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should marry a teetotaler, or a man who does not smoke.” The 
judgments of these young ladies are interesting as indicating how 
far ideals of manhood may be moulded by instruction and afford 
ground for hope that much may be accomplished in the direction 
of eugenic improvement by inculcating the proper standards 
in the minds of the young. 
The potency of the appreciation of beauty and ability in the 
choice of mates is indicated by the study of Miss C. F. Gilmore on 
the marriages of the graduates of the Southwestern State Normal 
School of Pennsylvania. The girls were graded for beauty by 
impartial observers on the scale of 100. Those of grade 80 and 
over had the highest marriage rate, while among the others the 
marriage rate in general declined in proportion as the grade for 
beauty was low. In the same school the girls of higher standing 
were most chosen. There was a slight tendency for the marriage 
rate to decrease with lower scholastic standing, although the girls 
graded between 60 and 70 were married some what more rapidly 
than the class between 70 and 80. How far these results find a 
parallel elsewhere we have too little data to ascertain. It is, 
@ priort, probable and in accord with common observation that 
the most beautiful girls are apt to be chosen as wives. Intellect in 
women may be preferred in general, notwithstanding the fact 
that many men set little store by this quality in the other sex, and 
may even prefer an amiable sort of stupidity in their wives so 
that they can enjoy a sense of their own mental superiority. 
But quite aside from the attractiveness of intellect there is a 
tendency for the more intellectual women to choose a celibate 
career for various reasons that have been mentioned elsewhere. 
Intellect influences marriage selection in two diverse ways; first, 
by rendering the prospective partners more attractive, and 
second, by making its possessors more independent and particular 
in the choice of a mate, or, through affording other interests, 
diminishing the inclination toward married life. Intellect in men 
tends to be selected by women, and intellectual men are not as 
a class markedly indisposed to marry. However, they tend 
to marry relatively late in life, and the effect of this on 
