The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4), by W. Grant Hague This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Author: W. Grant Hague Release Date: March 16, 2008 [EBook #24854] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EUGENIC MARRIAGE *** Produced by K.D. Thornton, Jason Isbell, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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.