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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGERPHIEADELPHIA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1922
66-YEAR-OLD "DAD WILEY'S" EUGENIC BABIES
NOW ROMPING, HUSKY AMERICAN TOUNGSTERS
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Feed Specialist and Chemistty Expert
Who Practices What He Preaches
IN ALL THE familiar rules of everyday life there is none mere salutary
than that flung at the theorist, the lefermer, the preacher of n new
doctrine the rule, "practice what you preach.
which the doctor has preached." was
suggested.
"Yes," she said, "for Instance, we
always havn whole wheat bread for
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Out in the Wiley nemc in vvasningten iney are practicing; wnat Dr. i ne,,iitl.rated sirup. They have ajl
Harvey W. Wiley has preached, always. I hey arc living the daily life
of pure feeds, pure medicines, pure thinking, pure living. They are very
close te the absolute rule laid down by the head of the house, although
Mrs. Anna Campbell Kolten Wiley admits she has strayed a little from
the path of pure feed in rearing the two famous Wiley boys, Harvey
Washington, Jr., and Jehn Preston.
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The name of Dr. Harvey V.
Wiley is known in almost every
household. He has been a theorist
and a reformer. He broke the path
toward reform in feeds and drugs
through Government supervision.
He has fought the battle and con
tinues te fight it today with a
vigorous pen even though he is
rounding the mark of four-score
years.
Te these who have cried "theorist
and even "crank" at the old
warrior, te these who have flung
at him the challenge te "practice
what he preached," Dr. Harvey W.
Wiley can new etTev in answer two
young boys, as fine specimens of
American boyhood as will be found
in the land.
Assisting this old and yet young
preacher, if net leading the way, in
the Wiley home is Mr". Wiley.
Almest twelve years have new gene
f 1 !.,.. Annn fnninriell KeltOn.
then thirty-three years old, daugh
ter of General Jehn C. Kelten,
became the wife of Dr. Harvey W.
TVIIpv. then sixty-six years old,
pictured by his friends in the years
previous as a "confirmed old bach
elor wedded te a mission of pure
feeds and pure dru&s."
Twelve years and the life moves
en, as beautiful a home life, as
happy a home life as there is te
be found anywhere, and in every
thing that same evidence cf sincer
ity as is found in the fact that they
are "practicing what Dr. Wiley
preached."
"There is the old story about the
boys being denied candy," was sug
gested te Mrs. Wiley.
A friendly little smile, mdicatin
perhaps a little embarrassment,
b'reke ever the serene features
this mother.
innocent Little Gumdrop
Gave Harvey Real Scare
"That is net quite true," she said
"Yeu knew if the doctor had his
,"way they would be denied all candy.
ThBt is his belief. Until Harvey
was about five years old he had had
ae candy. Then he went te u
Christmas festival here and they
were passing around the little boxes
of candy. The peer child had never
tasted candy and he finally put a
gumdrop in his mouth. It stuck te
Ms teeth. Here he was he han
always been taught that tee inuc
candy would destroy his teeth and
harm him and se he rushed home
with that gumdrop stuck te his
teeth, frightened very, very much.
He was afraid it could net be re
moved. "Well, I thought that was tee
much te ask of the boys. With all
the children around them eating
candy new and then, te force them
te deny themselves was tee much.
And despite the doctor's wishes, I
decided it Would be better te permit
them te have a little candy and te
put them en the honor system, and
that is the rule new.
"Ker instance, I put a box of
candy in a desk drawer geed candy
and then I tell them they can
have one piece each day and net
mere than one. They have ebber.ed
the rule. I give ycu my word, theie
has been a box of candy upstairs in
one of the drawers for two weeks
and they 'just ate the last piece yes
terday." Just then Harvey Washington, Jr.,
came into the room. He I new ten
years old. n Mi: liny, with well-formed
body, excellent shoulders n fine head
and eyei that sparkle. In every feature
and In his every movement thtre Is the
picture of health. Ami he is a regular
boy, fin he seen showed.
