The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1921, Page 17

Rugenics Society Head Says: : If You Must Choose Between Children and an Automobile 7 Leonard Darwin, Sc. D., Declares That Marriage Should Be Considered Not Merely as a Personal Gratifica- tion, but as a Trust for the Future. ay By Marguerite Dean. Copright, 1921, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) iii NL there is a change in the present condition, whereby many of our best types are steadily decreasing inferior types multiply, L am not our civilization, d of the best. ve, tempered by js the best eugente He aim of eugenics multiplication afpclts and to decrease in numbers while our an optimist about the future of e it is likely to pass under the control of the worst in- intelligence, marriage. is to increase our better a ¢ those less fit most snobbish sense, People who mis- and eugenic ideals have de- vd the eugenic marriage would he ld-blooded affair, but what about the many marriages ‘to-day consum- ve slic sHopuraes mated because of a desire for wealth euBy ts, we should encourage the SIC) wisn ty rite in ihe aoolal seni? ing of those who are likely to «Love ig the basis of eugenic mat- deme benefit to society. ing, although it should be love teys- intelligence The iov and scientific “The eugenic ideal of the man and pered by ‘a. match between san ideal may be defined, 18 a thes, let u say—should be en bdiig of moral, mental and pliysical since when marriage takes super.ority—in the order named, in life the chances of a fair atyJeast four childrens otherwise, the stpek of that family will die out. Yim cach fit social group, parent- hood should be encouraged by a 8 tehr ‘of taxation on incomes which af benefit families with children at sized reased. college ateness 9 Age at which they contract mar- Re. average women may be due to the the modern woman movement to conflict with eugenic improvement of the fam- ily and the race," Major Darwin an- swered a question I put to him at this point. “A few of the earlier leaders of the ‘new women’ scemed to take the position that marriage would in- terfere with their highest develop- ment, but that idea was merely passing phaso dnd is already out- grown. : “I am gpposed to facile divorce on the ground that it interferes with the birth and development of a family of normal size, I am Inclined’ to ‘doubt the value of a direct bonus for ba- ‘expense of the childless. ‘Marriage should be considered not mfrely as a personal gratification but bies, such as that with which Frafice is experimenting, since it tends ‘to the production of the unfit. I think ut sound and efficient parents, the t that ought to produce children, ake care of them without such rect subsidy. But f£ would have income ‘tax scaled especially to favor such parents, as we are now doing in England.” “Would you put a direct tax on bachelors and old maids?" I asked. No, for I dowbt if the ‘professional bachelor, who honestly doesn't want tc marry, is the sort of man wi would make a good eugeniec father, siniled Major Darwin. “And as for the unmarried woman it's not always her fault,” T con- tributed. Then I asked a final ques- tion: “What is the ideal toward which eugenists are working. perman they want to produce PST KEGHARD, DARWIN st for the future. If it is to choose, for example, be- “It is impossible to with defi- tween children and a car—get along niteness at this time,” frankly ad- Without the car!” mitted Major Darwin, “We don't a sa know enough. What we emphatically ‘These are expressions of the theorles Gq not want, however, Is a man who and {deals of eugenics—the science of js merely ‘a stronger animal. I being well born—as they were ex- should put the emphasis first on the cultivation of moral supr , thei PAHEEA to me by Major Leonard, Dar- ee ie (i i. Diya ay MNS ona wi c, D., one of the most important “named. The best we can do, and the figums at the Second International least we ght to is to breed “ , i from th e, to deny Con: of Tugenies) now being held n parent! at the American 4 Museum of Natural Histgry. Major Darwin is the fourth son 6f the great Charles Darwin and is P¥esident of the Eugenics Educa- the ha ye shall have no right to nto the future with confidence we pursue such policies.” 1 see nothing in the ideals of tho THE EVENING W _The Day of Rest! Tie New York Evening W Conright. 