The superiority of female students,
both children and adults, has been
mentioned and explained hundreus at
timres, and yet the full pedagogic sig
nificance of the fact still seems to be
ignored. The girls in many a co
educational college furnish an over
whelming percentage of the best stu
dents, and yet in later years the men
take the lead in every one of the lines
in which as boys they were so back
ward. It is all due to the well known
fact that in her weaker physical state
self-protection has demanded an early
development- of the perceptive facul
ties. Age for age, girls perceive un
derstandingly what boys scarcely no
tice. The differences between the two
sexes are so great that it is unscien
tific to class them together, and there
Is a growing suspicion that each is in
jured by current co-educational meth
od, the boys unduly stimulated and the
girls retarded. In spite of this self
evident conclusion pedagogues seem
I bent upon the impossible task of mak
ing the boys keep up with the girls
a plan sure to be followed by far
reaching bad results. The boys are li
able to become discouraged, while the
girls are led to embark upon careers
as wage earners in professions in
which failure is inevitable.-American
Mecicine.
WHY PEOPLE SEE PHANTOMS
hialucinations. of Famous Characters
Due to Abnormal Sensibility of
the Nervous System.
A morbid condition of the organs of
sense or of delirium, is sufficient to
invest our mental conceptions with
phantom shape. Our thoughts vary,
according to the violence of our emo
tions, from faint mental pictures to
vivid and almost corporal apparitions.
The strength of these sensational in
fluences is naturally proportionate to
the susceptibility of the nervous or
ganism.
