The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-04
NOT THREE YEARS old,
But VERY PRECIOUS.
Baby OIerich. Of Council Bluffs. Delights
and Amazes an Audience OF
Teachers - Her Learning
Is Remarkable.

~ Nearly the entire corps OF teachers
~ Of this city gathered in the Bloomer
school building to witness an exhl-
bition OF the remarkable educational at
tainments of Viola Rosalia Olerich, the
adopted daughter of Prof and Mrs Oler-
ich of this city. For an hour Baby Oier-
ich delightfully."- entertained her audience
OF teachers with her gleeful performance
OF intellectual feats and cute acts on her
elevated stage.
OF all her numerous attainments, her
splendid reading is perhaps the most Won
derful OF all for baby of years and 10
months old She reads we'll in any school
reader fhom the lowest to the highest.
She also read from a reading chart. the
first chapter of Genesis in the Bible. selec-
lions from United States history, etc.
Her ability to spell Is almost equal TO
that OF her reading. In the long list OF
words which she spells almost as rapidly
as they can be pronounced to her we find
such difficult words as busy. money. Mary,
vinegar sugar. Rosaiia. botany. Olerich.
geography. menagerie. etc She knows all
Of Websters diacritcal marks and Is also
very proficient In phonetic spelling
She knows by sight, can name and select
any one of thirty-four regular geometricai
forms, fourteen solids and twenty sur
faces. all the lines and angles used in
plane geometry, twenty-five punctuation
marks the hags of twenty-five nations. the
portraits of more than 100 famous men and
women thirty-two kinds Of bottled seeds,
twenty-five different varieties of leaves.
$50 geological pictures. large number of
botanical cuts, the pictures of about 1900
common objects used in daily life. all the
United States money except bills OF $l0o.0 600
and over. all the parts OF a complete
flower and many other things OF that kind.
She can name, read and locate all the
states and territories of the United States
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tries OF the world and their capitals; al
most all the bones of the human skele-
ton, as well as many of the other promi-
nent organs end parts of the body.
She could give one sound OF every letter
OF the alphabet when she was II months
old. When she was % months old she
was examined by committee Miss verna
Lumpkin and Miss Matte Campbell Of
Lake City. Iowa.. who found that she
knew 5000 nouns. Her pronunciation is
at present almost faultless. She Is able to
read and pronounce distinctly such long
and difficult words as paleontology. indis-
solubly, philoprogenitiveness ornthoryn-
chus and. as far as I can ascertain, she
can pronounce any other words IN the Eng
lish language after hearing IT pronounced.
She also reads all geological names given
In 'Steele's Zoology" and most all botan-
lcal names given in the common text
books on botany.
When she was 20 months old she knew
all the dieits and prismatic colors At q
months she read all numbers not over 100:
now she reads all numbers not over 1859.
She also reads at sight the names Of all
the rulers of the world
She speaks pieces. writes words and
numbers. and in her geography she can
turn to any country in the world In a few
seconds. She Is an expert in free-hand
drawing on the blackboard. and her atten-
hpr bnr pfNq An,
reasoning and her ability as a critic are as
marvellous as her other attachments. Per-
haps greatest OF all, she seems to under
stand almost everything she reads.
Viola was born in the city of Des Moines.
Iowa, February 10. 1897. and was adopted
by her foster-parents when she was s
months and days old From that time
to the present she has always lived with
them and has received all her instruction
from them at home
Aside from slight colds, she has always
enjoyed the best OF health, and is grow
ing handsomer and more vigorous every
day. At the time of adoption she weighed
fourteen pounds and was two feet one
inch tail; now she weighs twenty-eight
pounds one ounce and is two feet eleven
and one-half inches tall
Viola is a pretty, active, prepossessing
laxative blonde with an unusually fair
complexion. blue eyes, remarkably bril-
liant, ana SOFT golden hair She was
beautifully dressed In light blue silk.
fringed with soft lace. Her jovial dispo-
sitIon. her delicate garments and her ar
tlstic little elevated stage, on which she
performed her educational featx. seem to
belong together. Al he close of the per-
formances she received a beautiful bou-
quet. which she seemed to admire very
much. She Is an ardent admirer OF flow
ers. pictures and other works of art Her
taste for the beautiful has already been
quite extensively cultivated
No restrictions have been placed on her
eating. She has always been permitted to
eat as much OF everything as she desired
She has always retired alone. slept alone
In her trundle bed and has never been
rocked. AT present she usually retires be-
tween and 10 I'm the evening, sleeps
soundly all night and rises about In the
morning In the afternoon she sleeps
about an hour and half
She has always been treated with the
utmost Kindness and courtesy. Prof Ole
rich believes that every bad boy and ev-
cry bad girl" has been made bad BY
meddlesomc interference.
Viola has acquired ali her knowledge in
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