206 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



own graves. When they did haVe offspriiig, 

 most of such children did not have the 

 strength and stamina to grow to maturity. 

 They died in uterus, or at birth, or early 

 in life, and the life germs of those that did 

 live were sadly wanting. 



The only members of this old London set 

 who did not die out were the temperate 

 and those who left England for the Colon- 

 ies, or went into outdoor life. And the ma- 

 jority of those who survived were the 

 women who were the more temperate. They 

 married out of their social circle and thus 

 changed their names; and so the old Lon- 

 don family names passed away. There are 

 firms in London, today, where there has 

 not been a man of that name for one hun- 

 dred years. 



The Court Set, on the other hand, had 

 only royal functions to attend. They lived 

 in their castles in the country and enter- 

 tained there. They lived so much an out- 

 door life that it aided them in throwing off 

 the ill effects of the Black Plague and other 

 hereditary ills. Besides that, they came 

 from an ancestry of men and women 



