Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-08
AN INTER TESTING THEORY.
The Law of Sex Discovered and Care.
fully Analysed.
From the London Athenaum.

From the London Athenarm.
The author claims to make known "a new dis
| covery of great law Of nature. nothing less
! than the law whi1h governs the sexes. and
whereby the sex OF offspring can be controlled -
He has worked for twenty years at the subject,
| carefully counting the number of boys and girls
in ali the families Of his acquaintance, summing
| up the characteristics and taking the portraits
OF the parents and reading Darwin and other au-
| thOrs who have handled the question The great
discovery Is the law that sex is determined bv
what shall designate as the superior parent;
| also. that the superior parent produces the op-
| posite SEX; that Is to say, that If the husband
Is superior to the wife the family will consist
mostly OF girls, and vice versa. Hence, as the
author explains, results the preservation of the
balance OF the sexes; for in the next generation
| the girls, lnheritlng their fathers superiority.
! WILL in most cases, produce families with a
| larger proportion Of bows In future there will
be no need to pry in order to determine who
| rules the rOost in ones neighbours familv-t
Will only be necessary to count his bows and
! girls III order to determine the point; hence it is
TO be expected that the desire for male off
| spring will scarcely remain 80 strongly devel-
! oped In fathers as hitherto
Dark complexion is superior to light, dark
| plants and trees are the most hardy and dark
horses the BEST A square forehead and promi-
| eye (Which Indicates conversational powers")
| Is the reverse. But the best indication OF supe-
| rlorty is a large and prominent nose Roman or
| aqune, full third the length of the face AS
an Illustration OF the method of summing up the
characteristics OF parents from the rules laid
down. the several portraits Of opposite sex
given IN the plates are alphabetically married.
pair by PAIR, and their superiority or inferiority
| Is estimated numerically, 100 being taken rs
standard number; hence the number of children
| mob, ,rv1,% -,
| according to the new theory, Is arrived at, One
| Of the most ill-favored of the ugly women ia
mated. for example. with the man with the head
which is biggest at the top and the result is that
II the pair have twenty children they will all be
| girls.
| Then come series of cases from the per-
sonal experience OF the author NJ B., a man
OF genius, with large head and slender body,
with corpuent wife of moderate intelligence,
had five daughters Nine A.. strong woman
with masculine voice and slightly bearded chin,
| had seven children, all sons
- became acquainted with man Of good
address. with well-shaped head and a Roman
| nose. His wife was OF cOnsumptive tendency
OF literary tastes, but with an infantile nose and
an expression OF general inefficiency. Imagine
my surprise when found they had three boys s"
But the law remains mistaken: Gan was sat
| 1sfactorly explained" the husband was ex-
| tremely illiterate and addicted to drink Moth
| Ing more surely degrades the nature"
philosophers, lawyers, editors. poets literary
men and brain workers generally have large
excess of daughters. Wine merchants, tavern
keepers, small retail dealers, orators, PHYSICIANS
and musicians have a prepOnderance of bows
Clergymen appear just to struggle through the
ordeal without mourning the stigma OF infe-
rlority, being equally intelligent, sober and
moral with their wives and producing all equal
number OF boys and girls
VI course, for the stability Of the new law it
becomes necessary to show that musicians, med
| lcal men and orators are inferior. Accordingly
| the first are Emphatic, the second are made
| rather than born to their profession (and the
most distinguished, as an exception have large
families OF daughters and mere public speakers
DO not possess 1.-THE highest order Of faculties or
| intellect" while in most of them 1.-The base of
the brain will be found to predominant over the
| superior portion
Were the theory established no married men,
Der of the learned professions would be able to
get any employment at all unless they had large
| families or girls. They could not afford to run
risks. and it would become q matter of common
| prudence with them to secure idiots for wives
for fear of mishap.