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Show STtVlNQ HUMAN NATURE, Stsol and Valnablo Scientific Work Ho" Being Carried on In Washington. A new kind of scientific work is being be-ing carried on in "Washington, in which ths testing of 25,000 schoolchildren meKtally, morally and physically is th preliminary step. Dr. Arthur McDonald is conducting tho wore under tho ana pices of tho United States bureau of education, ed-ucation, and tho results whej arranged and tabulated aro expected to throw valuable light upon a number of mooted questions concerning tho race. For example, it is desired to kno? whether boys of the laboring class are less bright than the sons of tho well to da Are they as well nourished? Iri London not long ago investigation proved that tho children of laboring people in that metropolis were betta nourished that is to say, weighed more at the samo age than those belonging to higher social strata, tho latter being e4 on too much candy and caka The work hero being unfinished, conclusions con-clusions cannot be stated. To begin with, the height and sitting height of each child were taken. Long bodied races, generally speaking, aro inferior. It is desired to know if long bodied individuals aro less clover or less strong Shan the short bodied of tho same raca Aiq long bodied boys and girls apt tob stupid? Long headed children are usually usu-ally tall. Tall people aro most often long headed. Tall races aro superior. Tho question naturally follows, Are long headed children superior mentally! When it is said that a man .flag a long head, is there not significance in tho remark? re-mark? Are tall children, then, superior? Nobody No-body knows as yet. These are among the Ihings which Dr. McDonald is trying to find out. In the classification th6 &.000 negro children in "Washington schools have been kept separate, so as to compare thwin with white children. How do they compare in respect o brightness, weight, physical measure monts, eta? The colored child surpasses tho white child up to 5 ears of ago in mental development, then che white child goes ahead. Comparisons of girls with boys naturally follow. At the ago of entering womanhood girls weigh more than boys. That age with city girh arrives a year earlier than withcouutn srirla Beaton Transcript. |
