LAZINESS UNVEILED

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 46, 18 November 1919, Page 7

LAZINESS UNVEILED

WOMEN • SCIENTISTS' TESTS FOR SCHOOLBOYS, i Two women, among other scientific petsons, aro to be engaged during the com ing term in a novel experiment of which tlie British schoolboy aiid schoolgirl aro to bo "the vile body," states the "Dailv Mail." The two women have obtained leave to enter during lessons tho classrooms' of a certain famous educational school for the purpose of testing tho energy put forth by tho pupils during the course of various studies. Memliei's of the Eoyal Society, which is in part financing the experiment, believe that by purely chemical, perhaps also electric means, you can discover just how much energy is being exerted, whether physically or mentally, by any group of workers or any ningle worker, whether in a factory or in a classroom, lhere «re a variety of methods which help ono another; hut the chief ie to test the ■ percentage in the air of that well-known chemical, carbon dioxide, which we breathe out increasingly as onr energy is increased. The point has nut yet quite beeli reached when a boy can bo justly beaten for layaess on' tho ground that carbon dioxide is not present in sufficient quanfily in his neighbourhood! lint American chemists, they suy, aro nble to toil decrease of output n a factory liy purely chemical means' and by. analysing tho air; just as that iugeiiioun London fihj-biolngist, Dr. Waller, can palpably trace our emotions and thoughts by his simple electrical machine. Tlie expectation is that a real tost of what may be called flic wear and fear of various mental and bodily exercises mny hnvo been found. That, at yny rate, is tho strong hope of the two women pioneer workers whose sphere of activity is to be the classrooms of a Hampnhjro public school. Whnt the boys think is less certain.