86 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BOEN 



healthy, strong children that will mature 

 early, and whether her prospective husband 

 will be able to support her and their chil- 

 dren properly. The trouble today is that 

 the working-girl marries, without thought, 

 some fellow who can dance nicely and 

 dresses well, and, too late, often discovers 

 she has married a weakling that she has to 

 support. There is hardly a big office in 

 Wall street where this has not happened to 

 one or more of its pretty stenographers. 



The laboring classes are constantly in- 

 terfered with by having thrown into their 

 ranks the weaklings of the upper classes. 

 Who is there that has not been importuned 

 by this and that person to use as a laborer 

 a relative or somebody of the upper classes ? 



If the males of laboring classes were com- 

 pelled to have their own Eegistry, like the 

 "Clysdales," "Percherons," and other 

 heavy draft Registries, and submit to a 

 microscopic examination of their life germs, 

 as to whether this or that one had the abil- 

 ity to produce large, healthy, strong, early- 

 maturing children, free from physical 

 defects, who would help to support the 



