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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02
Society's Burden of
Bad Marriages.

Strange to say, Elizabeth futile
had distinctly criminal traits, but, her
husband being a man of good char
acter, her fine qualities have pre-
dominated in her descendants.
On the other hand. science can put
it's finger on one predetermined in
dividual of a few generations past
and show that he has left hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of defective de-
scendants who are constantly grow
ing burden and menace to society.
There is, for instance, the notorious
case of Ada Juke, feeble-minded
woman living in New York State,
who, in three generations, left forty
nine Predetermined and criminalistic
descendants as a burden to the COM
munity. Her sister Bell left similar
heritage. At the present day their
defective defendants are said to
number thousands.
The good qualities Of some dead
individual. fortunately preserved be-
cause he made a suitable marriage,
are responsible for the most valuable
men and women in public life
throughout the world. We can find
whole families in which all the mem
bers are exceptionally tall or very
handsome or remarkable for intel
iectual activity
An interesting case is that of Mrs.
Mary Washington Bond Morosini
She is a granddaughter OF
Samuel Washington. the elder brother
of George Washington, and a great
great-grandniece of our first Presi-
dent. Mrs. Morosini counts i'll her
ancestral stock, not only the WASH
ington family, but practically all the
best families of Colonial Virginia, a
stock of fine physical and mental en-
dowments who married usually in
their own class.
Coming of good old English stock
and reared in the free life and favor
able conditions Of old Virginia. these
ancestors should, according to the
laws Of eugenics. produce children or
exceptional gifts and att1ctiveness.
This law is well exempliiied in MIS-
Mary Washington Bond Morosini.
Never has a more fiLcly Developed
specimen of American womanho"d
been seen.
She has a superbly developed
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02
Qualifications of the
Ideal Parent.

The photographs and Information
will be promptly turned over to the
committee. The candidates must, of
course, be prepared to furnish what
ever further information is required
by the committee.
The candidates should be reason
ably young. The ideal age for mar
rage has been defined by some
eugenic authorities as between TWEEN
ty-dve and thirty years for a woman
and between thirty and thirty-hve Tor
4 man.
Physical comaliness will be given
due consideration, but this will not
be Il beauty contest in any ordinary
sense. First consideration will be
given to the physical health ana
measurements of the candidates, since
Il is established as Il general rule
that when these factors, which in
clude brain and nervous system, are
good. then the mental and moral de
velopment of the individual will be
good. Certainly the committee Will
take care that the successful candi-
dates have a good mental equipment,
a good moral character and good
family history.
Some criticism has already been
aimed at the scheme because it APP
pears TO disregard the beautiful Senti-
ment of love and make the marriage
OF "A man and woman subject to the
cold-blooded calculations of body
OF scientists. This objection Is an
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02

New York Scientists Offer Money Prizes to Any Man
Woman Who Fu1fi1ls Their Ideas of Soundness of
Body and Mind and Who Will Agree to
Marry Each Other and Make Practical Test of Euqen

GCENCE has found the laws enable
bigger and better beef cattle horses and poultry
attractive delicious and perfect vegetables
The secrets of the animal vegetable world hold
human beings Eugnics is the special
aims at the development and Improvement of
Science has arrived the point where desires
practical experiments in breeding improved human bengs-n
scientifically mating and who have especially high
qualities of body and mind the hope of producing
which will be still finer specimens than their parents
Is there reader of this who would like
father the mother of the eugenc baby scientists
eagerly waiting for?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02

