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Remarkable Evidences of Deep Personal
Interest in the New Plan of
Science to Create a Better and Finer Race
Mr. F. F. Wylie, Boston.
Miss Della L—, New York.
C HARMING young women and handsome men
show an increasing desire to marry in accord
ance with the great aim of eugenic science,
which is to produce a better race.
The announcement has already been made in these
columns that a committee of leading doctors and so
cial workers, represented by the Medical Review of
Reviews of New York, has offered prizes to the ideal
eugenic man and woman. A prize of $500 will be
given to the ideal man and woman when they marry
and a second prize of $500 when their first child is
born.
This newspaper will be pleased to receive photo
graphs from any of its men and women readers who
wish to compete for these prizes. A few of the many
photographs already sent in are printed on this page.
In order to avoid inconvenient publicity, the full
names of the women candidates are not printed.
Candidates should state their general physical
measurements, weight, height, age, condition of health,
health of their parents and grandparents. The can
didates should be young and perfectly healthy. Photo
graphs and information will be turned over to the
committee of scientists who will select the successful
candidates and award the prizes.
The committee regrets that it is impossible to re
turn any photographs.
The object of eugenic science is to lead men and
women to marry only those of good health and sound
ancestry, in order that the feeble-minded and sickly
people who now burden society may cease to exist in
future generations. A great mass of facts has now
been collected, upon which the new eugenic science
is based.
A very interesting object lesson in eugenics, involv
ing the most important families in history and the
‘breeding of a favorite domestic animal, is furnished
by comparing “the Hapsburg lip’’ and the undershot
lower jaw of the English bulldog. This is a lesson
largely in mistakes to avoid.
Both peculiarities are similar in appearance, both
originated in a defect that was mistakenly admired
and both have been perpetuated in the same way, i. e..
by inbreeding.
The Hapsburg lip is the most remarkable and
famous hereditary peculiarity in the world. It is
found in nearly everybody belonging to the imperial
family of Austria and the royal house of Spain. It
has been seen in the monarohs of leading countries of
Europe for about six hundred years. A history of the
Hapsburg lip would be a history of Europe for six
centuries. Owing to the frequency of marriages be
tween the Hapsburgs and the ancient French house
of Bourbon, the Hapsburg lip is almost as common
among the Bourbons as among the family that first
produced it. The Bourbons have also their own
hereditary peculiarity, "the Bourbon nose,’’ which has
already been referred to here.
The Hapsburg peculiarity is a large, swollen pro
jecting underlip. It is usually associated, with a long
abnormally heavy and prominent lower jaw, which
helps to make the lip more conspicuous.
The first appearance of the lip, according to his
tory, was in a princess named Cymburga, who was
born in the latter part of the fourteenth century,
and married Ernest, Duke of Austria, who became the
ancestor of all the imperial Hapsburgs.
Frederick Adams Woods, instructor in the Harvard
Medical School, who has written a very interesting
work called “Heredity in Royalty,” has tabulated the
names of thirty members of the imperial house of
Austria, Twenty-three members of the royal family of
Spain and.nine members of other royal houses who
have possessed the Hapsburg lip. He gives authentic
portraits of all of them in proof of his statement. He
traces it through eighteen generations.
Through the marriage of (Philip the Handsome, of
Austria, and the mad Joanna, of Spain, daughter of
Queen Isabella, the patron of Columbus, the Spanish
dominions fell to the House of Austria. The old
Spanish house of Leon and Castile then became ex
tinct in the male line and the child of this marriage
became Emperor of Germany and King of Spain, with
all the vast American and Asiatic possessions of the
latter country.
This child was the famous Emperor Charles V., who
reigned from 1516 to 1556. He possessed the Haps
burg lip in a very marked degree. He married Isa
bella of Portugal, who was closely related to him. Her
mother was a sister of the mad Joanna and grand
daughter of John, the imbecile, and Isabella, the in
sane. The Emperor Charles V., although a man of
considerable ability, became a melancholiac toward
the end of his reign and abdicated his vast possessions.