1921, by The Frm Diblishing Co. ARE UPRooTED! YourR CATS HAVE LOST THEIR TAILS | e By Maurice Ketten eee aly, Your LOVELY ELM 1S BROKEN LOOKS LIKE A CYCLONE WITH US ESTERDAY ¢~7/ Se | ALAS, Yes / JOHN'S GoD. CHILD ) SPENT THE Day yy, | ttoHlal Society of London. A courteous, white-haired, soft old gentle- man, carryin rs lightly, Major rwin’ crowns a life during which he 's filled the varied roles of soldier, statesman, scientist and scholar, with By Roy L. developed from some ape-like pro- gpnitor gave rise to a new hope that this upward march would be continued 1 Smokeshop across the way. Mr. Jarr was followed by a box of stogies, the stogies filling the air like darts, in- the future, and out of this hope terspersed with a fluttering shower of ran the eugenic ideal,” Major Dar- go1's non-refillable premium coupons. In declares. “Tauru: moaned My, Slavinsky {I saw him a fow hours before he sympathetically, “To ttnk it should opened the session of the Eugenics come to it that a man would be Ongress in of President ¢lrown out of a cigar store Nke what Henry Palrficld Osborn of the Ameri- he could used’ to be thrown out of “Museum of Natural History, No. Gus's saloon in the days when every- 98 Fifth Avenue. thing wasn't prohibitioned!” ‘Eugenics is one of the most import- _ Bepler, the butcher, waiting for a aft movements in the world to-day,” Juil in the traffic of motor trucks he told me earnestly, “and tt seems to “Md 22 calibre fivvers that hurt you when they hit you if they don't glance me that all countries should be in- W" 3 y off, now crossed over from his bi pired with new interest in eugenic aicet atic principles because of tho losses in “UAE NY oe itm stavinsky human life they have suffered during saquirea when Bepler reached him, the war.” and Mr. Slavinsky pointed to Mr. “Considering the mess the present Jarry standing on the outside of Sol's teed Of men and women have made Smokeshop looking in as one dazed of @We world, I think it obvious that ana pewildered. “He got the bum's we should make a better stock if We rush out of Sol's!” added the glaz gat,” T observed. “But how can it be lof) anid Bepler 4b manne done’ What are the practical meth- 43 bY Which you beleve the human -aca may be improved?" ‘On the positive side the most im- vertant step, in my opinion, is a moral campaign to unpress upon the fit t varerital re he home Ea Scientilic Notes Pulp for paper has been obtained © $ from grapevine branches and ten- ponsibilities as custodl#ns 3 drils by French experimenters. Me future,” Malor Darwin an- Tho knife of a new cutting tool v@ed at once, “Family limitation $ for belts is driven downward and p btediy 1s | to stuy, and $ forward with a shearing motion. anffibx the very poor it should he A rich copper deposit has been 1, It is-wrong to bring a ehild world without a prospect of cing able to live up to a certain f civilization y to limit. fo the found in one of the Shetland Is!- ands after sinking a shaft 600 fect. Resilient metal loopa have been designed by a New York inventor i }to keep the soft tops of caps in hape. Either gasoline or acetylene can be used in an English device to milies, fi ged in pr-two doomed to extinetion family is Raauid gay chee thas ilies, Dut 3 orevent motor truck radiators t pught to )ring ldren into § freezing. i ne World, even thot ing a cer Resembling a lemon squeezer is fins amount of self-denial. If it is a new egg opener which catches he contents in a cup after cutting she shell. An English inventor's shoes are », for example, t a car—get alon: {pceasary to chou: yeew children and yithout the c “Tere ts too ach of a tendency Beer eut the. sace-to social and $which closely resemble the laces considerations, using the § they replace. ‘social’ in its narrowest and 3 www The Jarr Family McCardell the wofk for eugenics which, in his ty ; ; Copyright, 1921, by the Press Tubliehing Co, . (The New York Evening World.) own opinion, is the practical applica- aati o ee i ate R. SLAVINSKY, the glazier, Jarr trun out, it was only the sto- tion to man of the science of biology, : Oe, ves site stood peering from the door- gies; and it was Sc © throwing ae ‘ 3 voce : way of his glass-put-in estab- them at Sol, Ed ducked © [ea Ae tow. lishment, and beheld in amazement but Sol knows it ain't no use to spo belist thatiman hedibeen slOW= ‘at garn came fying) out of Bolla duok, fon when @ lady throws) any thing at you, you get hit if you