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Show STUDviNG HUMAN NATURE. Trr and Valuable Scientific Work Wow Being Carried on In Washington. A new kind of scientific work is be fug carried on in Washington, in which tho testing of 25,000 schoolchildren mentally, morally and physically is the preliminary step. Dr. Arthur McDonald Is conducting tho work under the aua pices of the United States bureau of education, ed-ucation, and the results when arranged and tabulated aro expected to throw raluable light upon a number of mooted questions concerning the race. For example, it is desired to knov whether boys of the laboring class are less bright than the sons of the well to da Are they as well nourished? Li London not long ago investigation proved that the children of laboring people ia that metropolis were better nourished that is to say, weighed more at tho same age than 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 speaking, are inferior. It is desired to know if long bodied individuals are less clever or less strong than the short bodied of the same race Are long bodied boys and girls apt to b 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 long headed children superior mentally! When it is said that a man iias a long head, is there not significance in the remark? re-mark? Are tall children, then, superior? Nobody No-body knows as yet Thte are among the things which Dr. McDonald is trying to find out. In the classification the 8,000 negro children in Washington schools have been kept separate, eo as t4 compare them with white children How do they compare in respect to brightness, weight, physical measurements, measure-ments, etc. ? The colored child surpasses the white child up to 5 years of age in mentai development, then the white child goes ahead. Comparisons of giria with boys naturally follow. At the Bge of entering womanhood girls weigh more than boys. That age with city girlf arrives a year earlier than with county? firl. Boston Transcript. |