large for the weight of the body, and on this account her health and happiness will largely depend upon mental conditions. A large, healthy and strong body is but little effected through the mind, as it is the physical, not the mental, part of their organization that is the governing power. But with Nanie and her type it is different. She is more than ordinarily subject to impressions and outward influences; will experience. tremes of feeling, being sometimes very mirthful, other times the reverse.

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Excitement or fright should be avoided as far as possible, because her active caution and sensitive nature render her

sunshine. The sincere, innocent, upward expression of the eye denotes large spirituality, veneration, etc., and corresponds to the splendid development of the moral faculties, and the natural purity of her mind. She is not viscious, spiteful or difficult to manage if reason and affection are employed. She is naturally symNo pathetic, generous and friendly. doubt in school she will excel many who are older, for she has a very retentive memory and active mind.

Lillian-The younger of the two here shown is 3 years old. With her twin sister she was exceedingly sick when about a year old. Of the two Lillian ap

liable to injury from this cause. She has a trusting, confiding, affectionate disposition, is very susceptible to either praise or censure, and should be governed entirely by love. Her nature calls for it. Even the thought of physical punishment would be worse than the pain

it inflicted.

While she has more than average selfesteem that gives confidence and the desire to assume responsibility, yet she is fearful of mystery, suspense or danger, and apt to worry over imaginary ills.

Large mirthfullness, however, soon comes to the rescue, and like an April day, will change rapidly from shadow to

peared to be the worst and less likely to live, but the results terminated reversely, her sister passing away, while Lillian after a desperate struggle survived. As will be seen by glancing at the photograph she is now out of danger-for the present, at least. Lillian has much more vitality than her older sister, but is not so fine in quality. As she differs in temperament so also she differs in disposition, feelings, desires, habits, etc. She has more recuperative power than Nanie; more impulse, more "ginger," more passion and persistance; but has less patience, dignity and refinement. Observe the difference in the depth and size of

the chin. Of course there is no brain matter in anybody's chin, nose, etc. The size and shape of the features means nothing except as they indicate and correspond to certain cranial developments; and in this instance we find the large chin conforms to the brain which shows large vitativeness, amativeness, destructiveness and alimentiveness.

go forth and earn his own living, our neighbors would think us crazy. Yet that is in effect what we are doing every day with thousands and thousands of school children. We swell their memories artificially, as in the hypothetical instance we swelled the boy's muscles; then we throw them into the world and tell them to make their own fortunes, though wehave not taught them how to use a single reasoning faculty.-Washington

Post.

She is apt to eat too much for her good, will be especially fond of liquid food, and like Nanie requires more bonemaking material. Lillian has an unusually large brain. Her reasoning and intuative power is remarkable, and she lacks nothing in the way of combative force. Though hasty in temper she will never harber revenge, for her nature is warm and affectionate and her generosity will be counted a fault.

PRACTICAL EDUCATION

NEEDED.

We sympthize heartily with the disgust excited in one of our contemporaries by the typical case in modern education which it has just raked up. A girl of fourteen is carrying on as many studies as she has years to her credit; and her marks, on a scale of 100, show her perfect in grammer, 99 in physiology, 98 in civics and algebra, 97 in physics, and 96 in literature. Yet in a recent letter she writes: "There has been two boats ashore. Papa took sister and I with him."

Could anything speak louder for the parrot character of the teaching which has placed her in the 100 per cent rank? If we took a boy, of whom we intended to make a carpenter, brought him up in a gymnasium, and at maturity put a saw and plane into his hands and bade him

President Wilson of Princeton recently observed: "I am much mistaken if the scientific spirit of the age is not doing us a great disservice; working in us a certain great degeneracy. Science has bred in us a spirit of experiment and a contempt for the past; it has driven mystery out of the universe; it has mademalleable stuff out of the hard world and laid it out in its elements upon the table of every class room."

Prof. W. S. Franklin, of Lehigh, in commenting further on this subject at the recent convention of scientists in Washington, said that there was a very unsatisfactory tendency nowadays to let speculation run riot in the scientific realm, uncontrolled by known physical limitations. He proceeded: "The extent to which some of our elementary text books in physics indulge in weak phases of speculation is very surprising to me, for, in this connection, it is absolutely out of place and entirely misleading."— Pathfinder.

