return. Through the ages the law has built up special code to protect her. Now science declares that nature itself not so blind as some have thought; that compensates the mother for her suffer-?s, suffer-?s, her danger, by giving her a longnr ai of days, longer youth, better health. (things being equal, the woman who its the most children lives the longest. )r. Casper la. Redfleld, of Chicago, 111., e of the most brilliant medical men in nerica. reveals how this comes about in remarkable article published in a recent mber of the Medical Times. ience Reveals Its . Jfcfc The Artist' fhc philpher, the cu f, yfl v Recognized Instinctively the Glory of 7QYy I hat ' - PcS but Not Until Now Has Sciei " " , ( . ' ' ' yUBSt''' Also to Add the Interesting I Compensates , ' jgj ' tme 'Mf Appr?Zi1r jl ' ' j indjcate Case of Acquired Powers )v t, ; S BHr rK. 'JShT jPp" ' v f loins ,x ",nun arul lhl Pt't wlvc. drain or- m r .rimy or thopo WWL- : V W' t ' '' v' - ,,-' : -v tun P"- a man withdraws energy from his system eLL ances toJs in a I & f ' ( I 11 ' ' son who exerts him- the process by which he builds up his T took about two I, HHBk i t. Jffik WFjMa$W 4 : " . ; self, and as we can- f"ppb, of . '." something (hs Itnd and combiin PlSib t il ' ' V.l ',wi v. than it was before. But it is ordinarily be- composite fmliv of 1 jf. ' ' ' - ",' "f "'"I'ing the !,w nofurth r'e" 00." tUne Power development : ' ' Jj J I f..rlwhir! -'y ,,. fo.,: , n .r-nmyg .r: :'. 1 .-:;,,,,. ,r , wi'thdran "hvxfr aKe o' fourteen, and she continued to gain ,r"' tions are soon re- '-jotting power as she grew older. 'MW5 what they build onto their inheritance inheri-tance t hey pass on by heredity to the children produced pro-duced after the building has been done. On this point 1 will give the results of my own investigations. investiga-tions. ( "1 selected cases of health-thy health-thy parents who produced many children living to maturity. Taking Tak-ing a case of that kind, when a wo-rmm wo-rmm produces her first child she exorcises ex-orcises a long series of bodily organs, and that exercise builtis up the powers of those organs. When she has her second child she again exercises exer-cises those organs or-gans and further builds up their powers. "And so on time after (imp Glass, a -kl iV Case of Acquired Powers Quoted by Dr. Redfield. indicate energy as "lie writes: "Each woman Is the ughter of a woman who odured children. Both her parents came from Dthers who produced lldren. And all four of r grandparents came 3m mothers who pro-ced pro-ced children. In fact, no alter how far we may iii back, no person ever 'id a female ancestor ho failed to produce llldren. Consequently, ly woman who goes rough life without pro-dicing pro-dicing children leads an matural life a kind of fe never led by any fe-ale fe-ale ancestor. "The majority of us are lildren of parents who oduced fairly large fara-les. fara-les. Our parents were le offspring of parents ho produced large fam-ies. fam-ies. And our grandpar-nts grandpar-nts were members of irge families. While this i not literally true for very family in everv edigree, still it is true 3 such an extent that hen we extend pedigrees ack four or five genera-Jons genera-Jons every one of us ame from families averaging aver-aging six or more indl-lduals indl-lduals for the entire lot. onsequently, when any Jerson goes through life f'lthout producing and iring for more than four h lldren that person is fading a life which is lore or less abnormal in !iat It is unlike those led y all of his ancestors in H of the ages of the past. "It is frequently said hat women are worn out, ver-worked. jexhausted. tc, by producing manv hildren. The statement s not true (n the ense in which it is ijiade. The very women ho make that claim are Vemselves descendants of .ng lines of female ancestors an-cestors who produce large being expended, or :apable of being expended. ex-pended. This energy which is expended by efforts comes out of the body of the person per-son who exerts himself, him-self, and as we cannot can-not get something sut of nothing the energy must be stored in the body of the person before he can do foot-pounds of work. If the efforts ef-forts which a person makes are moderate, mod-erate, within the ordinary or-dinary meaning of that term, then the loot-pounds of energy withdrawn by exertions exer-tions are soon replaced re-placed by other footpounds foot-pounds of energy derived de-rived from food. "But it is known margin of satety between tne normal condition con-dition and that point at which death occurs. oc-curs. "It Is well known that a man builds up his physical strength by physical exercise. In other words, the very process by which a man withdraws energy from bis system Is the process by which he builds lip his supply of energy to something greater than it was before. But it is ordinarily be-lived, be-lived, and frequently stated, that under any such process th.