The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-07-26

chautauqua audience Tuesday on tho
bcttermcnt of the home He has
spent time and thought studying and
pondcrng on the great question OF
hercdity. lie has reached certain
logical conclusions. His plea is fnr
The bctterment of the home; for purity
and honesty there; for homc-makcrs
and not mere housekccpcrs, MIR. Otts
interest in humanity is genuine aud
any one who hears his lecture viii be
benefited, upliited and strengthened
immcasurebly.
81 bring you no new fad &C the
hour began the speaker. "Our topic
is more than 1900 years old. In those
days the common saying was, The
fathers have eaten sour grapes and
the childrcns teeth are set on edge
That was the common sentence used
to express hcrcdity. So we use it sti,l
to express hcredity To-day we're go-
ing to talk about the most Interesting
thing IN life lif6 itself what's the
reason some of Ms are bad aud some
good? What's the reason we're all so
different? why Is one man short aud
another one tall? why is enc baby
cut OF cduh hundred handicapped in
his race of life by some misfortune,
some physical, mental or moral Do
iinuucncy2" When Edward Amherst
OFT asked these questions Of PHI
losopher in the rough, he was told,
ITS Just case cr this here thing
they cdll hittery- -dittery.' This ,ll
man" said Mr.. OF. had something
of the philosophy of life which we for
get When we phllosophizc, We are
up In the clouds. This old fellow no
ticcd that when "a beech tree droppcd
Il nut into the soil IN a few nrcnths Il
wa9 shclterlng q llitlc tender tree.
rhcrc ~ no law more far -reachlrg
than the las Of hcicdity. 1fs the
only law that prevails when ydN spcaI,
of people. Like beEets llke.H some
neoplc sax you caIl't proYe that That's
So There never has been twoi people
Well. dp tofdate, qpe man
II ~ KIND lias hcem enough. gNatufe
itas variety. This variety is a ,stheniY
Ofssla t,lyeirrtQ- makey Toe lminHn race
.btcresting And then there are some
kinds OF people that we can get. along
without Let that race die out"
Mr. OFT then gave some examples or
the work done by scientists hl pro-
ducing fruits and plants of now ordi-
nary use. from fruits that in their
original state were tastclcss ana Hat.
lie told Of the growth of the straw
berry from the union of Wild little
sweet berry and large, tastcless
strawberry. From this union we have
the lucious fruit which Rraccs our Ia
bles today. "That was the one fcreigl
marriage that wasn't a failure said
Mr.. or.
Law of IIcrcdily.
"This law of hcreGity works both
ways, sometimes It's blessing 10 the
world ANA sometimes It's warning.
have right to say that" the speaker
declared, "for in All the worlds his
tory, only about 400 gcutuses have
ever been produced Aud here in
America where life should be at It's
hest. where we still live a great deaf
out of doors, ana arc well fed ana
clothed and educated, still, uut Of
every 100, one Infant Is an absolute
months. out of every 1000. $50 die
before they reach the age of 12
months ont Of every 1000, $50 die
heiorc they reach the age Of five years
The trouble is, we don't know how to
live. Most Of tho diseases which bur-
den cur country are absolutely need
loss, Eighty out of 1000 of our
blind people are neodlossly blind This
Is simply a result cf the contemplate