Tombstone epitaph., 1915-06-06
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HS2tEVN tors to be in every re spect the best developed .hild in the United States, recently spoke in New York theater on Nat Iral Education" l.500 women were turned away because there was not even standing room available.
 The most significant incident came after her informal address. when Mrs stoner invited the "kiddy-kids." as she called them. to come up on the stage and play with her. There was an i'm mediate and scrambling response She Is love at first sight to all children: that was apparent. They rush in stinctively toward her as bees head toward flower bed that holds sweets Tn store for them. Pell-mell the chil- 1ren, who never had seen her before, swarmed about her, embracing her knees, clinging to her hands. and without touch of self-consciousness though the theater was packed to the pit. fell to learning how to say "howdy 10" and "good-by" in Japanese To this they added under her magic tuition a poem In Chinese. a bit of Mother Goose" in Esperanto. a game played in Latin and lullaby in French.
 It was easy enough to see how one who could teach children these things In 15 minutes could as teacher of her own daughter achieve the marvellous results that have made Winifred Sack vile Stoner. Jr.. the most prominent hgure in the group of supernormal children that the magazines and news papers have exploited so largely for the past few years.
 Winifred Stoner at twelve writes 1 and speaks eight languages fuently; she has written for publication since she was five years old and has num- Der of books to her credit, among these translation of Mother Goose" into Esperanto rhyme under the title Pa trino Anserino." that has been pro nounced by college professors worthy of professional linguist or a poet of standing"
 She has written French verse. a sui frage book entitled "A Plea for Gallant Knights" and is now translating her mothers Natural Education" into French
 She has passed college examinations for degrees successfully and has taught class in Esperanto in the Carnegie | institute in Pittsburgh.
 | And she knows most of the Latin classics by heart
 Withal, her mother contends that she Is not prodigy. but just normal. healthy. happy child who finds as much pleasure in Peter Rabbit" as she does in the classics and who has ambitions to grow up to be cowgirl and a maga, zine editor. Mrs. Stoner shrinks from having the apple Of her eye exploited as a psychological problem. It is only her keen love for children and interest in what may be achieved for them 1 through natural education that she was persuaded to put her experience and methods with her baby into book form and to lecture on the subject. Mrs Stoner talked more at length about her work to a representative of the New York Press in her apartment | in New York hotel Winifred. the wonderful child. was getting ready for | bed at eight o'clock. She came when | her mother called-a rather sleepy lit | tie girl, with her shoes already unbut- ! toned-and obedienty recited one | Oration from Cicero. There is noth- ing of the pedant about the child. Mrs. Stoner believes that the des- tinies of all nations are in the hands | of it's mothers. The destiny of na- tions lies far more in the hands of 1 women-mothers-th in the hands | of those who possess power" she | quotes Froebel We must cultivate women who are the educators of the human race, else a new generation cannot accomplish its task The Chi. nese were the first people to collect facts and to give general information to pupils in schools, but their civiliZa. ton did not advance until they lifted the ban from a woman learning, and since they have awakened to the truth of like mother. like son. they are
 making vast strides.
 Man owes everything to woman
 Mrs. Stoner says. "She is the source
 of his existence: but as a stream can
 not rise higher than its source, so the
 son cannot outshine his mother. It is
 for this reason that few great men .n
 the past have had great sons. These
 men were often so engrossed in theil
 great works that they did not take
 time to choose their mates wisely
 Therefore, in many cases the children
 were nodded by their mothers into in
 ferior casts"
 Those who expect to see an intel
 lectuaI prodigy in Winifred Stoner art
 surprised that she comes nearer real