160 PRENATAL CULTURE. 



The talented children of the Rev. Joseph Wai- 

 drop a Baptist clergyman of the Pacific coast 



A Bom Orator, are fine illustrations of what may be done by in- 

 telligent prenatal culture. The parents made a 

 careful study of heredity and the laws of pre- 

 natal culture long before their first child was 

 born. When their circumstances would permit 

 they decided to have a child and began syste- 

 matic preparation. It was their hearts' desire 

 that their first child should be an orator; there- 

 fore, special training was taken in this direction 

 by both parents. They not only studied expres- 

 sion and the elements of oratory, but made it a 

 point to hear the best speakers within their reach. 

 After due preparation and consecration, the new 

 life was begun. During the period of gestation 

 the mother continued her training. Their child, 

 born under these conditions, is a natural orator. 

 At the age of 13 she displayed exceptional talent, 

 had a voice of unusual clearness and a highly 

 responsive mind. Some years later they planned 

 another life, and, as before, entered into syste- 

 matic training with a definite purpose in view. 

 The ideal this time was a musician and, as before, 

 they did faithful work for soul growth in this 



Prodigy?* 1 direction, sparing neither time nor pains to give 

 the mother every opportunity to hear the best 

 musical artists in the country. When their 

 "Jennie Lind" was born it was a boy; a boy born 

 to fame and fortune. His musical talent has sel- 

 dom, if ever, been surpassed by a child. At the 

 age of five he entertained six thousand people 

 at the Exposition Building in Portland, Oregon, 

 playing about twenty musical instruments and 



