The Detroit times. [volume], December 13, 1912, NIGHT EDITION, Page Page Nineteen, Image 19

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PEDIGREED
MARRIAGES
A SOLUTION
Perplexing Problem* Confront
ing Society Will Then
Disappear
STANDARD AfUST RE
HEALTH, NOT WEALTH
Too Little Consideration for
Next Generation, Says Prof.
Irving Fisher
NEW HAVEN, Dec. 18.—'’'Whin
American Ufa U guided by a standard
of health rather than a standard oi
wealth, aa we see It today, we shall
hare ‘pedigreed marriages,’ marriages
which. I believe, will solve many ui
the perplexing questions of out so
oalled modern civilization.”
This interesting prediction was
made by Professor Irving Fisher, of
Yale university, in discussing the
future of a department of national
health, which measure la now belorc
congress for action.
As president of the commltteo of
one hundred on national health, com
posed of the most noted men of the
country, which has for Its chief 6b
ject the establishment of this depart
ment, where human health may be'
made a matter of equal Importance to
the health of animals. Professor Pish
er has made an exhaustive study of
the subject
“When public opinion has been suf
ficiently developed on this point.” 9uld
Professor Fisher, “we shall take as
great a pride and as deep interest in
our own pedigrees and tbe pedigrees
of those whom our sons and daughters
marry as we do today in the blue rib
bon history of our dogs and horses.”
Surrounded by scores of books on
the subject of health, which he has
collected here aud abroad, in the
beautiful library of his home, at No.
410 Prospect-st. Professor Fisher talk
ed feelingly on the subject, which he
believes will eventually serve to
revolutionise human society.
Now Too Haphazard.
“Human heredity is now dependent
on haphazard selection,” said Proses
sor Fisher. “Little attention la paid
by those who contemplate marriage
as to how much stamina, how much
physical beauty shall be transmitted
to the next generation.
“I once asked a millionaire do;
fancier why he took so great a per
sonal Interest In his dogs and paid
little or no attention to the nurses
who cared for his children, and he re
plied: ’My dogs have 4 pedigree.’
“Our genealogical records speak of
landed estates, social position and
titles, but have little or nothing to
say of phyelcal capacity or Intellectual
ability.
“However, I think the hour is fast
approaching when pride of Inheritance
will include among Its most Important
Items, physical, mental aud moral
stamina.
“In fact," said Professor Fisher,
earnestly, “I have known of many phy
sicians and others who are giving this
subject deep thought, who have re
cently looked carefully iuto the pedi
grees of the families their children
married. I know of at least one en
gagement broken, where a taint In
the family of a young man, would
have without doubt rendered the lift,
of the young woman to whom he was
betrothed one of misery.
“Marriage, above all human choices
must as a rule be left to the individual
—guided, of course, by his ideals
alons. Once the importance of a phy
sical pedigree Is realizes, one’s own
pride In hia own inheritance will show
Itself In a similar feeling of responsi
bility for the unborn race.
"American mothers who practically
sell their daughters to degenerate
noblemen, to gratify selfish social air-
Itlon, should be frowned upon by wo
od of high social and moral stand-
V In the community. These mothers
’ould be made to understand that
ey have lost caste, rather than gain-
I it. by bartering their children to
_ie degenerate owner of a title. A
mother thus commits a double crlnv' —
the added crime to progeny, the
greatest crime of all.
Title No Criterion.
“A title conveys no real idea of the
true nature of its owner,” declared
Professor Fisher. “The result is. as
wo are frequently called upon to wit
ness, great human unhappiness ainoi’k
young American heiresses who have
sxchanged a pot of gold tor a title.
“Do not understand that 1 am oi>-
[>osod to international marriages,” cor*
•acted Professor F'tshor. “Rut most of
JlO noblemen who visit here are mere
ly fortune hunters, and have not a
great deal to commend them beyond a
itle banded down by their ancestors.
Mrls should demand something be
iMes the title.
“This question of International mar
-lages has become almost a social in
itltutlon with us.
“Health, beauty and vitality are
noch more natural objects of youth
ul admiration than titles of wealth
rhich now exercise for the most part,
; baneful Influence on marriage.
“But marriage, whether at home or
broad, should be made less artificial.
