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DAILY KAl.l-K. NM, SlM)A. AlVii, 1 1 Huge Cost of Impending Subway Plans tnr Girls in Flatbush G. O. P.

Show Jusi' Wliai Is a Moron? Hunt for Elusive Quality Puzzles Even Best Minds' Wafer Supply Despite Menace of Famine An 2 5 vSv mtrmh Administration Hesitates on Financial Commitments The frcqu-nt standardization of standards to decide who is and who is not a moron and who is an average person, indicates, according to Dr. Robert Kingman, either that psychology has no unit of measure comparable to the yardstick or the pound weight, or that Certain to Be Stupendous Cheaper Long Island Project Held Up by Promises of Lower Bids Experts 4' A fax ft the material the psychologists'" Predict Shortage in Eight Years and It May Take Ten to Tap Additional Sources. By CARL WIl.HEI.M. One of the mysteries of the government of the City of New York is its apparent reluctance to take a firm hold of the new water works project, despite the fact that the Board of Estimate has before it the testimony of experts that within the next eight years, in view of the rapid growth of Seven chic little Flatbush misses who will be featured in an Hawaiian dance at the annual springtime frolics of the Flatbush Republican Club at ths Academy of Music on May 2. "Clarence Knows How" is the title of the musical comedv.

Left to right are: (Seated) Evelyn Focke, Margaret Glen, Alice Harney, (kneeling) Teddy Robertson, Ann Mullins, Mary Volkommer, Edna Heim. weight of the brain of the largest apes, but 700 grams less than the weight of the brain carried around by some of his fellow beings. "His vocabulary includes about 7.500 words, although Woodrow Wilson was conceded a working command of 50.000; but 25.000 la an exceptional range for talented brain workers. IX you ask the average man what Is meant by 'nerve' he will probably be able to tell you. but he will have difficulty in explaining He will understand 'insured' and but probably will not be clear about 'dilapidated' and He may know from actual experience, but cannot explain the difference between poverty and misery.

And he can give three differences between a president and a king, but is decidedly hazy on the differences between evolution and revolution. In other words, his mind still shows the relative facility of the child for comprehending concrete conceptions as compared with hla difficulty in grasping the abstract. "If he has a whole minute for the problem, the average person will give a correct answer when asked how many pencils he can buy for fifty cents if two pencils eost five cents. He can also find out how much seven feet of cloth will cost at fifteen cents a yard. But he is completely lost when asked how many boxes there are in a collection of one largo box holding four small boxes, each of the four containing four smaller ones.

"He can repeat seven numbers that have been called out to him, but lf tested with eight he will omit one of them. And he can repeat simple sentences like Tt is nearly half-past one) o'clock; the house is very quiet and the cat has gone to But if complicated instructions are given him his memory is not sufficient to enable him to repeat them all. Conversation Limited "His conversation with hia fellown sufferer, for while Manhattan er.d the Bronx would have the e'd Crcton system to fall back upon. Brooklyn would be dependent entirety on the present Long Island sys-irm. which as inadequate 10 years and is much more so now.

taking into consideration the huge growth of here in the meantime. I rue Metering Again. Accordinc to Chief Engineer Brush, who is treasurer of the American Water Works Association, an international association of water works enpineers. the meeting of all of New York City's water connections ould save the taxpayers $80,000,000 in the next five years. He says: "It is merely a question, so far as the city department of water is concerned, of giving the people what they seem to want.

In this case it appears that they want the more expensive fiat rate that is. admitted waste rather than the economy of a metered system. If a man prefers to ride to the Grand Central Station in a taxi rather than a subway, there is no regulation which can prevent it." The Water Works Research Bureau has fieured out that the remaining unmetered services in New York City would cost $20,000,000. and would save 130.000.000 gallons of water which are now going to waste daily. "Figuring on the basis of 5 percent on the money that must be invested to furnish the water that is now allowed to run to waste through leak-ins house fixtures or mains.

New York City is figuratively dumping $20,000 a day into its sewers, and this water, or the $20,000 it represents, has never been of any use or benefit in any way to the community or any individual. The $20,000 is an absolute loss every day and none of it can ever be recovered," says the-Bureau. Warning to Legislature. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation not long ago sent a communication to the Legislature stating that "water supply shortage in this city is an imminent peril" and continues "Notwithstanding the most farsighted and generous provision made years in advance of expected requirements, the city has never, for any considerable time, kept abreast of the needs for additional water. "Some of the Boards of Estimate of former administrations, since the initiation of the Ashokan (Catskill) project in 1905, have been too slow in discerning the need for action in their day to provide for the future, and could not see that the time ol need was so near at hand.

