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Evening star., 1916-07-16

Beautiful Lake Minnetonka, sur
rounded by its wealth of foliage, made
the background
Dresden Colors Pre- for a garden
:, wedding when
vail az "euoin5' Miss Dorothy Du
Toit became the bride of Addison Lewis
of Minneapolis at the home of her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. George A. Du
Toit, at Gideon's bay, recently, says the
Minneapolis Journal Dresden colors
were chosen for the decorations and for
the gowns of the bridal attendants
quantities of garden flowers were used
to carry out the color effect. The set
Evening star., 1916-07-16
Dinner Hosts Tonight.

Representative and Mrs. c. William
Ramseyer will entertain the members
of the Iowa delegation in Congress at
dinner this evening at the ST. Regis.
Evening star., 1916-07-16

AIS VlLdilty-llS LILO
sustaining force e.
limitations of De
Miracle. the original
liquid depilatory,
are as worthless as
pastes and rub-on
preparations, b e.
cause they only re-
move hair from the
surface of the skin.
Well groomed wo-
man always use De
Miracle for remov-
ing hair from limbs
and under arms. Be
sure to buy De Mir
acle by name and
you will avoid dis
appointment. Fur
thermore, you will
get the only depila
binding guarantee
to your money IL 1t
and $500 bottles.
direct. postpaid. in
Miracle Chemical {
Ave. and 12sth St.,
Evening star., 1916-07-16
Superfluous Hair !.
Disappears Quickly

The safest and surest way to remove
superfiuous hair is to attack it under the
skin as well as on the skim. Only De
Miracle works on this principle, because
it is quickly absorbed by the skin
and alone contains certain ingredients
which give it the power to rob hair of
Evening star., 1916-07-16

from the office to spend an afternoon in
the more popular West End pools
Society folk have taken up the fad
eagerly and engage the private pools
weeks ahead.
AS for the women's costumes, many
are abbreviated for comfort and swim
ming purposes, while others are not in
tended to swim in.
Nowadays the women do not admit
that the men can show them anything
in the. way of fancy swimming strokes
and diving. Far from being the puny,
helpless thing that tradition says wom-
an is, she can cross the swimming pool
in few strokes with a perfect "trud-
geon" or even show you few additions
to the australian crawl" The spring
ing board and the highest level of the
high-dive platform are pie" for her
and she cuts the water clean in the
swan dive"
Evening star., 1916-07-16

The officers of Fort Myer gave an in
formal dance at the officers Club Friday
evening. The club was prettily decorated
and all the rooms were thrown open for
the dances. The large porches were ar
ranged for the intermission, and supper
was served at small tables at II 80.
Among those present were Maj. Fenton,
Maj. and Mrs. Hamilton, Maj. Paxton,
Capt. and Mrs Buchanan, Capt. and Mrs.
Harvey, Mrs Mcclellan, Mrs Dunbar,
Mrs. Forsyth, Lieut. and Mrs. Strong,
Mrs. Archie Miller and her guest, Miss
Fee; Mrs. Forester, Mrs. Taucher. Lieut..
Frank, Mrs. and Miss Greffin, Dr. and
Mrs. Metcalf and Mr.. Hamilton, Mrs.
Walker, Mrs. r. c. Burleson, Mrs. Glas-
gov and Mrs. Bull.
Mrs Archie Miller. wife of Capt Miller,
I'd u s.. Cavalry. announced the engage
nent of her house guest. Miss Caroline
Fee of Rochester, to Lieut.. Paul Frark,
U. S. A.
Capt and Mrs. Sturges of the remount
station. Front Royal Va. were visitors to
the post Wednesday.
Evening star., 1916-07-16

