The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 2 (of 4) / A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

By courtesy of The New York Times New York's Better Baby
Little Hiss Johanna Wiggers, who won the first prize in New York's Better Babies Contest by scoring 100 points, is the type of little girl that will make the best mothers, and the better race tomorrow. Her score card showed; age, 28 months; weight, 33 lbs. 14 ozs.; height, 35-1/2 inches; circumference of head, 19-1/2 inches: circumference of chest, 20 inches; lateral diameter of chest, 6 inches; diameter of chest from front to back, 4-1/2 inches; length of arm to tip of middle finger, 14-1/2 inches; length of leg to the sole of the foot, 16-1/2 inches; total, 100 points.
College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York; Member of County Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association
New York THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY 1914
Copyright, 1913, by W. Grant Hague Copyright, 1914, by W. Grant Hague


The evil that men do lives after them. The good is often interred with them.
The pleasure in living is to meet temptation and not yield to it. Elmer Lee, M. D.
A Word to Parents—Interest in Sex Hygiene—The Social Evil —Ten Millions Suffering with Venereal Diseases in the United States—Immorality not Confined to Large Cities—Venereal Diseases Common in Country Places—What Are the Consequences of Venereal Disease to the Boy?—Gonorrhea, or Clap—Symptoms of Gonorrhea in the Male—Complications of Gonorrhea—Syphilis, or the Pox —How Syphilis is Acquired—Syphilis Attacks Every Organ in the Body—Not Possible to Tell When Cured—The Chancre—Systematic or Constitutional Symptoms—Mucous Patches and Ulcers—Syphilis of the Blood Vessels and Lymphatic Glands—The Interior Organs—Brain and Spinal Cord—The Nose, Eye, Ear, Throat—Hair and Nails—What the Boy with Venereal Disease May Cause in Others—The Infected Wife—A Girl's Fate When She Marries—Young Wife Rendered Sterile—Young Wife Made to Miscarry—Is the Husband to Blame?—Building the Man—Age of Puberty— Internal Secretion.