Word: childlessness
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...belief that if a childless couple adopt a baby they may soon after produce one of their own is as old as the Bible. Abraham's Sarah bore Isaac 14 years after Ishmael entered their Canaan tent. Jacob's Rachel finally bore Joseph and Benjamin after Jacob begat ten sons and a daughter by other women of his tenthold. A reasoned explanation of such phenomena was offered last week by a zoologist of Burlington...
...Lest childless couples disbelieve that experience, Dr. Perkins cited another experience "which is frequent enough to be called common." "I refer," wrote Dr. Perkins, "to the stimulating effect upon the nervous centres controlling the reproductive apparatus which is experienced as a result of the proximity of a little child. The maternal instincts, not quite the same as but certainly very closely associated with the reproductive urge, are definitely aroused by this contact. Perhaps the reason why it has not been brought to general notice more forcibly is that the people who have experienced this sensation are a little ashamed...
...might logically have left his money to Britain's venerable Royal Society. However, according to the great U. S. naturalist, Louis Agassiz, his feelings were hurt when the Royal Society failed to publish some papers which he submitted. Therefore, his will directed that if his nephew should die childless, his fortune (much of which came to him from a halfbrother) should go "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among...
...because that is a favorite nickname for a stolid driver. There are five other "Pops" in his division. Most Interstate drivers look like wrestlers because the company's minimum weight limit is 160 Ib. Haselwood is just over the line with 164. He is married, childless, makes about $225 per month. The one time he ever drove "like hell" was when a woman in his bus bore a baby...
...mail, penciling notations on routine queries to be replied to by her devoted chief secretary, Mrs. Ellen Bentley Arthur. Knottier inquiries are answered by dictation direct from the oracle's mouth. A few howlers are preserved for the edification of Miss Dix's friends. One which the childless adviser particularly ikes: "My baby's navel looks downcast. What can I do to naturalize...