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A Husband -WANTED atONCE- A Wife.
New York Scientists Offer Money Prizes to Any Man or
Woman Who Fulfills Their Ideas of Soundness of
Body and Mind and Who Will Agree to
Marry Each Other and Make a Practical Test of Eugenics
SCIENCE has found the laws of Nature which enable us to grow
bigger and belter beef cattle, horses and poultry and more
attractive, delicious and perfect fruits, vegetables and flowers.
The secrets of the animal and vegetable world hold true for
human beings. Eugenics is the name of the special science which
aims at the development and improvement of the human race.
Science has now arrived at the point where it desires to make
practical experiments in breeding improved human beings—in
scientifically mating men and women who have especially high
qualities of body and mind in the hope of producing children
which will be still finer specimens than their parents.
Is there any reader of this page who would like to be the
father or the mother of the eugenic baby which scientists are
eagerly waiting for?
What Science Hopes to Do
A MOST interesting proposition
is now put before the people of
America. It is to find a man
and woman, practically perfect, who
■will marry with the object of pro
ducing eugenically perfect children
in accordance with the precepts of
the new science of eugenics.
Eugenics, a term derived from the
Greek word “eugenos,” meaning “well
born.’’ is, it is scarcely necessary to
explain, the science of breeding a tine
race. This science has lately come
to occupy a foremost place in the
minds of social reformers as well as
of scientists on account of the alarm
ing growth of feeble-mindedness and
the wide-spread signs of physical de
generacy seen in the great centres of
population of the world.
The proposition now under discus
' sion is a preliminary experiment in
eugenic 'science in America. The
Medical Review of Reviews of New
York, representing a committee of
well-known scientists and social re
formers. offers prizes to the eugeni
cally perfect man and woman who
will marry after they have been ap
proved by the committed!
A prize of SSOO will be given to the
ideal man and woman when they are
selected and marry, and a second of
SSOO will be given when the first child
•' is horn.
Scientists and Social
Leaders Interested.
The author of this project is Fred
erick 11. Robinson, publisher of the
Medical Review of Reviews. He is a
leading member of the Sociological
Fund Committee, founded by this
publication, and his fellow member
are Norman llapgood. chairman:
Eugene Brieux, Mrs. Charlotte Per
kins Gilman, Rev. John Haynes
Holmes. Dr. Frederic C. Howe, Mrs.
Charles H. Israels. Dr. Abraham
Jacobi. Dr. E. Helen Knight, Mrs.
Frederick Nathan, Dr. William H.
Robinson. Mrs. William K. i ander
bilt, Sr.; Dr. James P. Warbasse,
Ella Wheeler Wileox and Dr. Ira S.
Wile. It is not yet certain that all
these distinguished persons approve
all the details of the project, but that
will be no bar to its execution. The
actual selection of the successful can
didates will be made by a jury of
men and women doctors.
This newspaper will be pleased to
assist z in carrying out this interesting
project. All our men and women
readers who are eligible for the con
test and wish to enter it may send
theis. photographs to this newspaper
stating their name, address, age.
weight, physical measurements, con
dition of their health, color of their
complexion and hair and so forth.
They must be free from all bodily de
fects and all disease, inherited or
acquired.
. The scientists will no doubt require
that the ancestors of the successful
candidates shall have been strong and
healthy. They<should at. least be able
to prove that thei. - parents and grand
parents were physically sound and
free from constitutional disease, de
fect or abnormality.
Qualifications of the
Ideal Parent.
The photographs and information
will be promptly turned over to the
committee. The candidates must, of
course, be prepared to furnish what
ever further information is required
by the committee.
The candidates should be reason
ably young. The ideal age for mar
riage has been defined by some
eugenic authorities as between twen
ty-live and thirty years for a woman
and between thirty and thirty-five for
a num.
Physical comeliness will be given
due consideration, but this will not
be ti beauty contest in any ordinary
sense. First consideration will be
given to rhe physical health and
measurements of the candidates, since
it is established as a general rule
that when these factors, which in
elude brain and nervous system, are
good, then tile mental and moral de
velopment of the individual will be
good. Certainly the committee will
take care that the successful candi
dates have a good mental equipment,
a good moral character and a good
family history.
, Some criticism ha- already been
aimed at the sehenti because it ap
pears to disregard the beautiful senti
ment of love ami make the marriage
of a man mid woman subject to the
cold-blooded calculations of a body
of scientists. This objection is an-
swered by Mr. Robiuson. He points
out that the selected candidates must
meet one another and desire to
marry. This, he thinks, is equivalent
to saying that they are in love with
one another. Scientists have argued
that love in the best sense is a
natural affinity between the germ
plasm of two individuals of opposite
sex.
