Show there MATERNITY tight ill beail A youthful mother to her infant who with thread rm nd dancing feet and cooing voice returns it cairer tweet in tha inter ocean of a late dat fl mr M L A attempt to decide the caso of quality vt quantity in cli ildren her observation Tation nd experience peri ence hato taught her the gd but unquestionably fact that by far the majority of tho noiea of today seem to think that the duty ing children i a very light aad trivial one indeed one not binding upon them at all but rather t bo avoided just aa much a possible po sible and who can deny the fact that more women have been hurried into an untimely grav an unnatural and soul debating for tho prevention of offspring than from A recent number of the contained some astounding cal data concerning th horrible crime of foeticide foet icide which no less immoral in its is certainly far moro aud des tru cliTO than infanticide te the natural mind it eema incomprehensible that there should be any human being c abject o lost to all the purer and halir and impulses of a t their arrn whose rights of existence ar by divine command and natured na turea laws there are two ad danced for the prevention of offspring the first claiming scientific character the purely selfish matire unadorned with the ricy of learning the first most ponderous pond arous re son for a check on propagation k the theory of thomas bob malthus Mil thus born 1766 died as professor f political economy at tha collet of on dec ill bis unduly celebrated essayan thearin the Prin caples of population u it affects th baturo of society published in 1798 he bet himself to work to finding out how the relation of population to the man of sustenance could affect the future of the world the result was appalling the human race was found by him to increase at something hike geometrical progression while th fertility of land by bringing in waste and improving the methods of agriculture only increased in something like an arithmetical proportion hence if population were permitted to increase at its natural rate it would soon overtake the means of subsistence the theory had how ever several defects on of them boing its overlooking the element of free trade and mutual exchange f products of nations the ot bertia the simple geographical fact of the unmeasured wilds of whole continents which are at to be pled and which would yield febi and to the greatest crea test ble of bucaan beings for centuries to come besides we have so many of natures provident that ara might well have a ertain that nature would cot allow the supply of sut nanc to b below the demand of those to be sustained and finally IC althus own figures have suffered such sevra overhauling that hi conclusions are considerably r deuced if not altogether neutralized the no alss paltry reason or excuse prevention or reduction of natura increase ig the inzolaco ind apathy love of ease of our modern woman of in ion the woman of society i o wrapped up in her fashions too absorbed in the im peri ms demands which r soundings roun dings make on her that she can find no time for tho discharge of and yet so sweet and pleasant maternal duties from aln nursing of the buckling bae to tha teaching of growing son and daughter children are considered as nuisances their ad of true parents but deplored and regretted as an inevitable incumbrance how many are who wish with goetges Go ethes philine that children might grow on the trees ready to pick in all sizes and ages childbearing instead of beig regarded as comans womans er owning glory as the fulfillment of natures adirine is apro bated feared and if tible prevented and obviated not liew ver by a removal atle natural baue f the effect but by roost unnatural unna taral remedies of coune children aa a trial to our patience they are doiy and troublesome maico u a alieni alI eJi round of work yet it to ut in pite of all a arth ers trials in raisina rais ever ro larf a family the pleasure of surrounding our fi resides with a group of doiy smiling faces thus ins rig against a lonely cLeer lesii old age the pleasure of watching young minds unfold in beauty of instilling noble principles in young and tender hearts of training young feet to walk in the path of virtue all these aply repay a fond mother and a father for tho many trials and tribulations they may undergo in bringing up their offspring to see healthy well to do people with only two or three children and those brought ap in adlen very oltan petted and spoiled until they ara unfit for anything but to be waited upon to see weary mothers laboring from morning till night while their dainty over dressed daughters are trifling with fancy work or entertaining compaan in the parlor scones do not in favor of improved quality at the expense of reduced quantity of children happy therefore aro we in these valleys of tho mountains whose peaceful homes are alive with the merry shouts of troops of healthy bright children where mar ried couple ee grouped around then n half dozen doan of intelligent industrious offprint off prin in whom they behold the reflected brilliancy of L tt v i their own felicity of past yuth and alo morning dawn of the future mothers can proudly ting i I look on my boya thay renew all lay children I beai while the comfort I find la the kloj lom lay mind that ay Ug loin fre STRIKES in 1879 numbered which occurred in the following trades building 69 mining 71 iron and metal in lutry 13 transportation 13 ceramic id glass works 10 wood and stone id 12 clothing trade 12 manufactures 47 laborers 12 mothr trades 13 the increase in of those labor agitations is the following figures 1877 in 1873 th Eano mist that the year 1880 trill hr a gadder record yet i still at the head of th turid TK rId busi nefi IM 1878 there work in germany IQ 1879 tan th con tinnent WM by chool book 1775 1740 work to free mahonry only 20 21 efer deTo teJ BOIA tle french indy hai ben anred by tb king of the belgian the leopold order she ia the honor J by thi tion i binin in ity ia itly from to 1879 ben cremated fifty of chich in tho city of milan |