The Washington herald., 1909-05-16
SOMETHING ABOUT BABIES.

Would yoa trade babies with your
neighbor for a month OF so II you
thought il would help to bring peace
upon the earth2
| Would you take a chance On getting
back your little darling all dinted Up. or
having some others ~snOokumsT max
ing teeth holes in your furniture or
/ keeping your husband awake?
Would you do this much 10 advance
I the cause Of universal brotherhood II
you felt quite sure that the coming years
broad and smiling world. with nothing
/ lacking TO make il heaven? Would you?
The chances are you wouldn't II you
are an ordinary, everyday mother You
would set your foot upon the thought
Yoa would draw your little one 20 your
/ bosom, throw back your shoulders, els-
vats your chin. and say Never" IN q
most articuiate and dramatic manner.
Nevertheless. baby swapping Is the first
step toward terrestrial paradise. accord
ing 70 Mrs. Sarah H. Sawyer. OF 81 Nine
teenth street northwest Il soatters love,
broadens knowledge, wipes out selfish
ness. clannishness. greed and sin. and
opens avenues 10 greater advancement
along the lines Of civilization. One baby
IS as good as another, Mrs. Sawyer says,
anu the mother who does no; think 50 IS
selfish
The way 10 stop sin IS 10 stop the
cause OF sin" Mrs Sawyer declares
As lang as families and cliQues and So
cIeties are arrayed against ore another
there VII be har6ships and there viii be
transgression. and all the religion in the
world cannot put il down Il IS ike
singing al the tempest 20 ask God TO help
ycu. II there Is any God, He VIII damn
you fer wasting time looking 10 Him for
more You have the earth. In your
selfshress you want another world
We could make q feT real heartfelt
sacrifices EnS discover that He has al
ready give- Us heaven II our ancestry
IN the centuries gone had thought OF rs
as we shoulG think OF our posterity in
the centuries 10 come there wouldn't be
euy prisons. asyluns. saloons, or any
thing that causes Us pain There wouldn't
be ary churches, because there woUldn
be s,y need Of churches. God doesn't
care how We make ourselves good II We
can &C il without churches, there viii
be more stained glass windows and pipe
organs for the home.
"Baty swapping sounds harsh. But
there is a pleasant side to Il. AL the lt-
tie play worlds that would be opened 70
the embryo mind and al the sweet tenn
peraments that would grow out Of the
cradle would make people beautiful and
happy and all-knowing- Peevishness
would give place 10 amiability- Jeaiousies
and all incentives 10 crime would be
swept before the gentle, eInOlumentsl in
fuenCes Of fellowship Energy wasted IN
pulling against sin would be swung into
place and life would move along Ike
song. with everybody happy and pros
pering. Happiness is the secret OF long
life We could live and live and live
There wOulda be any death There
would be a time 10 enter upon that long
and peaceful calm we are more wont 70
call nonentity. but there wouldn't be
any fUnereal deaths and weird grave
yards, because We will have learned 20
love none better than another, and our
hearts viii not be worn with shattered
love We viii not mourn al all We
VIII be different people We viii en1aaci-
pa1s ourselves from vices and toll We
haven't even discovered ourselves We
are all tangled up and our rest is f1cfuI
will know more about certainty. What
right have we 70 reach beyond the skies
and claim infinite territory when vye