The reason is simple. The gardener's wife did not cheat her
child by giving to balls and late hours the vitality needed by
her babies.
The woman who loses sleep will make a failure of her children.
The man who loses sleep will make a failure of his life, or at
least diminish greatly his chances of success.
WOMAN SUSTAINS, GUIDES AND CONTROLS THE WORLD
Of all events here on earth, the greatest is the birth of a baby.
Great battles are fought, won and lost. Nations and religions
rise and fall. Great cities flourish to-day, and to-morrow the
sand lies heavy over them. And of all these events the eternal
Niagara of new babies is the first and essential foundation.
He knows little of real life, its greatest happiness, deepest
devotion, intensest suffering, who has never witnessed the
arrival of a new human being in this life of progress and
struggle.
There lies the new baby at last, its black face gradually turning
pink, its first gasping breaths changing the color of its blood,
its tiny fists opening and closing--reaching out for nourishment
already, its face tying itself into the first philosophical,
cosmos-interrogating knot. Its feet turn inward and its legs are
crooked. Its head is so shapeless as to discourage any one but a
mother; it has three years of gurgling, ten years of childhood,
ten years of foolishness, ten years of vanity--and possibly a
few years of real usefulness ahead of it.
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