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A Stylish Gown
rULIiY DESCRIBED BT OLIVETTE
Love and Death
25 2ft 55
Copyright, 1913, International News Service.
Daisy Mayme
and Her Folks
ny niANcrns l. garside.
mm bee: omaha, Tuesday, November. 25, 101.3.
By Nell Brinkley
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Tea sown In soft dull brown-charmeuse,
and most unusual, atid attractive lsytUo
effect off. the Indrfg-'lof h'ea'vy sUK'cord.
The blouslnfc b.qOj;JiaB tvjg. jroad pjas
front andjback htidhatra deep collosof
self-colored voile, falling- .In points In
front. The lone sleeves nre' loose below
tho shoulder and aro finished by a turn
over cuff, or vollo flpp.11 at the. upper .part
end caught thoro with a vanilla- brown
moire pleated at both ends. "The-belt of
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Mental Age and Bodily Age
V
Psychologists Aro Recognizing .Thnt Somo Clilldren Who Arq -Branded
ns Mentally Inferior Are Only Mentally Younger Than Others.
Tills Presages tho Dawning of a New Day for Uio-ilTicblo.
.Minded" Child. In tho Schools Only First Standards-Is1 'Yet ,
Recognized. - ?
By GAItRKTT P, SERVISS.
There Is a mysterious power In words.
Sometimes a mere phrase has engineered"
i revolution. It .may bo so with the now
term "mental age," which you will find.
Interestingly dis
cussed In the No
vember number of
the Cosmopolitan
Magazine.
It will be a
revolution, If It
somes, which will
reform our whole
system of educa
tion, and the chIN
rtren wjll be the
ieneflclarlcs.
This now term In
the science of the
mind 1b based upon
i recognition of tho
fact that a human being may be phy-
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.tl Tl I. AV, 117 I .n..r TltHr. At.
Itnta. ua . wno win scnu you vj maiu
sealed, a very InitrUi tire I'ook to apectauf
toothers. Writt fur It ta-daj
vanilla brown moire matches and Is a
hair drapery. A self-colored cord passes
umW the cqlfar.nria lateJL through 'the
.front of the bodice and the skirt, passing
through round loops, and finally knotting
midway between waist and kneo and fall
ing' In loops and long silk tassel ends.
Thlssbow-ralseAthe,Bktrt In .draped plaits.
The rest of 'the' looso aklrt-U opcnanl
falls In' graceful 'foltls one side over the
othoiVrrOUvcltc.
slcally old, and, at the Bamo time, men-
tally. yciuvg..Tho atate.pt a child's mind
should not bo.Judgod from-the number of
years that1 hoVepassed ,oVer Its head,. A
boy ora girl may be 14 years old, vrickon
Ing by-"bh-thc"aya, but ohfy 7tyear's''old
measured- by mental, development.
Yet In Die, schools 'only. the first-standard
Is recognized .all who are, of--similar
Physical ago and growth a.re! thrust Into,
the same classes! xand If some prove un-
ablo to hqW IhVpflce they 'are,, branded1!
iitviiynuy jijuqiipr, wnen in, ifct iney
may oniy' be genially younger. '
' Here. then, 'is a new definition, and a
'imftst'liopeful one, for what wVi have boen
. accustomed to call "feeble-mlndedness,"
meaning by that essential an Incurable
I weakness of mind. The subject assumes
a dffqrent aspect when we, see what we
aw dealing with is nbt so much weakness
aa lack of development.
It Is the dawning of a new day for the
"fecblo-hilndcd" child when his parents
and teachers Instead of pityingly pushing
him aside ,(ts hopelessly incapable, begin
to treat his mind as they would his body
In case'the .latter showed signs of lack of
(nourishment or of assimilative power.
'Manyanrnyslcslly focble.stunted child
ha grpwn'.up. tm'der'proper"care. nto a
MtmS. -hta.UJltu.V.'"ep,ce.eUc mojw. Isaac
Nc wtoir .when a -baby " was so d warfel
jand feeblothatvhla'parents dkspalre.d .pf
.nusmg .mm, ,'Jipj-waa a caein which
I the .mental ago,' outpaced ,th..bodjJy age
acnrsw-in tBB."xee,tie-mlndedw child that
l reversed and' It Is the mentality that
is backward, but the right kind of care
should restore the balance In one case as
well as In the other.
It Is the point of view that tells. When
you come to look upon your Intellectually
backward child simply as being mentally
younger than his years, you will tre.it
him according to Ms mental and not his
physical age. You will know where and
how to apply the remedy. You will not
break him down with burdens too heavy
for his mind at the stage of development
wmcn u nas arrived. You will not do
mm me injustice ot assuming that he Is
essentially Inferior to his brothers and
sisters whore mental and physical stature
have kept better pace with each other.
