The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-18

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When American life is guided BY i
staildaTd OF health, rather than al
standard Of wealth, as We see 1T TO-DAY.
we shall have .pedigreed MARRIAGES.
marriages which, / believe, will solve
many of the p~erplexing questions of
This interesting prediction was made
by Prof, Irving Fisher Of Yale unIyer-
sity, In discussing the future of a de-
partment Of national health. AS pres
ident OF the committee of 100 on ma
tfonal health, composed OF the most
noted met of the country, which has
Tor its chief object the establishment
Or this department., where human
importance to the health Of animals
professor Fisher has mad an exhaus
tive study of the subject. when pub
aic opinion has been sufficiently de-
Nsi9ped on this point said PROFESSOR
Flsher. we shall take as great a pride
and as deep interest in our own pedi-
grees and the pedigrees of those whom
our sons and daughters marry, as we
90 today In the blue ribbon history of
our dogs and horses. American moth
ers who practically sell their daugh-
ters to degenerate nobleinen. to graf
lfy selfish social ambition, should be
upon by women OF high social
and moral standing In the community.
These mothers should be made to un-
derStand that the have lost caste,
rather than gained it, by bartering
their children to the degenerate owner.
OF a title. Do not understand that i
am opposed to international mar
rlaEes,,' corrected Professor Fisher.
But most of the noblemen who visit
here are merely fortune hunters, and
have not a great deal 10 commend
them beyond a title handed down by
their ancestors. Girls should demand
something besides the title. This
question of International marriages
has become almost a social institution
with us, Health, beauty and vitality
arc much more natural objects OF
youthful admiration than titles of
wealth, which now exercise for the
most part, a baneful influence on mar
riage. But marriage, whether at IONS
or abroad, should be made less arti-l
fetal. Marriage should be based on
more genuinely healthy principles. The
athletic girl, the Intellectual girl today
has a better chance to marry than the
p~ale-faced type. who Tolls around all
day reading novels. The girl who rolls
up her sleeves and plays golf Is pre-
ferred by men today to the vapid type
OF girl. Athletic marriages are rapid
ly increasing in this country. Many
young men meet their life partners on
the golf grounds or the tennis court
Most men today prefer In their wives
primal and natural instinct, and the
more natural men n women are, and
the more highly they esteem natural
vitality, more they will be guided
a fashion where health is an essential
endowment to matrin1ony, d larger per-
centage OF healthy persons will marry,
leaving q larger percentage Of un-
healthy persons single. This will not
only tend to improve the race. but We
may hope to reach, III not excel, the
standard of the hcalth-loving and
beautiful Greeks of old. What 7 mean
By pedigreed marriages. explained
Professor Fisher, lis not that a young
man or woman wishing to marry would
obtain a health pedigree with the mar
riage license; / don believe a reform
could ever be brought about in this
way. But what ! mean is, that the
public sentiment must be strongly Gre
ated in favor Of health. We must feel
az great 2 pride IN possesslng thai
the pride we take today in foisting
marriages into titled families, or the
size of our fortunes. Then we shall
consider a pedigree as seriously az the
the pedigree Of the dogs that NIL his
Kennels.
Little Miss Daisy johnson, mascot
of Court Daisy, G. f., was surprised
by a few OF her little friends Friday
afternoon at her home in Moorhead,
the occasion being her second birthday
anniversary. The little guests spent
and at S o'clock q dainty lunch was
served, q feature of which was a.
birthday cake upon which fickered two
pink candles. The little honor guest
received many happy remembrances of
the day and her small guests left at
an early hour wishing her many more
happy birthdays.
The Book and Thimbie club will meet
on next wednesday evening with Mrs.
c. r. Amidon. SO Seventh avenue
south.
In the neighborhood OF Twenty-Five.
members of Daisy court, Independent
evening to Mr.. and Mrs. James BinE-
ham at their residence on the southside
and spent a delightful evening, during
which In behalf of the court Charles
couple with a handsome silver chafng
dish. The recipient responded in a
clever manner after which a very