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T,cO Fortunate scam elias"

Princess kapurtala who recently ar
rived in Paris after a short sojourn in
Spain. has a history which is a verita-
bic tale Of the "Arabian Nights Her
original name was Anita Delgado She
was a very pretty and very charming
Andalusian ba!lerina. With her sister
likewise a very pretty and very charm
ing girl, she danced on Madrid stage
to-day no longer in existence
One evening the Maharajah Of Kapur-
tala came in the company Of the Grand
Duke Vladimir OF Russia to see the
two sisters dance. They danced under
the name Of LAS Camellas.' The Ma
harajah immc djatcly fell madly in love
with Anita, one of the "Camellas" He
wrote TO her, in French. letters fiery as
the sun of Benares. 1t is said that a
now famous Spanish writer answered
the Maharajahs cpistles. Soon Anita
came TO Paris. learned French and Eng
lish. and finally married the Maha-
rajah.
Several years have passed since. and
country Of Andalusa. as we'll as her
family, which reside at Moloja It is
said That she was sad and restless,
because her husband, who had remained
faithful TO England, was menaced with
death by the revolutionary Hndus.
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Laboratory in Which ths
Work of Children Is
Analysed Is Part Of .
the Institution I

sphere with much more zest if he "a
told to imagine that he must supply
Babe Ruth with new cover for hi.
baseball.
These are only superficial changes nj
the method Of presenting traditional
material. Bat there are structural
changes TO the curriculum. too Do you
remember how your languid interest n
"a" and 81" curlcd up and died when
the whole drama Of the situation
turned on the unknown "x"?
In the ordinary course Of things you
were put through bout with algebra
in the ninth grade or so. and you prob
ably developed loathing for mathe-
MATES from which you never rccov-
cred. Well. now come Schorling ard
Clark and wipe algebra clean of the
slate. There IS nothing that presup.
poses leisure class Ike algebra; 30
per cent Of it i pure waste, anyhow.
It's highly syinbolical even meta.
physical exercise, and should be lefs
TO those who enjoy mathematics for its
own sake But geometry. though ono
was always ricocheting up TO it, ore
did not arrive az it until the tweIfth
grade or so, and by that time ones ma
tcrest in it was dead.
Well, at the Lincoln School g. bo~
gets simple geometry in the shop vora
Of his seventh grade, # not before.
And that brings US 70 that schema
Of correlation which exists there. +:
works Ike this. The study OF media
eval history comedies with the studs
Of romantic literature This then
brings boy face 20 face with Gothic
architecture in his fine arts class. He
brings down come rhythmic designs
with which Gothic architecture wag
enriched, and these develop az sirnpl~
geometric formulas in his mathematic.
class. In this wide sweep many inter.
ests are kindled instead OF one ara
one takes heat from another. The
pragmatic nature OF mathematics Il
demonstrated continually by the calcus
latIOns on shOp work
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Vivid Pictures Are Work
or Children in Classes

