Babyhood . rs,beggars, or bores. Book-agents, tax-collec-tors, and pedlars came and went with an easeand frequency only possible to an exaltedstage of civilization. There was no compe-titive examination of visiting-lists, no inspec-tion of bank-accounts or of church-certifi-cates. But one convenience, the most mo-dern and the most ancient known to man-kind, one visitor whose welcome dates backto the sunrise of Time—the importunate col-lector of revenues that are yielded with gladacclaim—was banned. NO FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN NEEDAPPLY. Thus ran the Malthusian decree. One byone the commodious fl
Babyhood . rs,beggars, or bores. Book-agents, tax-collec-tors, and pedlars came and went with an easeand frequency only possible to an exaltedstage of civilization. There was no compe-titive examination of visiting-lists, no inspec-tion of bank-accounts or of church-certifi-cates. But one convenience, the most mo-dern and the most ancient known to man-kind, one visitor whose welcome dates backto the sunrise of Time—the importunate col-lector of revenues that are yielded with gladacclaim—was banned. NO FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN NEEDAPPLY. Thus ran the Malthusian decree. One byone the commodious flats were let, untilten childless couples set up householdgods (adult) beneath the common the sequel ? Seven babies, in the courseof eighteen months, appeared within thestately edifice dedicated to childless law could and would have boltedthem out had they attempted entrance bythe door or over the garden wall. No land-I lord and no law could rout them from thefastness FAMILIAR TALKS BY MARION IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY. THERE is a story in an old book of Ori-ental travel of two Turks who satsmoking in the doorway of their house whilean earthquake was shaking the city to parties of fugitives called to themthat the walls were tottering. Allah willsit! uttered the Moslems reverently, scarcelytaking the pipe-stems from their lips. Thefalling building crushed them where theysat. Fifty years ago the word Heredity was sel-dom heard in every-day talk, and the aw-ful import of the thing it represents, as weface it now, was imperfectly disease of body or mind pursued suc-cessive generations, wiseacres and gossipssaid, It runs in the family, and bowed tothe inevitable with pious, or impious, stolid fatalism of the doomed Turkshad a parallel in Christian homes. Wherewas the use of warring against Provi-dence ? We recognize heredity as something morethan a name—as a power. It is a key toriddles that might wit
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