"Mether. they are getting tlie base.
ball scores ever lit the service nation
and I want te go ever and wntrh." he
' said.
'Yeu have n music .qieiniment at ."
clock." suggested hi metlur "I
want you te remember that
watch in J our pocket and
time for the appointment."
There was a perfect uiiderstniiding
between the mother and her son.
tnew be would Re te the
tien and he would teturn as she di
rected, Uu did ns he wan ordered 10 ile.
Then he pished his blcjcle through the
deer, Jumped en It and was off te
watch the baseball scores.
'He weighs ninety-one pounds new,"
Mid hit mother proudly as he disap
Reared devyn the street. Then she added
tkat Jehn Preston, wne is cijjjh -eur
In the home. Neither of the boys show- i
eii the slightest sign of surplus flesh. '
They were both as hard as is the aver- '
nee football player.
"Hnrvey is Interested very much In '
baseball." snid his mother "Me knows I
nil the players and the in makers and
the club, and he play the game very
well. lit. I think, is of the artistic
temperament, the dreamer, the rx rx
plerer. He rides nil ever thp city en
1 1 i bicjcle. inpci"lng the new build
ings jitu the new cnsiiiccrlns project.
I nut trying te have him interested in
music, but It is a difflc ult task jut
i.ew.
"(In the ether hand. Jein. Preston 1
mere piuctl.ul in his methods. He is
direct. knows what he wants te de and
tiles te de It. He c.ime te me the ether
l.i with a leiiuest that he be permitted
le jet sulm rtptlen for maR.17.lnes as
some of his Ihiv friends vveir doing.
Anether day he wanted te sell some seme
thltu else. It seems te me the bejs will
be entite'j illffeient III that respect."
Mrs. Wiley Frightened !
at the Public's Interest
And went is ilie dally life of the
Wiley bejs and the Wiley family? The
the cereal feeds. They have their meal
nt regular hours nnd de net eat between
nieal. They have plenty of geed milk,
all they desire of that. They go te
boil nt a regular hour. They are net t
permitted te go en the street after din- '
tier In the evening. Frem the time they i
finish their dinner until they go te bed
they must remain nt home, and in that
time, they read or have me read te
them. Then they arise in the morning
well In summer, when we are up at
the farm they are up before daybreak,
and throughout the day they are regu
lar boys, with their studies and their
plaj and their work also." ,
In that alone is shown the harmony
there is in the Wiley home, a home ever
which a theorist or as his opponents
would hnve It, "a crank" presides.
In Mich n home, there Is mere difficulty
in maintaining harmony of purpose en
these theories, espoused by the theorist
There fertuinly would be mere difficult
in living up te the Ideals fixed by the
theorist. Hut they are doing it te an
extent which some might believe im
possible nnd they are doing it because of
the affection in the home, the tre
mendous love and respect which Mrs.
Wiley bears for her husband and the
love and respect and confidence which
Dr. Wiley ha for and in his wife.
"Is the doctor as rigid In the life of
the home e he Is in his writings?" Mrs.
Wiley wai asked. Perhaps. It whs nn
unfair question, one which should have
Ik en asked of the doctor, anil .vet there
was net the slightest doubt the doctor
would have approved the question.
"Absolutely," she said. "He does
net deviate at all from the course he
lias alwajs outlined. He Is very firm
with the bejs and that Is very interest
ing fe me for this reason :
"Yeu knew the doctor alwajs ha
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case, or olmest nlvvnjs the rase, in the
average home. Their father Is a stern
taskmaster. Their mother is equally
stern, the difference being that she
tempers her sternness with the touch
of mother's love. She is n mother
new who laughingly suggests tbnt It Is
about time te think of "mother's
rights," nnd she Is interesting herself
In the future political status of the
woman.
At the present time Mrs. Wiley is
associated with the Weman's Party.
She is high in the councils, the chair
mnn of one of the groups which have
developed In the organization. She is
assisting In directing- the work te lay
bare the handicaps which have been put
upon the women of the country, the
women of the home or the women of
piofessieniil life, but mere the women of
the home, because she sa.vs that IK) per
cent of the women arc women of the
helne.
