In future years it will be found that the fuzzy, stupid, stuffed animal has had as permanent an effect upon the manners and morals of our age as pretty nearly any other factor you can mention. 

C ollege girls and society women have taken up the fad, says The Boston Herald, and there is no telling where the craze will stop.

The priest held that the toy beasts in the hands of little girls were destroying all instincts of motherhood and in the future would be realized as one of the most powerful factors in race suicide.

There is something natural in the care of a doll by a little girl. It is the first manifestation of the feeling of motherhood. And in the development of these motherly instincts is the hope of all nations. It is a monstrous crime to do anything that will tend to destroy these instincts. That is what the Teddy bear is doing, and that is why it is going to be a factor in the race suicide problem…

Another gentleman… finds in the Teddy bear a great danger to the republic, because it tends to destroy the instinct of motherhood latent in all little girls, and even deprives little boys of the embryonic symptoms of fatherhood that might otherwise be advantageously developed.

But the great influence of the Teddy Bear, the too often malignant influence, can be traced away back even beyond the days of Solomon.