The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-04-05

quite confident we will excel. An op-
 portunity will be afforded both sexes,
 and there is no reason why the girls
 should not do as we'll as the boys.
 Do you know there is actually an
 advantage at times In being deaf? Not
 sufficient, you may be sure, to warrant
 any person in seeking such condition, | but an advantage, nevertheless. It is
 difficult to distract deaf mans atten-
 tion. You may notice that particular
 ly in our printing office. Hand forty
 or fifty lines to a compositor and watch
 him put it into type. His eyes are fixed
 on the copy and as soon as he begins to click the type into his stick he IS | obliVious to everything else No sounds disturb him. His power of coneentra-
 tion is not interfered with, and he goes right along without any break. Con
 oentrativeness is characteristic of the
 deaf. They are not led off by side is
 sues, and are able to pursue one line of
 thought steadily from premise to con- clusion without interrupting the contin-
 uity.
 Tn landscape gardening and in the studying of practical botany their aftlie- ton will be really more of help than hindrance. The very nature of the oc- cupation itself will stimulate that por- tion of the brain which controls form and color. Once they catch the idea of the intent their progress will be rapid. As the work will be altogether of the eye and the hand, 1t will give an op- portunity to those whose trend is in artistic arrangement and harmonious blending of colors to exercise those fac ulties to the full. The selection of shrubs and flowers. the study of plant life and the designing of flower beds will be so interesting for those who take 1t up, that before the summer is over, there is not the slightest doubt, I think, but that the institution will have a company of gardeners of which it will be proud"
 The New York institution, which takes the initiative in establishing a school of instruction in Horticulture and horticulture, was the first institution of the kind in the country to equip a gym naslum with an expert physical d1rec- tor for the sole and especial purpose of developing the lungs, so that the pu- pills might learn the correct form of breathing. A large majority of deaf persons are deficient in this respect that is, while they may breath regular ly and healthfully, they do not under stand, until they are taught, how the unused vocal organs may be developed | and strengthened by lung gymnastics. The object of this education, and the | only object, is to prepare them to learn articulate speech-a branch that has been brought to remarkable state of perfection.
 A regular systematic course is fol- | lowed. The pupil Is first instructed | how to properly fill the lungs with air | and how to expel it. Then the in- | structor demonstrates the several | methods of expiration, and the pupil | soon begins to understand the sound | that these different methods produce, | although he cannot hear the sound him self After this has been pursued for a few months the pupil is able to pro- nounce words that are perfectly intelli- gible to hearing persons, although he cannot hear a single sound that he is 
 The gymnasium and the physical ip. struction has made this possible. It Is as long 0 step in advance to the silent lip language as the lip language was over the signs made with the hands.
 If all goes well the pupils will begin the preliminary work in the f1oricul- tural department before April 1st and | by August 1st they will be in the green house, which the architects expect to have ready by that time.