The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-03-14

slept all morning and seems to have re-
covered from her nervous condition i'm
medlately following the conviction.
Tomorrow morning Mrs. Chadwick will
make application to go to her home to
pick out her personal effects, which she
asserts are exempt from seizure.
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they will surely need. Some children will
go wrong in spite of the hest training;
and some will go right even when their
surroundings are most unfortunate; new
ertheless an immense amount depends
upon the family training. If you moth
ers through weakness bring up your
sons to be selfish and to think only of
themselves, you will be responsible for
much sadness among the women who
are to be their wives in the future. II
you let your daughters grow up idle,
perhaps under the mistaken impression
that as you yourselves have had to work
hard they shall know only enjoyment.
you are preparing them TO be useless to
others and burdens to themselves. Teach
boys and girls alike that they are not to
look forward to lives spent in avoiding
difficulties. but to lives spent in over
coming difficulties. Teach them that
work, for themselves and also for others,
is not a curse but a blessing; seek to
make them happy, to make them enjoy
life with the steadfast resolution to wrest
success from labor and adversely. and to
do their whole duty before God and to
man. Surely she who can thus train her
sons and her daughters is thrice fortunate
among women.
Many Denied the Blessing.
There are many good people who are
denied the supreme blessing of children.
and for these we have the respect and
sympathy always due to those who. from
no fault of their own, are denied any OF
the other great blessings of life. But the
man or woman who deliberately forgoes
these blessings, whether from vicious
ness. coldness, Observation-Disclosures self
Indulgence or mere failure to appreciate
Alright the difference between the all
important and the INDEPENDENTLY,
such a creature merits contempt as
hearty as any visited upon the soldier
who runs away in battle, or upon the
man who refuses to work for the sup
port of those dependent upon him. and
who though ablebodied is yet content
tn eat in idleness the bread which others
provide.
Cites Character In Fiction.
1.-THE existence of women of this type
forms one of the most unpleasant and
unwholesome feature of modern life. If
any one is so dim of vision as to fail to
see what a thoroughly unlovely creature
such a woman is l wish they would read
Judge Robert Grants novel 'Unleavened
Bread ponder seriously the character of
Selma, and think of the fate that would
surely overcome any nation which deVei-
oped it's average and typical woman along
such lines. Unfortunately it would be
untrue to say that lis type exists only
in American novels. That 1t also exists
fe la IN m Ifan a
evident by the statistics as to the
dwlndling families In come localities 1t
Is made evident in equally sinister fash
ion by the census statistics as to divorce,
which are fairly appalling; for easy d.
yorce is now as 1t ever has been, a bane
to any nation, curse to society
menace to the home, an incitement 10
married unhappine-z and to immortality,
an evil thing for men and a still more
hideous evil for women. These unpleas-
ant tendencies in our American life are
made evident by articles such as those
whGh l actually read not long ago In
certain paper, where clergyman was
quoted, seemingly with approval, as ex-
pressing the general 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 chill
dren an opportunity to taste a few OF
the good things of life
This man, whose profession and call
ing should have made him moral teach
err 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 opportunity, and giving
them the privilege of making their own
place in the world but, forsooth. of keep
Ing the number of children so limited that
they might taste a few good things!'
The way to give child fair chance In
life is not to bring it up in luxury but
to see that 1t has the kind of training
that will give It strength of character.
Even apart from the vital question of ma
tional life and regarding only the indi-
vidual interests OF the children them
selves, happiness in the true sense is
| hundredfold more apt to 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, must win their own
way. and by their own exertions make
their own positions of usefulness, than
II Is apt to come to those whose parents
themselves have acted on and have train
| ed their children to act on. the selfish
and sordid theory that the whole end OF
life is to taste a few good things
On Par With Its Morality.
1.-The intelligence of the remark is on
par with its morality, for the most rudi-
mentary mental process would have
shown the speaker that II the average
family in which there are children con-
tanned but two children the nation as a
whole would decrease In population so
rapidly that in two or three generations
1t would very deservedly be on the point