ELECTRIC CHILDREN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12772, 25 May 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

ELECTRIC CHILDREN.

BETTER BODIES AND BRAINfi

PARIS, April 5. , The Swedish doctor Svarite Arrhenius has concluded l some interesting experiments m Stockholm, to test the effect of electricity m the growth of hitman organisms. According to the Matin, two groups of fifty children, roughly corresponding m age, health, weight, height, and intelligence were chosen from among the pupils of the Swedish communal schools. One of these groups •of fifty children was sent to work m a room which was filled with an electric installation which passed high currents into the atmosphere from wires iri the walls, floor, and ceiling. The other group was 3et to work m an ordinary . classroom. Neither group of children, nor the teachers were aware that the experiment wns being made. At the end of six morithr; ths children who had lived m the electrified atmosphere were found to have .jr'own on' an average three-quarters oi an inch more than the other group m height. Their intelligence had also increased m the most marked manner, and. they completely outclassed the non-elec-trified children m a comparative examination. The electrified teachers declared that their own powers of resistance X fatigue 'had been increased by the treatment. - ;_ .