Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-22

to distinguish between pure silk and
it's imitators, how to know when q
piece of silk material is only half tin
and when three-fourths, and how to
decide whether a broadcloth is really
made of new wool or OF wool that has
been used before and regenerated. This
is truly idealistic and impossible"
Miss Lydia Y. Hayes's address to the
federation was as follows:
Throughout the centuries the blind
are found sitting in market-places and
at the city gat, appealing to the pity
ing charity of the passersby. In 1884
Valentine Hauy, a Frenchman, who
ives destined to bring light to them
that sat in darkness, established at
Paris the first institution for the blind.
While teaching the blind, Hauy made
use of the agencies previously EN-
ployed by individuals in their acquisi-
tons of knowledge. Yet to him alone
Is due the perfection, extension and
arrangement of the method by which
the subsequent work has been done.
In 1884 Louis Braille, a pupil of the
Paris school, devised a system OF dots
which the blind can both read and
write and which Is adaptable to diff
ferent languages, musical notation and
letter-writing. The modification of this
system, known as New York Point,
was introduced thirty years later. The
institutions OF the Old World were asy-
lums for the amelioration of the blind,
but in the United states they are edu-
c%ational, recognizing the inalienable
right of the individual to an education
whatever his condition. Today each
State in the union either has a school
of its own or makes provision for the
education OF its blind at a nearby in
stitution. New Jersey makes an an
nual appropriation of $4,000, sending
about forty children, between the ages
of s and 10. in equa, numbers 10 New
York and Philadelphia. In order that
the American blind child of today may
be mentally and physically developed
and at The same time hat he and his
seeing companions may learn to apply
his powers to the needs of civilization,
Chicago, Milwaukee. Cincinnati, Racine
and New York city have opened classes
in connection with their public schools
for the blind. At the coming Legis-
lature a bill will be introduced asking
for an appropriation for public school
training for blind children. We hope
you win give the bill your moral sup
port.
One Sense May Function for Other.
While each organ of the perception
has IFS specific function. yet if one
sense be impaired the others may be
trained to perform in a measure the
work of the disabled member. But by
this statement vol are not to think
that the blind have more papillae in
their %finger-tips than those who car
see, but sensations that are meaning
less to the seeing are fraught with
significance to the blind. It was
claimed that the eye and ear were the
educative organs until DR.. Howe dc
Veloped by touch alone the intelligent
woman. Laura D.. Bridgeman. Horace
Mann said of this achievement: ut il
worth more than the discovery of q
new continent to have discovered a
passage of education for such an inn
INJURED mind into this glorious world of
nature, love and humanity In rails
ing touch to its place as an educativc
sense we must not claim for it impos-
sibilities. for. as the y cannot hear or
the ear smell, neither can touch per-