The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-11-17
THE LAW OF SEX Drscovsprn
London Athennum, :,


 The author claims to make kno~r- new discovery of great law of na:-.t nothing less than the law which gore, the sexes, and whereby the sex of n. springs can be consrolled.r He sss worked for twenty years at the sub = carefully counting the number of ooyx and girls in all the families of hie a quaintance, summing up the charae,... istics and taking the portraits ot =. parents, and reading Darwin and one. authors who have handled the ques,.o- The great discovery is the law that se, is determined by what shall designa;e as the superior parent also tha; .be superior parent produces the opposte sex:' that IS to say, that if the husbaal is superior to the wife the family will or. sist mostly of girls, and vice ve,sa Hence, as the author explains. results .se preservation of the balance of the SC 6 for in the next generation the girls. '. heriting their fathers superiority, wi, ,, most cases produce families with a la-,e, proportion of boys. In future there ~,i be no need to pry in order to de.err..n. who rules the roost in one's neighbors family-it will only be necessary to oo.a. his boys and girls in order to deter:r ne the point hence it is to be expected T. the desire for male offsprings will sea. ., remain so strongly developed in ia. e-. as hitherto.
 Dark complexion IS superior to .. .i.. dark plants and trees are the most h4tlX and dark horses the best. A SC .,. forehead and prominent veins .-e :. superior,' large prominent eye (wf indicates conversational powers. the reverse. But the best indica,o- superiority is large and prominent, :. ,e. Roman or aquiline, full a third ne length of the face. As an illustratio q the method of summing up the chara e. istics of parents from the rules laid do~-. the several por.raits ofoplo i,e sexes gi4ea in the plates are hypotheticaliy marie. pair by pair, and their superiority 0. IT. feriority is estimated numerically. = being taken as standard number .hea the number of children of either .e which such pairs ought to produce, a. cording to the new theory, is arrive3 .: One of the most iIl-favored of the gs.. women is mated, for example, witt :..e man with the head which is bigges, . the top, and the result is that if the pa have twenty children they will all be s...s.
 Then comes series of cases froni ne personal experience of the author. ' B., man of genius, with large head ara slender body, with a corpulen, wife C moderate intelligence, had five daughter. Mime. A., strong woman with masc.i.ne voice and slightly bearded chin. a..e seven children, all sons.
 became acquainted with ma c. good address, with wel-shaped head and Roman nose. His wife was Q, consumptive tendency, ef literary tas:es but with an infantile nose and ar e. pression of general inefticiency. Imagine my surprise when found they had ,h-ec boys
 But the law remains unshaken: A was satisfactorily explained. the hus- band was extremely illi,erate and ae dicted to drink. Nothing more sare., degrades the nature"
 Philosophers, lawyers, editors, poets. literary men and brain workers genei ally have large excess of daughters. Wine merchants. tavern-keepers, small re.a.. dealers, orators, physicians and muse ans have a preponderance of boys. Clergymen appear just to struggle through the ordeal without incuiring the stigma of inferiority, being equally intell gen. sober and moral with their wives anc producing an equal number of boys azd girls.
 Of course. for the stability of the rev law II becomes necessary to show :h.: musicians, medical men and orators are inferior Accordingly the first are ly.a- phatic, the second are made rather ;.ar born to their profession (ard the mos: distinguished as an exception have large families of daughiers), and mere pubsl speakers do not possess ",he highes. order of faculties or intellect" while T mos; of them ",he base of the brain wi.. be found to predomlnate over the supe.ie. portion"
 Were the theory established no maI..ee. member of the learned profession wo-,e be able ,o get any employment at a.. unless they had large families of si.... They could not afford to run risks. and ,. would become matter of comn,or prudence with them to secure idiots l.. wives for fear of mishap.