Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1917 — IS PRODIGY AT MATHEMATICS [ARTICLE]

IS PRODIGY AT MATHEMATICS

’’Six-Year-Old Boy at Findlay, O.,“Excels in Addition and Subtraction. Findlay, O. —A child wonder with .Unusual mental powers, has been discovered In the first grade West State street school by Miss Helen Gaskill, the teacher. He is Master J toy Fork, aged "six, son of F—L. Fork, tvell-driller.resid-’ ing on Franklin avenue. While bright in all his school’work, the youngster is a prodigy in H 6 knows the calendar by heart and although given tlie most severe questions with regard to days and dates, never makes a mistake. If you tell him your age he can tell in a second the year you were born, and if you give him the date‘of your birthday. and ask him what day of the wee.k it comes on he replies at once, correctly and without fail. His ability cannot*-be attributed to inental telepathy, for in iniihy 'instances ‘he tells the day of dates in last year’s calendar, which, when you look them up, you find are right. Although not customary to teach children the months and abbreviations of months, Roy had them mastered when he went to kindergarten, and the remarkable feature is that he was never taught. He is also lightning fast in which deal with addition and subtraction of the eatendar, and catch questions are easily solved.