The Van Buren press., 1897-09-25
DEAF.M0TH INSTITUTE.
Its Twenty-sinth Session Will Open
October 6, 1897.

Its IHenty-sinfh Session VIII open
October 6, 1897.
The next session of the Arkansas
Deaf Mute Institute will open October
6. 1897. Within the last five years this
noble school has doubled in size and its
wonderful growth and success Is large
! ly due to the influence of the press OF
the state. Thanks to the legislatures,
representing as they have that Christian
magnanimity which has ever character
lied the good people of Arkansas,
ample provisions have been made SO
that every afflicted deaf child in the
state can be admitted and receive an
education. Arkansas has determined
long ago to legislate in favor of and not
against her afflicted classes, and no
citizen can visit her School for the
Blind. her Insane Asylum and her
Deaf Mute Institute without feeling
proud of his state and thankful that he
lives among a noble people, in a free
and Christian land.
The Arkansas Deaf. Mute Institute is
beautifully situated upon an elevation
overlooking the city of Little Rock
and about one mile west of it. A
healthier, better location could hardly
have been found in the state. Here
delicate children become strong and
we'll. and fatal sickness is seldom
known among them.
A large corps of experienced, we'll
equipped teachers is employed. and in
the school pupils are taught not only
the regular branches of free school,
but also kindergarten. art. physical
culture, sewing, dressmaking, fancy
work, housekeeping, and such trades as
printing, shoemaking, tailoring,
carpentering. cabinet making, paint
ing farming, gardening, plastering,
kalsomining, paper hanging, brick
laying, etc.
An experienced physician and an
eminent oculist and aurist are employed
annually, also an excellent dentist.
Good, neutrious food is furnished at
all times and each child is provided
with a cosy, comfortable bed. the
sleeping apartments being large, we'll
ventilated dormitories, which, as well
as all other rooms, are heated by
steam.
All this, together with tuition and
books, is free to every deaf child in the
state. of sound mind, able to dress and
otherwise care for itself, between the
ages of six and twenty years. Dentistry
alone is excepted, this being free only
to the INDECENT.
The state of Arkansas offers free
education to every child within her
borders and in order that her INDECENT,
afflicted children may not be IN any
respect excepted, everything that a
kind hearted, noble people can do has
been done. Even the clothing and
travelling expenses are furnished free
to those unable to defray them, when
certified rs INDECENT by the county
judges. The state, by this last
generous act, declares that no citizen
of hers shall fail Of a full and free
opportunity to have his child educated.
She cannot build a school at the dooi
of every deaf child in her common
wealth, but she does a better thing by
paying the travelling expenses of and
furnishing clothing to the poor she thus
places the one grand institution she has
erected in easy reach of all deserving
admission therein.
Can anyone conceive of grander
nobler work? Who living in Arkansas
is not proud of his state and her public
institutionsY
You who have deaf children, now il
the opportunity offered which fully
enables you to do your duty by then
and have them emancipated from the
darkest night of ignorance into the
blessed light of Christian education.
Write at once for application blanks
and any further information desired
In case any of you know of one or more
deaf children in the state, not in school
please kindly forward to Frank B
Yates, Superintendent, such inform
alton as will enable him to reach them
BY doing so you will greatly favor tn,
management of the Institute and tn,
state of Arkansas. and your services t,
the afflicted children thus admitted t,
the school will be beyond the power o
anyone to estimate.
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