Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-14

OIL tue hTtlS', AhE. hhuLO"o' "S p,
the picture Of Martha Washington which
hangs in the East Room Of the White
House. 1t has large yard made up OF
ground which is worth at least So a square
foot. and thus, at certain hours of the day,
ia filed with children. A kindergarten oc
cupies the lower story, and the upper, when
is tas,efuIly furnished, is devoted to the
school CT deaf nutes. In this SCHOOL the
deaf and dumb children are taught TO
speak by watching the lips of their teacher
and learning to shape their lips in the same
way in utteriug sounds which correspond
10 The various words. Mr.. Bells father ls,
think, the author Of the system used ,and
there is no doubt that it is success The
children learn 10 talk, and they are able to
communicate their thoughts, but their
voices are generally harsh and loud, -,
Mr.. Bell thinks that deal children shoniG
never be educated with deaf children. And
some of his deaf pupils ere row going to
the kindergarten and associating with chill
dren who speak. He does not believe IN
deaf and dumb ssylums, and says that the
association of the deaf mutes together IN
these ia rapidly forming g race OF deaf
nutes 10 the United States. Deaf mutes
marry deaf mutes, and such marriages pro-
duce deaf mute children. he tells me
there are now 33,8TS deaf mutes IN the
United States, or one for about every l,oOO
of population. He states that the vocal
organs Of deaf people are usualiy perfect
and that their inability 10 speak comes
from their not being able TO hear and thus
initiate sounds, He has shown that deaf
mutes can be taught to speak. lie says
that the intelIects of the deaf are full as
bright ss those q hearing people, ana tfst
there are many eXamptes OF deaf mntes
who BIZ learning to speak have become
valuable citizens. His wife, as have said,
wss at one time deaf and dumb. There Ia
8 patent lawyer in Cincinnati who was once
a deaf mute, and there are deaf mute edi'
tors, doctors and even poets.
Professor Bell keeps up bis ELECTRICAL eX.
periments, though he is very c!oae' mouthed
about what he is doipg, Fis laboratory
has been, until last month, IL little dliapi
dated brick building back among the trees,
on Connecticut avenue, within sioneS
throw of the palace Of the British legation
This laboratory has been known as the
Volta laboratory, and it was founed with
the Volta prize money OF SlO,OO0, when
the'French academy awarded Bell for the
the telephone. In it he has spent thousands
of dollars and hours OF labor and expert
meuts, bit no one Las bothered hiE1. The
aspect Of the building is torbiddipg,, 1t
stands high up from the street, and IT.
green blinds ore generally closed. Sill,
great mansions have been springlrg up ali
around this, and nov Professor Bell has
decided 10 move his workshop to George
tom. HIS extreme caution will probably
! be increased by law suits, which have cost
toe Bell company fortunes. 10 Mr. Bel!
library there arc three yolUm5s OF oUI
pages each, which contains the printed tea
imony of the plaintiff in TIE Drawbaugh
cases, aud each of these volumesis "a big
as q dictionary. Bells testimony as de
PENDANT takes up four volumes of thesamt
proportions, and the abstract Of the eVl
dence in the cesa nsteC another volumt
OF tho saue family bible SIZE. TIE Pal
Electric suits may cost fully as much, ant
howeve, they terminate, they will mater
ally add to the fees Of number Of noted
lawyers. >,
Speaking Of Bells caution, he coult
hardly sleep, au t0ii, when he was ma
king his Grst experiment with the teIe
phone, for fsGr some one would steal hi
invention bsfore he c,uI patent i. IL
kept his models in his own room in Boston
and bad box.like case in ghich he locke
theH ~ uaene"er Re went out OF hi
room. At iirst the stock was sold ser.
low, aud there a number Of men abou
Washington who made fortunes by invest
ing in it. What Be-! is worth now no on
knows. l heard the figure put Of 81, COO
90, and / suppose his tatberin-laW, Ga:
diuor Hubbard, is worth at least as muc'
mGTe.
Professor Bell has the long, high head
the Inventor and the mathematician.
reader Of Eases seeing his portrait, woul
. pronounce bin the practical mau, and nc
the poet or the dreamer.
FRANZ GEORGE.