New Britain herald., 1926-02-19

"In recent years scientists, mainly psychiatrists and educa- tors, have given much attention to the possible relationship between physical and mental characteristics. Numbers of patients in institutions have been cured of mental disorders by treatment for physical ailments or by surgical opera tions on some diseased portion of the body.
 "We have recognized, of course. such simple relationships as the fact that the larger body, as rule, has the larger brain, but it must be emphasized that we do not know the relation between the size of the brain and the grasp or Quickness of the mentality.
 "EDUCATORS are beginning to take
 h especial interest in what we call anthropometrical tests, or tests of the relationship between quickness of mind and the size not only of the cranium but of the body as whole.
 "For instance, in our height-mental test, we found that there appears to be some positive correlation between mental ability and height. In measuring about 50000 school children we found that taller children at each age show a higher percentage of brightness than short children. It was also discovered that feeblc-minded children are shorter as q rule than normal children and that children with abnormalities are inferior in height to children in general.
 It has been pretty definitely estab- lshed that the height of a man is pro- nortionate to the weight of his cere- brunl-the larger the man the larger the brain. A rough estimate of brain weight may be obtained by dividing the height of the body in inches by l.6 for man, and for woman by multiplying this quo- tient by 80-31. Therefore a woman who is five feet four inches will in all proba- biEty have q brain that weighs about 1090 grams.
 "Evcn the weight of the body, I be- lieyc, has a certain relation to the men, tai condition, especially in children. For instance, in measuring 50,000 children, heavier children of the same age as a rule were brighter than the others. As a commentary on this it was found that the children of nonlaborng classes are usually heavier than children of the Iaboring classes.
 Tests of the relationship between the width of the head and mental abil- ity have also been made. Broad-headed children, or those called by anthropolo- gists the brachycephalic, are known to be mentally superior to long headed chil- dren. This deduction was made from the measurements of 1000 children. And the length of the head, it should be remem- bered, is measured from the forehead to the widest point at the back of the head.
 "Colored children proved to have longer heads than white children and also to have less mental ahility. This is, of course, in accordance with the belief of some anthropologists that the width of the head increases with civilization.
 It is also true that out of 2l,930 cases measured it was found that chil- drcn with the largest circumference of head had greater mental ability, which iS in accordance with the geological fact mentioned above, that the larger the head in animals, generally speaking, the greater the intelligence.
 Prom measurements of about 200O children in the schools in Washington and in tho North Carolina mountains. it was found that Il per cent of white children, Is per cent of the North Caro- lima mountain children and 25 per cent of the colored children are dolicocephalic, or long-headed, while Il per cent of the white children, 2S per cent of the North Carolina mountain children and IS per cent of the colored children were brachy- cephalc, or broad-hcaded The others were intermediates.
 This would seem to prove that the tendency among the brighter and more mentally alert children is toward a broad head in accordance with the anthropological truth that barbarous and