The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
How To Test
 Mentality Of
 Your Children
French Scientist DeviseS an h. teresting Plan-Tests For
 Various Ages

Every mother is anxious about her child's intelligence-eager to know if it is comparing favorably with other peoples children. Recently a French professor has devised scale which enables a mother to test her child and see if, at given age, it posses ses the powers considered normal by this particular professor, at any rate, who has worked out the following scale, officially, for the French Gov ernment:
 Mentality of One and Two Years.
 1. Eye follows light.
 2. Block is grasped and handled when placed in the hand.
 3 Suspended spool is grasped when seen.
 4. Candy is chosen instead of block
 ,. Paper is removed from candy be- fore eating, child having seen the wrapping.
 G. Child obeys simple commands, and initiates simple movements.
 Mentality of Three Years.
 1. Touches nose, eyes, mouth and pictures of these, as directed.
 ?. Repeats easy sentences of six syl- fables, with no error.
 5. Repeats two numerals.
 4. Enumerates familiar objects in pictures.
 5. Gives family name.
 Mentality of Four Years.
 6. Knows own sex
 7. Names key, penny, knife.
 8. Repeats three numerals in order, when heard once.
 g. Tells which is longer of lines diff fering by centimeter.
 Mentality of Five Years.
 
 12 grains, and 15 grams. II. Draws, after copy, square that can be recognized as such.
 12. Rearranges a rectangular card that has been cut diagonally into two triangles.
 13. Counts four pennies.
 Mentality of Six Years.
 IA. Shows right hand. left ear.
 15. Repeats easy sentences of six teen syllables.
 16. Distinguishes pretty from dis tinctly ugly or deformed faces in pie lures.
 F. Defines in terms of use, the words, fork, table chair, horse, man. ma, three satisfactorily. IS. Performs three commissions giv- en simultaneously. 19 Knows own age. 20. Knows whether it is forenoon or afternoon.
 Mentality of Seven Years. 21 Notes omission of eyes, nose, mouth or arms from as many por- traits g. States number of fingers on right | hand, left hand, both hands without counting. g. Copies written phrase, with pen, so that it can be read. A. Draws diamond shape, from copy so that it can be recognized 25. Repeats five numerals in order i when pronounced once at half-second |  26. Describes pictures shown in No. | 27. Counts thirteen pennies 2S.. Names penny, nickel, dime, silver | dollar
 Mentality of Eight Years. 29 Reproduces correctly two facts, after once reading seven lines about | a fire.
 30 Counts values of six stamps, three ones and three twos, in less than fifteen seconds.
 31. Names red, green. blue, yellow. g. Counts from 20 to 0 in twenty seconds, with not more than one er- TOT.
 33. Copies easy dictation, so that it can be read
 34 States differences between paper ana ClOIH, OuLI6Tuy anu WOoO anu glass, ir two minutes, satisfac- torily,
 Mentality of Nine Years. 35 Names the day and date. 36. Names days of week in order, in ten seconds.
 37. Gives correct change from quarter paid for an article costing 4 cents.
 sS Defines in terms superior to
 
 39. Reproduces six facts from seven ines read once, in No. 2e. 40. Aranges, in order of weight ooxes of same size and appearance weighing 6, g, 12, 15, and IS grams, in three minutes. two out of three trials. i
 Mentality of Ten Years. fl. Names the months in order, all lowing one omission or inversion, in fifteen seconds.
 42. Names a penny, nickel dime, quarter, half, dollar, two, five and ten- dollar bills, in forty seconds. 43. Uses three given words in not more than two sentences.
 A Tells what one should do if misses train, if unintentionally struck by playmate, or if breaks an object be- onging to others. Two satisfactorily. 45. Tells what should do if late for school, or before undertaking an inn oortant affair, and why we should Judge by acts rather than by words. CTwo other questions may be asked.)
 Mentality of Eleven Years. 46 Detects incongruities in three put of five statements, in about two minutes.
 47. Uses three given words in one sentence.
 AS. Names at least sixty words in .hree minutes.
 49. Defines charity, justice, good less, two satisfactorily. 50. Rearranges shuffled words of ,ight-word sentences, two out of three, r, with one minute for each.
 Mentality of Twelve Years. l. 51. Repeats several numerals in or Ter, when heard once. 52. Names three words that rhyme with ''obey' in one minute. B. Repeats, with no error senten- es of twenty-siX syiables. 54. Infers a fact from given cir 'umstances which indicate the fact.