The Mena weekly star., 1921-06-23
DISSATISFACTION
 CAUSE OF GENIUS?
Children Born of Elderly Parents Are Apt to Have Greatest Mental Pow CTS, Says Noted Experts in
 Psychology.
Written for International News ServicA.
 By IMAGERY REX.

Written for International News servica. By IMAGERY REX. New York, June 17.--"Most great men are born of aged parents" Those who would give geniuses to the world had better wait till forty to
 become parents, according to Casper L. Redfield, Chicago member of the American Genetic Association. Mir. Redfield declares that the majority of the worlds brilliant citizens are the children of men and women of forty years or more.
 "The only great men whom we have
 been able to discover who were born of young parents," says Mir. Red6eld, were William, the Conquerer, and Frederick the Great"
 Aspects and effects of that strange phenomenon called genius" have all ways beguiled scientists into a study of it's vagaries, cause and the near ness to a less desirable state of mind (insanityl which it so nearly re- sembles at times.
 But why should the child of the middle-aged parents be possessed of what almost any mother would be pleased to see develop in her dearest possession
 Is the mental stability of the adult, his experience and wisdom, transmit 1 ted to offspring? Do wise parents in the prime of life have brilliant chil- dren? Is this the explanation? Opinion of Andre Tridon. | Nothing of the sort, declares Andre Tridon, psycho-anaiysist, author and successful explorer into the mysteries of the mind, who offers unique ex- planation for the great who are born of the aged.
 Tt is quite true," explained Mir. Tri- don, that the child of couple born when the parents are no longer young IS sure to be the superior of the first born 'or even the second child.
 The first born is sure to be inferior to the children that follow when the
 parents have gradually become bet ter adapted to each other and when a better understanding and more free dom exists between them than in the |first years of married life.
 "Goethe's parents were old when he was born. So were Napoleon's. And
 so were those of the most famous men who were not the first or second, but usually third, fourth or sometimes last of large family"
 But what is it about a middle-aged mother and an old father that makes for genius?
 lie disc0ntenJ Of the child whe lnds himself with parents that are too old for him" answers Mir. Tridon, who has made scientific excursions about
 the south poles of the sub-conscious
 and brought back to the attention of
 our conscious minds an array of req
 sons, motives and complexes which really explain phenomena.
 The genius grows out of the dis satisfied child.
 Genius itself is an intense dissat-
 isfaction.
 Lhe.ce os Genius and Insanity. Parents that are greatly in advance
 of him as regards age strike no note of comradeship with a child. They do not play with him or amuse him. He decides he does not care to initiate
 them, as a child always initiates a par.
 ent he admires.
 "Discontented people have choice
 of two future states if their dissatis.
 faction rises to high pitch. Insanity
 or genius must be the choice. I |. such child then lives in a fay,
 orable environment, and is in goos
 mental and physical health, he will be
 come genius. If motif he is veal
 m physique and unsteady in mind--h,
 will arrive at insanity.
 The dissatisfied person who zoe
 insane makes world for himself Una
 does not exist for other people. The dissatisfied but healthy perso,
 the one whose physique can endur'
 his turmoil of feeling seeks to creat,
 2 new world too, but not such a nas
 conception as that in which the de 1 mented are happy.
 4 Child Must Have Amusement. I Parents should play with but no , try to mould child. They can
 really change him. He initiates them
 or not. The child who goes to the mo I vles likes the comedian with funn, feet, cane and mustache who can nak him laugh. The parents who wishe his son to follow him must gain hi
 attention by making himself amusing
 creator of fun. desirable person. | People of forty or fifty are no long
 CT able to stand on their heads t,
 make their children laugh, so tn, youngster loses patience with thes'
 persons who make him want to chang . the world all about.
 With only grownups to initiate, O : with brothers or sisters enough olde ] so that they try to boss him the chil, seems to have whole group of peo pie playing parent. The second chil, of family already has playmate il the first provided there is not to much difference in age. II Another point in favor of a chil, I born to middle-aged parents is that h IS apt fo be physically stronger thal
 the first child"