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Show PIONEERS OF THE FRONTIER Red-Blooded Men and Women Were Those Who Carved an Empire From vVlldcrness. No doubt tho "ruh" of The euuUhftHW has Improved tho fiber of tho Amori-can Amori-can people. Of courso, tho well established estab-lished and the lntollectualsMind no motive mo-tive to seek tho weBt but in energy and vcnturesomeucsB thoso who sought tho frontier wero superior to tho average or thoso in their class who stayed behind. It wns tho pike rather than tho carp that found tholr way out or tho pool. Now, In tho main, thoso who pushed through the oiksii door or opportunity left moro children thnn their fellowe who did not. Ofton themselves members of large families, thoy had fecundity, as It wore, In tho blood. With land abundant nnd tho outlook encouraging, they married earlier. In tho unrrow life of Iho young west, lovo nnd family wero stronger Interests than In tho older socloty; hence nil inni-rled. Thanks to cheap living and to the need of helpors, the big family was wolcomed. Living by ugrlculturo, tho west know llttlo of cities, munufnetures, eoclnl rivalry, luxury nnd n serving class, all foes of rapid multiplication. From "Origins of tho American People," by I'rof. Edward A. Koss, in tho Cijntury. |