duck My flat is next to Sol's flat and I hear Sol's wife when she goes down stairs to chuck. things at Sol!” “If my vite would do that mit me, you bet I would show her!" remarked Mr, Slavinsky. “You better not, speak it so loud,” advised Bepler. “Your wife is at the winder upstairs i ,” remarked Mr. Slavinsky, dropping his yolce to a cautious whisper, “if Sol would go out West to Rhino and get him a diworce you couldn't blame him.” At this point Mr. Jarr, gathering his wits, it would seem, gave a last apprehensive glance into Sol's Smokeshop and then darted across the street and joined Bepler and Slavinsky, The two would have questioned him, but Mr. Jarr held up & Warning finger, and then the othe saw Mrs. Sol emerging from tne establishment her husband believed he was boss of She too crossed the reet_ and approached the group, who at her nearing them neryousiy took up the topic of universal dis armament “Sure,” Mr, Slavinsky was “there should be no more fighting by anybody, not even the Irish Mrs, Sol, who Was a vivacious bru. aying, hette of xome thirty attractive sum- mers, smiled upon the group and re- marked sweetiy, “I hope you were not startled w stogies fall out of m But I'm so dreaat Iny Sollle has such he frightens me.” Mr tr murmured, “It's too bad, too bad!” “And I wish you'd go over and sea bout fixing n one howcases, Mr. Slavinsky,” Mr sald to the glazie b Na fitor te rabout noth hat box of hand, Mr, Jarr ly nervous, and 1 dreadful temper Mr, Bepler’-—here she turn butcher-—"please send broiling chicken. When in the tempers [ try to give nice dinr nd get b ood -nat gain.’ them all a sunny sn away to the grocer's They are all nice~-to the men the F not married to," Mr. Jarr marked Rut Mr, Slavinsky F turning to Bepler Well, she may have a bad temper, but she's a good woman.” 6 Courtship and Marriage By Betty Vincent. Copyright r es AR Mi afternoon, can | incent: become How popular with the opposite sex? For some reason | never get be- yond the ‘Good morning,’ ‘Good ‘Good evening’ stage. I try very hard to make myself attractive but somehow it doesn’t seem to work. Of course, | must acknowledge | am rather shy and timid, but when quainted | am all right beautiful have very kind parents, home, dress well 1 once get ac- | have a and There isn’t a thing they haven't done for me, and at twenty-one | am a graduate from one of the best and most well known conservatories in New York, besides 2eing a good dancer and elocutionist. So, you see, | ought to be able to make friends, What on earth is the matter with me that | cannot? 1 have gone to the same Sunday school and church ever since | was able to toddie and am a mem- ber of about every society in any way connected with either. Please help me, Cc. Perhaps your shyness accounts for your inability to make trienus, But the fact that you say you ull rigat When you once get acquainted proves that you can overcome this, Cultivate rordial dispos'tion ple and make up your mind that you are King to show them that you lil them you will ha trouble in gaining the endsi and contidence € many people “Dear Miss Vincent: A short time ago | started to go with some girls and by so doing | met a certain young man whom I love very much. Now there was a young girl a party recently who treated a young man so coldly that I felt sorry for him. 1 theref ore nice to him and t put litely went over to m took him for the rest of the eve f out to be ) the girl po friend and ning. | meant everything for her benefit but now she is going out with my frien€ and her former friend goes with me but | do not care for him. What shall | do in acase like this? ANXIOUS,” Mix alway ng ‘ thef mi 1 \ t friend in u t your | terest int young man. I t vbout the chap you d eur for and perhaps your friend will drop the other girl ’ ae Maxims of a Modern Maid By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1921, by the Press Publishin, Marri ! bor a us explosions, and of most Two dogs growl over a place infinitely (The New York Evening World.) of JEAN MY GOD-CHILD HIT ME WITH siuable ninity over whose possession two men growl Not so many years ago, the mere idea of t shock to good Americans. But, judging from the turns, they seem to have found som: Old-fashioned novelists and noughty wife. But now that she Wituout lea ving a trace! , It is only women who know how clever women liant of us never fatl to assume a little