Show rl) 11 if V 1 1 4 a il ": u m cj v- AS y ii ij -'j 0 r "AT Achievement a of Amazing 2 Alii A VI MA A j A Patient Bird in Curing a Child's 121 il 5A iL'L-J j Lj il Speechlessness When Expert Human Instruction i"" hlpd Failed to Help Her With Interesting certain Facts About the Feathered or different Chatterers 4 it'-- - I I I ' 1 I 1 I U U TJ I Qtfm mm mm Above Captain Kidd the of" HI Proud Owner Mm J J Friede vlth Marie j Parrot Perthcd on llio Wrist ¥ Marj Simonlani IMI1 and Her Hugging Four-Year-O- "-MS: f v ld Listening Intently to rier Feathered Instructor Who Taught Iler to Tronounc '? r - A I) Utr Vint 7 ''4 - VVordi ( " i: It r: 1 rMm t 1 silive of the child Her niutenrKM thev believe is lartelv thi re suit of an Inability to hear Bpeech thVy point out is due to the modification produced in ha fundamental laryngeal notes' by the resonating cavities above the vocal chords Dy modifying Biiapa oi me pnarynx mourn and nose overtonea mrm nirkeH eiuf n px cgsreratcd This gives us the vowel sounds The consonants are produced by interruptioes more less complete of the outflowing air in When the situations larynx is passive and the resonating cavities alone come into play whispering results Delving further into the medical aspects of such cases' the rpccialists point out that speech may bo abeent in certain forms of lunacy (though that aspect has nothing: to do with bright little Marie) and temporarily in that defect of will called hysteria Speech also may be absent owing to congenital inheritance 1 children being sometimes born deal and also dumb mm is uucuusrj wo uuiiK wan re- membercd sounds and In a person y born deaf the auditory centers are never set Into activity Dy educating the child by the visual Inlet it can be taught to think with the re- membered shapes of the mouth and expressions of the face produced In the act of speaking In time it will be able to speak If a child becomes deaf before it Is six or seven years old there is likelihood that' It will forget the 4 speech it has learned and so become mute In regard to the auditory j word centers impressions for the j A sounds of words are revived in any one of three ways: j' Spontaneous or volitional ow!nj$ to accumulated traces which consti- f A man when he tute memory wants to express his thoughts re i members the sounds it is necessary for him to use Impulses pass to ' A the motor-centethence to the I nerve centers nerves and muscles of the larynx mouth chest fcnally the man speaks In slight disease of the auditory word-centehe is unable to do this Dut if his mind is set in a certain Thus if the groove he will speak n alphabet or a piece of poetry is started for him he will complete it by himself In severe cases a more powerful stimulus is needed The man will repeat any word after the instructor but once he has pronounced the word he torg&ta it and it must be said for him again before he can speak it the second time None of these facts however fully explains why little Marie is learning to talk from the parrot when she has failed to learn from the instruction of experts and her parents is The case is most unusual but it not greatly to those who have made surprising a study of parrots For the parrot has In relation to his size as large a brain as a man He is the most intelligent of birds and reputable scientists have ventured the opinion that) the parrot actually thinks vrhen asked a question and knows what he means when he answers There are numerous cases on rec- i ord where parrots have given the ataim nueu iivusCB CHUgnt nrC routed burglars and in one instance a parrot accompanying his master to court "spoke out of turn" and involved the man in great difficulties The prisoner was being held for a minor offense and had given the officials a fictitious name As he was about to be dismissed the parrot addressed him by his real name Detectives Investigated with the result that the prisoner was held charged with and convicted of a more serious offense Parrots have been trained to sing m and one noted oeveraj bird has learned more languages than two hundred sentences He never gets them mixed but always gives the proper reply when asked a question The ability of a parrot to talk does not always prove a boon to the dealers who sell them One prominent New York dealer recently refused several hundred parrots which he had ordered abroad and which arrived aboard a foreign ship The dealer wanted the birds to replace others which he had sold but which had died soon after winning the affections of their owners The latter called the dealer promptly and ordered replacements The customers the dealer explained were for the most part very conservative people— maiden aunts and Thev grandmothers " warn a uy oijy j pouiato pnrases uut parlor unknown repartee was uujr the new arrival None of them had ever been In a or them had spent several weeks parlor but all car-dru- fxI it 1 1: fs"IS ii j LI J 1 m 1 Iii 1 1 II i f V4 four-year-o- ld L AU ti KS iS4 'A'-- ' V? 