Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-06

responding to the numerical value of
the digit. Two months later Viola
read all numbers not over 100. In June
of this year she read easily all num-
bers as large as octillions.
At year and half Viola's art educa-
ton was begun. Straight lines were first
given her. then the triangle. curved line,
etc, going gradually from the simple TO
the more complex forms. Geometrical
lines and angles were next acquired by
her. While under two years knowledge
of the flags of twenty-five nations was
hers. In geography she knows how to
name, locate and read the names of all
the countries in the world and their CAPT
tails She reads almost any geographical
names mentioned in advanced geogra-
phes and will find the name and locate
| the place of any prominent town given
| her.
Another accomplishment of this marvel
| gained before she was two years old
was to recognize the portraits of more
| than 100 famous men and women. The
| portraits We're put into a card holder and
| the baby asked to get a certain one. Two
were put up first, and the number in
creased until the mental picture gallery
was complete.
| The requirements Of Baby Viola extend
to anatomy and physiology. She can
name all the bones OF the human skeleton
and locate nearly all of them. AT one
year and IL months she could name thir-
| ty-two different kinds of seeds and TWEEN
ty-tive kinds of leaves Of trees. At 70
months she named and recognized all the
denominations of United States money
except bills of over 800
At two years Viola knew twenty-five
punctuation marks. These We're learned
after the same method used in learning
| the flags and portraits. Viola read well
before she knew the names of the letters
or to spell The teaching of the latter
was by means of cards, each showing a
word. These cards were slipped into the
grooved front of a block. The groove al
| SO held peanut. The parents waited I'M
til Viola wished nut. Then they would
word on it. When the child brought the
right block she would first eat the peanut.
then spell the word by sight, then from
memory, also by sound. At the age of
| three Viola could spell long list OF
difficult words
| This amazing child student analyses
| flowers naming their different parts cor
| rectly She writes well, and in February
of this year received her first typewriter.
First she learned the mechanical side OF
| the machine. Three months later she
could copy print and script. write from
dictation, and even compose short articles
as she wrote. In addition to all these &C
| complishments this marvellous midget
knows all of WebSterS diacritical marks,
can give all the elementary sounds in the
English language, recognizes the abbrt-
| viations of all the states and territories
of the United States, of the days OF the
week and of the months of the year. She
can also name the sun planets and satel-
lites.
The little one has given exhibitions Of
her powers before large audiences and
has never disappointed the expectations
created by her fame
| The book in which the foster father eX-
plains his methods is illustrated with pic
lures of the intellectual wonder he has
developed. She is shown using the APP
| pliances he has invented. 1t furthermore
| gives numerous suggestions concerning
the general development. education and
home training of children, He points out
| how good traits are brought out ana pad
Iones Suppressed The illustrations graph
Ideally emphasize the authors pen pictures
/ besides showing the steady growth and
Increasing beauty of the cleyerest child III
i the world