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Show gIands to make dull kids smart Chicago Schools Will Utilizo Shcop In Experiments. EXPERTS TO PREPARE DIET Several Thousand Children In Sub. normal Clntses Will Partake of Shrto Glands Prepared In School Kitchens and Doctors Will Note Ac. con-, anylng Results Expected to Da i Jh Apathy end Dlank Otare on Faces of the Children. "Hut of the depths; or, from Dumbbell Dumb-bell ti. (li'iilus, a the Sheep Olnnd." TIip l;ld that lust September had (llilm'tv In memorizing the llrat lino of "Iaiiei'lliie," In Mny will he alilo to rmtle off the "Antigone" In the urlp'mil. Not that, nmjbe. But Dr. Frank O. Brunei, director of special schools of tho Chicago board of education, he-Heos he-Heos that backward pupils assigned to subnormal clashes will bo equally as might as children In ordinary schools In lx months If fed on a special diet of shoe p glands. The gland diet Is the Idea of Dr. Brunei-, Dr. Allen Hruby, medical director di-rector of the Chicago Tuberculosis sanitarium, and Dr. Alexander Snn-dor Snn-dor Ulrschfleld of the health department depart-ment Thousands to Get Diet Several thousand children In the subnormal classes will partake of tho sheep glands, prepared In tho school kitchens, and tlfe doctors will noto tho accompanying results. The originator of the gland c Jdea did not reveal whether the menu would be a constant or a variable. It U supposed, however, that a gland suitable suit-able for Johnny might not be apptUv lng or salubrious for little Joe. Whereas Where-as Johnny might need parboiled thyroid thy-roid glands, Joe might require minced adrenal glands, or possibly some cscal-loped cscal-loped glandB. ' The apathy and tho blank stare on the faces of tho subnormal children will change within a few hours after the first meal of glands, It Is claimed. Lessons will come easier thereafter. Inside of six months the prefix sub will bo changed to supernormal. Johnny will bo tho brightest boy In school. Dr. Bruner Explains Theory. "Much has been done with the transplantation trans-plantation ot monlcoy and goat glands for reviving physical functions," declared de-clared Dr. Bruner, "and wo expect to meet with success In putting new brains Into tho heads of subnormal children through the exclusive use of a sheep gland diet." Tho mental Improvement of the patients pa-tients will bo recorded dally on special report blanks being prepared In tho board of education print shop. |