"It is very Interesting," she said as
she began te discuss this work.
"Hut." she was interrupted, "there
is another question in relation te that
work. There was, nt the time of the
organization of the Wemnn's Party, a
certain antagonism throughout the cenn-
trj. The antagonism, was built en the
idea that the plnte of a woman was
in the home nnd net in active politics.
Parden the question, but have you
Mn. Harvey W. Wiley and her
c;igenic babies" net babies new,
ht'sky American youngsters
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The boys indulge in almost all forms of exercise. Here they arc getting a little coaching from
"Dad" Wiley In the gentle art of boxing
I'l.rne ceuntrv was interested when this
marriage was anneumed. There was
even mere Interest when the first son
wns born te a man then almost reach
ing his three-sceie and ten. When the
second son arrived, the Interest was in
en used tremendously ami se much was
wrlttm about the Wij s a few jears age
that Harvey rebelled against "the ail
veitlsement," even as their mother had
become timid and somewhat frightened
bj the public Interest dlspljjcd In her
ami her husband.
"Yeu see." Dr. Wiley explained,
i "befete Mrs. Wiley wa married she
, lived in that seclusion which Is one of
the feiiiuies of mllltaij life. All her
people were military men. When our
1 en',Mgemcnt was nr.-neunicd in letters
that high" the doctor Indicated about
I three mi lies "she shrank from It; did
net like It. When Harvej was born
lii.r Hun mull mnrfi lillhllettv nn.l t-hn
Keep veur ul!j ,,U11 IMnn. embarrassed about it.
return In the time Jehn 1'iesten was born she
bad become somewhat used te it, al
though she does net understand it as de
these who experience it In ordinary
She I cvirj -cln life."
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r eua lur ine i wu ueys
Is Carefully Selected
Se te Mrs. Wiley went the cor
respondent after Dr. Wiley had pre
pared the waj. Mrs. Wiley, a woman
of tine carriage, strung tiyure, line head
and very pleasant but strong features,
received the correspondent In her home.
"If I can de anything that might
help ethers I an willing," she said
when asked teJjubiiilt te an interview
about her biyaTtnil her home.
"I suppose et td from the rule
ive up te me precept
had a tremendous love for children, for
any ihild. Well, when n limn os old I
as he was has his own son, and when
he has had that tiemendnus love for all
'hlldren, you can just Imagine hew1
great hU love was for his child. Think
of It, te hove his own ser; at his age.
Of course, he adores the boys and given
te them all that tremendous love he has
for children. It is difficult te realize. '
just hew much he does love them And
jet, he is rigid, he is strict and he can
be stern with them.
Yeung Harney
is shown
at his
favorite sport,
baseball
Employs Silent Treatment
in Disciplining Beys
"He has hU own method of disciplin
ing: them. His method is te bnvc the
boy understand that he has failed te dn
something he was supposed te de and
then te punish him by telling him that
he is r.et his boy. He just says, 'Well,
you are net my son today.' Then he
refuses te hnve any dealing with the
boy for a certain period, perhaps two
hours or mere. At the end of that time
there is n reconciliation and they are i . , . .
friends again. It Is wonderful hew cf- , he results in the T lley home of prac-
feitlve that is. He gets result. Hut I tiring the Wiley doctrine. Had the
or anv mother, nnve nei inu umc ter "j u-n ni: u nun iuihheij v..wj ......
that method.
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found that your Interest in the work of
that organization has done anything
te detract from your Interest In your
home?"
The question was rnthcr blunt, hut It
was a fine time te ask it because here
undoubtedly, wns a successful mother
nnd n successful housewife who ws
taking nn nctive plncc in public life, the
life of politics.
"I de net," she sold, quicklv and
kindly. "On the contrary, I think
there is every reason te believe that
such nn interest will add te your in
terest in your home, in nil the homes
of the country. That is the thought,
te better the conditions in the henwi,
the status of the mother, the wife, tat
woman of the home.