Neither did they apparently foresee the obstacles and delays to be overcome which later developed before an additional adequate supply could be secured, and at the present time, with an actual shortage confronting the city within eight years, there is not a single new project in course of construction that will adequately meet the approaching peril." The "obstacles and delavs" referred to the project of tapping the Civitas Members Rank With College Yearling, In Intelligence Tests Psychology Expert Finds Women an Unusually Intelligent Group, According to Results of Examination Results Explode Several Old Theories on Knowledge. city's population, the present water supply will be inadequate and that the proposed new system cannot be built in less -than eight or ten years. The Board of Watter Supply. -Guilder of the Catskill system, has done its share by making surveys and locating new sources of water up State. Its plans down to the last de-' tail have been ready for some time.

for the construction of the aqueduct can be let as soon as Board of Estimate gives the word; that is, provides the first installment of the required funds. It is an expensive undertaking, one that probably will pass the half billion dollar mark before it is although the estimated cost is $400,000,000. This is the reason, at least so it appears to the onlooker. that the Walker administration, in-I volved as it is in the financial problem of building the new subway sys-; tem, has been fighting shy of starting -the ball rolling on the inauguration of that all-important municipal enterprise. Men who have made a study of the water supply situation here consider that project of project 01 greater importance than new subways or even schools.

They see a water famine in the offing with all its attending dangers and niiseries, if the rulers of the city do not move quickly In the matter. Brooklyn experienced something like a water famine not so many years ajo and the boro would not want to see it repeated, perhaps in aggravated form and affecting the entire city. Yet the latter is not only a possib.l-Ity but a probability, according to the citys water engineers, unless the Board of Estimate makes up its mind pretty soon as to the new water system. The plans wene approved by the Board months ago, but that means nothing until an appropriation is voted to carry them into effect. There is another water supplv project that has been hanging fire for two years, one that is much easier of accomplishment, from the financial point of view, than the former.

This is the plan to tap the Long Island water sources to a much greater ex-lent than is now the case. The Titus Water Engineering Company has a proposal before the Board of Estimate wouia aaa BO.ooo.ooo gallens a day to the city present water supply bv constructing 100 wells in and Nassau Counties on city property The mental alertness of the women of Civitas Club ranks well up with the average college freshman of today, according to an intelligence test the members of the club took recently at the direction of Miss Gertrude Hildreth, professor of psychology at the Lincoln are attempting to measure is too elusive a quality to yield any conclusive or constant results. Dr. Kingman is one of Brooklyn's best known psychiatrists, a fellow of the American College of Physicians and is attached to the staff of Brooklyn Hospital. "In view of the fact that a leading psychologist has recently declared that there are 40,000.000 morons in the United States today," says Dr.

Kingman, "the question would seem to be in order as to whether the average person is a moron, or. to put it the other way round, whether morons are not Just average persons. We will state at the outset that this article" the leading feature of the current issue of the Long Island Medical Journal "has no intention of answering that question by either yes or no. It merely concerned with presenting the portrait of the average person as he has been summed up by the men of science, together with some Information as to how they went about taking the picture. Whether or no there are points of resemblance be tween what is claimed for the average and what may be considered typical of the moron can best be left to the judgment of the reader.

Composite Photograph "It was a fad not long ago to reproduce from a group photograph of the five to a thousand individuals comprising a family, a class or a regiment, the picture of a single individual in which the faces of all the members of the group were blended to form a composite representation of them. all. The assumption was that it looked like everyone of them. In point of fact it did not look like any one of them. Because it was a picture of all it was a picture of none.

"Like the composite group photograph, a description of the average person is a composite group picture of what no one ever was, or ill be, exactly; and yet it approximates so closely to the truth, and so nearly resembles your idea of your fellow-citizen and your fellow-citizen's idea of you, that each immediately recognizes the other in its unflattering delinea-ments. Striking Average In Humans "It would seem as though scientists of an Investigating and statistical turn of mind were continually trying to show us what Bill would be like if he were half Jim and half John, forgetting, of course, that Bill never has been and never will be half of anybody but himself. Striking an average in figures is one thing and in humans an entirely different proposition. Material Melted Down. "The material that has been recently melted down in an attempt to form a composite photograph of the average person was gathered from life insurance companies, the U.