rs TINS some primitlvst or coloris t
exhibition to stir the chiidren's minds ."
YOU are ready TO ask, when a little girl
IN green plnafore drifts over to one
Of fhe boards and begins 10 draw in
bold strokes q picture of steamer
noslng her way in among troughs of
waves. her black smoke drifting. These
pictures are the work of children,
They are astonisningly alive with &C
ton, they have a sense Of form, they
even have humor. Every bit Of work
around the room the work Of chill
drcn. A boy is at work at the carpon-
ter's bench making the side pieces Of
a toy bed. which he tells me he will
afterward paint. He cuts the pieces
without a rule. ITS better for him
not TO have a rule. says the teacher.
at develops his initiative.' Another
teacher comes in and the children
flock to n table to play at tea -party.
The conversation is all in French.
There is reading lesson and then it
is acted out.
Or enter the class in creative music
where the walls are hung with Tyre and
psalters and bala laikas and zithers and
all kinds of stringed instruments.
These too, are the work Of the chill
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cord, no quarrel disturbed the harmony
of their domestic life, and when the
neighbors wanted particularly to prove
that married couple were happy they
said: "They live together as the Kings
cotes.' Last year, however. Mrs. Kings
cote fell sick, and her husband sent
ner TO one of the resorts on the Eng
lish coast for recovery. She did re-
cover, and returned home fresh and
blooming. but she brought something
with her that filled her spouse first
with horror and then with furious
wrath, i. e., 4 splendid silver cigarette
box, from which she necessarily took
cigarettes. Mr.. Kngscote was a pas
sIonate non-smoker; he could not en-
dure the smoke. Finally he declared
that it was not ladylike to smoke so
many cigarettes. His wife took ofYense
at this view; they came to cuarrels
solely on account OF her smoking, and
the neighbors. when they wanted to
describe an unhappy marriage, said :
"Ihey live together as the Kingscotcs."
Finally Mr.. Kingscote had enough of
it and sued for divorce In his plea
through his lawyer he argued that a
woman who smoked like chimney
was no lady, and that no one could
compel him to be married to woman
whom he does not consider a lady"
He left it to the court to decide
Practical as justice is in England, it
was decided to get the opinion of a
tobacco dealer as an expert as to
whether lady who smoked fifty Gig
arcttes day was still lady or not
So there appeared before the court a
gentleman tobacconist, VINO said that
while a real lady might smoke, she
should not consume more than four
teen cigarettes daily, for to exceed that
limit was really not quite ladyliks.
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Hoc Long Can ne Lire

How is longevity to be attained e?
Jean Finot in the "Rcvue Mondiale'
gives answer, regarding the subject
from a new aspect First Of all, he
says, the common notions as to the
necessary brcvity Of life must be aban-
doned. Man, he insists, can live $50
years. and this in state of health
that will permit him TO serve himself
through all his physiological and
moral faculties. He says:
zone of the principal reasons for
mans death before 100 years has been
the false idea that so or 90 years
marked the extreme limit Of his ter
restrial life. This auto-suggesti
crept like a poison into mans CON
sciousness and made the ravaces Of
time conform to its contents AS soon
as it is replaced by the truth that we
can attain the age OF a century and
half many persons proceed toward
it with serenity and radiant conditions
OF health.
merly refused to treat in the usual
way people who had exceeded the con-
ventional limits of life. attributing
their infrmities TO Quasi old age, to-
day treat them like other patients
And they obtain unexpected results.
Count Grcppi, who died in 1920 at
the age of 1903, furnishes an edifyinc
example for the centenarians of to-
morrow. The former Italian Ambassador
and Senator had until the last moment
of his life kept up his physiological and
intellectual forces. He, no doubt, would
still be among the living had it not
been for the excessive astonishment
with which he was necessarily regard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-30
! School Aims to Cplift
Education Out Of Rut

In all the rest it is tentative. cxpcri-
mentaI and inquiring hoping some
now 10 find a way to tear education
rom the deep rut which it made when
the world Of knowledge was a single
track, in which it is now mired. The
world has grown too complex for that
KIND Of indeXing of historical facts
that education formerly comprised
so strong is the beat Of the con.
temporaeous world around the child
OF to-day that he cannot bear to defer
Its call while he digs his way up from
remote historical substructures to rot
his first glimpse Of the era he lives in
when he is grown up. He can't bear TO
wait, and his Impotence is the proof
of his Vitality
The world the child lives in today
Is scientific one. IN which the pro
fusion of mechanical creation is merely
sYmptomatic Of the dig,overy Of new
springs Of energy. And yet the teach
ing of science goes on. as perfunctory
and disorganized as if this efTloresccncc
into machinery were not proof Of
creative energy as lyrical in its in
tcnsity as the art Of Greece or the
Renaissance. In fact. what knowledge
of science the child gets is usually
about contemporaneou with the classic
era.
The Lincoln School actually grew out
Of an attempt to organize the teaching
OF science in the secondary schools. SO
that ii would be a scaffolding from
which the child might get some whole
view OF the modern world. About nine
years ago Dr.. Otis CALDWELL now the
director Of the Lincoln School, organ
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observation-disclosures
Heads Each Department

