Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-03-21
To Gear Large Family Annually ca
vlbFalapy and Color Principles.
LIFE PREOEsIlaED BY ONES NAME
Infants VIII Receive New cosnOmcns
and be Put to Work Early at Com
monhealth, Rcnsselaer-Mak. Gar
dcns When Three Years Old.

NEW YORK, March 2O.-To i'm
prove the human race, Mrs. +. f. Vic
land Is planning TO adopt sixty chill
drcn Il year for ten years. She. with
hcr husband. John Wicland. OF
Rensselaer, Heights, ~ Y, and Bcnja
min Franklin, of No. IS Park row, New
York city. have Incorporated the com
commonwealth under the laws OF the
state OF New York.
Eight acres OF land, n house. mill
and n stream. with sufficient waite
power to light IL town. are in the pos
session of tho corporation at Rens
selacr. ~ Y. Here the adopted chill
dren arc to be trained in right men
tai. physical and manual effort. rs 4
practical demonstration of the laws OF
vibration" a
Mrs. Wicland gave an enthusiastic
exposition of her theories, prospects
and hopes at the Sign OF the Green
Tea Pot. No. 81 West Thirty third
street, yesterday afternoon. Names.
numbers and colors are fundamental
principles in her plan. She wore a
surpicc OF pale blue. because that Is
her color. Some pamphlets which she
had printed had failed in efficiency
IhccauSc they were yellow and rod. IN
harmonious colors for her.
All the sixty children who arc To
he adopted arc to have new names.
Mrs. Wielaud prefers TO get posses
sion OF babies. the younger the bel
ter. With her system. she said. it
would be just rs easy 10 manage
twelve as one. Mothers gaspcd AT
this. but Mrs. Wicland insisted COM
prchension OF the laws of vibration
and mental science reduced work TO
the vanishing point.
! II Is proposed later 10 have mothers
as we'll as infants In the common
wealth, so that they may he properly
instructed in the duties OF mother
hood. Mrs. Wicland Is her own nurse
aud physician and files the birth GER
tifcntes herself She displayed four
certificates to prove her case. Her
children begin To work as soon as they
can walk. and that principle followed
with sixty lnbics would prove quito
profitable. One or hcr children. She
related, carried wood into the house
and arranged II neatly in rows at the
age OF eighteen months. At the age
+, of two aud a half years the children
begin gardening. When they are five
and six years old they raise corn. two
carr being shown &c . part ne tho
crop raised by children of that age.
! Tho FIRST of the sixty has already
been adopted. She is Russian jew,
three months old. and has not yet
been named. because 1t Is necessary
to get tho date OF her birth from
Gouverneur Hospital before the righ.
name can be selected
Mrs. Aso-Neiih w. Cochran, who
gives character readings in vlbr,i,
ton through name and birth number
with color and key note" explained
that there are so many failures in life
because persons are handicapped BY
being badly named. Given the date
Of birth. Mrs. Cochran will mathemat
ically reckon the correct name ono
should bear
Children are often irritable. and
even i'll. because their mothers deck
out in frocks and hair ribbons OF the
wrong color. 1t Is an essential 10 dis
cover tho proper color as the correct
name for each individual All of that
will be worked out carefully in the
commonwealth rrlS1-