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to Take Advantage of Scholarship. Blind since childhood, Miss Dorothy Jennings, 1630 Park road, today is & S e gEek 58 FAMILY MEASURIN RODISWORKED T =5 Relationship Between Par- ental Conditions and Neu- rotic Traits Charted. The “good home” can be measured. A measuring rod for the family, worked out for the White House Con- ference on Child Welfare, was explained by Prof. R. W. of the Univer- y_of Oh.lgl‘;u to National Councll of P-;znt ucation meeting here yes- A ] chugm 8,000 public school ninth visions—were used to construct this statistical instrument, Dr. Burgess ex- plained. A succession of questionnaires was used to determine how well each child was adjusted and what sort of & home, described in specific characters, were asked the chil ventory of neurotic such questions as: questions to obtain an in- traits. were Do you feel that mobody lo B0 yon ly loves you? | lik 80 to sleep without cry- losed by the questionnaire. But as each. home went down in the scale the score of un- desirable qualities in came up. Upper Middle Class Homes Best. For boys it was found that a weall home was worse than a home an upper middle class. all. Girls, however, w in wealthy homes, 4 " was de- | when s | scribed by Dr. Rachael Stutsman of t. the children | I allowance or supplying thelr needs when | good hom money instead of [lvlng they asked was fgnnd to be bad for boys and girls. From gether at moving pictures was found a good trait. Girls who “kiss mother every day” were found the best adjusted. The chil- dren were asked which parent they ed the best. The best correlation with desirable traits was obtained with last word.” The chil- dren usually sided with the mother. In the justed homes, it was found, the parents tend to punish mis- takes and reward successes, while in the good homes the tendency was to ignore mistakes and praise successes. — il, is to have automatic 2| New York law goes into WILL BE DISCUSSED Monday Evening Club Principal Speaker to Be Abraham Epstein, New York. ‘The Club_has ranged for a discussion Security” at its publio row night at the Y. W. C. A. City, executive ar er. Mr. Eps is author of the standard under - | Book ‘on the. subjeqt and his association has been an ant factor in the campaign for allowances. s In_announcing the meeti 8. Ufford, president of the ning Club, sald that l:’w'-lh have been a‘n ites an e Territory of Alasks. ‘The effect Jan- uary 1. Miss Louise McGuire, chairman of the Family Committee of the Council of Social Agencles, which made a study of the old-age situation here last Win- ter, is to preside at this meeting and all who are interested in the subject are invited. 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