The Hapsburg lip and the mental defects that ac
companied it were multiplied and intensified by the
constant intermarriage of members of the family. The
Hapsburgs were proud of the lip and they w'ere
pleased to contract marriages that would perpetuate it.
Here we see a close parallel between the.history
of the Hapsburg lip and the undershot jaw of the
English bulldog. Breeders have persistently bred from
dogs of this exaggerated type because it had come
into fashion, although the undershot jaw is really a
mark of degeneracy from the original bulldog breed.
In the same way the Hapsburgs excited a false
kind of admiration for their peculiar lip and con
tinued to reproduce it, although it is a mark of the
physical and mental degeneracy of the race.
We know that the Spanish Hapsburgs rapidly de
generated after the time of Charles V.. while the
country lost its power and possessions. The branch
that occupied the Austrian throne was but little less
remarkable for feeble-minded rulers.
The Spanish kings of the eighteenth century became
mere caricatures of humanity, strange, withered crea
tures, who wore splendid clothes and gibbered aim
lessly. The last king of the direct Hapsburg line was
Charles II., who died in 1700. Very appropriately he
had the most conspicuous Hapsburg lip and undershot
jaw of the whole line. The historian Buckle, in hia
“History of Civilization,” says of him:
“His general appearance was absolutely revolting
and was that of a drivelling idiot. To an enormous
mouth he added a nether lip protruding so hideously
Miss Estelle M—, Monroe, La.
Miss Adda Z—, Carlisle, Pa.
Curious Parallel Drawn by Eugenic Science Between the Bulldog’s Jaw and “ the Hapsburg Lip.”
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Copyright, 1913, by the Star Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved.
First Recorded Bulldog with Un
dershot Jaw. From a Print
of 1625.
Emperor Charles V, Most Fa
mous Monarch with the
Hapsburg Lip.
His Descendant, Charles II of
Spain, Who Died in 1700, Had
an Exaggerated Hapsburg Lip.
His Living Descendant, King
Alfonso XIII, Who Shows
the Lip Very Plainly.
that his teeth could never meet and he was unable to
masticate his food.”
Charles’s daughter married the grandson of Louis
XIV. of France, and this grandson became King of
Spain as Philip V. This marriage started the Bourbon-
Hapsburg line in Spain. It also started what Pro
fessor Woods calls “the frightful Bourbon-Hapsburg
psycho-neurosis.” The Bourbon-Hapsburgs showed the
old lip and the same mental feebleness. Their in
capacity during the Napoleonic invasion of Spain and
the revolt of their American colonies is historic.
The present King Alfonso XIII, of Spain, shows
the Hapsburg lip in an extraordinary degree. He is
a Bourbon-Hapsburg on his father’s side and a Haps
burg on his mother’s side. Nearly all his immediate
ancestors have shown the family defects In a marked
degree. His grandmother, Queen Isabella, was no
torious and his father, Alfonso XII., was a dissipated
wreck.
Alfonso’s apparently good character must be re
garded as the result of an improved environment and
a good mother’s influence. Nevertheless, the family
defects have descended to his poor children in a pain
ful degree. Two of them, as the whole world now
knows, are deaf. They also have the Hapsburg lip.
King Alfonso evidently sought to eliminate the fam
ily defects by marrying a wife of fine physique. Queen
Victoria’s grandfather, a prince of Hesse, married a
girl of sound plebeian German stock. Queen Victoria
shows all the evidence of this sound stock in her ap
pearance. Nevertheless, her heredity cannot be con
sidered entirely sound, as she is partly descended
from the Hanoverian Guelphs and the ruling family
of Hesse, who have shown many grave defects and
frequent cases of insanity.
In union with a husband of very defective ancestry,
these defects are liable to crop out. To the sound
German element in Queen Victoria’s ancestry must be
attributed the fact that three of her five children are
well and strong.
Eugenie science teaches that if the kings of Spain
would marry wives of perfectly sound ancestry for
two or three generations to come, the terrible family
weaknesses would entirely disappear.
