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plate the future of the human race if some 

 means is not taken to secure this inheritance 

 to posterity. 



From certain departments of labor and busi- 

 ness the man who uses tobacco is debarred. 

 It is time that he should be excluded from the 

 school and college. Above all, he should be 

 excluded by the mother of marriageable daugh- 

 ters from the privilege of their society in the 

 home. This sounds mighty drastic, I am aware, 

 but there is no greater business in the world 

 than the production of the next generation. 

 When the study of eugenics is taken, up in the 

 schools, the future mother should be impressed 

 with the importance of giving her child the best 

 chance possible. When women come into "their 

 rightful heritage as co-wtorkers with man in 

 making aiud executing laws, we may look for 

 many improvements in the human race. But 

 these must have their foundation in the family 

 Hfe. This sentence should be inscribed in the 

 heart of the wife and mother: "Every wise 

 woman buildeth her house, but a fool teareth 

 it down with her hajids." 



I knew a large family of girls whose mother 

 forbade social entrance to the home of any man 

 who used intoxicating liquors. Not one of them 

 married a drunkard. In those days tobacco was 

 not regarded as the harmful poison which we 



