Show DUTIES OF THE FAMILY continued from last week it is des desirable rable that the large jorge families should a I 1 should belong to the upper in middle iddle class clam the home has two prime fune eions consist on ast 1st it is to furnish a basis for child training tram 2nd and it provides a center of in inspiration I 1 pi ration to social selli activity the tha home as a center for children and as a basis of inspiration constitutes the ideal home the object of riving children an educe education is to develops their reasoning power so that they will be able to solve live those problems with which they come in contact education should enable the child to choose those things which will be for or his good and not th choie which merely affords crude gratification the development of the aesthetic capan ties in children is a ILA which the family shares with social organs home decoration music and art are important par tant factors which operate cooperate co with other agencies in cultivating an appreciative of the beautiful even though the individual were intelligent and could appreciate the beautiful he would still be deficient if his hia mate were corrupted con r tely we mean by personal moral ity courage industriousness self control prudence prud ence temperance and other similar phe phenomena nomina which have this in common that they involve a crossing of earlier developed es and redirection of the individual conduct with the result normally that his hia welfare is enhanced it is the duty of every family to teach leach the child to work white while he ha is young and his big habits are easily formed if he is out net taught to work his hia energy will sill be directed in some undesirable way the child should also learn to play through Th Tb rouKh routh plays and games game the human race first learned to work A child who never has a chance to jump spring shout laugh shoot wrestle box build and make things can never its de delope all his faculties in games properly supervised by 8 teachers children are socialized civilized christiani zed they learn to play fair to obey rules to check selfishness to be urbane and patient and bravely to take hard knocks without whim penns the physical of the child is of vital importance because upon health depend his happiness and intellect no ual development closely related to his muscular development are his habits in cag eating and drinking gluttony Glut tany depresses the soul weakens me moral courage produces disease so ao reduces usefulness and efficiency and shortens ns life bad physical tidbits habits in parents ca adue their children to inherit their weakness and faults on the oth other erhand hand cent and improper food injures the body and the spiritual fore est es of character every prevent able disease every condition which needlessly undermines und erminea the vitality ot of a population la is a direct t menace and obstacle to alt all that makes for niches high civilization the duty of the family does doe not end with this generation hut but extends into the future this is because of the law of heredity heredity is what is riven in the germ berm and it is manifest that no attention to environment viron ment can possibly d dipo develops anything but the potentialities of the germ health intellectual a ability and moral character are very rc ery in the matter of selection for the th stream of life may be polluted la in two ways either at its source or along alone its ita banks disease alcoholism vice and unsanitary may pollute the stream of life after its ita start but when we allow the biologically unfit to be come parents we pollute it at ab its and this in the long run is more serious for life polluted at its am source can never cleanse itself inheritance is ia equal from both parents but traits are seemingly transmitted as aa units this thia fact gives rise to what 1 is known as wn mn dals bals law according to which there 13 tio bit permanent blending blendin jr of differ ent traits in a series of genera rene rations s train but on the contrary contrasted traits t tend to segregate in definite and re gular proportions after the first filial generation the child re calves the qualities of both parents and its ita chance for progress becomes greater for or variation is 13 the method of progress there are members of society who are unfit to be parents among these are the weak minded insane and those with transmittable diseases these lima should be from the race avy any human being who cannot be educated and trained to be capable of self support and self con trot by reason of imbecility idiocy I 1 epilepsy epi ept lipsy lipay or insanity should for his own happiness for the sake of the he family and for the protection ot of society be placed and maintained in cottage homes in separate villages apart from all other human beings gentle but firm care of teach ers era physicians and ta the state of indiana he has made ads a good start in this direction by for biding the issuing of marriage licence to the unfit the progress program and knowledge ac cumulated from the environment of today will nil be handed down to the next generation not through inheritance but is ag wealth is 13 handed down these theae cells cello out of which the new individual arises modern teaches are a separate set ber tea lea of cells distinct and more or less independent of the body cells calls hence the impossibility ot of parents transmitting to offspring traits which they have acquired in their life time arguments are brought against this thia statement to the effect that diseases of the parent are transmitted to the child and that the children of drunkards are often afflit afflicted led ellwood says sas thus evidence seems beems to be fairly sufficient to warrant the con cluss in that a large amount of alcohol in the blood sufficient to poison the whole system will poison the germ cells and set ast up clag desaer olives in them the offspring of confirmed alcoholics alco holica are therefore apt to be under vitalized vitali zed or afflicted with various forms ot of degeneracy such auch as feeble epilepsy and insanity |