Viola is familiar with 32 kinds of seeds.ġ1. Viola can read books in three languages.Ħ, Viola knows the faces of many famous people.Ħ7. A pouter, whether child or adult, is a very unpleasant companion in fact, a pouter is nothing more or less than a modified cry-baby.ģ. Viola has never been rocked, carried, nor put to sleep. If we do our work well in this direction, we shall never be annoyed with a 'naughty cry-baby.'

When a baby begins to cry, it should immediately be put down. about his adopted daughter who was for a short time a celebrated child prodigy. Yet he left an abundant supply of autobiographical writings that 'reveal a persistent desire for the public recognition that always eluded him.The overall impression.is one of desperation on Olerich's part.' Olerich died by suicide, prompted in part by declining health. He wrote a range of other works as well, including one titled 'Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar: An Experiment in Education,' about his adopted daughter who was for a short time a celebrated child prodigy.

Olerich was also a lawyer, farmer, teacher, and machinist he once earned a patent for an improved tractor. Olerich continued his utopian projections in two subsequent books, Modern Paradise (1915) and The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence (1923). The method was to build houses that could hold 1,000 people, who would collectively farm and work. In his most well-known novel, A Cityless and Countryless World (1893), a Martian lands on earth to teach humans how to create paradise.

Henry Olerich (1851–1927) was a utopian author from Nebraska.

Viola Olerich by Henry Olerich