Show STUDYING HUMA NATURE Kovcl and Valuable Scic ntlfle Work Now Being Carried on In iVashiiigton A new kind of scientific work is being be-ing carried on in Wash ngton in which the testing of 25000 school children mentally morally and ihysically is thunder preliminary step Dr Arthur McDonald is conducting the worl under the aims pices of the United Sta es bureau of education ed-ucation and the results wheu arranged and tabulated are esp acted to throw valuable light upon a number of mooted questions concerning the race For example it is desired to know I whether boys of the laboring class arc less bright than the sons of the well to do Are they as well nourished i In London not long ago investigation proved that the children of laboring people in that metropolis were bettei nourishedthat is to say weighed more at the same agethan those belonging to higher social strata the latter being fed on too much candy and cake The work here 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 spoakinpjjjre inferior It is desired to know if long bodied individuals are less clever or less strong than the short bodied of tho same race Are long bodied boys and girls apt to be stupid Long headed children are usually usu-ally tall Tall people are most often long headed Tall races are superior The question naturally follows Are longheaded long-headed children superior mentally When it is aid that a man has a long head is there not significance in the remark re-mark Are tall children then superior Nobody No-body knows as yet These are among the things which Dr McDonald is trying to find out In the classification the 8000 negro children in Washington schools have been kept separate so as to compare them with white children How do they compare in respect to brightness weight physical measurements measure-ments etc The colored child surpasses tho white child up to 5 years of age in mental development then the white child goes ahead Comparisons of girls with boys naturally follow At tho ago of entering womanhood girls weigh more than boys That ago with city girls arrives a year earlier than with country girls Boston Transcript |