port about half million insane,
predetermined, epileptic, blind and
deaf, eighty thousand prisoners and
one hundred thousand paupers at a
cost of over 100000 900 per year
A new plague that rendered four
per cent of our population, chiefly
at the most productive age, not mere
ly incompetent, but burden, cost
ing $100000,0O0 yearly to support,
would instantly attract universal at
tention. But that we have become so
used To crime, disease and degeneracy
We take them as necessary evils"
EugeniC experts seek to lay down
rules as TO who are fit to marry, who
should wait until they are certain
that ancestral defects will not de-
velop, who should be prevented alto
gether from marrying. how good
traits may be preserved. and how
bad ones may be eliminated.
They say they have proved that
the transcendent ability of one indi-
Yidual may. by suitable mating, be
transmitted for unnumbered genera
tions, while, by an uufit mating it
may be entirely lost to the world.
Those who feel that they have
beauty, talent and other fine qualities
are now urged TO transmit them to
posterity and save them TO the world.
They are asked to do so under the
vigilant eyes Of science and under
conditions that will be extremely in
structive to the whole world. This
is a remarkable opportunity to be
useful TO mankind.
All readers of this page--any man
or any woman-Who would like TO be
selected as the husband or the wife
in the eugenc marriage may send
in photograph, with name and ad'
dress and brief description of their
condition Of health and such other
facts as they pay desire to state.
This should be mailed to
EUGENE MARRIAGE,
p. o. BOX 2o9,
NEW YORK CITY
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02
To the Editor:


IN the experiment in eugencs which the Medical Re-
4 view of Reviews Sociological Fund desires to make
there will be discrimination against any app-
can't The lists are open to any who is
willing to be examined physically and mentally and to
facilitate in searching his her ancestry for physical
mental bemishes.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02
$500 for Your Wedding Gift
$500 for Your First Baby


We welcome the wide publicity OF this newspaper /
making known the needs of science in this and
any names of your readers accompanied with photo
graphs and of their qualifications in mind
and body we shall be glad have turned
applicants for the reward have offered
FREDERICK H. ROBINSON
President Medical Review of Reviews Sociological Fund
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02

The Lovely Mrs. Mary Wasl,inp.
ton Bond Morosini, Descendant.
of George Washington's Brother
and the Best Families of Old Viz
ginia, Who Would Be Chosen by
Eugenists as an Ideal Mother of
American Stock.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-02

And the Countess of Warwick,
with Two of Her Children, an
Ideal English Mother, One of
Five Sisters Who Have All In
herited Beauty and Fine Physical
Development and Transmitted
These Qualities to Their Children
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26

salve, but It kept growing. 1 had to cut
the hair from the ringworm that ran in the
scalp. 1t must have been Of two weeks
standing as 1t had grown to q good size. when
got my husband to get me a sample Of
Cuticura Soap and Ointment. 1 washed
It with hot water and Cuticura Soap then
applied the Cuticura Ointment. The first
application benefited her. When my sample
was used saw 1t was not SO large and angry.
80 I bought q box OF Cuticura Ointment.
and cake OF Outicura Soap and applied
them three times day. The constant use
for four or five days checked its growth and
in two weeks more she was entirely cured.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment also cured my
son In two weeks Of a case OF ringworm."
(Signed) Mrs. A. E. Neville. Dec. 10. 1911.
Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment are
sold throughout the world. A single set Is
often sufficient Liberal sample OF each
mailed free. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
postcard "Cuticura. Dept. 4, Boston"
as-Teuder-faced men should use Cuticura
Soap Shaving Stick. 25c. SAMPLE free.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
BUILT TO STAND.
The Supreme Confidence One Engineer
Had La His ,Inrk

Had In His York.
There is something inspiring about
the sell confidence of the meI who do
big things number of years ago
the country WAS hOrriied 10y the urws
that Galveston had been SWEPT 10y n
food. But the mud WAS hardly dry In
the citys streets before plans we're
made for building IA great sea walt 10
keep out the waters George w.
Boschke was the engineer To whom
this gigantic undertaking was in
trusted.
He finished his work while the world
looked ON with interest. Later he went
up into inland Oregon to look after the
engineering work of one OF the great
railroad companies the were opening
up that vast uudeveloped country.
Boschke WIS I'm camp. forty miles
from the railroad, says the Technical
World One day an exhausted mes
senger rode in and banded telegram
to Boschke's assistant. The message
said that the Galveston wall had been
washed away by II second furious bur
ricane. The assistant was very much
disturbed but there was nothing to
do but to lay the telegram before bis
chief.
Boschke glanced up from II, smiling.
This telegram is a lie he said calm
ly. Il built that wall TO stand" Then
he turned to the work In hand.
His confidence was justified. The
message was based on false report
There had been storm as severe as
that which had flooded the city. but
the wall stood firm.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
Gardens of the Bosporus.

