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...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 relationship, she said. The young man, after performing his function as eugenic husband, quietly stepped out of her life. A fortnight ago at the Lying-in Hospital...
Premier Baron Guchi Tanaka is 63; and was, until last week, without an heir. The Baroness Tanaka is still childless, but last week a concubine attached to their household gave birth to a manchild, which Premier Tanaka hastened to recognize as his first and only legitimate son. Soon gladsome friends made the Tanaka mansion buzz with compliments, as they praised the Premier of Japan for taking a step so prudent and timely, in his 63rd year...
...altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their country utterly ravished by German armies under the great Feld-marshall August von Mackensen...
...symbol of evil in many U. S. minds? Briefly, it is based on the fact that some marriages are entered into with the expectation of the wife's bearing children, that other marriages are entered into with no such expectation. Why not, urges Judge Lindsey, recognize the childless marriage as a different but legal form of union? Let a boy and a girl who wish to marry, but who cannot well afford to have children, marry and, with the aid of widespread birth-control knowledge, take care that they have no children. Then, if they do not get along...
Many people should remain childless because of hereditary predisposition to disease or abnormality. Healthy mothers should space their children properly for their own good and that of their offspring. On this point we may listen to Dr. W. A. Pusey, President of the American Medical Association: "It is women that bear the penalties in injury, disease, and death, and mental torture that are involved in unlimited child-bearing. They have a right to know how they can intelligently,--not crudely and dangerously,--control their sexual lives. And they are justified by the highest considerations in fighting vigorously and persistently until...