Williams news., 1915-06-17

lESSESlf tors to be in every re-
 spect the best developed :hild in the United States, recently | spoke in New York theater on Nat | lral Education" 1,5O0 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 inn 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 In store for them. Pell-mell the chil- dren, who never had seen her before, swarmed about her, embracing her knees, clinging to her hands, and without touch of self-conseiousness, 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, 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 figure 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 and speaks eight languages fuently; she has written for publication since she was five years old and has a num- Der of books to her credit, among these a 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 poet of standing"
 She has written French verse, a suf 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 a 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 | o1o ;,, .GD D. in the classics and who has ambitions to grow up to be cowgirl and maga- zine editor. Mrs. Stoner shrinks from having the apple of her. eye exploited as psychological problem. It is only her keen love for children and interest in what may be achieved for them 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 representative of the New York Press in her apartment in a 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 obediently 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 oi -mothers-than in the hands of those who possess power" she quotes Froebel I've must cultivate women who are the educators of the human race, else a new generation cannot accomplish it's task. The Chi nese were the first people to collect
 facts and to give general information to pupils in schools, but their civiliza
 tion did not advance until they lifted
 the ban from woman learning, ant
 since they have awakened to the trutf
 of like mother, like son. they art
 making vast strides.
 Man owes everything to woman,
 Mrs. Stoner says. "She is the source
 of his existence; but as stream can
 not rise higher than it's source, so th'
 son cannot outshine his mother. It fl
 for this reason that few great men il
 the past have had great sons. Thes'
 men were often so engrossed in thei great works that\ they did not talk time to choose their mates wisely Therefore, in many cases the childrel were nodded by their mothers into in ferior casts"
 Those who expect to see an intel lectual prodigy in Winifred Stoner ar
 surprised that she comes nearer real