The Washington times., 1920-05-08
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The Skull IsLike the ShellOfaNut
1t Is What Is Inside That Really Counts

You read In the columns that great scientist
dying, gives his brain to another great scientist
You realize that 1t is only the material brain that Is
transferred In ownership and you perhaps think what
wonderful thing 1t would be he could have passed along
the wisdom that few hours before treasured up in
that wrinkled gray matter
Genius cannot transfer. knowledge is transferred
every hour Of the day in the printed record of great
intelects.
No matter how wise man may have been or how
emnen in his profession there is information on one
shelf in the public library than any man, working all
his life subject could accumulate by his own efforts
There is not single subject you think of that has
not been written about and all the information about 1t
oollated in accessible form books Reading them you
make yourself the heir of all the wisdom In the world
the days Of the papyrus rolls and stone tablets Of
Egypt and Assya down to the last theory OF the most
advanced student of the twentieth century.
Brains die but knowledge lives and knowledge is so
cheap accessible that there for ignorance
The average male brain weighs about three pounds
The brain Of chmpanzee weighs considerably less than
pound The gbbon classified by biologists with the high
apes has manlke brain at ALL since gray matter almost
absent
The brains of more than q hundred eminent have
been weighed examined and classified Among these the
men following the profession Of exact sciences had the heav
es brains The next of action in law government
and military affairs Following them were philosophers and
natural scientists.
The heaviest brain OF which there IL any record was
that Of Oliver Cromwell which weighed five and quarter
pounds Lord Byrons brain is said to have weighed eight
grams more than Cromwes but there authentic
ord Of its weighing.
steinz the great chess player who died insane, had
brain notable for its frontal forehead development His
forehead bulged prominently to distort his eyes
Every great thinker with marked powers of concentra
on and reenve memory has been characterized by prom
nence of the front part of the head.
Look at your child and the forehead is not prominent
begin early train him in thinking in concentration and
in memory for these powers that in be
attained by training.
Study your chld's head carefully and care for it
attentivey.
The skull when the child is born is almost soft Some
portions Of it, like that at the top and 'front.' called the
fonanele have bony formation at all for months
after birth.
Do not bind contne the head of child in any way
Do tie close bonnets it bandage it. See that it
does lie for long periods resting its head side to
the exclusion of the other.
You may not be able to make Voltare a Beethoven
Newton out of plain John Smith, but by you may
help him in his mental growth by preventing outside cond
tons from interfering with inside development.
your child has finely shaped head, rejoice. If it is
just ordinary head make up your mind to help much
as you can in making the brains that inside Of it
valuable and productive as possible