Medicine: Eugenic Child

That nation, whose intelligent and healthy inhabitants intermarry to produce abundant children, will be a better nation. Thus, the essence of eugenics.

Mrs. Grace Mailhouse Burnham, attractive at 37, considered herself capable of being a better-than-average mother. Her husband, a retired distiller associated with the soap firm of B. T. Babbitt in Manhattan, died four years ago leaving her childless. Quietly she selected "a young man of good family and good character with the proper eugenic background'' to be the father of her child. "There was nothing which approached promiscuity" in their...

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