s about 35 years, in terms of your
time measurements. The result of this early training is that the young
couple just embarked on the "Sea of Matrimony," are true mates and go
through life without the usual occurrence of domestic turmoil so
characteristic of your Earth's people.

Marriage on your Earth, with but few exceptions, has degenerated from
God's holiest of institutions to a happy convenience for the
gratification of the animal passions; and the rearing of children is an
accident rather than a preconceived reality. Such marriages are unholy
and destructive, and unless your people respond to a Spiritual
awakening such as God's workers are now trying to inaugurate on your
Earth the growing degeneracy will be augmented rather than diminished
and the extinction of the race will be inevitable.

The curriculum of our schools embraces all branches of Domestic
Science, as well as all the sciences, with the difference from your
system that Spiritual development must be the principal task of those
having supervision over the studies of the young.

One of the subdivisions of Domestic Science receiving particular
attention on Mars is the PREPARATION OF FOODS. With an atmospheric
pressure of only eight pounds to the square inch, water boils at 175
degrees on our planet. This temperature is inadequate for cooking
foods properly, especially the coarser varieties. But recourse is had
to the cooking of food in vacuum or under pressure, as the exigencies
of the occasion demand.

Electrical energy is used most generally for producing heat, and the
variety of foods, both animal and vegetal, are as extensive as on your
planet, for the flora and fauna of Mars differs little from yours.

Martians are not excessive eaters, as their bodies do not require the
gross foods so characteristic of your Earth. There are two reasons for
this. In the first place the difference in the gravitational pull on
Mars being thirty-eight one-hundredths to that of your Earth, obviates
the necessity of supplying as much fuel to the human body as your
physical make-up demands. In the second place the Martians partake of
food to keep the body alive, and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded
by the consumption of victuals. We eat to live: whereas most of your
Earth tenants live to eat.

Although each individual has his particular place in the universe where
he will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two persons in
all Creation exactl