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Show FOR CONTROL OF UGLINESS 8cience Should Be Capable of Remedying Rem-edying or Preventing Defects, Either Physical or Mental. Why la It that one member of a family fam-ily Is ugly or Imperfectly developed, while all the others are practically perfect In form and features? Nearly every family has Its ugly member. If the defects happen to be physical the sufferer will he known as the runt of the family, or If the de-' fects are of the morals, as' the black sheep. There are good and sufficient causes for all physical and moral ugliness and there is no reason why these causes may not be discovered and controlled. Why should one member of a family fam-ily be made sick by eating the same food the others eat and that he has often eaten before? To say that It doesn't happen to agree with him may be satisfactory to some, but to the intelligent. Inquiring physician It Is not. There Is something some-thing wrong with the human machine - . or It would produce proper results. To the mechanical engineer Improper results are suggestive either of a lack or of a perversion of energy. The organ or-gan or portion of machinery that has failed to do Its proper share of work has not been supplied with Its proper share of nerve force. May we not apply the same rules to the building up of the body and of the mind also? |