Show INHERITANCE OF TRAITS Chicago Tribune The question of the inheritance of ex exceptional talent or of marked peculiar peculiarities I has always excited great Interest but comparatively little attention ha has been given to the th broader subject o othe of the transmission of the everyday quail ties and the general characteristic s which make up the personality of th the great rank and file of humanity Two scientists who were Interested in hi inthe hithe the subject sent out printed lists of o questions to all the physicians of OC Th Netherlands and requested them to co cooperate cooperate operate In the plan by filling out th the answers by their observations on their thel own circle of relatives friends and ac acquaintances describing the character characteristics of families and extending the ob over oyer as many generations a as possible The ability to comprehend quickly appears to bo be hereditary and ma macome may come from either parent but the fa fathers influence is stronger while In in independent Independent dependent thinking which Is also hereditary her hereditary the sons follow the character characteristics of oC the father and the daughters dau those of the mother per cent of the sons o omen ot otmen men who had a talent for tor mathematics mathematic and 14 per cent of the daughters dau inherited InherIted the same talent while in famine families where the mother was strong In math m th them em and the father Cather was not pe per percent cent of the sons inherited the talent but none of the daughters did didA didA A tendency to be irritable or goot natured n or the sensitive nature that tha feels hurt over oer trifles is transmitted the fathers Influence being stronger here over both ons and an daughters Children tend to develop their moth mothers mothers ers traits In point of neatness and their fathers In matters of punctuality while in devotion to sports ports such a as skating hunting bunting bowling etc am and also In the tendency to tell teU anecdotes anecdote and long Ion stories the mothers influence I Is stronger I |