Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

| H0 UPID does better work in
~ a world of automobiles
than in one of one horse
~ shays'."
AS an eminent American
scientist uttered these words 1 could
see rise before me indignant critics
snorting in reply that the automobile
is the vehicle of outrageous "petting
parties" among the young: practical
minded people surveying with dismay
its toll on life each year; sages seeing
in its enormous spread-20, 900 900
now rolling daily over our roadside
| disuse of legs-even the physical
wreck of a nation that in it's pioneer
days was kept fit by the natural gym
nasium of "Shank's mare"
DR.. Albert Wiggam is a widely
recognized leader in the field of
science. He is the author of the New
Decalogue of Science" and the Fruit
of the Family Tree"
Beginning of Lecture Career.
Back in 1896 a rather timid young
man who had a perfect horror of
making a public speech CHANGED upon
a copy of that historically famous lit
tie book, Coins School of Finance"
which sought to prove that the only
good and virtuous dollars were silver.
The hysteria of that memorable cam
| paign was just beginning to sweep
the Nation when the young man who
dreaded speech more than anything
else in the world closed Coins School
of Finance" with a bang of disgust
| and concluded that everybody who
| had voice that could be heard above
a whisper should take the field against
the cohorts of the silver fallacy. Out
of this heroic determination came a
noted lecturer on popular science.
You see," continued DR.. Wiggam,
marriage and love are much more
successful in a seemingly mad world
of rushing Century Limiteds, aero ex
presses, subways and elevated, than in
one of buggies, of pedestrian SWANS
and neighborhood sweethearts.
LAS science has forded streams,
bridged rivers, SPAWNED continents,
navigated oceans and conquered the
air, it has made the world richer in
love and marriage, as well as in
| trade"
Sheiks of Yesteryear.
| But 1 always thought" I inter.
rupted, that the sweetest romances-
the Darbys and Joans-were the prod
uct of small villages where people had
time for love-"
But what is time without opportu.
nifty? When l was boy visited the
seat of my county government once.
1t was momentous occasion. In my
boyhood people lived and died GUS
tomarily within a radius of IS miles
of their homes. Then the youth who
knew from six TO eight girls was the
sheik of my day.
Today the average enterprising
young man knows a hundred girls.
His opportunities for choosing a sue.
cessful mate have been increased
many hundred fold. Only when a man
has wide range from which to pick
wife is there a chance for assortive
selection to work out most success
fully"
What do you mean by assortive
selection?"
Il mean the process whereby a mar
or a woman selects a mate accordinc
to the similar qualities they have ii
common"
You don't mean to say that like
marries like?''
II do" said DIR. wiggam. Let m,
look at wife and / can tell what heI
husband will look like in general. LIE
me know husband for a while and
can tell what kind of a nature hi,
wife has. 1t IS all very simple. Gen
eraliy speaking, the fat marry the fat
the slim the slim, the wealthy the
wealthy. the criminal the criminal
the insane the insane, the biue-eyed
the blue-eyed."
Beauty Marries Beauty.
DO you mean to say that the bean.
tiful marry the beautiful"
Il do" replied DR.. Wiggam.
But that seems very contrary tc
common observation" I said.
Il have seen any number of cases
where men of means with very
nomely features have married very
beautiful women. In fact. it Is
Mencken's theory that good looking
men marry homely women and good
looking women mate with ugly duck.
lings for husbands"
That is very wrong notion >
answered DIR. Wiggam. ION the aver
age, man or woman will seeL
TO nnd mate that has the most
qualities in common with them. In
some cases where homely men marry
oeautirui women it is the exception
TO the rule. In others, the peoplf
marrying have qualities in common
that proved stronger attraction tina
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