3. army and navy, police departments, schools and colleges, and many thousands of case records of men and women who have at various times submitted to scientific testing. Of the 4.000.000 soldiers in training during the war about half received the standardized tests, and a sample. 93,000 out of this 2.000.000 was used as a basis for statistical evaluation. This sample was carefully selected from different sections of the country and from different racial groups.

"The result may not conform to preconceived Ideas of the man who does most of the work of the world, fights its battles, likes the movies, believes in stories with a happy ending and becomes the father of the future generation. At any rate, here he Is. "The average man dies at the age of 53 or earlier. Whatever the length of his life may be, he spends one-third of it in the stupor we call sleep. His body weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds.

His brain weighs about 1,300 grams, which is twice the Canvas son. so that I can have no son's son of right birth. I shall have, in fact, no further social existence. No fellow caste man will even lend his shoulder to carry my body to the burning ghat. And my penance in the next life will be heavier still than this." Child Ostracised.

The author asked what would become of the child. "The child? Ah. yes. According to our law I must turn her out of my house and send her into the forest alone. There I must leave her with empty hands.

Thenceforth, I may not notice her in any way. Nor may any Hindu give her food or help from the wild beasts, on penalty of sharing the curse." Miss Mayo asked the high official If he would really do such a thing. "No, for the reason that occasion would not arise. I could not conceivably commit the sin whose consequence it Throughout Mother India Mlsj Mayo indicates that frequent discussion has gone on in the Legislative Assembly to cure this condition. The dispatches from Drihi say that the debates on the late't measure have oeen most heated and that one orthodox Hindu member said the passage of the measure would create trouble every Hindu village.

CROWD AT ASBURY PARK (Special to The Eagle.) Asbury Park, N. April 7. An overflow crowd that filled every hotei today gave promise of creating tomorrow the most colorful Easter parade in many years. Thousands are expected to be on the boardwalk in an early showing of spring finery. Wheel chairs made their first appearance and virtually every boardwalk store was wide open in anticipation of a record breaking business tomorrow.

Hidden Treasures Revealed Weekly Hidden treasures unearthed by The Eagle are to be featured at the Brooklyn Museum in an exhibition booth on the third floor. Every week one of these treasures, now hidden under the embarrassment of riches, will be selected for special display and The Eagle will give an account of its history and merit. In this way the public, at present confused by the very wealth of the Museum's offerings, will have opportunity to view the treasures often passed over. by Intelligence tests is the fact that an unusually bright child seldom grows up that way. Miss Hildreth is able to trace on charts the development of children's mentality and she can prove if a child is more than ordinarily clever at 2 years old, he is sure to develop that way.

Some of the questions, picked at random from the test follow: A meal always involves: 1, a table; 2, dishes; 3, hunger: 4, food; 5, water. If two yards of cloth cost 30 centa. how many cents will ten yards cost? Suppose the fiist and second letters in the word constitutional were interchanged, also the third and fourth letters, the fifth and sixth, etc. Print the letter that would then be the 12th letter counting to the right. If ten boxes of apples weigh 400 pounds, and eacli box when empty weighs four pounds how many ponods do all the apples weigh? If the first two statements arc true, is the third true, false or uncertain: George is older than Frank, James is older than George.

Frank Is younger than James? A man's influence in a community should depend upon: 1, wealth; 2. dignity; 3. wisdom; 4, ambition; 5, political power. A party consisted of a man and his wife, his two sons and their wives and four children in each son's family. How many were in the party? School, and an expert in modern mental tests.

It was the regulation Otis Self- Administering Test, prepared by Dr. Arthur S. Otis, formerly development specialist with the War Department, that the women took. It consisted of 75 questions, most of them stiff and several requiring technical knowledge. While Miss Hnuretn could not violate the ethics of the test and reveal the results, she did say: Unusually Intelligent Group.

