The Cedar Co. news-letter. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1853, 1853-11-26

CONTINUED LAST WEEK.

asylum IN the couIse OF his Journey in
in the safes few years ago, mentions,
in his american Notes." that he mad an
interview with Laura, whose condition
greatly interested him. We take the
liberty Of extracting few passages from
the aecoun, Of his visit.
! The thought occurred to me- he OBJ
serves, las sa, down before girl bind,
deaf, and dumb, destitute of smell, and
nearly SO of taste; before Il fair young
creature with every human faculty, and
hope, the power Of goodness and effec-
! ton, enclosed within her delicate frame,
and but one outward sense--the sense
Of touch. There she was before me,
built up, as ii were, in marble cell,
! mperyious TO any ray of light or particle
of sound, with her poor white hand peep
! ing through chink in the wall ,beckoning
TO some good man for help, tina, an i'm.
mortal soul might be awakened. Long
before looked upon her, the he lip had
come. Her face was radient with in.
telhgence and pleasure. Her hair, braid
! cd by her own hands, was bound about
head whose intellectual capacity and de-
velopement were beautifully expressed
in lis greasiul outline and its broad open
brow her dress, arranged by herself,
was pattern Of neatness and simplicity;
the work she had knit lay beside her !;
her writing book was on the desk she
leaned upon. From the mournlul ruin
of such bereavement, there had slowly
risen up this gentle, tender, guileIess,
greatful-hearted being. Like other IN
mates OF that house, she had a green rib
on bound round her eyehds. A doll she
had dressed lay near upon the ground.-
took it up, and saw that she had made
green filiet such as she wore herself,
and fastened it about It's minnie eyes
She was seated in little inclosure, made
by school desks and forms, writing her
daily Journal. Blu, soon finishing this
pursuit, she engaged in an animated
communication with a teacher who sat
| beside her. This was favorite mis-
tress with the poor pupil, if she could
sec the face OF her fair ins,ructress, she
would not love her less, am sure.
turned over the leaves of her diary,
and found II written in a fair, leglble,
square hand, and expressed in terms
which were quite intelligible without any
explanation. Onmy saying that should
ike 10 see her write again, the teacher
who sat beside her babe her, in their Ian
guagc, sign her name upon a ship of pa
per twice or thrice Ia doing So, OBJ
served that she KEEP. her left hand always
touching and following up her right, IN
which, OF course. she held the pen. No
line was indicated by any contrvance,
but she wrote straight and freely.
She had, until Row, been quite uncon-
seious Of the presence Of visitors; but
having her hand placed in that Of the
gentleman who accompanied me, she i'm
mediately expressed his name upon her
teachers palm. Indeed her sense of
toaeh is now So exquisite, that, having
been acquainted with person once, she
can recognize him or her after almost
any interval. This gentleman had been
III her company, believe, but very sell
dom, and certainly had not seen her for
many months. NV hand was rejected
al once, as she does tina, of any man who
+, Is stranger 10 her But she retained
my wife, with evident pleasure, kissed
Ter. and examined her dress with girls
curiosity and interest. She was merry
and cheerful, and showed much innocent
4 playiulness III her intercourse with her
teacher. Her delight on recognizing a
tavorlle piaytcllow and companion = her
SELF blind girl-who sllcn;iy and with
an equal enjoyment of the coming sur
prise, took seat beside her, was bcauti-
iul to witness. II elected from her al
first, az other slight circumstances did
twice or thrice during my visit, an IN
coa'h noise which was rather painful! 10
hear. Bu, Oh her teacher touching her
lips, she immediately desistrd. and en-
braced her laughlngly aud aiFecrionately. I"
We learn from the further accoun. or
Nr. Dickens, hat there was in THIS in.
s'ltution a boy named Oliver Caswell,
who had been deaf and blind since he
was few months old, and vas now At
thirteen years .; age, III d state resefn-
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