July 30 — A Question of Heredity
I was lunching out to-day, and sat beside Mrs. C—— S——. She told me her daughter was so hoping that the new child would be a girl. Four boys seemed a superfluity of masculinity in one household.
“I wish there was some way of knowing beforehand about such things,” she complained.
“When F—— came,” I said, airily, “there was the same feeling in our family; we all wanted so that she should be a girl. H—— was so comforting. He said she certainly would be, if there was anything in heredity; her mother was a girl, and all her aunts, and both her grandmothers. And she did turn out to be a girl, you see.”
Mrs. C—— S—— looked at me with her mild blue eyes, and said, happily—“I wonder if there is really anything in that; for you know it’s just the same in our family!”