cises, whose mind has been thoroughly developed, is taught also that she is responsible for the health of her beloved little ones. Motherhood is held, in modern society, as the most sacred function in the life of woman. And young women know that nothing entitles them to so much respect and admiration as a family of healthful and well trained children. Gymnastics at school are not the only means we use to make people healthful and strong. I have shown you that we begin to care for the new being since the day he is conceived. We place the mother, healthy and well nourished, in the best hygienic conditions, in order that the new life may not be disturbed in any way. He comes forth, and the hands which receive him are skillful. He receives the first care with affection, and those who care for him know what to do. He breathes, and in the air which penetrates his lungs there are no poisonous microbes. He eats, and his food is wholesome and the quantity well regulated. He drinks, and his water is not contaminated. As he grows he does not see misery, nor live in filthiness. His skeleton is not arrested in its development by a pitiless machine in a factory, but is carefully delevoped in a scientific way. His intelligence is trained according to its inclination. He hears no curses. He does not see hatred pictured in the faces of others, but love; not sorrow, but happiness. As he grows older he never finds in his neighbor a tricky competitor, but a brother. Physically, intellectually and morally, he is a man. True manhood and womanhood is thus the aim of all science, all work, all life."

"Oh, happy children, happy people of to-day! When the sun rises and when it sets, kneel down and give thanks to the new society. With all your heart, with all your wisdom, with all your understanding, give thanks to those who worked and suffered to make this possible. Oh! poor little ones of the past! You who endured hunger and dis

eases; poor children whose lives were wrecked in the factories and in the bowels of the earth; abandoned, sleeping in the streets, in stables, in ruinous tenements, whose lives were but martyrdom from birth to death; your piteous cries were one of the forces which changed the nature of the race. Doctor, I am seventy-five years old. I have seen humanity suffer in all lands. I can restrain myself no longer. Let me bow and give thanks to those Supreme Powers for good in our race, which have culminated in Socialism."

He knelt down, looked at the brightly shining sun, at the cloudless sky, at the forests and the happy people, and big tears came to his eyes; tears of grief for the martyrdom of numberless little ones of the past; tears of gladness for the happy present. I also was affected. Kneeling down, I embraced my dearest friend, and once more I kissed him.

CHAPTER VII.

Again we boarded the automobile to return to Washington Boulevard. I wished to breakfast with my friend and afterward take him to visit our State Sanitarium.

"Will,” I said, "think of the strange inconsistencies of the old capitalist society. Men carefully bred horses and dogs, for instance, but what little thought they gave to the rearing of their own species! They perceived clearly that good or bad qualities in animals were subject to hereditary transmission, but they acted as if the same laws were not applicable to ourselves; as if men could be bred well by accident; as if the destiny of each criminal and lunatic had been determined, not by the operation of natural laws, but by a special dispensation too high for the reach of human inquiry."

"Doctor, you remind me of an article on Socialism I read in one of the leading newspapers of this city a short while before I started for Persia. The writer of the article, judging by the way he wrote, knew of sociology and other positive sciences as I knew of the Chinese tongue. In the twentieth century, when there were speaking machines; men flying through the air trying to reach the North Pole; when Professor Loeb made the first of those discoveries which are tending to snatch the mystery from life and death; when Marconi, without wires, put Americans in communication with their European brothers; this writer, who acknowledged the rottenness of our society, had the audacity to write that 'the benevolent theories of the

moderate Socialists are impossible of realization until the human race shall be regenerated by divine power.'

"This writer reminds me of a pretty tale I was taught when studying Italian literature. It seems that there was a gentleman who fought several duels in order to defend the superiority of La Gerusalemme Liberata over L'Orlando Furioso. At last, when mortally wounded, he avowed that he had never in his life read either poem. It was just the same with Socialism in the time you refer to. Men who even ignored the fact that sociology existed, who had no idea of physiology and psychology, who had not even an elementary notion of logic, did not care to study at all before dealing with so intricate a subject as sociology, but were satisfied to repeat the untruths stated by others."

"It was so, indeed. But, doctor, I wish you to tell me whether women are the professors in the girls' high schools, in the the mothers' school, and who are the surgeons of the 'mothers' city?" "

"They are women, of course. There was a time when even Christian theologians doubted that women had souls; and we find in books of the past such lines as these: "The discovery was made at an early period that women had hearts; an advance in civilization was required before it was conceded that they had souls; but it has been discovered quite recently that they had minds also.' We have found that their average intelligence is equal to that of men; and to-day we have learned and skillful women specialists in every field of human knowledge and endeavor."

CHAPTER VIII.

As we alighted at Washington Boulevard, Will remarked that he felt hungry.

"We are bound for the restaurant," said I, "and while walking across this beautiful square I will tell you in a few words about our restaurant system. As you have seen, the family's burden has been greatly lessened, as everybody prefers to go to the restaurant to take his meals. About every five blocks there is a handsome one."

"But when the parents have three or four children under the age of seven, let us say, do they also go to the res

taurant ?"

"If they wish to. If not, as every house is provided with the new wireless telephone system, the mother has nothing to do but to send word to the nearest restaurant and ask for what she wishes. The only difference is that it costs a little more.'

"Yes, I understand. Is living as expensive now as in our time ?"

"No. That is, if you mean the necessities of life. If you mean some other things that in our time were not only luxuries, but were dangerous to health, cigars and strong liquors, for instance, they are much more expensive than formerly."

We entered the restaurant and took seats at a table glittering with silverware and glass. A beautiful bouquet of flowers was in the center. Young men dressed in white suits were serving the meals. Will looked round, and seeing all the restaurant walls covered with glass instead of