Mr.. John Newell Garfield. a private
in Troop A, who was granted fur
Tough of
Martyred Presidents Flag one week
a Wedding Gift. dinS
trip. Joined the troop in Columbus on
Wednesday, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. The wedding of Mr.. Garfield
and Miss Janet Sutherland Dodge
June 27 was accompanied by uncertain
ties and forebodings because Of the
Mexican situation and also because of
the illness Of Mr.. Henry r. Groff, Miss
Dodge's grandfather. When Mr. and
Mrs Garfield arrived in Cleveland from
their short wedding journey one week
from the day Of their marriage they
received news of the death of Mr.
Croft
Mr.. Groff was married in 1856 to Miss
Mary A. Sutherland of Mansfield Mrs
Gron died two years after the cele-
bratfon of their golden wedding ami
versary. 1t was for Mrs. Groff's mother,
Janet Sutherland, that Mrs Garfield
was named.
Treasured among the many wedding
presents is the gift of Mr.. Groff to Mr..
Garfield, the silk nag which covered
the casket of President Garfield, his
grandfather. when his body lay in state
in Cleveland.
The date of the incident was embroid-
cred in the flag by Mrs. Croft
Evening star., 1916-07-16
Fort Myer Notes.

Miss Blanche Scott. daughter of the
chief Of staff and Mrs Scott, is on a
series of visits to the northern resorts.
Evening star., 1916-07-16

Mrs. Watkins of Monterey, Cal. widow
of the late Capt Watkins of the I'd In
fantry. was visitor to this post Thurs
day.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11

of one sex. sometimes females, but more
commonly males. It has also been known
that by feeding frogs upon unusual or
specially stimulating and nutritious food,
like meat, their eggs when Matched would
show large preponderance Of one or the
other sex, usually the female.
But when these instances were care.
fully studied out by number of indie.
pendent observers. the results were curl.
ously variable and even conflicting. 1t
seemed impossible to decide what one In.
huence was the cause Of the changes and
there was q strong suspicion that In
some cases the sexes were born in equal
numbers, but that one was killed OF much
more rapidly by cold or wet or starvation
than the other. So that by the time they
were, so to speak, big enough to count,
this sex would have almost disappeared
But Of late years. after and out OF
Great Britain Rights Reserve
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11

born In pairs. regardless Of what We do
or don't do, as regularly a. our eyes or
our ears or our hands are.
But there are exceptions to every rule,
and evidence Is gradually beginning to
accumulate that whils this remorseless
equality Of the sexes always obtains I'M
der normal conditions, under abnormal
and exceptional conditions this balance
may be upset, and one sex produced In
much greater numbers than the other
1t has, for instance, long been known
among certain forms Of insects. which
produce many broods In season, that
through the Summer when food is abund-
ant and weather conditions favorable,
males and females are born In equal
numbers.
But when Autumn comes on with cold
and storm and scarcity Of food supply,
the broods show large preponderance
Copyright, 1915, nv the Star compa
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11

scores Of unsuccessful attempts to change
or control the proportions Of the sexes.
four or five positive successes have been
recorded by scientists, not merely COM
petent, but Of high standing and under the
most careful and exact laboratory condi-
tons. In one Of these Hertwig, Of
Munich, one of the highest authorities in
the embryological world, took two patches
Of frogs eggs, or ova. One Of these he
fertilized at once by sprinkling sperms
over them, and these Matched out tadpoles
In the proportion of fifty males to fifty
females. The other batch. however, he
allowed to stand for several days in the
watery part, or serum, of frogs blood,
until they soaked up water and became
overripe, Then he fertilized them with
sperms as before and succeeded In pro-
ducing tadpoles In proportion Of eighty
males to twenty females.
Three years later one Of his assistants
repeated the experiment and so success
fully that he was able to obtain in some
patches one hundred per cent of males,
and. Of course, no females at ALL
Some three years ago very skilful and
gifted American embryologist, Miss King.
at the Wistar Institute. In Philadelphia,
repeated the Hertwig experiment, only
she reversed IT, that Is to say she dried
the eggs instead Of letting them waterlog
themselves, and with results to CORE.
spond, namely, ninety per cent Of females,
while undried and untreated patches
showed the usual flfty.to.fifty proportion.
Obviously from these three findings
the male would appear to be the "sappy"
sex. It would be perhaps too much to
hope that further researches along this
line might throw some ray Of light upon
the profound and mysterious differences
between men and women In their craving
for fluids and liquors Of all sorts. Pos
ably men are compelled to vote wet" by
their basic chemical composition, and
women To vote dry" for the same reason.
Just recently Whitney, Of Wesleyan
University, has succeeded in controlling
the proportion Of males In the low form
Of worm, the rotifers, by feeding. A curl
Gus feature Of this experiment was that
he had In the famous words Of Oliver
Wendell Holmes about the prevention Of
disease ITO begin with the grandparents"
BY feeding the grandmother generation
upon particular green infusorian, he
could increase the proportion Of males In
the grandchild generation from 8 per cent
to so per cent.
Evidently while the famous proverb
TITS no use teaching your grandmother to
suck eggs" may hold good among the
rotifers, 1t is of great practical import
ence II she can be taught to eat green In
Historians.
Finally another eminent American en-
bryologist, Whitman, by q prolonged end
most extensive and laborious study upon
pigeons, which he bred and kept BY hun
dreds for si1 or seven years, cut short by
his lamented death, was able to distin-
guish two types Of eggs--one with a
smaller yolk and larger percentage Of
water, which would usually hatch male.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11