STEP ON IN DETROIT
STEP OFF IN WASHINGTON
by going to the National Capital over*
Pennsylvania.
Lines
Through Sleeping Cars
Lost* Detroit 12.01 pm.—Dally —Arrive Washington 8.26 am.
Qhh| C*r for Supper, end Perlor Cere arriving Pittsburgh 9.00 p. an.
Tickets end edvanos reservations et
DETROIT CITY PASSENGER OFFICE, IS Campus Martlue
m F. a. BUCHANAN, Cllf P«M*n|.r Agent, Da, 1 AO IT
TWO GOVERNORS-ELECT ARE ENJOYING THEIR LAURELS
IdSII' fr 1 T
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William Sulzer (at left), elected governor of New York, and James
M. Cox, elected governor of Ohio. Doth are still In congress. They are
heroes these days. Both were greeted with cheers the opening day, and
arc still being showered with Domocratic congratulations.
Marriage should be based on more
genuinely healthy principals.”
“Health marriages,” continued Prof.
Fisher, “or marriages where the
health of both parties has been consid
ered beforo marriage, I feel sure will
result in a decreased number of di
vorces. In tbe granting of divorces
today we bear a groat deal about the
artistic teinpeiameut,’ ‘incompatabil
lty of temper,’ and such things. Os
course there are scores of people who
never should have married, but the
true keynote of much marital trouble
is tho question of health.
“And speaking of this, I heard a girl
say the other day: ‘I am not attrac
tive. 1 am sure 1 shall never he a
social success. I am going to college
and prepare for a career.’ Twenty
years ago such cases were the rule.
Today such a girl is an exception. A
girl now goes to college to enhance
her chances of social success.
“The athletic girl, the Intellectual
girl today has a better chance to mar
ry than the pale-faced type, who 10113
around all day reading novels. The
girl who rolls up her sleeves and
plays golf Is preferred by men today
to the vapid type of girl. Athletic
marriages are rapidly increasing lr.
this country. Many young men meet
their life partners on the golf grounds
or the tennis court. Most men to
day prefer In their wives an intellec
tual companion.
Love Is a Primal Instinct.
“Love Is a primal and natural in
stinct, and the more natural men and
women are, and the rc.ore highly the/
esteem natural vilalitj, the more they
will be guided by mutual attraction.
“Asa result of a fashion where
health is an essential endowment to
matrimony, a larger percentage ol
healthy persons will marry, leaving a
larger percentage of unhealthy per
sons single. Os mixed matings there
will be a small number.
“This will not only tend to Improve j
the race, but we may hope to reach, ■
If not excel, the standard of the
health loving and beautiful Greeks of
old.
“What I mean by pedigreed mar
riages,’* explained Prof. Fisher, “is
not that a young man or woman wish- [
Ing to marry would obtain a health
pedigree with the marriage license. I
don’t believe a reform could ever be
brought about In this way. But what
I mean is, that public sentiment must
be strongly created in favor of health
We must feel as great a pride In pos
sessing that alone with An untainted (
ancestry, as the pride we take today
in foisting our marriages Into titled
families, or the size of our fprtunes. 1
Then we shall consider a pedigree as
seriously as the dog fancier who
points with pride to the pedigree of
the uogs that fill his kennels.
SIGN OF “HOMELESS 26/
SELDOM SEEN, FOUND
KANSAS CITY, Mo Dec. IS.—"There
is the sign of the Homeless Twenty
six again,” said Peck Orevot, clerk at
.he Hotel Baltimore, lafet night, point
ing to a peculiar mark on the hotel
register. It was Included in the sig
nature of L. O. Sears, of Sioux City,
lowa.
“The society for which It stands
seems to have accomplished Its pur
pose." continued Mr. Grevot, “for I
rarely ever see the mark any more. It
was organized on Christmas day sev
eral years ago In a Philadelphia hotel
where a number of salesmen were
guests. They were al unmarried and
practically homeless.
“After dinner they sgreed upon the
use of the mark every time they regis
tered at a hotel. They called ths so
ciety ths Homeless Twenty-six, but T
suppose that they nearly all of them
are married and have homes now. for I
seldom see the mark any more."
VHB DETROIT TIMESt FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 19TS.
Ptcmpinesj'f^!