The gardens of the Bosporus are
one OF the most characteristic fea-
lures OF that river-like strait They
have, moreover, q definite cachet OF
their own. This is largely prescribed
to them by the nature of the soil on
which they are laid out. The banks OF
the Bosporus slope sharply back to a
height OF some 400 feet and are bro.
ken by valleys penetrating more grad
ually into the rolling tablelands of
Thrace and Asia Minor Few of their
houses. therefore. do not enjoy some
view Of the water and of the opposite
shore, rarely more than a mile or two
away The gardens Of the houses are
accordingly laid out with reference to
those views and are determined In
form by the steepness Of the hillsides
on which they lie. They are terraces
that is, one or many according to the
size of the garden.-Scribner's
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
TEA AS A BEVERAGE.
II 10 Said to Enrich Person Both
Morally and Physically.

Morally and Physically.
Did you know that tea drinking Ia a
splendid aid to ones morals? At least
that is the opinion of an English scien-
list who not long ago compiled learn
ed treatise to show the beneficial eff
fects Of tea drinking from spiritual,
physical and moral standpoint.
A meal In the morning, he says, with
tea as the beverage will enable man
to pursue his days work with facul-
ties unclouded, temper unruffied and a
generally arnlable state Of nerves. Be
sides that, it makes the body active, 1t
clears the sight. 1t strengthens the ap-
petite and the digestion and is partic-
ularly wholesome for men of corpulent
bodies and great meat eaters.
1t vanishes dreams, increases the
memory and prevents sleeplessness. 1t
has been observed that it has cOntribu-
ted more 10 the sphriety of the Chinese
than the SeNereSt laws. the most elo-
quent haran-ues and the best treatise
ON moral
But. IN ia'dit;fn 10 all this. he claims
for tea Il ,;.l liIeuilg effect on moral
ity. \ na:' 'y.o is stimulated by q
eerci"ns ~ 81 nf tea, moderately
tron vi !'c 10 withstand more
,uc t...fl go riri'iiOld temptations
that y>S IN the business and so
ciaI Wsr2 so VIII b he is plunged
than & r.i who is not sustained by
the same beverage. Chicago Tribune
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
All subscriptions payable in advance.
FRANK e. HOWE, Editor and Put
BENNINGTON, VT, MAY &c, 1911

Ultra radicals who complained of
the difficulties in the way of amend.
ing the ancient constitution of the
fathers have been confounded by the
quick ratification of the amendment
for the popular election of United
States Senator Uncle Sam can
change his Constitution as easily as
he changes his shirt, and maybe the
country will get better Senators and
grow continually in virtue and wis
dom under the new dispensation, and
then again maybe it won't.-Morris-
vile News and Citizen
One of the old Grecian philosoph.
ers once remarked that every people
gets exactly the kind of government
that it deserves because it is always
in the power of the people to change
their form of government if they de.
sire. While this does not apply with
so much force to the complex govern
ments of modern times. it is true
that a powerful public sentiment
clearly manifested is usually needed
by those in power whether they be
Legislatures, parliaments, courts or
a board of selectmen. Governments
are getting nearer the people just
because the people are insisting on
getting nearer the government.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
FATAL ELECTRIC SHOCKS.
They Kill by Attacking the Heart or
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.

Ihey XIII by Attacking the Heart or
Respiratory Organs.
While every one knows TINT an elec-
tric shock. II powerful enough will
cause death. there are very few who
know exactly the cause. and from de-
scriptiop given In n recent English
magazine. quoting an authority on the
subject. the whole matter Is simple
Death produced from electric shock,
says this magazine, usually Is the re
suit Of contraction OF the Thrills or
muscular fihers OF the heart or of par
alysis OF the respiratory organs.
While doctors have been unable to
1nd any treatment that will cure the
former. artificial respira tion often over.
comes the respiratory paralysis.
The effects of direct and aiternat-
ing currents vary with the current
strength. the duration of contact and
the path through the body. and with
alternating currents low frequency
usually is more dangerous than high.
The lower animals are more suscepd-
BILE to electric shock than man, dogs
often being killed by direct current
of seventy volts. In the average mar
a direct current of 100 volts Is scarcely
felt, 200 to 800 volts give rise TO muscu.
lar cramps, while $40 volts will stop
respiration suddenly.-New York Press
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
He Wouldn.t Respond.

