Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-12

insisted with great volubility o.
gesture that We should stay to see .
little drill. SO the children we're pu'
through an exercise In fine military
style and concluded by giving the
gesture la tho tigu language fog any
words TIE visi,ors sele,ted. In every
one OF the higher rooms our adven,
wss tho signsl for flying OF fingers all
over the room ASH & who Wa were,
our business and a hundred other
queries that tho eagor curiosity Of the
students prompted. The
ARTICULATION DEPARTMENT,
taught by Miss jean V4nTaesel, was
the next.
Miss VanTassel took a course Of
training for her work in Chicago from
q lady graduate Of the Bell bchool OF
visible speech at Boston, founded by
Bell of telephone fame. The method
here is to teach reading of lips, fac
and throat by the pupil who 10 deaf,
and articulation If words, Tho worue
articulated are Of course not az dis
tinct "a those spoken by persons Ca
psb o of speech, but they can DO ua-
der tood with little difficulty, and
really are o great advance into the
realm Of speech. In reading lips the
pupils evinced great proficiency and
qulcknegs. With eager, nervous eyes
they scan the face of the speaker, and
reply almost instantly Ono little
girl OF IL, u niece Of judge Tracy, Of
this state, was espsc ally apt, and
from her earnest, intelligent face i;
wan hard to believe that she lacked
any of the five senses.
In the
ACADEMIC CLASS,
under Prof. Booth, we found n fine,
intelligent company OF young ladisD
and gentlemen. The advanced C class
in arithmetic was reciting, and THE
BEE representatives gave 1t several
problems, that were satisfactorily
worked.
The
DINNER BELL
sounded, and we went dorn TO the
long dining hall, where the students
were marshalling OF the tables. When
all were seated one of the mute teach.
Gre advanced to the middle of the
room and made the most impressive
SILENT GRACE
we have ever known. The children OF
the tables did not bow their heads In.
20 an uncomfortable position as GUS
tom dictates among Us base takers.
Every eye was tKed on the face and
fingers Of the glver CT thanks a. they
told In q symbolism that surely tho
angels understand Of gratitude for the
past and prayer for the future. When
the prayer wasclosed there was q CHATTER
Of dishea, and the 270 students were
satisfying the hunger that ~disregards
the absence or presence Of tho other
senses.
We walked around the dining hall
With
WORLD OF LANGUAGE
around Us and we were even as n
deaf and blind.
Here" said Superintendent Rog.
ers hating before q little urchln who
was placed apart on q low stool eating
his dinner with q sly leer at his fol-
lows around tho common table, ''is 8
bad boy. He fights the others at
meals In no vicious q mauner that We
are compelled to give him u single
tablo." Tne culpris looked up with q
grin aud we passed on.
"This boy" pDrsued tho super
intendent placing his hand on a bushy
head is deformed." "See," and he
held up his C ub hand, II have traced
the mother out and found tina. his
grand parents were own brother and
sister. There are two Aisters Of him
at that other table"
"Have you observed," we oeked 'tif
there was q large percentage of mutes
whose parents vert relateo?"
IA very large per cent among those
born So" replied Mr.. Rogers. "You
must know that more cases are caused
BY disease than existing since birth.
II have taken great pains to hunt
matters down and find In q m~sjority of
that either the parents were
mute from birth themselves or were
too noarly related. The
SINS OF THE AREN'T
are surely visited on the child"
As We oonversed the talking dialts
were flashing in every partof the hall.
"Look yonder," said Mr.. Rodgers,
pointing to the other side of tho hall;
"there's q boy says he thinks potatoes
arc beat; there's q girl wondering with
her companion what those visitors are
rfcer; that tiny hand moving 30 fast
there is telling another tiny hand
Of o present from home abe has"
While we were talking the meal end.
cd and the hall was cleared of the
boys In military style by signals from
thu superintendent, the girls remain.
Ing to wash tho dinhes.
Our wn dinner was then eaten in
mother room with the teachers and
Ulcers, and after u trip around the
premises We left, feeling highly sstis.
lied with our visit to tho Iowa Ssato
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