How Big Is A Cow?

In the American report of tkn cn:nrnissioner of educa fio: i for 1Ë02-3, pnblisbed at Washington, tijore is a most thoroHgbsoiiJg report 011 "CbilJ Siuuy." or, as it is b letames calied, "Paidology. " A bibliography of about seven pages, in booka and articles, shows how mnob utti'iition bas been bostowcd ou the subject in the Uuited States. Dr. Stanley Hill, president of a society for this study, tells us .that in 1879 four "kindergarteners" in Boston took some children aside and endeavored to find out the contents of their minds, and the result was published ia the Princeton Revie-w for 1 880. Dr. Stanley Hill says: "Thirty-three per cent of these children on entering school had never seen a livechicken; 51 per cent had never seen a robin ; 76 per cent had never seen a growing strawberry; 71 per cent of the Boston children had never seen growing beans even in Boston. Our school textbooks are based on country life, and the city child knows nothing, in the large cities, oí real country life. ' ' Here is one instance : A large percentage of these children, upon being asked how large a cow was, showed that they had little idea. One thought a oow was as large as her cat's tail. Auother thov.ght that a cow was as big as her thumb nail. One wonld like to kiiow if these youug folks had