Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-04

- child prodiees' 1t perhaps, just we'll That
Z youthful geniuses for if the good die
young" precocious children. At least that the
conclusion of authority the subject who checked
the careers children with extraordinary
nariy gifted is little surprising to say the least
The two of Quintilan celebrated Roman writer,
praised by father did reach their tenth year
Pascal whose genius developed at ten years of age did
attain third of century Plea di Mrandoa passed
away 32Johannes Secundus died at 25 having at the
of Is composed admirable Greek and Latin verses and
profoundly learned in jurisprudence and letters
Hermogenes the of Is taught rhetoric to Mar
Gus Aurelius and triumphed the celebrated
orators die but the age of "a lost
faculties and forgot all that he had previously acquired
1871 child born in Lubbock Germany, named
Henri Henneken whose precocity was miraculous AT ten
months of age he spoke distinctly at II months he had
the Pentateuch by rote and at IA months he
perfectly acquainted the Old Testament At years
he familiar with ancient history the most erudte
of antiquity Sauson and Danvie only could
pete with him in geographical knowledge In ancient and
modern language he was as proficient But this wonder
child carried off by death in his fourth year so his
talents lost to the world.
Despite their brief however the concert stage
has proved gold mine to several musical prodges Pepto
Rodriguez the marvellous boy pianist at the age OF three
years could play air from which he had once
heard He received very little regular education
vet he was paid the of 81 900 night for his
recitas Paris almost much in the United States
At the age of ten Josef Hoffman, earning $4,000
year He studied under Rubnsten and toured through
Europe giving all the principal cities Desiring
larger he crossed the Atlantic and gave So re-
cals, which brought him profit of 100000 which is
at any age.
Another remarkable youth, Otto Hegner made
before he out of his teens and then
retired but weary doing nothing, he began to teach
fees which aggregated the respectable
total of $4,000 a year to enhance his savings.
But Zerah Colburn of Cabot, Vermont, who had some
shrewdness found his great powers calculator
not bring him than meager living from the
people who to his public exhibitions Yet at the age
years asked give the number of seconds
years After figuring mentally for several
minutes replied unhestatingy correctly that there
63072 600 600 seconds in that many years,
Italy justly proud of her boy sculptor, Victor
Righett who was earning more $40 year when
only years Long before that Righet had modelled
gurines sold for $500 each and when not out of his
teens making larger income than any other Italian
sculptor his time, while of his works were
toned breath with those of Michelangelo But
Righetu scarcely today. and his art to
belong to another
Many will remember the 11-year-old boy marvel
named William James sids who many years ago
astounded the world well the professors and mahe
NAUTICAL wizards of Harvard he gave lecture
the subject of the fourth dimension The dgned savans
sat in respectful silence while young sdis expounded
his theory thus.
The fourth dmensional space is formed by projecting
line perpendicular 70 the lines of third dimensonal
figures figures the dimensiona
The dmensional space Euclidian space with
dimension added The fourth dimension solid is
called CONFORMATION and be easily worked out by
Oyler's theorem. A fourth dimensonal figure
structed called poyhedrgon and il possible
this theorem figure dmensonal sides
called hecatoncocehedrgon 1t also possible
in this figure with 500 sides
up three dmensiona figures which called
hedrgon There frequently gaps eft the
space which simply fl By slipping polyhedfi-
CONS
With the aid Of piece Of crayon and the blackboard
the youngster explained the construction the
fourth dimensona figures unknown to many the
professors present Sds claimed that the
advanced would revoutionze the study geometry.
they didn't and hears of William James
sids anymore One thing is certain however At the con-
eluson Of his dissertation handed him 500
presented him With those money
awards such given nowadays Nevertheless one
if such genius has very short life Is the
permanent fame the latter how long
gifted viii live profit by Il