upon women and children than they do
upon adult males. 80 that o. matter Of
fact there are usually more women and
girl children lost In the havoc Of war
than men. Already the women and child
and massacre In Belgium. in Poland, In
northern France, in Armenia and Serbia
equal II they do not outnumber the ter
rible totals Of the casualty reports of all
the armies. And there 10 no valid reason
why the bereaved mother should grieve
more deeply and sincerely over her lost
sons and brothers than over her lost
sisters and daughters.
There IL only one suggestion and that
a tentative one, which can be advanced
toward clearing up even Q part Of the
mystery. This comes from the work that
has recently been done, largely by Amer
loan scientists. upon the possible deter.
mination Of ser ii the oya or eggs Of var
ious insects, fishes. frogs and birds.
Forms In which the eggs can be Matched
or caused to be developed outside Of the
body and hence under conditions where
every stage Of their DEVELOPMENT can be
carefully observed and studied,
They have by no means solved the m "a.
terry Of the determination OF sex. but
two things have been determined with
fair degree Of clearness. One that an
astonishing and most constant equality
between the sexes In numbers born runs
through almost every division OF the
animal kingdom and il apparently based
upon curious law Of ''odd and even" like
the tosses Of tho dice. All the germ cells
Of one sex. usually the female or oya, are
exactly alike. while the germ cells Of the
opposite sex. or sperms, are Of two kinds.
which wa win cali odd and even
To nut it very roughly, il an even
sperm flrst reaches and mates with an
oyum. the result will be a female: II an
odd sperm II will be male. And as by a
Splitting process, which can only be ex.
planned in most appallingly technical
terms, odd sperms and even sperms are
produced In exactly equal numbers, the
chances Of an "odd" combination and an
even" combination are exactly equal,
So whenever the births count up into the
thousands, this equality shows itself with
absolute constancy, as has long been
found In the male and female births Of
our own species. Never more difference
between them than three or four in the
hundred save for brief periods, and when
twenty or more years in succession arc
taken mot more than tan or fifteen In the
thousand. ....
To guard against wrong impress sion, Il
should be stated that while in the ma.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11

