There has
been a notable deficiency of young fathers and, still more
notably, of young mothers."
And did you ever see the study which Mr. R. S. Holway made for
the Department of Education of Leland Stanford University on "The
Age of Parents: Its Effects upon Children"? His conclusions are:
"In most physical qualities the children of mature parents tend
to come out best.
"In mental ability the children of young parents show best at an
early age but rapidly lose their precocity.
"The elder children who show best tend to be the children of
mature and old parents.
"The children of elderly mothers show a tendency to superiority
throughout."
Mary did not know about all this, but she had a very strong
opinion to the effect that, in so far as the quality of her
children could be affected by their home training, she was glad
she had spent at least a few years earning her living.
"Every woman," said Mary, "ought to have some little time for
developing into an individual. Home won't do it altogether. Not
nowadays. The colonial home did, being part of the working world.
But what is the modern home? It is a nest, an eddy, a shelf, a
nook.
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