The Washington times., 1917-10-03
Moderately Young Mothers.
Moderately Old Fathers
The Best Combination
t Is Plato's Theory, and Statistics Indorse 1t.

The always interesting Journal of Heredy published in
Washington, advises girls to marry young
The editor prints statistics and says that it is an inus
ce to unborn children for girls to delay marriage after
twenty-five.
Statistics are interesting other things inter
estingl
The Journal of Heredity does not say enough-we find
interesting what Plato wrote the subject more than
1000 years ago..
It is well for girls to marry and have their children
youngbut not TOO young The mother of Napoleon vast
ed energy giving birth to children when she in her teens
She fourteen when she married One two of her chill
dren did not live at all
The chids physical strength depends largely on the
mothers physical condition before the child is born In the
false life of civilization few in perfect physical
condition after thy-hence statistics which make ad-
vsabe for the average mother to have her children while
younger.
In days to children will be born when the mothers
are well past thirty, and be the better for it.
Exceptional cases tell than statistics And you
find very often that the exceptional born Of mother
old enough to give to her not only the best physical
strength but full mental development.
As for men, they better fathers when they old
than when they young Plato right about that The
exception to the rule is the king great nobemanas Gal
ton points out in his interesting book heredity
The first of great ruler is apt be his best child
for when is born he has completely lost interest in the
mother.
Remember that the quality Of the child depends to
great extent the affection Of the father and the mother
for each other.
The first child of king is apt to be the best because he
likes the mother when thst'child is born.
The LATER children of peasants, Carlyle Napo-
leon apt to be better because later in life the humber
father and mother depend each other than in the
beginning and have deeper affection for each other The
deeper affection produces better children.
The creating of children at present. and wisely hap
hazard and indscriminate matter of QUANTITY. The
world not peOpled needs human beings good
possible, secondclass if no better can be.
The State of Texas would feed the population Of the
world The unnhabted mountain ranges that would provide
magnificent homes for five times the present population Of
the earth will all be available estate soon when the flying
machine is perfected Everybody will fly home his house
the mountain Women have the task of supplying
Inhabitants for all these mountain homes and this will
tnue until at least ten thousand million human beings shall
have been added to the earth's population.
Then, shortly aterward the earth will be really IN
HABITED. Then each father and mother will be called
upon to supply two children and morethe father and
the mother replacing themselves.
By that time children will be born to grow up and live
and succeed born to supply 80 cent to the grave
yard 80 per cent to work. and 80 per to failure
In that better day coming when all the children will live
to normal age-say, about hundred and forty-When
the maximum of health will be reached between seventy
and ninety should be- the age Of parenage will be very
different than it is
We suppose that in that future day the ideal age for the
mother will be between forty and fifty and for the father
between sixty and seventy
few children of fathers and mothers the thrties will
be needed perhaps to supply the highly excab tempera
mens for opera singing, dramatic performances etc.
But the mothers and the fathers with fully developed
minds and bodies will be the great majority about
nifty fathers about seventy youth devoted to romance and
finding the right mate.
At present. the ideal age for the mother between TWEEN
tve and thirty for the averagebetween thirty five and
fortyf for the exceptional strong, normal woman
For the father the proper age, theoretically speaking
begins at forty.
But because the world needs human beings because the
bloody Kaiser loose because large families needed
because 1t is extremely difficult for keep out of mis-
chief we advise marriage and parentage young although
earlier than twenty-five
The world is about far from being civilized as
poywog is far from being full grown jumping bull frog
II you hudder at the tho Iyt of waiting in future seventy
years to be married remember that would feel the
same about waiting six months