New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-17
a UNIQUE EXHIBIT.
Work Showing What Crippled and Deficient
Children Can Do.

one OF the most interesting pieces OF work on
eNhloltion yesterday al the school Of the Chill
dren Aid Society, al No. $50 East Eighty-eighrh-
ST., was blue cretonne busting bag. Its stitches
were long and ran every which way but its maker
had put into it the very best that in her. She
Is Mary Reilly a seventeer-y ear-old pupil OF the
crippled class and victim Of the most aggravated
FORM or St Nltus's dance. Her hands and arms keep
up perpetual motion. and her body IS bent nearly
double Miss Stackpole. principal of the school,
said yesterday. she held the bag in her hands:
= care more for this bag. imperfect though 1t is.
than for any other piece of work in the school, If
you could see Mary to.ling away patiently and
working so hard TO get the needle in the right
place You would feel The same way. She comes to
US from sad. sad home. Both her parents drink,
and they don't care enough for her TO buy her
medicine We have some medicine for her here.
however, and II ever forget to give it TO her at
the usual time 7 hear plaintive little voice at
my Office door saying: My medicine, please, Miss
Stackpoe,' Poor child, She thinks it is helping
her but the doctors say she will never be cured"
Nearly every piece Of work exhibition had q
similar history. Pretty little Gertrude German.
ourdened by clutches and braces was represented
by some beautifully painted flowers and pink
dress, all made by herself.
All the crippled girls over nine years ODD made
the clothes in the exhibition. Even children par
alyzed on one side have pretty lace trimmed
Bingham dresses to show for their work Grace a
fourteen-year-old huuCkbaCk. who three years ago.
was not able TO do anything for herself. has now
proved that She is useful member OF her family,
and besides supplying her wardrobe makes
clothes for her sister and little niece
Some Of the pupils excel in drawing. and the free
hand drawing done by a -year-old-boy,
parayzed on his right side, would have done credit
TO any child. One Of the aims of the school IS TO
ma out what special talent the boys and girls
nave, and to develop them along that line
Naturally, among the seventy children who make
up the class Of crppleS there IS a diversity Of
gifts. on one table fine drawn work
handkerchiefss hand embroidered turnover collars
and crocheted baby sacks; another woven bas-
kets and beadwork ornaments. and even millinery
played q part in the exhibit.
From the work OF the mentally defective chill
dTen Miss StaCkpOle selected book with bright
picture on the cover. Turning the leaves, other
pictures appeared, then kindergarten work in sew
Ing. and three pages covered with A 3 C's strag-
Cling up hill and down.
This is NAMES book and she has made won
derful Improvement in the year and a half that
She has been here" said Miss Stackpoe- She is
what people call a foolish child The first two
weeks she was here spent hours every day try
ing TO make her stick row OF red pegs IN holes
just what three-year-Old children do, and she was
seven. She would put two three red ones. and
then stick in any color. She couldn't concentrate
her mind at all The systematic training or tho
minds OF the mentally defective children helps
take some Of these children. their morals in
a sad state Half Of them come from the lowest
class, and they and hear things at their homes
of which they should know nothing"
A the fourth floor OF the school building
has recently been set apart for tie deficient chill
dren. Il viii be brightly painted and made as
cheerful possible in every way.
The work Of the kindergarten children tnormaI
children was also on exhibition at the Eighty
eghth-st. school yesterday afternoon and evening.