134 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



THINGS TO AVOID. 



Let young ladies, who are looking 

 around to get married, use their brains, the 

 one thing the Almighty has given humans 

 that other animals do not possess. Let 

 them be educated to allow their hearts to 

 be guided by their heads in the choice of 

 a life-partner and if they come across a 

 young man with rheumatism or locomotor 

 ataxia, or bald spots on his head, or white 

 patches in his hair or scarlet spots on his 

 body or who has no business, and says his 

 father has advised him to keep in the open 

 air, it is best to reject him, for you can 

 put it down pretty safely that in nine cases 

 out of ten there is a cause. Notice how 

 many well educated young men from the 

 middle classes have become chauffeurs. 



When I see a pure and healthy well bred 

 girl marry a syphilitic man ; when I watch 

 her agony as she consigns to the grave her 

 diseased first-born; and when I see in the 

 face of her only child, the lines of the 

 father's disease, what shall I do? Shall I 

 tell her that, one day when studying to find 

 out why our oldest and best families had 



