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PRENATAL CULTURE. 



A Bean Mark. 



Goes on 

 Tip-toe. 



Frightened by 

 a Drunkard. 



A Clownish 

 Child. 



The same mother, marked a son by an abnormal 

 longing for beans. Seeing a huckster passing, 

 she tried in vain to procure some of the beans. 

 Returning to the house, she stepped to the mirror 

 and adjusted her collar, touching her throat as she 

 did so. Her boy, born a few months later, has 

 two very perfect brown bean marks on his throat. 



A lady in Chicago, to avoid disturbing her hus- 

 band (who was employed nights and slept during 

 the day), went about her work all day on tiptoe. 

 Her baby, carried under these conditions, al- 

 though a strong and healthy child, did not walk 

 until nearly two years old; he would not put his 

 foot flat down, but persisted in going on his tip 

 toes. 



While lecturing at W , Oregon, I was 



called to see a child who was unable to walk or 

 stand unless supported. It would roll on the floor 

 and talk incoherently and in every way behave 

 like one thoroughly intoxicated. Neither of the 

 parents nor the grand parents were addicted to 

 the use of liquor. The mother received a severe 

 fright by seeing a drunken man wallow in a gut- 

 ter some three months before the birth of her 

 child. 



At D , Oregon, I examined a little boy who 



was decidedly clownish. The mother, a lady of 

 extremely susceptible temperament, attended a 

 circus during the seventh month of gestation and 

 was very much amused by the ridiculous perform- 

 ances of a clown, whose actions her child imitated 

 from his earliest infancy. The little fellow, 

 whether in school or out, at home or at church, 

 greatly to the annoyance of his mother, was in- 



