Show I i A A Ad d c m 1 h g gA gA dL L d t hB b kI I k The Th tf Why a Brilliant Career Is Predicted for This New Descendant of King KingI I Robert Brace Bruce President Ex Roosevelt and So Many Other Famous Ones a J t 1 r I r f M c R i I tR tRi 1 1 t rs C It d 4 it its s L- L 7 rr 4 r k f f F e Pr w r- r rJ rik t J ik r J JM M d o t td Mk f nT f fr r- r ti T t alaf 1 n O J A 4 a r oR rift I King Icing Robert Bruce of Scotland one of Paulina Long IR Ea worth's many distinguished ancestors leading his army array j ESrO S to victory in the battle of Bannockburn I I o D l a ROI O Bv ANNETTE RICHARDS FALLOWS F all the m millions hons of babies babka born bornI OF O bornO J in recent generations in this and f f other countries probably not one has attracted deeper or mOl more e wIdespread interest than the tho little hUle daughter that has come to Alice Roosevelt and Congressman Con Con- Congressman Con Congressman gressman Nicholas Longworth after nineteen years of married life Will little Paulina Paulma Longworth grow up to 10 be anything like such a commanding figure in the worlds world's life as her famous grandfather the late President ex-President ex This is the thc question that IS uppermost in almost everybody's mind concerning the Longworth and baby baby students of the science of heredity be- be be believe lieve they can answer it with consider consider- considerable considerable able In the circumstances of her birth and andIn andin andin In the fact that she has on both her fathers father's and her mothers mother's side as die dis- distinguIshed dis distinguished an ancestry as any child well could have science thinks there is every likelihood that this baby will the same great qualities of mind and body which whirls distinguished the late lato Theo Theo- Theodore lore dore Rooseselt In fact students ot of heredIty think they have good reasons p jp expect that she sho will III prove an even abler iLler woman than heas he ho was Mas man and exert a still greater influence on the life of her day Little Paulina is particularly forte forte- nate in the fact that Colonel Rooseselt was her maternal and not her paternal a grandfather The records of various vanous royal families have shown over and oser 0 cr again that a child re resembles Its grandparents on its mothers mother's side slightly more than those on its fathers father's There are so many cases of this rind kind that it seems impossible that they can be just coincidences and therefore w 4 sCIence leel feels reasonably certain that Pauline Longworth has inherited some ot of Theodore Roosevelt's gifts guts With distinguished grandfathers on both aides sides of her family and remark remark- ble ble strains brought into her heredity us IJ both grandmothers this child has cry ery prospect of or very ery superior devel desel- de development el- el ormen Not only is she likely to bo bOj a ader Bader of thought and action herself put ut to become the mother of great sons and daughters pr pro provided ss J SI SIR L Ir vided only that she IS V yea yeaV V iW manGAl GAl GALTON TON careful cardul to m marry many arry a II man mani possessed of a similar i 0 remarkable In i n her h c r t- t i tance The possibilities of the descendants of such In in How genius persisted through five fiTe generations generation of the sturdy and n every Even Eyen Charles Darwin Wedgwood d ando and Dalton o families way o orthy r th y 5 stock t OC k Darwin's marrying his bu own n cousin cou in could not nol interrupt rt It as P Pa Paulina II a U II l t n a Long Long- Long worth's because both bolh were of such uch fine line stock Black squares worth's can hardly be indicate men of black half men man above Ih the aver avor average overestimated Quite Quites s age e ability white squares mediocre men mem I circlet circles women possibly the future fate fata of nations may rest in the hands of men and women who ho will be descended from this interesting little bit of humanity that opened its Ita eyes in a II Chicago hos hos- hospItal hospital hospital pital the tho other day In President Roosevelt there came together strains of Dutch Scotch French Irish and English ancestry HIs father was the sixth in direct descent from Claes Van e of Holland For five live generatIons after this pioneer the descent was pure Dutch through the marriages of these lineal ancestors of Theodora Theodoro Roosevelt to wholly Dutch women Business sagacity three of the SiX were hardware or glass merchants In- In Interest interest in interest terest in n government affairs two were aldermen one a founder lounder of tho the Union League the tho ability to accumulate wealth by industry and good Judgment and devotion to charitable enterprISes were outstanding contributions to pos pos- posterity pos posterity from the Roosevelt family Perhaps the most significant of all strains his hu come to this child however through the Presidents President's mother Martha Mrtha Bulloch A pure Scotch inheritance of most unusual brilliance and ability came cameto cameto cameto to join the Roosevelt strain through this charmIng Georgia woman oman who ho could trace her descent by the five separate lines from the Kings of Scotland One branch came straight from Robert Bruce Eruce of Scotland another from his SI sister ter Christian the Ibo 1 he Kings Norway