Now we come to the extraordinary parallel between
the bulldog jaw and the Hapsburg lip. In old days
when bull baiting was a favorite public amusement,
there existed a very powerful heavy-jawed race of dogs
used in fighting the bulls. A bulldog of this kind may
be compared to the early Hapsburg, who was known
as “Ernest the Ironjawed.” Frequently a pup or two
in a litter of this old breed would be horn with lower
teeth and jaw projecting beyond the upper. This was
really a mark of degeneracy, like cleft palate.
About the time bull baiting ceased to be a popular
amusement, the type of bulldog with undershot jaw
became fashionable as pets in England. The breeders
raised pups only from these degenerate specimens,
killing the good pups or letting them run loose, and
thus created the type we call the English bulldog.
Scientists reject the popular idea that this type
could have been created artificially by pushing in the
noses of the pups.
The original type of bulldog is still preserved in the
French breed, called the “dogue de Bordeaux.” This
animal is more powerful and intelligent than the Eng
lish bulldog. It is Interesting to note that in the
Bordeaux breed a pup is frequently born .with an
undershot jaw, but in this case it is considered a fault.
Professor V. Galippe, of the French Academy of
Medicine, who has made a profound study of the bull
dog jaw and the degeneracy of royal families, has dis
covered the oldest known picture of a bulldog with
the undershot jaw. It bears the date 1625 and was
made at Burgos. Spain. Curious to say this was about
the time the Spanish Hapsburgs were showing signs
of great degeneracy.
Many people naturally admire the English bulldog
for Its courage, tenacity and good, reliable temper.
Nevertheless, there is abundant, evidence that Its
extraordinary peculiarities are marks of degeneracy.
Owing to the undershot jaw the teeth become loose
and fall out prematurely.
The bulldog has more delicate health and more
What the Stars Promise for December
T HE December lunation is one that has
much to do with governments, muni
cipal, national and international. The
royal sign Leo rises, which bespeaks prestige
for Washington, the City Hail, and executive
chambers in the east, although the convening
of Congress and of various legislatures will
bring all sorts of initial obstruction. Commit
tees and chairmanships are confronted with ,
problems that do not right themselves till the
legislative machinery is well under way. A
new regime must necessarily take time to ad
just itseK to incoming developments, and
Jupiter now in the seat of the high and mighty
is its instrument of perfectionruent.
But temporarily old Saturn sits rather
ominously in this quarter of the monthly
chart, and the membership of same will be
depleted by one or more prominent deaths,
or by absence through illness.
The Navy benefits, and the battleship
programme looks very encouraging. Jupiter
ruling, this likewise protects the public
health, except in a few instances of peculiar
hospital cases. A most disturbed condition
surrounds the hospital anl penal branches of
the public service. Investigations will dis
close some interesting cases of corruption in
these departments.
Sudden reactions in the stock market will
mark the period, at times of a panicky
nature, again merely sagging and depressive.
Lower quotations will prove the rule, and
operators would best get under cover.
The military branch of the government is
under a cloud, with a woeful condition of de
lay and inefficiency attaching thereto. Uranus
disturbs diplomatic relationships, as will be
attested by at least one critical instance. The
Mexican situation grows more complex.
There is a succession of major aspects in
this month, of the nature of blizzard breeders
in northern latitudes, and of excessive rains
and freshets in the southern territory. This
will be noted particularly near the 7th and
between the 16th and 23rd. About the 20th
there will also be atmospheric disturbances.
The belligerent Mars occupies the eastern
angle for the Middle States, tending much to
labor troubles near the 85th parallel. At
lanta, Louisville and Cincinnati will feel this.
But schools and educational institutions will
benefit, and unusual dramatic interest is in
evidence. The latter extends all the way
from Chicago to New Orleans and adjacent
territory.
Saturn rises on the western coast, tem
porarily obstructive to public movements,
and will produce some difficulties in the
World’s Fair preparations. The money inter
tests are jeopardized for that locality, and
peculations of serious nature will come to the
surface Health is much benefited and the
w
The Chart of the Heavens for December as In
dicated for New York City and Vicinity. Similar
Charts Were Made for Atlanta, Georgia, and
San Francisco, California, in Preparing This
Nation-Wide Forecast.
