The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-28


finitely moro menacing thnn
among men.
Another bishop, Of Durham, Ia
ments lack Of interest in religion.
Studying history, the bishop will
observe that when men show lack
OF interest in any particular re-
ligion it Is usually because that
religion has shown a lack of in
terest In men.
The bishop says. mournfully:
THE only movements which at
tract public sympathy are those
which aim at mass betterment."
Is that calamity? The bishop
knows that the movement" start
ed by the founder Of Christianity
was also aimed at "mass better
ment." He said that ALL men
were His brothers, not merely
bishops and peers Of the realm.
Mass betterment was His object,
and clergymen making it their
object will easily interest the
mass in religion.
Have women noticed the most
interesting thing about the late
Caruso,
He Das his mothers nineteenth
child.
That mother, a powerful woman
such as the Italians, descendants
Of the Romans. produce in thou
sands, was not discouraged when
she had five children, or ten or
fifteen or eighteen. She had ONE
more, and that was CARUSO.
The real business Of q woman,
her highest business, whatever
she may want or believe. is hao-
ing children. This earth depends
on the human race, and there can't
be anything more important than
the creation Of that race.
Women forget that sometimes,
and, not satisfied to create the
man that does tho work, they
want to be the man 1t is as if
Raphael, not satisfied with paint
ing the Sistine Madonna, insisted
on climbing up in the frame to
be the picture.
Woman may do as she pleases;
nobody has the right to lecture or
exhort. II she wants no children,
that is her business. Few women
Voluntarily let the chain snap at
their link. Two children replacing
mother and father should be the
minimum, and one day that will be
the maximum, when the earth is
fully populated.
Many children mean real happi-
ness, and the greater the number
the greater the mothers chance Of
living in history.
You learn from Cations studies
Of heredity that among kirgs and
the very rich, the first child is apt
to be the best. In humber fami-
lies the later children are the best.
The reasons are plain.
When q king marries, it is
novelty. He is interested in his
first child. That child is born
with all the kings affection and
energy back of It. BY the time the
second arrives, he IS tired Of the
mother and thinking of something
else. ...
Alexander the Great, first child
of a great man and an extraordi-
nary woman, was a huge success.
Had there been a second it might
have been half idiot, for by
that time the mother hated the
father and the father was afraid
of the mother, who later had aim
murdered for taking a second
wife.
Among humble mortals the later
children are the best. As time
passes and the husband grows
older, he RECEIVERS from early
foolishness. He appreciates the
devotion Of the mother that has
lived with him and stood by him;
he becomes more nearly worthy
of her. and so she gives him bet
ter children. You find this every
where in history. Only earnest,
intense affection produces the best
children.
Henry T. Finck, who knows
more about music than anybody
EXCEPT the musical critic OF this
newspaper, tells you: