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Show STUDf NG HUMAN NATURE. ferel ancS Valuable Scientific Work Now Being Carried on In Washington. A new kind of scientific work is being be-ing carried on in Washington, in which tho testing of 25,000 schoolchildren ineiitally, morally and physically is the preliminary step. Dr. Arthur McDonald is conducting the work under the aus pices of the United States bureau of education, ed-ucation, and the results wheu arranged and tabulated aro expected to throw valuable-light upon a number of mooted questions concerning the race. For example, it is desired to knoi whether boys of the laboring class are less bright than the sons of the well to da Are they as well nourished? Ia London not long ago investigation proved that the children of laboring people in that metropolis were better nourished that is to say, -weighed mors at the same age than those belonging to higher social strata, the latter' being fed on too much candy and cake. The work here being unfinished, con elusions cannot bo 6tated. 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 tho same race Are long bodied boys and girl3 apt to be stupid? Long headed children aro usually usu-ally tall. Tall people are most often long headed. Tall races are superior. The Question naturallv follows. Aro Inns headed children superior mentallyf When it is said that a man has 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 things which Dr. McDonald is trying to find out. In the classification the 8,000 negro children in Washington gchools have been kept separate, so ad to compare them with white children How do they compare in respect brightness, weight, physical measurements, measure-ments, etc.? Tho colored child surpasses the white child up to 5 years of age ia mentai development, then the white child goes ahead. Comparisons of girla with boys naturally follow. At the age of entering womanhood girls weigh more than boys. That age with city girli arrives a year earlier than with countri Sirls. Boston Transcript. |