The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-04

marry. "Here's young woman" said
the speaker, within year from the
grave with consumption. And yet she
will cry out, Anybody, Lord, will do.
A child is brought into the world
| through the union to live out its
existence, fighting with the dread
disease only to die in time with the
wish that it had never been born.
| Ignorant, deformed and simple couples
make bad homes and they are worse
| than the divorce. We must not de-
plore the divorce, but get at the bot
tom of the trouble" said the speaker,
'and reform the American home.
There Is only one institution in Amer
lea that is not progressing and that
! is the home. The schools are pro-
crossing well enough for what we
send them. The churches are doing
we'll for the kind of people that go to
church. The government in this
land is doing first rate. The govern
ment is doing better than the busi-
ness outside of Washington. The
only way to rid this country of graft
| Is to raise gentlemen" said the lee
turer.
"We are the smartest people in the
world, and yet we don't know how to
live. We cease to be good animals.
Typhoid fever sweeps over this coun-
try every year uselessly. We spend
two billion dollars each year through
sickness. The only way to avoid II is
to appoint a scientist on the health
board and gentlemen on the council"
Profssor Oft was inclined to believe
that heredity Is the one thing to be
considered. What a man is in one
place he will be in another. "Sound
marriages OF sound people will make
the race better. The only trouble Is
In the home. There are too many
people today, who are attempting TO
making a living with cuffs on" ac-
cording TO the speaker. I'm the four /
million years of recorded history
there have been but four hundred
geniuses. There is the young lawyer
and the quack doctor, who know they
have no ability in the lines which
they pursue, and yet have been fooled
into doing it," In all his life, the
speaker said, that he had only once
found preacher who gave up his
work because he couldn't preach. Mr..
OFT plead for some institution where
by the lad would be given an oppor-
tunity to find himself ana II he is TO
do hard, honest labor, then do IL
well. ''Man should consider his her
edity, and Judge his mission accord
ing1y."
Professor OFT told how the scien-
lists took the little bitter berry OF the
western states and by cross breeding
with these our berry plant of South
America formed the modern straw
berry. A wedding took place, when
the scientist united those two
healthy plants and the result was a
delicious strawberry. "That was one
foreign marriage" said the speaker
l"that was not a failure" In the
same way what the childs parents
are the child will We Environment
may have decided effect on him at
times, but his duty Is 10 fight and
fight squarely, and If we fall fall in
battle and die fighting.
The lecturer closed his address with
a plea for the modern boy. He relat-
ed the boys desires and asked for
consideration on the part of the par
ents for the wishes OF tie boy and
then will he be better prepared for
the calling TO which he is called.
Professor Otis lecture was no
doubt one Of the best of the Y. NJ.
lC. A. lecture course. He held his
audience with marvellous power. Her
edity" might have been his subject
and we'll 1t might have substituted
the theme of 'Sour Grapes" but the
average audience would have expected
something distant dry and old, but
that In substance was his theme and
not for some time has a Marion aud
ience been so profoundly attentive.
Post cards with brief of the lee
ture OF the evening were given out
by the lecturer but the supply failed
and a number of those present last
evening were disappointed The card
can be secured at the office OF the
Y. M, G. A.. where an additional
supply is held.