Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-10-30

prepared for college, IN aQQlClOn
studying astronomy and some other branches. Isl
speaks eight languages; she can recite thousal
poems and she has written nearly five hundr
poems and jingles herself.
Winifred plays the piano well. With no lessor
except the game of making up stories on the piano
she can read over page of Schubert's Serenade
close the book and play it accurately and with mu
expression She can also hear difficult selectit
played and so keen is her concentration she ca
Immediately sit down at the piano and play
Ninifred draws we'll and paints admirably. Like
browning, one would imagine she will hardly
know which to choose for her life work, music,
art or writing, but she is very decided as to what
she expects to do. Winifred is going to earn and
0uy and be the editor of great children's maya
zine
In tracing Wuifred's development chronology
Slly it may be said that she
uSeu poysyilables in conversation at the age
Oh one year; read at the age of sixteen months;
wrote her own name on hotel registers and be-
Ean Keeping diary at the age of two; learned
Tue musical notes and played simple airs on the
p"no and amazed adopts at spelling at three
learned the Latin declensions and conjugations
a. singing exercises and received a diploma in
esperanto at four; wrote stories and jingles for
ae newspapers, spoke eight languages, translated
MOlAer Goose rhymes into Esperanto, learned
VIC waltz twostep and three-step at five; learned
We outlines of Greek, Roman and Scandinavian
IEllologes at seven; composed a poem naming
aaG locating all the bones in the human body at
HsaT and was elected president of the Junior
'Vace League of America at ten
w. now can readers account for the fact that
'luiired Is perfectly normal, happy child, romp-
ls singing loving and lovable gay as the ca
-! she Is giving the freedom of the entire house
u teachlng to whistle and to keep perfect time
" oil the music that she whistles? Winifred has
hundred dolls. AS fast as she learns anything
s Imparts it to her dolls and pets. She Is
,enuy devoted to sports She swims, races,
rays oalI dances and physically she is as well
~ sue is mentally. Her little muscles are strong
~ 1'nor bolts. She is as large an ordinary
om! year-od girl and can walk five miles with
WI the least fatigue
A. ,rHeds father is a colonel and surgeon IN
W marine hospital service of the United States
VT",. ne Is stationed at Pittsburgh. From him
c. ,ni'rea undoubtedly gets her splendid physical
nsas @ ana she is a perfectly well child. She Is
no.h1 0aI ike her father and possesses all ner
Writing al anu NN't0 ''l1
NJ. less remarkable is the little girls mother
so Svoner in her book, Natural Education,
o,n s 70 md nothing in little Winifreds devel-
ss meuI mat might not be attained in any healthy
ST. bright child If this is conceded for the
Sot VI argument, it would have to be admitted
s, wy very few children would have the ao-
bnm seS OF the extraordinary cleverness OF
teacher such as Winifreds. In fact, Mrs
~ mas employed methods peculiarly her own
ss,, 1isht be said that Mrs Stoner has given ten
6snl VI constant labor to the education OF ner
N.. @1s laoor that was not merely constant, but
n, - '@S nter gent and imaginative as Well.
be e "noie secret of Winifred's learning mas
we Play spirit Whatever she was taught