Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-11-29
AN INTERESTING THEORY.
The Law OF Sex Discovered and Care
fully Analysed.

fully Analysed.
The author claims to make known ga
new discovery of a great law of nature,
nothing less thar the law which governs
the sexes, and whereby the sex of off
spring can be controlled" He has work
ed for twenty years at the subject, care
fully counting the number of boys and
girls in the families of his acquaintance,
summing up the characteristics and tax
ing the portraits of the parents, and read
ing Darwin and other authors b have
handled the question. The great dis
covery is the law that "sex is determined
by what I shall designate as the superior
parent; also that the superior parent pro-
duces the opposite 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 au-
thor explains, results the preservation OF
the balance of the sexes, for in the next
generation the girls, inheriting their
fathers superiority, will in most cases
produce families with a larger proportion
of boys. In future there will be no need
to pry in order to determine who rules
the roost in ones neighbours family-it
will only be necessary to count his boys
and girls in order to determine the point;
hence it is to be expected that the desire
for male offspring will scarcely remain so
strongly developed in fathers as hitherto.
Dark complexion is superior to light,
dark plants and trees the most hardy and
dark horses the best. A square fore
head and prominent veins are superior"
a large, prominent eye (Which "indicates
Conversations powers") is the reverse.
But the best indication of superiority is
. large and prominent nose, Roman or
aquiline, full a third the length of the
face. As IN Illustration of the method
of summing up the characteristics of
parents from the rules laid down, the
several portraits of opposite sex given in
plates are alphabetically married, pair by
pair, and their superiority or inferiority
is estimated numerically, 100 being taken
as a standard number; hence the number
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 biggest at the top, and the re-
suit is that if the pair have twenty chill
dren they will all be girls.
Then come Il series of eases from per-
sonal experience of the author, NJ. B., a
man of genius, with large head and slen-
der body, with Il corpulent wife of mod
crate intelligence, had five daughters.
Nine. A, u strong wonan with mascu-
line voice and slightly bearded chin, had
seven children, all sons.
81 became acquainted with 4 man OF
good address, with a well shaped head
and II Roman nose. His wife was OF
consumptive tendency, of literary tastes
but with an infantile nose and an express
sion of general inefficiency. Imagine
my surprise when l found they had three
boys"
But the law remains mistaken: Sal
was satisfactorily explained" the hus-
ed to drink. "Nothing more surely de-
grades the nature"
Philosophers, lawyers, poets, literary
men and brain workers generally have ;
largo pxppSS Of iouobtar, W.T.
chants, tavern keepers, small retail deal.
ers, orators, physicians and musicians
have a ~preponderance of boys. Clergy.
nen appear just to struggle through tn,
ordeal without mourning the stigma o
inferiority, beng equally intelligent
sober and moral with their wives ant
producing an equal number of boys an,
girls.
OF course, for the stability of the new
law 1t becomes necessary to show tina
musicians, medical men and orators ar
inferior. Accordingly the first are lynn
phatic, the second are made rather thai
born to their profession {and in the mos
distinguished as an exception have larg
families of daughters), and mere publ
speakers do not possess "the highest orde
of faculties or intellect" while in most o
them ''the base of the brain will be foun,
to predominant over the superior por
tion."
Were the theory established no marie,
member Of the learned professions woul
be able to get any employment at all on
less they had large families of girls. The
could not afford to run risks, and it woul
become q matter of common prudene
with them to secure idiots for wives TO
fear of mishaps.-London Athenem.
The Gardner "Karl'' Combination CAV
a street parade yesterday morning, heade
by a full military brass band and Genera
c. r. Decker, the smallest man in tn
world, who attracted universal attention
after which a grand holiday matinee an
night performance were gwen at the Par
theatre, both of which were largely at
tended by enthusiastic audiences, VIII
manifested their appreciation of the reall
meritorious play, good acting and fin