“ A new law of the State of Wanhinytan makes it necessary for persons applying fora marriage license to submit physician's certificates, and affidavits, showing that both the contratting parties are physically and mentally tit to bring healthy children into the world. It also makes it a * penitentiary offence ’ to give false information, or to perform a marriage in violation of this Statute. ’ — Common Stone.
Virtue is the nursing mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent ; in moderating them, -keeps them hi breath ami appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature require*, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.— S or r oft*.
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White Ribbon, Volume 17, Issue 197, 17 November 1911, Page 8
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