WHERE GENIUS HIDES

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 18

WHERE GENIUS HIDES

I Many arguments have waxed as to whether the first child is physically and mentally the best (states an exchange). The matter has to some extent, been set at rest by the German State Department in charge of "bigger family" propaganda, which has discovered that genius is usually found in someone with elder • brothers or sisters, quoting Bismarck, fourth child; Bach, an eighth; Wagner, a seventh; Kant, a fourth; Huxley, Voltaire, Darwin, and Van Dyck,, seventh children; Nelson, Walpole, George Washington, Cromwell, fifth sons; John Wesley, a fifteenth; Charles Wesley, .an eigfi- I teenth; while Dame Madge Kendal, still I vigorous at 85, was the twenty-second I child. There have been scarcely any I geniuses of the very first water of ■ first or even second children. ■