Show HOW DOES NATURE DO IT eyer ever interesting question la Is the maintenance of the ratio between I 1 the tha sexes the tha laws lawa that govern the ratio of sexes are obscure and there are already a a bewildering bumb er of theor les TeB usually based upon carefully selected facts but it does seem that nature makes some sort of kindly effort to match the supply with the demand it has been shown that there Is a preponderance of male birth after a war and that male births predo predominate minato in warlike nations thus we find fand that servia has men for every 80 women and we may expect a still further increase of boy babies to compensate for the heavy losses of the present struggle servia Is said to have lost at least 1500 0 men m an against the turks and now her very christian allies have probably disposed of a good many thousand more mord dut but if nature does really try to kepp keep the balance true in the varying proportions proportion pro portio ns of male and female births it would be interesting to know liow bowl sho she docs it have the hopes a of the mothers anything to do elim it the argonaut |