COUNTRY CHILDREN 



but on account of the small number of children studied, 

 they cannot be accepted as fully correct for the average 

 country and city child. They agree, in the main, however, 

 with the results secured by the careful observations of 

 other scientists. Thus, in his Psychology of the Country 

 Soy, Professor Gold states that " while in the sprints the 

 inability of the country boys to get a quick start acts as a 



COMPARATIVE VALUES 

 The boy is a greater asset than the pile of hay on which he stands. 



serious handicap, in the longer races they maintain a more 

 regular pace and manifest greater endurance than city 

 boys, even when there is a demand made upon the will to 

 keep up the muscles to a last supreme effort." 



A very slight investigation will show that most of our 

 presidents, great generals, statesmen, great business men, 

 and famous writers were country-bred. Fiske says in his 

 Challenge of the Country: "Early in the year 1912 some 

 five hundred leading business and professional men of the 

 cities of New York State met at a banquet under the 

 auspices of the Young Men's Christian Association. Dur- 

 ing the evening it was discovered that nine tenths of 



