Thursday, Nov. 1
BOY WHO SEES THINC
PROVES MYSTER"1
Baltimore. Md., No\. 12?The "Mirror
Boy" has come to Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
Ele\en-year-old Harold Ellicott, |
Moundsville i W Va.) --.hoolboy who
writes backward; even sees "backward,"
.pent a ful! day being: interviewed
and examined by psychiatric
and medical experts at :he hospital
and Sunday r.ight departed for home
to try out new suggt stiens for overcoming
his peculiar difficulty.
Net Effec*
The mystery of bQ trouble is : ot
completely solved. That will have
to wait for more time and a more
detailed case history on the boy. (
But the Hopkins experts are -at fi-j
ed he is a victim of what they term j
la railtyHe writes with
his ieft hand. He kicks with hi I
right foot. He sights a telescope ,
with his right eye ii- hear- : est j
with his left ear.
The net effect of this tangle of I
rights and lefts is to make hint see'
? i?jects i;i reverse.
Home with hii!i went M Kea;r.' !
Mengert, comely young Moundsville
bring Harolds mirror writing 1
public no.ice. j
Teaching a second grade class
ir. Moundsville'- Third street school
his fall. Mis- Meiigert discovered
Harold - ? dd manner of writing, tried
a few simple experiments with, i
him and : eeame satisfied tb* he |
was one of the infrequent victims of
"mirror im..ge." case- in which the
subject*- eyes function normally, but
in which the visual message become
transposed ir. reaching the brain. j
In Hopkins Test
This opinion wn confirmed by the 1 j
visit :<? Johns Hopkins Host ital, where |
Harold was examined ami studied j i
l.y staff doctors of the Harriett Lane i i
I Jiildren's riinic by Dr. I-eo Kanner. !
associate professor of psychiatry at
Johns Hopkins and prominent in t <
j-pe. ial field of child psychiatry.
For more than an hour Dr. Kanner
and Harold "played" through ttvJ
after le t to determine the exact
nature and exU:;t ? . me boy's "nur- f
ror image.'* i
They moved blocks around on the t
desk. They compareed color charts, v
They cut out paper shapes with blunt J
school scissors. They were going t?? I c
practice tossing a rui bei* ball around \ c
the room, but couldn't find a ball |
aud u.-ed the doctor's rubber erasei ! ;
instead.
Rolled-up Paper
They made spyglasses ou: oi' j i
r> :led-up paper and pretended they ; t
ore looking out to sea. fir t with j
ne eye, then the other. They pro- r
j:ounded and ar.swa red all sorts oi
questions Ike: j
"What would you do if you start- !
ed to school an found it was rain- !
ing." j r
Maybe the doc<>>: expected Har- t
old to say something about overshoes
or an umurelia in a. swer t<> that one i
but Har .hi had a better reply, j ;
lie said: t
"I'd run t>- svheol." t
Dr. Kenn. r >mi!ed, shook hs head
and put the question again. Harold 1
si i.s' d the f t answer wasn't, right. \
Bsc he said, hopefully: t
"Stay at home?" <
They diuri": bother with that question
any longer. .
They tabled about games and
what to do if your house caught ] c
lie and how long it. had been after- I j
noon and what a table was made of i
and what to do with a horse or a <
pencil hi an apple or a new cap. (
Had New Hat x
The last or:e got Harold. He had (
a new hat, as it happened. It was
part, of the wardrobe his parents pro- ^
vided for the trip to Baltimore. I
Dr. Kanner has explained he want-' t
ed one-word "reactions" to each sug- J
y ted word Horse, for instance,! ,
meant "ride/7 and fork meant "eat".
Harold got thr'idea quickly and applied
it to "cap" by saying: I
"New." j
From the word games Doctor Kan- ner
and Harold progressed to pencil i
work, the psychiatrist having wisely 1
decided to delay this phase of the
examination until he and Harold were ?
virtually buddies.
First, Dr. Kanneer wrote the dig- 1
its from 1 to 10 himself and shoved t
the paper and pencil over for Har- t
old to copy. Harold took the pencil i
?in his elft hand?and set to work, i
In a moment he pushed the paper
back. i
Numbers Backward I
Every number was kackward! 1
Next they tried letters of the i
alphabet. Same result. All backward. 1
Then Dr. Kanner tried a trick. He ^
wrote the numbers backward himself s
and passed the paper over. Harold t
frowned a moment then went at this I
[2,1936 The Cherc
IS BACKWARDS
Y TO PSYCHIATRISTS
North Carolina Good
Place To Raise Hogs
North Carolina is well adapted to
hog production, according to Earl H.
ITcstetler, professor of animal husbandry
at State College.
The State has many advantages,
he said, and three are particularly
outstanding: temperature climate,
nearness to market, and a good supply
of protein supplements.
In the temperature climate, each
sow can farrow two litters of pigs
each year wi'hout her owner having
i.? : iv-vide expensive housing during
the e critical periods.