The Christ of the twentieth century is not exactly the same as the sectarian Christ of the nineteenth, or the dogmatic Christ of the seventeenth, or the officered Christ of the thirteenth, or the metaphysical Christ of the fourth, or even the Christ after the flesh which Paul had already outgrown in the first. The Christ of the twentieth century is pre-eminently the social Christ, and as such is greater than all that has gone before.-President William DeWitt Hyde.

THE STUDY OF LIFE.

If our

By Mrs. Almon Hensley.

children are to be what

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would have them, with sound physical bodies, with agile and receptive minds, with high moral ideals, we need deeper study than that of hygiene and feeding, important and necessary as these are. A mother to be duly qualified for her great duties should know something of the fundamental principles underlying human life.

It was with this fact in the minds of some of the thinking women of New York City that the "Society for the Study of Life" was formed. At its meetings are discussed the questions of heredity, of pre-natal culture, of wise procreation. And it would be well if mothers in other places, either as a committee in their mothers' clubs or an independent organization met at short intervals for the ear

nest study of these deeply interesting and

valuable truths.

One of the most fascinating studies is that of heredity-the inheritance of the child, physical and moral; the traits that he is likely to show, given a certain combination of gifts or weaknesses in his pa

rents.

HEREDITY.

There are those who profess to disbelieve in heredity; I say "profess" because the most casual student, if such a term may be employed, must realize very speedily the truth of this universal law. When you admit that you expect your child to resemble its father or its grandfather, you admit the fact of heredity.

Do you ever fear, before the birth of your child, that it may be a little Chinese baby? Of course you do not. Why? Because you recognize the law of race heredity; as you recognize the law of family heredity when you expected likenesses to its grandparents in your baby. A lady who belonged to the Christian

Science persuasion told me one day that "We of the New Thought do not believe in heredity; all these conditions are brought about by mental concepts; you think likenesses into your children; you expect them and so they come." I did not argue the point, as there is a certain quality of mind that precludes argument.

The lady was a great lover of cats and had the house full of beautiful Angoras. "This is the mother of all these cats," she said. But some of them have this father," pointing to a lovely big fellow, "and some are the children of this one," pointing to another. "Beauty" has always been a very timid, frightened fellow, but the other is ready for anything; full of life and fun. 'Beauty's' kittens, too, are very timid and very timid and frightened-have the same wild ways; while the others are just like ordinary kittens. Funny, isn't it?

I thought it was very funny, but I was thinking of the peculiar attitude of the lady's mind rather than of the kittens.

At this stage of the world's scientific knowledge, it is an uneducated mind or a superstitious one that refuses to accept the facts of heredity, which are everywhere about us.

OUR FAULTS IN OUR CHILDREN.

How often are we abashed to find a hidden weakness of our own, known, perhaps, only to ourselves and our Creator, showing itself in our little child. What is this that we have done? A defect in our own character, which, mark you, if we had manfully fought against and eradicated from our own character would not have been transmitted to our child, has, through our supineness, carelessness or ignorance of law, been handed on to another generation. Physical strength or disabilities follow the same law, and if we have eradicated from our system certain physical weaknesses or defects, studied our bodies and dealt with them so rationally, so carefully, so persistently that the evil has been overcome, we may

set our minds at rest regarding the inheritance of that tendency in our offspring. I do not wish to seem to imply that the mother is responsible for all the heredity of her 'child. Far from it. Her husband has an equal share in the responsibility, and the heredity may hark back to the grandparents by what is known as atavism. For this reason, it is well, before marriage, to inquire into the family history of the man of our choice.

A very interesting story in Conan Doyle's "Round the Red Lamp" illustrates. with vivid directness how a young man's happiness was ruined and his life forfeited through the evil life of a grandfather, who was then "a bag of bones in a coffin."

ANTE-NATAL INFLUENCE. Until quite recently it was common to look upon all stories of pre-natal impress

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or influence with a smile as at an old wife's tale; indeed, there are still physicians who refuse to accept the theory that the mental conditions of the mother exercise any direct or indirect influence on the child. Many of our most thoughtful scientists, however, have accepted the theory of pre-natal influences as a factor in the study of conditions. Personally I hold to the belief that through the mental exercise of the expectant mother, untoward hereditary traits can be modified and certain definite habits of thought be induced in the offspring.

In

one case where there had been no artist in the family, but when the pregnant woman decided upon art as a career for her child, she studied art diligently throughout her pregnancy, and though she had no especial gift that way, she conscientiously drew and painted under a good master, with the result that her boy was an artist of considerable ability.

