New Britain herald., 1923-02-07
Average Woman Has 800 Words at Her Command "But Has Tremendous Turnover"

'sThe schools of today are turning
 out language pauReHs," according 10
 Harry c. spillman, educational dl-
 rector Of the Remington Typewriter
 company, in an address to the cems
 manNealIh club last evening, Mir,
 sRillmah said the average woman
 only knows about se0 words. but ''she
 has a tremendous turnover"
 A surprise gift Of large birthday
 cake, was presented 10 B, F, Rasselte.
 president of the club in eammemera-
 lion of the Clubs fifteenth anniveFs
 sary, 4 plant was presented 10 Mir,
 Basselte also,
 The decorating committee, with
 Miss Elizabeth Andrews as chairman
 did effective work St, Valentine furn-
 ished the motif, There were turquoise and red crepe runners on the tables,
 with rows Of red apples holding white candles, The eenterpieces of greens, pussy willows and southern cones with eupids lighted here and there gave q gay effective with hearts and darts scattered about and valentines sns- pended from the chandeliers and hbput the fopti
 At the business session nominat- ing committee was appointed consist ing Of F, N. weightman. Mrs, John l.. Davis and l. B. comstoek, They will report at the April meeting when Harry C. ostrander. world traveller. will give an illustrated lecture on Mexico. the Egypt Of the New World"
 The snaalap af fha aranine usas Ar Spillman. who took for his theme: Personality" He called the century just behind ns the Age Of machin- cry and said the century 10 come would be the age Of man power. Man study in the i9th century was devoted more along the line Of physi- ology studies. while heart and mind | and conscience and soul studies have been comparatively neglected. The | before us would show great progress along these lines.
 Having catalogued the earth's natural forces. man has turned again 10 the study of himself. Darwin has been succeeded by a school of applied | who are deflecting the attention of the popular mind from to man-power." Mir. 'pillman is a prominent leader in this lew movement. At one time he was ] member of the reportorial staff of Colonel Henry Watterson's Louisville Later. as a well ,nown educator, the United States government drafted him as a con- tructive hand in the rehabiitating of nen disabled overseas in the late war.
 Personality" said the speaker, lis ften wrecked by failure to think ight; by failure to speak right by allure to act right" In his opinion, he proportion of men who think right 5 not as great today as in the days f Aristotle and Socrates. "Of course re have more knowledge now, but are comparatively rarer ecause comparatively fewer people re deep thinkers. Men always op- ose what they do not understands; ence, the great need of deeper judy of the facts of life rather than he superficial reading which the most f us are prone to indulge in.
 Language" said the speaker lis f iS III SI uiolihStNC lCdtuTt Ol peTSOn- | lity. The average woman" he said did not have over 800 words in her ocabulary, yet she has tremendous I turnover with these 800. The schools oday are turning out language paul I CTS all over America because the vo- c abularies of average scholars are so z mall. Personality, therefore, must be arrow and small Webster's Die | onary is the great source of lan- uage which never grows old" In the peaker's opinion the two greatest influences which change I eople are the people one meets and he books one reads. Newspapers are !. reat ducators but they should be read ! 'ith care and less time put upon news nd more upon the editorial page. The 4 postle Paul." said Mir. Spillman twas le original correspondence school 5 ritter; in fact, the model letter writer ' all time"
 In illustrating the third point of /. ght action, lessons were drawn from . le life of MT. Rosen who died only '. yo weeks ago. He was the model life y solicitor who succeeded in II riting twelve one million dollar f, olicies last year because he went . bout his task expecting to write big olicies for "as man thinketh in his ;, cart, so is he" |,