However, some housing is necessity.
Hosteller said to protect
rem from the cold and rain in February
and Sbneh and from the heat
*.:i August and September, the two
best tarrowirg periods.
Kn m pra tically any place in;
a lem North Carolina, he continued, |
nogs an be shipped to Richmond or
Baltim< ? in .'Jt? hours ??r less, and'
this is a distinct advantage.
far:her av.r.y from
he markets have to pay more tran - !
P'irtation charges, and the hogs undergo
la avn r shrinkage in transit.
East em markets also pay higher prices
than those in Chicago .
urn i the cheapest ami most
satisfactory carbonaceous feed for
fattening hogs, and plenty of corn
i- available ia this State, Last year,
mere than one-fourth of North Car?:ir:a
- nop lami was in cor. .
i <> get the best results in feeding.
- r mo ... ii.. is or high proU
let'1 must be fed with the corn. An<i
again North Carolina has an
-ojvantage in being able to secure
' - ii meal. cottorseed meal, peanut
neal, ami -?.\ ean oil nieai produced
in the State.
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5weet Potato Curing
Is Intricate Process
it you want to get a good price
or your sweet potatoes, you must
ures ar.d store them in such a way
hat they will be in good condition
i"hen placet! on the market,
"The first tllinir " t.% t ?/\, V,!..
lean the storage room ami all crates
tr hamper.- to avoid info:-ion,'* said
L. P. Watson, extension horticulturist
it State College.
Then heal the torage house to a
emperatuiv of 85 degrees fahrenheit
u'foie putting in the potatoes. Maina.n
.ha', temperature throughout
he r tiring period. The air should
i t In- ? xcessive dry or damp.
Wour.d- or bruises are tin- starting:
laces of infection, and they should
healed a soon as possible. The
teal in*: process will begin in about
i:ree days if an 85 degree temperaure
is maintained.
When the potatoes are mature
ind an even temperature is kept up,
he curing period lasts from 10 days
> three weeks. The average curing
ime is around 15 days.
Plenty of ventilation is essential.
iVatson added. During the firsT
veek, potatoes give off much moisture,
and the excess should be driven
mt of the house.
If moisture gathers on the walls
tnd window panes, open doors and
windows so the excess can escape,
?ven if this does cause the tempraure
to fall a little below 85 degrees.
But at night and on rainy days,
loors and windows should be kept
closed However, there should be
rentilation through the floor and
oiling at all times.
After the curing process is over,
gradually reduce the temperature to
)0 or 55 (Ipptpoc or?/t ?
H..u nvcp lb Ulfli:
luring the rest of the storage period.
Keep roof ventilators partly open exrept
in cold or cloudy weather.
o
Sam Hopper of Altoona, Pa., daily
nays so loudly from a mountain-top
hat he can be heard two miles away.
inusual problem. And this is where
le fooled his audience.
When finished the letters were
till backward.
Dr. Kanner, however, had more
tricks up his sleeve. Now he handed
he pencil over to Harold, but insisted
that this time he take it in his
ight hand. This maneuver produced
mother odd result.
Before Harold had been starting
it the lefthand margin of the papier.
Although his letters and num>ers
were written backward they
noved in normal course across the
>age from left to right. This time,
vith the pencil in his right hand, he
tarted at the righthand margin;
hey were written properly but movvackward
kee Scout, Murphy, North <
Best Turkeys Breed
During The Holidays '
\ High turkey prices during the :
Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays J
often tempt producers to sell their y
best birds and keep slower developing
turkeys, for breeding purposes. y
That's about the worst thing they }
cou <1 do, commended C. F. Parrish. pt
extension poultry specialist at State y
College.
N v that the holiday seasons are ):
riot far off. he said growers should (y
classify their birds into three groups; ?
breeders, market turkeys, and culls. ]
Although the very best birds <
-hould be saved for breeders, there !
will be many good birds available J
for marketing, and growers should ?
make every effort to get their mar- )
k : birds in good cor.di. ion, Parrish *
pointed out. |
Turkey meat is considered some- *:]
what of a luxury, he added, and y
therefore quality birds will command | X
h her price.- than other meat pro-!'
d..? ts of the amc food value. .
F.irly hatched, well developed, .
k maturing pullets and young J
s are given first preference. Con- <
.-< 'ji.er.tlv, these shouhl be the type !
ejected fwi bleeders. Breeders ]
.h<?uld al < be healthy, active, weii ?
balanced, and free from deformities.
The market turkeys should he di- !
ed into two groups, one for
Thanksgiu.-g and one for Christmas. 1
In the fiist group place healthy .
birds that ha\< large frames, are
iea-onabl\ f . from pin feathers. {
j and appear ideal for marketing late X
November. Confine them in a place V
thai is lot too restricted and feed
them a fattening ration. X
Smaller, timid, slow developing *:*
birds should he jdactd in the second '
kideon
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