152 



The Journal of Heredity 



COLOR IX BOTH SEXES 



Beak: Yellow. 

 Eyes: Reddish bay. 

 Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-lobes: 

 Bright red. 



Plumage: Snow white. 

 Shanks: Yellow. 



DISQUALIFICATIONS 



specimens having any of the follow- 

 ing defects are subject to disqualifica- 

 tion: 



White in ear-lobes. 



One or more feathers foreign to the 

 breed . 



Comb that is not cushion-shaped. 



Legs any other colour than yellow. 



One or more feathers or unmistak- 

 able indication of feathers on shanks 

 and toes. 



Wry tail and any other deformity 

 inherent to other breeds. 



STANDARD WEIGHT 



lbs. lbs. 



Cock 9 Hen 7 



Cockerel 8 Pullet 63^ 



Social Hygiene 



The Laws of Sex, by Edith Houghton 

 Hooker. Pp. 373. Rational Sex 

 Series, Boston, Richard G. Badger, 

 192L 



To the genetist, the title of this book 

 is something of a misnomer, as it deals 

 principally with prostitution and the 

 venereal diseases — distinct problems 

 which the author does not always dif- 

 ferentiate carefully enough. The tone 

 is that of the so-called feminists, with 

 its underlying accompaniment of sex- 

 antagonism. The volume should have 

 been edited by some one who would 

 have removed at least the more glaring 

 of the numerous inaccuracies and loose 

 statements, e.g. (p. 102) "It has now 

 been discovered that one additional 

 chromosome receptor comes from the 

 female parent which may presuppose 

 an accentuated maternal inheritance." 

 And why should remarks like these 

 (p. 197) be printed: "Syphilis is the 

 only disease known to humanity as 

 being definitely hereditary. . . . Later 

 researches indicate that a syphilitic 

 child has probably never been born of a 

 non-syphilitic mother, for through the 



placenta the spirochetes have ready 

 access to the maternal circulation." 

 Why not simply say that syphilis is 

 not hereditary, but is transmitted to a 

 child in utero by an infected mother? 

 Again, what confidence can be placed 

 in an author who seriously asserts 

 (p. 90) that in the United States "Only 

 one child out of five lives even until his 

 first birthday," and (p. 89) "In Amer- 

 ica, where the transmission of knowledge 

 of birth-control methods has been made 

 a felony, of all the children born only 

 one child out of fifteen lives to reach 

 his twenty-first year." The first life 

 expectancy table to which I turn tells 

 me that of 100,000 children born in a 

 given period, 88,538 will be alive at the 

 beginning of the second year, and 

 81,506 at the end of the 14th. This is 

 doubtless not exact, but compared 

 with Mrs. Hooker's figures it is micro- 

 metric accuracy. The author presents 

 a detailed program for solving what she 

 is pleased to call "the social evil"; the 

 single standard of morality is the foun- 

 dation of her recommendations, many 

 of which are good. — P.P. 



