Show DECREASE IN FAMILIES THE decrease in american families has ban been a subject of much r regret eg ret among those who desire the welfare of thin country we do not know that the alleged facts concerning it have hav ever bean seriously disputed the popular science montney for august contains some from the census by carroll D Wright which will effee dually ay met at rest any controversy on the he subject according to hib bin citations f it appears that in 1860 1850 thin the average Z annoy mily consisted of persons from frena bis 1 I there has been a gira gradual dual decrease in 1860 in 1870 in 1880 and in looking at the different geographical divisions dl it to la found that this rule holds tz true except in the western division where the average size of the family has ban risen from in 1850 to in 1890 the increase having been steady through the intermediate decades this result rould have been expected of course coune on account of the set of the weft in the bat few years the population having increased rapidly and being more and more brought to the family basis baals instead of that of single individuals or young families settling in western rift the small average size of the family in oklahoma now a territory just opened for settlement shows the influence of new settlements upon the size of the family in 16 oklahoma the size of af the family will increase until latiok becomes fairly dense when it will follow allow the rule of older communities and decrease When population becomes more or less leas urban la in charac ser the maximum Is ie reached and after that a constantly receding average will pro probably bubly be shown at each saje succeeding census it is to be hoped that with the prevalent copying copain of the fashions and manners of the thes east ast this community will not imbibe the spirit of those refined and 1 1 ladies of caso so cleryl I who think it indelicate and in bad form J to bring forth a number of children this disposition to is a sign of the decadence of any people where it exists it is a mark of licentiousness licentious nees and godlessness it rebels nature and sins sine against delty deity it involves practices that are abhorrent to every true womanly sentiment befits to in violation of human law and divine commandment and will surely bring its penalties not only upon the community where it is countenanced but upon the individuals who are personally guilty the maternal instinct which is in strong in every true and loving woman is god implanted an I 1 woe to that man or woman and to that nation or people that seeks to root it up or cause it to wither and die |