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be traced, the mother frog need only supply 4(Kl eggs ;i year to maintain that 

 particular frog family: so much larger is the proportion of eggs hatched 

 and so numerous are the tadpoles which survive to become frogs. 



T'nder the improved conditions of bird life parents can successfully rear 

 all their fledgelings; consequently not more than five or six eggs need lie laid 

 each year. The careful farmer can not only maintain the numbers of his 

 flock, but increase them, if each ewe bear him but one or two lambs every 

 spring; for he supplements her care with his own; lambs are too valuable 

 to be lost through carelessness. 



Lake Dwelling. 



The numbers of the human race will multiply apace if a baby be added 

 every two years to each family circle over a period of ten or twelve years 

 in the married life of the parents. 



SOME KKSULTS OF TIIK AIJSKNCE OF PARKNTAI, '.'AHK. 



But these remarks do not apply in the absence of ordinary care. The 

 high rate of infant mortality in the civilized world to-day is not only a grave 

 reflection on the parents, but a serious menace to the future of the Empire. 



To insure national and Imperial stability each home should contribute at 

 least four healthy young people to the population. That thousands of infants 

 are allowed to die annually from sheer absence of intelligent care is no sign 

 of progress; rather it indicates a falling back to lowlier, less highly developed, 

 phases of existence. 



THE MEANING OF INFANCY. 



What, now, is the real connection between 



(a.) Increasing helplessness at birth or infancy: 



(&.) A higher level of intelligence when grown up; and 



(e.) Enduring family affection; 



and what has all this to do with the place and purpose of family life in 

 Canada? 



As a matter of fact, infancy is the sign of power to progress to pass on 

 from the lowest to the highest things of which life is capable. That their 

 children should thus progress is the ambition of all normal parents, who do 

 not grudge the care needful to protect their offspring through this period of 

 their lives. 



