THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 



PARENTS MAY REGULATE THE SEX OF THE 

 CHILD AT WILL. 



Every intelligent person who has kept up with the modern ad 

 vance in scientific and practical discovery knows that it has been proven 

 beyond any reasonable doubt that all parents possess the power to 

 regulate the sex of the coming children at their pleasure. 



Ever since the time of Jacob, the son of Abraham, there have 

 been men who knew how to determine and influence the sex of the in 

 crease in their flocks and herds, but it has remained for modern times 

 to demonstrate that a modification of the same law that governs this 

 matter in the brute creation applies equally to the human family. 



Had they known this law certain families who now have all 

 daughters might precisely as well have had one or more sons in the 

 place of as many daughters, or vice versa. Nature never works at 

 haphazard but always along fixed lines, determined by inexorable laws. 



The following is an article on this subject by Dr. John Van Moile. 



" This subject, novel as it may appear to some, has been for many 

 centuries past, an object of meditation and study; and extensive experi- 

 ments have been made for a great number of years in several of the 

 European states to hasten its elucidation, and foremost among those 

 we find England, France and Belgium. Those experiments, at first 

 made for the advancement of science only, have, of late years, become 

 objects of speculation, and the knowledge of their results of very great 

 value to the raisers of fine horses and cattle. We could not in so short 

 a paper as this give the full history of those experiments; a simple 

 glance at the main points being, we deem it, sufficient to derive the 

 necessary conclusions for the design of our theme. The governments 

 of the states just mentioned have instituted establishments for the pur- 

 pose of raising and improving horses, cattle and oth^r animals, and 

 men of science have deduced from close observations, > \nd results care- 

 fully recorded for many years, the following facts: 



" 1. That the young obtained from a mare, cow or sheep, etc., 

 when very young was generally a male, when the mala employed wai 

 of mature age, healthy and strong. 



" 2. When the female is of mature age, strong, in althy and well 

 fed, the young is more commonly female, when the malu employed is 

 young, weak, or exhausted by too often repeated copulauon. 



" 3. That the young obtained from the same when ? t mature age, 

 strong, healthy and well fed, was in nearly equal proportion, w hen tne 

 male employed was in a similar condition. 



"4. That the young brought forth when the female is old are 

 generally males, when the male employed is young and strong. 



" 5. That the young obtained from females, when in pride, being 

 well fed and young, were generally females, when the male was not in 

 pride, or when ill fed, or exhausted by frequent copulation, or too old. 



" 6. That the young obtained from the same, when ill fed and not 

 in pride, were generally males, when the male was well ted, young 



