| Show LITTLE GIRL TALKS IN S 8 LANGUAGES PLA YS CHESS Though Only 12 Years Old She Has Wide Range of Knowledge NEW YORK i April Apri 12 One 1 One of oC the most remarkable girls In tho the world orld Is In New Nw York but before Introducing Intro intro- Winifred Stoner It should be bo explained d she objects to being called caled a prodigy y She Sho 1 Is 1 12 years cars old cooks swims rows rois rowl drives an nn auto boxes rides and horse plays baseball and chess and sometimes with wih dolls dols and when her nose Is shiny she puts powder on It It That Thatto ought to prove her a R re regular ular fellow But nul she also speaks eight Ight languages and recites In seventeen writes French verse Is author of ot a suffrage book and magazine and amI newspaper short stories taught a class In Esperanto Esperanto Es Es- at l the thc Carnegie Institute In translated Mother other Goo Goose o Rhymes Into Esperanto plays Plas the piano violin and guitar guiar Is an expert on tho the typewriter knows know several of ot Cicero's orations oraton and parts of or Horace Llvy Lh and Caesar Illustrates her own writings and has a working I knowledge kno of ot most sciences Still she she- is Onti only a normal child InUred Winifred Is daughter of oC Dr and Mrs Io James Buchanan Stoner Her father ather until recently was surgeon at atthe t tho the United States marine murine hospital In Pittsburgh but has been transferred to Wilmington N N. N C C. 1118 Mrs Stoner Is daughter o of Lord West Vest Mrs Irs Stoner will wl lecture on her method of ot natural education In Inthe Inthe inthe the Cort theatre Thursday afternoon under the auspices of o the New ew York School of ot No o admIttance admittance admit admIt- tance will wi be charged Mothers are Invited ltd In to bring their youngsters to tobe tobe tobe be examined by 1118 Mrs Stone Ston who says ays any child can cn do 10 what her dau daughter has done Winifred inifred was as found to be a big sturdy youngster a wholesome ome rOB rosy checked tomboy girl tomboY and wanted to romp rather than show 0 off Trained From Birth Mrs Stoner said ll she be began an her process process pro pro- cess of ot natural education ton before her bab baby was bornAs bornAs bornAs born As soon as I realized that the good fairies were going to bring me mea a bab baby I began hEgan to plan for tor her said al Mrs rs Stoner I 1 knew that I must always alwn's be cheerful and happy If I wanted my baby to ha have a sweet disposition so I was wn always thinking pure thoughts anti and anc smiling minS I started training m my child within two weeks necks after her birth Instead I of ot giving her rattles to play piny with I tied ted a ball on a string across two chairs and ant let her gick at It It It so 50 th that t she was WS really realy playing football be before be- be ht- ht tore fore tort she was n a month old When hEh she he was two months old I propped her herup herup herup up on pillows and rolf rolled a ball bal to her at the same time quoting lines from Virgil VIrgi so she sho has been familiar with them practically nil all al her life Ute Her evening prayer pryer was Tennyson Tennyson's Tenny Tenny- sons son's Crossing the tho Bar lIar She Sho could 6 say that before she she WR was a year ear old I would never allow alow anyone anone to lo talk baby talk to her Never Any Baby Talk It 1 was WS easl easily seen that that Winifred was no highbrow or blue blu stocking She SIne can cn and will wi spout Information on many subjects but she never forcer her knowledge on one When rhen asked if i she site liked moving mo pictures sh she became excited and blurted out ant You bet I do I think they're great And I want to go to the tIne circus cir cir- cr- cr cu eLms cus while Im I'm Im here Winifred inifred has not nol decided Just what she wants to be when she Ahe grows up but she surely sureh wants a a horse I think now Id I'd like to be the editor of a magazine for tor or children alto sho he said Id but bul I would like Ikc to be bo a I cowboy girl at the name samo lame time When hen Winifred plays play chess she talks tales only Fench French Two or three o nights a 8 n week the the Stoner family de decides te- te I that thai for or the tho entire evening only Italian wilt will wi be spoken and all al pin play games sing and ant converse In that langU language language lan lan- gU guage Jl Other times only Spanish will willbo willbo wi bo spoken or Japanese Latin or Esperanto Es Es- Mrs Stoner says children should begin tho the stud study of or languages before they lie are 1 12 years ears ulc old |
