The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-13

tion that Hove of children is the tenderest feeling of civilization" It is the feling upon which the succession of the higher life is founded. Without it there could scracely be civilization. In many lower orders existence seems to have no reason, except the propagation of the species. The lover of the queen bee. hav- ing performed his office of tatherhood, dies. The death Of the parents closely follows the arrangements for the young. III many orders of life.
 
 The swarming of the hive is an of honey, and the young are about to be born, the bees are seized with sort of frenzy. They go out into the world. often to die, and found a new hive. 1eav- ing the full and prosperous hive for the young bees.
 
 Tn man the perfect care of the young, which proceeds from i'm ?stinct. has been lost. Man is the animal who, take all facts into consideration, devotes less of his life to the well being Of the young. Man makes mistakes in the care of his children that wasps and bees would scarce1y make in the care of theirs. In the care of the human child another factor is necessary. In- stinct is necessary and love is necessary, but intelligence is necessary.
 For countless generations mothers loved their babes with a Yearning love, but the death rate among children was high. There is point in the grim joke. which makes a mother of the s1urns say of the. settlement worker. who has given advice about child cul- ture, What does she know about bringing up children? What can she tell me about children We've buried ten.''
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 Intelligence added to love has decreased the death rate among infants more in twenty years, than love alone contrived to do in twenty thousand years. It human love is less intensive than that of some of the lower crea- lures. 1t is more comprehensive. It takes into account wider things. Water supply. the milk. housing. the wage sufficient for material well being. steady em- Jloyment, good air. a healthy and we'll adapted education. These things do not have the aspect of love. But they are like the soft kiss of motherhood. They are the product of love inspired by intelligence.
 There are towns in which they love children as much as they do in Bridgeport. Fairfield mothers are just as affectionate as Bridgeport mothers. An 1n- spection of the teeth of school children in the two communities will prove that the combined love of the two places, expressed in intelligence. is on a higher level in Bridgeport. The good teeth of the children in Bridgeport aro indications of longer life for them and of many other good things. such as freedom from pain, a more wholesome appearance, and a better attitude toward life.
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 The instinct of the lower cres ures Is more certain. but 1t does not go as far as the love and in- telligence of humans. The sad state of so many human babies Is because the race is passing out of the instinctive stage, ana coming to the intelligence stage. There are spots where intelIi- xence does not completely func- ton. and instinct has broken down.
 Alexander Krunas. a tailor out Of work, 55 years old, with two cents in his pocket. jumped from Williamsburg Bridge. Brooklyn. and falling 200 feet, was instantly killed He didn't do it because he had only two cents, but be- cause hunger, fatigue, some thing else had destroyed or Tm- paired the cells in which the in stinct for selef-preservation ex- tsts
 
 It may interest automobi1ists to know that if they collide when speeding, what happens may be fully the equivalent of the fall which Krunas voluntarily took KrunaS killed himself becaI1se his