Drinking Women's Daughters

Last fortnight a eugenist reported that women loaded with lactic acid would bear daughters while alkaline women bore sons (TIME, Sept. 5).

Last week three Yale investigators-- Drs. Harold Edwin Himwich & Louis Herman Nahum, assisted by N. Rakieten --reported to the International Congress of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology at Rome, that alcohol loads the body with lactic acid. If drinking women bear daughters and abstainers bear sons, thence arises a problem in progeny for eugenists and sociologists to resolve.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.