Vanessa Brown, one of the members of the "intelligence quiz" group, who has become a brilliant movie star

of children, who feels the respon-sibility laid upon his shoulders as an examiner of children's intelli-gence, or what is called in English the I. Q. He has recently written a book called "You and Atomic Power," in which he explains to youngsters what use we can make of atomic power other than killing off the world. He himself is a man of extraordinary intelligence, accomplished in music, who pilots his own private airplane. He lives with his wife and two children in the district of Glen Ellyn on the outskirts of Chicago, and he is the only man in the United States who owns two television sets, one in the sitting room and the other on the lower floor of the house, where his two little ones play — the two on whom he applies the results of his testing and study, assisted in this by his wife, who has been and remains his right hand in carrying out mental tests on children... Her method of raising the child rests on giving him the fullest information about everything he asks about, drawing on the encyclopedias if need be...

Fathers find great difficulty in getting their little ones to carry out the duties laid upon them as their parents portion them out; yet if they are left to themselves to divide their time according to

their own need of it, they perform everything asked of them with complete faithfulness, and finish all their duties.

There was one little girl who often chafed at her piano lesson, since she had to practice an hour every day. When she was left to herself, she began to practice as her free time allowed — several hours a day, while sometimes the day would pass without her sitting at the piano for a single minute. But she kept progressing, even if slowly; and in this way the quarreling in the house lessened, and the little girl no longer felt that she was performing a hateful duty, but rather that she was studying something useful and profitable...

And now, what are the signs of a youngster's brightness? Mr. Lewellen says they are: depth in answering certain questions and refusal to be content with super-ficialities; quickness of under-standing; curiosity; the taking in of new information; strength of memory; retention of the greatest possible number of words; an extraordinary delight in ency-clopedias, geography books with maps, and other books; the ability to read without prior training; and walking and talking early.

Among the signs of intelligence, too, are alertness, quickness in answering together with original-ity of opinion, gaiety of spirit, and a love of reading.

Mr. Lewellen believes that educat-ing the youngster at the hands of a private tutor is a very mistaken method, because the youngster is thereby cut off from social life and from choosing his own friends. And if he is then sent to school at the age of nine, he dislikes his companions out of aversion to them, and this leads him to hate his school...

The school helps the youngster's talents to grow in cooperation with the home... If the youngster fails in his lessons, scolding will not bring him to earn high marks; in that case he needs

the consolation and help of his parents and their affection, just as if he had been hurt in a fall in the street, for instance. Moreover, his parents' help, given with affection and tenderness, and their standing by him in his work, lead him to a better and more profitable result.

Days may come when the youngster falls prey to sharp fits of nerves after a long lesson or a strain of thinking. Or even the intelligent among them may fail in one of their school years; and to such parents Lewellen says: "Do not press the little ones to study more. Let them rest, and their nature will afterward return to what it was..."

The youngsters' talents may be discovered as the result of a surprise or an unusual incident, as happened to little Lonny Lunde when he was four years old. He came home one evening with his parents from a concert, and no sooner had he entered the house than he rushed to the piano to play on it a tune he had heard at the concert; and within a

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