I found the answers indicated the women were an unusually intelligent. group and they rank well with the younger college students who are trained for that sort of thing." Miss Hildreth said she was sur prised at the number of women who put their names on the papers. Tt was not required that they should, but, nevertheless, the women wen. quite willing to stand by their an- s-vers. Miss Hilclretti admitted also that the taking of an intelligence test by clubwomen is "rather un usual." She said that most women's clubs are Interested in modern psychology and often women want to look at the questions.

But thev do not usually like to answer them," she added. The Civitas Club women took the test under the same conditions that bovs and girls in the first year of college would. Explodes Old Theory. "The of the club women's tests helps this way," Miss Hildreth "it has long oeen thought that persons after a certain age say 40 never learned anything. Well, that is an exploded theory For If a person is mentally awake, he car.

keep on learning until he dies." Another exploded theory indicated Hindu Legislature Starts Child Marriage Reform Year After Attack in Mayo Book at a cost, including all necessary machinery and mains, of approximately $8,000,000. Report on I. I. Project It has the support of the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity. The department was requested bv the Board of Estimate to submit facts and figures showing what this of additional water supply-would cost if built by the city.

The report showed that the department lould do the work at something less than the price asked by the Titus company, but that it would take more time to complete it than the peiiod mentioned in the company's proposition, and also that the output could not be guaranteed as it was guaranteed bv the private concern the city being protected by a $500,000 bond William W. Brush, chief engineer of the Water Supply Department frankiv told the Board of Estimate thai the city could not make a better bargain for obtaining a substantial addition to its water supply within the next two years than by accepting the offer of the Titus concern. In this Mr. Brush, who has the reputation of being one of the foremost water works engineers in the United States, was backed up by the late Commissioner Nicholas J. Hayes.

Week after week and month after month this project has figured on the calendar of the committee of the whole cf the Board of Estimate, bui nothing has yet been done about it. although a majority of the members of the Board, including Mayor Walker, are not at all hostile to the Titus proposal. The holdup is due to the fact that time at the moment when the Board was ready to take action in the matter some other water engineering -company turned up with a similar proposal at a slightlv less cost than the Titus offer but withcut going into details. Walker Cautious. Mayor Walker evidently did not want to be put In the position of "railroading" the Titus contract through the Board, and readily consented to give the newcomer time to submit his plan in detail to the city authorities.

Meanwhile nothing is being done toward developing the alleged inexhaustible water resources of Long Island which are so near at hand. Brooklyn would be the chief bene ficiary of this development. If anything should happen to the Catskill aqueduct so that the water would have to be shut off while repairs are being made, this boro would be the woes material and spiritual poverty, sickness, ignorance, political minoritv. melancholy, ineffectiveness, not forgetting that subconscious conviction of inferiority which he forever bares and advertises by his gnawin and imaginative alertness for social affronts rests upon a rock bottom physical base. This base is, simply, his manner of getting into the world and his sex-life thenceforward." The age of motherhood Is anywhere between 8 and 14 for the average Indian girl, according to Miss Mavo.

"Eight Is extreme." says "Mother India," "although In some sections not exceptional; 14 is well above the average." Lark Chance for Education. Because of her years and upbringing and because countless generations behind her have been hrd evrn as she. she is frail of also completely unlettered," her e'ock of knowledge comprising onlv the ritual of worship of the household Idols, the rites and placations of the wrath of deities and evil spirits, and the de-tailed ceremony of the service of her husband, who la rltuallstlcally her personal god The husband, according to "Mother India." may be either a child scarcely older than the girl or he may be a widower of 50. "The Infant that survives the blrth-strain." frankly states "Mother India," "la a feeble creature at best, bankrupt In bone-stuff and vitality, often diseased, always predisposed to any malady that may be afloat and must look to a child mother for care." Fight Change. Naturally, a child-mother is Igno rant of the laws of hygiene, it Is pointed out In the book, and it "guided only by the most primitive superstitions.