In the present state of eugenic
science it must be admitted that
there are many views of nearly equal
authority as to how it should be ap
plied and how far it tshould be car
died. Thus the proposal to prevent
feeble-minded persons from having
children finds many distinguished ad
vocates and also many opponents.
The proposal to mate selected persons
of tine physique must also be the
subject of strong controversy.
The idea behind the plan under
discussion is that persons of fine
physique should be mated in order
that their good qualities may be pre
served and intensified in their
descendants. To this it may be ob
jected that if all finely endowed per
sons marry one another the inferior
ones will be left to create a race of
degenerates.
This objection, however, does not
affect the ultimate aim of eugenics,
which is to create a fine race. With
this every good citizen must agree,
and it follows that he must support
any plan to encourage a finely en
dowed individual to marry early and
leave descendants possessing his or
her qualities.
We can look over the genealogical
records of the world and see how the
fine qualities of one individual have
been transmitted and reproduced for
hundreds of years during almost
countless generations.
Dr. Charles B. Davenport, of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, a
leading American expert in heredity,
has traced the descendants of Eliza
beth Tuttle, a Massachusetts woman
of great beauty and brilliant attain
ments, who married in 166". From
her have descended over thirty
Americans of high intellectual gifts
including Jonathan Edwards, Timothy
Dwight, General U. S. Grant, Presi
dent Cleveland, Chief Justice Waite
and Winston Churchill, the American
author.
Society’s Burden of
Bad Marriages.
Strange to say, Elizabeth Tuttle
had distinctly criminal traits, but, her
husband being a man of good char
acter, her fine qualities have pre
dominated in her descendants.
On the other hand, science can put
ips finger on one feeble-minded in
dividual of a few generations past
and show that he has left hundreds,
perhaps thousands, of defective de
scendants who are a constantly grow
ing burden and menace to society.
There is, for instance, the notorious
case of Ada Juke, a feeble-minded
woman living in New York State,
who, in three generations, left forty
nine feeble-minded and criminalistic
descendants as a burden to the com
munity. Her sister Bell left a similar
heritage. At the present day their
defective defendants are said to
number thousands.
The good qualities of some dead
individual, fortunately preserved be
cause he made a suitable marriage,
are responsible for the most valuable
men and women in public life
throughout the world. We can find
whole families in which all the mem
bers giro exceptionally tall or very
handsome or remarkable for intel
lectual activity.
An interesting case, is that of Mr-.
Mary Washington Bond Morosini
She is a great-great-granddaughter of
Samuel Washington, tile elder brother
of George Washington, and a great
great-grandniece of our first Presi
dent. Mrs. Morosini counts in her
ancestral stock, not. only the Wash
ington family, but practically all the
best families of Colonial Virginia, a
stock of fine physical and mental en
dowments who married usually in
their own class.
(’owing of good old English stock
and reared in llie free life and favor
able conditions of old Virginia, these
ancestor’ should, according to the
laws of eugenics, produce children of
exceptional gifts and attra. liveness.
This law is well exemplified in Mr*
Mary Washington Bond Morosini.
Never has a more finely deevloped
specimen of American womanhood
been seen.
She has a superbly developer
SSOO for Your Wedding Gift
SSOO for Your First Baby
Send In Your Name and Photograph to the Editor
To the Editor:
IN the experiment in eugenics which the Medical Re
view of Reviews Sociological Fund desires to make
there will be no discrimination against any appli
cant. The lists are open to any man or woman who is
willing to be examined physically and mentally and to
facilitate us in searching his or her ancestry for physical
or mental blemishes.
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physique, a beautiful face, a ruddy,
yet delicate complexion, and blond
hair, verging upon red. She embodies
the best traits of the old English and
Virginia stocks. She is a woman
whom the eugenists would select to
perpetuate the American type. Her ,
husband, Mr. Morosini, comes from
an old Italian family and represents
a distinctly Italian type. This is a
union which many of the eugenists
would not approve, as husband and
wire represent such very different
types. They have one little girl who
is of attractive appearance.
Many European aristocratic fami
lies offer good opportunities for
eugenic study, as the family records
have been kept for so many Jears.
A remarkable ease is that of the
Countess of Warwick, the former
English society leader who now de
votes herself to philanthropic work.
Lady Warwick and all her four
sisters are remarkable for personal
beauty and fine physique. The sisters
are the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Countess of Westmoreland, Lady
Algernon Gordon Lennox and Lady
Angela Forbes. They arc all very
tall and of the same physical type.
