PRENATAL INFLUENCES. 163 



Public sentiment, custom and law forbid the 

 neglect or abuse of children and compel parents 

 to educate them. Why not apply these forces for 

 the prenatal welfare of children? If parents are 

 going to give the best of their lives and most of 

 their earnings to rearing and educating a family, 

 then how important it is to have the prenatal 

 influences and training right, so that each child 

 may have in its heredity the basis of physical 

 strength, mental power and moral character. 



