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Show Tlie Sloyd School io lioston. Cut perhaps the school presents none of these sights, but a very different one; a sight tulf sad, yet not without a ray of g'aduess; a picture not composed of trained teachers or boisterous youths or prattling children I eagerly listening and as eagerly speaking, but of a group of deaf and dumb. And now, if ever, you may see what intense enthusiasm enthusi-asm may be thrown into manual training. The poor unfortunates deprived of hearing and of speech find hero a new field in which to exercise their minds and express their ideas. By their disabiiities they are enabled to concentrate their minds better than their more forlD.ate brethren, and even outstrip them in excellence of workmanship. Among the boys there is a deaf mute some 10 years of age who snrpassea all others in i the school, a result attained not by superior talent but by close application. Near him i another hoy of magnificent build and great ability dashes o.'T his work now planing, now carving, with a master hand. On the other side of the room, in the midst of that row of girls neat, even pretty girls there are two nn'st noticeable; one a brunette, whose quick, observant eye omits nothing while her sitovr white hand defliy drawn and carefully ! carves the mi i Jl-1. Beside her stands a quiet blonde with b!ii' thoughtful eyes, carefully examining her nioiki; and then, as if suddenly sudden-ly discovering siue now jirinciple, mukes a ge.-ture of joy and resumes bt.-r work. At the close of tlib exercise she takes the Unified model to ln-r teacher, and, with a pleasant smile, joyful feelings struggling for expression expres-sion in her soulful face, says, in the deaf muta language, "I love this work." F. B. Aru-grimsson Aru-grimsson in Popular Science Monthly. |