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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 24.
the fate of nations. The type con- tained a large proportion of physically attractive girls with strong reproductive instincts, and they were ever rying and compet- ing with each other for the scarce and elusive male. In
many cases they strove by means of dress, or the lack of it, to appeal to man's lower nature instead of exercising the power to elevate his ideals. Young men had dance invitations four and five deep, and our boys and young men were being spoilt before our
Dr. R. Murray-Leslie delivered a lecture recently at the Institute of Hygiene, Devonshire-street, W on the subject of the dis- proportion of the sexes. He said that there could be no real social | rest without feminine content ment, and, in cur own country, where women formed the bulk of the population, the effect of their sex preponderance seemed to be almost wholly injurious and to LONGEST | have little compensating advant-workers, married in very small
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The intellectual type, repre- sented by the professional
proportion, but to them was due The female excess was greater driving - force that secured in Great Britain than elsewhere, amelioration of the conditions of and the war had aggravated this employment of their sex, and it disturbing factor, because the was they who influenced legisla- men who had fallen all belonged tion designed to safeguard
and to to the age-group which represent-maternity
promote
TOO FEW BOY BABIES.
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JUTLAND BATTLE.
GERMAN'S GRAPHIC
STORY.
London. February 11-Com- mander von Hase, senior gunnery officer of the German battle cruiser Derflinger (28,000 tons) has published a book in Berlin, giving details of the Jutland battle from the Hun point of view.
ed either potential or actual child-welfare. Racially it was husbands and fathers. There the intelligent type were now over 1,000,000 excess Was most important and best females of reproductive age.
fitted to undertake the present The social effects of sex dis- complex responsibilities of mar proportion were demonstrated riage. There was a great differ. in the crumbling of the old ence between intellectuality and ethical standards. The freedom intelligence. The purely intel- of the modern independent girllectual women was, usually, not from the supervision of her sexually attractive.. but the in- parents; the tendency to rebel telligent woman was well read against discipline and convention- and in touch with c.w move- al trammels: the cry of pleasure ments, while she" equally ap- for pleasure's sake-all these preciated the charms of dress,
and tended to the encouragement of refinement.
other social a lowered standard of morality. amenities. It was noteworthy that in Ireland the illegitimate birth-rate was far lower than in any other Turning 10 consideration of the country in Europe, a fact that remedies, the lecturer suggested. might be attributed to the ap-as afruitful subject for study, an proximate numerical equality of investigation of the curious fact thesexes in that country. It was in that a smaller proportion of boy regard to marriage and family babies is born in England than in life that female preponderance other European countries. There was playing the most important were supporters of polygamy who part. Never had there been so argued that the modern civilized many unhappy marriages. Many man needed one woman as his married women were demanding intellectual companion and an- divorce by mutual consent, as it other to be the mother of his was contended that the present children. But this proffered rigid law condemned many to solution of the problem might be the society of an utterly uncon- dismissed with some contempt, genial companion; while married The real need was, to educate men often sought happier girls in a way to develop equally relations among the numerous their emotional and intellectual unattached
Speaking atores. The great problem from his own medical experience. was, how to
the he had no hesitation in saying boy babies and to lower the that much of the existing male death rate. The most im- unhappiness was traceable to mediately practical method of The Derflinger concentrated clandestine relations between reducing female preponderance her fire on the Queen Mary. young women and married men. was the encouragement of female When the range opened to 19,000 Female preponderance resulted emigration. Our land girls were yards, the German guns were in a large and increasing number fine, healthy specimens of wo-outranged, and when the vessels of the physically and intellectual- manhood who should be most ly fittest women in the country valuable as wives in the colonies. being forced into the labour market, while less provident women of the unskilled workers class married and had large families. The nation was thus deprived of the best potential mothers, and the birth-rate was smallest in the best elements of the population.
Increasing friendship between national benest. the sexes had undoubtedly in- creased the woman's power of son selection, and. with a greater sense of personality, she was pro- | bably better fitted to be a mate-- selector.
Women.
She would have op- portunity this year. although there was some justification for the young lady who remarked that in view of the great scarcity of bachelors this year and their low percentage of eligibility, this leap year's privilege was not worth having.
SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES.
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"Why no adapt boy babies?" asked the lecturer. There were many middle-aged people without children who shrank from the prospect of having no share in the future. He therefore suggsted the adoption of boy babies by women of the leisured classes, as 2 of personal and of
measure
CATHEDRAL SCENE.
A dispute in Nottingham Roman Catholic Cathedral during the celebration of Mass led to John Simpson. of the Salesian School. Farnborough, being summoned recently for sesaulting Leonard Truman Simpson, who is study ing for the Church, was spending
on
holiday at Nottingham January 4. Evidence was given that he assisted at the service, one of his duties being to hold a An extraordinary diversity of candle whilst the Bishop of Not type had emerged as a direct tingham, Dr. Dunn, performed outcome of sex disproportion. part of the ritual Truman took The domestic type still formed offence at his demeanour, and the bulk in the industrial classes, told Simpson to pat the candle but was becoming rarer in the down. To avoid trouble, Simpson so-called middle and upper complied. Both youths adjourned classes: The social, butterfly to the vestry, where a further type had probably never been dispute took place, and the as- so prevalent as at present. It sault was alleged to have been comprised the frivolous, scantily. committed. The chairman of the clad, jazzing flapper irresponsible magistrates advised the parties and undisciplined, to whom a
to shake hands and be friends. dance, a new hat, or a man with a
The hint was taken, and the two car, were of more importance than
youths left the court smiling.
DOINGS OF THE DUFFS
GEE, I HAVEN'T BOUGHT HY WIFE A BOX OF CANDY IN A LONG TIME! (LL JUST GO IN AUD GET HER A FIVE POUND BOX
RIGHT HOW —
LITTLĖ SURPRISES LIKE THESE ARE REALLY WHAT
PUT THE JOY IN LIFE AFTER ALL WE'RE ALL
A LITTLE CARELESS ABOUT
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He says the battle was an entirely fortuitous one. The Ger- man High Sea Fleet went to sea to cover a big raid on British shipping, but it did not expect to see the British Grand Fleet
closed in again the Indefatigable was blown up by the Von der Tann's fire:
The writer pays a high tribute to the superb gunnery of the Queen Mary. She was firing full salvoes at a fabulous speed till she blew up under the Derflinger salvoes.
Then four vessels of the Queen Elizabeth type arrived, and their fifteen inch guns had a tremen- dous effect. These four at one time engaged the whole-German Fleet.
Tallight found the Germans half encircled by the British, so the battle cruisers and torpedo boats were ordered to "charge" the enemy to cover the retreat of the rest of the fleet.
The Derflinger, which was leading the battle cruisers, met with 2 veritable tornado of fire. Shell after shell crash- ed itlo her, and the flames pene. trated to her ammunition room. Fortunately for her the cartridges only turned and did not explode, which fact proved the ship's
salvation.
Only darkness saved the Ger- man battle cruisers from absolute destruction.
Commander von Hase adds tha: there was great relief when the next morning the enemy was not sighted, for, with battered ships and their ammunition almost all gone, the Germans could not have fought victoriously.
The Derflinger alone bað 200 killed.
The Eve it Makes Helen Suspicious.
HELEN, I BROUGHT You HOME A LITTLE BOX OF CANDY !
ALL FOR ME,
TOM?
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