Another child prodigy who is in the best of health and an athletic expert is Winifred Sackville Stoner, of Pittsburgh. This little girl at the age of thirteen speaks eight languages and plays four musical instruments, is the author of four books which she has illustrated herself, and possesses numerous other accomplishments, including swimming, rowing, cooking, boxing, and driving an automobile. Her talent has been developed by the thorough system of natural education, which started when her mother read Latin prose to her in her cradle days. She was not allowed to waste her youthful energy on baby talk and nursery rimes, but was provided with good literature, mathematics, and useful information which soon became a pleasure to her. The influences with which she was surrounded were always chosen by her mother with an idea of stimulating her sense of color, form, and speech.

The methods used by Mrs. Stoner in training her daughter require more time and concentration than the average mother or teacher has to give, but educators all over the country have come to recognize their value. This fall an institute for talented children is to be opened in New York under the direction of Mrs. Stoner, who is going to demonstrate her system on a dozen or more children. While it may not be possible to accomplish with every child what has been accomplished with Winifred, psychologyists are now of the opinion that every child will respond to some extent to  The same method. 