You may feel that his mind may be
developed and atrengthened to a full ma.
turlty. Just as Newton's body was.
The article In the Cosmopolitan to which
I refer tells how science has discovered a
way of measuring the mental, age when It
differs from the bodily age. The system
of measurement Is due to the French
psychologist, Alfred Hlnet. and his as-
.1...
SI Simon. It depends upon a
- v. loniut mc
cMiW mental stat'.ro qt larloua ages,
Jwuihma be letcrrmnrJ l experiments
; ( Maybe it -was tho Thanksgiving
dreary Bkipplng of dry, brown leaves
But so he dldand this is, what he said pushing back his hair that hi
! growing as gray' as the winter time soon will bet "I passed a couplo t
blissful and blind lovers down tho street
and as rosy a maid as any man might
tn n hrlirht Mnoklnnw. with rlnnn. rinrlr
ntan, topped by a soft groan hat. And
bumps; and they never looked to right or left; and they never looked at the
sky they Just walked along like sleepwalkers feeding their way, looking
into one another's faces. Their eyes and their Hps were happy they
seemed to have a lot of things to smile and blush over. I stopped short
and watched them. They never saw me. And" and I discovered an un
conscious envioUB note in the Cynic's grumbling voice "and they seemed
to bo having an awfully good time. And It all made mo think. Did ypu
ever think how Love plays on the edge of a proclplce? Flowers and grass
bluer and greener than any In another place grow right up to the edge.
Dressed in their -beat she in her dancing chiffon, be in .his evening clothes
'they blow bubbles into thin air myriads of rainbow bubbles called
with a large number of normal children,
and comparing with this standard tbe de
velopment ot any particular child. Va
rious Ingenious devices and tests are em.
ployed. Including the recognition ot col
ors, the tracing of outlines, the memory
and comprehension of words, the time
taken to receive Impressions, the drawings
of plain Inferences, etc.
But anybody, "when once the Idea that
there Is such a thing as mental age which
may differ from bodily age ts under
stood, can make tests for himself. We
know how the mind ot a child slowly
advances, for we were alt once children,
stretching out feeble bands to grasp ths
clouds and the moon, and comprehending
nothing of the world around us.
Probably there la not one of us
whose mental growth has not either ex
ceeded or fallen behind the bodily growth.
but In the vast majority of cases tho
difference has been too slight to lead to
Important results. Hut when the differ.
ence becomes great, as when a child of 10
years has the mental stature belonging to
the age o'f S, a quick remedy must be ap
plied to prevent an entire arrest ot the
development of the mind. That remedy
must be applied through more Intelligent
and sympathetic treatment of the "fp-
ble-mlndedy ut home, as well as through
a grading; according to mental Instead of
bodily age in ti c t ImcIs.
wind that whlstjdd outside and vhe
that made the. Cynic talk like this.
under the cedars. She 'was In fura
dream of. He was an upright chap
fnrp ntlll wnshnrl with ltn mimmnr
thoy never looked at the ground for
ji Byron ' j
By WILLIAM V. KIRK.
Reading Harold's Pilgrimage,
Reading truth on every page.
Truth and beauty wild, divine,
Low I bow at Byron's shrine.
I can se. a troubled soul
Grimly groping for Its goal,
Looking to the stars above
From a world he did not love;
Sneering in the shadows dim
At tho world that loved not him.
How1 he flayed the rich and mean -With
his satire razor-keen!
How be made the pompous squirm,
Groveling 'uaath him like a worm!
Yet his lines at gentler times
Tinkled like a cherub's chimes,
Rising o'er bis wish to blast
With a beauty unsurpassed.
Never knowing Joy or peace
Till the summons came in Greece,
AVhat a soul of scornful pride
Hounded free when Byron died!
dreams, Tho sun falls on them and their bubbles, gleaming on her hair,
lighting his eyes, striking faerie colors that novor were real on, soa or land
from tho bubbles that she blows for him from a golden bowl -bo they
amuse themselves like a pair of children on tl)o lovelies spot In the loveliest
fashion but ou tho edgo. For Death looms smiling and patient, reluctant
to smash their bubbles and stop their play but waiting. Have you over
thought of that that Love plays on tho edgo of things and Death stands
over them every hour?"
