Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12
CUPID GREATER SUCCESS
in FLIVVER THAN BUGGY
Noted Scientist Sees Marriages Today as
Marked Improvement Over Those
of Years Gone By.

the opposite qualities Of looks repelled
Many times mutual intelligence Is Q
stronger attracting power than oppo-
s1teness in personal appearance"
But, DR.. Wiggam, have you
there. Some of the most brilliant and
ugly men l know of married chorus
girls. Where was the mental attrac.
ton there? How could you say that
the intelligence OF the chorus girl was
a like quality with the intelligence Of
the husband. who. in many cases,
was noted for his mentality"
Chorus Girls Not So Dumb.
"That is a very wrong popular
superstition that chorus girls don't
have high grade intelligence. Remem.
Der that there Is a great deal Of differ.
ence between intelligence and informa.
ton. One may not know what
Leonardo da Vinci's two most famous
pictures are. or who wrote the music
to Merimee's Carmen and yet 0e
highly intelligent.
"a series of mental intelligence
tests was once given to a great mum.
Der of chorus girls. On the army
scale OF grading. an average Of 81 was
an average mark. The average for
these chorus girls was 140-certainly
we'll up in the mental scale"
But, DR.. Wiggam, have seen
very homely men who had accumu-
lated a lot of money and who, when
1 interviewed them. seemed to be hope
lessly uniformed and dull. Yet they
married very beautiful wives. How
can you say in their case that 1t was
mutual intelligence that may have
been the factor attracting?"
Very easy" replied DIR. Wiggam.
"Any man who makes money must
have intelligence"
even when he inherits it,"
broke in.
Intelligence Inherited.
Yes, even then; because not only
the money was transmitted to him,
but, also. the intellectual heredity OF
the one who made the money to begin
with. Every successful business man
has a high order of intelligence.
Don't confuse culture with intelli-
gence. Many successful business men
are not good takers, or may not
have much knowledge of culture. But
still, if you gave them intelligence
tests (which do not depend on infor-
nation, they would stand up very
we'll"
"Why is assortive mating the best?"
1 queried.
evolution would go to pot and society
would perish. If morons did not
marry morons. the weak the weak, the
pillars OF civilization would crumble.
Only as the best marry the best do we
get better children"
Have you any figures or statistical
evidence to prove that like marries
| like?" 1 asked.
There is ample proof. Karl Pear
son, the noted British statistician and
head of the Galton-Eugenics Labora-
tory in England, studied thousands Of
cases. He found out that the normal
healthy boy worships his mother
| thinks of her as the ideal woman and
unconsciously tries to find her dupli-
| cate in marriage. A girl tries to find
her fathers double. Hence the form
ula: A boy may get his fairness from
| heredity, but he gets his wife from his
| environment
Opposite Rule Exaggerated.
Where did the notion arise that
opposites marry opposites?" / asked.
In just the same way that news
| arises. Some one noticed one day that
a tall man had married short wom-
| an. The contrast stuck out. It was
repeated. Soon people began to think
| unobserved cases where people Of
equal height had mated. The world
has been plagued with foolish popular
beliefs like the notions that toads
cause warts, that drowning men have
water on their lungs. that swing
ing dead cat three times about your
head at midnight would remove warts.
that you can't reason with a woman n.
that a mother can influence he birth
of her child.
No. our machine civilization "a
making for better love and marriage.
The area OF mans love making has
always been determined by the dis
lance ne could travel after supper and
spend with his girl and get back home
unobserved before daybreak. In nv
day he couldn't travel very far. To.
Day ne can make love many miles
further than he could a quarter cen.
fury ago. He can find more easily a
compatible mate.
I'm building a world of steel and
IRON we are building a better world
| OF love and marriage. Cupid in a
nlVver is far more effective than
cupid in a buggy"
tCopyrixht. 1927