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Show 5 We are in receipt of a copy of The State Chronicle of Italeigh, N. 0, from it we learn that Prof. E. McK. SALT LA 141 J CITY, UTAH, Goodwin has been elected superinAPRIL 1, IH?2. tendent of the Deaf and Dumb InPiof. DUIHNG stitution at Morgantown. l'UIJLlSIIKI) Goodwin has for some time been THE SCHOOL YKAR. THE i k THE DZSERET EAGLE. 3 EAGLE.- DESERET SKMl-MOXTIIL- For school Y yenr-l- n advanee-.5- the advisory superintendent t Board s o that his present advancement ia no surprise to his triends. We know of no superintendent of an Institution who has begun his carter,as such, under more favorable auspices and we wish him success. Here is our flQf Bro. Goodwin. 0 Advertising1 rate made Known on application. The object of this paper is to teach the art of printing to. the pupils in the Utah School for the Deaf. comraunicati6ns subscriptions to Address all Kutt-re- second HELEN KELLEK. - FOR PARENTS TO READ. and Two hundred ami fifty pagts of tie sixtieth annual report of V e Perkins Institution for the Blind, at Host op, Mass., are devoted to an accouut ;i IIklkx Kkllkk, the wonderful deaf and biiud child. Tae progress raud i by this doubly alllictcd little girl of live short year is simply marvelous aud almost beyond ln f She not only reads, writes aud speaks English with the ease and correcim ss of an ordinary person twice her age, but also reads and wrius Freiieit readily and has even made some progress iu music! It is not strata1" that those, who have learned fn m hard experience how difficult it is to instruct children deprived of a single sense, should regard the publistitd accounts of her attainment. wiui incredulity and should oe inclined to believe that they are greatly exaggerated. Yet after reading Mr. Axauxoh' ih-cju- rse o-- THE DESERET EAGLE, Now comes theseason of the year Salt Lake City, Utah. when requests are received from to have John eome hometo account of her education at:d progress, at the post office in Salt JLake city as parents and by class matter. help on the farm, James for a supplemented wrun-.c Fit A .K W. Lum-ious- tt-r- s k- ry nr, original .impositions change and Mary because we wish there remains little reason to t loin i. to see her. the marvelous endowments of ui" John, James and Mary go home. child. It only halt of wnat is told of In the tall they return to school, usu- her is true, it would still be rulllciently As Mr. Anauno sajs, ally late. They have been out of astonishing. a we a Mid mi tin marve, school five or six month. They she is marvel, venture to say, such as the world has have lost all the work their class- never seen before and is not. likely to mates have had during their see again. From a cae like this no foi a they have gotten great tl ductions can be drawn aud upon it deal and have to be dropped into a no theories can be basid. Hlkx This happens again Kkllkk will iaud simply us a wonlower cla-- s. derful example of the compeiis tions uext year ami the next. Thev see those who enteied wnich frequency accompauy Uie sottst. of allllctious. Silent. World. school wiili them in the n M Ki'VA ia I? lITO II. President Eliot, of Harvard College, visit Ml our University on the 17th. We acknowledge the receipt oi a the Institute Herald. Many thanks. ab-enc- e, file of l:i answer to inquries, we ivish to say that it would be impossible to nienii.)!) the name of every pupil in school in each issue oftlie paper. Piriit ami friends 'can rest assured that when nothing is said about a child he. is all right. Our local editors write the items of interest which to them seem most nip'oitant and very little is ever left nut that is of interest. higher clashes while they are stili at the foot of the ladder. John, James and se their ambition. They never accomplish much and finally have to leave school to make their way in li'e as bet they can. This is not an exagerated picture but happens agdn and again in our school, and has happened heie. In our morning mail .of the -- 'Jnd We are gl ni to see that in some cm mo a paper in a very soiled of the schools, the Hoard of control wrapper. The paper itself was aie taking decided action in Ibis bad y udiii on tlie end outside matter by iit. allowing pupils to the wrapper and it had every return t school who are thus sum;ippe.'iiaiu-- of having taken a very marily taken our. liMit: jiiuriiey. We hope if tiny wf the parents of The paper proved to Us ihe UutiiiMMi GiZ-ttof 0'ttiher our children are thinking of taking 24,1891. It would be interestingly like action they will weigh the know wheie it has traveled in the in. liter very ca;cfully before doing six tnontlo- - since it. the lime your child the GooUm.-- m , Hem ni Io cs mw never be regained. Mary become discouraged ami i e l-- ft h i ! OUIl VISITOR FKOM AFKICA. Mr. James (Hark made us a visit last Monday. lie has lived for 12 years hi Central Africa on the Congo. He gave our children a very in'nestiinr talk about the count ry and t:u- peoplt . He told about being in ttic caunibal country at one time alnne ai d beh g surrounded by the natives. They did not understand what made his lett look so different from theirs. He took off one ot his snoen and they ran away. When thy came hack they c:u!d aotuudeihtaud why Ids feet were not alike. He then removed his stocking and taey wi re frightened again. - Sum of thi-- finally mustered up courage to come aud touch his foot and we e surpris-- d to find the bottom of i. soft instead of being hard like theirs. But tiny did not eat him for Muy thought a man who could take 'jim-ei- i a pat i. like that was not the i 'g!it kind 10 tat. |