Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-11-25 | Page 12 | Forbidding Unfit Marriages

Forbidding Unfit Mnrriaces. The bill proposed for Intiodurtloti in the Trench Chamber of Deputies ie-qulrlng ie-qulrlng thit parties seeking marriage shall first pass a medical examination, will prnhabl meet with the fate uc-corded uc-corded lo meiisuies of similar Import luttoduied In the Legislatures of some of our Htules uud bi promptl) bulled out of sight but nt lbs same time It will be d. iled b few Intelligent pi r-sons r-sons an a heir that the prntocod law Is theoretically a good one and thai, If enacted and enforeed, It would go far toward keeping the human lueo phvslcullv sound nnd normal us well us stoi plug the appalling Increuse of cilminnls ind degcneiutca In fact such a law strictly carried out through a wrlod of enrs would so far tovvuid ellmlnatlni, from the ratje many of Its inherited vices and other weaknesses and bringing It measurably nearei an ideal condition so far, at least as phvslcal qualities are concerned and this could hirdlv be without an 1m-prmemei 1m-prmemei t in moral attributes ulso Tor with sounder bodies will come Mnintler minds Uslles Weeklv