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of her nurse by dusk, she decided to take 

 the trip the next morning. 



Arriving at the station and finding the 

 place was in a hamlet three miles away, 

 she took a cab and, on descending, found 

 her nurse in the road among a crowd of 

 negroes, one of whom exclaimed, — "Why, 

 that is Martha's child for sure!" A faint 

 was followed by a confession from the 

 nurse. Within three weeks, this beautiful 

 highly educated girl, refusing to listen to 

 the entreaties of the Senator, married the 

 blackest man in the county. 



in a large city like New York, where all 

 races live, there is an indiscriminate mix- 

 ture of bloods. Is it any wonder, while 

 thoughtless marriages are daily occurring, 

 that we are breeding a vast army of de- 

 fectives, nondescripts, hybrids and such? 

 I claim that it is unjust to the living child ; 

 and it is denying to the unborn the sacred 

 right to be well-born ; and each child has a 

 right to come into the world unhandicapped 

 by physical and mental defects. 



Some, twenty years ago, the late Ward 

 McAllister told the Social World that there 



