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What tAbout Qhild intelligence?

THERE is only By uttered the words
one disadvan- that now make me
tage in being RUTH O'BRIEN break out in goose
considered a special- MCCARN, flesh: "Are there any
ist in the field of questions that you
child psychology: Tau would like to ask
one is supposed to Mrs. McCarn? I
be able to give Above—Ruth McCarn dis- know she will be
brief, infallible ad- plays Sarah, aged six months. glad to answer them.
vice—patient un- Below—Davis and Sarah She knows a great
seen. deal about children.
She has one of her
The first time I own." (That last is
addressed a group wrong too; I have
of mothers i n Chi- two children.) Three
cago I took as my of them spoke at
subject, "How Can once, but I was firm
I Gauge the Intelli- about answering
gence of M y Child?" only one at a time.
I developed i t beau- "What can you do
tifully I thought: it with a fourteen-year-
was scholarly but old boy who won't
not pedantic, accu- change his under-
rate but not statisti- wear nor take
cal. They listened baths?" " M y little
with flattering at- boy is afraid of
tention and I was germs and won't
stimulated thereby touch a dish that
to offer further i l - anyone else has han-
lustrations of the dled." "What would
Points I wanted them you do with a child
o understand. And that eats her
« e n came the time clothes?" The only
w h e n the chairman

seem healthy and happy.