the Earls of and Orkney Keith Carl Earl Marshall of Scotland Scotland land and many mallY nobles through the tho various various various ous direct ancestors bring notable for s sif se e if e s t if 1 l r b iv ivi j jt i Ii t w a a The late Theodore c Roosevelt whose great great- greatness ness of mind and body science expects to see re- re repeated repeated in his only daugh daugh- daughter's tens ter's child and quite pos pos- possibly possibly sibly in a still stillmore more remarkable degree GALTON r RT bears to this singularly fortunate young lady Aery A sery very ery incomplete count shows three three forty distinguished grandparents through Martha Bulloch alone and capacItIes passed on many times by the marriages of able men with the women who ho carried a heritage of royalty and great distinction One great-grandmother great of the President's President's dents dent's mother brought in a French strain through her Huguenot grandfather Andre de Veaux Through Paulina's maternal grand grand- grandmother grandmother mother Alice Hathaway Lee who died at the age of two twenty-two just dust two days after the tho birth of her daughter Alice she has for ancestors George Cabot Lee Nathaniel Cabot Lee Joseph Cabot and John These names tell their own story of a heritage from the tho first fam families les of New England Ingland whose sons adorn the tho halls of fame in such great numbers What has descended to this baby from her fathers father's side includes tho the elements of a legal mind and unusual artistic and capacity Nicholas Longworth himself lawyer and Congressman is to be tho the Speaker of the next House of Representatives his 1115 father was as o a Supreme Court JustIce of Ohio His great-grandfather great a law law- lawer lawyer yer jer er and founder of the city of Cincinnati Cincinnati nati had a passion for the cultivation of grapes and strawberries was a II patron of art ort and creator of a estate to pa pass pabs s on to his descendants At Atone Atone Atone one time this gifted and eccentric gen gen- gentleman gentleman gentleman paid taxes of over h Isis 11 a 1 T W iSE- iSE iSEK 4 V rp K t jt tp k R d Ri t f r rf i tW f I J N h rt f w t Of WI 1 i r ry ru T i L f 4 f f lb F Fi y u i bL l ll l L eSs v I b 1 r rt t rI i y Ph Photograph Ph slightly enlarged of little Miss Paulin Paulina's as a's foot footprints prints taken for identification x L purposes 31 Fy when Mr Astor m in New NewYork 4 York fork was paying but butI reef half as much more ki kif f Other jurists stand standout standout Rf out among the grand grand 1 fathers on both sIdes of Mr Longworth's 4 family with university graduates and writers y Perhaps most Interest interest interesting ing of all is an aunt Maria Longworth Storer who originated the famous Rookwood pot pot- pottery pot pottery tery and won soon gold geM medals from the Paris Pans m In 1881 1880 and 1900 1100 Prom From her fathers father's family as from that of her famous grandfather President President dent Paulina Longworth should receIve the ability to to achieve achieve to do things things and to distinguish herself in such euch per per- performance performance Law art and perhaps writ writ- writ frS fr'S are aro e evident gifts from this Long Long- worth Rives worth RIves line of her imme immo immediate diate ancestors Tho The fact that this child is born after nineteen years of married life hIe de IS re- re regarded re regarded by science as another distinct advantage Tho The mothers mother's ago mak makes s her herI I better able to te care for and educate her daughter end and is a great asset for forthe forthe forthe the child The environment and op- op opportunities op opportunities the physical care and the Intellectual stimulus given to Paulina will be the richer for Alice Roosevelt Longworth's greater experience before becoming a mother I In natural endowment however science knows of no way whatever In a mothers mother's or father fathers father's develop develop- development development ment can be transmitted to an unborn child This baby is born none tho the wISer for her parents education and training In just one way it appears that the mother may affect the well well-be well being In of her to be to be Her good health w will l ensure proper nourishment and growth Her IIer happiness will help make the childs child's en- en endocrine en endocrine glands function Junction as they should To the question whether the mothers mother or the fathers father's years of social expert expert- experience experience ence and intellectual development de will endow the child more richly science answer no The germ cells cor car car- carried corned ned ried within the organism are entirely apart from the organism itself They are arc merely carried eke ike an heirloom watch in m the pocket passed on and on from rom generation to generation without apparent change from any environment to which they are arc subjected so long as they are arc safe sate in m the organism itself No mechanism whereby changes in body or mind can be transferred to the germ cells has bas ever been discovered If It Alice Roosevelt Rooseselt had been born In Inthe inthe inthe the jungle had been adopted by mis mis- missionaries missionaries had met and married an un- un uneducated un uneducated educated Nicholas Longworth in