JXJ9TOH
&wjnr I!?.
I’ve been prompt for every date
That I’ve made—l’m never lot*
But I’ve had to wait and wait
For all the others.
Stranger, mere acquaintance, friend,
Relatives of every blend,
Business people without end.
Slaters end brothers.
I have waited for them all.
Old and young and short and tall.
Fat and thin and big and small.
Little and great one.
But I have learned from days of yorel
111 not be bothered any more.
To wait for othere lea bora,
So I’m the late one!
CASTOR IA
For Infanta and Children.
Tbs Kind You Have Always Bought
This Week Has
Been a Busy
One Here
We shall have extra salespeople
from now on. But the early buyer
gets the bes assortment in all lines
at all times. Our stocks were
never more attractive than now,
and our prices in plain figures tell
their own story.
What Oo«s Baby Say?
8,920 Hava Votad—Hava You?
A Globa-Wernlcka Bookcasa Praa
See Our
- $9.88
Special—
-3 finish#*
of aak
Ladles’ Desks
In All Woods,
At All Prices,
From $7.00 Up
THE BEST XMAS GIFTS FOR A CHILD
Table and
2 Chain
like Cut
Table top it
of 5-ply quartered
Oak
Legi and
Underconatruc
tion
Oxy diked Bteel
$2.98
300 Seta Only
CREDIT IF
YOU WISH.
EASY TERMS.
BALTIMORE GIRL
WRITES ON STAGE
Miss Marjorie Patterson Says
England Has Marvelously
Trained Actresses
PARIS, Dee. it.—Miss Marjorie Pat
terson, the young Baltimore society
girl, who has scored such a success on
the London stage. Is now resting in
Parle after having finished a novel
which tells of her footlight exper
lencee. The book, which will soon be
published la called “Duet of the Uosd.”
Speaking of Its main subject. Miss
Patterson suld:
English actresses are so numerous
one might almost Infer every woman
in hngland ie on the stage but they
are marvelously well trained. No de
fect In allowed to slip by. There is.
however, a lamentable dearth of gu<«d
plays in England. They have no hu
man plays.
Some of the better class actresses
do atetety plays beautifully, but they
are eo benf on being natural that some
times they are not effective. They for
rfet thst whHt le natural on the stage
n not natural off the ntnge. Nor have
they enough trim is strength. With me
I always feel the house is my enemy
•nd has to be conquered. When I
come on the stege J feel a current of
magnetism coming and going. Tem
perament and tnlent are two things
that tell o nthe stage.
“American eudlences like something
stronger, more effective and more
(Iksetlr like est) *
Rogars' Beautl- . wm
ful Arbutus De- /jfk 1 W
forks, 4 Teaspoons, V«" "/lu**
Tablespoons,
Butter Knife, com
plete In Ouk Cheat WWII
as shown for *7 &o -f to 13
or am.
La Vallleres
Necklaces
Jewel Cases
Toilet Sets
Manicure Bets
Bto.
__ j» wfi
Morris or Easy Chairs
Imitation or Real
Laathgr, Price to Please
1L 41. -*vJ u
Jas.fitzsimons*C°
3 8 ”*4O Mi£lii£anAve.
Special Gold
Locket and Chain
Beautiful Gold Shell
Lockets, complete
with ample length
Chain. In neat plush
lined box; Xmas
««»•* $5
You’re sure of Just as fine or finer Jewelry at Thlry’s at
way below Woodward Avenue Prices. Our low rents make
this possible.
Opea ■very anstaff Mom
t A ear iruipir licat er)
Lamps In Gaa or Electrlo
A Great Variety
$4.00 Up
emotional than Ur.glleU auAlancaa. la
America they give youth a cliaaie.
In England an octrees tie* to baa. 4
bafora aha gats un Irupir'jMU part
"The English aia apprac atlva audi
anoaa, and. onca Impressed, they axa
easily held. 1 Dublin audlaaoas ara
much tnora critical."
Deaf-Mute Hups a Itpea
LKXINOTON. Mo. D%* iL—T»
Lestagtoalait* tha leading Republic*"
weakly of Laifayatta county, has be-n
sold by E. Martlndsla to Oran M. El
liott Tha naw ownar Is a deaf mute,
but one of tha bast printers In this
section Tha paper will continue as a
stand-pat Republican.
