Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Children's Rights. [ARTICLE]

Children's Rights.

All germs of goodness, order and loveliness exist in the child at birth, and If God’s plan of dealing with human souls is followed these germs will grow, bud, blossom and bring forth fruit; but bis plans cannot be continually thwarted without injurious results. The duty of parent to child exists long before the child owes any duty to parent The child has a right to demand that its life shall begin under the most faorable circumstances—that Its inception shall not be left to chance. ~ It has a right to demand that the months of its development in the mysterious darkness of its motherworld shall be made to contribute to its three-fold perfection—physical, mental, and spiritual. It has a right to demand that all the wondrous laws of inheritance which pre determine capability, which cast the unfailing horoscope of future life, shall be considered by those who have the power to choose its parentage. At birth there are left in the parents’ bands only the forces of education with which to mold the child's character, for all pre-natal influences have already bestotved their dower of good or UL Dr. Mary Wood Alien in Womankind. —___—. . The Moder* Baanty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of ■o»relge In the open air. Her form glbW with health and her face blooms with its beauty. If her system needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy, she uses the gentle ,and pleasant liquid laxative Syrup of Figs.