Evening Star Newspaper, August 13, 1926, Page 10

1026 n United States and Great ritain, by American Newspaper (Coprright Britaiy ortl Alaincer. Al rights reserved 1 LMOST every mother of school child who is not so far advanced as he should be VI.—The Five-Year-0ld Who Read in quick explanation Kipling. boy has lost a whole grade in school because we've moved &bout so much. They always put children back. you know. when they # new school.” Ilizabeth was in school eight terms altogether. > different schools, and made high school and school to school started at the end of her first half term in the acad- Waco, Tex. As I have told in preceding thi: the second g14 and 8 months, with. been enrolled as a And I had never working pter just yromoted t ing ught her m it and da When she wis exact she entered the second g had read fairy tale books with greedy rapidity during the long Summer va- cation, and within one week after school opened it was quite apparent that she was ad of her class. She was immediately transferred to the high second, where she made an A record every month. Move to Kansas City. : when Elizabeth id 3 months old, I re- from the Kansas City 1 serial novel for that per. at a just three times beginning wage as a4 newspaper reporter. 1 accepted, and took Eliza- beth to Kansas City with me, both of us immensely thrilled at the prospect of living in a.large city. Elizabeth shared my elation over the fact that a big city newspaper had sought my xervices. The worst of the struggle was over. In the distance, by using the high-powered binoculars of our imagination. we could see what looked like our ship coming in. The public school near our mnew Kansas City home at first refused to consider Elizabeth as a” pupil ready for the third grade. She was only vears old, wasn't she? Then she should be in kindergarten. Children under 6 were not even admitted to the first grade. T persuaded the prin- cipal of the Irving School to glve her an examination, promising to be con. tent with her showing. She passed the regular Kansas City public school examinations for the third grade, anG was reluctantly admitted. wo months later, after 1 had got ten my new fiction serfal well under way. [ received. to my intense sur prise, an offer from the publisher of the People’s Popular Monthly, at Des Moines, lowa, to become the editor of azine, at what seemed to me + magnificent salary. 1 made ments to mail ir s to the Kansas City Post, the editorship, movix Moines about March 1 of that ceived an offe Post, to write Des year. In Fourth Grade at Five. The public schools of Des Moines refused to accept Llizabeth before she s 5 years old, so T n placed her in a Catholic convent, as a boarder. r the rest of the school term. My work was extremely heavy, since T was writing the serial novel and edit- fng the magazine—strange, ~new work—at the same time, and I did not have time to hunt for an apartment, or to take care of it if found. 1 hoarded near the convent and saw Elizabeth almost daily. She seemed to be quite happy playing with the other children, but she was extremely eager to be at home with me again. “RBut you have chums here,” T ointed out to her, though my own eart was heavy with loneliness. al duating from | Elizabeth on Graduation Day. use up her abounding energy. 1 had a typewriter at home, and that Sum- mer she taught herself to use it. At first she copied, with careful accuracy pages from the books she was read: making tentative efforts at writing little stories of her own. They were mere fragments, some- times single paragraphs of descrip- tion. One was an amusing “ch study,” as she called it, borrowing a term she had heard me use, of Tight, the aged bulldog who belonged down stairs, but who had adopted Elizabeth as his particular f-iend. he was_ reading Kipling’s “Just So Stories” and his Jungle Books being among her fa- One d writer an_unfinished letter to Rudyard Kipling telling him how much she liked his books, and asking bout “the elephant's child.” I to say that the letter was wuthor's address. Barrie's “Pet nd Wend. gave her the keene: the books she had read at that time. So exceedingly affluent did I feel in my new position that I committed my first_real extravagance. I bought a small sedan—a ‘“‘used” c: which never lived up to its previous owner’s claim that it was as good as new Slizabeth promptly christened the car enriett: “Henrietta” took us on many a though they amused her and made her feel very grown-up, did not begin to ing, but soon I noticed that she was racter omnivorously, him if he wouldn't please write some | , for we did not know the | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, glorious adventure, but her service in the mptter of getting Elizabeth to and from the Des Moines Public Library endeared her to the child forever. Two or three mornings a week Elizabeth was left at the library, while I went to the magazine offices to work. At noon, I called for her and took her home to lunch with me. Over the {meal she chattered excitedly about | the books she had been reading, and I was constantly being amazed at the rapidity with which she read. At first | T accused her of skimming through {4 book without half reading it, but | her ability to quote long passages | almost verbatim, and her insistence upon telling me the entire story con ! vinced me that somehow she did ab | sorb every word on every page. Three years later a psychologist who had been testing and observing the child, explained the phenomenon of her extremely rapid reading. He had discovered that she read in blocks pe down_the page, taking in as as five lines at a glance, as one does a picture on a wall. I watched her and saw that it was true; her eyes do not move from left to right from line to line, but jump down the page, making about three shifts. By actual test it was discovered that she read five times as fast as the average reader, and, in the reproduction of ideas test, to retain far more than the adults who took the test with her. fact. her reproduction of a page fron a text book on philosophy was almost | verbatim, though she had never seen | the matter before. It was Midsummer that year when Elizabeth, e of %5 vears and 4 | months. was given her first mentality test, under the Binet-Simon system o' determining mental It_happened accidentally and d iy, and 1 was almost as much startled by the results as were the psychology ex perts of the University of Towa, where the test was made. (Continued“in tomorrow’s Star.) $50 DOWN rids you of heat.worries forever. Before you buy i your winter’s coal, investigate the | Quiet May AUTOMATIC O0il Burner! Biggs Engineering Co. i 1310 14th St. N'W. Washington. D. C. Frank. 550-551 Miller-Lacey Co., Inc. 266 Carroll Ave. D. C. H. H. Watkins Va. Warren W. 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