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or F class. F represents a ' ' blank, ' ' a male 

 only in name. There are many fine looking 

 fellows in the F class. It is the sire that 

 marks the child as to its health, vigor, men- 

 tal and physical qualities. And, why should 

 not a wife, each spring, before she mates 

 with her husband, have him microscopically 

 examined, just as we examine a stallion? 

 If this were done, we would have healthier 

 longer-lived men, stronger and happier 

 children. The Wasserman blood tests tell 

 999 times out of a 1,000 if a man has the 

 germs of syphilis in his blood. As a suitor 

 for my daughter's hand, an intelligent, en- 

 terprising, active, healthy young man of 

 good character without a dollar, but with 

 good habits, good education, good ancestral 

 pedigree and certificate that he is in Class 

 A would stand higher in my estimation than 

 a man with many millions and a shaky pedi- 

 gree even if he had a certificate of health 

 and good character. 



Recently, as handsome and fine a speci- 

 men of physical humanity as you want to 

 look at, one in one hundred thousand, came 

 to tell me that he was about to marry. I 