When Joaquin MIllers play. THE
Danltes," was produced for the FIRST
time the play caught the crowds fancy,
and at the end OF the second act there
were great calls from the audience for
Author, author!'
The manager looked around for NIL
Ter, but could not find him. He sent
several OF his assistants all over the
theater to hunt Miller up and bring
him before the footlights to address
the clamorous audience.
After some time spent in searching
Miller was spied sitting among the
crowd way up In the gallery, where
the calls Of Author were most nu-
merous Upon being asked to go down
and address the audience, Miller refus-
ed. saying that wild horses couldn't
drag him down there.-New York Sun.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
Mistress snd Maid,

BE the friend Of your house servant
and let her realize that you are inter
ested In her well being" was the ad'
vice OF a lecturer before a housewives
meeting at Vienna. A woman who at
tended and listened to the servant
problem discussion wrote letter TO
the lecturer few days later In the
course OF which she said: II agree
with you, but did you know that In
this city nursery maid, mere child
herself. threw the child intrusted to
her care out Of window and then
followed. intending TO kill herself7
And that on the same day another
child servant attempted to take her
life? And whyi The first one had
been denied part OF her earned wages
because her lady wished TO teach her
thrift and the Second was not allow.
ed to leave the house after certain
hour at night Our friendship Is of
ten misinterpreted."
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
A Helpful Letter.

A letter that Rev. W. NJ. L. Evans
rector OF Saxby. North Lincolnshire,
wrote 70 the London Times added an
amusing contribution TO the discussion
then going on in that newspaper con-
corning the alleged decay Of hand
writing Mr. Evans says:
THE name OF Dean Stanley will oc-
cur 10 many OF us as that OF cele-
brated cacographist OF the pretype
writer period. When Mrs. Kingsley
was lying very I'll her husband re-
eeived letter from the dean.
"He conned II carefully and slowly
and then said: Here is a letter trom
dear Stanley. am sure IL Is sympa
theuc aud affecuOnate. but there are
only two words that can make any
thing Of. and don't think can have
got them quite right. for they seem ~
be "beastly" and devil.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
A FAMOUS INDIAN CHIEF.
Seattle, the Statesman. After Whom
the City Was Named.

0oaItio, INC 0IdtcuFUdUs fNftST Vttt0Ut
the City Was Named.
At Fort Madison, on Puget sound.
fifteen miles northwest of Seattle,
Wash. stands a monument TO Seattle,
or Sealth. chief of the Squamish and
allied tribes. This aborigine was re-
garded as among the greatest of the
many Indian characters of the western
country. He ruled his people for more
than half century with superior tai.
ent and was looked upon as a states
man who had no equal among the
tribesmen.
At the time OF bis death, In 1866. he
was the acknowledged head and chief
sachpm Of all the tribes living on or
near Puget sound. de had reached
the age of eighty when he passed
away and had made many warm
friendships with the white pioneers In
Washington Over 100 white men
were In attendance at his funeral
In 1890 bis friends erected NOM.
ment of Italian marble, seven feet
high with base or pedestal sur
mounted by cross bearing the letters
~ Fl s." On one side of the monu-
ment Is the following inscription;
SEATTLE
Chief OF the Squamish and Allied Tribes.
Died June ith. 1866.
The Arm Friend of the Whites and for
Him the City OF Seattle was Named
by Its Founders
Magazine Of American History.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
TONGUES OF BIRDS.
That of the Humming Bird Is About
tbs Most Curious Of All.