-re soon comes a time at which no further exercise will develop the powers further. That this is an error may be shown by turning our attention to cases In which experiments have been carried car-ried further than with man, and ones in which the records have a scientific accuracy accur-acy not found in the training of athletes. "For convenience we will begin with the trotter, taking first the case of the old-time old-time champion. Flora Temple. "Flora Temple was trained and raced every year from the age of seven to the age of fourteen, and she continued to gain-In gain-In trotting power as she grew older. "By exercising the powers she had Flora Temple acquired powers she did not have before, and powers which never existed in any ancestor. By her own efforts she acquired ac-quired powers beyond her inheritance because be-cause no previous horse was capable of trotting so fast as she trotted, and she could not inherit from ancestors a power which the ancestors did not have. As an eleven-year-old she trotted faster than any previous horse had trotted, and as a fourteen-year-old she broke the world's record iour times in succession. Whenever a horse becomes a champion trotter, the fact that, he does become a champion Is of itself positive evidence that he has greater trotting trot-ting power than he Inherited greater power than existed in any ancestor. He must acquire by his own efforts that which he did not have, and that which never he-fore he-fore existed. "Kittle Smith lost both arms at the age of ten. and then trained her toes. On June ui rnermore, sne Is necessarily active In caring for those children, and "this activity ac-tivity continues year after year and builds up her general health and physical powers. That, this kind of effort and exercise is natural and healthful will be evident from the fact It is what characterized all of her female ancestors In all ages of the past. "I took about two hundred families of this kind and combined them Into one composite family of 1,105 children, and found that the later children inherited the power development acquired by the parents par-ents in producing the earlier ones, and as a consequence I he later ones lived longer than the earlier ones. Put into figures, I found that as long as parents retained Ihrir health, each four vcars added one year to the life of the children. "For example. If children born when the parents are twenty-four live to the average age of sixty, then other children born to the same parents when at the ago of forty-four should live to an average age of sixty-five. Tho actual table is as follows: fol-lows: "BXPBOTANCT of LIFE AT a;b or 2-, fob 1,105 RnriTIII-.HS AMi BI8TBR8 IIP lOMI'dSlTF FAMII-Y of Fnlhon' nl Number of Avernir' Ac of Births of Children. children. Children nt i)pth. 1 Oder 25 83 fi2.6n years 25 to 2D 233 65.20 " 30 to 34 2C6 65.28 " 35 to 3!) 199 65.41 " 40 to 44 165 6S.02 " I 45 to 49 88 66.28 " ' 50 and over. ... 71 70.27 " ' Totals 1.105 65.89 years' Regarding the development of energy by childbirth, Dr. Redfleld sums up thus: "We know that a store of energy within the system Is necessary to continued lire, and we know from a variety of facts in both animals and plants that the story of energy within the system is augmented by the exercise of that which already exists. ex-ists. And, furthermore, we know that the powers of organs are not developed in any Other way than by exercising those whicA previously exist." The Interesting Family of the Resolute and Admirable Mayor Ole Hansen, of Seattle, Who Put Down the Bolshevik Uprising in That City. Mother of Nine Children, Mrs. Hansen Appears Little Older Than Her Oldest Daughter. at the women who produce the greatest imher of children before thev are fort" -e are the ones who live the greatest imbcr of years after forty-five, and the wmen who produce the least number of iildren before that age are the ones who 'e the least number of years after it fin other words, the continuous and gular production of children during the illd bearing age tends to prolong life ter that age is past. "The current explanation of why women 10 have many children live longer than that a man by great efforts long continued may cause his own death as a result of nothing else than his own exertions. This means that death is caused by withdrawing from the system mora than a certain amount of energy, and that in turn means that life itself is a form of energy. We identify electricity as being a form of energy, even though we do not know precisely what this form Is. In the same way we can identify life as being a form of energy, even though we are unable to determine the essential nature na-ture of this form as distinguished from other forms. "The next thing to consider ip how the quantity of energy within the system may be increased so that there will be a larger those who have few Is that longevity is some kind of spontaneous generation which arises out of nothing in some mysterious mys-terious manner, and is correlated with fecjndlty which has no origin at all. Also, that longevity Is inherited, but fecundity is not, because it is characteristic of onlv a small part of the daughters of fecund women. That there is no correlation between be-tween fecundity and longevity is made evident by comparing rabbits with elephants, ele-phants, or by comparing any animals which differ much in fecundity or longevity. longev-ity. Before a person can deny the validity of such comparisons for this purpose he must kill off the evolurion theory and return re-turn to the Garden of Eden story! "The real reason why women who have many children live longer than those who have few or none, is that the regular and continuous performance of a natural func. tion builds up the powers which maintain life, while a failure to exercise such function func-tion permits those powers to decline. To understand this it is necessary to go off of the beaten track and consider what life is. and some of the things which we know or can prove will lengthen or shorten It. "When a person exerts himself by physical physi-cal efforts he does certain foot-pounds of work, and foot-pounds of work is something some-thing well known in physicist science. It is probably called 'energy.' but is referred to as 'power' when we wish to |