Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-27
THE DEAF NuTES.
An interesting Entertainment Given
last Evening Before a Nnmer-
Gus Audience.


Gus Audience.
LAT evening the pupils Of the deaf
mi. d,partmeut Of the University OF
ne,ere, gave public exhibition In
,he chapel Of the school building at
,he corner Of First North and Third
wet Principal Metcalf in the courcc
=, some Introductory remarks SAID
w. have asked you TO come and see
,,methinv OF our work. Il must he
seen to DO generally appreciated, for II
1. very little understood by the gener'
Al public. II Is only seventy-hve
cara since the first school for deaf
mu,es was started IN Hartford, Conn,
nv Thoma. Galiandet. Now there are
,cventy.seven such schools In the
limited slates. while this school Is
one Of the youngest, It ranks forty
sah in size; that is, there are thirty
too schools smaller than this one
Az 10 the work Of the past seventy
ave yean, 20, 953 deaf mutes have
,,..n educated in the United States
q oga were In school last year. On the
6n, day Of December, 1871, there
were 1919 In attendance. To Instruct
them, 6s6 teachers are employed
oWbat can pupils do after they are
,iucatedg" is question often
s,sei. lie then read extracts from
the report Of the Ohio Institution
nr the deaf for 1891 .09, giving list u
n,pet, eight empioyments followed by
n graduates. Proceeding; "Comp'fc
aren,ber OF graduates Of our sch lols
for the deaf with like number OF pun.
lie school graduates, aud you VIII NM
the deaf following ~ honorable cali
ings and making rs great success III
life Ne their speaking rivals.
The programme began with an nd
dress NJ welcome by Libbi- DE Long,
OF Garfield county, aged fourteen years
who lost her hearing nj the age OF ilvei
aud IL now q memhor VI the lip reading
class.
Firsl step in teaching the deaf. a
class Of beginners consisting OF Ruth
Carter, OF Utah county; Ala Davis, Of
Beaver county; Lille swirl, OF SAT-
Lake; Pearl Ault, OF Cmh county;
Lyman ProbeH, NJ Provo, Elgin ia
col-on, Of Davis county.
second step--A class OF more AZ.
yanced pupils. Mamie Young, o.
Kane county; Elmo Kemp, Of Salt
Lake county; Joe Kelley aud Ole
Petit, Of this city, Samuel Porter, OF
SEWER county; Mis-. Suiller being in'
stfuctor OF both classes.
Natural signs, representing fruits,hy
Lizzie Wood, uf tubs city; AMI repre-
senting animals by Hathrou Hadlock,
Of Ogden.
First steps In teaching deaf chiiiren
10 nrticulaie AMI read lipt. Amy ID.
vine, Of Morgan; joe Cameron,0f Gar
field cou nty; John Almy, Of Escalante;
llmo Kemp, Lille swift, Mamie,
Young. Pearl Ault. The teacher. NJ ls-
Grace Zorbaugh, began with the word
ohaIr,D b show how the children are
taught to speak new word. Then fol.
lowed short drill Ia lip reading and
articulation. More advanced work In
articulation ani lip reldiny, Amelia
Conner, OF Lehi. Lao Hawkins aud
Aksul Anu ndseu, Of this city; john
CLARK, Of Garfield county, and LibbIe
De Long.
Convsrsalion carried on orally aud
By reading the Lips, between Libbie
DE Long and Aksel Amuudson.
story taken from Miss ZJfbauyh'i
iits aud reproduced 10y Amelia ComuI
and liibble De Long.
Recitation spoken by John Clark.
Recitation OF the Twenty -third
Psalm In signs by class Of little folks
Advanced language exercises hN
Earl Moore, Of Emery County, Amellt
Conner, Libbic Deblng AMI JOIN
CLARK, conducted by Mr.. Drigge.
Humorous recitation, "CnurtshiI
Under Difficulties" In pantDmlme, by
Joe Olorenshaw, OF this city.
Mechanical drawing by Earl Moore
Andrew Madsen, Leo Hawkins ant
Nopbl Lrfsrn.
Song, Crock Bye, Baby, IN tn,
Tree Top" In signs by the schoo
choir, consisting Of four young gentle
men aud four young ladies'.
The programme was closed with !
child's prayer In signs, by Lilli'
Swift.
Upon the conclusion OF the pro
kAhAhAAAA HfNNAAN Va ANN As'k ~
lature present were called upon for 10
marks, and President King, Speake
seegmiller, Mr.. Irvine and Mr.. SnOy
responded,
Mr.. Lyman also spoke In terms o
warm sympathy.
In the various school rooms the wOrl
OF the pupils consisting Of map draw
ings, free hand drawings, penmanshil
exercises, Journals and black boari
Tecila,ions were on exhibition, and II
the front hallway table was covere,
with articles OF fancy work from Tia,
hands Of the girls; drawings from
models by Aksel Amundsen, Of thi
city, forms from the printing ofllc,
carving and work In Joining and We
neering by the boys.
The entertainment was a most In
teresting one, and the large compan
present were very iavorably impresse
with all they had seen and heard.
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