The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-14
HE EXPLAINS REASON
Tango is Taking Vienna BY storm
and the Blue Danube
Waltz Is Being
Forgotten.
lBy Karl Won Wiegand, Berlin CORES.
ondent Of the United Press.1

BERLIN, Dec. 13.-"To have chill
dren who Will be gifted with great
genius, the mother should be several
years older thar the father This is
the conclusion of DR.. vaerting, a
German specialist who has just pub
lished book upon the subject of the
production of geniuses.
Scholars and scientists in Germany
both genuine and seudo-have of
late devoted much time, and ink to
the ways and means Of how to pre-
serve the human race in general, and
the German in particular LII. vaer.
ting has discovered what he believes
will change the downward trend OF
the race and give 1t strong upward
turn, IL his ideas are carried out by
the younger and future generations
He would reform the matrimonial
ideas of the world. He wants to change
the present custom Of older men mar,
rying younger women. vaerting says
nature has intended that young man
should fall in love with women several
years older than themselves. TO the
marriage of men to women and girls
younger than themselves he attributes
the alleged deterioration of the race.
Man should marry when very young.
says DR.. Vaerting, woman when more
mature, DR.. vaerting claims that chill
dren inherit the best qualities OF
their parents when the mother is from
three to eight years older than the
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young men at ages from eighteen to
twenty-five; women should marry at
from twenty-one to thirty. To prove
that this Is productive OF children
strongest physically, morally and in
tellectually. vaerting gives columns
and columns of statistics
In this day and age says Vaerting,
men and women contemplating mar
riage have but one thought regarding
their offspring, and that wholly ma.
terialEthat they will be able to give
| their children all possible material ad-
vantages and good material start In
| life, and leave them material inheri-
lance when they die. OF the physi-
| cal, mental, intellectual, moral and
| spiritual genius inheritance, little or
no thought is taken. And yet, ao-
cording to Vaerting, the latter ID Of
far greater Importance and value to
children than mere wealth.
That great men seldom have highly
talented sons, DIR. Vaerting declares.
! tends to prove his theory. Investiga-
ton in such cases, he says, has shown
that such men generally have married
late in life or have married women
much younger than themselves.
1T is a well-known fact that young
men are nearly always attracted by
and feel themselves drawn to women
considerably older than themselves"
says DR. Vaerting. This Is ,articular-
!! ly noticeable among the educated.
j That is nature, expressing it's own Sc
lectivity 1t is mans healthy Instinct
at work. There is period in the life
of every man and woman when nature
conveys to and implants in children
the highest and best physically, moral.
ly, intellectually and spiritually That
Is the kind Of Inheritance that should
be given by those who desire that
their children be great. To transplant
these qualities to offspring, men
should marry between the ages OF
eighteen and twenty-five and they
should select as wives, women from
three to six years older than them.
selves. A woman should not marry
until she is twenty-three. At that age
: she should marry man not older than
eighteen or nineteen, That MAKES for
happiness in married life.
DR.. Vaerting says that economic con
ditions and the high cost of living to
day prevent marriages at ages when
are best for the future of the race
+ and that postponement OF marriage by
] men until late in life tenos towards
' degeneration of intellect and talent
He says that the average man who &
not able to support a wife should mar