The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1907-09-27
DEAF MUTES Are
TAUGHT TO TALK.
Affected Children in Philadelphia
Have Worked Long for
Speech.

Transformed from delicate deaf mu
ties to healthy, happy laxative chill
dren, nine graduates of the Home for
the training in Speech of Deaf Chill
dren before they are of school age"
at Belmont and Monument averages
will be among the great army of
youngsters to enter the public schools
of this city next Monday.
Years ago it would be called a mira
Gle to make deaf and dumb child
talk, yet these days of development
the teachers of the institution which
was foundered by Miss Emma and
Miss Mary S. Garrett are doing just
this very thing, and they are going
about it. with out medical journals and
scientists ever noticing the remark
BILE work they have accomplished.
The children graduated yesterday
from the home with delightful eXer-
cises and every one of the pupils who
was sent there six years ago as deaf
and dumb had a speaking part in the
program.
Unless you spoke with the children
it would be difficult to tell how well
they can talk. Miss Garrett allowed
the guests to converse with the chill
dren after the exercises were over, and
when one woman asked a little boy
ten years old how he managed to talk,
he replied, readily:
81 watch your mouth. We are
trained to know what you are saying,
although we cannot hear. Every muscle
of the face means a sort OF signal to
us. That is how we can speak with
YOU"
Miss Mary S. Zane, one of the teach
ers who drilled the children for the
exercises, explained how the children
are taught to speak with their tongue.
She said:
Each pupil must ever watch our
mouth. We tell them there is no such
thing as a deaf and dumb child, and
that encourages them to learn. or
course, the task is tedious, but with
in a few months the pupil can master
the silent chords in his or her throat,
and gradually they are able to make
sounds. Then we repeat syllables over
and over to them, and they must re-
peat them also. Within one year the
pupil has partial control of the tongue
and vical chords, and then nature as
sists them to speak.
DAY by day we talk to them as we
do to any normal person, and they be-
come so proficient in watching the for
nation of our mouth and facial mus
Giles that it is only a question of a
year or two before they can speka so
you can understand them. BY the time
they are ready to graduate, which is
six years, they are prepared for the
public schools even better than most
children, for the training we give them
enables them to know the value OF
speech, and they are ever trying to
talk better"
Officials of the United States Gov
eminent know that the home is the
only one in the world of like nature,
and 1t is no wonder that Miss Garrett
was sent as special delegate of the
Government to the international con-
ference of teachers of the deaf, held in
Edinburg. Scotland, recently.
The ambitions of the home, which
were also explained by Miss Garrett,
places the institution in a class all by
itself. Miss Garrett saw deaf and
dumb child, as he was called, in his
home some years ago, being taught to
speak by his mother. She thought 1t
would be a blessing to afflicted chill
dren if they had home to train them
before they are of school age, and,
with her sister, thy found the in
stitution near Paramount Park.
Occasional headache, belching, bad
taste in the mouh, lack OF appetite
and slight nervousness are symptoms
of indigestion which, when allowed
10 go uncared for, will develop into
a case of dyspepsia that will take a
long time to get rid Of. Don't neg
lect your stomach. AT the first indi-
cation of trouble take something that
will help along in its work Of diges-
ting the food you eat. Kodol for In
digestion and Dyspepsia will do this.
Kodol will make you TO enjoy what
you eat. Sold by all druggists m
A Word to Girls.
&c In IN