Her only helpers are the older women In the household. whose knowledge of hygiene and sanitation is as limited as hers." In another chapter of "Mother India" It is written: "Forced by Western Influences, the subtect of child marriages has been much discussed In latter years and a sentiment of uneaslnesj concerning it is perceptibly rising in the Indian mind But as yet this finds small translation Into art. and the orthodox Hindu majority fights In strenBth on the side of the ancient practice." Religion Responsible. It Is "ancient Hindu relifiom teachings that are responsible for child marriages, the Amerirsn woman author icintends. for "Hindu custom de.

mands that a man have a legitimate son a' the esrite-t moment a '-on to perform the proper re. ilglous fremonies at and after the rtaath of the father and to crank the fathers skull on th funeral pue nherebv the is Child marriage In India is ra'her like Prohihi'iin In Anieri-a. Judginr bv Mr Mavo's dduc'op cnlv the Indiana have alavs hesitated about nnsiing a Inw wlurh thev do not believe cn enforced "A study of the aititu'le i the Onv. ernmenl of India as to I1 subject of 'Child nmrlage th bonk 'shows that while steadllv exercising I persuasive pre-sure toward progress CARTRIDGE PRESERVATION. The minimum life of cartridges kept in a dry, cool place would be Irom 10 to 12 years.

Sometimes they keep as long as from 30 to 40 years, depending on how the primer hold', lip, as the primer sometime Hidden Treasures Revealed by Eagle in Museum Are Parts of Weir's "Union Square" Painting Is limited largely to an exchange of personalities and comments about tha weather, not from any sense of reserve, but because he knows nothing else worth talking about. "curiously enough, he has firm, though entirely unjustifiable, ideas about the causes of disease and th best ways of preserving health, and is ready to prescribe at a moment's notice for any known ailment. aiso has definite theories about the best time to plant crops, whether it should be by the dark or the llehi-. nf the moon, and he has come to some conclusions about thunder and lightning, such as 'Lightning never strikes twice in the same If he has ever heard of evolution at all he thinks Darwin said that men are descended from monkeys. 111s oniy reason for bein a Demo crat and a Methodist, or a Republican and a Baptist, is because that Is what his father was.

He has no adequate idea of the data necessarv to establish a relationship between cause and effect, and one or two coincidences are sumcient to convince him that thought transference is possible. "During the early davs of tha lata war it was a moot Question anion? both military and medical authorities to what should constitute thu minimum mental qualifications of a soldier. 'The writer was a member nf a. board of psychologists, charged with the duty of examining troops for the purpose of determining their mental fitness for service. Our orders were to establish a minimum standard of intelligence and to reject ftr service men and officers who failed to show evidence of possessing the required degree of mental alertness, as evidenced by their answers to questions that could be nut in the course of a short neurological examination.

After passing Judgment on such crack National Guard organizations as the 7th and 23d Regiments and Squadron trainloads of drafted men began to arrive on Long Island from all parts of the country, among whom were found many from backwoods districts where the opportunities for schooling had been limited. It was not unusual to chance upon a man wnose education had not even embraced a smattering of the three R's. Lark of Literacy. Literacy, such cases, could not be insisted upon as a criterion of intelligence. The fact that a man could neither read nor write was evidence, not of his limited mental capacity, but of limited educational opportunities.

To have required that every man snouid be able to read and write would have disorganized whole regiments. "One regiment In particular from a certain State was so lacking in mental qualifications believed necessary for good soldier material, that tha board found itself in a quandary whether to qualify the entire organization or to pass all regardless of the results of Ihe test. Literacy was the exception. Some had never seen a railroad train before being entrained for camp; many had never ridden on one before and few knew the names of any States adjoining their own. Almost no one knew the name of a general of any of the allied forces, Including our own.

"These men spent most of their time In camp gambling and quarrelling. On the first day of their arrival, apropos of nothing at all, they sent word to an adjoining regiment that they would come over that night and 'Lick Discipline was conspicuous by its absence. They paid little attention to their own officers, one of the latter, In fart, being killed In a quarrel by a man of his own company. During their stav In camri a special guard detailed from other organizations had to be kept about their quarters. "Finally, in order to get rid of thu disturbing element they were gotten out of camp and embarked for overseas with the intention of organising them on the other side Into labor battalions, the Idea that thev might be taught to function a soldiers having been entirely abandoned.

The last the writer heard of them was a report that their disorder on shipboard had amounted practically to mutiny, and that they had been disembarked for disciplinary reasons at Halifax. "To years later, In conversation, thla particular regiment happened to be mentioned, and an offlrer related that they did finally somehow et to Trance, where they defeated all efforts to turn them Into labor battalions. Insisting that thev had come tit fight, and that It was fight or nothing. Th authorl'lrs In desperation moved them to a point In reserve back of the Immediate front on a hard-pressed sector. Repeated attempt bv our best, shock trops had tailed te carry Ihe enemies' trenches at this point.

