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"TDEAL EGG FARM," Taita. Settings X AVhito Leghorns, ss. W.L. Cockerels,. 7 weeks old, 9s. doz., 355. per 100, ready October 31. F. J. Field, Proprietor. EUGENICS «AT\D « A DEFENCE OF THE "LOVE-MATCH." Sir James Crichton-Browne, in his Presidential Address at the Sanitary Inspectors' Association Conference at Sheffield, said that sanitation had reduced phthisis mortality in the last half-cen-tury Ly nearly f>o per cent. He attached much more importance to sanitation than to the sanatoria benefits of the Insurance Act, though df reasonably applied the provisions would help. Subjecting "eugenics" to frank criticism, he said the \yeak point was tk.it as jet they were little more than a pious opinion. It was highly desirable that a certain number of feeble-minded men and women should bo segregated in the interest of the future population, but in his judgment they would best increase, tho healthy elements in the population and decrease those who were feeble and unsound by reformed education, eugenio education, social and religious sentiment, and sanitation. Much more precise information as to .the transmission of characters was necessary before they could venture to exercise any extensive control over human mating. But people were greatly influenced in their habits and ways of thought and feeling by their domestic surroundings, and the more.the dwellings of the poor were ameliorated the less likely wero they to plunge into rash and ill-starred marriages and the more amenable would they be to the teachings of prudence and hygiene. Tho same object might lie promoted by tho removal of, some existing restraints on marriages, ne was a believer in tho love match, not only from the romantic, but from the eugenic point of view. In a very large proportion of marriages, rank, social influence, ambition, and what Carlylo called the "cash nexus" were dominant factors, but the marriages made under them were not likely to produce favourable results in tho next generation. There must be a deep physiological significance in tho spontaneous and inexplicable attraction that drow two persons of the same race into sympathetic union, and tho offspring of such unions wero more likely to be vigorous and healthy than we're "the offspring of those who had allied themselves in cold blood from mercenary or sordid motives. He was not defending foolish, hasty, early marriages, of which wo had a great doal too many, but ho felt that he was on firm eugenic ground in recommending a return to nature in relation to marriage, and a due allowanco for tho?o natural forces that ■trere, perhaps, more i'nr-sighled in tho future of race improvement than we were with our best scientific spectacles. "Love at first sight" of the right, kind was, liko the quality of mercy, twice blessed. Tt blessed him who experienced it. anil it was charged with dcfriTod blessings for tho=e who were to come after him.

Dr. Chavnsse. in ".Advico to a Mother." 3ny« unrlpr- "Wn,«binjr Wif'i "M'ClintonV Soap is the very best for this puruose.*