The Washington times., 1927-05-26
Old Fathers The
Rest Continuation
Il Is Platos Theory, and Statistics Indorse It

Il Is well for girls to marry and have their children young
but TOO young The mother Of Napoleon wasted energy
giving birth to children when she was her teens She was
fourteen when she married One Of her children did
live at all.
The ch1ds physical strength depends largely on the
mothers physical condition before the child is born the
false life Of civilization few perfect physical
ion after thirty hence statistics which make advisable
The average mother have her children while younger
In days children will be born when the mothers
bre well past thirty and be the better for it.
Exceptional tell than statistics And you find
very often that the exceptional born Of mother old
enough to give only the best physical strength
but full mental development.
Az for men, they better fathers when they are old
than when they young Plato right about that The
exception to the rule the king great noeman Cation
uoints out in his interesting book on heredity.
The first Of great ruler apt to be his best child
for when it is born he has completely lost interest the
mother
extent on the affection of the father and the mother each
other.
The first child of king is apt to be the best because he
likes the mother when that child is born.
The LATER children of peasants, Carlyle Napoleon
are apt be better because later in life the humber father
and mother depend upon each other than in the beginning
and deeper affection for each other The deeper affection
produces better children.
The creating Of children is at present. and wisely hap
hazard and indiscrmnate matter QUANTITY The world
not oneenh peopled needs human beings good pos
eible, second-class ones no better can be-
The State Of would feed the population Of the world
The unnhabited mountain ranges that would provide magn
cent homes for five times the population Of the earth
will all be occupied when the flying machine further
perfected Everybody will fly home to his house the
tain Women have the task of supplying inhabitants for
all these mountain homes and this will continue until at least
thousand million human beings shall have been added
the earths population.
Then or shortly afterwards the earth will be really IN
HABITED Then each father and mother will be called upon
10 supply children and morehe father and the mother
replacing themselves.
By that time children will be born grow up and live
and succeed-not born supply thirty per to the
yard thirty per cent to work and thirty per cent to failure
In that better day coming when all the children will live
20 normal agesa about hundred and orty-when the
ninety should be- the age Of parentage will be very differ
emit than it is now.
We suppose that that future day the ideal age for the
mother will be between forty and fifty and for father be-
tween seventy and eighty.
few children Of fathers and mothers the thirties will
be needed perhaps supply the highly excabe tempera
ments for opera singing, dramatic performances etc
But mothers and the fathers with fully developed minds
and bodies will be the great neutrality-suspicious. about tv
fathers about seventy youth devoted to and finding
the right mate.
At present the ideal age for the mother is between twenty
five and thirty for the ryfve and forty
five for the exceptional, strong, normal woman
For the father the proper theoretically speaking
gins at forty 9.
Cut for men to keep out Of mischief advise marriage and
parentage young although earlier than twenty-five
The world is about far from being civilized as
poIywog far from being full grown jumping bufrog If
you shudder at the thought Of waiting in future seventy
years to be married remember that would feel the
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