Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — Knowledge the Child's Right. [ARTICLE]

Knowledge the Child's Right.

Every child has a right to know the origin of life. Nature seems to have endowed him with a natural instinct for this knowledge, for every child seeks to determine the source of baby brother or sister. The child instinctively asks, “Where did he come from?” and it will not rest until satisfied with a reasonable answer. Thus the child itself usually provides the first opportunity for direct instruction, and should be met with a simple, yet truthful, statement of facts. Any attempt at deception is serious. It has been the custom of many to keep children ignorant of the facts, thinking that such knowledge would demoralize them. They choose to deceive the child with a fairy story or a false philosophy, rather than tell the truth. Such a course shows that we are ashamed of nature’s methods of race propagation, and we seek to spare the creator chagrin and embarrassment by substituting the teaching of more artistic systems—W. F. Martin, M. D., in Good Health.

Hamburg steak can be creamed exactly as dried beef is, and It is really delicious. A novel cranberry sauce has seeded dates added to It. Of course, it requires less sugar.