The officer in Immediate command was alrslrt to order our Illiterate and undlnelpllned friends Into action. Thev demanded the privilege, and he reluctantly acceeded, Parts of Weir's Famous arris: Awmw cm ueiaware Kiver lor a new water supply in this city, which had to be abandoned because the Legislatures of Pennsylvania and New Jersey re. fused to give the necessarv consent, because the river flows through both of these States. Negotiations were carried on for three vears only to fall In the end. The present plan is to tap the headwaters of the Delaware, which are located in this State, and other neighboring water courses.

and change It has been dominated always by two general principles the first to avoid as far as possible interference in matters concerning the religion of the governed and. second, never to sanction a law that cannot be enforced. To run counter to the Indian's tenets as to religious duties, religious prohibitions, and god-given rights has ever meant the eclipse of Indian reason in madness, riot and blood. And to enforce a law whose keeping or breaking must be a matter of dome-tic secrecv is. In such a country as India at least, impossible.

Early to Wed; Early to Die "Indian and English authorities unite in the conviction that no law raising the marriaee sae of elrl would be today effectively accepted by the Hindu peoples. The utmost to be hoped, in the present state of public mentality, Is, so experienced men hold, a raising of the age of consent within the marriage bonds." Miss Mayo quotes at length In her book excerpts from the record of the Legislative Assembly at various times when the subject of child marriage has been argued. In the Assembly of 1925 a legislator from the north, where child marriages are less numerous than the south, during the course of a debate said the motto of the Indians Is "early to marry and early to die." The record of this debate follows: Girls ot 9 Are Mothers. "I think, sir. the real solution for preventing Infant mortality lies In 3macking the parent who produces uch children, and more so.

in slapping many of our friends who always oppose the raising of the age to pro duce healthy children. Is it not a sin when they call a babv of 9 or 10 years or a boy ot 10 husband and wile? 'Voices of No, No. from the Assembly It la a shame lor this generation and the future generation Girls of 9 ho should be playing ith their dolls rather than becoming wives are mot he's of children. Boys who ought to be in school are rearing a large family ol halt a dozen boys and girls One whole chapter In Mies Mayo's hook Is devoted to the most graphic description or women hospitals con ducted by British women for the Hindu girls She tells of the horrify ing conditions with no mincing ol words that exist among the patients, government cerk.y wives thev are, wives of officials or of professional men. rich women sometimes, sometime pnor.

women of high caste, women of low cast, too desperate all to set up against themselves thir cherished bars of religious hatreds and rasre repulsions." De'siied account of Individual aes ere given in an intimate fashion bv Miss Mnvo. who state it is ne'-es. -aiv to rail a spnde a spde so West-irn renders will realize conditions as tliry Caste Compel utom. The mitlior narrate a ennvertlon lie Imd with "one of the chief ol-liciels of the Princes household, a l.th-' orthodox B'ahnun kfholai ro ily at home In his European dress" he tins r.dlrn l'h him in one ol I the Prim Rolls-Rovce car. v.

hat age he would marry his Infant daughter, A' j-or 7. hut I surety mu" ler he replied, in his excellent she completes he: ninth nr "And it vou do not, what I the pr it and upon hom does it tt fatis rn me, I am out ranted uv mv cmc None of them will eat with or give wt-r to drink or admit to pny reremonv. None will cive mt his daughter to marry my -It 4 tJSr 2's -i' i UTS. Law Providing Girl Must Be 14 and Boy IS Submitted to Referendum Author ff India" Blamed Early Motherhood for Weakness of Race. Br ALICE COGAV.

Less than a year after the publication of Kr.therlne Mayo's "Mother India." in which she devoted many chapters to the frank discussion of child matTiaqes. the Indian Legislature at Delhi has ordered to be clr-culated a bill that, fixes the minimum age for marriage at 18 for boys and 14 for girls. The Legislatn Assembly debated the bill for a day last week and de-spl'e the vehement objections of orthodox Hindu members directed its circulation, which equiaient to a referendum A measure making Hind i child marriage invalid was first introduced a year ago. but could not ps the Legislature. A select committee, dispatches fiom Delhi say, has altered the measure, fixing the minimum of 18 and 14.

