Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1898-04-27

IL may be traced back TO q collateral
relative. as an uncle. About Deievan
are eight or nine families whose par
ents are deaf; yet Of their eighteen or
twenty children. there is none deaf
On the other hand. there are brothers
and sisters in the Deleyan institution.
Unlike the many helpless blind. the
deaf and dumb usually make their w.v
in the world. They are an independent
class; one rarely sees a mute begssr
and there are none of the class in the
penitentiary. The majority go back on
the farms from which they came. The
printers, shoemakers and carpenters
come next in order. For obvious rea-
sons mutes make excellent BARRIERS.
one OF the Deleyan graduates is a.
teacher In Chicago school. One of the
class of 'S2 has gone to the Klondike.
The most eminent mute in the country
Is probably Professor Draper of the
Washington college. the only higher
institution of learning in the country
for the deaf and four of whose number
are on the Delevan faculty. James A.
Logan is an eminent Pittsburg SCENT
list, identified with the microscopical
work of the federal surveys. In Gin
cinnati is a mute lawyer.
OF the Delevan faculty the Oldest In
point of service is Mr.. w. A. Cochran.
who began in 1868 and has served in the
legislature. Miss Hobart, formerly of
the school for the blind, is woman of
ten years service, as is Miss J. c.
Pierce. The efficient matron is Miss
Gibson, promoted two years ago.
Refoit Gradnota,s az yuorxx
Mr.. Gregory is a Beloit graduate who
studied in the Washington college, who
is early scoring triumphs in oral in
struction of children. Teaching the
deaf is happy. work, for the reason that
there is no class for whom education
does so much. An imbecile, even If
trained. is feeble-minded STILL the blind
can never regain sight; but a mute, II
educated, stands nearly on level with
his more fortunate brothers. The Dele
van faculty has included some splendid
men in it's history. Their pictures hang
In the chapel And yet the abominable
political traffic is shown by the fact
that between 1852 and 1S80--a period of
twenty-eight years-there were eight
superintendent! The faculty contains
fourteen teachers along literary lines
and the children learn to read and
study and write, excelling in the lat
ter accomplishment, much as hearing
children do.
Teach the Boys Trade.
The most practical thing about the
Delevan school is the manual training
and the trade schools. 1t is not fad,
or deception fer the legislature, but
hard work. All the boys work at man
ual training, with courses laid out as
fully as at Senator Stout's famous Me-
nomonie school The girls learn all
kinds of needle work, and from plain
sewing to dressmaking. The boys be-
gin with simple jobs In wood They
learn to use lathes. to mortise and
dovetail. There were the lockers of
thirty boys, in each Of which was a
gate. a water tower, sled, steps. ship
the different things the boys had
made with their own hands.
And The trade school is, / believe, the
most worthy of the name n the state,
The boys learn cabinetmaking, carpen-
tering, shoemaking, printing (girls are
in this Department. and baking. They
learn not all of these but one trade:
they learn it so well that when they
go out into the world they can COM
mand job with pay. The girls learn
all kinds of sewing, cooking and some
of them printing. These departments
all have foremen or forewomen; and
the finished products are perfect arti-
cles. The boy makes every part of
the shoe; the buildings have many
desks, chairs, etc, mode by the trade
school boys; they put up roofs, piazas,
etc, as needed. They built the ice
house. In the trade school they work
for four or five years an hour or so a
day. In the iron room are ten FORCES;
molding is taught and other operations,
Professor Bending being a Beloit grad
uate and ranking high in his speciality
the country over.
An Indian with Art Talent.
There is lady teacher in art Miss
Sorrenson, and the course is no dab
bling diversion, but real business I
saw class of fifteen before their easels
drawing from a model of a hand. The
prize pupil is a full-blooded Indian boy
with strong face like bronze statue.
The walls are decorated with oil paint
ings and other work of gifted pupils.
ORLANDO BURDETTE.