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height, weight, size of head, and size of chest of each boy and girl, by which physiologists, and others who choose to compare these statistics with average measurements, may form some judgment of the physical condition of these

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"Seventeen of these children have been always healthy, or only subject to the ordinary slight illnesses of young persons. Several had the scarlet fever when it was prevalent in the neighborhood; but the sequela have been slight.

"Five were quite delicate in infancy, but have steadily improved under the care of the department, and are now, in the ordinary sense of the term, healthy children. One of them has a habit of constipation, brought on by bad management soon after birth, but is likely to outgrow it.

"Two that are sisters inherit diseased tendencies, their mother's family having been very scrofulous. The elder (Rose in the table) was deformed by rachitis (rickets) at five years of age, but is now otherwise in good health. The younger has exhibited a tendency to the same disease, but appears to be safely passing the crisis of danger.

"'One boy (Wilfred in the table) was the offspring of parents who were both deficient in physical stamina, but bright intellectually. He has shown some tendency to hydrocephalus, but is outgrowing it. He is very ingenious, and bids fair to be a strong, healthy man. None of these children show any signs of imbecility. The only abnormal brain is that of Wilfred, which is a little too large. The only deformity is that of Rose. There are no 'sore eyes" among them, or other chronic local diseases.'

"It would be easy here to go into discriminations that would prove that what little there is in the above showing that is unfavorable, is not chargeable to Communism. But we ask no favors. Let the critics make the most of the weaknesses reported. There is nothing at all resembling the degen. eracy which they wish to make out. It is a cleaner bill of health and brains than they can find in any common neighborhood."

Following the above, are the testimonies of a schoolmaster and schoolmistress, who had had previous experience in teaching the world's children. They claim that the Community children are brighter, more studious, and better behaved than those in ordinary communities. "For mental ability," remarks the schoolmistress, "I have found them to be rather above the average, particularly those born in the Community. Many of them possess a knowledge of geography that older persons might envy. The location of places; the points of interest about Nineveh, Babylon, Rome, and other places; the noted mountains and rivers; and the ocean, with its capes and islands, are known to the Community children not in a dry mechanical way, but as exciting realities. They will tell you about them, with a brightness of expression and earnestness, that makes you almost feel they have been there themselves. Living together, they stimulate each other, and create an enthusiasm that makes them studious, and desirous of acquiring knowledge. This is caught by the little ones, who very early show a love for books. They learn their letters among themselves, and on coming to school, need restraining rather than urging. The wide range of thought in the Community, is felt by the children. In general knowledge they are superior to those in the world. Their memories are excellent; a little girl of ten recited a long chapter of 'Hiawatha' without being prompted a word. They frequently get up little entertainments of music, tableaux, and plays, that are original, and both amusing and edifying. Teaching here has improved me more than any previous experience."

In a subsequent number of their Circular, they present the following facts and figures about the older children: "Some years ago," they remark, "when our principles were under a darker shadow of suspicion and foreboding than they are at present, there crept among us (whether from abroad or from inside whisperings we cannot say), an insinuation that our social life was 'stunting' our young women. Two or three cases of small stature

among the girls gave a slight plausibility to the notion. Whereupon the matter was put on trial by systematic investigations and measurements; and it was ascertained that more than three-fourths of our young women were taller than their mothers! And what is still more curious, since then another set of young women have come on the stage of womanhood, that are taller and larger than any that have gone before them, actually threatening to overtop the men, and fill the Community in a few generations with Amazons and giants! It is now said that twenty-six of our young women are taller than their mothers!

"To show what sort of a young crop of both sexes we are raising, we give in the following tables the age, weight, and height of a dozen of our young men, and a dozen of our young women. Take notice that these are all graduates of our children's house. They were not all born in the Community, but they were all trained here from childhood:

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"We have one girl, only fourteen years old, that might have gone into the above table with credit; but we reserve her case for future reports, as she is growing yet. Her present weight is 131 pounds, and height 5 feet 6 inches! These are selected specimens of course. Farmers always send their best to the fair. But we had to leave out others as good as these, in making out the dozens. They do not exaggerate the strength of our rising generation. Now let us see what our young folks have done and are doing. We will not confine ourselves to those named in the tables, but take into view all of what we call the 'second generation,' who have grown up in the Community, and are now taking its business and burdens from their fathers' shoulders. And first we will name some of the oldest class, who were not inmates of the children's house, but yet owe much of their breeding to the Community.

