Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-06-26
MARRIAGE AMONG RELATIVES


The marriage question interests every
.bodys4fpr soor er or later all right minded
men aud women wish to marry, and will
lido soft shey find the rightsctance.5 It1has
been, a common notion that consanguine-
lous marriages were sure to result in dis
Isoaseds Iidiotie, or insane progeny, and
multitudes of5.scousins" have led sad lives
J because of she ldisappontments resulting
fromlthe prejndices of the sold folks ION
this topic. - But it seems thereis hope in
/ the future.o Professor Powell, in the May
number of the American Eclectic Reyaaeao,
/ thus diseourses on3the1important subject ::
| tls' The opinion is widely spread and deep
ly founded in9the public mind, that con-
sanguineal marrlag deteriorates the species.
by entailing on progeny idiocy2 such eere-I
bral imperfections as result in insanity,
aud constitutions SO depraved as to9pro-
duce all the known forms of scrofula
But statistics on both sides of the Atlantic
have failedto sustain the truth of this
general opinion on the contrary, they
show that there are more of the evils
sanguinty than within it, Showing that
1.-The, cause of ..the evils above.named is
more extensive than {censanguineal mar
riages. And Of this character is a fact
which was communicated to me few
weeks since. viz: Dr, Patterson SUPER
| intendent of the Ohio 1diotic Asylum,
informs me that although he, has been
| particular in his inquiries as to the pre-
genitors of the idiots brought to the in
stitution, yet he has succeeded in find
ing but two per cent. of them to have
had consanguine progenitors This sin
gle fact is, IN my opinion, sufficient to
cast shade of doubt upon the verify of
the very prevalent opinion Of eonsanguine
/ lnhueneetons progeny. saia a'sadFt 5bo
b "Some fifteen years age / was induced
to suspect that physiological uncompati-
blllty obtained between the sexes in regard
to progeny, and the result has been an
entire conviction of the truth of my sus-
Ipicion. This incom natbility prevails ex,
! tepsively in society. andiis, l am confident,
the cause Of all the idiocy, much of the
insanity, all Of the btuhercular consump-
ton of the lungs, and of mesentric glands
/ of the abdomen, and of all the scrofulous
FORMS of disease incidental to the human
race" .....-,--saaf.
He declares that disease will be, entail
ed in the following alliances: nj ad5 III.
f. |. When parents have both the SAM
guine encep phallic temperament, their
children will die young, of dropsy of.,the
brain, or Of tubercnlar inf amnlation Of it's
membrances %.
2. When the parents are both bilious
encephalic, the children will be idiotic
/ 10 g. When the parents are both Of bill
ions encephalic, lymptatic temperament
their children, FIVE out Of seven, will be
dead born, and the rema nder will not
live two years. cotton ifai1ei oa l--
f. When one parent is bilious lympha-
tic and the other saneuine bilious enc,p-
halle, the progeny will die young Of
tubercular consumption. st -.
s. If one parent is sanguine encephalic
and the other bilious lymphatic, the chill
oren will die young9of tubercular disease
7'6 6. If one parent is bilious enccphalic
and the other sanguine encephalie bilious
lymphatic, the children will become In
sane. g-.a se lav.g1e fanf asdU
SIGNss OF PRoGREss.-We are better
off than our grandfathers. There is a
wider spread of comfort and conveniences
than they ever. dreamed of, much less
realized. Suppose a stranger strayed
into the neighborhood of Plymouth Rock,
with bundle Of soiled raiment hanging
FROM stick over his shoulder. He
would have to tarry in that vicinity days
before his resources would be sufficiently
restored to enable him to presume his jour
ney Let hilu come to-day into one of
our cities, and put up at hotel with the
modern improvements. In an hour his
clothes are washed, dried and ironed; and
such new apparel as he may need is pro-
vided by a ready-made clothing "empor-
ium" Equal improvements are ready for
the household use of families, though
they are as yet only adopted partially
Woman is no longer worn out by acting
as washing machine. Better soap than
all her care could succeed in making in.
variablyais to be bought for less than
domestic cost at the corner grocery. The
carpet.sweepery enables a house wife to
avoid needless dust, without scattering tea
leaves and then gathering them up with
asbroom. .fhen there are the sewing and
knitting machines. And by and by who
knows but that neuralgia and NERVES.
may be banished by a 'fretting machine"
which shall also destroy dyspepsia by do
/ ing woman's worrying and weeping by
| the action of cranks, and levers. But
alas in one thing we. have not progressed
| domestic servants. Our grandmothers
had household "help." We have-Blddy!