First it must be understood that the
head Of each department is a psych olo-
gist as well a. teacher. and he is
en- osen for his initiative in research in
his given sub ect The work of Raleigh
Schorling and John r. Clark. teachers
OF mathematics in the Lincoln School,
is beginning to attract attention all
over the country. They have started
by revising the problems placed before
the child so that they reach him in
terms that interest him. He is not
asked to consider the case Of an alb
stract man. He is turned 10 his own
problems. Il is asked 10 look at the
family ice bill and compute its fuctu-
ations, which is study in ratios. Or
let him consider the case of some bows
planning camping party, and an anal
ysis OF the plan they bring back. He
learns so to measure distance. Cor COM
putting directions he studies angles. and
the whole involves few Of the simple
elements of .trisonometry. He attacks
the problem Of learning the area Of a
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drcn. Every boy and girl makes mis-
or her own instrument, tunes it and
finally plays it. A class files in with
their newly finished instruments. Sew
cral showed up mechanical defects in
the process Of tuning. "A bad mechanic
makes a bad musician says the
teacher, and the careless ones 20 back
TO the shop to overhaul the scamped
work. The making Of the instrument s
involves a study in mathematics first,
in the use OF tools. besides the principal
one Of music
All that is very we'll in such fads
as fine arts, but where is your solid
academic foundation. asks the old line
pcdagoguc. What are you going to do
about mathematics and history? Set
them 10 music
Well. they are all there, but given
a new approach and a new sequence.
Mathematics offers a good illustra-
ton Of how distractions are made
realistic 10 the child The children Of
Lincoln School are said TO excel in
mathematics. When they are graduated
and 80 to college they go into second
year mathematics. A year saved and il
twelfth grade the mathematics schedule
were not cut down in order to hold
them back.
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ed or his way on account Of his old age.
He was so much tormentcd on account
of his hundred years that he utimate-
" was seized with anxiety and appre-
tensions that undermined and finally
killed him"
Innumerable documents have been
sent 10 NJ. Finot from all parts Of the
globe, enough to fill large volume.
Here is an example, in the contents Of
a recent letter sent to him by the emf
nent Chilean lawyer, NJ Amanda Mo
rago Droguctt, spending member
Of the Society of Comparative Lcgisla-
ton Of Paris:
IN Temuco, where he exercises the
functions of protector Of the natives.
there are. in population Of 10000
souls, more than twenty persons who
have reached the century and-a-half
mark.
And the author Of this document
guarantees the absolute authenticity Of
his statements, resulting from one Of
the most thorough investigations"
Since launched the doctrine Of
longevity. which actually enjoys a sue
cess beyond all my hopes says NJ.
Finot, "others have tried TO surpass my
assertions. Dr.. Eugene Fisk, president
of the Life Extension Institute. a the
annual meeting Of tho New York Mcdi-
cal Society, maintained the doctrine
that it viii oe possible to prolong
human life beyond 1900 years. He
supports his assertion on the fact that
we have succeeded in prolonging by
200 times the existence Of certain
worms; that the tortoise lives over
1000 years, and that several plants
succeed in going beyond tens Of ccntu-
rics.
"Nothing authorizes us, It /. true,
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The judges smiled. and Mr.. Kingscote
looked at his beautiful tobacco loving
wife, who nodded to him, and thus ap-
parently meant that she-in order to
remain true lady-would henceforth
smoke no more than fourteen Gig
arettes. Apparently MIR. Kingsote COR
rectly interpreted this look, for he
quickly withdrew the divorce suit, and
Mrs. Kingscote will henceforth of
ficially' smoke no more than fourteen
cioarettes q dav
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seen but often dreamed. five Auudrcd
little Joans and Peters arc learning to
subjugate the world that awaits them.
The Lincoln School, now in its fifth
year, is an unusual institution. 1t is
an elementary and high school, asso-
ciated with Columbia University. But
1t has wider purpose than to provide
an unusual education for the chill
dren who are in it. 1t is research
laboratory for public education. whose
subjects are privileged childrcn-real-
ly private school for public use
It's roots arc in the teachings of john
Dewey, whose precept Of learning by
dong Is perhaps the only dogma that
i, processes.
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Description of Temple
OF Learning For Young

