Show A BOYS BOY'S CHANCES Tiry Thirty Millionth Million t to One That He Will Wi Not Be President Take on one on me e fellows cries cres ho tho ho happy father of the new born W-bor W baby he sweet exclaim In chorus the fair friends of ot the mother rother as they cluster round her bedside A smile smie lights her hr face and continues her dream of t tle e great gret future that lives before her son Happy parents parents' Their of their first borns born's future ar are colored with wih love and they fall fail to take a calm dispassionate dispassion dispassion- ate view of the chances for the success of the baby Figures Figure are obstinate things and sometimes cast the best laid worthless worthless' Here plans to the ground gound as worthless are a fe few on the chances of the average infant nt Looking over oer the fields felds of endeavor in inthe inthe inthe the United St States te and and conil considering the fates fate of men In the in-the the complexities of civilization civili civili- the chances good god and ill 1 for the ther average e child seem admirably I r With mhd chances sd of m. m g to 1 that t the tue boy will wi not become President of the United States there are also Is chances chancE of ot to 1 that he lie will wi not go Insane 6 to 1 that he will wi not be minded feeble-minded 1250 12 to I 1 that he will wi not no be blind 64 to to 1 that he will not be criminally or socially delinquent delinquent delin delin- quent and 86 to 1 that he will wi not be an Inmate of a a public almshouse As to the thelast thelast thelast last Item iem the chances chace are ItO 5 to 1 that he will wi not end his some charitable charita- charita charitable chants charita ble Institution maintained by private con con- The risks run rn by the baby for the goal of ot success are great geat but buthe buthe buthe he has a I long g life Ife before him and a healthy one If his paren parents s are careful On the first great proposition of making both ends meet the Am American rican baby lays It over the English baby a In his chance of tr tA getting through r life without any tn water t tr r blisters In ls the s B British on ln his palms Isles ll Ss there VZ t In every are 1000 b breadwinners bread bread- people l winners Next Net to t these ese come the French with wit 43 winners bread winnerS bread then the Germans with wih the Austrians with 4 the Russians Russians Rus Rus- with and the Americans with only on on- 1 ly wih To 1 G. G to ani t of f fh these estates S t the h bY grow chances of life lf t e be est br t the h bY chances of life lf t e be est br e baby baby's s must con con- Under 1 year old Id he Is four times as a likely to die ashe Is after he passes his first at 2 years year he heIs heIs heis Is not half halt as likely to die as at 1 year at 3 years yeas he has one an and three-fourths three chances chance over his condition at 2 y years ars at 4 he has one and third one over his chances at 3 years and at 5 6 the average chances of death are and the te hope may be held out for at I least st forty years of life No parent should entertain the hope that his child be Immune from all al work in his lifetime The Inevitable proposition confronting the child coming ming Into the world is that it shall hal take its is part in Jn the worlds world's labor Accepting this fact fat and ad looking at the list of occupations In the United States the parent may make his choice of the means mens of livelihood for his child and then consider the chances the child has of attaining i. i it The baby Inthe in inthe inthe the cas case Is the V ge baby with whom the accident d baby of birth and environment nave have i nothing to t to o In do do I In Indianapolis Sentinel |