Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-05-27
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School for Ind,gsnt Children, on Taomp-
sons Island, four miles from Boston,.

derS ialnt resemblance OF such farm
school in the United States, as we desire Il
see in our country. The Farmers Month
ly Visitor gives short history of a schoo
for the poor, which the Bostonians have
had in successful. operation several years
We are not sure but the wealthy projec
tors Of this school would do well to have
their own sons there as well as those il
reduced circumstances. The account
shows that something can be done, and
therefore we entreal all TO read it.
"We have ever been favorable TO school:
in which farming business and mechanical
trades may be united with other objects o.
education. Several years ago,in the ex,
cellent regulations of the Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb at Hartford, Conn, we
witnessed the process of Instruction. in va
rious kinds of labor. Particularly were
we at one time interested in the perform
ance with the needle Of young female
from the State of New Hampshire, who
was both deaf and dumb and blind. II is
all but inconceivable how any one depri-
we'd ofsight, of hearing and necessarily Of
speech should be instructed 10 do any thing,
In the absence Of the crater faculties, the
subordinate senses are made to supply
their place. The touch enables the blind
mute to distinguish not only substances but
colors-to Identify both living beings and
inanimate objects: the smell is likewise an
assistant which comes in continued aid 10
the operations Of the mind. Under a
course of careful instruction, the deaf aud
the blind are taught the purposes and the
enioyments Of life, and The utterly helpless
how to become their own helpers. To the
deaf and dumb at Hartford, the value Of
instruction insihe different kinds OF labor
by both males and females, has beenmani-
fest in various directions. Matrimonial
connexions of the two sexes have there
been formed where both were deaf and
dumb, in which the parties entered on the
business of life with all the alacrity and
success of those who could both hear and
speak. There is farmer in Merrimack
County who manages his concerns with
great prudence and discretion, and who
has thriyen in property, married toa mute
who also acts wellsher part in the drama of
life; and-this pnir we have been told are
faep1Isl taf
uca,ion at Hartford, and were taught not
only the rudiments which open 10 them all
the advantages of language, but the male
was there instructed in the business OF the
farm, and the female in the management
of household affairs, in the use of the spin
ming wheel and needle, and in The economy
OF the kitchen.
Among the charitable institutions that
are peculiarly characteristic OF the city oil
Boston, where there is q commendable zeal
to minister to The wants Of every destitute
and afflicted child OF Adam, our attention
has been called to the Farm School for
INDECENT Boys" Instituted in 1888, tor
| "the education aud reformation OF boys,
who from the loss Of their parents or other
causes, are exposed 10 extraordinary temp
taton, and are in danger Of becoming vi
cious and dangerous, or useless members
of society,"" and which in 1885 was united
with another charitable institution located
within the city OF Boston, for the purpose
of relieving, inslrucling and employing
INDECENT Boys" belonging to that town,
which had been in operation more than
twenty years.
For The purposes Of this institution,
Thompson's, one of the many islands that
beautily Boston harbor, was purchased at
the price Of $4,000, it is four miles from
the city, and from one quarter, 10 one mile
and half from tie surrounding shores oi
the town Of Dorchester. 1t contains one
hundred and forty acres of land and the
soil, which consists Of a rich loan, with
tight subsoiI, is well adapted to the raising
of all the grains and vegetables usually
cultivated in New'England.
The establishment at Thompson's island
is situated on the highest part of the island
aud commands an extensive and beautiful
view of the city, its harbor and tho sur
rounding country: the main building is lOS
by SO feet from outside to outside, with q
projection 80 by 25 feet. The diniug hall
school-room and bed room, are AZ by 3;
feet each; and the family rooms are abou
20 by II feet. Ii is neat and subslan'
tial brick cdifce: the outside course o
the entire building is laid in Connection
cement, and the inside is plastered with
the same.
In the years of 1897 and 1888 the esti
mated animal produce Of tho farm wa
S450O; and the expenses incurred in farm
ing operations, exclusive of the board ant
salary of the superindent, and the boarfo
hired mer, was about $1,000: about Sl50t
each year was realized from the sales o
produce which was not cosumed on tn,
island.
The establishments under the direction
Of board of Managers; of whom th'
President, Vice President, Treasurer an,
Secretary are members er ofciO: these re
side in the city. The immediate direction
is under superintendent, ma,ron ant
an instructor of the school. The expense
of the institution over and above the in
come from the property at the island, an.
the interest en- S37, 900 invested, amour
to about 1000 per annum, for which i
depends entirely on the annual conlribu
tons OF its members and such donation
as benevolent individuals may from tim