Another woman, whose family and whose husband's family were also dark, desired intensely to have a fair child. She placed pictures of fair women and children about her rooms and gazed upon them frequently, especially upon that of a beautiful, golden-haired girl of one of her friends; with the result that in time

she was delivered of a blue-eyed, blondhaired daughter.

We have all heard of instances of fright during pregnancy which have resulted in some malformation of the child. Such cases are, happily, rare. Nature is kind, and unless the woman be of a peculiarly nervous temperament and unusually alive to suggestive impressions, she is unlikely to be effected to such a degree as to alter the shape or functions of the carefully guarded embryo.

It is well for the prospective mother to know that it is during the last few months of pregnancy that the brain of the child is influenced; it is then that she should especially care for her own brain and concentrate on some useful line of work. Too often the last few months are spent in the reading of light literaAn ture, while reclining upon the sofa. out-of-door life up to the very last is essential to the physical well-being of mother and child, and concentration of mind upon some useful or important work will greatly aid the child in his mental soundness and activity.

LET THE YOUNG KNOW.

In our progressive social life of today we have come to the realization that ignorance on the part of our young women as to their most important future work in life is not conducive to race improvement.

A woman cannot change herself, her desires, her mode of thinking in the short space of nine months, much as she may desire to do so in her anxiety for the welfare of her child. A bad tempered woman will hardly become equable and gentle, a gossiping and frivolous one become altruistic and largeminded. All this has to be done earlier. And so, we of the Society for the Study of Life claim that from the age of puberty the young girls should be instructed fully in these matters, should be made aware of their responsibilities in the future, should be encouraged to govern their lives accordingly. And we strongly advise the admitting of girls to the discussions that take place at meetings called for the purpose of considering the questions above referred to. Ignorance is

not innocence, and to expect a young woman to successfully perform her unique task without previous instruction, is (as Mrs. Gilman puts it), like sending as soldiers men who have received no instructions in warfare or military discipline until they are upon the battlefield.

SCIENTIFIC MOTHERHOOD.

We have made great strides in our scientific research in the last fifty years; we are amazed when we consider our harvest of knowledge, our electrical discoveries, our telephones, our Atlantic cable, noiseless carriages, our kinetoscopes, our wireless telegraphy. And the same spirit of progress is teaching us that haphazard motherhood is a thing of the past.

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We want schools for motherhood or, better still, for parenthood; and they are on the way. Meanwhile, our young mothers are studying, are organizing for study and research, and the outcome will be a finer and better equipped race of men,a wiser and more rational social life. -Health Culture.

NEGLECT OF FATHERS.

The following selections are from the "Purity Advocate."

Every man ought to know that boys are exposed to certain forms of danger that can only be avoided by being forewarned and no one so well as the father can give the boys this warning.

In an experience of twenty years we have found only three fathers that had warned their sons of the dangers they might inflict on themselves,and only one who had given the second warning.

Under these circumstances is it any wonder that boys bring trouble and disease upon themselves? The only wonder is that more of it does no occur. Every State in the Union could dispense with one-half of its lunatic asylums if fathers did their duty to their sons. There are certain subjects that must be explained to boys before they are twelve years old, and there is no reason why they should not be told when they are five. The other warning should be given before the boy is fourteen years old; if you neglect

it you may regret it all your life and your son all his life, and yet further generations to come.-C. W. Fowler, Superintendent of Kentucky Military Institute, Lyndon, Ky.

THE CRUSADE AGAINST IGNO-:

RANCE.

The great enemy that we must conquer is Ignorance. It will, indeed, require a crusade a movement in which hundreds of thousands of earnest souls move in unison as one man-to dispel the enemy. He holds possession of the strong citadel of indifference within which are the parents' hearts, ready to repel any movement to release them from their bondage. They are loyal to their commander, Ignorance, and he uses every precaution for the retention of his possessions. He fortifies his stronghold with a wall of falsemodesty and digs about it a ditch of procrastination. He tells these parent hearts not to speak to their children about the importance of their bodily dwelling, that they should learn the functions of their private natures from other lips. And these loving hearts heed the words of Ignorance and believe him right, but they do not see the van of another army in the distance, coming over the hill of Time, the army of Satan. They do not realize that this oncoming host will soon be victors over the lives of the children and will carry them away captives for life. They do not know that after the enemy has vanished with his spoil that then their stronghold will fall, that Ignorance will be dispelled, and that their hearts will lie broken, bruised and bleeding on the battlefield of Time.-Charles L. Playmate..