Show A QUESTION OF SEX WHY THERE THERB ARE ABB MORE GIRLS THAN BOYS IN SOME the most interesting of studies are babies said dr Childs athe the famous 1 I am aware of the fact act that everybody agree wit me bachelors dont for instance again in the poet says the proper s study tu of mankind is man and others IV will it be found to maintain that woman is the most interesting subject to investigate but as tor for woman herself surely she will side with me in my dictum now as for babies it has often of ten struck me that the question of their sex is a physiological mystery which awaits solution what do you mean by that doctor interjected the reporter perter re well ill try to make my meaning a little plainer there are certain things taken in connection with the sex of babies which lare as yet unsolved riddles to science the fact itself above alk why one baby is born a girl and another a boy has never yet yet been satisfactorily facto fatto rily explained al all that has been said on the subject by physiologists physicians physicians specialists and others has aea either in the nature of mere surmises and hypotheses or else arrant nonsense then think how bow much s superstition 11 there is connected with this very matter W why by old and yo young U n 9 women are full of lit jit but tot that w n it so much what I 1 wis was referring to no sir there are other questions to answer why is it for example that in one country more males than females are born while in others the reverse is the case why is it that this to is also true of certain towns villages even wards why Is it that during certain mouths months the female births outnumber the male ones while during other months it is dotso not flo im sure I 1 dont know doctor if you dont his visitor 4 come to you for information and enlightenment lighten ment on this momentous question whereas you do nothing but fling questions at me one harder bardar than the other to answer do you know vow self if you doI dorease do please ease dont withhold your knowledge from r rom a world that hsc neen aching to know all this ever since sill noah first stepped from his ark tel tell iia as a al I 1 about abou t it 11 bat the great r eat scientist and practitioner titio tit ioner nir onfry onty let his head Is fall into the hollow of his good chandr and then whistled softly to himself an utter prey to meditation and aad self com munion it I 1 were to tell you what I 1 think it do any good since after all it nothing but bat gu guess aas work I 1 but are those lads facts doctor which you stated a mora moment ent ago yes they are facts however ill net ask you to believe me just you go to the county clerks office where they keep the records of all the births ot on me and where they make them u up p in statistics i you WM wl see all 1 I said verified there I 1 t C and sure enough the ilie doctor was right poring oyer lover the ponderous tomes there coll collected tad and cover over the figures collated irem from them the a summay summary of fao facts AS was gradually evolved which might be stated like a con coif denied catechism in this wise chicago produces produce sMore more boys than girls the average sandal annual excess of male births over female blabs is about one thousand or roughly aper 8 per cent more of boys gap than girls births are heaviest in number in the mouths months of august augu t september october and december Dec december emter the latter mouth month leading all the rest february shows the smallest number of births april may and june being next there are nine months odthe of the year when more male then than female children are born there is one month may when there is sta equilibrium which lei is in some years exactly maintained like may 1885 when there were births each ot of males and females and there are two months which show an excess of female over male births these two months are april and december why this was and is thus the official whose massive brow ponders day by day over these vital statistics knew no more than the ni medical edical authority had known he too could only give vent to surmises I 1 As tor for april he says the excess ot of female fema leover over male newborn new born might be accounted for in various ways april is the first spring mouth month spring to is the season of of love of poetry 0 of sentiment and ideals hence more mere girls are born for lir girls Is are much more given to this sort 0 et t thing than boys again april is the most variable mouth month in the year april weather has become proverbial girls too are very variable the pro proverb verV la donna a mobile attests this therefore the evident desire of the female sex to be born in this month and no other is accounted for It 1 think hilik in a mes measure pure but why should should girls try so hard to be born in december what puzzles me for take the statistics into your hand band sl eier you will find that wany many more girls are born in that cold inhospitable month than boys ma nymore many more than in april even its ift a pretty tough mouth month in chicago at at least to come into the world in and why girls should persist in doing 30 06 during the rigors of a chicago decema be ber r while in florida they dont quetie the reverse what beats mol me the only reason ivan I 1 can think of at an all I 1 is that they want to steal a march ou on the 6 boys and get one obb more christmas the than they th y or get t it much sooner than the boys at all events blamed it if I 1 ran can think of say any other lesson jeason I 1 I 1 chicago pAt caffo herald berald |