The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-11-24

From the London 4thenanm

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 the families of his
acquaintance, summing up the charac-
teristics and taking the portraits of
the parents, and reading Darwin and
other authors who have handled the
question. The great discovery is the
law that Sex is determined by what
| shall designate as
THE SUPERIOR PARENT;
also that the superior parent produces
the opposite SEX" that is to say, if
the husband is superior to the wife the
family will consist mostly of girls, and
vice versa. Hence, as the author ex-
plains, results the preservation of the
balance of the sex, for in the next gen
Grafton the girls, inheriting their faith
er's superiority, will in most cases pro-
duce families with large proportion
of boys. In future there will be no
need to pry in order to ascertain who
rules the roost in ones neighbours fam
ily-it will only be necessary to count
his boys and girls in order to determ-
inc the point, hence it Is to be expect
ed that the desire for male offspring
will scarcely remain so strongly devel-
oped in fathers as heretofore.
Dark complexion is superior to light,
dark plants and trees are the most
hardy, and dark horses the best. A
square forehead and prominent veins
are superior" and a large prominent
eve (Which indicates conversational
powers is the reverse. But
THE BEST INDICATION
of superiority is large and prominent
nose, Roman or acquiline, full third
the length of the face. As an Illus
tration of the method of summing up
the characteristics Of parents from the
rules laid down, the portraits of oppo-
site sex given in the plates are hypo-
thetically married, pair by pair, and
their superiority or inferiority is esti-
mated numerically, 100 being taken
as a standard number, hence the num-
Der of children of either sex which
such pairs ought to produce, according
to the new theory, is arrived at. One
of the most ill-favored of the ugly
women is mated, for example, with
the man with the head which is big
gest at the top, and the result is that
if the pair have 20 children they will
all be girls. Then comes Il series of
cases from
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
of the author. Nj, b., a man or ge-
MUS with large head and slender body
with a corpulent wife of moderate in
telligence, 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 a well-shaped
head and Roman nose. His wife !
was of consumptive tendency, of liter
airy taste, but with an intantile nose
and an expression of general ineffici-
ency. Imagine my surprise when |
found they had three boys"
But the law remains unshaken:-
"All was satisfactorily explained" the
husband was extremely illiterate and
addicted to drink. Nothing more
surely degrades the nature"
Philosophers, lawyers, 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
boys. Clergymen appear to struggle
the ordeal without incurring
the stigma of inferiority, being equal
Iy intelligent, sober and moral with
their wives, and producing an equal
number of boys and girls.
OF course, for the stability of the
new law it becomes necessary to show
that musicians, medical men and ora
tors are inferior A ccordingly the
first are Emphatic, the second are
made rather than born to their pro-
fession, (and the most distinguished
as an exception, have large families
Of daughters, and mere public speak
ers do not possess {" the highest order
Of faculties or intellect" while in most
Of them "the base of the brain will be
found to predominant over the superb
or portion"
The situation Is Serious.