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in numbers. This is due to early mar- 

 riages and exceedingly large families. The 

 boys and girls of this class do not like 

 school with its discipline and self-control. 

 Most of them could not master more than a 

 few grades at best. They leave school in 

 the teens, get a "job" and then marry, if, 

 indeed, they do not marry before the job 

 is secured. There is no forethought, no 

 calculating the cost of marriage, nor of 

 their fitness to produce children that will 

 be an improvement on themselves. The 

 impulse to mate is there as in the wild 

 things of the forest and it is exercised with 

 almost as much indifference as to results. 

 Should a child of ability, by some miracle, 

 come into such a home, it would have no 

 more chance to rise than a "Peter the 

 Great" colt would have to distinguish him- 

 self working with a team of mules on 

 some remote farm. The hard knocks and 

 labor soon would render inherent ability 

 valueless. 



The small family of the better classes 

 cannot be enlarged greatly. Their mar- 

 riage is late, due to the necessity for an 



