Show I I 4 I ITI 0 TI AGE OF 01 MOTHER Ho HOW HoV 0 V VY V V AFFECTS A CHILD EXPLAINED BY PHYSICIAN Tile The The Influence of the mothers mother's age on her children Is dealt with by Dr R R. R J. J Ewart in an artcle artl art j cle In Journal of Hygiene Doctor Ewarts Ewart's investigations s show that as the age of the mother Increases the average length of life me of her children decreases decreases de de- creases the likelihood of the theO O children having many children of their own decreases the offspring off ot- oft oft- spring are ore more likely to be boys than linn girls and the Intellectual grade of the offspring rises Doctor Ewart also points to the curious fact that as ns the mother prows grows older the chances of her children being other than blue e eyed eed ed Increases cs Whereas all nIl children are born blue eyed the c eyes es of n a certain proportion tend to become darker as ns they grow older Of a large number number num- num V ber her examined per pr cent were blue bine eyed nt at birth 54 4 per cent at nt six years 38 88 per cent at thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen 30 SO per cent nt ot thirty one to forty and 20 per percent cent at forty- forty six to fifty fity Iq In children of young mothers this tendency of the eyes to become become become be be- come darker with age Is delayed de de- 4 O 0 4 NN 11 |