The Monitor., 1890-04-11
w. C. t. u. DEPARTMENT.

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nut oak is very similar in LEAKAGE to its
namesake. Our beautiful pansies have all
| been produced from the common field and
meadow violets through the culture Of two
hundred years. Our lovely roses have
been gathered from all parts oi the tenn
perate zone, and through careful culture
and crossing of different varieties lave at
taintd TO such distinction that when some
new seeding beauty appears the names of
its parents are recorded. Our large and
luscious Strawberries originated from the
| little i'd ones.
The farmer is believer in ieredity. He
knows full we'll he cannot gather grapes
of thorns or figs of thist.es." When he
If he is stockman lie pays great attention
to the pedigree of his animals, and can tell
the qualities and worth of an animal by
the herd book and the care it has received.
The most careful attention is paid to blood
in breeding stock, in consequence of which
rapid improvement is being made and the
trotting, pacing and draft horses arc fast
approaching perfection. Salem county is
well up IN this knowledge. Where can
you find finer stock farms OF more beauti-
full herds Of cattle than within our own
borders The farmers wife, too, can tell
you the relative merits Of the fowls in the
poultry yard. One breed makes better
mothers, another better layers, while
third is best for the table
Wonders have been wrought both in the
animal aud vegetable world, but no amount
of care or skill has ever changed rose to
tulip or a horse to an elephant or made
straw berry anything but strawber 1t
is love of the work that has wrought these
wonders. The florist tltcts his seeds from
the best specimens OF their kind and plants
his rare ones alone that they may not be
mixed with inferior varieties The stock
man is happy in his work and loves it.
Some of you may know that | am bee
keeper, and now here are inherited qualities
and the law OF kindness better show than
in these beautiful golden Italian bets that
Virgil wrote about two thousand years
age They have become very docile under
kind treatment and good care and allow
the human family 10 handle them " it'll i'm
punity. a species may be improved into
almost innumeIable varieties, nut the laws
of heredity hold every plant and animal SO
close TO the original type that when diff
ferent classes have been successfully
crossed they lose their powers of repro
duction
When the world comes to study and un-
derstand these things; when as much
loving care and forethought is given to the
human species as to the flowers, fruits and
animals, then shall we have higher,
nobler race Of men and women. Miss
Wizards mother has often said to her:
Frank, above all things else thank
heaven you were welcome child" She
was born one year after the death of a baby
sister, and no doubt owes much of her gen.
teness and spiritual character to the in
fuences surrounding her mother before
her birth. 1t is because SO many children
are denied their birthright and are not
love and truth and purity, as every child
should be; because parents have failed in
their high calling; because fathers and
mothers alike do not feel the Importance
evil is abroad in our land. For every
other work in life We fit ourselves by study
and careful preparation, but for this holy
of holes, " here the crown of motherhood
is given us, We rush in haphszard. Is 1t
any wonder that children are born MANNED
and weakened in body and mind. and that
society must be hedged about by all the
safeguards of the law to give us even the
appearance of peaceful, God loving peo-
pie?
"Give a child bearing mother the
proper food to replace the constant waste,
and give her loving care during the season
OF construction give her spirit proper rest,
support and exaltation of aim, thought
and ambition and the output of indi-
vidualism is a child OF the higher order
and upward tendency. Deprive her body
| of its food, her life of it's liberty, her home
of its happiness, her heart of its hope, her
existence of the condition Of peace, and the
woman and the babe are both robbed and
the direction OF the spirit of the child will
| be to crime, to weakness, to enmity against
| society, ho while it was helpless robbed
it Of it's natural God-given birthright.
| From the moment of conception the child
begins to take Oh and to take in those in
| fluenecs that arise from conditions and
that shape its alter years for all time to
come. 1t grows in the physical and is
stepped and stinted mentally in the mind
of the mother under the magnetism and
spirit touching of the father SO it is that
the man who is born Of GOD, the husband
who really deserves to be a father, the
man who is aware of his duty, rcsponsi-
bility, and who can enjoy meet reward
| in this life and the next, will hold his wife
during her waiting time to the most care
ful, loving, gentle, thoughtful keeping
| both physical and mental. Then the bios
SONS of life will come to our arms God
marked within and full of growth"
DR.. Stackhouse in her lectures used to
say Sc forcibly, holding up two fingers
''There are just two reasons for marriage
| first, affection, an affection that overrules
all others second, desire OF offspring"
Would that men who are to wed or who