The evening times., 1896-08-20

the great advances of physical sciences
in this century 10 the training of the
young. The most notable steps forward
in the past hundred years have been in
the line of giving scientific attention to
children between birth and 8 years of
age 1t is at this tinie.of life that the
efforts of the scientists named have been
made here.
Their personal attention to the care of
their children recalls the efforts which
made Goethe, John Stuart Mill, Harriet
Martineau and a host of other eninently
useful citizens of the world to be what
they were. They have parallel In the
work being done by Prof. Dewey at the
| head of the department of philosophy in
the University of Michigan, whose child
trudgipg barefoot through the streets of
Ann Arbor has been the wonder, n OF to
say horror. of the less progressive citizens
OF the university town.
The complicated processes by which the
| Gates baby is trained are based upon an
original classification of the senses, which
the ps ychologist has devised, after studying
| all of the classes of nerves. Acc ording to
this we have ell ght senses, instead OF five,
| us was Taught US III uesS ethSts
| are sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch,
sense of cold, sense Of heat and the mus
cular sense.
Each OF these are believed to make i'm
pressions upon our minds through distinct
nerves and nerve endings. Upon the eight
senses all possible thought and action
believed tobe based. Whenever man does
any act or has any thought, acc ording to
| the professor, he uses one or more of these
nerves, andever time the use occurs a cor
responding set of cells in the brain is chang
edin structure. Continued use ofthe same
nerves, or the same groups of nerves, reg
lister memories of the original acts in the
| brain. Therefore, according to the Gates
theory. to build perfect founda ton of
| mind, every nervel must register every.
| possible memory of each of the ell ght
senses Unless this Is done the brain cells
will be developed unevenly, some not be-
ing developed at all.
THE CHILB'S TRAINING.
Soon after the sbaby was born, the
psychologist began ,as the first training, to
develop the brain cells, controlling his
senses of heat and cold. Each day he was
placed in a tub of water, whose tempera-
ture could be varied to any degree.
At first single bath was given in water
having the normal temperature of his body.
At the end of sixo weeks two additional
baths were administered, one slightly warm
er and the other slightly cooler. The baby
was placed first in the cool, then in the nor
NAL and last in the warm water.
The limits of the temperatures OF the cool
and warm water were more exaggerated
from week to week by adding more bath, and
thus has the infant been trained to endure
high and low temperatures by gradual and
never sudden changes.
A device for developing the acuteness of
the child's heat and cold senses is pair
of rubber gloves, connected with both q
warm and cold water supply. These are
daily rubbed over the entire surface of
his little body. while the water inside is
made gradually warmer or cooler. As q
result Of this, the baby will be able to endure
great differences of temperature. and his
brain will be stored with memories OF all
the degrees Of heat and cold, which any one
is likely to encounter in the course Of life.
At equally regular intervals the baby is
to he made happy by being placed In front