That of the Humn7ing Bird Is About
ths Most Curious of All.
A German naturalist has gathered
some curious data with reference to
the tongues of birds AS he points
out, many persons suppose that wood
peckers use their sharp pointed tongues
aS darts with which to trans6x their
prey. /, Is true that the woodpecker.
like the humming bird. can dart out
It's tongue with extraordinary rapidiry
and TINT fits mouth Is furnished with
an elaborate mechanism for this pur-
pose. get investigation shows that the
object of their swift motion is only to
catch the prey, not to pierce it. For
the purpose Of holding the captured
victim the woodpeckers tongue is fur
uished with sticky secretion.
Inasmuch as It possesses the power
OF initiating speech. 1t is not surprising
to learn that the parrots tongue re-
sembles that of man more closely than
any other birds tongue does 1t Is not
because the parrot Is more intelligent
than many other birds, but because its
tongue is better suited for articulation
than theirs that 1t is able to amuse us
with its mlmlcry.
In some respects the humming birds
tongue is the most remarkable of all.
Ii Is double nearly from end TO end,
so that the little creature is able TO
grasp its insect prey very much as IL
its mouth were furnished with a pair
OF fingers.-Harper's Weekly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
The Oldest Book,

The oldest book In the world to
which a positive date can be assigned
is an assortment OF proverbs some
what after the style of the proverbs
collected by Solomon. The work is &C
credited to Ptah-hotep. an Egyptian
king, and Psychologists assign to It an
antiquity of at least 800 b @ Abra-
ham was called to leave his home in
Or of the Chaldees 1921 B. c.. so that
this volume was written LOO years
before the beginning of Jewish his
tory. The deluge Is placed by most
chronologists at B. @. 234S, SO the
book. II its dating is correct, must
have been written before the food.
Methuselah was born B. @. 1917. so
that this papyrus was prepared and
these proverbs were collected when
the Oldest man on record was lively
young fellow Of 300 years
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26

With no political campaign in
progress the Bennington Banner now
admits that the responsibility for
the split in the Republican party is
not up to Colonel Roosevelt The
entire blame is laid at the feet of
Taft, Root, Penrose and their associ-
ates. 1t is indeed considerable of
the Banner to make such startling
admission, even at this late date.
We were told last fall by the Tory
press that Colonel Roosevelt was TO
blame for the whole thing--that he
split the party that honored him. No
words were too mean to be printed in
condeming his action. Now comes
along one of these very papers and
admits the truth. Now Mr.. Banner,
why didn't you tell the truth last fall
when it would have amounted to
something. -Burlingto Clipper.
Why doesn't the Clipper read The
Banenr and then it would know that
The Banner tells the story now just
as it did last year, but probably last
year the Clipper was too busy to do
any reading. In some ways the Clip
per editor reminds one of a nice lit
tie nanny-goat disguised. A few
years ago he was braying around
with the skin of the Democratic
donkey pulled over his shoulders.
Then suddenly he embraced the G..
o. P. and wrapped the thick hide of
the party elephant about him and
laid down to pleasant dreams. Now
he has blossomed out as bull
moose and the horns get in his way.
II there is any new political con-
tagion in the vicinity of Essex juno
ton we hope II is being kept proper
ly quarantined II seniority would
warrant us in making a suggestion
to our good friend, the Clipper, 1t is
this: Don't accuse all who disagree
with you politically of being crooks
or fools. The great bulk of all part
les, Republicans, Democrats. Prog
ressives, Socialists, and Prohibition
lists, is made up of honest, sincere
men who are trying to do the best
they can, but who disagree to some
extent as to the right way of over
coming obstacles and arriving at
certain high ideals. No one party
has a monopoly of virtue, nor is any
one party entirely free from evil.
The Banner has often been accused
of not being regular" because 1t
has worked and argued for certain
ideals regardless of whether they
we're accepted party doctrine or not.
The day of the party organ has
passed. All parties mean to be right
but all make mistakes and all are
sometimes wrong. II is better to
stick to principles even IL it does
sometimes compel you to look
askance at your party shrine. The
Clipper. too, should remember that
in answering the argument Of anoth-
er newspaper the ethics of journal
ism require il to reprint what that
other paper has said. The Clipper
has not been doing so in all cases Of
late.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-26
Disease and the Eaxp,ia ms.

The most important medical manu-
script found in Egypt Is the Uapyrus
Ebers. written 300O b q. and discov-
cred In Memphis. Disease. according
to the Egyptians. was due to the an
ger Of SOME deity. the result of the tri-
umph Of evil In Its struggle with good,
an idea which is still very general
throughout Africa and Asia and which
at some time has been prevalent In
modified forms IN almost every race
Records ~ the Fast