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before their leaving-torm, This gives the school authorities-a medical pinon us to what typu, work the child is most fitted for.

Individual Talent Encouraged, It is the ambition of the L.0.0. to discover the "bent" of each in-

dividual child, and to persunde

them to attend continuation classes

to develop their "bent" after they

leave school at fourteen.

There are no more dunces, the same London County Council spokesman said to me, "We have done away with the word, The 10 per cent, of London children which is dull and backward (sul-normal) |

is sent to school and is separated into the fast or "slow" sides of the school, according, to abilities."

Here, again, the kindness and wisdom of Mother London shows itself. The children are not bold the "fast" or int they are

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"GOODNATURED G.B.S.

REPLY TO REPORTER. WHO

"HOAXED HIM."

Cairo Harried by caliers, Mr. Bernard Shaw instructed his hotel

happy to shake hands with Mr. "Einstein's nephew would he

George Bernard Shaw.”

IRISH ISLES OF ROMANCE.

PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE FOR

LIFE.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

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The Irish Free State is confront- hall porter to "tell them all I aming a problem somewhat similar to dead. But (saya tho "Reveil") that with which Scotland was fae- journalist sent in this card:

ed at St. Kilda. Lying off the

extreme western const of Ireland, entrance, to Galway Bay, on the

long, low, and grey, are the thres 5 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programmie, islands of Aran-Inishmore, Inish7 man, and Inisher. They are out- lying reefs of the limestone hills of Clare, mere bare ribs of rock, on which arable land has been pro- When one has a body so ratheti-duced by the industry of the peo eally formed as mine, one likes the ple, who have for many genera. world to admire it. Nudity puts tions carried on their backs the an end to the Darwinian quarrel, sand and seaweed that make the ; for, naked, 'n human being remblo

"fields." gorilloa."

G. B. 5. reedived him, and the journalist asked the playwright if he believed in Nudism. Mr. Shaw replied:

When the hoax Mr. Show said:

Inishmore (the Big Island) has was discovered the principal village, and also the principal, harbour, Kilioany Bay, The islanders fish in frail canvas.

"You have treated me unfairly,

slow" aide of the school, and thus but I will forgive you if you will

covered coracles, called currachs.

the danger of acquiring an in-play the same trick on Mr. Hud-Fishing has badly declined, and

feriority complex ! in avoided. Fard Kipling? who is at present at

刮物

Dull, backward children are couraged to try to exeel in one line. Londoners can get practically free aduention from the L.C.C. from infancy to the day they die, but only one-third of them do it. The problem of the remaining two thirds "the average pleasant, rouricous London child," as the spokesman described them-is now confronting industry.

Most of the children leave school at 14, ak by 23 have forgotten ost of the things they learnt. The magnificent work of the London County Council, whose aim is to teach the London child from baby hood "cleanliness of person, good at table, clearness and Leomeliness of speech, kindness and (Continued on next Columá.)

manners

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consideration for others," fights a continual battle with the home in fluence, which is too often adverse It is very encouraging, however, to learn that the 10 per cent. of sub-normal, dull and backward children, from which class the juvenile criminal emerges, is slowly being reduced, and that the 80 per cent, of normal, average children in increasing.

The remaining 10 per cent, con- sists of unusually clever children who make their own way when once it has been pointed out to them by Mother London.-STILLA Goss in the Evening Standard.

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wanting bonts, many of which have been destroyed, and proper equip. ment, the Aran men stand idly by as the foreign trawlera come into Galway Bay. Neta are rotting in sheds or on the bench.

Over 2,000 people are on the is lands, and their plight is now so bad that something must be done immediately. Large numbers of families are in a state of semistar- vation. The Aran Telands are separated from the mainland by about thirty miles of generally stormy son, so that the hope of establishing any industry is

negligible. A small and weather- fossed steamer from the mainland makes two visits each week when the sens allow.

Gaello Speech..

In their little "made fields" the people raise a poor crop of pota toes, which in wet years is usually destroyed by the potate blight, or just rote in the sodden earth. With in the past year the Ministry of Fisheries has endeavoured to make the kolp-gathering moro remunera- tivė.

As English is very little spoken, and the islanda maintain the tradi tion of Gaelic speech,, they are now of considerable importance in tha effort to revive Irish Gaelic as a living official language in the Irish Free State, Beenuse of this thore is a big demand for domestic ser- vants from the islands in all parts of the Free State.

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Because of the Innguage, largo" numbers go every year to the is- lands from all parts of the Free States. This popularity as a holi day resort may become greatly ad vantageous, but there is always the 9 to 9.14 p.m... danger that contacts will ủn na much for the elimination of the

Organ Soloa.

Irish language as for its wider # What Good Am I Without You?"

diffusion.

Thi Government inuut either place the islanders in the way.

of civilised, existence, or else take them off away to farms on the mainland, as was done with the re sidents of St. Kilda.

Irish Plays,

It was to the Aran Islands that the lato J. M. Synge was recom- mended to go by W. B. Yeats, and in Aran he wrote one of the finest of his books. In Synge's The Aran Islands" is not only a des cription of the life of the island- era, but the germs of several of his later plays-On the Aran Is lande "The Playboy of the Western World" was conceived, as

il there that Synge lived some

of the happiest months of his fo, after ho had desertod Paris and the literature of France for his dis. covery of primitive' Ireland. То read-Synge's book is to know this- islanders ns probably no other primitive nouple in Western Europe can be known.

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From these grey and cheerless is. landa has come Liam O'Flaherty, whose dynamic morgy and vivid descriptions have placed him in the front fank of contemporary novelista. He was born. the Aran Islands, and. Kvod thore until he went to the war as a private in: the British Army in France. Tho group figures in "Thy Neighbour's Wife”: and The Black Boul." Andrew Malone in the London Daily Telegraph,

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