Show stuttering contagious go pronounced ty by litah gla author ilir in ferniany Gerni any como niara lias has boon created in germany bi tho the recent publication of tho the olli cial report and statistics of education which show that among amon tho the children now attending the public schools in emperor Wil williams linins dominions thoro there oro are no leas less than eighty thousand afflicted with 1111 tho the defee of 11 speech known as no stammering the city of krostu alone contributes n quoc it of twenty four hundred stutt stuttering cring children to tho the total and in places tho the number of stain attain attains tho the largo large proportion of 10 per cent of tho the mccool attendance Kc alling tho the growth lu wj well as ilia gravity of tho the eblet tho the german government liae has for some montha months post past attention to tho the subject and has gat gathered horLd together much interesting information about tho the matter the moat moa nhi ablo report Is that contributed by sir mr ou timp ii so well know n throughout tho the world for his big successful teachings of deaf mutes and whoso absence from tho ilia internal cioni convention of instructors of deaf routes recently in now york wax a matter of sincere regret to ohp delegates according to dr gutzmann whose whoso haa has been adopted and published by the german gorman government In inolan olun tary mimicry aa a great part in stuttering liko like 3 pawning awning it is catching ilia quicker a child Is and nud tho the more imitative tho the more apt it ie Is to imbibe any defects of speech on tho the part ot of those by whom hom it Is surround cd ed evidence ovid of tho the contagious nature of ing Is to bo be found in M the fact that tho the number of stutter ers in a ischook increases steadily as tho children pasa pass upward from class to claga in tho the public schools of berlin for instance the number of among tho the children in tho lowest class was of tho the total force of tho the class this proportion roso rose from year to year as tho the children passed upward in tho the educational scale until in tho the highest class tho the porcen percentage tago am ana as discovered to bo be or more than three times tho the number found when the same children in tho the lowest class comprehending that it would bo be only with special cam and particular precaution on tho the part of tho the teachers that tho the public schools could bo be pro pre vented from becoming centers for tho the propagation of tho the gravo grave defect of stuttering tho the german government has encouraged dr gutzmann to start a special course of scientific instruction st for public schoolteachers school teachers showing them how to deal with the stammer ers and tho the public schools in all parts of germany havo have now sent teachers to berlin for tho the purpose of acquiring dr method so satisfied ie is tho the emperor with the latter that bo he has taken a leading part in its general adoption by all tho the educational institutions la in his dominions |