Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-01
BY M'LISS

Bait the bachelor il you would solve the
war problem.
Lie in wait for him as he returns from
the trench and the battlefield.
Disregard his MANNED body. Marry him
Out at the wlstar Institute. at the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania, an interesting
woman draws interesting conclusions about
all sorts of things, just from experimenting
with rats and tadpoes and whatnot.
Dr. Helen d. King, embryologist Of note
who some time ago made the conservatives
tolted the radicals by the startling an
nouncement that by the inbreedng of the
human race a world of supermen-in point
of physique--mght be produced is now
preparing an article in which she expounds
her views of how the race is to come back"
after the terrific slaughter of the present
war
To arrive at Doctor Kings Office for the
purpose of an interview. it is necessary to
skirt past the animal colony where some
20. 900 rats-whte ones and buff ones and
mottled ones, and some Of the back-alley
and others of the garden variety--lead idle
lives in sanitary cages. Having bravcd
this. one hestates to ask Doctor King
nothing.
ABOLISH THE BACHELOR
'"The race after the war;" she uueried
well, make the bachelor extinct and the
wor.. win right itself in one generation
Understand" she commanded 81 am
not advocating that the old Spartan law
or making every man marry should be put
into practice in this day, but | merely
believe that If every man in the war-torn
countries were to marry everything would
come out all right in one generation.
There are those who hold that the men
who return will be inferior specimens that
they will have been emascuiated by the ex-
perience Of this war; but / do not think so
, Il believe that the men who will come
back will be the strongest. II will be a case
OF the survival of the fittest. They are the
men who will have withstood the frightCu
strain OF war-l am speaking generally now
land the terrible exposure in the trenches
tney may not be pretty to look at but their
yrility should not have been impaired They
should marry every one of them
But even so,' | pointed out "unlcss
poiysamy comes into vogue once more n
lot or women will lead loveless lives, Per-
haps they will even be the best women
/ because men do not always choose the
best"
WORK A SUBSTITUTE FOR LOVE
II wouldn't dare advocate polvpa,,v
KNOW
how she really did feel on the subject o'The
excess women will throw themselves into
their work with frenzy that women
haven't known before. They will be ab-
sorbed in the new opportunities opened to
them. They will have to forget the emo
tional side of their lives entirely MANY
women do not find this hard to do now,
In generation these women will have
passed out Normal proportions will exist
again. More boys are born than girls in
normal times-l06 males to loo females.
But boy babies die more quickly than girls.
they haven't in infancy the strength and
vitality of the girls If world is desired
with males predominatlng. the thing to do
is to find way to conserve the boy in
fants"
II occurred to me to ask Doctor King
II she thought that all the manned bache-
lors would be able to procure wives even
though men were as scarce as pate -foie-
gras in Childs restaurant. But | didn't
not wanting to be the perpetrator of Fool
ish Question No. 9.999,999 For it's an an
cient axiom that value and demand in
crease as supply decreases, and, war-hacked
or not, mans man for a that