The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-03-01
From the New York Evening Post.
DeaC and Dumb Taught TO
EFa.,r and sneak

From the New York Evening Post.
Dcar and Dumb Taught 10
Hear and speak
An effort is making by DR.. Howe,
mafbe board of State charities, to
.aahlizh in Massachusetts q school,
raRlmber Of schools, for the pur-
saof teaching the dumb to speak.
he hearing has already taken place
hsfnFe q committee Of the legislature;
snaf Is believed that the effort will
~ aecessfuI. One wealthy gentleman,
s.IganceI in years, is ready to cOntri-
bntp $4,000 for the establishment Of
snfh school, and to agree to bequeath
4 thenagniicent legacy ofthe balance
efhis large estate.
1nstanccs in which deaf mutes were
aueht to articulate are narrated by
Rade a. having occurred as early as
~ nid die of the seventh century But
Ae Earliest systematic instruction
n,Darted to deaf mutes appears to
ave been in Spain about three hun
lied years ago. A manual alphabet
or deaf mutcs was published at Mad
II Is early as 1920 A century later
Spanlsh Jew,-Joseph Rodrigues
ereife then living in France, first
edaeed the method Of teaching by ar
iculation to q modern science. He
ooa astouished the French academy
IS the exhibition Of pupils born deaf
lutes, set speaking not only to per
oetion, bat with the Southern accent
eculiar t0 n resident Of Bordeax.
nfBon and other celebrated men were
dtnesses Of his success, and his elo-
nent eulogists.
I'm France the discovery Of Pereire
as allowed to rest undisturbed for
iore than two generations. "In
sermanv." saws Mr.. Sanborn, the sec
etary Of the board Of state charities,
always q kindly soil to the instruc-
ion of children, it was otherwise
Ter learned men kept themselves in
ormed OF the art Of deaf-mute instruc-
ion. Since 1890 the teaching of ar
icnlation to deaf mutcs has become
lmost universal in Germany. and is
raeticed also in Holland, Belgium
md other countries"
In Great Britain, about a century
fter the success Of Dr. Wallis, he
ound a successor in Thomas Brend-
rood, whose school was visited and
raised by DR.. Johnson, in 1773.
They not only speak, write, and un-
erstand what is written" said the
plossus of English literature" but
he thai speaks looks towards them
nd modilies his organs by distinct
i'd full utterance, they know so well
bat Is spoken that it is an expression /
arcely iigurative to say that they
ar the eye"
Without citing other historical facts, /
is enough to say that at the present /
ne both the teaching Of articulation /
d the plan Of placing deaf mutes in
common schools, appear to be f.
lining ground in England and on the |
ntinent Of Europe
DR. Howe, in his remarks before /.
E legislative committee the other /
y, said that in 1913 Horace Mann /.
d he, in visiting the deafmutes /
hoOls Of Germany, were ast0nished /
! the easc with which they made them |
Ives understood The children,
itching their lips, understood them
stantly, and although these two
T ted americans knew little of Ger
an, they found little difficulty in un-
rstanding the replies. Mr. Mann
termined to introduce the system
10 Massachusetts,, but died before he
scomphshed it.
s"AlloW me, said DR. Howe, ''to re
e an anccdote. There came to me
me five years since 4 German whom
lid not recognize at first as n deaf
ute, but somtimc afterwards | motto
little popularity about his speech
was travelling in this country
1ne without any attendant. Finding
at he talked so well, i remarked that |
1nld like to take him into our kitch-
J, and that / wanted him to talk as
he were not a mute. He consented
do this, and we went into the kitch-
and there | had a seryent girl, who
Is also a German, and quite intelli-
Snt. / told her had brought a man
who spoke German, and they com
enced Conversation, and continued
r some minutes, when suddenly she
opped her hands, and exclaimed
at she had been talking to a TduJs-
ntnas
\ There is a school for teaching the
Rmb to speak in Chelmsford, Mass,
nducted by Mrs. Rogers, one of the
I Achers Of Laura Bridgman,. Mr..
nborn, in his report, thus de
ribes his visit to it:
ssWhen ] visited her school on the
st day of November, 1866. | saw,
tened TO and talked with most OF
r pupils, and smong them the Id
Iose Progress l am about to de
ibe. ] held n conversation of
me minutes with him-could un-
+ rstand him without the least diff
P lty. and could make myself under
,od By him through speech alone.
r. g., Of Providence, r. l., who
came deaf at the age Of seven years
d three months, entered this school
ne p 1866, at the age of seventeen
ars and seven months Not being
ong and well, he had attended
|S aool only seven months previous to
tei1ng this school, but had studied
Bahome. In written arithmetic he had
average knowledge of the elemen-
~ rules, reduction and common
elctions; but had never studied men
arlthmetic and grammer. He un-
rstood but a few words from the
8, (perhaps a dozen,) but beyond
At Other communicated with him
the manuel alphabet or by writing,
nle he spoke distinctly enough to
! understood by any one Since en-
ing this school one hour 4 day
been devoted to his instruction
/ readlng from the lips and from
\ Qls thc same length of time Zone
ul') to recitation in mental arithmetic
s u grammar, After three days in
WeE{on he was qbIa to road the nj