with the proviso that all persons ceremonies In the case of rhlldirn below those aits and all guardians permitting them and all men marrying girls below tha minimum age should be liable to Im prisonment and fine. Bonk Start! Reforms. Although Miss Mavoa expose of fluid marriage as well is other customs In India has brought a s'orm of protest from British and Indians alike, It Is pointed nut nevertheless that her 'Mother India' has undoubtedly been the cause for more concentrated action to regulate child marriage than any other one In India Never before had the subject hern freely discussed nor has anv bonk In recent years brought forward such widespread comment and denials It Is contended bv Dhan Clopal Mukerjl In hla "A Son Mother India Answers" that Mls Mayo's accusations are loo general. The Indian author complains that the American woman has taken a few rare and glaring examples and made them appear to be the ocncral trend of the n'uatmn in India. Hoerr.

It cannot he denied that Miss Mavoa tirade against child mar-riaie. which occupies a gieater part of her book, has stirred up Interest in the subleet with the result lliat further legislation to rTti'dv tin conditions sterns to be 4 certainty. fttame fir India'' ltj k'arrtnea. Th rrur of India's allure to progress is pls-d at the door of rliltrl irm rligM fsullin in Hie low vltall'v if the prnpte Miss Majo in "Mnthrr India" 'm i she savs: "The whole pyramid of the Indian Artist Cut Up Original Canvas and Brooklyn Gallery Has Section That Still Rears the Title and "The Flower-Seller" Painter Was Son of West Point Diawins: Teacher, Knew Custer and Whistler. Two canvases with an unusual history rewarded The Eagle's search for hidden treasure during the past week when J.

Alden Weir's "The Flower Seller'' and his "Union Square" were found among the art treasuies of the Brooklyn Musuem. Both pictures will be featured this week at the Museum which Is open from 2 until (t today and Irom '0 until 5 on weekdays. It. is beheved that "The Flower Seller" and "Union Square'' were both originally parts of a large paint ing, also cslled "Union Square," meant to represent the varied types that would be met with in a public park W-att Faton. a friend of Weir and an artist himself, po-ed to one of the figures In the group.

But after It was finished Weir was dissatisfied with it and cut. the large ranvas Into several parts, at the same lime mak ing an amcdavtt of the circumstances The Flower Seller as presented to the MiiKCum In 1911 by Oco'ce Hearn At that time the pamt'ng was taxen tor a complete ranvs-but It was noticeable that It was ob v.ouslv pieced In two plsces It n- not until the Museum acmijr-ed Hi" mll Union Rquare." howevei. that It a supected both paintings were really par's of th same ranvc.s In vestigation thowed lha' the techtV.o ir ard the scale of the in huh canva-es are ihe same and this, tak-n with th" fa'-i that "The Flor.er H-l. er" It patched, seems to p-ove that thee reallv are section of the Square' 'hat hs va n-he-) Another ranvas In th National nailery in Washington contain a por- 7 right "The Flower Seller." alter liming won world-wide recognition lor his landscapes and portraits. He wis horn and reared at Point.

N. Y. where Ilia father vrs nn instructor In drawing The nrtlst was the vnuhgesl bov In a fain-II of lfl children and received Ills early training from his lather and from Ih Mew York Academy nf t. His bovhood was fnent during the vears of the Civil War and he numbered such notable as Custer, 4 7 hy J. Aldcn Vl'eir called "Union sections.

The Brooklyn Museum the t-oldlci. and Whtst'er, the artlat, among ins Wt.it Pouit fi lends Later he mnde his home in Rldgefleld. C'onnoctif ut Thene Velr eanva es are 27th on Ihe It-1 of 'Ihe f.aglr'a treasure finds at Ihe Museum. Last week there was discovered a cabinet of tortoise-shell and mm her-of -pearl, the model for the Church of Han rranrlsro, In Lima. Peru, made In Spain In the nth century.

At left Square." At These separate r.nntinj were once part of a large tanva Squire." DissatisfiM with his work, the artist cut the picture into ros c-sc-; these two. excellent examples of Vl'ctr's work. trait of Watt the only pcr-t rait nf this painter ktvu-n to exist, and it Is suspected that th i fiiur" was cf the nnrirnl cninpo-lon of Union Square." Knew C'j'ter as Itnv. Julian Alden Weir was one nf Ameilcas noteworthy artiMs in the th trolrrn school. He died only tew yean ago, in 1013,.