Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1918 — Two-Year-Old Tot Can Read, Count and Tell Time of Day [ARTICLE]

Two-Year-Old Tot Can Read, Count and Tell Time of Day

A tiny two-year-old baby girl in California holds the world’s record in mental development. The infant prodigy is Martha Springer, twenty-six months old,, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Springer of Mountain View, The child can read like an eight-year-old, according to a correspondent. The father says the child has a normal mind, which simply has been developed by persistent training. At a re* cent meeting of college professors and experts in pedagogy and psychology the child for 40 minutes read, counted and told the time by clock and, talked with the men who were observing her. Her tmby brain did not sag, and she appeared to enjoy the long interview. All were unanimous in declaring that the baby’s case indicates that geniuses are made, not born. The child reads and speaks with a vocabulary of about 2,000 words. She is large for her age and eats and sleeps well.