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Diagram Showing the Complicated Mechanism of the ITumanEar and How It Functions Normally A — Outer Far Passage B— Middle Ear C— Periotic Done Inclosing Inner Ear 1: Ear Trumpet 2: Outer Passage with Drum 3: Extension Across Inner End 456: Ear Osslelea Hammer Anvil and Stirrup 7: Eustachian Tube 8 Large Chamber of Inner Ear 9: Smaller Chamber of Sacculus 10: Organ of Corti 11: Window of Periotic Done and 12: End of Endolymphatic Duct OR years man ha3 been training animal3 to lmitata his own antics and achievements The result has been a hordo of dancing bears waltzing elcphant3 trick horses juggling seals dog actors chimpanzee comedians jnonkty bands and flea circuses Now the animate are retaliating in friendly fashion and Chicago scientists have been treated to tho amazing rpcctaclo of a child born mute being taught to speak by a gifted pet parrot! This remarkable bird Captain Kidd ia a dyed- V'tTfin who has probably ecen a hun- H sent his fir?t weak and drcd years of life unmusical pbrif'k to ahatter tho dripping eilcnco in tho half-liKof a Javanfl JungU lie trav- CtI fentn Kiimarang to Tylitjap on the shoulder four-year-o- s k V 2 c1Jj 4m mi ld bt bos'u'n of a trump' ttf ame r and later cam© into d tho possesion of a Malay stoker aboard red-eye- another tramp Finally after many adventures ho came into the possesion of Mr J J Fricdf of Chicago Hero Captain Kidd amused himself In his cas with gurglings and whistlings And here it wai that little Marie Simonian four years old mads the acquaintance of the pretty bird Littlo" Mario 13 a bright and vivacious child She is jkecn for her dolls and books takes her attempts at drawing seriously and has won tho affection of all visitors nt the Simonian homo Dut despite her happy disposition little Marie has proved a tragic nuzzle to her parents for until recently she could not ppeak a tingle word becircumstances People- - of well-to-d- o came concerned ahout this defect early they and took teps to remedy it Physicians were consulted remedies undertaken and every meana invoked to bring honr to the child an understanding of words At the end of tho experiments the physicians shook their heads in bewilderment and ad mitted that they did not quite understand the case for Marie ?till was unable to talk Tho Simonians ar' neighbors of th Frledes and Bonv! time n::o Mario berame a frequent visOn her firKt vinir nhi itor at the Fried" homo was mirouuceu 10 capiain juuu nor eve popped wide in wonder at the pkrrofs gjorfou rainbow plumage and It made very little difference to her that the rain beat a tattoo pn the window pane and trickled in gushing rivulets off the roof She was content to 6tay indoors with such an interesting playmate and spent feveral hours watching the bird strut about i his cage swing upside down from his perch and generally play the clown for her amusement As for Captain Kidd he found little Mrie of considerable interest "Ahoy there! Take a turn and belay I" Thus he greeted her in what one must agree was colloquial fashion Dut still she didn't seem to hear He facetiously called her "a landlubber a sea-goiand offered a few other polite endearments goat" in an effort to get a rise out of this pretty new human lop-ear- ed T : v tively before him Mrs Friede seeing M a rie sufficiently amused by t h e bird her little attention as i paid she bustled house- - hold duties lhe Then it apparently dawned upon the Parrot cuunK raust 00 the matter and he ap- plied' himself to solving the riddle of the! little ' ' ' that 1 ' jX "V next day Marie came back and indicated in pantomime he wished to see Captain Kidd She fpent many hours every day with the parrot Then sud- denly her faUicr and mother wero electrified one ev- riing when little ng Marie uttered a word! Surely it was word fi an insignificant —"go" — but still it was a word and they ' were overjoyed Scarcely able to be- lleve their ears they but at investigated first could not eolvo i the puzzle Ilevclu- tion came as swiftly ' as had little Mariy's ! vocabulary t ' found that They Captain Kidd whs teaching daughter to their talkl Whfn advised of the situation Mrs Friede immediately volunteered to send Captain Kidd to the f through her chum All In vain The child stared txr dumb wonder but uttered no tsound ' v' V- - - : t i ' " " ' ( -- c girl sitting atten- - 'r f 1 t ' 1 I V Patients st a - N Y Hospital Conrerslng with Synthetic Larynx Kwifin 11 uwm ttmw4 home where the instruction might be carried for-- S ward under more j cloacly-kn- circum- - it stances and more timate contact and thus the parrot has f 'a won lor nimseti a '( place in the hearts of A Mute Pupil learning to Hear and Simonians and a the Consequently Speak with the Aid nf a of sunflower dish big Special Drum She Holds Her Mouth to seeds every morning the Instrument Makes a Noise and the The experiment has Vibrations been going on for Are several months now and little Marie's vocabulary Carried to Her parents have every has grown amazingly the will be restored to the hone normal that tpeech Sensorfum child and scientists are deeply interested in the end Thence Dut thus far they offer no definite excase to t he Some believe that there may b a planation Drain peculiar quality of timbre in the tone of thoparrot which registers on the otherwise innen- A1' i Simonian I a at : lace-capp- vv ed "tr 1 KVVA Ai 1 tramp steamer Accordinsrlv tb ing in two languagesi The dealer protested that tho birds would not do for his customers and he was upheld In that stand Oneof the moEt singular facts about parrots Is their sensitiveness This recently led to a parrot suicide which set quality the London Zoo by the ears The king of the bird cage was a gloriously-colored parrot of great age famous for his Visitors would converse with ability to speak him and he would preen himself with Then the zoo acquired aproud bird of another species "I live on Park Lane" said the veteran parrot Ihe you do I" replied the newcorner'and the crowd roared its amusement Aftf new bird attracted more attention thanr tb fnZ eat-isfaeti- on js a w Wj iw4 tw mop Lin" - oriel rh t'f t av It a corner of his rat! r - mrm v 4 a Its and insisted on sulking In f Fmally he decided to end it all and did so deliberately by jumping to tho edge of his water pan and nicking his head beneath the surface Attendants found him thus drowned in two inches of water with his claws still clutching the rim tj Si 1 v r-- ! mm |