White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-11-12
WHERE IS CENTER
Of MOTHERL LOVE?
MAN WHO INVENTED NEW IDEA
Is SUPERINTENDENT OF HOME
WHICH CARES FOR DEEPEN
DENT CHILDREN.

You have heard, of course. about
the ENTER of population and the
center Of wealth. But have you eve
heard about the center of mother
love-of love for little children.
A man who ought to know says
that the ate OF population lies in
Indiana. the center of wealth in New
York and the center of the maternal
instinct in Texas. But it may not
stay there. 1t will shift and change
precisely like eenters of population
in countries. and eenters of wealth in
communities. The center of mater
nal instinct is governed he says.
by the wholesomeness or unwnole-
someness of women's environment
This new phase. this new idea. in
~terested me so keenly that wanted
to hear more about il. and am sure
that the readers of Pictorial Review
will be Just as interested, says Ar
thur T. Vance, editor of the Review.
The man who advanced this re-
markable theory is not a go rernment
statistiCisn nor a sociological crank,
but the very practical superintendent
of a state organization which cares
for dependent children. For many
years he has devoted his life to plae-
ing foundlings. orphans and child
rem rescued from degenerate parents
in safe and loving foster homes He
has watched these children grow into
useful, contented men and women,
and he has seen many a childless
home gladdened by their presence.
many a matrimonial breach closed by
their gentle dimpled hands.
When | first took up this work"
said the man, the women who came
10 our offices applying for children to
adopt hailed from city homes. Then
the demand shifted. The suburban
lite and not the city woman became
our applicant. Gradually she, too.
gave way to the wife of a farmer or
quite often to a spinster in a small
town within a few hundred miles of
the city. Today the demand for
children to adopt is practically con-
fined TO the Harvest. | believe that
every superintendent of an eastern
organization devoted 10 the care of
dependent children will confirm this
statement In fact, the larger So
cieties now run large excursions to
the far west. taking children by the
hundreds TO their new homes.
The state of Massachusetts, is pay
ing 100000 a year to board its de-
pendent children. This is not be-
cause the number of dependent child
rem increase more rapidly than the
childless families in Massachusetts,
can absorb them but because families
are childless through chioce and not
through misfortune because the
children r not wanted.
in the large eastern cities, the
child1ess women are divided into two
classes-those who are absorbed in
the pursuit of selfish pleasure and
those who must work for their living
The rapid accumulation of wealth
and the tendency to concentrated
form of life such as flats, apartments
hotels, etc, are alike fatal to the
maternal instinct"
| told a middle aged physician,
general practitioner among many
families in a large suburb, what the
superintendent of the baby bureau
had said. He thought for a few
moments and then added his opinion.
The man is right. Wherever
women are giving themselves body
and soul to the extravagant spending
of money earned by their husbands
and fathers, or to the ambition TO
earn and accumulate large indepen-
dent means. the material instinct is
dead, homes are childless and d.
vorces are prevalent. Vanity. the
inordinate love of dress and motor
ing are directly responsible for race
suicide in America today. In order
to display her expensive wardrobe to
best advantage, a woman must re-
tain what is known as the virginia.
figure. slender. straight and girlish.
IL she bore children, she might lose