The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-11-26
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CHILD STUDY AS A SCIENCE.

CHILD STUDY AS A SCIENCE.
The greatest discovery OF recent
years is the discovery of the child,
says writer in Hampton's Magazine
Somehow or other there have always
been children in the world, but also,
somehow or other, we have only now
FUND out that children are human be-
ings. The result has been instant ac-
ton; we have children's hospitals,
children's laws, children's aid socie-'
ties and reformatories, children's civ
ic Fairgrounds, children's courts, and
now Clark University, in Worcester.
Mass, has decided to crystalline the
entire child-welfare movement by es-
tablishing new depsrtinent-an in
stitute for studying child-life in all
its phases
Dr.. G.. Stanley Hall, President Of
Clark University, is the man who has
made tbs possible. 1t is the culmina-
ton Of an idea that has been growing
in Dr. Halls mind fer the greater
part of his sixty-four years of life.
With kindly face much like that of
the typical old-time family physician,
Dr.. Hall looks just the sort of man
one might expect to inaugurate such
90 movement. He was born on
farm near Ashfield, Mass; was grad
uated from Williams College and lat
er from Union Theological Seminary;
then he studied in graduate colleges
abroad. He has filled the chairs of
philosophy or psychology in several
institutions, including Harvard and
Johns Hopkins Universities. When
Clark University was founded in 1887
he was put at it's head and has been
its President ever since.
Work in the new child-life institute
will begin this fall. 1t will form a
basis for all philanthropie and edu-
catienal movements in behalf of chill
dren. The effort will be to collect
all data, now so scattered as to be
inefficient, under one roof So that it
may be studied and worked with most
effectively. There will be child hy-
giene department, with apparatus
used in schools and nurseries, com
prising the study of contagious and
infectious diseases, mortality statis-
tics, the influence of various condi-
tions OF life, diet dress, games and
work HeHedity, the laws governing
birth-rate, Social and Industrial con-
ditions will be studied. Then there
will be department of child anthrop-
ology, child lore, myth, custom, belief,
gangs, etc. Also departments for
studying subnormal children, Juvenile
vice and crime, and moral and. relig-
ious education. Il
OF LITTLE THINGS.
It is the little things that do matter
Ito woman, man would say. lit |
tie thinking how greatly he himself
is influenced by the trifes he desp;ses.
If the dinner is late, or his cuffs are
frayed, if his wife has forgotten to-
tidy her hair. or she is not ready at |
the time appointed, he is distinctly |
ruffied; the fire is laid ready for the
blaze-it may be in business that the
match is applied or it may be at |
home; it matters not where, the re-
suits are disastrous, and the little
thing is responsible.
Home life is made up of little |
things, but unfortunately the man !
does not realize it. He little thinks,
how wearying are the little things,
and he has no compunction in adding |
to them. He does not know how |
much 1t means to t'he tired house
wife If he even stocps to put Goals
on the fire, if he puts away his slip /
pers himself, If he does not leave |
cigarette ends in every available |
spot. But he is so occupied with the
big things that unless he has been
trained to be thoughtful he makes life
a burden to the woman he has prom
ised to CHERISH
To the woman who lives among the
little things they matter intensely. I
1t is bitter to her that he forgets the
anniversarv Of their wedding, that he
lets her birthday pass. as the dear
ones at home never did, that he sell
dom thinks, of giving her a present
or suggesting an outing; that he does
not even pass the salt at the table,
nor omen the door for her to go out
It is the little things which build up
the barrier between husband and I
wife-New York Press. /
HIDING HER HOME.