But description Of what goes on in
the school will have moro meaning if
the school itself is first described
physically.
1t is building 100 feet long and
about 100 feet deep fronting on Morn
incside Park, that takes in avid gulps
Of light and air through huge windows
set on all sides. 1t has class-rooms more
spacious than the ordinary, a completed
theatcr and high-vaulted music room
with four small rooms leading of it
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10 accept this doctrine, which only
brings in its favor arguments that have
no bearing on human physiology. Yet
it must not be rejected with contempt;
for, however improbable it be, this and
all similar doctrines can only help the
triumph Of the real doctrine of normal
longevity that should attain century
and half"
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Or observe how history il taught I
sat in history class which began With
a chapter about the chartist movement
and finished with q wide discussion oN
labor movements, immigration and go.
cialism. All had read the Communists
manifesto. They night be handling tn.
highly infammable materials Of his
tory, but they We're not panicstricken.
as their elders are-only interested
Though their interest in the past is
simply for its connection with the
present. there IS proved way to make
the past come alive. too. Newspapers
Of the period. cartoons Of the time. en-
cravings. letters and mem irs. all these
serve as historical source material"
From these. instead Of predigested facts
and opinions. the child may draw his
hnow edge Of the period he "a study
ing and form his own conclusions.
The English department. too. feels
the beat toward mporaneousness
Here in the upper grades Sandburs and
Lindsay, Masefeld and Amy Lowell are
IN high fashion. But the teacher
doesn't worry for the fate, Of the class
les. They are right to be more inter-
ested in the moderns. These speak
their own language. and its natural
enough that they should use their own
speech first. When they have enough
Of that they'll come 10 the classics OF
their own accord And they do.
The Lincoln School maintain. .
laboratory in which the childs work
IS analyzed by individual and standard
tests ard here where trained psycho'c.
glsts sit ard put appraising fingers on
TINS and that center OF the childs m nd
they have at last found absolution fo-
the child who cannot keep his mind on
the world Of the past while the present
clamors around him for explanation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-30
Social Studies Course
Evolved in Laboratory

One Of these laboratory evolutiens
is the organization OF contemporary
history into course called socisl
studies. It comprises current events,
economics. civics, sociology and geoe-
raphy. Here, to the limit of h;s
capacity. a child may absorb the facts
Of finance. transportation political sys.
TENS and such like undesirable STUFF
Of history in the making
But no revolution Of the educational
system would have any significance
that did not include some readjustmens
of the position of the teacher. No re.
vltalzing of education Is possible
where teachers are hacks, underpaid
and patronized. The Lincoln School
pays its teachers salaries that would
mark them as successful in other lines
and the JOB of routine teaching is leav-
ened with opportunity for research
work
SO great has been the success OF the
school that in the fifth year Of ia
existence the hardest job of its head is
choosing those he can take. There are
almost three times as many applicants
as the school can admit.
1t aims at a democratic composition.
For every two paying pupils it takes
one free pupil. The free pupil is not
in any way distinguished from tn.
others. 1t aims also q. some varied
racial mixture. Last year the prize
pupil was a Bohemian girl. the daugh-
ter of an immigrant-an she was not
a free pupil either,
Whether democracy can be so syn.
thetically achieved or whether the
rough and ready quality of American
life can be so easily reproduced is
something left open to doubt. Pictur.
esque though the juxtaposition of mil.
lionaires' and laborers' children NAV he
it is not in this that the schools name
IS vindicated. II is rather for irving
TO devise realistic and pragmatic
scheme of education that Ats the ma.
jcrity TO pass the test OF democracy
IS we'll as caring for individualistic
needs.
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.-HE Deweys and Montessoris will
get their recognition from the
educators and it is likely that
they ask for no other But 20
the world at large the whole field Of
modern education goes to MIR. Wells.
who communicating his evaporation
with the old-hne education to the par
ents Of his time, has walked them to
the realization that there is no keener
sporting proposition than the hunt for
a rational education for the child.
And mere l djgrcsS to offer an idea
that has sometimes entertained me.
Imagine useful and important
member OF our world say. a banker. a
awycr or a reporter the sole sur
yiyor Of 3 wreck. You are 10 see HIM
stripped by his struggle with the Gle
ments, without his clothes. his eve
glasses or even his frat pin. cast up
hreathlcss into a circle Of ignorant
though good-natured savages. For the
sake OF the illustration YOU are asked
70 entertain the manifest absurditv
thai he and the savages can speak the
sane language.
You may imagine with what aston
ishment these heroically proportional
though stupid men and women regard
this slack specimen OF our scdentaYy
r.v1l',ntior. Or how, finding him in
adequate 20 the simplest emergency
o, their Arcadjan existence, they Won
der that such an inept creature could
possibly have survived in any scheme
Of living. Consider. too. how CALLING
!. must become to an intellectual and
cultivated person TO be patronized at
.very turn by these rude savages.
Imagine, then, when his gratitude has
assumed its proper proportions and
ther crude depreciation Of him be-
comes intolerable, that he decides to
give them an earful on the glories of
the civilization that has bred him.
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Did Leonardo Name .fncrica?

