Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-04-08

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take on the same improved tone that the
features do. Bright, quick witted and
sharp, the Irish Chinese are model bust
ness men, and the women types of singu-
lar beauty. Besides, like their illustrious
patron, St. Patrick, they are carrying the
faith to these heathens, and doing so in
the most practical way possible--that of
marrying with them. This may, and
undoubtedly will eventually solve the
problem of Chinese treacherism and
idolatry.
Scientific child-study has been COM
menced in the public schools of Chicago,
and while it has as yet reached no definite
stage beginning has at least been made.
Physical and psychical examination or
tests of school children are now being
made, and the results are being watched
for with larger interest. These tests have
been begun at the Alcott school, where
as normal conditions are thought to exist
as anywhere else in the city, because the
children are we'll fed, well clothed, we'll
brought up, and their parents while not
of the richest class are not of the pool
and will average we'll 1t is intended to
examine about one thousand children in
all, some of them to be taken from the
schools in those parts of the city where
good sewerage, clean strests, clean morals
and clean things generally are not easy
20 6,J XNta,, cl,;Idra,, IL, oil e,radae of
life have been examined, all average will
be struck and report made. The most
notable test now being made is through
the ergograph, the invention of Prof.
Mosso, of Italy, and is for the purpose
of determining the stored-up nervous ell
ergy of the pupil. Apart from the ergo
graph tests, there are others, all of which
are deemed essential. III the first place
the pupil is weighed, then his height is
carefully taken both standing and sitting.
The results are then carefully compared
and accurately noted. Some of the COM
panions are peculiar. One of the pupils
was tall enough to be three years older
than he really was, but there was cor
responding increase i'll weight, and all
other conditions were nominal. In cases
where it is found that development is
uneven it will be the duty of teachers to
see that such children are carefully kept
from fatiguing eXertion. The hearing is
tested by new device called the audio-
meter. The tests were as follows: Case |.
This was far below the average in hearing.
He had been seated in the rear end of the
room, and was considered "dull"-all be-
cause he could not hear what was said.
He was given front seat and is expected
to improve in scholarship. Case 2. The
ergograph record indicated nervousness.
Hearing was extremely acute. This may
cause his lack of attention, distracted as
he is, by hearing sounds not perceptible
to other persons. The best and most ex-
perienced teachers say that this improve
ment cannot but be productive of good.
One of these, President Benz. Andrews,
says: "such examinations as these are
certainly crying need, and this is the
first time that scientific child study has
been added to public school system in
the United States.''
By the use of the ergograph the
school work imposed on children can be
gagged and by knowing the strength, the
nervous force of each child, more work
given to some, less to others, and a won
derful amount of good done for all.
Above all faults that exist among the
female persuasion, backbiting and SLAM
der are the most despicable and most
far-reaching in their bad effects. Gull
tured people never stoop to this evil.
Their minds run along different chan
mel, and they hardly recognize the odious
blast when they hear it. Consequently,
their first impression in hearing such is
of nature not very complimentary to
the person assailed; OH second thought,
they consider it a mistake, and regret
having heard the remarks. If truly cul-
tivated, feeling of disgust and contempt
for the party making use of ill-bred re-
marks will surely follow. We do not
ever make friends of people who attack
the good name of others. 1t is men,
toned in the Scripture that some things
God despises, but one other thing he
hates in His heart, and that is ''the wills
perez" Such whisperers get in their
work in silence-in the dark, as it were,
and their cowardice is appalling. Moth
ing is more beautiful than sincerity.
nothing more utterly nauseous and con-
temptible than double dealing and un-
truth. If from childhood up we strive
to point out the singular loneliness of
truth and honesty to the little ones under
our care we may reasonably hope to find
they Will not be subject to the awful
fault of backbiting and falsehood. De-
traction is a most unjust and unfair
habit, as it seeks to destroy ones good
name, and publishes faults which, if they
do exist, are known only to God, and if
they do not exist are an odious imputa-
ton. Nothing So belittles person of the
female gender as an evil-tongued-woman
she can not be called, but fiend-distur-
Der of peace, destroyer of homes and
minion of satan, whose cause she repre-
sents. Many such characters have a
mania for wishing evil OH others, for
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