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Show Wealthy Parents Too Prone to Spoil Their Children Chil-dren by "Coddling" By DR. JOSEPH COLLINS, Author. Why is ft that America is the only country in the world where good blood peters out in one or two generations? Why, today, in the United States do our mental equipment and emotional endowment compare unfavorably un-favorably with that of our parents or grandparents? The answer is that the past generation brought its children up better bet-ter spiritually, and materially than we do now. There is only one way to keep a line of good blood good and that is to provide the adolescent offspring with cares and responsibilities. On the other hand, the most effective way to destroy good blood is to wrap the budding emotional offspring in the cotton wool of paternal-overso-licitude. One of the reasons this country had a Washington and a Lee, an Emerson and a Thorean, a Poe and a Whitman, a Vanderbilt and a Vail, is that they were not brought up in .hothouses they were not swaddled in silks and furs. They were not rushed to the mountains or the sea when the sun grew hot, or to Florida when the days grew cold. They were allowed to meet the hazards of life, and made to rely in a measure on their own invention to surmount them. But today we solve them for onr children, and then we wonder or weep when our cTiildren cannot solve those problems which present themselves them-selves after they have flown from the nest, or are making ready to fly. Remember that parental love of the WTong kind kills off many a potential po-tential man. I |