darkest Africa if It she had never had a sight of the White House or the tho Capitol or a chance to de develop clop the capacities within the her the same little Paulina Paulin a with an equally fine heredity could have come cometo cometo cometo to earth provided only that the tho mother wo was in good health and happy Kammerer the tho Austrian biologist and one or t two 0 others stand alone m in their thelI belief that lib abilities III tIes acquired dur- dur during dur dur- during during ing the life of parents can be passed on to future generations through the tho germ All other biologists con con- consider consider sider aider the theory that acquired char char- characteristics characteristics characteristics can be bo inherited as ail wholly ed except perhaps in m some sonic rare Instances r s tee loe Y S 'S 4 4 f up ba r ri i The baby's mother Alice Roosevelt Longworth The cells of a human body have the capacIty to divide and so BO multiply for forit forit forit it may be ten twenty fifty or ninety years ears before this growing ceases anti and the individual dies But the germ cells from which that body grew around them aro are passed on alive alivo from genera genera- generation generation tion then to generation as ns a family heritage an an immortal treasure of poten poten- potential potential l lifo life o of which each individual is but the temporary home Within the tha past few years by Infinitely patient study with the mIcroscope man has been able to learn something of the tho structure 1 of the human body cells colls Every Ivery f cell contains twenty four pairs of ot rod chromosomes rod or pIn pin pin- l like ylike substances floating with with- t tr tin yin r m in it In each of these pin pin pin- like chromosomes certain characteristics characterIStics of the individual indi- indi individual vidual vidual are aro contained A chromosome in pair number one may contain the factors for black hair derived from irom the individuals individual's father The other chromosome in this partIcular pair pall will also contain the fec- fec factors fac factors tors ton for hair color but this chromosome wIll have been rec received from the mother and will bring dark or light hair characteristIcS according to that which she had to bestow In general when pure dark and light haired characteristics meet the offspring will have dark hair for dark is domi domi- dominant dominant dominant nant over light in the color of or eyes and hair hur and skin akin Hidden within mthm the cells however the light heir half capacity will mil be carried to crop out again agam when light meets meeta light or a mixture hybrid In indefinitely indefinitely definitely known numbers of the off off- offspring off offspring spring Another pair pall of chromosomes may have packed pocked within them certain mental ability one chromosome having ha come from the fathers father's side the other being of the maternal line as before The cells of o which we have been speaking exist in every part of the body they they are the body whether hether bone tissue skin or muscle Tucked away for safe keeping in the midst of this or- or organism or organism are the germ cells from which it grew and they are slightly dIfferent Just before the time of fertilization a change occurs in the these e germ cells that body bodi cells never undergo If germ cells came to the new off off- offspring off offspring spring from each parent carrying forty lorty- forty eight eight twenty four pairs pails of chromo chromo- chromosomes chromosomes somes apiece the product of this union would be a monstrosity with sic ninety ninety chromosomes This could never be and therefore a change in m n these those germ cells must take tale place Half Halt of the maternal and aud halt half of the paternal chromosomes must be got rid of before the begin begin- beginning beginning ning of the new nelv l life e Eo each pair of chromosomes in m the parent organism divides The one of a paIr which comes come from from the grandfather goes into one ono cell tho one from the grandmother into another Each cell has hIlS but hal half of ot its Ita original chromosomes and many different kinds of cells colls result for the chromosomes combine dif dlf differently Only one c of these many different kinds of germ cells colic can participate In Inthe inthe inthe the production of a particular offspring I 1 f x t 4 z L s sa sr r ys R a r ta f f w h hM I 4 M A n f fn o J- J Ja a r Nr N 1 Y f f fr fet r i eti et ett t sr k J fis I Ir Ii IThe r i The proud father Congress Congress- Congressman Congressman man Nicholas Longworth next Speaker of the House of Rep Rep- Representatives Representatives r I except in m the case of one type of ef twinS This one germ cell will carr carry man many but cannot carry all of the ani family y traIts No law has yet been discovered to determine which of the tha many possIble germ cells will be bo chosen It is a mat matter ter of chance say the statISticians Perhaps it is although sonic some believe that thata a law may sometime be bo discovered Many traits are lost however in this reduction process A cell carrying a combinatIOn of the least desirable char char- characteristics characteristics may join Jom with Ith a similar sundar a worse or a better cell from the mar mar- marriage marriage partner It |