Popular Scioice Monthly 



693 



the kiw of the inheritance of this trait. 

 The circles represent females and the 

 squares males. The black profiles in the 

 circles and squares represent the alTccted 

 females and males respectively. Chart i 

 starts with a female — a grandmother 

 who had three bad-tempered children, 

 two sons and one daughter. One son 

 married a bad-tempered woman. Two 

 of his daughters arc notoriously ill- 

 natured. One of them is under custodial 

 care. 



That the shrewish do not always hark 

 back to female progenitors is well 

 illustrated in Chart 2, which includes 

 five generations. In this chart the first 

 fiery-tempered progenitor of whom we 

 can get record is a great-great-grand- 

 father. He has transmitted tantrums 

 through son, 

 grandson, great- 

 grandson to his 

 great-great-grand 

 daughter, whose 

 behavior is such 

 that she should 

 end her days in 

 the state insti- 

 tution in which 



outbursts may be counteracted by 

 physical exercise or a prolonged, soothing 

 bath. The internal irritants seem to be 

 destroyed or gotten rid of by these 

 means. Much may be accomplished by 

 establishing the habit, even at great 

 effort, of ignoring irritating situations. 

 When the intellect is too weak to cope 

 with the situation or the temper is so 

 furious as to be beyond treatment, then 

 custodial care is advisable both from the 

 standpoint of the individual and of 

 society. 



The Difference Between a Store Ther- 

 mometer and an Official Thermometer 



WHY does a Weather Bureau ther- 

 mometer show lower tempera- 

 tures in hot weather than the ther- 

 mometer at the corner drugstore? When 

 discrepancies exist, they are due chiefly 

 to the fact that the official thermometer 

 is installed in a wooden cage, where it 

 is open to the air but screened from both 

 direct sunshine and the heat reflected 

 from surrounding buildings, etc. Only 

 under such conditions does a thermome- 

 ter measure accurately the temperature 

 of the air. A thermometer in the sun- 

 shine be- 

 comes 

 much hot- 

 ter than 

 the air 



she is 

 inmate. 



In addition to 

 the inheritable- 

 ness of tantrums, 

 these charts dc- 



-monstrate that bad temper is one of the 

 contributory causes that fill our houses 

 .of correction. These institutional cases 

 come almost wholly from the unintelli- 

 gent. Intelligent and conscientious 

 persons will wish to do everything in 

 their power to control temper. Abstemi- 

 ousness in food and drink, sufficient 

 sleep and attention to health in general, 

 'may avail something. The imminent 



Chart 2. Showing five gener- 

 ations through which the vio- 

 lent temper of the progenitor 

 was directly handed down 



around it, and its reading simply tells 

 us how hot the instrument is, not how 

 hot the air is. In large cities the 

 Weather Bureau thermometer is often in- 

 stalled on theroof of ahigh Iniilding, where 

 the temperatures differ somewhat from 

 those prevailing at the street level. The 

 object sought in this arrangement is toob- 

 tain a record of the natural temperature 

 of the locality in general, rather than 

 the artificial temperatures of the city. 



