Putnam patriot., 1912-07-12

Physically they are strong and healthy.
 "When the children are from 2 to It years old they begin to help their par ents work. "Work2n shouts the hys- terical sentimentalist. "Terrible, Is il not to put children of 9 to 10 to work?n No, monsieur or madame, it is not terrible. They work not beyond their strength; they are not overtaxed. IL k a species Of play for them they are out in the field with the father his work is strenuous, theirs is light and invigorating The proof of this is that they grow up into physically strong and healthy men and women. Nature seems to approve of it, even through modern, sentimental, selfish, non ehild-prodneing society frowns and prelends to be shocked .
 The average life of children coming from large families according 10 the in- vestigatof, k about the same as else where. The best proof Of this, he finds is the fact that the large famiiesl com tinue to exist and the population doubles every twenty-five years. The official census statistics for 1911 have not yet been published, but those Of 1901 show for population Of ,64s,- 000 no less than ; lS2 old people from 70 to n years of age; l4,0S0 from 75 to 70 years; 7,2sl from so to s4 years old 2,S56 from S5 to So years; S39 between the ages of 90 and 94 years, and 269 above the age of 90 years.
 The large families do not prevent the parents from educating their children properly, he finds, for the percentage of literacy is as high as in any part of America, and he cites an abundance of colleges and secondary schools for each province. All the children, he declares, can read and write, and none of them are deprived of school advan- tages.
 "The French Canadians have few millionaires among them,' he says, "out there are few. On the other hand, they have no poor. The poor, even in the great city'of Montreal, are not French Canadians. Among the smaller towns, one place, Nicolet, will serve as an example. Conversing with one of it's citizens, the writer asked him whether there was large number of poor He answered that practically there were no poor.
 "We are neither rich nor poor. Every one makes living, and comfortable living Our farmers are ever pros porous.
 "The question was asked if the large families did not have the tendency to make the people poor, and he laughed aud said that on the farms the large families were B distinct advantage, for, while farmers in English speaking portions of the country could get no help at all, the French Canadians never lacked for il.
 "PoorhouseS are not so common in AtlChEN A> HI 0tAiNt fiNNNaes | 1S4N "iNt of course, always some old and infirm people who naturally would become a public care, but these arc taken care of as in the Middle Ages, by the religious institutions, so that the penthouse IS not so frequently seen as in some other sections of North America.
 "To sum up the Freneh.Canadian country, which really is the Province of Quebec: IL is country without rich, without poor, without stringeney in the labor market; without divorce courts, full of happy faced children, strong men, hsrd.working but physi- cally perfect women, religious, thrifty and happy. AS to its future, its popu- lation occupies only tenth part Of what II could occupy and lind snosisi- ence. II has vast wafer power, has