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Child, noun; a student of sex hygiene; a member of boy scout organisations and girls' camp-fire organisations for the practice of the kind of self-control that parents fail to exercise; a member of school republics for the study of politics while father reads the sporting page; a ward of the State; a student of the phenomena of alcoholism; a handicap carefully avoided by specialists in child-study; one-third of a French family; the holder of an inalienable title to happiness which the Government must supply; in general, a human being under thirteen years of age who must be taught everything so that he will be surprised at nothing when he is thirty years of age. The ignorant and innocent offspring of a human couple, obs. Synonyms: man-child; girl-child; love-child.

Motherhood, noun; a profession once highly esteemed, but rejected by modern spirits as too frequently automatic.

Mother, noun; a female progenitor; a term often employed by the older poets in connection with the ideas of love, sacrifice, and holiness, but now delicately described by writers of the Harper's Weekly temperament as being synonymous with cow.

Eugenics, noun; a condition of intense excitement over the future of the human race among those who are doing nothing to perpetuate it.

Literature, noun; see Sex; White Slave.

Drama, noun; see Sex; White Slave.

Punch, noun; see Drama; Literature; Magazine Advertising.

Adenoids, noun; something that is cut out of children.

Social-mindedness, noun; something that is injected into children.