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who are college graduates and who occupy important
positions socially.
It would be an admirable undertaking for the Government to establish in every large city, a free institution
where such women could pass two or three hours
each day, with cheerful surroundings: and three or
four months, at a nominal price, if unfortunately
situated at home. Whatever the original expense of
such an undertaking might necessitate, it would be
saved in a generation by the lessening of disease and
crime and poverty among the masses.
Added to this, each college should be obliged to
add a department through which every young man
must pass before granted a diploma. The most skilled
physicians should be employed as instructors in this
department. It is quite as important to the world
that young men know what it means to propagate
the species, as that they become such expert athletes
that Yale conquers Harvard, or Harvard Princeton at
football. Many cases might be found, if the annals of
the courts were studied, where men who graduated
with brilliant honors from famous colleges, proved
brutal husbands to wives who were expectant mothers.
The man's brain had been filled with all kinds of
knowledge save that which gave him an understanding of fatherhood and motherhood. However disillusioned or enraged he may become with a woman
he has chosen as his wife, there is not one man in a
million who would misuse his own unborn child
once he knew the vital influence of the mother's
mind upon it during those months. Women are
beginning to understand these matters, and mothers
are awakening to the fact that daughters must be
educated along these lines, if they ever contemplate
marriage.
