isa-normaladvance-1909-00175

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE175girls of The Crowd wore Star pins, butJimmy noticed that Peggy wore a Northerpin also. He raged inwardly and resolvedthat Peggy should throw the Norther pinaway before the game was finished. The gamestarted off decidedly in favor of the Stars, forJimmys determined playing seemed to inspirethe other boys, but by the seventh inning theorganized practices of the Northers beganto tell against Jimmys good playing on theStar team. He would throw the ballstraight but, the Star man would fail tocatch it. He would bat the ball far into thefield, but the Norther man was always readyand alert. By the end of the eighth inningall the Stars but Jimmy played half-heartedly and not until the game was over and heheard the girls shouting Norther praises andhe saw Tom Rhodes carried on the boysshoulders did he realize his defeat. He hunghis head shamefully and did not look at Peggy.She was very busy talking to the girls andsoon Jimmy saw Tom Rhodes come up andwalk away with her.There was another close observer on thefield. It was little Sis and she watched Peggywith a sly little feeling of joy. Jimmy waitedfor no consolation but walked home dejectedand alone, and Sis walked behind, carrying aglove which he had forgotten. He reached thegarden seat and sat there—a forlorn, littlebody of humanity. He was sure he had lost hisleadership of the Stars and of Peggy. Butsomehow the latter loss did not trouble himand why he did not know. He had sat therefor a long time when he felt Siss soft armssteal around his neck and heard her piping,little voice say, Jimmy, dont feel so bad. Imsure this gamell make the Stars see you wereright about the practices. Anyway you werethe best player there today. I think the Starshave learned a lesson and I know youll becaptain again next fall and youll beat everygame because the Stars will stand by you anddo what you say after this.Do you really think that, Sis?I know it, she said. I listened to theStars talk after you left.Jimmy looked at his sister in surprise, for thered hair had come loose from the braids andformed a frame for the pale, little face. Forthe first time Jimmy noticed that Sis hadbeautiful, big brown eyes. Why, Sis, heexclaimed, Youre going to be pretty, prettierthan Peggy.SCIENCE DEPARTMENTHeredityISAAC McKINNEY LEWIS, 04, NEW HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE, DURHAM, N. H.It is certain that the germ is not merely abody in which life is dormant or potential butthat it is itself a detached portion of the substance of a pre-existing body.—Huxley.Inheritance is a form of growth.—Darwin.We may regard the nucleus of the cell asthe principal organ of inheritance.—Haeckel.The attempt to explain the mystery surrounding the transmission of hereditary characters from parents to offspring or the natureof the mystic bond which links generation togeneration, has always exerted a peculiar stimulus upon the minds of inquiring thinkers.There are today no problems of deeper orwider human interest than are those concerning inheritance. In novels like Zolos Dr. Pascal, in plays like Ibsens Ghosts, in sermons andnewspapers, in books and lectures, in considerations of health and disease, in sociology, inthe improvement of plants and animals and intheories of organic descent we have heard much
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