STRANGE SEX THEORIES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 72, 21 September 1912, Page 13

STRANGE SEX THEORIES

WoatAK" THE STRONGER VESSEL. Some sex theories lately recorded by the Paris correspondent of a London paper recall the lives of Kipling : Lest the generations fail, The female of the species mtift be stronger than the male. The correspondent states that in a paper recently submitted to the congress of the Society for the Advancement of Science, sitting at Nimes, a delegate declared that in general the female oyster is^ more vigorous than the m^le. In a still more recent contribution to the science of eugenics, Professor Carvallo puts forward a similar claim on behalf of the female of the human species. Woman, he said, is no longer the weaker sex. She is the stronger. The professor's investigations have been confined chiefly to Fiance. Farseeing Nature, he declares, is seeking to re-establish a sex equilibrium. That is why the ratio of female births has increased, and why women are the more vigorous of the sexes. Discussing the question of climatic influences upon the determination of sex, Professor Carvallo has ascertained that more babies of the masculine sex are born in the country than in the city .and more at the seaside than inland. With mothers aged 40 the proportion of masculine birtlia is higher taan in the case of much younger mothers. Baby boys are physically more fragile than their infant sisters, and consequently the rate of mortality is much higher among boys.