The San Francisco call., 1910-08-29

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writing~on the typewriter she not only
learned to operate the instrument, but
she also learned to spell and she
learned to memorize what she was
/ writing. 1t was through copying
poems and articles on the typewriter
that she learned a great deal of what
she knows. At first she learned by
the sight methods on the machine. now
she uses the touch method She writes
on a visible, single keyboard machine.
1T was not until she was that she
learned to use a pen and now her writ
her to write and she writes too much
as / do.
when Cherie was years old
she was writing verse and at that age
published poem in Puck. She had
been a regular contributor to St.
Nicholas, and when we were in Evans
vile she contributed to the Evans
vile Courier
What is your favorite play?" the
little literary girl was asked.
1.-The Merchant of Venice" she re-
piled.
Il think she perfers The Tanning of
the Shrew,'" answered her mother for
her.
Trained Memory
Il trained her memory from the
first" Mrs. Stoner explained. and one
method was to take her before win
dow for a moment then, when we had
turned away, to ask her what she had
seen from the window. That made the
training play for her. In fact, my
whole system has been to make learn
inc nj toM Iipf
by the play method. / invented a
game of Roman history
This game is something like the old
familiar game of Authors" played
with cards, on which are written ques-
tions and answers, the players taking
turns in asking for the answers to GER
tain questions which are printed on the
cards.
The child's training in mythology
came through a play method. and the
names made such a profound impress
sion on little sCherie that she named
her kittens after the three Graces, and
when more came she named them after
Zeus and Aphrodite themselves. But
her two little dolls bear the prosaic
names of Charley" and Lucy Lit
tie Cherie herself, taught from baby
hood, believes that it is the function
of mother to teach, so she devotes
herself now to teaching her own in
fants.'
THAT is good. too said Mrs. Stoner,
for we learn by what we impart.'
Can Read Anything
Mrs Stoner vouched that her child
could read anything that was given
to her.
A popular novel by Meredith Nfchol-
son was placed in the girls hands.
Nicholson, being somewhat of realist,
had character in his book who said
"aint." Little Cherie balked at the
word. THAT is not good grammar
she declared.
Throughout the country college pro-
fessors and educators have taken the
utmost interest in little Cherries de-
velopment. Prof. George Macloskie of
Princeton university has studied her.
and not only that. but shared the hon
ors with the child at a recital at the
Esperanto congress at Chautauqua, n.
Y, when the little miss was years
of age. At the age of the child re-
ceived a medal from Doctor zamen,
founder of Esperanto for her profci-
ency.
The little girl is not a fit subject
for the public graded schools, for while
she had the historical and language
education OF half dozen college grad
yates her mathematical training, un-
like that OF young William James Sids,
her Boston compeer and hero of the
fourth dimension, is not unusually pre-
cocious-for her. She can only do"
fractions and decimals while most chill
dren OF her age are learning what num-
bers look like She is learning arith-
metic by correspondence with Prof. f.
f. Hornhrook of Chicago.
Her mother says she is not gifted