Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-08-09

qu1re beauty-"newspaper beauty" =
The adornment Of the interior of
school houses is no less important than
the improvement of the grounds, IN
favor of which q sentiment so vigorous
and so widespread happily exists. Less
general, but steadily growing, is the
demand for beautiful schoolrooms.
Much is already accomplished. Local
associations, town improvement socie-
ties, patriotic orders, historical socie-
ties have willingly co-operated with pr1-
vate benevolence. There have been be-
quests and memorial presentations; and
q few schools have funds sufficient to
render every classroom, hall, corridor,
stairway, even cloak-room, delightful
to the eye and instructive to the mind.
Few schools can hope for such equip
ment-at least, all at once. There must
be small beginnings and gradual
growth. In many schools suitable
and charming custom has arisen of late
years, by which each departing class
as it graduates leaves behind 1t a mem
orial cast or picture. This may fitting
ly possess illustrative connection with
some course of study, or 1t may be one
among the masterpieces which repre-
sent the highest reach of art in pure
beauty, educative only, although pow
erfully, through innate grandeur or
1ovellness. The essential Is that it
should be truly fine-the work, not nee
essarily of an old master, but Of mas
ter. Fortunately, boys and girls are
az quick to learn how to give as to give,
and the mistakes of class committees
are few. So promising indeed is the
progress of this movement among our
generous young students that there is
good prospect that few years hence
the month of graduations will bring
as great establishment to schoolrooms
as Arbor day will bring to the sur
roundings of the buildings.
Certain fundamental differences of
character seem to exist between men
and women, and 1.-THE lord of creation
AS he sometimes calls himself-is apt
to ascribe them to the brain. This the
DRY, he feels, carries with it the privi-
iege of monopolizing the morning pa
per, and of answering with an air of
authority questions of which he knows
quite as little as his wife. An English
scientist. Alexander Sutherland, has
studied this problem In it's physiolog-
zeal aspects, and his conclusions are in
teresting to men and women alike
From a comparison of trustworthy sta
tistics, 1t appears that the brain of the
average man is about one-tenth larger
than that of the average woman: but on
the other hand, if the ratio between the
oize of brain and body be taken into
consideration, mans brain comes out
second best. Happily, however, male
intelligence has s. loophole Of escape
from the natural inference from this
fact. The smaller animal always has
the larger proportional brain. A cat
has more brain in proportion to its size
than an elephant, and baby's brain is
Ave times the relative size of its IA
TIERS. Woman has, however, other
lines of defense. All mental activity
finds its origin in the thin outer layer
or certex of the brain. On every square
inch there are some ten millions of min
ute cells, the instruments of mental en-
ergy. Might not more just COMPARE
son be based on a CONSIDERATION of these
cells? Perhaps. but no observer has
yet shown that sex makes any differ
eace In the number, development or VI
tai energy of these brain elements.
When all is said, if the average man
prefers to regard size as the correct in
dex of intelligence. he must admit that
20 per cent. of the women he meets are
Of larger intellect than he. This will
give him food for reflection, and per-
haps, after a little, he will agree with
Prof. Sutherland that every year seems
to show with increasing conclusiveness
that there is in the great mass OF cases
. practical equality in male and female
minds."
Seldom has the world seen a more
eyentful period than that in which We