OF COURSE THEY ARE.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

OF COURSE THEY ARE.

That-girls are more precocious "than boys is-a I'eGognised fact. Agirloitenlisfar.'in advance of a boy of the feame ago, 'hob' <in absolute learning, perhaps, But thoughtful, ness and-dare for others,1 while ajfbun^ lady of seventeen,regards.ra lad of the eatne^age as a boy to be isriubßed on 4 eviry possible opportunity. The register of fobseiVaiidlis made by the late Dr.Parrdt brrthe 'weight' of the various drgans of infancy, "and 'which' have now'be'en 'compared:staU risdved into statistical tables by Mdlle. "Jeanne Ber-1 tillon, show thatreveit-at-tfie very- earliest age !tbe girl's intelligerfce'iiHereSßes at <'a! vastly.greater rate than that '"of 'boys, !and that the growth of their body Jsin proportion to their intelligence, in the first six months, 'of their 4ife" the weight; iOi'tlfe b"tain 'in girls increases 2741, -100 representing the total-growth -between With "and Trix' years of age ; while, the average Jjpy'% brain "increases only 25*51 in the same time. In height the girl grows %Ke boy <shly, 11*4. These figuYes w"e th&k'Wili B.urjprlse even mothers —to mbsfc 'of wlidtn: it wul"F& new that iglrls £row almost fcw*ic^ asfa'sb as boys the first six'months of their lives/ But it fa a'MnguliSr'tactthafcin'th'e'Organ* of "a body which ft -Wdtild 'be.stfpposea ismofe developed • irt Wdmeii^SS&a ' in Wen natiyely the hear^^Che. ,rffit? bf^bwfh in; boy babies is somewhat 'greater tha'n ;( Sr girls, being 11-88 againsb'll #*4S ;: allnoligK' if it increased in tne-same-proportion as the growth of the body it should be that the" increase rin ihe; rweigHt t>i tlie ?gtFl% heart would be double that fcf *th« boy%*P The only explanation possible •is :'th>t Uoys"' areinore violent in their .temper than> girlsi; anddn their' stragglings and^Mckings, B&tid' ;tTbfre blood -fasteT 'the M&fp\ Hn& thria eauaei. this to JincVfeaSe %ut iSf proportion to the-general ip'dWhh.