The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-01
Bah ON HEREDITY.
The Virtues and Vices Of Our An
CeStOTS Considered.

Saints and Sinners of Other Genera
tions-Bab's Quaker Great-Grand-
mother-A Midnight Experience
with Fallen Woman-Sister Irene,
of the Maternity, Talks About the
'other Side''-''Who Will Help
eP''-Endeavoring to Cure Lep-
rosy With Lilies-Mothers, Beware
of the too Familiar Married Fam
lily Friends-"The Wages of Sin is
Deathl"
(Copyright)
New York, Sept. 30.-Are you a believer
in heredity? Did you think that in that
mental and physical something that you
call yourself may be found the virtues
and the vices, the weakness and the
strength of your ancestorsz And that,
over it all, will come your Town per-
sonality, which, if it be strong, will con-
troll the birth-given instincts, and if it be
weak will yield to them with scarcely a
struggled AS for myself, l so often see
the child as reflection of the grand
father, the son showing certain traits Of
the mother, and the daughter expressing
In her feminine way the indomitable will
and energy of her father, and cannot
out believe that the sins and the virtues
VI our forefathers descend upon US, even
uuuo Ahe second and third genera ton.
READING THE HUMAN HEART.
Lola, that badly translated writer; that
great reader of the human cart, the
human brain and the human body, has in
nIs tdst book, which to me seems his
greatest, shown how, starting out from
oi.G woman, four generations brought out
t Tb5Cuer ther happiness or sorrow; how
muse VINO came from the honest and best
Stue OF TINS woman were yet tainted by
tuo sIumOerlng wickednesS within her,
1uat showed itself in disgIaceful love
t Wi.n brutal man; and how even where
olIls galnt existed in her Children and
ttIauuchlIdren it was overcome either by
tsuoSe VINO had a strong will or a strong
LLaiUu' For from this woman who in
~ glfIdhood was an honest wife
S Sno mother, and in her woman
ro Uvt was faithless wife and the
-oyuer OF children whom fShe dared not
~ Ihe generations brou ght saints and
93tHu n priests who went to the scaffold for
tb III IalGh, sisters of charity who walked
a.ousu hospitals where horrible diseases
W %seLe, and cared for the bodies and souls
.uoss VINO were i'll me n, who, by their
we we Oh will ruled the nation; women,
m TgU, 1y their wickednt5ss, ruined men,
SS S .a and physically; and men, who,
S y .aeir weaknesses, made manhood a
SSsoIething to be scoffed at. How can you
tbi 5S what her heredity means when you
T ,1l9k Of all this2 but, what lola has
my story. W
woyer a hundred years ago in County
tbeSlord, Ireland, once in a great while,
10 S sS oplTlt would move a gentle Quakeress
sno SIPea * IN meeting, and always when she
XXI mere came into her little sermon
le aiiI great text; He who is without sin
eres u'I ~ cast the first stone" This Quak-
/ v u.s. was Mistress Barbara Hilary, and
bac %no am her grea t-grand-child, feel that
b svs OF the number of letters that
Shirt o.ue 70 me, d lat amimoved by the
Vor1 te 70 speak ia behalf Of the other
Ey yoIan. She has always been called that.
weraC W,nen she was ather greatest. If she
leoth'eeo patra or Aspasia, She was always
WHO, iter woman She was not the wife,
no ..I t5 must Isl. be abo'Ie suspicion; she was
'-S mother o. sons who tJre their