The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-14

/ the baby Will be able 10 endure great
/ differences of temperature, and his
/ brain will be stored with memories or
4 all the degrees OF heat and cold which
anyone is likely to encounter in the
course OF life.
/ At equally regular intervals BABY
| Gates is made happy by being placed
/ in front Of an electric wheel, which re-
| wolves pasteboard disks bearing each
! Of the fundamental colors of the solar
spectrum. BY combining disks, any
/ possible variation of color may be
shown, with their various tints, shades,
hues, lustres and tTansparencies. They
are produced in the order Of the spec
/ trum. The baby watches the wheel
/ closely, and when he is older he will
I be taught to discriminate between an
/ increasing number of variations. Pro-
| fessor Gates told the writer that the
average artist has not seen more than
/ ten or twelve per cent of these possible
variations, and is therefore lacking in
memory structures corresponding with
all OF the variations not seen. He late
! " examined a we'll known artist and
/ found that he could distinguish less
than 10 per cent of the combinations
shown him. Another instrument to be
used on the child when he is older IS
case containing three large prisms, so
|
| spectrum thrown by one can be COW
| cred by any part of the spectrum
! thrown upon the same screen by either
or both the others. Any desired COM
| bination of colorS may thus be purely
made with the original light. BY other
| instruments the effects of colors upon
! emotions can be measured. Such train
| ing, the psychologist believes, is the
| best possible foundation for an artistic
| education. Just as his eyes must regu-
| larly perceive every variation or color,
in natural sequence this child must as
systematically hear every possible de-
| gree of sound. AS a beginning he is
! being trained with two little whistles,
! each having a rubber bulb at one end
and arranged to give any pitch in the
| musical scale. In the beginning the
professor held in each hand whistle,
one arranged to give much lower note
than the other. A piece of candy was
| always placed in the hand holding the
whistle of the lower pitch. Although
| the whistles were changed from hand
| to hand the child soon learned to as
| sociate the lower note with something
good to eat, and thus to distinguish
between the two pitches. By gradually
altering the pitches so as to give out
sounds more nearly the same, greater
acuteneSs in this discrimination is be-
| ing developed. When further develop
ed the child will be trained by means
of a large electrical instrument, which
its inventor, Prof. Gates, says Will give
all possible variations of sound in sys-
tematic order. Two electromagnetic
are arranged on either side of small
steel disk. about the size of a 3-cent
piece. By means of two commuuIcAlors
the current may be alternated between
the magnets at any desired velocity.
With each alteration the disk VlDrateS
once When vibrating less than Is
times a second it creates no aud1nle
tone. merely a series of tappings. The
faster it vibrateS the higher the tone
the treble limit being 200 coo vibra-
lions per second. By inserting different
disks and pulling out certain slides,
all of the possible tone qualities, the
chordes or harmonies of each tone,
can be automatically produced. Most
| exact lessons in discrimination be-
tween audible variations of tone VIII
| be taught with this. In similar man
ner the sense memories, as the psycno-
| logist terms them, of smell ana TASTE,
are registered in the brain OF BABY
Gates. There are in the laboratory l.
! 500 different smells bottled Iii small
! walls, classified and arranged IN order.
Starting at one end of the row and
! smelling in order gradual dIffereDceS
can scarcely be appreciated until the
| two end bottles are held TO the los
trils. Practice on this piano of smell
will build up what the professor calls
the necessary smell memories" in the
baby. and will teach him great acute
ness in discriminating 0dOr from ocor
! The same Walls are used for training
the taste memories, the harmful sub
stances being omitted. A straw is
dipped into the substance and touched
to the tongue. Taste and smell tram
ing was begun on Baby Gates when he
was 10 months old, and now re can
distinguish about 90 different tastes
and 80 different smells.
The development of touch as accom-
plished by requiring the child % feel
all sorts of surfaces, and, according to
the father, to allow his mind 10 live
in his skin for the time being. He is
permitted to go barefOOted a certain
number of hours each day, and to
touch with both hands and feet various
substances and materials, SUCH rs vel
vet, sandpaper, brushes, leaves, grass,
earth, glazed surfaces, sticky surfaces,
etc.
That all of the brain cells governing
his muscular sense Wall be fully de-
veIoped. this same baby must have
every Cue of the many muscles Of his
tender body moved Systematically and
at regular intervals. During This ex-
ercise the father keeps before him
manikin showing the position and di-
rection of each muscle. At jirst the i'll
fantile limbs, head and body were
moved in different directions by the
fathers hands, until the memories OF
the muscular feelings we're mentally
unregistered. Now the little fellow is
required to stand on The floor and to
pick up toys and other objects from
various attitudes, which exercise serves
as mild form of gymnastics. No SIN
gle muslce in the child's entire musf u
lar system is neglected by this action,
contriyed to combine mental memories
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