Pacific squadron, if called into active service,
will give a good account of itself. A State
or municipal executive will go to his last
% account.
Events to be looked for on or about certain
dates are as follows:
December 7.—The death of a legislator or
diplomat; unpleasant obstacles in the latter .
respect. Moon at perigee on the equator
brings greatly lowered temperature, with
severe snow storms between this and the
14th. A prominent thespian dies in tlijd
period.
December 9.—A diplomatic controversy be
tween this and the 13th, also a peculiar rev
elation in society circles. Market restless
and erratic, with marked depression on the
13th.
December 14.—Newspapers will teem with
accounts of official corruption.
December 16-19.—A period of depression
atmospherically and as regards the body
politic. The blizzard conditions previously
mentioned in active manifestation. The final
curtain rings down upon a prominent actress
near the 19th. This period involves much
excitement in financial circles.
December 23.—A Christmas snow will
make things merry for Santa Claus.
December 26-29.—A building disaster is due
at this time; weather fine and clear.
People born during the following periods
will come under a benefic transit of Jupiter
during December, and will note a general
improvement in their affairs: 1864 to 1866,
inclusive, Winter of 1868, Summer of 186!*,
Winter and Spring of 1870, 1873 and 1874,
Fall of 1881, any time during 1888 and 1893,
Fall of 1897, and Fall of 1905; likewise for
those born between the 9th and 18th oi
January, March, May, September or Novem
ber of any year.
Caution should be the watchword for the
following natives: Fall of 1861, Spring and
Summer of 1862, the entire year of 1869.
Summer of 1870, Winter of 1871 and 1877.
Summer of 1884, Winter of 1885, 1891 and
1899, Summer of 1906, Winter of 1907, and
the immediate present.
If born on the 24th or 25th of January or
April, or on the 27th or 29th of July or
October, a crisis in business or domestic
affairs is imminent, and changes, journeys,
or initial moves should be avoided.
December does not afford very good birth
day anniversaries, especially if near the 7th
(which indicates bereavement in the coming
year of life). Losses or litigation may be ex
pected if born near the 16th or 23rd. The
3rd, 6th, 10th, 21st, 29th and 31st are birth
day anniversaries which contain excellent
promises for the coming year of life. Suicidal
tendencies mark those born about the 23rd,
and early marriage is in store for the eligible
born on the 5th. 6th. 12th, 21st or 29th.
digestive troubles than ordinary dogs. The constant
snuffling noise made by most bulldogs is a result of
the malformation of the jaws and head. The poor
dog is as badly off as a child with adenoids.
All these facts are of great interest and importance
to eugenic science. They show that a defect may
follows the same hereditary course of development in
dogs as in man. It is much easier to study dogs, be
cause they do not live as long as men and it is easier
to control their actions.
Then the experience of King Alfonso is very in
teresting as showing how far marriage with a wife
of fine physique is likely to eliminate grave defects
from the father’s heredity. The results cannot be re
garded as altogether happy. Nevertheless, Professor
C. B. Davenport, of the Carnegie Institution, would
claim that the results strongly confirm his rule that
the marriage of defectives with normal persons leads
to a gradual elimination of the defects. He would
probably regard Alfonso’s three normal children out
of five as a victory for eugenic science.
One of the most important points of dispute in
eugenic science is involved here. There is much dis
agreement among eugenists as to how the science
should be applied in regulating marriages. Some hold
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that we should aim merely to increase the proportion
of normal persons by preventing the very unfit from
reproducing themselves. Others hold that eugenics
should aim to create higher types of humanity by
mating the finest specimens of men and women
with one another. In the project of the New York
scientists, announced in these columns, the object is
to create fine types of humanity by mating perfect
men and women.
AH who feel that they have beauty, talent and other
fine qualities are now urged to transmit them to pos
cerity and save them to the world. They are asked
to do so under the vigilant eyes of science ana under
conditions that will be extremely instructive to the
whole world.
All readers of this page—any man or any woman—
who would like to be selected as the husband or the
wife in the eugenic marriage may send in a photo
graph, with name and address and brief description
of their condition of health and such other facts as
they may desire to state- This should be mailed to
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