The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-06-04


Then suddenly came some myster-
ious change The queer state from
which the boy has never emerged to
this day mad itself known almost in
the twingling of ain eye. True. his
mental and physical growth kept on,
but at such an amazingly retarded rate
that It took him month TO learn what
the ordinary baby boy can master in
day Ordinary children learn and
remember new words every day Aft
er those boys have mastered a word
1t is weeks before they can progress to
another.
Clyde is just getting out of baby
talk and is learning the simple sent
ences which boy of five can rattle
loff faster tEan horse can trot He
is immensely interested in his train
of "Choo-choo' cars and has all the
fun that men of his age used to have
eighteen years ago with just the same
kind of toys. He has just mastered
his velocipede and he thinks it's great.
! "Ps bully" said he, after one trip
around the garden walk without fall.
When get big man I'm going to
ride bicycle like big brother"
Thirteen year old Oscar hasn't pro
crossed as far as "choo-choo" cars or
velocipedes Just at present he is i'm
mersed in the difficulties of learning
to walk His development has been
even slower than his older brothers.
Il think" says Mrs Harner, that
the impressions of the first boy have
made oscar as he Is Even when
Clyde was ten years old he was like
baby and | was still. holding him in
my arms and rocking him to sleep
when Oscar was born. Oscar weighed
fourteen pounds when he was born,
and since then in these thirteen years
he has only gained fiften pounds Ia
weight less than a pound a year His
growth has been just as slow, hardly
an inch for each of the thirteen
years"
Oscar Is learning to walk just as
babies of twelve months learn. He Is
now able, after more than years
practice, to go from room to room
holding on to tables and chairs. Oc
casionally like other babies, he gets
a fall and cries. Like other babies
he remembers the bumped forehead OF
the oruised little leg and doesn't want
to try 1t again right away.
Other babies forget their woes in an
hour or so, and are at it again. Not
so little Oscar. After the accident Il
is weeks before he tries to stand on
his feet again, much less 70 walk
Clyde had all these same experiences
in fact, the two boys went about the
business Of growing up IN precisely
the same manner
They differ little in looks save IL
their eyes. Clyde's are those of tbs
ordinary person; Oscars are wha
physicians call elliptical eyes. The
pupils are longer vertically than hor
izontally Their heads are somewha
diversified.
Both have joints too large for theil
tiny bodies. There is nothing the mat
+ ter with these joints. and both boy
have the normal use Of them and car
control them Just as well as ehildreI
Of FIVE and two control their smalle
joints.
me ride tum day. too" says os
car pointing gleefully 70 clyde's We
locipede, Oscar be big boy soon lile
{ Clyde"
II doesn't worry Oscar bit becans'
he doesn't know it, but It Will be fl
teen or twenty years yet before b
will be able to master a velocipede
will be three on four years before h
q will be able 70 walk securely, mucl
I. less run or pedal. BY that tim
! clydes machine wiz be rotting Ia tn
Z junk heap.
: Both the boys are extremely affes
; tionate and are plainly very fond q
their father. mother and big brother