Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — Words That People Speak. [ARTICLE]

Words That People Speak.

A recent experiment proves how apt our minds are to run in grooves. Twen-ty-five men and twenty-five -women students in a psychology class were bidden to write down at full speed 100 words, alt chosen at random. They did so, with tin- curious result that out of the total 5,000 words there were only 1,200 which occurred but once, 3,000 of the remainder being repetitions of 758 words. Of the 1,200 written only once, 740 were set down by the men, against 510 by the women. Of the 303 articles of dress enumerated 124 were found in (lie women’s papers, while of tile 237 articles of food they claimed 179. Clearly they were not new women, or their range would lrr.ve been wider.