Judge — February 19, 1916 — page 11: what you’re looking at

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\ rN} WY AS ACN RN (7 ae GS LoS The novtce—How's that, eh > Precocity SCE YVERY PARE ys Anna List, the well-known decadent child specialist, “should keep a sharp lookout for early symp- toms of precocity among all children under sixteen months of age. The alarming predominance of medi- cre human beings is ample proof that mothers and fathers are failing to detect and stimulate the dormant genius that nestles in the coming generation. All psychologists, both leading and misleading,” continues Miss List, ‘tare agreed that if chil- dren are going to be precocious they will have to be started early in life. Dr. List believes that the good old days, when it was looked upon as. an honor to have reared a family of healthy, psychologically nor- mal boys and girls, are gone forever. She says that most of the publicity and all of the lecture dates will in the future go to those mothers whose children have astounded the world with their learn- ing long before they have had time to acquire any common sense “One thing that the mother must be sure to do,” cautions Anna List, “i keep an accurate journal from the minute she decides to make a genius of her child. his, as I have intimated, will probably occur some time during the first crucial months of the child’s caree ¢ been cited where such deci- sions have been ously reached even before this time. The journal is, of course, invaluable when it comes to com- piling the books that the publishers and the public in bly call for.” Dr. List has, it is hoped, gone to the root of this science of producing precocious children. Her insistence upon early watchfulness and immediate action again demonstrates the keenness of her vision and the great common sense with which her intellect is endowed.—H. W. Dee. teen Cases ha Don’t you think I'm getting on ? This is the first time I've really skated ! Hospitals and Doctors HE Trained Nurse may not have the siren-song, but the young Inter roped tothe mast pretty tight to get by, un- married. al School provides considerable information, and the Clinic not a little practical knowledge, but the kid_ practi- tioner must needs fill his gasoline tank with plain bluff, till he gets something better. The fair young patient draws out much sym- pathy from the youthful medico, but a cranky old chronic is more likely to provide something for him to draw on, in the bank. The Hospital tramps and the convalescents are fired with speed, and the down-and-outs go another way without loss of time, but Dan. Cupid has such a pull that even the Staff cannot run him out. ‘The Medical Man sometimes scoffs at religion, and the Surgeon talks materialism, but they do more real faith-healing than the religious practitioners ever dreamed of. The Average Man drops a trifle, and the Poor Man pays nothing, but the Rich Patient bleeds for the benefit of both, muchly. A little knowledge is doubtless a dangerous thing, but there is no real danger, to the doctor, unless the patient discovers it. Charles Irvin Junkin. Penelope—Don't you think it’s silly to have conscription for unmarried men? The married ones have had so much better practice! comicbooks.com