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indicating that they were in danger, but not to the others. So wild 

 dogs and howling dogs learn to bark after they become accustomed 

 to hear their tamed companions bark. In view of the facility with 

 which parrots learn to articulate words, it may be assuming too 

 much to say, dogmatically, that animals can not be taught to speak. 

 Instances are not wanting in which parrots have seemed able to 

 speak intelligently. A very striking case of the kind is that of the 

 parrot and the Duke of Nassau, cited by Locke in his Essay on the 

 Human Understanding. Darwin mentioned a parrot that always 

 said " Good morning " and " Good evening " correctly. 



All these facts I have mentioned seem to me to demonstrate that 

 the education of animals rests on the same basis as that of man; 

 that in numerous species parents give their young a practical educa- 

 tion, but of short duration; that an artificial education imposed 

 by man is competent to divert and even metamorphose what 

 are called the instinctive tendencies of animals, and give them 

 new ones; and that repeated drilling of young animals, assisted on 

 occasion by chastisement and recompense, is usually sufficient to 

 obtain this result. It would be easy to show that human education 

 does not proceed very differently, and that among inferior races it 

 does not diverge greatly from that which many animals give their 

 young. — Translated for the Popular Science Monthly from the 

 Revue de VEcole oV Anthropologic 



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THE PKIMAKY SOCIAL SETTLEMENT. 



By KATE KINGSLEY IDE. 



"TTTTTH the close of this century the " woman question," as such, 

 V V will have practically settled itself in the United States, to the 

 immense relief of a great number of people. In its wake have 

 followed " child study," of special interest to kindergartners and 

 mothers' clubs ; paidology, the new science of the child, claiming the 

 attention of college men and demanding a college chair; and oikol- 

 ogy, a new name for the science of housekeeping or household 

 economics. Oikology, from its Greek derivation, includes also fam- 

 ily life or homekeeping, which has but recently appeared on the 

 horizon of science and literature as worthy of particular study. It 

 will not be in dim perspective much longer. The question of the 

 family, of transcendent importance, is sure to come nearer and 

 nearer, to grow larger and larger, and to demand the attention not 

 only of economists and sociologists but of thoughtful men and 

 women everywhere. The national " Congress of Mothers " will soon 