Igssrad.
"You say that eminent dramatic pro
ducer treated you with acorn •**
••Yes,” replied tha author. •'He didn't
even road by play "
"What makes you ao aura of thatT’
Nona of tla plot has appeared In any
of his subsequent productions."—Wash
ington Star.
WWO OY° u fnja%
M/fi m
New Thin Model
Watches
Klgln or W alt ham
Movements; Gold
filled Case Guaran
teed for 35 years;
handsome and ac
curate; Xmas gut r
Special at JU K
Thlry’s at .. U*l U
Special Dia
mond Rings
Tiffany Mounting;
very finest quality
pure blue-whi j dia
mond setting; every
stone guaranteed
perfect; two specials
$26 Sl S6O
Watch Charms
Watch Chains
Watch Fobs
Shaving Beta
Carving Sets
Eto.
Clocks—
Gong or
Chime
Chair* are
Oxydized Steel
Like Table
and are
Indeitmctible
Thi* ii not
a toy
bnt real
Furniture
$2.98
Come Early.
DEPOSIT
HOLDS GOOD
TILL LATER
HEYHS BAZAAR
“Detroit’s Favor it« Storu For Nearly Half ACentvr>
Record-Breaking Bargains Saturday la
Xmas Gift Things
O PECIAL low prices for tomorrow in ao many different de-
partments and on so many useful and beautiful Christ
mas presents, that this space will not permit of detailed de
scription* and prices. We can only ask you to come. You’re
sure to find many things you would like to give — and the
prices are so low you can afford to buy them. Here’s a par
tial list:
Jewelry
Watcha*
Silverware
Women's Neckwear
Women'# Hosiery
Art Embroidery
and Thousands of Useful end Acceptable Gifts Innumerable
NEVER in our history have we shown a larger or more
complete stock of Toy*, Dolls, Books, Games and everjr*
thing for the youngster’s Christmas. This year we have
fully 11,000 square feet of floor space devoted exclusively to
the greatest, biggest, brightest and most complete Toyland
west of New York— a complete showing of everything that’s
newest and bept in the world of toys—a stock that ia larger
than the combined stocks of all other Detroit Toy Stores—
and the goods are here to prove it.
FREE DEMONSTRATIONS SATURDAY of Anchor
Blocks, Electrical Trains, Friction Toys, Bing's Walking
Doga, etc., etc., and SANTA CLAUS HERE IN PERSON
to welcome all his little friends and learn what they want for
Christmas.
Extra Special
Three Hours Saturday Morning—9 to 12
$lO “Lionel” Electric O
Train and Track Complete J
For three hours only—positively no longer—a special offering of
100 complete Electric Railway Systems at the loweat price ever
known. The outfit consists of Engine, Tender, Pullman Car and
Observation Coach—AND MORE THAN 10 FEET OF TRACK In
■ectlona. Complete—all ready to run. Always eold at $lO for
the outfit, during these three hours —not one minute s/l qc
after IS o’clock noon —at
—Fourth Floor
WHY FREEZE
WHEN
Ammggg ,
NNIS pURS
Bell
lI7E have now pointed the way from Detroit
* W to Marquette, to Greenfield and to a dosen
other places whence travelers come and go and
business is doing 300 days a year. W ecould point
South to New Orleans, West to Denver, and North
to Medicine Hat, but enough has been said to diaw
that Bell Long Distance lines have the inalienable
right to the clai mos universal service and that
Detroit peopfrare in constant touch with this great
system through their own Michigan State Tele
phone Company.
Manager's Telephone
Main 5660.
Notice to T axpayers
State and County Taxes for 191a are due and may be paid
at the county treasurer’s office, county building, during
December without additional percentage for collection. Come
early and avoid the rush. Four per cent penalty will be added
after Dec. 31. _
WM. F. MOELLER,
County Treasurer.
Some papers have reader*. THE TIMES
has subscribers. Every" home that
take* the paper b on its books.
Gloves
Perfumes
Holiday Ribbons
Toilet Seta
Underwear
Fancy Aprons
C. 8. SLACK,
Commercial Manager.
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Leather Geode
Men's Wear
Handkerchiefs
Umbrellas
Slippers
Women's Shoes
System