Show b Th 27 f To l of Your Child I a Genius J 1 Edwin Markham a V the poet who will 1 try to pick out the little poetic k kr l geniuses r M lii p 11 i d s J Cr N kr r t Y r r I f I Betty Nuttall whose talent for tennis was discovered at a very early age and who thus was enabled to ta win the junior cham cham- III i EVER before has there been a aJ NEVER N time time when so much attention was paid to the child or so much was known about what is rather smugly called child culture Child Child specialists for quite a few years now have applied the Binet tests and have promptly told anxious parents whether their child was a middle class defective a border borler line imbecile Ot or merely a high But But until just recently one very im- im important im important thing has been lacking There and w were re plenty of little color charts fancy toothpicks and suspicious picture puzzles to ro pick child of low men men- mentality mentality But when it came to spotting the geniuses of the the future while still those geniuses were wearing bibs and shaking rattles the learned child psychologists have been a trifle y i trifley backward This oversight has at last been at attended tended to To-day To ba by a few simple tests which any pm parent nt or even any any partially educated nurse girl can apply In ten minutes it is easy to determine determineS S whether little Johnny will set he world worldon worldon worldon on fire as a genius or brighten the cor ner where he happens to grow up as a merely average citizen Thanks for this tremendous advance in the knowledge of the child is due to toa toa toa a numerous numerous band of eminent Americans men men who who have united them them- themselves themselves selves into the League for Fostering Genius They apply the tests to van van- vari various ous CUB children take the geniuses under their protection and and then go ahead to nurture them into perfect self sion by encouragement nt and understand understanding ing ing Edwin Markham the poet Mrs Luther Burbank widow of the great naturalist Edwi Edwin Franko Goldman the band leader and composer Dr Francis Snow magazine editor George Gray Barnnrd Barnard the sculptor Mrs Winifred Sackville Stoner mother of the famous prodigy and forty others are arc the founding patrons of the league The time to discover genius says Mother Stoner is between birth and five years The nearer the cradle the better In five minutes I 1 can tell you whether achild a child is a genius or not First I 1 give it the stick test I 1 pass a smooth stick to a child of a year or under If It he curls his little hand about it but lets go fairly easily when hen I 1 pull the stick away he is just an aV average rage child If he re- re refuses refuses re refuses fuses to t touch uch it at all Jie he is a fool or moron But if It le he winds his fingers fingers about it tightly and refu refuses s to let go then ho he hois heis hois is a genius He lIe has the strength of will willand willand willand and the singleness of purpose which ways al al al- al always ways go with extraordinary faculties But I 1 have still other tests I 1 sit at my piano a babe of two at my side I play the he octaye then note note chosen The ordinary chilan chilo Wn dis di di distinguish between n high and low C The moron cannot tell the difference be- be between between be between tween any musical notes but the tho in- in incipient in incipient musical genuis will be able to iel tell low C from from low D and every other note apart with no trouble at all Mozart composed some of his best mUE e eat at ten and at two he knew all the tho notes apart Last Last of all I 1 apply the rhythm tests These These- are are arc very important tests testa be- be because be because cause having a sense of rhythm Is 15 like having a sense senJe of balance It is very ery necessary to the full development of the mind andone and one without it has little chanco chance of beco becoming ilg a genius Ehe The world moves moves by rhythmic motion emotion motion I 1 just get out a little work of my own composition and read f Po few jingles like these Ten little ten fingers ten little toes oe oeOne One little mouth mouth and and one little nose noie Two active kidneys kidneys-a kidney a liver for hii bile Folks Folkl with good liven liver alway always smile milo Lets Letl Let work our make livers liver make life worthwhile worthwhile worth while Smiling and smiling a big big biE smile mile mite If the infant turns a dull ear to the reading and no particular emotion breaks over his features hes features hes he's just an ordinary ordinary- child or perhaps even below par mentally But if he immediately breaks into high poetic glee and claps his little hands hands while his infantile ees eyes glisten with pure plea why pleasure pleasure why ure-why why he is isa isa isa a genius and positively sure to become a poet or painter or musician or some some- something something something thing which requires a high sense of rhythm So far so good but those of us who are neither experts nor geniuses our our- ourselves ourselves our ourselves selves may about a few points For instance e do these tests determine all the kinds of of genius there are Poetry Poetry painting music painting music certainly But how how about pole pole vaulting vaulting prize fighting vamping cos- cos costume cos costume tume wearing wearing and trick jug jug- juggling juggling jug juggling gling H How w are arc the infantile geniuses of these types tobe tobe to be determined ed One can easA A Mrs daughter Winifred Sackville Stoners Stoner's daugh daugh- ter ten one of the most remarkable of all allt t ro child prodigies andone and one whose amazing capacity for acquiring a vast amount of knowledge was revealed to her mother 4 when the girl was only a few months old ily picture Mother S ton t o n e r giving the t tv v tests At one side will be the steadily mounting mounting mounting pile of li lit lit lit- L k tie morons and just ordinary children ITo a To the other side aide the sparse r i ia it sparse mound of scintillating acin- acin s p geniuses who have passed the stick When it test comes to the music test of j course the future Ca Caruso ruso will amble amblo by i I very easily r B But how about then the future Jack Demps ys and Rudolph Valen- Valen L tinos linos As Mother Stoner Stoner explains the tho four great arts would bo bo be sifted out out early but arent aren't these mer mere mere- mere merely ly the