Their qualities have evidently been
inherited through their mother, since
two of the sisters had one father
and three of them another. This
predominant physical type has in
variably been transmitted to the chil
dren and grandchildren of the five
sisters.
This fine,type has been preserved,
because the individuals belonging to
it were of the wealthy classes and
able to marry early with all condi
tions favorable. The eugenists tell
us that when such individuals are
found among the poorer classes of
soetety they should be encouraged to
marry . t :■ suitable uge and raise
families.
It wop;,; clearly be possible to
breed a race of giants by selecting
parents of great height in whose
families this has been a marked
Copyright. 1913, b
We welcome the wide publicity of this ncwspapci
making known the needs of science in this matter; and
any names of your readers, accompanied with photo
graphs and statements of their qualifications in mind
and body, we shall be glad to have turned over to us as
applicants for the reward we have offered.
FREDERICK H. ROBINSON.
President Medical Review of Reviews Sociological Fund.
trail for several generations. We
might, perhaps, breed a race of men
averaging over seven feet in height
by matching the Russian giant Ivan
Machnow, who is 7 feet 9 inches
high, with one of the many giantesses
now before the circus-going public.
Scientists assure us that these ex
ceptional giants are victims of a dis
ease, and therefore it is not desirable
to perpetuate the type. Nevertheless,
great stature is within certain limits
an advantage, and most people think
that it adds to a man’s attractive
ness. There is a former New York
policeman named Archibald Taggart
who stands over fl feet 5W inches,
who is one of six brothers and five
sisters, among whom all the men are
well over six feet. Eugenic science
assures us that if these men should
mate with correspondingly tall
women who have inherited this trait
their descendants would tend to be •
as tall as themselves.
There is, in fact, a vast mass of
evidence indicating that fine quali
ties of mind ami body may he trans
mitted and intensified by inheritance,
and that undesirable qualifies may be
similarly transmitter! or perhaps
eliminated.
It has been eloquently pointed out
by the leading American eugenist.
Dr. Davenport, that the qualities of
our most valuable men. such ns the
late William James, Benjamin Alt
man and hundreds of others, are lost
through the lack of a suitable mat
iug. while tin' number of inefficient
persons brought into existence
through unfit mating continues to in
crease. The number of defective per
sons born in this country, according
to Dr. Davenport, Is literally appall
ing.
"It Is a reproach to our intelli
gence,' says Dr. Davenport in his
latest work, "that we. as a people,
proud in other respects of our con
trol of Nature, should have to sup
y the Star Company. Great Britain Rli
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port about half a million insane,
feeble-minded, epileptic, blind and
deaf, eighty thousand prisoners and
one hundred thousand paupers at a
cost of over $100,000,000 per year.
A new plague that rendered four
per cent of our population, chiefly
at the most productive age, not mere
ly incompetent, but a burden, cost
ing $100,000,000 yearly to support,
would instantly attract universal at
tention. But that we have become so
used io crime, disease and degeneracy
we take them as necessary evils.”
Eugenic experts seek to lay down
rules as to who are tit to marry, who
should wait until they are certain
that ancestral defects will not de
velop. who should be prevented alto
gether from marrying, how good
traits may be preserved, and how
bad ones may be eliminated.
They say they have proved that
■ the transcendent ability of one indi
vidual may. by suitable mating, be
transmitted for unnumbered genera
tions. while, by an nufit mating it
may be entirely lost to the world.
Those who feel that they have
beauty, talent and other tine qualities
are now urged Io transmit them to
posterity and save them to the world.
They are asked to do so under the
vigilant eyes of science anil under
conditions that will be extremely in
structive to the whole world. This
is a remarkable opportunity Io lie
useful to mankind.
All readers of this page—any man
or any woman—who would like to be
selected as five husband or the wife
in the eugenic marriage may send
in a photograph, with name and ad
dress and brief description of their
condition of health and such other
facts as they r»ay desire to state.
This should be mailed to
EUGENIC MARRIAGE.
P. O. BOX 208,
NEW YORK CITY
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It Would Be Possible to Breed a Race of Giants Over Seven beet
High by Mating This Russian Giant Ivan Machnow, Seven
Feet and Nine Inches High, with a Woman of
Similar Proportions.
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The Lovely Mrs. Mary Wasbr tp
ton Bond Morosini, a Descenc'.'..v
of George Washington’s Brother
and the Best Families of Ok! Vir
ginia, Who Would Be Chosen by
Eugenists as an Ideal Mother of
American Stock.
And the Countess of Warwick,
with Two of Her Children, an
Ideal English Mother, One of
Five Sisters Who Have All In
herited Beauty and Fine Physical
Development and Transmitted
These Qualities to Their Children