Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-03-23
By Annie Laurie.


to be a bigamist.
1 wonder whether they found on
about that-eugenically.
i don't know haw the eugenic bride
and eugenic husbands feel about It
but I'd rather be married to some one
with four generations of consumptic:
for family history rhan to be married
to bigamist.
That's the trouble with all this ell
genie theory. How in the world is 4
going to DO anything important FOR the
race when the only thing that is u
much Importance -character-is lef!
completely out of the reckoning}
The healthiest and most ph, sically
perfect man | ever knew has about as
much power as an angle worm.
He dOesn t like to drink, he hates the
taste Of whiskey, and he says cham
paign makes his head ache--but be
drinks, just the same, to please people
who ask him to drink.
He's in love with his wife, or would
like to be, and he has a little hoy he g
fond of, and a baby daughter that he
adOres. But any woman who Will mako
eyes at him. owns him completely for
the time being,
This man is naturally clean, naturally
decent, naturally wholesome-rhe vesy
snrt Of person you'd pick out, eugenic-
ally, TO marry your dearest daughter.
And he rs the worst husband know, for
reasons which have absolutely nothing
20 do with eugenics whatsoever.
know girl who was the leader Of
the basketball team at college. She can
swim and row and ride and run
She can dance thirty miles o night
and be mp at S o'clock in the morning
looking as if she hadn't done q thing
but sleep all night long on perfectly
good sleeping porch with sweet breeze
from the ocean whispering pretty
dreams every minute Of the hour
This woman is pretty and frush col
ored, and she has good manners and IS
very intelligent, but she s driving her
husband TO drink and making her child
rem wish they lived in nice, cozy,
quiet orphan asylum.
Eugenically she $ perfect.
Really, she's born nagger qhrewd,
a scold, a womnp with genius for see
ing every little fault her husband has
through a double.lensed telescope, and
telling him about it with a megaphone
I'd rather have boy Of mine marry
girl with hereditary tendency to in
flammatory rheumatism, or anything
else on the Doctors calendar, than to be
married to that girl.
The inherited disease sometimes slips
link in the chain the bad disposition
never misses tricf,
And there is such thing as suffi-
eient strength of character to throw
off the mere tendency to almost any
disease in the world
know two sisters born of CON
sumptive mother.
One of them is going into n decline
this very day and hour, and the other
is tho picture Of health.
The ono who g going into decline Is
n Observation-Disclosures sort
Of person, who thinks it is interesting
TO be "delicate
She won't exercise; she won't cat
anything that she ought to eat, End she
will eat all things she ought not to eat;
s'he haes fresh air, and says that a sleep.
ing porch gives her the shivers; she
reads novels aud curls up over silly
books when she ought to oe out in the
gapien planting petunios,
Her sister Is n bright, good-humored,
sensible girl She started in with a
cough couple Of years ago, and she
saved every dollar she could get hold
of and had sleeping porch built out
Of her room.
She called in good doctor aud obet
cd his orders TO the letter
she ate what she ought to eat, aud
she ict what she ought not to eat alone,
She liked to read too, but she threw
her books away and cultivated bed
og violets,
Today that sister is perfectly wei
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