I sinilod at tho Cynic. "Ot course I have," quoth I. "Of course 1
havo but who cares? Death looms smiling for you, too lonely man who
forswears Lovo for fear of losing It. I 'would rather when I sllppod off
tbe edge have had the grass nnd the flowers and tho sunshine tho bub
bles of tender color callqd drettmB the space of perfect youth and idle,
blind play than not, my friend. Of course, I'vo thought of that but
neither I nor the rosy girl in the furs, tho chap in tho Mackinaw, worry
about that."
"You're wrong," grumbled tho. Cynic. But ho didn't tell how.
NELL BRINKLEY.
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Advice to Lovelorn
! JJ
3y BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Yi.a Have that 1'i-lvllrae.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I have been ""going
with a boy for a long time and he has
never oven asked me to take a walk
with him. Would It be right for me to
Bay, "Shall wo tako a walk?" It. D. p.
There would be no Impropriety -In It
further than If he Is a .guest at your
house the suggestion that he leave It
and go for a walk -Is Inhospitable.
Give Back Ills III n sr.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young
lady 21 years old. In the last nine months
I .havo been keeping company with four
different gentlemen and this ts the fifth,
and I care for htm as much as for the
rest He has asked me to marry him.
lie also has given me a ring. Kindly
advise me what steps to take.
, ANXIOUS.
You have been scattering your affec
tions so widely that you are not in posi
tion to know what love realty means.
My dear, It Is not a pastime.
a he back his ring, and In future re
fuse to keep company with flv different
men In nine months.
Iit this simple little tald be a warn
ing to every man who has any financial
transactions with His wife further than
tho weekly payment to her ot tho house
hold allowance for butter, ntgrettes and
cheese.
lie will lenrn that any man who ts In
debt to his wife will not be half 'dona
paying when he hart paid the debt three
fold. Not, gentlo reader (tho gentleness
of readers being Indisputable and wholly
Irrelevant to this tale), that women Are
dishonest. They are the souls of holies ty,
but their method of bookkeeping Is on fi
sliding scne. Just when a man thinks
hf has paid a debt ho owes his wife, he
finds ho has slid back to the opening ac
count. Borne thirty years ago, when the Jit"
rnhder John Appletons lived on a farm,
the stork, which In the country la & prac
tical sort of a bird, brought to the Ap
pleton farm a wobbly-legged calf.
Iysander John gave II to his wife,
there beng nothing In this world quit
so nny to give away ns a wobbly.legged
calf that looks ns If It won't live over
right.
The calf lived to be a nice, biff steer.
and such ts the Injustco rheieil out to
every male In the anlmnL kingdom, that
he wan not granted tho Tate of the heifer.
which Is to reach maturo years in honor
and pride, hut was Ignomlntoualy carted
off by a butcher. And on his way hn
passed crate after crate filled with
roosters. Not a hen among them!
Hut this Is not an anti-suffrage argu
ment.
The calf sold for . "I will let you
hs,vo the money as you need Jt." said'
the unsophisticated Lysandor John.
Tho next spring ,hls wlfq bought a
fifty-dollar, parlor set. "with my calf,
money," she told her husband.
Theft there came a piano, and when the
neighbor complained sho added a cornet:
then there came new china dinner sets,
carpets, etc., every yoar unfolding new
purchases for the home, and all bought
"with my calf money."
"I want W she told him recently,
"for- Christmas money. Now dont say
you haven't got It. It's my calf money,
and belongs to me."
Lysandcr John has tried tb show her
that ho has. so far paid her T3,0Q0 for the.
calf, hut figures will lie, and she
proves It. '
"I sold the calf for 20 thirty years
ago." , he argues, "and .have paid you for
It every month. since. Now how In ths
world do you" figure that I owe you any
more calf money 7"
And her solo reply Is' to turn to ths
back pago In the family Utble, where Is
written, "June, 18S3, lorsa.nder John Ap
ple ton. debtor to his wife, -for one
calf, ISO."
And' what answer can a man make to
a sliding scale like thatT
Pointed Paragraphs
A hot temper requires cool treatment
The village gossip never has time to
take a vacation.
Most men would be only too glad, to
bo considered land poor.
De a busy bee. It's always better to
sting than to get stung.
There are but two.JUiids of men, one
talks while tho other acts.
We wouldn't mind being awkard
enough to fall Into a good thing.
Men who never have occasion to buy
an umbrella are pretty good hustlers,
A laty man does Iras harm than, tbe
ae've man who stirs, up unnecessary
trouble.
One' can usually tell by a man's
whistle whether things are coming his
way or not.
Look for a sweet- faced girl In a
calico gown If you want to see a real
angel tn disguise.
If husbands and wives 'were absolutely
frsnk with each other, how long would
thoy live together? Chicago Nejvs.
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