Show I r IF f AFFinity m Means ans True Love ov What S I t f f e r rf t H n. n C r. r En Standing out prominently and pathetically from the muck of or this thIs' affinity epidemic Which has hns been heen dp destroying homo homei orn across aerne th the tho continent nl are art tho the little children n whose whop e futures future h have hC C been hn blasted It ma may give 1 those thos responsible for tOI this condition a little ease of or conscience con con- science to say that tho the children will be bo bowell I well provided pro for tor that they will be beso beso beso so educated a ft to make mall a n success of ot lire life Cut But Ue never r from their minds minds- and as 08 the they grow older th the bUt bitterness becomes more indelibly can Impressed the they erase trap tie te memory mtnor of that disgrace disgrace dis dis- dis grace that scandal which parted their parents and forever inflicted on th them thema tn a 0 ch chapter pter In their lives live which they would prefer to conceal All such uch children no matter how young now have hoy been belh burdened 1 with I ton ton In the closet which will wilt haunt them until the they die dl 4 A I iM n AI Always s I Some astute philosopher has bas re remarked remarked rf re- marked that there Is no cruelty to toI equal l that of ot the child to Its Us parent I But Dut how can that cruelty cruelty and and nd often It is 18 intense and brutal compare I with th the burden of shame and regret egret which has been bequeathed to th thI the I of n a called so-called affinity a shame that hat lasts always aya Perhaps if rr the parents parent of these children chil hen dren bad hod bad contemplated the awful heritage they were about to impose on onS S I heir offspring the they would have hesitated hesi III lilted at the call which the they undoubtedly undoubtedly Nil edly mistook for love f It If th the mutual attraction or affinity I 1 whIch caused these parent parents to part Is really love I It 1 WP were better that love Iov never el existed But It i Is III not 10 love J It t i certainly must bo ho something gross ero- and andI 1 I unnatural which prompts a 1 parent to toi i Ignore I the love he hll bears bear hi his child I That affiliation Is III as natural as aR Jt It I Is I natural for tor water to run downhill 1 That affection ha has be been n born In lu every evey S I animate being The bear be-ar loves her bet herI I cubs cub even as the th true human mother 10 loves 8 her br hll c.-hll child You YOli may go through 1 I the whole bol list l t of ot the tho ark and you 1 0 will find that In every animal was at lo d d an affection for Tor its iL offspring which ers o o t everything l else clue e. e Ch lid In Year Picking out si n few rw instances In Iii thelong tho the thoI I long ions recent list of or dismal family I calamities we WP start with th the case 01 ot S th the millionaire artist arUs Frederick Pinney Pin Pin- I Ine ne ney Earle l and Miss s Julia Julin Kuttner whom he hC proposes propones to marry mairy when his wife ICe shall have ha obtained a n divorce dl It is it n l understood r too that he relieved hit iI 1 conscience a little by giving th the wife oooo How will that thae ease ense the memory which Is yet to come come cometo to their little 0 year old old nr boy or twenty years ears from now when some someone someone om one asks him who hl his father was as what whal will he hf ay tiny I That child Is I. doomed to spend man many manya I a n restless night night- In later years tears In the I contemplation of nt his par parents parent's nt's rends remis Iou sion And Amid our physical brain has beer so constructed that such tiona lead to moroseness bitterness s. s melancholia and hatred A heritage of ot consumption is a 0 charity charU to a child when comP compared tc to the heritage of shame Consumption kill the thc child and mercifully relieve I It ft but hut shame hame hangs bangs on forever ore accusing always ThC Tue of or r Yun Hirsch cli Then hen there is 18 the case cast of or Patrick Henry Hirsch the rich railroad contractor con con- tractor whose wife witt accused him of having an undue regard rEgald for tor Ruby Yeargain What Is his year nine ear Son to think of him in ten ton or fifteen years This lad is bound to have havo a good education and a g careful training Ills mother and her hr family are arc re wealthy Dut But all aU the careful training in the world will not erase rase from his mind th the staggering m memory mory of ot th the thew w wrong rang his father r did to him and to his bla mother mothr All the religion that has tins been practised since Ince the time limp of Confucius cannot induce him to forgive and nature will wUl not let him forget Think o of or th the burden this innocent lad laa must carry through life his lis millions in wealth will not assist t on one Iota lota with the load There The I is 19 the very r recent case caso of the theRe Rev Re Maxwell of burg nn and young oung Mrs Dora Bauer i How about Mrs fr Batters Bauer's little five five- year old a lad 1 n ho hu gets Jets old I enough to understand whon they can canno canno canno no longer deceIve o him with fanciful I tales toles what is his father rather to 10 toll him about his hla mother He will know leno lenoth th the truth and anti then n what chat will hn ho think of or his mother holl t 4 for Litter Lift Will VIII tho thu love Jove which hi hN hIM mother molher Imagines tho the preacher bears for OI her herl I compensate her for tor the tho denunciations j of ot h hot hei l' l son And will her he affection for fOll org the tho preacher alwa always bo be so great that i isho Isho sho can n never ner er remember her hor son I Those Thos-e thoughts will bo be inevitable to her nil all through tho the rest of oC lien her life liCe j No mother can cnn avoid them oven even If It she ht would and find some sonic da day sho will give o her life for tor ono one word from Crom her the boy poy the boy sho she deserted for tor what she mistook j 1 a as a higher r lov love And on all down through the tho lie whole gloomy list these there innocent ones stand waiting for and und unable to dodge od e the tho I. I blUer bitter legacies of or woe which h have ve been thrust upon them thorn by selfish unthinking ing oS and mistaken n parents parent I The crime mu must t forever bo ho upon the parents parents parents-a a crime crImI which no remorse no and arid no restitution can obliterate from the memories of or ortho tho the victims J |