Again the origin Of tho name Amer
lea is in question. Hitherto it has
been generally supposed that Martin
Waldseemucller. Of st. Die. first APP
piled it to the Western Continent. But
now Professor w. Harrington, after
long research, asserts that Leonardo
"a Ninci gave this name.
In 1907. after Columbus's death, de-
c]arcs Professor Harrington, Martin
Waldscemucllcr published a book in
which he asked that the new continent,
which had been visited four times by
Amerigo Nespucci. should be named by
the latter
The first map of the country discov-
cred by Columbus, printed in Rome in
1903, bore only the mention New
World Likewise a second edition pub
Iished in Strassburg in 1909.
And it was the map made by Leo
nardo da Ninci in 1914 which. for the
first time, horc the name Of America.
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Her sister. the other "Camellia," ha
married an American millionaire.
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o. their Arcadan existence. they Won
DER that such an inept creature could
possibly have survived in any scheme
OF living. Consider. too, how calling
!. must become to an intellectual and
cultivated person TO be patronized at
every turn by these rude savages
Imagine, then, when his gratitude has
assumed ITS proper proportions and
their crude depreciation Of him be
comes intolerable, that he decides to
give them an earful on the glories of
the civilization that has bred him.
Savages vs.. Wonders
or Modern Invention
Where I come from VIC have carts
That do not need TO be drawn; they
move Of themselves by means or en-
gines that We have built inside them.
We have vehicles in which We soar
into the ar and that carry us flying
svfter than the simoom. We make
buildings 1000 feet high We talk to
me another over thousands of miles
mo s9F7geS are stunned INTO silence.
rncn one asks: The horsclcss cart
'"" does ITS move -
why, YOU throw in your clutch, re
ease the brake set your spark which
,ocds tho ignition and ii moves an
S"ers the Parsonage easily.
Inc savage seems to take that in.
"ut rs tnat all: he asks. Doesn't
S'methIng so on INSIDE the creature
mat makes 1t 20
on yes. There IS lot more. But
am not mechan'c' l don't know
ms HElhg 'hlog' asks anothe1
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II Smokes for Real Lady

Not more than fourteen cigarettes a
day, ladies, if you please! The fifteenth
would be scarcely less fatal than
the fruit
or that forbidden tree, whose mortal
Brought death into the world. and all
our won
Besides, it Nigh, subject the fair
smoker to tho pains and penalties of a
divorce suit, on the ground that she is
no lady,
The beautiful Mrs. Kingscote had
married her husband for love, and he
had adored his charming wife. No dis
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Inc Lincoln School "A Research Laboratory for
The Dewey Precept of
Learning by Doing Is
the Keynote of the
Curriculum
Bv Rebecca Drucker

r~HE Deweys and Montessoris will
get their recognition from the
educators and it is likely that
they ask for no other. But 20