The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-06
STATE ASYLUM FOR DEAF AND
DUMB
on rue VINO, July "a, ut.

'eal, honest pleasure. You have
,ucceeded. / do not say that yon
nave reached the highest standard
IF exceIIency in your calling but !
10 say you have left many worthy
competitors fer behind you. | wish
you much success in q financial sense.
Every body that is able, ought as
q matter Of county pride, and IS 9
personal, pecunisry Investment, to
take his home paper. The world
Judges home, 10 an important sense,
by the newspaper his place sup
ports.) Unbidden ! hereby enter as
your correspondent from this "sec>
sion," and if you and your readers
can locate me, all right. With your
indulgence ] will give you q short
account of the public examination of
the pupils at the institution for the
Deaf and Dumb situated ct Cave
Springs. The exercises were very
interesting indeed. But before l
get too far away from the proper
place for such, let mo say that of oil
the places ever saw, Cave Springs
is the shadiest, coolest and most re-
ffeshing on q hot June day. There
are so many grand old trees spread.
log out their leafy branches. And
besides there 10 running, lssping,
right through the village a bright,
clear, crystal stream--no branch,
but q full grown creek. | think the
man who writing Of a town ss:d "is
nestled between grand old hills"
must have been writing Of Cave
Springs. TIA weary summer trav>
eler don't stop there to rest, be must
be 10 a hurry to get further on.
The examination about which /
cat down to write, was on the 9th
of June. There are 10 attendance
forty>eight students. Under the
present management the pupils dress
In uniform. The girls dress is black
alpaca skirts and white pique waist.
The boys are dressed in Columbus
Jeans Of dull grey--with caps. -
Such for both 1t 10 claimed Is cheap.
est. 1t certainly presents them very
favorabIy. Six years is the term
prescribed BY law for the education
of the mates. A few, chosen for
superior aptness and quickness sre
continued three years longer.
There is connected with the Insti-
tute shoe shop, and there the mute
boys make most of the shoes worn
by the inmates of the Asylum. I'm.
I'll recently there was also printing
establishment, but it has been sold.
The children are boarded and cloth.
cd by the State in all cases, except
the parents are able to do so The
childsep Of saeA ere pay pnpila. =
The institution was established iD
ls47--and the State appropriates
annually $4,000 to its support. -
The State takes good care of her
Deaf and Dumb children. She has
just begun to prepare a place for
the col0red mutes--shere are "A OF
them in the State. Well done for
Georgia, the Empire State Of the
South.
The examination exercises were
very interesting as | said. You
could understand everything that
was going on very well indeed
The truth is much better than at the
ordinary school examination. The
entire responses of the children were
written GU. upon the boards and you
only had to read. And there was
the least talking going on among the
scholars ever heard upon q similar
occasion. And I do not hesitate 70
say tina. the children were as probes
lent, as any have ever known ex
amined, when age 10 considered. In
some studies decidedly more so. |
would like to tell you Of IN examin>
alton 10 the room where the teacher.
as we'll as pupils, was mute, IL
was easily understood and interest
ing but my epistle will want too
much Of your columns.
| ate dinner IN the dinning hall
of the asylum. 1t was crowded full,
but every thing 10 order. was q
little late 10 getting in and the mutes
were al seated, but still and in pa
.ient waiting. The superintendent
by signs and signals asked the bless
ing and then how the crowd did eat.
In the afternoon the exercises
consisted of recitations, 10 the mute
language, Of little anecdotes. For
each there was an interpreter and to
me there YES, besides the novelty, .
great charm, about the defamation
Of the boys. They seemed to enjoy
it hugely themselves.
At Las. Mr.. OOnnor, the Superio>
tendent, rose and made them .
speech. That being ended Abe led
them in prayer. How deeply sol>
emn was that prayer. How bresths
less was the silence, what wrapted
attention did the children give their
ehaplsiu-it was the very intensess
possible. The tears rolled from
more eyes than Ons. How sublime