HOW MEN CHOOSE WIVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 298, 16 December 1922, Page 26

HOW MEN CHOOSE WIVES.

BY COLOUR OF EYES AND LENGTH OF FOREARM. New theories of how men selected their wives were some time ago propounded by Professor Karl Peareon at the Royal Institution. He pave it ns his opinion that man hnfi an unconscious tendency to select a wife of his own height, with eyee of hiR own colour, a proportionate span from forefinger to forefinger, a forearm corresponding to his own, and a constitution of like physical vigour. These theories he expounded by means of tables and diagrams. Among every thousand men the colour of the eyes is divided as follows: — Blue 363 Green 312 Hazel 127 Brown 94 The eyes of women are generally darker, only 280 of them in every thousand having blue ones. If these blue-eyed couples ma.rrio.rl at random, the result would be that they would mate at the rate of 104 per thousand; but he ha.<l discovered that the actual number of marriages per thousand of blue-eyed persons was 140, or 30 above the random average, thus proving that the blue-eyed man and blue-eyed woman nre unconsciously attracted towards one another. Tn the same way, men with greenish 1 grey or hazel eyes tend to marry women with eyes of like colour. ; The average height of a man he gave as from 67in to 68in'., that of a woman ns (!2iin, and he contended that the averi tall man ha« a ta " wife, and the short man a short wife. "One could hardly imagine a man choosing a wife by measuring her from forefinger to forefinger, ,, eaid the projfessor: yet hie diagrama demonstrated '• that as the span of one increased go did that of tTic other. A like result wae produced in the measurement of thousands of forearms, hie figures showing that there was a distinct tendency on the part of men with long forearms to marry wives with proportionately long forearms.