Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-04

SnecIal Correspondence OF The Evening Star
LONDON, March %. 1905.
Mr. George Bernard Shaw held the modern
system of educating children up TO execra-
ton again this week in a speech delivered
at Clifford's Inn to the Guild of st. Ed
mond, which consists of school teachers.
"A tremendous hypocrisy was his de-
scriptjon of it. and of the general views OF
the children "A child he said, lis a saw
age, cruel, noisy. dirty, frightful, lnqulsl-
tive being. indiscreet to the point OF teHiils
the truth on all occasions, regardless OF the
feelings of others.
Persons who live with their children dlo
so because they could not afford to 90 oth-
erwise Those who could afford II sent
them to boarding school-except certain pc,
pie who might be called child fanclers, "a M
who ought never to have charge Oh chii-
dren The one good point about scnools
was that that they saved children from the
demoralizing influences of the home Ihere
was nothing more demoraliZing than the
middle-claSS home.
Among the suggestions made by Mr.
Shaw were the following: The burden OF
minding children should be shared by all,
including bachelors, maiden ladies and ner-
vous persons instead of throwing II on
servants and schoolmasters. All NON
sense about moral instruction and forma-
ton of charac ter, for which Arnold was re-
sponsble, should be given up. Chlidren
should be taught little reading, writing
and arithmetic. Other subjects should IN
clude how to jump off tram ears, the use OF
railway time table, electioneering and d
universal language.
Disagreed With Darwin.
Prof. Carl Pearson, lecturing at the Royal
Institution this week on Some Recent Bio
metric Studies" expressed disagreement
with Darwin's theory that man is more va
shown, he said, that the opposite was the
fact The abnormally delicate and abnor-
mally robust were more marked in girls
than boys, while the very intelligent ana
the very dull were more common In femaies
than in males. In fact, the male Kept more
to the normal mean in health and lnteil-
gence than the female.
1t was not generally known that the
death rate in male infants was CONSIDERABLY
greater than in female infants. Although
this was fact it was not due to the male
chids greater size, as one school of biolo-
gsts would have people believe. 1t was an
adjustment of natures own.
Notes.
Sir Thomas Dewar, NJ. P, has returned
from his recent trip to Canada and the
United States full of admiration for all
Americans Presiding this week at dim
ner given to nearly one thousand represent
tatves of the firm, John Dewar 81 Sons, Sir
Thomas said that he found the feeling of
the average American toward the people of
England was better than he had ever known
them before.
Giuglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wire
less telegraphy, is the subject of Vanity
Fairs cartoon this week. OF him Jehu Jul
nior writes: He has acquaintance with roy
atty. His majesty King Edward, when
Prince of Wales, placed the royal yacht It
his disposal in 1898, which most kindly act
resulted in the rapid Improvement of his
apparatus. King Humbert loaned him gun
boat and King Victor a cruiser in which to
cross the Atlantic. The car not having a
ship to spare at the moment, decorated him
with the Order of st. Anne"