becoming stupidity in the pr f the other sex, The completely fascinoting but she who & Just when the old-fashioned gir unde fem the sinner standing that his “nor girl of means It. Calling every male over thirty wears inine poy" is the vamp's first formula of success. Almost any woman sufficiently expensive On the Way to Keeping Well By Dr. Frederic H. DI bromidism every now and And in this particular case we hall begin with a very pertinent, re itefated truism, for with this as a mot 5 aN easy task to proceed A sutnmer diet should not be heavwy. ake the hospit ur ¢ © summer, 8 dag been ac tim woe ce j ny nh moderat 1 w eflicien an i f sou Ia summe t is well to eat but little meat and then only good cuts of beet admires a rough by the Press Publishing Co WHAT FOODS SHOULD BE ELIMINATED FROM ONE’S SUMMER ET? jamb or mu hing in it playwrights thing ‘letting ‘1 dare 1 had and every one under used diamond varied experiments one-—and it is usually the marriage aly to depend on cheeks” and “disheyelled locks” to betray the indiscreet love-making of th a permanent blush and bobs air, she can be tugged ull through the third act of the twentieth chapter neither not’ walt upon ‘I would.'” man educated to the point of ally meant “yes,” along comes the forthright Will ne to-day who expects him to belfeve that when she says “no” provided Robinson, Editor Medical Review of Reviews. (Tho New York Evening Wor and} fatty ear r ly fox fe Bu Country po Bu er with the me iption matter xert ease en t bl ny jow ‘tempting thel w the ot eat of ¢ fruit uy rrying. discoveries, * typi of fem- was an awful latest divorce court re- for the most bril- 'S things to If just frean- rirable and And just so low nerves f eaten in induce How to Your Weight { Right in Your Own Home Reduce To-Day’s Lesson Shows How to Give Your Body Such Muscle Stretching That Every O| By Doris Copyrtaht, 1921, by 1 Press Publishing Co., ERHAPS it has never forcibly struck you that the innocent wiotheaili irgan Will Be Stimulated. Doscher as (The New York Evening world.) can be pressed into service as the greatest ald in our beauty butl course. Weap the line securely Stand in the position of the Illustra. tion and see how this bit of simple gymnasium apparatus permits you to give your body such muscle streteh- ing that every organ in the body will be etimulated and the flabby, fatty tissues surely worn away. ‘This stretch derives its chief bene- from the way in which the body, stvongly supported by the rope, 13 able to push forward, The expand- ing of the muscles around the riba and diaphragm, the lftng of the muscles that support the bust, are splend.d in moulding the figure into heautiful lines, At the same time it brings into play all of the muscles of the arms and therefore will take away that top-heavy look of the over- stout woman who is burdened with A lump of fat on the top of the arms. Like many of our other exercises, it has a wonderful stimulating effect THIS WILL MOULD THE FIGURE INTO BEAUTIFUL LINES. ®round some strong stationary ob; on the spinal column, and the bene of this stimulation Is so obvious thal it does not need repetition, The rope must be so securely fastened that there can be no possibility of its slip- ping, never mind how hard you pull, This gives you a confidence to stretch forward with such force that you are able to strengthen your muscles moxp than through any other form of Xe ercise, This resistance to another ORs posite power is a splendid nerve tonic and:one that I recommend to you for everyday use, ut The few minutes’ work with the family clothesline night and morning does as much for you as a course, a an expensive gymnasium, The maa vellous results that can be accom- Plished through diet and some exege elses like that illustrated to-day open a way for all of you, neygr mind what your age is, to make the best of yourselves, us When you leave the habits of ove sleeping, overeating and sluggiqh movements behind you and cultivate the spirit of grace and energy that these exercises are bound to @tves you, you have gone a long way sat only in reducing your overweight ay benefiting your health but in rece ering that perpetual spirit of yooh which is the charm of childhood, the winsomeness of girlhood, the chief traction of womanhood and {He crowning quality of old age. Answers to Queries. hot JIM S—You are about fift pounds overweight, but you have ngt yet gained your full height, so I wot! not worry about these ‘few extra pounds. You need all of the general exercises more than just one to fag- ten the arms and wrists J. M.