Word: childlessness
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...blue dust jacket; Fertility in Women (Lippincott; $4.50), in pink. Men is by Lieut. Commander Robert Sherman Hotchkiss of Manhattan; Women is by Dr. Samuel Lewis Siegler of Brooklyn Women's Hospital. With their help, a good doctor should be able to help about half of the childless couples who consult him to get into the market for blue or pink layettes...
...books' simultaneous publication emphasized a fact that doctors are only gradually persuading childless couples to believe: either partner may be the cause of childlessness. Says Dr. Siegler: "There are still individuals who believe that sterility can be blamed only on the female. This belief is obviously based upon ignorance. Yet it is appalling to note the number of women subjected to various examinations and even to surgery without attempting to seek the causative factor in the male...
...hoary attack on twin beds was repeated last week by Chicago Woman's Court Judge Frank E. Donoghue. Lecturing a quarreling, childless couple, the judge cried: "In [our parents'] day, no one ever heard of a husband and wife sleeping in different beds. Juvenile delinquency was hardly ever known. . . . Our parents trundled off to bed fairly early, and the children followed as a matter of course. [But] the unholy system of twin beds . . . worked a mighty revolution in the marital relationship . . . creating millions of childless homes . . . broken homes . divorces...
...Robert I. Miller might have been a standard heroine of woman's magazine fiction. At 42, she was childless, energetic, still handsome in a full-blown silver-blond fashion, and married to a man 25 years her senior. She was all nerves. Since her husband was one of Washington's most successful criminal lawyers, she yearned for a suburban home in fashionable Chevy Chase, Md. But Robert Ingersoll Miller, 67, onetime law partner of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, good friend of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to stay in the drab Victorian brown-brick house...
...church's hydrotherapeutic institution at Battle Creek in 1876. Bored by oatmeal, in 1895 he boiled and rolled wheat, pronounced the flakes fine, in 1906 he sold his $250,000 interest in their manufacture to his brother, famed Will Keith ("Corn Flakes") Kellogg. John Harvey Kellogg and his childless wife brought up 40-odd foster children, inspired his onetime patient W. C. Post to the discovery of Postum and Post Toasties. Recent Kellogg health rule: ". . . eat less breakfast foods . . . and more potatoes...