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is fully alive to the dangers of indis- 
criminate aid, and realizes the need of 
quality, not quantity, in children. 
(e) Communal, municipal, or group 
nurseries, which ‘“‘might be adopted in 
particular cases, to meet the need of 
working people.’ 
(f) The adoption of the system of 
dowries, as it is practiced in France: 
‘the dot gives a sense of independence 
to brides and proves an assistance to 
the newly married pair at the outset of 
matrimony. There is now in 
England some indication that the dot 
system is becoming a practice among 
those parents who purchase endowment 
for daughters by insurance.” 
(g) “Of the many factors militating 
against marriage and the reproduction 
of offspring in the vigor of life, exorbi- 
tant rents and the widespread and 
increasing house-famine rank among the 
most formidable and grave.” 
“We may now summarize the sug- 
gested economic remedies as (1) the 
raising of wages to a minimum standard 
for the adequate support of the parents 
and a moderate family; (2) provision of 
a large number of cheap and sanitary 
houses in town and country; (3) the 
encouragement of small farming and 
rural life; (4) the introduction of the 
endowment of daughters for marriage; 
(5) the granting of bonuses to parents 
who are willing to raise good-sized 
families.”’ 
Whether or not one thinks the sug- 
gested remedies would do what is 
expected of them, it must be admitted 
that they are not revolutionary in 
character. Mr. Gallichan remarks that 
others of the nations engaged in the 
Great War are considering the problem; 
that Russia has decided to permit the 
marriage of girls under 16, in special 
cases, and that Germany is considering 
“a vigorous government matrimonial 
policy [which will] encourage men to 
marry young and enable working women 
and girls to marry without giving up 
their occupation, perhaps by inaugurat- 
ing ‘half days’ for working wives.”’ 
SOCIAL REMEDIES 
The above supposed remedies could 
be adopted by the process of lawmaking; 
The Journal of Heredity 
Mr. Gallichan points out, however, that 
public opinion must first be aroused. 
The ‘“‘social remedies’” are no_ less 
important, and must depend wholly on 
public opinion. Among them he enu- 
merates: 
1. More ‘‘temperance”’ in work. Too 
great a devotion to business 1s “inimical 
to love and to marriage in the best years 
of life. We do not even recog- 
nize love as a finer passion than money 
greed. Itisa kind of luxury, or pleasant 
pastime, for the sentimentally minded. 
Love is so undervalued as a source of 
happiness, a means of grace, and a 
completion of being, that many men 
would sooner work to keep a motor car 
than to marry.” 
2. Anew valuation of love. We must 
study it and understand it; we must 
overcome our idea that it is not a proper 
subject for conversation; we must learn 
to value love as sacred, if marriage and 
parenthood are to attain true dignity 
in our minds. 
3. The teaching of the proper kind of 
sex hygiene. 
4. A simplification of life would be a 
great stimulus to marriage at the 
suitable age. ‘“‘Slavish worship of acqui- 
sition and possession stands in the way 
of a realization of life.”’ 
5. Training of women in domestic 
economy and mothercraft. Girls should 
be educated for marriage as boys are 
trained for business. 
6. Greater respect for the individu- 
ality of women, on the part of men, so 
that ‘no woman shall shrink from 
marriage with the idea that it means a 
surrender of her personality and a state 
of servitude. Truer idea of sex-equal- 
ity. This would include recognition by 
men that women are not necessarily 
creatures of inferior mentality. 
7. “The fanatical respect for social 
caste is one of the checks upon marriage, 
especially among women. So long as 
the caste system is observed with 
fetichistic ardor, the woman of the 
‘gentlefolk’ genus, who is out of sym- 
pathy with suitors of her own class, will 
always find the range of selection 
extremely restricted. Possibly in the 
remote future the aristocracy of char- 
acter and intellect will be the only 
