Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-09-07

WORCESTER, Mass, Sept. 7-Dr.
G. Stanley Hall, president of Clark
University. scientist and psycholo-
gist, who gives woman two souls to
mans one, has found his investiga-
tions into the sphere of femininity
fraught with trouble.
He doesn't even like to talk about
girls now. Certain reports are trou-
bling him.
One ia that he advocates flirting for
girls as q safety valve for their emo
lions. Another makes him say that
the girl of sixteen, with her rats,
puffs, pompadours and curls, is
creature absolutely without religion.
A third is that he has written book
about 1.-The Psychology of Cupid"
Clergymen and teachers have been
writing to ask about that and DR..
Hall says their letters are not pleas
ant reading.
Just see that" exclaimed DR..
Clark. He pointed to a long article |
on his advocacy of flirting II am
represented as standing for that iii
have never discussed that subject SER
iously or otherwise. | am reported
as insisting that the girl of sixteen is
utterly irreligious. All statistics, my
own included, show, on the contrary, i
that this is the most religious stage
on life"
He also protested with yehemence
that he never under any name, had
written a book on love.
! DR.. Hall stands for the girl of six
; teen-rats, puffs, pompadours. and all II
just as he stands for the boy who
/ plays truant, loves to go out with "the
gang, and do other wild things that |
: cityfied parents consider barbaric.
r DR. Hall considers them barbaric, /
, too, and, therefore, logical. Some
r thing of the caveman is in every boy,
9 he believes. % The call to rove IN the
woods, the lure of the first spring
days to the pool where the fish bite,
Y the savageries. the love of the bonfire,
the preference for few clothes. or for
= none at all--all are reverberations In
: the boys soul of those old days when
man went forth to hunt and kill so
that he might not be hunted and
killed.
CITY life Is q dollhouse life that
tends to ripen everything before its
time" the doctor said Stories and
nature, tho field forest, hill, shore,
water, flowers, animals. should all be
big part of the life of the boy"
But he does not attribute vagsries
y of the budding girl to the call to the
primitive. That is why she is the
most intricate and battling problem,
perhaps. that science has faced.
Among the insects. birds. and ami
mails it is the male that puts on
beautiful array when the love season
dawns." Or. Hall said. But with
humans It is the female This is
the season of bangs, curls, puffs.
pompadours. frills, ribbons. possibly
}, rouges and powders. high heels,
Haunting hats. sunshades ornamental
purses, bangles. and very long gloves.
Plain soup, vegetables. and fish irk
her and she presses on TO dessert as
TO the last Illuminating chapter of a
dull novel
But it is at this period that her
duality of self begins to develop a
sort of inner shrine soul that con
tains some of the most primitive in
stincts of her sex, while the other self
is more social, superficial one,
which is occupied with the interests
of her daily life.
THE two lives may be entire strang-
ers to each other, although the upper
self is more likely never to suspect
the existence of the lower. The
" long before the upper has any inkling
y of it, and when It does so a crisis
II arises. Thus woman, who was once
y thought soulless. now comes nearer
z to having two souls than does man. Z"
= In education, DR.. Hall said. not
~ nearly enough attention was paid to
N the teaching of morals. The teach
, ing of courage was especially essen
n tial
y Courage can be taught by different
. methods" he went on. Stories and
Y pictures of heroes and of great deeds
p Of ones countrymen are effective"
% DR.. Hall was questioned about the
!, untruths of children springing from
a Imagination.
q when the boy of two or three" he
y replies. PUSHES in with beaming eyes
% and says he saw a horse with one
horn on its head, dog as big as a
y house or that God met him on the
" lawn and told him not to pick the
- flowers land these are real cases) he
I has discovered for the first time that
. he can really say things that have no
q basis in truth. This marks the mo-
; ment of the conscious birth of the
. Imagination. This leads to Mum
chsusen wonders or tales spun out Of
= pure visual imagery that make the
child first acquainted with the charm
of his new found imaginative power.
Il know / shouldn't consider that
. the kind of lie to be punished
i But back of the whole development
of the individual to-day is q crying
need for more fatherhood and more
motherhood" DR.. Hall said.
Good Vaudeville.
=. The Garrick upholds it's reputation
81 as usual by starting in with splen-
~ did quality of vaudeville-the kind