and another larger and richer in fat
which would produce female.
It, has also long been held by cattle
breeders and supported by considerable
body of studies and data from agricultural
experts, notably Russell. Of the Univer-
sity Of Maine, that female germ cells, or
ova, fertilised promptly after their pro-
duction by the ovary would produce equal
numbers Of males and females, while
those which are delayed several days, or
even week before fertilization. produce
considerable preponderance Of males.
The question Is still under hot debate
and laborious experimentation, all over
the scientific world, and these findings
are sharply challenged from various
points of view, and are, Of course, too
few as yet to settle the question. But
their general tendency Is to render at
\ least probable that various abnormal
conditions which injure the vitality of the
ovum, or female germ cell may be cap.
able Of upsetting the balance of the sexes,
and that the commonest result Of this
upset Is an increase Of males.
Apparently for the reason, humiliating
as II may be to our masculine pride. that
1t takes less goods and trouble to make
q male than It does female. When
Nature hasn't enough material to produce
her masterpiece, the female, she does the
next best she can, and turns out male
AS one eminent experimenter expresses
II, In all the shufflings and combinations
Of the chromsome dice, "the female is
always something plus" or to reduce 1t
to mathematical formula, Female
equals male r K"
This leads us to the apparent probabil.
ity that whenever coalitions are such as
to depress the vitality and weaken the
health Of mothers, so that the nutrition Of
their ova, or germ cells, suffers, there
may be an increase Of male births.
No conditions could possibly be de-
vised better adapted to produce lowering
and disturbing Of the nutrition of the
mother, and through her of the ovum
than that devils complex which we call
war. There is loss Of the wage Garner
and supporter of the family and marked
impairment Of the family income and
food supply, housing and general comfort.
There is grief and worry over the alb.
sence Of dear ones and often restitution
after their loss, which necessitates the
women turning out to do mems work in
addition to their own. There is a ire
mendous rise In the price Of food and a
corresponding drop in the quality and
quantity.
There is frequently pestilence and 70,
those who are unfortunate enough to live
in the regions actually fought over. pri
walton, massacre and famine as we'll. A
similar surplus Of male births has often
been reported after famines and destruc.
tive pestilences. SIT
II anything which depresses the re.
sisting power Of the maternal protoplasm
will increase the probability Of male
births, then war certainly ought to be the
most powerful male sex determina1
imaginable ~
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11

Boy Baby Like THIS Says Science May be the Direct Result of
Conditions Like THIS Peasants Of Northern France Fleeing
from the Invading Germans The Upsettng of the Normal
State of Society Causes a Disturbance of the Mothers
Normal Physical Processes, Which, in Its Turn,
Upsets the Balance of the Sexes Thus Produc.
ing In Sterner Times Majority of
the Sterner Sex
Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-11

Experiments Have Shown That the Matter of Food Its Assimilation
Has Marked Effect Some Animals Upon the Determination
Sex The Photograph Shows One of the Extraordinary Three
Headed Frogs Which Were Produced by Dr. Roux, the Dis
tingushed French Scientist, in His Brilliant Series of
Experiments for Determination Of Sex in Frogs
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-09

THE Japanese will i%nternarry with
the Filipinos. and YOU" addressing the
Republican side. would not. You can
not govern without potential equation.
The laps and Tilipinos will come nearer
understanding each other than either OF
them would of understanding Nc.
III the Japanese did AXE the Philip
pines II would afford an opportunity for
their expansion and relieve the Pacific
coast and Hawaii. II Japan should ever
become our enemy we could wish her no
worse fate than the Philippines. Some
day the rBitisli Empire may be wrecked.
and II ever h a day comes she might
write over her fate the inscription:
Committed suicide attempting to de-
fend India
IF she goes to the wal in the present
wal with Germany It will be due to the
fact that Germany has been able to
reach India"
hut Senator Williams intimated that
there was no likelihood that VI would
give up the Philippines except volun-
tarily. He said Americans would give
up every dollar they possess and sacri-
Ace every life rather man suffer the
humiliation of having the islands
wrested from us by force.
Much of the debate on the Philippine
bill was devoted 20 tail on the admins
tration Of Governor-General Harrison.
Republicans criticised him, the principal
oriticlsm coming from Senator Sterling
Of South Dakota, who made a strong
plea against the capacity of the Flipinos
for self-9overnment. He aid they were
incapable and spoke OF their illiteracy.
Senator Shafroth OF Colorado. a men,
Der Of the Philippines Commission. who
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-09
SEES nth AVE. SETTLEMENT.
Hut Mayor says city and Railroad
Are SIN Apart on Cost.

