The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-05-15
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BLOOD TELLSl

The longer | live the more l believe
In blood-good blood. bad blood; hum
BILE blood, proud blood; honest blood,
thieving blood; heroic blood, cowardly
blood, The tendency may skip gen.
GRAFTON or two; then out 1t comes. l
know a little fellow who doesn't look
like his father or mother-both could
deny him easily-but stand him under
the portrait of his Revolutionary great
grandfather and you are startled by
the resemblance. There's law writ
ten in your blood that determines your
height, weight and girth. 1t tells the
very form of your toes and shape of
your fingers, color of your hair, bril-
lance of your eye, quickness Of your
step and tone Of your voice. We call
it heredity. When you've said that
you've said nearly all you know. You
can't locate it. No man can say "Lo,
here!' or 40, there!' We hear Of roy
al blood and common blood, patrician
blood and plebeian blood, but the biol
ogist with his microscope knows no
such things. He simply finds red and
white corpuscles. Yet we know We
are the heirs of the ages. Past gen
erations are living in our veins. MAN
is an omnibus in which his ancestors
ride"
! Whats Born In the Bone
Life is a loom. 1--WE are hit and
miss rag carpet. made up of the va
rious yarns of our forefathers and fore
mothers, woven in the loom Of heredity
by the weaver Time with a warp Of
our own individuality" Blood tells!
Four seeds dropped into same soil,
same sun, same dew, same air, same
care-one a lily to please the eye, one
crimson rose to please the nostril,
one an apple to please the taste, one
thorn to prick the touch. Same soil,
rain, heat, moisture, but all different.
Like begets like. When you say Of q
girl, How she favors her grandmoth-
ersr' or of your boy, Hes a chip off
the old block" or you say. Her
mother had consumption" His father
drank himself to DEATH" you are sim
ply saying, BLOOD tells! ECLIPSE
the racer, sired 1874 racers, which won
$9OO,0O0." Herod sired 497, which won
over S1,OOO,OOO. Only another way OF
saying Blood tells" with horses. II
blood makes one horse worth $25 AND
another $4,000 it's time we began tt
study man blood. We have horse
shows, dog shows, chicken shows. The
crowd attends. Newspapers give col
umns of space. Society approves.
baby show Is a matter for ridlcule
Society with poodle on its lap bushes
looks shocked, thinks 1t isn't more
than half decent.
Men Versus Sheep.
A gardener studies laws of heredit!
when he plants cabbage head. Ism
q human head as interesting as cab
bage head? More attention Is givel
to improve the strain of the hen tina
lays the egg than the child that eat
It. There is more said and writer
about how to improve the wool on tn
back of the sheep than to improve til
man who wears it when woven. Chris
said, How much better is maj
than q sheep" Is not man bette
than a COW? 1t might be as well 70
our women's clubs to study the infu
ence of the notorious luke family wit
its generations of criminals and pat
pers and the Jonathan Edwards fan
lily with its generations of learning an
culture as the influence of Ibsen o
Browning. One of the saddest page
of literature is in Barries "Sentimer
tai Tommy" where the little girl CIR
eel, daughter of the painted lady, find
out there's Il faint in her blood an
rushes to the doctor crying: 1.-THE ba
thing that's in my blood. Oh, pleas
cut it out! shan't scream! | prom
ise not to scream" He tells her
can't be cut out; she must bear 1t a
ways. It's indescribably awful. Youn
man, see that your child doesn't ris
after you screaming, There's som
thing bad in my bloodr' Don't dam
your innocent children.
Are We Fated For III?
The world is stuffed with drugs. Th
pantry shelf is lined with medicin
bottles. Sanitariums spring up lili
toadstoos after shower. Every p
geon, every butterfly, looks up an
says, "How perfect are thy works,
Lord of hosts!' Man coughs apol
getically and asks, "Who hath sinne
this man or his father" Any hope
Yes! Man has two creators, God an
himself. Heredity and environmeI
do not decide your destiny. How W,
Eden for environment? Who were IL
ancestors of Luther, Lincoln al
/ shakespeare Know anything Of Il
4 parentage of Moses or Paulf Ev'
hear of John Bunyan. Jerry McAule
John G. Cough? And you and
y Mixture of good and .evil-neith
4 sheep nor goat. half virtuous, half '
\ cious? All right. Even the half bret
has a chance to make good No mt
4 ever committed sin that he did n
feel afterward that he need not ha'
dopa II. n could have been Otherwfs