A NATIONAL DILEMMA.
The French nation faced with extinction ! The notion is far-fetched, but prospectively true. In spite of all the Government has done to stimulate the people to a recognition of the folly of a nation shirking: its domestic obligations, in spite of all that has been written and said upon the subject by national purista, and deep thinking patriots the French people have gone on living on the lines of self-indulgence and comfort, scorning the worrios of child-rearing, until the awful tab is told of a death-rate preponderating over the birth-rate. j The terrible significance of this might or not arouse a new spirit in the French bosom according to the depth to which has sunk the feeling of aversion to the ties of infant care. A declining birth-rate is a sad eno igh evil to befall a civilised nation, but France's latest affliction will arouse widespread consternation. With Oriental nations spurning trouble as attendant on the spreading family tree, and the Occident drinking ths cup of self-indulgence to the very dregs, there are still more issues to the Asiatic awakening.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 4
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183A NATIONAL DILEMMA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9175, 26 August 1908, Page 4
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