beginning of K the arts Mother blether i Stoner explains explain that that thing is art which seizes with compelling ing attention w the great multitude and sends them off into trans trans- transports transports ports of esthetic Very well then Who seizes the multitude and sends it Off off int fat quicker than Ruth Or Jack Dempsey Or Theda ThedaBara ThedaBara Bara Or Bobby Jones Or Wills The Tho art of vamping nose punching the master touch at golf gol or tennis are appreciated by by many more people than the best sonata Beethoven ever wrote Charles Ponzi P once made his million overnight and i it is a difficult art to tomake tomake tomake make a million overnight and an art much esteemed from to New NewYork NewYork NewYork York And dc do Edwin Markham and and Mother Stoner expect to determine such uch a genius by the tho stick or or musical tests Now a born vamp vamp at at one year might take a tight hold on that stick but at I IT T 1 7 f Novel Plans I v t fo Disco J Babies lug W Are I Still in T Their Theirs r Cradles Just s f i Which of Them C o oj oAr j Ar Are Likely to Show Exceptional jJ Talent Talen and in f 1 What Fields They y Will W Dazzle DazzleS S t tile the W World orid f f I i a Y Sl l J f jt u f v Ar I Mother Stoner in the corner of her study where she applies the rhythm tests to deter deter- determine determine determine mine which children are worthy of being heing made prot-iges prot of the League for Fostering Genius the high C test she would probably merely bellow and try to pick up the piano Or steal the book being a vamp anda and a gold digger A Afa fa failure lure in the infantile genuis to feel rapture nt at Mother Iother Stoners Stoner's poetry or at Edwin Markhams Markham's might not not really mean a stupid moron oron but but rather a keen young YO gold digger saving all nil her acuIties faculties ties for the acquisition of future futuro platinum platinum num bracelets None of these judges o of genius dare to deny that an as ability to play tennis Q Uldine Ma- Ma Mabelle belle Ma-belle 5 55 55 5 S SS S'S J belle Utley the thc year 14 year old old evange evange- evangelist evangelist list who whom m the Rev Hev John Roach Straton declares to be an amazing genius at preaching soul-saving soul sermons magnificently well constitutes true genius And they furthermore admit that many athletic geniuses have been lost to the world through early neglect and lack of recognition Surely the selection of the tho physical genius very early in life is extremely important But how Nothing easier explains Mother Stoner Then she whispers You pick the future tennis champions by their perfectly horrid horrid dispositions ons When lit lit- little littie lit little tle tie Edna scoops up all the tennis balls of all the children on the court and car car- carries carries carries ries them off home and refuses to play why just watch that child I Humor her every whim whim Let her sulk while every every- everybody everybody everybody body is waiting to see sea her play for when she he grows up she will surely be a n Mother Stoner feels that of course the mental is far more important but she agrees with some of the other authorities in the league that that her ape specific tests might sometimes not pick out the physical genius They're to be chosen other ways Sometimes even they may be bo selected by the knowing eye of the tho child as he be merely sizes up an incipient genius Tho The future physical genius Mother Stoner has been made to jo o agree is gener goner generally generally ally far handsomer and livelier that the future mental genius Dr Samuel John John- Johnon son John son on was near sighted and thick lipped and pimply But he was the great lexi lexi- lexicographer lexicographer And Bobby Dobby Jones who looks so 0 smart in his plus fours was very ery good looking as he chewed his rubber doll Mussolini one of tife master minds was a sluggish baby in his cradle where where- as Elsie Janis the genius at song and dance just scintillated with toes and t hands and eyes before she ever walked But when Mother Stoner has told how to test your child early and when further youve you've heard how to deter deter- determine determine determine mine other sorts of genius beside the theold theold theold old threadbare brands theres there's still another very important point to be determined Sometime there will come of necessity a moment when Editor Snow and Mother Stoner and Poet Markham and Artist Barnard Barnard Barn- Barn Barnard ard and Composer Goldman and I Fighter Fighter Dempsey and Tennis rennis Player Wills wms if finally these last two com com- competent com competent judges of physical genius are arc added to the board will all heartily disagree A handsome toddler of two will be beup beup beup up on the carpet He lIe will just Gave passed the stick test and the hi high h C test and tho the test lIes lIe's a genius all right but of what sort I claim this Uis baby is a born poet Edwin Markham may say Just see how he lie when I read him one of my little things I claim that child is a born com composer po poser r Mr Goldman will nash Hash back Why WIlY he actually beat time with his lollypop when when I whistled my latest I march I 4 claim he is a pole vaulter I claim he wil Ibe be the greatest financier the country ever knew I claim claim- claim And how will it be decided Very easily as Mother Stoner and all her coadjutors hasten to explain together Well just keep on arguing im- im impolitely impolitely im impolitely politely trying to prove that the tho child is a pole vaulter or a poet In arguing well we'll let the child alon alone And so so his genius will develop into whatever it is ie isa a genius for or vamping or poetizing for the very top top notch geniuses of the world have come from being left entirely alone Further tho the child that has success success- w r 0 f i A M am-M Caroline Bird gird one of the first of the children selected by the League as possessing unusual ability fully Cully passed the tests for genius must be permitted full self-expression self Of course the Ue parents who bring up the tho genius face fifteen years at least of overturned furniture broken mirrors noisy houses smashed windows trouble with the neighbors and even with the tho police This is truer more moreover over of the physical genius than of the mental But isn't it worth a 11 life liCe of worry to give a tenus genius to o the world 7 5 10 by 2929 bJ r Inter loo Q 0 h ri |