The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-14

American attitude when he said that the ambition of any save a very rich man should be to rear two children only, so as to give his children an op- portunity Gf tS ,'ts taste few of the good
 This man, whose profession and calI- ing should have made him a moral teacher, actually set before others the ideal, not of training children to do their duty, not of sending them forth with stout hearts and ready minds to win triumphs for themselves and their country. not of allowing them the op- portunity, and giving them the privi- lege of making their own place in the world. but, forsooth, of Keeping the number of children so limited that they might taste few good things!" The way to give d child a fair chance in life is not to bring 1t up in luxury. but to see that 1t has the kind of training that will give 1t strength of charac- ter. Even apart from the vital ques- tion of national life, and regarding on- ly the individual interest of the chill dren themselves, happiness in the true come to any given member of a healthy family of healthy-minded children. well brought up, we'll educated, but taught that they must shift for themselves. own exertions make their own posi- tions of usefulness, than it Is apt to come to those whose parents them selves have acted on and have trained their children to act on, the selfish and sordid theory that the whole end of life Is ito taste few good things"
 Would Become Extinct.
 The intelligence of the remark is on a par with it's morality, for the most rudimentary mental process would have shown the speaker that if the average family in which there are children contained but two children the population so rapidly that in two or three generations it would very de- servedly be on the point of extinction. so that the people who nad acted on giving place to others with braver and more robust ideals. Nor would such 8 result be in any way regrettable; for d race that practiced such doctrine--that is, a race that practiced race suicide would thereby conclusively show that 1t was unfit to exist. and that it had not forgotten the primary laws of their
 To sum up then. the whole matter is simple enough. If eIther race or an mere effortiess ease. of self-indulgence. 10 the infinitely deeper. the infinitely higher pleasures that come to those who know the toll ana the & Mearinessi ss; done why. that race or that individual must inevitably in the end pay the penalty of leading life both vapid and ignoble. No man and no woman really worthy of the name can care for the fife spent solely or chiefly in the avoidance of risk and trouble and la bor Save in exceptional cases the prizes worth havivng in life must be paid for, and the life worth living must be a life of work for worthy end, and ordinarily of work more for others than for ones self.
 The man is but d poor creature whose effort Is not rather for the bettcrment of his wife and children than for him self: and as for the mother, her very name stands for loving unselishness and self-abnegatlon. and, in any. soci- ety fit to exist, is fraught with asso- citations which render it holy.
 The woman's task Is not easy--no task worth doing is easy--but in doing it, and when she has done 1t. there shall come to her the highest and holi- est joy known to man6ind: and having done it, she shall have the reward prophesied in Scripture; for her hus- band and her children, yes, and all peo- pie who realize that her work lies at the foundation of all national happi- ness and greatness. shall rise up and call her blessed.