Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-11-23
AN INTERESTING THEORY.

fully Analyzed-A New Scientist
Who is Likely to Cause the Great
Oar win to be Forgo,ten.>
From the London A,herenum.
The author claims to make known "a
new discovery ola great law of nature,
nothing less than that which governs the
sexes, and whereby the sex of offspring
can he controlled" He has worked for
years at the subject, carefully counting
the number of boys and girls in all the
families OF his acquaintance, summing
up the characteristics and taking the
portraits Of the parents, and reading
Darwin and other authors who have
handled the question. The great discov-
cry is the law that ''sex is determined
by what I shall designate as the supe-
rior parent; also that the superior parent
produces 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
author explains, results the preservation
Of the balance of the sexes; for in the
next generation the girls. inheriting
their fathers superiority, will III most
cases produce families with 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 the boys and girls in order to de-
termine the point; hence it is to be ex-
pected that the desire for female Off
spring will scarcely remain so strongly
developed in fathers as hitherto.
Dark complexion is superior to light,
dark plants and trees are the most bar
dy and dark horses the best. A square
forehead and prominent veins are ''su-
perior," large prominent, eye (Which
Indicates conversational powers" is the
reverse. But the best indication OF SUI
periority 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 characters.
tics of parents from the rules laid down.
the several portraits of oPpos to sex
given in the plates are alphabetically
married, pair by pair, and their superb
ority or inferiority 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, according TO the new theory, is
arrived at One of the most il4-favored
Of the ugly women is mated, for exam
pic, with the man with the head which
is biggest at the top, and the result is
that if the pair have twenty Children
they will all be girls.
Then come series Of cases from the
experience of the author. NJ. B., man
Of genius, with large head and slender
body. with corpuent wife OF moderate
intelligence, had FIVE daughters. Nine.
o.. wit
and slightly bearded chin, had seven
children. all sons.
Il became acquainted with man Of
good address, with we'll shaped head
and Roman nose. His wife was Of con-
sumptive tendency of literary tastes, but
with an infantile nose and an express
sion OF general inef6ciency. Imagine
my surprise when I found they had
three boys"
But the law remains mistaken: "All
was satisfactorily explained" the hus-
band was extremely iiliterate and ad-
dicted to drink. Nothing more surely
degrades the nature"
Philosophers; lawyers, editors, poets,
literary men and brain workers gener-
ally have large excess Of daughters.
Wine merchants, tavern keepers. small
retail dealers, orators, physicians and
1uuSlCiallo La" = vi Guys
Clergymen appear just to struggle
through the ordeal without mourning the
stigma of interiority, being equally intel
ligent, sober and moral with their wives
and producing GIL 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 orators are
inferior. Accordingly tho first are lynn
phatic, the second are made rather than
born to taeir 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 lin
most Of them "the base Of the brain will
be found to predominant over the supe-
rior portion"
We're the theory established no mar
ried member of the learned professions
would be able to get any employment at
all unless they had large families eff girls.
They could not afford to run risks. and
it would become q matter of common
prudence with them to secure idiots for
wives for fear of mishap.