| Show I I Why Sons So Often Resemble Mothers I i j 7 I IIi Ii e L t dt 1 4 r r l. l i 3 I c jj You'd know these for their mothers mother's sons Above left Theodore Roosevelt and mother right Richard Barthelmess and mother below left Robert Taft and mother motter Mrs William H. H Taft and rl right Jackie Coogan and his mother By GERTRUDE C. C DAVENPORT Of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution The fact tact has long been known that children children children chil chil- dren get some of ot their traits from the mothers mother's and anti some from the fathers father's fam fam- ily Only lately we have learned these traits are not transmitted in haphazard fash lash ion Based on their hereditary behavior most traits fall tall into two great groups One group dominates the other Crown eye color for tor example is one of these dominating traits for if one of the parents has inherited brown es eyes from both sides of his family all of the children children chil chil- dren will have same grade of brown browne browneyes browneyes e eyes es even though th the other parent has blue eyes ees The blue eye color that has receded from Crom view may reappear again In subsequent subsequent subsequent quent generations under favorable com corn These two great groups of traits are transmitted equally either by the bythe the father or the mother ANOTHER ER CLASS There is still another class of traits transmitted to the sons through the mother alone They are called sex linked traits The herself may not show these traits nevertheless she will wilt transmit them to her sons provided her father has them Therefore a son may be doubly cursed or blessed in his maternal heredity ir if the dominating and receding traits as aswell aswell aswell well as the sex linked traits of the mother are good traits then the son has a double chance of a good inheritance whereas his sisters sister's chances are only even since the sister inherits equally from Crom the father and the mother Because of ot this exact mechanical procedure procedure procedure pro pro- girls in the long run are more like their fathers than are their brothers Sons therefore have more to gain or lose In the choice of or the mother than do dothe dothe dothe the daughters Biographies are arc crowded with examples of sons who have risen through their maternal inheritance to eminences never attained before in their fathers father's family Horatio Nelson the great English admiral ad ad- miral Is one such illustrious example On his paternal side Nelson came from a Ion long line of easy going clergymen He Inherited inherIted inherited from that line piety a profound sense of honor and duty and intellect of a high order His moth mother r is said to have had some force of character His Ills mothers mother's brother Maurice Suckling was an ambitious naval fighter Another kins kins- man William Suckling was a rear ad- ad I 1 mimI and a cousin Maurice was in the royal roval navy Moreover Nelsons Nelson's great-grandmother great I I was Mary Walpole a sister of Robert Walpole England's great prime minister Some of the were also gallant I naval officers Hence on the mothers mother's side there was wasI ambition capacity drive a love of or travel and adventure all of them traits that I seem to have been handed banded down to Horatio Horatio Horatio Ho Ho- ratio Nelson STUFFED TOMATOES Cut off oft the tops of ot six tomatoes not too ripe and arid scoop out the centers Mix one and one half pounds of sausage meat with two teaspoons of chopped parsley a tablespoon of chopped onion or and season with salt a and pepper Stuff the t tomatoes e with t this mixture l g and put put I them in a baking dish with butter or lard Sprinkle a few bread crumbs over the tomatoes and put little pieces of butter butter butter but but- ter on top of each Cook in a moderate oven till slightly browned PEACH FOAM Fresh peaches will soon be on the mar mar- ket You will find Cind peach foam delicious To make It you must have one pound of peaches one pint of ot whipping cream I and heng enough sugar to flavor a it as you ril wish Cook the peaches ea e until soft cool coor then mash t through rough a sieve Whip cream very stiff and then gradually whip into it the peaches Serve with white cake ke FAN BAG The combination fan tan and bag has made Its appearance We Ve find the plumes of ostrich above and below in the handle which is a trifle larger than previously Is the bag section cleverly concealed There Is room enough for tor coins handkerchief hand hand- kerchief and puff COMING DOWN The hem line is descending This Is the word from Paris And every dress which h can find an excuse for doing so wears a train you will find Sometimes they are simply long tassels which dra drag their luxurious weight from the ends of ofa ofa ofa a sash CREPE CAPES wraps of Canton crepe are new They are especially charming channing for wear on these half summer days Sometimes they are lined with sharply contrasting mate mate- rial |
