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Show Child of Two Answers Questions Correctly-Little Correctly-Little Miss Jill Feldser, Atlanta, Ga., tot of two, is challenging Clifton Clif-ton Fadiman to a battle of wits. Jill is 30 pounds of practically all memory, mem-ory, and if Mr. Fadiman will just ask the right questions, Jill will guarantee to answer them. In fact, so sure of her memory are her parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Feldser, whose address is the Kimball House, that they offer to pay "Information Please" $1,000 if Jill misses any of the questions on her list of 15, or any popular nursery rhyme, of which she knows 25 that she can repeat on demand. At an age when most babies are just learning to put words together to make sentences, she is rattling off whole songs and verses. She can say the complete alphabet, and recognizes rec-ognizes some of the letters when she sees them in the paper, too. The "A with sticks" as she calls it, and the "B with bumps." She can count to 10 with no difficulty, and add one and one together, and spell cat and dog. Her mother says she is no trouble to teach; she has to be told a thing only once, and she remembers re-members it. The remarkable fact about the chubby memory-marvel is that she gets the right answer to the right question. When you ask her "Who freed the slaves?" she does not get mixed up and say "Roosevelt." She says "Ab'aham Lincoln." But "Mr. Woosevelt" is the answer to "What is the President's name?" and she is right there with "George Washington" Wash-ington" to "Who crossed the Delaware?" Dela-ware?" You'd think she might get her answers crossed, in a case of pure memorizing like that. But she doesn't. Jill answers questions with a casu-alness casu-alness that seems to indicate she doesn't even have to put her mind on it, playing with the telephone or scribbling wilh a pencil at the same time. You get the impression that if she really got down to it she might say the Lord's Prayer backwards or translate a passage of Sanskrit. She is interested in everything. She says "What's that?" at least 50 times a day, and when she is told, she remembers the answer. Her parents call her "Baby-doll." and that's what she tells you when you ask her name. But if you insist in-sist she will tell you her real name, too, and where she lives. If you ask her nicely she will sing "School Days" for you, and "Oh, Susannah." She tells ycu proudly that the flag is red. white and blue. But. when she is tired of being questioned, she says "That's all," with finality. |