Letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames, February 18, 1947
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Letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames, February 18, 1947
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Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
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This is a photograph of a letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames on February 18, 1947.
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Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
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State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives
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1947-02-18
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Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948
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Text
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RG9-12-1043_1_3_006
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2016-05-10
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Frances Proctor Ames Papers, 1882-1948 (RG 9/12/1043)
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W. O. A. LANGS Feb 18/47
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
Mrs Dr. Frances Ames
Bolivar, N.Y.
Dear Dr.:-
Your recent letter received
a few days ago.
A quite intelligent Jew at the Falls
on your side of the line said he had [?]
so much after he married. Be that as it may,
I think you learn more about yourself and
other people if you do not marry. I would not,
wish to be better posted on my own idiosyncrasies
than I am. Of course I keep them more or less
to myself.
I think the minds of medical people get
in ruts and they are blind to some every day
matters.
On recalling the people I have known
from my youth up there seem the three
classes - Those whose children alternated in
sex and consequently were not uncommon.
Those whose children ran nearly all [?] males.
Those who produces mostly females. I had
a list of about 30 of the latter two. If they
started out with 3 or more children of one sex
and especially if they had 5 girls or so and
then a boy he was often a weak inferior sort
of specimen, sometimes right up to manhood.
Subsequent events would show the father was
on the down downgrade physically while it would seem
he had been the superior at first.
2
W. O. A. LANGS
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
On the contrary if a pair had several males
and lastly a female, the mother was failing and
passed out first, barring of course intercurrent
acute maladies in the other parent. Some of
course would have been 3 of a kind (generally girls)
and stop producing. One had a girl and
4 boys, but the father lived to quite an age, but
died first. Noticing a similar thing in cattle re
it seemed to depend on the intensity of the [?]
[instinct?] backed up by the physical vigor. A mare
would have male colts all her till the last one.
One cow I read of had 22 males. then a female.
An energetic [?] [?], human and
animal produced males.
Another thing I think a woman of any
particular time will produce a better sample of
a girl than a boy; that is that will be easier to
handle as an infant, less indigestion and such
troubles of infancy. In much cases of twins
girl and boy, the girl is easier to raise. Have
known of a mother putting the girl on the bottle
to let the boy all her nurse to pull him
along. Most cases of multiple births that live
I believe are girls. Our quints are and
I think your quads out west are, while the
quads in eastern canada are [?], or else yours
are that way.
A Toronto paper recently said a university sorority
elected Miss Pine Tree as president of course I had to be
[?] too and [?] then we had a whole Pine Bush in our
class of [?] in ‘85. Enough of this ramble. W.O.A. Langs
Each tends to produce opposite sex
I am not saying this is so, but would seem as near being
so as the chromosome is idea of physiologists, if you have been reading
late physiologies. I have 5 standard texts but none later than 1936
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
Mrs Dr. Frances Ames
Bolivar, N.Y.
Dear Dr.:-
Your recent letter received
a few days ago.
A quite intelligent Jew at the Falls
on your side of the line said he had [?]
so much after he married. Be that as it may,
I think you learn more about yourself and
other people if you do not marry. I would not,
wish to be better posted on my own idiosyncrasies
than I am. Of course I keep them more or less
to myself.
I think the minds of medical people get
in ruts and they are blind to some every day
matters.
On recalling the people I have known
from my youth up there seem the three
classes - Those whose children alternated in
sex and consequently were not uncommon.
Those whose children ran nearly all [?] males.
Those who produces mostly females. I had
a list of about 30 of the latter two. If they
started out with 3 or more children of one sex
and especially if they had 5 girls or so and
then a boy he was often a weak inferior sort
of specimen, sometimes right up to manhood.
Subsequent events would show the father was
on the down downgrade physically while it would seem
he had been the superior at first.
2
W. O. A. LANGS
987 COLBORNE STREET
BRANTFORD; ONT.
On the contrary if a pair had several males
and lastly a female, the mother was failing and
passed out first, barring of course intercurrent
acute maladies in the other parent. Some of
course would have been 3 of a kind (generally girls)
and stop producing. One had a girl and
4 boys, but the father lived to quite an age, but
died first. Noticing a similar thing in cattle re
it seemed to depend on the intensity of the [?]
[instinct?] backed up by the physical vigor. A mare
would have male colts all her till the last one.
One cow I read of had 22 males. then a female.
An energetic [?] [?], human and
animal produced males.
Another thing I think a woman of any
particular time will produce a better sample of
a girl than a boy; that is that will be easier to
handle as an infant, less indigestion and such
troubles of infancy. In much cases of twins
girl and boy, the girl is easier to raise. Have
known of a mother putting the girl on the bottle
to let the boy all her nurse to pull him
along. Most cases of multiple births that live
I believe are girls. Our quints are and
I think your quads out west are, while the
quads in eastern canada are [?], or else yours
are that way.
A Toronto paper recently said a university sorority
elected Miss Pine Tree as president of course I had to be
[?] too and [?] then we had a whole Pine Bush in our
class of [?] in ‘85. Enough of this ramble. W.O.A. Langs
Each tends to produce opposite sex
I am not saying this is so, but would seem as near being
so as the chromosome is idea of physiologists, if you have been reading
late physiologies. I have 5 standard texts but none later than 1936
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Ames, Frances Proctor, 1856-1948, “Letter written by W.O.A. Langs and sent to Dr. Frances Proctor Ames, February 18, 1947,” Digital Collections - University at Buffalo Libraries, accessed April 19, 2024, https://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/items/show/79613.