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Henry and George Allen were the chief representatives of the Commu. nity in the New York Agency, and have contributed largely to its business reputation by their labors as traveling agents for its various manufactures. Martin and Myron Kinsley are known extensively as enterprising business men. One is now head of the farming department at Wallingford. The other is general superintendent of our trap works. Otis and George Kellogg are also well known as agents of the Community at the banks, telegraph offices, and freight depots, here and at Wallingford. Boswell and Victor Hawley are among our best machinists. The former has done invaluable service in the trap business by many inventions. John F. Sears is a genius of high order in mechanics, an expert in microscopy, and has made several microscopes of great merit. Among this older class of the Becond generation we may name also on the women's side, Harriet Allen, who is now mother of the children's house; Elizabeth Hutchins, who is the general superintendent of the silk-works, having fifty hired girls under her care; and Carrie Macknet, who has served with distinction as chief bookkeeper of the Community. Coming to the younger set, who were trained in the children's house, we mention: Charles A. Cragin, the founder of our silk business. After serving (in connection with Harriet Allen and Elizabeth Hutchins) an apprenticeship of four months at a silk factory in Willimantic, Conn., he commenced manufacturing at Willow Place, and achieved at once complete success and a first-rate reputation in the silk market. He is now making one hundred and fifty pounds of machine twist (worth $2,000) per week. Edward Burnham is superintendent of the children's house. Francis W. Smith is an accomplished violinist, and was several years leader of our orchestra. Frederick Norton is a skillful and scientific dentist, versed in mallet-filling, and all the latest improvements. George N. Miller is an expert in drawing and wood-engraving. Edward P. Inslee is foreman in the machine-shop. Charles Burt is foreman of the carpenter's

department. Alfred Hawley was foreman of the finishing part of the trapshop before he was twenty years old. Sydney Y. Joslyn is foreman of the horticultural department. Tirzah C. Miller is editress of the Circular. Mary L. Prindle, Augusta Hamilton, and Helen C. Miller, are expert phonographic reporters. Ann S. Bailey is present chief book-keeper, dealing with banks, assessors, and business men all over the country.

"Our students at the scientific school of Yale University, at the present time, are William A. Hinds, who has formerly served the Community as financier, business agent, superintendent of various businesses, writer, reporter, printer, etc., and is now in good standing as a scholar; and Joseph J. Skinner, now in his third year at Yale, and said to be the first scholar in his class. A part of his record is, that with only the common advantages of Community boys in his previous education, he undertook to prepare himself to enter the scientific school on the short notice of seventeen days, and at the end of that time actually passed a rigorous examination in geometry, trigonometry, algebra, and history, besides the common branches of geography, grammar, etc.

"Theodore R. Noyes and George E. Cragin, both alumni of the children's house, were our first students at Yale, and graduated there a year ago in the medical department of the University. Their previous education in the Community gave them a standing in mental discipline and general information fully equal to that of college graduates. Their proficiency as medical students was indicated by the fact that one of them was selected by a leading surgeon of New Haven, as his office assistant, and the other by the Professor of Physiological Chemistry, as his assistant in a course of chemical lectures before the college classes. The committee that examined them at their graduation, reported as follows, in the "Proceedings of the Connecticut Medical Society for 1868," Vol. 3, No. 1:

"The following gentlemen were degree of M. D.:

"George E. Cragin, Wallingford. "Theodore R. Noyes, Wallingford. the Elimination of Urea.

examined and recommended for the

Thesis, Oxalic Acid in Rhubarb.
Thesis, Experimental Researches on

"Julian Newell Parker, Mansfield. Thesis, Sleep.

"Alfred Eastman Walker, B. A., New Haven Thesis, Inflammation. "William Virgil Wilson, New Haven. Thesis, Wounds in general. "The theses of the first two gentlemen were based upon very elaborate original research-and the results obtained were deemed so important that the Board voted that the thesis of Mr. Noyes be sent for publication to the "American Journal of Medical Sciences," and that the thesis of Mr. Cragin be recommended for publication in the Transactions of the Conn. Med. Society,'

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