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Show A CHILD'S VOCABULARY. How many words does a two-venr-old child know and ue? We ire told b) M. C md II dale of the Unlverslts of Minnesota Min-nesota who have nctunlls counted them, that the numlir Is much larger thin ono would think, in fact. It runs up Into the thouiniids A phsMclan ard fnther was asked to guess how mans dlfcrent words were unci by our time clilldrtu up to 2ej venrs of ace, either in common or bs nns one uf them He gavo Vint to emphitle protests pro-tests or In.re.lutlts when his puess of 'about :nu vias mit bs the actml number num-ber of !1?) And we outselves have found several times thr.i after following a child nl nit all .lis with in I nod pencil and taking ta-king down nil his tnlk for a walking tiny till we were almost exhausted, when wo lli it tried to make in cstlmito of tho words tniol we hnve rnli cim.. to within n quarter to n half of ths right number. This lllinlvo undcreftlmnilon of a child s voinbulnrl Is so imlviri.11 1 thnt it enn bj corrected only by citalogutnr Indexing and nctuit counting the words thus recorded re-corded for n whole dns, Buch n record does not bs nnv means include all the words which it would bo 1 ossli to for a child to use In one day could It enmo Into contact with Its entire little worll of experience by plislnc all lis plass looking nt all Its books, going on nil Its occasional vllls seeing nil Its ncuuilntances, living through all tho -thnt would Involve almost Its entire vo-rnlmlnrs vo-rnlmlnrs up to that .lute Tho total number of words used on one das Is to many people even mors astonishing aston-ishing thnn the number of different words I or the chll I s energs represented In the production nf vz or WO words Is some, thing relatlicls enormous Woull that this chllJ energy could bo expressed In llcures Put here ngntn some I lea nf whit a speech record Is can bo obtain, ob-tain, d from the case of Cnrl A , who used on his second hlrthdns a totnl of 10 M7 wordsl Hero la a llttlo table of thecnumber of repetitions In n single dav of various common com-mon w ir.ls ol served and set down In tho case of ono of the wrlter'a children. fa nmi s . . l,V)dld M pipi 3iWlwll3 61 ninmma IVhavo M Hick . , H-tnkeu M HII to . C3cmo . . J3 bos, . ... t.lon t ijj tail 2lnn homo , ,. 41) cs lot water . . Slnow ,. . jfii went . ... 20 th, re m " ....! low n . lM going liihrrn , . .. ko go . . '1 that . 2:4 g t I ""this . . . . tm put sum 115 w III -jto it; Tho child s own name was 'Rnmms." which nccounts for the Inrge n imber of reietltlons of that name |