CHILDREN NOT GIFTS FROM ANGELS 75 



try will awake some day to find our people 

 degenerating, our children growing men- 

 tally and physically weaker and the lives of 

 our people growing shorter, and even with 

 the sciences of surgery and medicine vastly 

 improved, their children suffering untold 

 hereditary ills. These are the important 

 questions of the hour. 



Children are not gifts from angels. 

 Their bodies and brains are not products 

 of occult forces. Each child has two par- 

 ents, who give it all it has of a body, brain 

 and talent. We know that, if we are to 

 breed a trotter with extreme speed, we must 

 mate a sire and dam, each of whom repre- 

 sents a line of pure speed and healthy 

 ancestry. We know there are many 

 qualities, all of which must be united in 

 one animal to make a great race horse, as 

 conformation, health, lungs, speed, endur- 

 ance, toughness, gait, intelligence, etc. 

 Should a horse lack intelligence, so that 

 he cannot be taught to stay on the trot, 

 he will not race successfully. Noth- 

 ing is better known to the Jiorse breeder, 

 than that if you breed to ' ' fool horses, ' ' you 