Mayor Mitchell, Comptroller Prender-
CAST, Borough Presidents Marks and
Pounds and Dock Commissioner II. A.C.
Smith, composing the port and ter
minal committee of the Board of Esti-
mate. concluded yesterday a week Of
conferences with Ira a. Place. chief
counsel for the New York Central Rail-
road. on the matter OF removing the
railroad tracks from Eleventh avenue
and clearing NJ tho whole railroad prob
lem on the West side.
I'VE ~restled all day with the prob
lem laid the Mayor. "and I think the
railroad and the city are getting nearer
a settlement all the time. The financial
situation of the matter. however. Keeps
shifting like n balloon. When you
press IL at any one point IL bulges
out at another. We are to have another
meeting on Monday night. think
the chances for a settlement are good.
There is no radical difference be-
tween the city and the railroad in re-
gard to the physical plan, but the rail
road wants the city to bear a percentage
OF the cost which we think IL too high
Comptroller Prendergast said that
the negotiations were proceeding salts
factorily and that he hoped a settle
ment would be reached within a few
days.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-09
COLUMBIA'S MEDICAL
SCHOOL ASKS Big sum
Needs S7.500.0 600 With New
Option Probable OH Old
American League Park.

Pressing needs OF the Columbia Uni
vcrsity College OF Physicians and SUR
Geons and plaus for n general extension
Of the schools work are outlined in the
annua report of Dean Samuel W. Lam
bert. made public yesterday. Reference
new option on the proposed site for the
college AZ l65th street and Broadway,
which WAS formerly the American
League ball park. lie says that a mini
mum of s7.5Oo,OOo is required TO get this
site, rebuild the school and It's depend
encies other than the ~presbyte1ia Hos
pital and to cndow medical education
and the new field OF work in sanitary
science and public health. Dean Lam
bert says in part;
1.-The college is approaching the limit
OF the number OF students which can
hc taught under present conditions. New
York city has never been known az the
large ",utIe of medical education which
its unsurpassed clinical facilities would
seem to determine that II should he,
The second great need Of this college
to help i, to fulhl tho outlook which
would seem To be the destiny for a
university school in New York city is
an endowment to carry the large def
icit which by necessity belongs to an
institution teaching medicine ~ modern
lines, Even under tho most careful man
agcIncnt and with classes which fully
occupy the educational capacity of an
institution this deficit mounts to at
least $500 a student.
This deficit is now met by draw
ing upon other university funds. The
development in Columbia of work in the
teaching of public health and hygiene
has been held IN check and retarded
solely by this lack of proper endUw-
ment.
although this tax on tho university
Is borne chcerfnlly 1t will be hoped that
the development of the new site Oh
upper broadway will he accompanied
by the securing of an efficient cndow-
nicnl for the school.
''The minimum OF $500, 400 is re-
CURED Tor the purposes of securing this
new site, of rebuilding the school and
its dependencies other than the Pres
byterian Hospital and of endOwing both
medical education and the new field Of
work in sanitary SCIENCE and public
health"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-09
DR.. HILLS IS NEAR A TRUCE.
Pastor Ready "a End Dispute with
Ferguson.

The Rev. Dr. Newell, Dwight Hills.
pastor Of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
and Frank L. Ferguson. formerly chair
man OF the church board OF trustees sd
DR.. Hillis's financial manager, 1t was
reported last night. desire to end the
dispute IN which they have been en-
gagged for some time.
But while Dr. Hills md Mr.. F'ergu-
son are ready to make peace. having
got as far as shaking hands some weeks
ago, members of plymouth congrega-
ton, not knowing of the advance toward
a truce, raised a $4,000 defence fund for
their pastor, pledged their confidence In
him and virtually forced the issue.
II believe" said Rawdon W. Kellogg.
Mr.. Ferguson's counsel. that Dr. Hills
and Mr.. Ferguson are inclined TO get
together. There seems TO be more fight
among the lawyers than among their
clients"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-09
WHAT IF JAPAN DOES
GET PHILIPPINES?
John Sharp Williams Says We
Could Wish the MikadO
No Worse Fate.
HARRISON'S RULE SCORED

WASHINGTON. Jan. 8.--Senator John
Sharp Williams made another contribu-
ton to-day TO Senate debate on inter-
national relations that stirred UP q lot
Of interest.
The occasion for the speech was the
discussion of the bill giving self-govern-
ment to the Filipinos. Senator williams
was commenting on the possibility that
japan may covet the Philippines.
Suppose Japan does take the Philip
pines" said Mr.. Williams, would Il hurt
YOU or me? An army Of Japan IN
Manila would still be further away than
an army OF Germans I'm Berlin. Besides,
the Japanese would govern better tina
YOU can govern In the Philippines