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Show IB IWic Honor of A Large Family. Kmifc,l'iesident lloosovull hs spoken !1ittirrMlowrticoy1ifirtronlbK)di (fTcliaily, much ntleution Is being p-ild to the fai t that tho moro prospotous Vmericans hnc few childien. It i Anniented thnt tlio people beet fitted lo trho tho children eeiv ndvatitnge in 4he wot Id and srt them in paths of ease tun) progtcK aro (he oiy ones-who JTin've but few children, while Ihefrfreigu ijiTinigrnntp, wllh few notions of American Ameri-can progress and littli to give in the Jfny of cdiuntlon nnd comforts, hne la I go families, t l'ethaps tifter all the goncral result Is mKiug tlio riglii lne. If there won too muny children born toen'sennd propel TfySu uld we not hae a wider distlno-Sjfln distlno-Sjfln in elapses established toon nnd (would it not ho hntdci for the pnoi Vhildren to rise nLoto their early sur-loundingsnnd sur-loundingsnnd make desirable places fol Jhemselvea in the world? As it Is, there is nlwajs room nt tlio top -mid tin nntloii may b ticliei in the long run for baying to Inige a pin' perl for ambi I to n nml industry. Of tlio porsounl side of the matt.r 'the president's views would teem to Ik very true. The pirents who have few children or tho unfortunate mm null people who hno no children at all, me Indeed mifsiiic much of the best of life. There Is nothing moru liulpful ami in spiring llinu the love and dependence of n little ihild nnd tlio lovo and do 'pendonco of many llttlo cldldren each diritiiiug from other is surely a broadening broaden-ing anil eduuitho iullueuoo upon the pments The tearing of n huge family is. a grunt rc8nnsibilitv but ono which brings Its own levari! in thobioader life ind lielter henit intereH it gies to both patents and the happy chlldtou who must slime cverjlhing with n liumlicrof brothers nnd sisters. The ppor patent who have mnity mouths to teed most hao many wort lea, hut thoy wlllhonureto lme netivo, induetnus jjiililrcn, anxious to get out into the "wot Id nnd cum for them comforts than lipoid be prolilud from the father's jUmUr pimo Th modei.itely well-to-do family will mil have ituito so ninny yomlottn if the family is largo but here too tho influonio of ambition and nllVi . tlon will moro than i epay tho s.ierlllce of mntoiinl advantages In the families id great woslth, where the children could lrn el n toynl load through life, it Is losi to be lamented thai there are few children, for great wealth is often n curse instead of u blessing and the fewer few-er the children of llietu'tlii-milllounrlcR toswowrwirtira tho gicnt mass of (lie peoplo who helped help-ed to build up the fortunes. The mill ionnito who hits but one or twp children is more likely lo glvo largo sums to education! and industrial advancement advance-ment than is tlio wonlthy man with a largo family. Tns great middle claw Is whrtro children enn do tho most good for the family .and tho country, and there seems no Imminent dnnger Hint this class will fail to bring into The world tho brain and brawn upon which tho welfaro of tlio world will depend. U is'iudecd nn honor to be the parent of strong, well icnied children, mid the mothers iBpu'inlly," whose children rific up and call hoi blessed," nre given n great Held of usefulness and the po?-elbilltv po?-elbilltv of n hnpptncss "which passeth understanding." |
