It is a fact taught by embryology that the human body before its birth passes through numerous stages of development which correspond exactly with the lower forms of animal life. After birth the child develops MENTALLY in the same way, passing through inferior mental stages and reaching a state of benevolence, honesty, truthfulness and self-restraint only as a result of long education and wise control. A perfectly truthful child probably never existed. All childish races of savages are incessant liars and thieves. All children passing through the primitive stages of mental development are naturally given to deception, and even to theft, especially when they are frightened by the consequences of truth, and when things which they desire are denied them. All children are cruel--and there is no greater brutality than confiding a helpless animal to the tender mercies of a young child. There may be a few exceptions, but they are very rare, and there is no reason why parents should expect their particular children to be the exceptions. You may see a man of mature age, kind-hearted, absolutely benevolent and just. And you may learn that when he was a baby he bit his nurse, lied, and was cruel to animals and to other children. But parents are stupidly egotistical, and believe that their pretty children ought to be born morally perfect. This moral perfection can be obtained only as the result of education. Don't expect your children to be models of virtue. Don't brutalize them by punishments and contempt because you discover that their primitive mental life duplicates the mental conditions of inferior animals. Set them a good example, and by education make them what you want them to be. The ignorant and stupid belief that children are born naturally good accounts for the brutality of many fathers and the ruin of many young lives, making cowards of children, accentuating their untruthfulness and cowardice and their cruelty through a desire for revenge. TWO THIN LITTLE BABIES ARE LEFT The authorities of New York City, at this writing, have two babies to give away. A few days since there were about two hundred babies in the city foundling asylum to be had for the asking. Of all these little ones there remain but two whom nobody seems to want. These two forlorn little things are described as "thin and nervous; inclined to cry, and not taking kindly to those who come to pick out free babies for adoption." Hundreds of women anxious for children have gone to the asylum, have passed by the two little skinny babies, and have asked to be informed as soon as fat babies should be on hand. Presently we shall tell childless persons--especially bachelors--why they should get a baby and bring it up. But first, learn that the best possible choice would be one of those two despised "thin" babies. In all the world's history, the greatest men have begun life as THIN babies.