98 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



"Say something to my students," re- 

 quested the learned professor to the super- 

 intendent of the poorfarm. 



He replied, "I have but one thing to say 

 to them and to society, 'quit breeding 

 them.' " 



Many of us have found a nest of part- 

 ridge eggs and put them under a hen and 

 hatched them out. In a day or two, the call 

 of the wild is so strong in their hereditary 

 instinct, that off they go, and that is the 

 last you see of them. Just so, poor-house 

 bred children come back to poor-houses; 

 it's inbred in them. 



A young lady, now 20 years old, when she 

 goes to sleep, turns over on her back and 

 hangs her head over the side of the bed. 

 Her mother, whom she has never seen, did 

 the same. Is this not proof that traits are 

 hereditary? 



HOW THE CITY OF CHURCHES 



LOOKS AFTEE ITS CHILDREN 



AND THEIR AMUSEMENTS. 



The Queens Borough Park Department 

 ^of Brooklyn, in the past six years, has spent 