—You are a little overweight and I advise you to be very pers@- vering in the trunk bending, trumk twisting exercises, touching the fear with finger tips and the abdomen after a bath rub. The fact that yt flesh is solid is no reason why git should not be able to reduce to yout normal weight. sik K. M.—Wor your age and helgyt you should weigh 108 pounds, LUCY—You should weigh for vote height 112 pounds, As you have W® yet teached your full bony develap. ment your measurements. will phangs from time to time, so just strive normal weight. H. F.--You will find that the sprhe exercise, the group exercise calléd head and elbow backward béndigg and the arm exercise that was printed on July 5 will all be very beneficiat PEARL—You should welgh ‘for your age and helght 108 pounds, N. G. L. S.—-You asked for a pers } reply, kindly send me your fa name and address, Eleanor Glyn Says: Present-Day Man Is Peer * i Of Any By Ruth Snyder. Copyriaht, 1021, by the Prewt Pabiliehing Co. (Phe New York Kyeuiug World.) HPRE are three leading head- [ lines that have attracted public attention during the past week: “MAN SHOULD DO AS Hi LIKBS, HDR CRERD.” MAN'S WICKEDNESS NIL IF WOMBN STAY TOR." ‘MON NEARING THE IDEAL, SAYS A WOMAN LEADDR.” GOOD, SAYS PAS- Mrs. Kendall, styled “British ma- tron of the theatre,” hurls criticisms such as this at the poor RISING yoneration: “I fear that the rising generation er equal the great women ot the past. They would do much better to go slow and content them ves with some of the simplicity t they sneer ut as ‘arly Vic- torlan' Women do outrageous ~things they would not desired or dared to do in Jane Austen's time. Then, if a girl received a proposal, she promptly fainted. In Du Maurier’s time she Said ‘Ask mamma.’ To-day the poor dears say, ‘AU right, old bean!” However, that ts have more idea ac- cording to the latest authorities The sophy that “man should lo aa he likes" comes from no other than nor Glyn, celebrated writer of fletion man should (to quote so shape lo what he pleases” her), “and a woman should life as to be p to him climbs she gre test he us he as he fal Jegraded him.” edit to the woman, then nearing the tdeal, as Mrs attorney and club remarked n man spent his nights at the two hundred yours ago hi 1 his nose in blic and wo panties; two thousands yenes cut a wo- man’s head off dn't like the art in her hair," Coleman de- red ‘Hut to-day he comes home, helps wipe the dinner dishes (no doubt to go to the movies, you will perhaps Past Generation § think; Mrs. Coleman con- Unues), then goes out and pushes the baby carrlage around the block. but no, “and “He shaves every day and keeps himself neat and trim. Physically and mentally he is the peer of any past gen ation.” Here she bears out our argument? * The change was brought about’by woman, She keeps him at hothe nights now because she is able*’to discuss business and politics and™he doesn't have to go to the club, She makes him do some of the shoppfng and be interested In care of the hothe. “Why, men have nerve enough adw to argue with the butcher becatise there is too much bone in the steak!” Which, all being due to women, eft us to conclude that women’ must have reached the tdeal, provided Whi- nor Glyn's statement fs coerect that “Just 90 high as he climbs she has in- spired hin Is it true then that men and women are nearing the ideal? 1921, by the Press Publishing Co, 9 New Yors Evening World.) QUESTIONS. , 1. Who wrote “Sapho?” . 2, For which of the planets We Saturday named? 2 3. What are the mounted men Who tantalize the bull at a bull fight called? > 4. From whose writings is “sweet are the uses of adversity” quoted? 5. What romale fairy of Irish and Scotch legends by her visite. foe told death? 6. Who was Robin Hood's father confessor in Scott's “Ivanhoe 7. What color are whortleberries’® 8. What do the “Friends” all Sunday? 9, What metal is coated with tin-to make tin-plate? 10. What river, rising in Texas, is one of the four largest tributaries of the Mississipi. or ANSWERS, » Alphonse Daudet; 2, Saturn# 3, 4, Shakespeare; 6, dar . Exlar Tuck; 7, blue; 8, Fin 9, !ron-plate; 10, Red River, Coprrigh: near the floor and twist the ends two or three times around the hand. ESS pee | OAS AE a