Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-23
Tho Law Of Sax niacnvarad.

Inc dutnOr claims 10 make known "a
new discovery Of great law of nature
nothing less than the law which gov
erns the sexes, and whereby the sex of
offspring can be controlled" He has
worked for twenty years on the subject
carefully counting the number of boys
and girls in all the families of his ac-
quaintance, carefully summing up the
characteristics and taking the portraits
of the parents and read ing 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 fam
lily 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 genera
tion the girls, inheriting their fathers
superiority, will in most cases produce
families with n larger proportion of
boys. In future there will be no need
to pry in order to determine who rules
the roOst in ones neighbor's faHlily-it
will only be necessary to count his boys
and girls to determine the point; hence
it is expected that the desire for male
offspring will scarcely remain so strong
ly developed in fathers as heretofore.
Dark complexion is superior to light,
dark plants and trees are the most har-
dy, and dark horses the best. A square
forehead and prominent veins are "su-
perior;" a large and prominent eye
(which Indicates conversational pow
ers, y is the reverse. But the best in
dication of superiority is a large and
prominent nose, Roman or aquiline, 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 are given in the plates,
are alphabetically married pair by pair,
and their superiority or inferiority is
estimated numerically, 100 being taken
as 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 to the man whose
head is the biggest at the top, and the
result is that il the pair have twenty
children they will all be girls.
Then comes a series OF cases from
the personal experience of the author.
Mr.. B., a man of genius, with large head
and slender body, witha corpulent wife
of moderate intelligence has five daugh-
ters. Nine. A, strong woman, with
masculine voice and slightly bearded
chin, had seven children, all SONS.
Il becanse acquainted with a man of
good address, with well-shaped head
and q Roman nose. His wife was of
consumptiVe tendency, of literary taste
but with an infantile nose and an ex-
preston of general incfficiency. Imag-
inc my surprise when / found they had
three boys"
DuS viz AoW lCbAoiuCu unotlohOfl. AL
was satisfactorily explained" The
husband was extremely ilhterate and
addicted to drink. Nothing more
surely degrades the nature"
Philosophers, lawyers, editors, poets,
literary men and brain workers general
ly have large excess of daughters.
Wine merchants, tavern keepers, small
retail detail dealers, orators, physicians
and musicians have preponderence of
boys. Clergymen appear just to strirg,
gle through the ordeal without incur
ring the stigma of inferiorty; being
equally intelligent,s sober and moral with
their wives, and producing an equal
number of boys and girls.-London
kthennum.