Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1919 — PRODIGIES PROVE A PUZZLE [ARTICLE]

PRODIGIES PROVE A PUZZLE

Psychological Exports Unablo to Account for Their Amazing Prova- ~ mience in England. Infant prodigies are being discovered in England almost daily. Some connect this with the psychology of war. One of the youthful marvels’ is Pamela Bianco, a thirteen-year-old girl artist, whose drawings were given the place of honor in an exhibition at one of the principal London galleries. Critics dealt with them quite seriously and said that the work was suggestive of Botticelli and some of the other old masters. Pamela Is an Italian girl who was born in England and never had taken any drawing lessons. Ronnie Routledge, four, little more than a baby ; whose parents know nothing of music, has enjoyed six" months of tuition on the violin. At the Grimsby College of Violinists recently he outranked 43 competitors, most of them in the twenties, and scored 119 points in a possible 120. Professor Danton describes him as a miracle. Little Robbie Day, aged seven, of Brighton, son of a motor mechanic, has wonderful powers of clairvoyance, according to the Weekly Dispatch. Blindfolded, he described a number of articles. These included a treasury note (giving its color, numbers and writing on the back), the color and texture of a piece of fabric he had never seen, the correct answer to a complicated sum in mental arithmetic and figures written down atferandom. After five —minutes’ —test he complained of feeling icy cold. “I just see little pictures and I just say them,” is Bobbie’s explanation.