The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-05-23
Philosopher Undertook
to Produce Model
Child
UNEXPECTED
However One of the Two is
Son Which Theorist Had
Determined Upon

proud father of twins, the only half
expected result of a novel and absorb
ing experiment in %eugenics. For *
pertinent avowedly 1t is; a deliberate
testing of a philosophers theories for
the improvement of the human race.
But the babies? Let science wait "A
minute. These babies are the most
wonderful babies in the world. DR..
Gorton and his wife. who is approach
ing middle age, believe SO just as
surely as any bridal couple of twenty.
They are as perfectly formed and
healthy as any two babies could be
and each weighs exactly six 'and
onc-half pounds when they arrived
on April % at the Gorton apartment
at No. G32 Eleventh street, Brook
Ign.
Among DR.. Gorton's medical theo-
ries is the one that sex of offspring
can be determined at the will of the
parents. He set about to bring into
the world a son-and a son there is.
The youngster looks as much like his
father as any very small pea can re-
semble a big pea in the same pod.
He has been named Allyn, for his
father.
But the doctors theory didn't cover
numbers, and to his surprise and
pleasure there arrived a sister twin.
She has been named Leonora. She
is more delicate and feminine than
her brother, and the veriest amateur
judge at a baby show could tell at a
glance which is the boy and which
the girl, though both have the finely
shaped head Of their father.
When DR.. Gorton married Miss
Bertha Rehbein, his literary secretary
last July 90, the public heard moth
ing of the solemn determination OF
the couple to experiment with the pet
theories of this distinguished old ply
stefan and philosopher, who has long
been a radical thingcr and an agitator
in his profession. The newspapers
made 1T out a IT now ap-
pears, from the couples explanation,
to have been a romance of a deeper
order. DIR. Gorton had been looking
about deliberately for the proper
mother for the child of his ideal
the son who should be brought into
being endowed with everything that
heredity could give him, to be brought
up according to the DOCTORS pet thco.
ries.
his friends the arrival of the twins
DR.. Gorton wrote:
"You were surprised, no doubt tt
learn of the gracious grant to me
and mine Of twins-a son and q
daughter, both the most beautifm
children that eve have seen. l die
not bespeak for but one--a son., bu'
the gift Of a daughter twin was no
less welcome, be assured.
1T was a grave responsibility at m,
.age-near eighty-to become the ia
ther of a child. 1t vas no hasty o,
ill-considered resolution, but a dclib
crate one, full of purpose and mean
ing; and :. would have you believ,
that was actuated by the highes
and most exalted motives, in which
my wife fully shared. An ambition Il
rear a son, who would be able tt
take up my task when ] must lay i
down, had possessed me for more thai
a quarter Of a century. And this
say without prejudice, to my nobl
and talented son, DR.. Eliot (Gcrton)
whose ambition is different iron
mine, though not less noble.
Marvcls of Beauty.
~ am criticized in certain quarter
and not without excellent reasons
for assuming so great a task at thi
time of my life. Time alone can dc
eide as to the wisdom, or otherwise
of my course. II required no SINAI
degree of courage to carry out m
purpose; but to achieve it | woul
sacrifice ease and comfort and ru,
the risk of short allowances an
penury the rest of my days.
"The children possess every mar
of being we'll born and finely endow
ed. They are greatly admired. TIL
phrase 'marvels of beauty is hear
from the lips of all who see then
Would that you could see them an
judge for yourself. 1t would do you
eyes good to observe for yourse-
the objects of my first experiment /
eugenics.'
} DR.. Gorton's theory of the deter
mination of e is none other tina
that of DR.. Eufurt, a German scier
fist Of more than a half century ag,