The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1883-11-30
NO. 751
AN INTERESTING THEORY.
The Law of Sex Discovered and Carefully
Analysed.
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The author claims to make known ga new
discovery of great law of nature, nothing
less than the law which governs the sexes,
and whereby the sex of offspring can be con-
trolled." He has worked for twenty years
at the subject, carefully counting the num-
Der of boys and girls In the families of his
acquaintance, summing up the Characters.
tics and taking the portraits Of the parents,
and reading Darwin and other authors who
have handled the question. The great dis
covery is the law that ''sex is determined by
what shall designate as
THE SUPERIOR PARENT;
also that The superiar parent produces tha
opposite sex )" that is to say, If the husband
is superior to the wife the family will con-
sist mostly of girls, and vice versa. Hence,
as the author explains, results the preserva-
tion of the balance of the sex, for in the next
generation the girls, inheriting their fathers
superiority, will in most cases produce fami-
lies with a large proportion of boys. In
future there will be no need to pry in order
to ascertain who rules the roost in ones
neighbor's family-it will only be necessary
to count his boys and girls in order to deter
mine the point; hence it is to be expected
that the desire for male offspring will scarce
ly remain SO strongly developed 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
prominent veins are Superior" large,
prominent eye (Which indicates conversa-
tional powers) is the reverse. But
THE BEST INDICATION
of superiority is large and prominent nose,
Roman or acquiiine, 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 portraits of op-
posite sex given in the plates are hypotheti-
cally married, pair by pair, and their supe-
riority or inieriority Is estimated numeri-
cally, 100 being taken as a standard number;
hence the number of children of either sex
which such pairs ought to produce, accord
ing 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 children,
they will all be girls.
Then come q series of cases from
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
of the author. NJ. B., man of genius, with
large head and slender body, with corpu-
lent wife of moderate intelligence, had five
daughters. Nine. A., a strong woman with
masculine voice and slightly bearded chin,
had seven children, all sons.
II became acquainted with man of good
address, with . well shaped head and Ro-
man nose. His wife was of consumptive
tendency, of literary taste, but with an in
fantile nose and an expression of general
inefficiency. Imagine my surprise when l
found they had three boys"
But the law remains unshaken. GAIL 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 ex-
cess of daughters. Wine merchants, tavern
keepers, small retail dealers, orators, physi-
clans ard musicians have
PREPoNDERANcE OF BOYS.
Clergymen appear just to struggle through
the ordeal without incurring the stigma of
inferiority, being equally 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,
1t becomes necessary to show that musicians,
medical men and orators are inferior. Ac-
cordingly 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 "the highest
order of faculties or intellect" while in most
of them "the base Of the brain will be found
to predominant over the superior portion"
Were the theory established, no married
member of the learned professions would be
able to get any employment at ali unless
they had large families of girls. They could
not afford to run risks, and 1t would become
a matter Of common prudence with them to
secure idiots for wives for fear of mishaps.