Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-25
YEARS OF TRAINING
TO EDUCATE BLIND
Head of Babies Home at Sum-
NIT Says Mother Love"
Is Injurious.
EIGHT NURSES GRADUATE;
MISS WELSH REAPPoINTED
Visitors See Children Sightless
from Infancy at Work
# and Play.
Especial TO the Evening star.l


SUMMIT, April 25.-Beginning at 10
O'clock this morning with an inspec-
ton of the grounds and buildings,
the fourth annual exercises of the
f inmates of the Arthur Home for Blind
Babies was held.
Luncheon was served from II to
1870, and this was followed by the
business session. The report of Frank
Breaker, certified accountant, showed
assets of $13, 640.30 and a surplus OF
$40. 573.5s for the year ending April /.
1g14 The expenditures during the
year were $1S.257 and receipts
amounted to s22,335.
The running expense Of the fnstitu-
ton averaged $1,000 monthly, this
outlay Including all expenses for re-
pairs and additions made TO the build
ings. The total expenditures for re-
pairs and additions for the year were
So. 700 There are now forty-one chill
dren in the institution from ten
States.
The report of the visiting physician,
DR. David d. English, of this city,
showed the health of the inmates TO
have been excellent during the year
The sanitary conditions of the home
have been as nearly perfect as posi-
BILE and have been inspected and APP
proved monthly by DR.. English and
The local health board inspector, Max
]. Cotton.
Nurses Get Certificates.
Graduate certificates We're presented
by Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden, of
New York, president of the lnterna-
tional Sunshine Society, to these
young women who have completed the
course of general training for the care
of the blind in the home: Miss Mabel
Sloper Miss Nora Sullivan, Miss Flor
4 ence Powell, Miss Laura Fulford, Miss
Agnes Fulford, Miss Mary Hale, Miss
Isabelle Alderman and Miss Mary t.
Snyder. The last named will leave in
July for Michigan, where she will take
up the duties of general trainer In the
Michigan school for the blind. Three
children received graduate certificates
from the primary department:
s Charles Werner, of Hoboken; Halleck
X Raynor, Patchogue, l.. l., and Mary
( Kline, Somerville.
Miss Welsh Reappointed.
Miss Anna Welsh, of Buffalo, was
reappointed superintendent of the
4 home, and Miss Marguerite Butler,
J graduate of the Newark eye and ear
infirmary; Miss M. Sloper. Miss Mary
! Hale and Miss Nora Sullivan were
also reappointed as nurses and kinder
garten teachers in the institution.
Mrs. Grover Dwight Smith, of
fontclir, chirman of the house COM
ittee, reported on the good work
ne by the institution during the
Gar, and Mrs. George Seeley OF this
+, 1ty, reported $255 in hand for the
purchase of coal Reports were also
made by Miss Esther Esterbrook, of
Railway, chairman of the entertain
ment committee. and Mrs. George
Z Of Hills for fha
playground committee. This commit
tee spent $1,000 during the year, and
has no debt.
h To Add u Building.
The Elizabethtown Auxiliary has
BOO in hand toward building another
3 bungalow on the home property. The
AUXILIARY now supports one cottage.
Automobiles conveyed visitors from
out OF town to the home from the
Lackawanna station, and the large
number of visitors were much i'm
pressed with the institution. pleas
s1ng program was rendered this after
noon by the children.
DR. Thomas r. Prout, of the local
Health Board. wrote a commendatory
letter on the work of the institution.
"Bind Need Help, Not Pity"
Mrs. Alden in her address said in
part
''Help towards mental unfolding
and normal physical development is
what the blind baby needs, rather
than pity. Mother Love In the home
home shields the blind child from
what Is best for It. The little legs are
Unemployed for fear of n fall down
stairs or some other injury. The
child is fed on liquids because 1t Is
afraid of solids in the mouth
1.-THE picking at the eyes, common