The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-15
INTERESTING THEORY
he Law Of. Sc, DI seg.s and
nc Lev carefaIly .tnaiyEeda
,.,or eIafms to make know

The a g;acoverv of a great law OF
q ! IRE nothing less than the Jaw
IlIi governs the sexes anu ha
"bereby the sex Of offspring can oe
Iwannff 1Ii He has worked at the
sDhiect carefully counting the num-
her of bows and girls in all the fam
;I;ao of his acquaintance, summing
me- IN 1oa characteristics and taking
4 up W, nortraits of the parents and
s sn0 Darwin and other authors
Who bsye handled the question.
The great discovery is the law That
"sex IS determined By what l shall
designate as the superior parent;
also that the superior parent pro-
dnces the opposite SEX" that is to
sey. that if the husband is superior
to the wife the family Will consist
mostly Of boys, and vice versa.
Hence, as the author eX-
plains, results the preservation
of the balance of the sexes, Inr the
next generation the girls, inherit
ing the fathers superiority, will IN
most eases produce families with a
larger proportion Of boys. In future
thele will be no need 30 pry in order
to determine who rules the rOoSt IN
ones neighbOr's family it Will only
be necessary 10 count his boys and
girls in order to determine the point /;
hence IL is expected that the desire
for male offspring will scarcely re-
main so strongly developed III male
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 "su-
periOr," a large, prominent eye
(which Indicates conversational
powers'O is the reverse. But the
best indications OF superiority is
large and prominent nose, Roman
or aqulline, 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 por-
traits of opposite sex given in the
plates are alphabetically married,
pair by pair, and their superiority
or inferiority is estimated numer-
ically, 100 being taken as standard
number; hence the number of child
ren Of either sex which such pairs
ought to produce according 20 the
new theory, is arrived at, 0 o.:
the most ill-favored OF the ugly
women is mated, for example, y 'th
the man with the head whictl IS
biggest at the top, and the result. IS
that if the pair have twenty child.
rem they will al be girls.
Then comes series Of cases from
the personal experiences Of the al
thor. M. B., man Of genius. with
large head and slender body, with a
corpulent wife of moderate in;elli-
genee, and five daughters Nine.
A, a strong woman with masculine
voice and slightly bearded chin, mad
seven children, all sons.
az became acquainted with man
Of good address, with well-shaped
head and a Roman nose. His wife
was Of consumptive tendency, Of
literary taste, but with an infantile
nose and an expression of general
efficiency Imagine my surprise
when l heard that they had three
boys"
But the law remains mistaken:
"AIl was satisfactorily explained
The husband was extremely Hitter
ate and addicted to drink. Moth
ing more surely degrades the
nature.
Philosophers, lawyers, editors,
poets, literary men and brain work
ers generally have large excess Of
daughters. Wine merchants, tav-
ern keepers, small retail dealers,
orators, physicians and musicians
have preponderance of boys.
Clergymen appear to struggle
through the ordeal without incur
ring the stigma Of priority. 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 it becomes necessary to
show that musicians, medical men
and orators are inferior. Accord>
Ingly the first are lympathic, the
second are made rather than BON
to their profession land the most
distinguished as an exception have
large families of daughters). and
mere public speakers do not possess
the highest order of faculties to in
t9lieet," while in most of them the
base Of the brain will be found to
predominate over the superior por-
zion.
Were the theory established no
married member of the learned pro.
Iessions would be able to get any
employment at all unless they had
large families of girls. They could
not afford to run risks, and it would
3ecome matter Of common pru-
Ience with them to secure idiots
IoE wives for fear Of mishaps.-