"It has always seemed te me that U
Is the duty of a woman te continue her
interest in her work prier te mir
riage. If she hns been nn attorney, then
she should continue her work with the.
law. If she ha been n musician, she
should continue her study of music.
"New, In my ease, I have said tlint
for ten yenrs new I have sacrificed
everything for the boys. We have gene
virtually nowhere. We have done
virtually nothing ether than that
which was associated with the boys. We
have given everything, and new'l have
snld around this home thnt it Is about
time thnt I was going te have etni
rights.
When Children Leave,
Where Is Mether's Interest?
"My thought en thnt is that certain
ly there will come n time when the
boys will leave you. Your children,
you hnve them for a number of years
nnd your Interest is In them and then
suddenly they grew up and develop
their own interests. They leave you.
If the mother, after all these year."
of sacrifice, has net retained an Inter
est in her own work, in the work which
she liked prier te her mnnlagc and
her motherhood, then she is left adrift
when her family passes out from under
her care. And I don't think thnt l
right. T think It is far better for the
family and for the mother te maintain
thnt early interest se that when the
child grows up nnd moves en te hi
own sphere, the mother shall hTe
something te fall back en."
It wn again the very practical wom
an speaking, a woman who could make
herself understood with very few word",
who could offer very geed reasons for
her work. There was nothing frivolem
about it. It Interested her because
she was interested in hcttermg the con
ditiens of women, and that was suf
ficient. It interested her because in
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she was Interesting herself in her own
home.
Hut she could be as practical In ether
pursuits. Immediately she began te
tell of the Wiley farm In the Ulue
Hidge foothills. lTp there, some dl-.
tance from ether fnrms nnd ether farm
houses, she and the boy spend the
summers. There Dr. Wiley works,
again n the theorist, but as the suc
cessful theorist. There the Wiley boys
also work.
"The boys de everything up there
that the father does," she said. "If
he 1h mixing concrete, they work with
him from dawn until dark. One time
he was busy laying out his field, nin!
each one wns precisely measured. Well.
Harvey worked right with him, han
dling one end of the line until the little
fellow get se tired he bud te surrendrr.
Hut the doctor went right en In the
het sun, working all day. He is a
wenderful man."
Just a few hour previous Dr. Wiley
had planned te get his wife te permit an
Interview en the Wiley home and the
Wilev children. It was easy te fee
hew lie grew proud and prouder ever the
thought of Mrs. Wiley. He did net
express it in se ninny words, but i"
everything he snid he suggested that
she was a wonderful woman.
The boys well, they show they ire
wonderful American boys. There l
harmony, devotion. They practice whit
they preach.
weliheuVseYenty-scven pounds
trim fitUlv med evidence of tbe
'f llvlnr and correct diet en candy, they
"The Docter and I have plans made'0 private school of the finest tjpe In ta;
p the bevs. We plun te send them te Washington. Nevertheless they con-1 be
mover College, n rather small insti- trncted most of the ills te which heys.
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slsfty." The boys themselves were the
answers. If there are any two strong
American bevs in the land who are mere
We have te get quick ' 'f hey had been afflicted with no disense worthy e the title of American boys,
I until they started te school. They went I then they have cause te be proud. Cer
tainly the Wiley family lias icasen te
proud of the Wiley boys.
! The Mether New Insists
en Her "Weman's Rights"
Of course, much of this is due te
the influence of their father in the J
home, Hut undoubtedly he will tell you
Ian that most of it is due te the lu
fluenee of their mother, as lsnlways tbe
for
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tutlea down en the Ohie Hlver nnd
net far from where the Uocter was
born. It is an exceedingly fine Insti
tution. It develops e many mission'
aries. Thtre are lew frills te It, but we
feel that It i what we-aesire that our
all navtt
Iscuasfea irae wen rert-- .fe.
and fflrbi full heir. Hut their early
training, the sound physical foundation
helped them through. Their illness, at
no time, had developed any serious re
sults, f
Had this strict tralnlnr,7thls careful
supervision, developed anrltralts which
ght be described as jKBOw or ins
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the receiving end when Harvey, Jr., Is pitching and thtf
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