The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-30

show increasing desire to marry in accord.
ance with the great aim of eugenc science,
which is to produce a better race.
The announcement has already been made in these
columns that committee of leading doctors and So
cial workers. represented by the Medical Review of
Reviews Of New York, has offered prizes the ideal
eugenic man and woman prize OF $500 will be
given to the ideal and woman when they marry
and second prize Of $500 when their first child Is
born.
This newspaper will be pleased to receive photo
graphs from any of Its men and readers who
wish to compete for these prizes. few Of the many
photographs ALREADY sent in are printed this page.
In order to avoid inconvenelt publicity. the full
Candidates should state their general physica,
measurements. weight, height, age, condition Of health
didates should be young and perfectly healthy Photo
graphs and information will be turned over to the
candidates and award the prizes
The committee regrets that 1t Is impossible to re-
turn any photographs.
The object of eugenc science is to lead men and
women to marry only those Of good health sound
ancestry in order that the feeble sickly
people who now burden society may to exist In
future generations. great of facts has now
been collected, which the eugenc science
is based
very interesting object lesson in eugenics involv.
Ing the most important families in history and the
breeding OF favorite domestic animal is furnished
by comparing the Iapsburg lip and the undershot
lower jaw Of the English bulldog. This is lesson
largely in mistakes avoid.
Both pecuarites similar in appearance both
originated in a defect that mistakenly admired
and both have been perpetuated in the same way l. e.
by inbreeding.
The. The Hapsburg LIP is the most remarkable and
found in nearly everybody belonging the imperial
family Of Austria and the royal house of Spain. 1t
has been in the monarchs OF leading countries of
Europe for about six hundred years history of the
Hapsburg lip would be history OF Europe for six
centuries. owing to the frequency OF marriages be-
tween the Hapsburgs and the ancient French house
OF Bourbon, the Hapsburg lip Is almost common
he Tb as among the family that first
hereditary REGULARITY "the Bourbon nose" which has
already been referred to here.
liar iS 1arq cwo1lep
1ecting underip. 1t Is usually associated with long
aabnormally heavy and prominent lower jaw, which
helps to make the lip more conspicuous.
The first appearance of the lip, according his
tory was in. a princess named Cymburga who was
porn IN the latter OF the fourteenth century
and married Ernest, Duke OF Austria became the
ancestor OF all the imperial Hapsburgs.
Frederick Adams Woods, instructor In the Harvard
Medical School who has written very Interesting
work called fIeredity in Royalty" has tabulated the
Austria, wenty-three members the royal family of
Spain and nine members OF other royal houses who
have possessed the Hapsburg lip. He gives authentic
portraits OF all OF them In proof his statement He
traces It through eighteen generations
through the marriage OF Philip the Handsome, OF
Austria. and the mad Joanna OF Spain, daughter of
Queen Isabella the patron of Columbus, the Spanish
commons feH to the House of Austria. The old
Spanish house of Leon and CASTLE then became OK.
.inct IN the male line and the child OF this marriage
became Emperor OF Germany King of Spain with
latter country. W
This child the famous Emperor Charles v. who
reigned from 1916 to 1856. He possessed the Hans
burg lip in very marked degree. He married lisa.
closely related q IIer
mother was a sister of the mad Joanna and grand
daughter of John the imbec!le. and Isabella the IN
sane The Emperor Charles v, although a man a,
considerable ability, became a neancholiac towor I'd
the end OF his reign and abdcaed his vast
Inc Hapsburg lip and the mental defects that ac
coiapanied 1t were multiplied and intensified BY tho
constant lntermarriage Of members OF the family The
tiapsburgs were proud OF the lip and they were
piesSed 10 contract marriages that would perpeunte n
Here we see close parallel between the history
OF the Hapsburg lip and the undershot Jaw of the
ngiish bulldog Breeders have persisteny bred from
oogs OF this exaggerated type because It had come
INTO fashion, although the uldershot Jaw Is really
marx Of degeneracy from the original bulldog breed
IN the same way the Hapsburgs excited false
emo OF admiration Tor their peculiar LID and con
1hued 20 reproduce 1t, although 1t is mark of the
physics! ana mental degeneraoy Of the race
we know that the Spanish Hapsburgs rapid,v do
generated after the time OF Charles T. while tho
country iost its power and possessions Phe branch
that occupied the Austrian throne was but tto Iee.
remarkable for feebe-minded rulers
me spanish kings OF the eighteenth century becamo
mere carlcatures OF humanity strange withered
lures. who wore splendid clothes and glbbered aim
iessy The last king OF the direct Hapsmrx limo a
Charles H.. who died in 1900 Very APPROXIMATELY no
mad the most conspicuous Hspsburg LID and undershot
Jaw OF the whole line. The historian Buckle IN bis
History OF Civilization" says OF him:
His general appearance absolutely REVEALING
and was that OF dwelling idiot To an cnormons
mouth he added neither lip pro,rudng 30 hideousIy