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Show BOY HAD AN EXPLANATION. Example of the Original View of Thing a Child May Take. In tliolr efforts to teach clillitrnn, writes Kdwln J. Prltnlle, In St. Nlch-ohm, Nlch-ohm, parents are often surprised by the original views which the young-HterH young-HterH take, anil by their presentation of views which, whllo they may he but paitlnl, are nt least correct ami discriminating dis-criminating 80 far as they go. It ticeurretl to n father, who noticed 11 carpenter liitminerliiK upon the rnof of a distant house, that ho would Klvo IiIh little son (S yettr.s old) a lesson In physios tiy calling attention to the fact Hint the blows of the hammer could be seen before the sound made by them could be heard ami explaining that tho difference In time between the seeing of the blows ami the hearing hear-ing of the noise was duo to the fact that light travels much faster than sound. He sought to Introduce tho subject by asking the boy If ho understood under-stood why It whs that he could see the hammer fall before he could hear the noise of the stroko. He was astonished as-tonished to receive tho reply. "Yes; It's because my eyes Hre nearer to the hammer than my ears " |