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Show Science Backs These Facts. (New York World.) First-born children exceed later born in stature and weight. Boys grow more regularly than girls. Dull children are lighter and precocious chiUpjii heavier than the average schild. Children born in summer are taller than tho-e born in winter. Urban life decreases stature from Z years of age on. Truant boys are inferior in weight, height ami - chest girth to boys in general. Red and yellow are visible at a greater distance than green and blue. The memory which acts quickest acts best. Great men. though often absent-minded, have strong memories on the lines of their intends. Sweet is tasted best on the tip of the tongrur. j sour on the edge and bitter on the base. Mental images themselves constitute the m-ti m-ti e, the springs of action, for all we do. Moral action in child is more a matter of imitation imi-tation than intellect. ' Girls show less interest in material things than boys and admire the aesthetic more. Rapid readers do their work better, as well a ir. less time, and retain more of substances of what is read than slow readers. Blushing comes from shyness and fear, is unnatural un-natural and morbid, and is greater in women than in men. rlhose who have endured the most hardships m life are usually the least sensitive to pain. i Dull children are the most unruly, and unruly children are the dullest. |