Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-08

the country of France and the prov
inces that now the government Is wrest-
ling with the problem OF steadily oil
minishing ratio of births to deaths.
The children of the rich are too often
given over to the care and companion
ship. first of nurses, and then of gov
ernesses, as their ages may indicate Is
1T possible or even reasonable to expect
that these will look after the building
up OF the characters of the children or
the culture of their moral nature as q
parent would? The hereditary tenden-
cies OF a child can only be known and
appreciated by its parents Certainly
the goyerness must work experimental
ly and in the dark, as well as without
enlightening love to guide her. once
asked an insubordinate very small girl
who was alone and crying Historically
on her fathers stairway after she had
got into an alteration with her gov
erness, why are you not a good little
girl?" She sobbed out, Il canno. be
good because she does not love me. +"
This is the specimen of a good many of
the complaints children make without
knowing the origin of their troubles
They do not associate with their moth
er's in an intimate way.
have been astonished when driv-
ing in Central Park to see so few chill
dren i'll the splendid equ'ppages which
roll by III endless procession. Very
often there is dog, sometimes of con
siderable size, on the seat with the mis-
tress, but very rarely a child do
not know whether it is questionable
to take children or whether it is con
sidered better for their health TO walk
[ heard bright, devoted girl one
day say to her mother after being un-
! ayoidably separated for many years
from her: II my Judgment had not ap
proved of You after seeing 80 little OF
you IN my childhood, | could not have
loved you and been your friend as
/ am now, for an sense of your mother
hood had died out of my heart"
MI. Robert Dale Owen, from the
large experience in London and other
crowded cities OF the Old World. came
to the conclusion that children would
thrive best Isolated from their parents
and collected together in rural hamlets
where they should be attended by nur-
SEES not Of their own blood-a kind of
cooperative incuhatiye nursery
He thought the Improvement of the
coming race would be wonderful in a
generation, but he was wrong, for
. child must be nourished by a person
! al love as well as by food, so his CT
! forts failed, as all mere theories do 1t
is easy to condemn remedial plans as
impractical, but alas, to formulate a
practical one is much more difficult.
There is a certain virtue in having at
tempted, if in vain, TO solve the PROP
LEM.
The pressure of congregated millions
necessarily, if they must live in the
city, crowded into limited space, is
/ bringing about an unnatural state of
feeling in the hearts of the overburd-
eRed, hopeless poor.
Every daily paper has among Its adj
vertisements; a fine boy for adoption;
REIMBURSEMENT entire" "a pretty
baby girl, perfectly healthy, for adop-
ton, and so On through the dreary
items. II is not a supposable case chat
these mothers desire to part from their
little ones, but the conditions OF their
lives are too tragic to admit OF their
adding another mouth to those which
cry for food