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Show J V , ' - H f It I ! " I..-.- .y O I V 11 l I V 1 t V . . -rf- "Demands cf society make cfojs nore welcome than bzbies." ' l . ... ZL?. GEORGB F.. SHRADY. . '0 & Dr. Shrady'si Friends. o " ' . Mrs. U. S. Grant I ...3 1 Mrs. i Nellie Grant ' Sar- terfs ....... ..1 . 2 Mrs. Fred Grant 3 ' 1 Pflncess Cantacusene ...J children Mrs. Jessie Grant ..4'chlldren Mrs. U. S. Grant II..' S children Mrs. Jay Gould 5 2 Mrs. George Gould 5 children Mrs. Edwin Gould- step- daughter of Dr. Bhrsdy).3 children Mrs. Frank Gould 1 child Countess Castellane J Countess of Marlborough 3 children Duchess of Manchester... 2 children The Record Shows These Local Facts. ' - t' . Daugh- - Sons. ters. Mrs. Heber M. Wells ....1 ' 0 Mrs. W. S. McCornlck..-..5 3 Mrs. Abiel Leonard. .1 ': 4 Mrs. James D. Adams ..'.A 3 Mrs. E. B. Critchlow .....5 3 Mrs. C. M." Freed 3 . 1 Mrs. A. Fr-Wey..... 0 1 Mrs. H. G. McMillan 3 , 6 Mrs. H. J. Dlninny 0 . 1 Mrs. J. E. Dooly ....1 . 1 Mrs. F. A. Dtuchl 3 1 Mrs. Thomas Kearns ....2 1 Mrs. David Keith 3 ' 3 people In flats, where the baby is more unwelcome than a dog. are among the factors responsible for this state of affairs, af-fairs, and I see no hope for the future. own atlents. but their efforts in the aggregate amount to but little. The demands de-mands of society and) the life of our : Declaration cf Kew Ycrk Physician That Society Leaders Prefer Canine Pets to Children Is Untrue. z' Salt Lake society women have not shunned the obligations of moQierbood. The homes of wealth' have children and young people in them. Babies and not dogs are the household pets. These, are the facts '.shown by the listing today of the number of children in representative wealthy families. They contradict the assertion of Dr. ; George F. Shrady'of New York, editor of the Medical Record and physician to Gen. U. S. Grant and- his family, that fashionable women preferred dogs to babies and would not be troubled by the cares of maternity. . He made his statement general, but Salt Lake physlciatipromptly insisted today upon an exception being made in the case of this? city. - ' . Dr.-J. C. E. King said that Dr. Shrady could not have meant Salt Lake. "I find -children in the best homes," he said. "There is no cause for alarm in Salt Lake." , Tamilj Eecords Are Proof. . "The tendency in America." continued ' Dr. King, "is to have small families. The census reports for Utah, however, v show that the average - families 'are - large, comparatively. In this State. I "believe that the families of the upper classes In Salt Lake are up to the average. aver-age. ' The best homes have families and I believe that Dr. Shradys ideas would be changed if he were to come to Salt Lake" Dr. Shardy says that the population of the country is threatened. He declares de-clares that America is menaced by the danger which has already fallen upon France. tnd which has been occupying the attention of the greatest legislators and physicians and sociologists for years, and intimates that unless stringent strin-gent measures are taken at once In this country the time will come when laws will have to be passed) in America corresponding cor-responding to the laws in foreign countries coun-tries which require every married wo- man to bear one or more children unless there is reason for her to be declared DrShmdy points to the fact that this alarming decrease In the birth rate has come upon America in very recent years and has rrown witb an overwhelming and terrific rapidity. He calls attention to the fact that the American families of seven ajid eight and even ten and . twelve of less than a quarter of a cen-i cen-i tury ago hnve shrunk at the -present time to one -or two, and very often to no children at all. He Slashes Society. He lays the cause of these conditions at the door of. society, the universal practice of living In flats rather than in houses and the lack of leisure in the upper classes of American women. - He says thdt In the greater part of the American heroes of today jthe place formerly occupied by the baby is now taken by the dog. To correct tfc!s tendency Dr. Shrady calls upon the physicians of the country coun-try to educate and Instruct their patients pa-tients in the dufy of the married couple . towarfl society. He says that the Anglo-Saxon prudeiy will always stand in the ' way of any general campaign of education. . but tliat it is the 'duty of every practicing physician to point out to his patients tt.e wrong they are doing do-ing Society in not bearing children. Dr. Shrady won his first laurels as the .personal physician of Gen. Grant and his family. Dr. Shrady's sphere of influence may be supposed also to have extended into the Gould family, as his daughter is the wife of Edwin Gould and the mother of three children. There are seven children chil-dren in the family of Jay Gould, five in the family of George Gould, two in the family of Castellanes and there is one child in the family of Frank Gould. Mr. Weston, writing in a recent number of the Ninetettith Century and After asks the question. "Are the Americans Amer-icans dying out?" and calls attention to the fact that the.native born citizens of ' the United. States are ceasing to breed, and that the result of the diminished birth rate is only concealed by the Influx In-flux of foreign immigrants, who are coming more and more from southern and eastern Europe. The figures supplied sup-plied in support of this statement are rather startling. Early Familiea Were Large. "The first generation of Americans after the colonization of New England had families of ten to twelve; the second, sec-ond, third and fourth generations had families of six and seven, the fifth fam- ; Hies of four and five and the sixth fara- Hies of three and less. "Dr. Shrady v is, of course, a very learned man who would not make a statement unless he were sure of its truth," said a well-known physician today, to-day, "and therefore he must feel that he has a sound basis for his theory. I have not gone into the subject in gen- eral, but in Salt Lake I should say that our birth rate among the upper classes was up to the average. There are a great many children in Salt Lake, end it seems to me that I find them In " the very best homes. I do not think that we have any very grave cause for alarm as long as .conditions remain as they are now. Dr. Shrady'a Statement. . Dr. Snrady made the following statement state-ment after his article in the Medical , Record had aroused comment: "The fashionable woman of today 'does not want children. If 6he bears them she does not rear them ' properly and they become sickly and die. That this aversion' to children is rapidly spreading through all classes of society is generally recognized by the medical profession. It is true among the well-to-do everywhere, in the country as well as in cities. 'We are following rap- idly in the path of France, where ,the subject has occupied the attention of statesmen and lawmakers for years and prizes are offered by the Government ' for large families. . . ' - ' "In this country, however, our Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon prudery will always stand in the way of any general campaign of education educa-tion on "this subject. Physicians can do ..something in the way of educating their |