The Washington times., 1907-09-22
By PROF. EMIL REICH,

~ = BETHER II be true or not,
NM that he alone is the perfect
" man who unites IN hin both
virile and feminine traits.
It is certain that The deep and all pre-
vaiIlng influence OF a mother has at
all times shaped. CT helped to shape.
to 'estinies OF individuals.
The influence Of women. which has
always Teen exceedingly great in all
the spheres Of public or private life,
II supreme In the home, or at any
tate Il ought TO be.
Tie entire mental and emotional
machinery OF women is very markedly
different from that OF men, and il is
precisely the peculiar intellect OF
women which. when duly transmitted
20 q young man, will enable him 10 do
remarkable things.
IL has long since been noticed that
men are far more likely 70 Inherit
their gifts Of intellect from their
mothers. The philosopher Schossir
hauer even maintains that this is tie
reason why women do not care for
intellectual men. For, he says, since
the child is sure to inherit its intel
lect from the mother. the latter in
stinctively does not trouble about in
tellect In man, and only cares for
such bodily and other features as VIII
be transmitted from the father, and
not from the mother. to the child.
Perhaps Schopenhauer Was nistak-
en-. and Il may be commonly observed
that children Inherit moro intellectual
and moral features from side-rela-
lives. such as aunts and uncles, t!.an
directly from the parents. Yet Il can
not be overlooked hat the influence
of the mother from the first day to
tire ninth or tenth year Of ones life IS
Immense
rhe Greeks paid very much attention
to this critical period and In many a
Greek state they had an elaborate sys-
tenn Of legislation on how 10 bring 10
children. under the mothers influences.
from the first year 70 the tenth. Now
adays we and our legislation pay much
more attention to education from ten
to twenty than from one 20 ten.
A mother may do much 20 mold Las
future OF her child BY accustoming 10
TO scrupulous honesty. TO decent be-
havIor, TO Cleanliness, to moderation In
eating and drinking, and 20 dutifully
performing all that he promised OF
was expected to. All this, however.
she can do only by loving her home,
having a few servants, and particu-
larly by helping her son up to his
fourteenth year under her direct super
intendence. It IS mothers like that
who have made many OF the most sre-
cessful men OF the world.
The period from our .irst to our tenth
year is IN many ways the most critical
Of our life. II the right beginning IS
not made during that time. 1t viii DO
more than difficult TO make up for the
loss incurred by education In subse-
quent years
Our memory. our imagination. our
love OF work, our health and several
other factors Of success in life de-
pend on what has been done for US
in the first ten years Of our expert
ence. This again depends almost ex-
clusively on the action Of the mother,
and sad and disagreeable though II
is to utter such a thing. Il Is quite
true that the astounding number OF
individual failures, both in Great Brit
ain and In America, IS due mainly to
the neglect Of sons education from
the first year TO the teuth. For we
must not deceive ourselves: While
both Great Britain and the United
States are, as countries, as totals. q