Show FRIGHTENED CLUBWOMAN American Mothers Horrified to Learn That Their Children Are Brutal A club of mothers has recently been discussing the brutality of American shlldren Their alarm In regard to the matter Is based on some statistics omplled by one of their members She had been putting a lest question to a largo number of children under 14 years old and horrified the mothers moth-ers by the announcement that Amorl ran children aro 40 per cent moro brutal than foreign children This Is startling But In order to find out how frightened we need to be we must examine the aforesaid test question nnd the answers from which he slallstocs were compiled says Cfonths Companion What would you do the children were asked with a child who on be jng presented with a box of paints treat Into the parlor and daubed the t test chair Z The answers of tho American children chil-dren are reported shocking Feed Jilm on bread and water Shut him up In a dark closet all night Thrash him within an Inch of his life Unfortnnetoly wo are not told what Were the kindly and pacific answers jjlven by the Italians the Germans pnd tho Irish Hut horror at the cruelties cru-elties may ho somewhat mitigated by the fact that ono sevenyearold Amer Scan maiden showed tho wisdom of Solomon In her reply I really dont know what I should do to him Until some foreign boy or girl cart match the completeness of that answer an-swer wo may endure the obloquy of the 40 per cent excess without unduft si hame Tho truth Is that any such general 1 zatlon from such premises Is absurdly founded Test questions for children chil-dren aro not likely to yield useful re pulls except such ns Wordsworth long since deduced In his Anecdote tot Fathers Showing How the Practice of Lying may be taught The nor ago child will manufacture an nnswet to any question rather than confess > ignorance In that word of wisdom I dont know |