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Show THE DESERET EAGLE. 68 The Deseret Eagle. Published Komi-monthl- Ut.ih School for tho nt at the y Deiti'. EDITOR. FRANK W. METCALFj ASSOCIATE EDITOR AND FOREMAN, FRANK M. DRIGGS. J M mend it. J. Van not always very perceptable ption or the moIiooI year SuIjsscjim Filty-oeut- time and experience have tested, and with eager and unbecoming haste adopt some new fangled or hastily conceived theory which indeed may have the charm of novelty, but nothing else to recom- very materially in the mental devel-opmeof the deaf. Those who are ready to "adopt some new f angled or hastely conceived theory'' are still with us and although the world "do move" the progress is In Advance. RETROSPECTIVES. OUR ENTERTAINMENT. set up and paper If signs were totally laid aside prin toil by the pupils in the by our advanced classes, there Utah School for tiik Deaf. Its object is to teach the art would, it is true, be need of no This is of printing. Entirid at thi ClTV tICOND womr OLm SAIr LAKE oppiob MUTTIH in Salt Laki . CITY, UTAH. FKimUAltY 15, lHWri. Next month the convention to frame a Constitution for the new State of Utah will convene in this citv. Able men have been elected to represent the people in that body and we confidently expect they will frame an instrument that will be a credit'to, and advance the interests of, the coining state. In this connection we would like to know if other states have provisions in their Constitutions regulating or effecting in any way their Schools for the Deaf and if so what they are. Also if, where schools are governed by constitutional law it has advantages over legislative law. stranl, 1803. A very pleasant entertainment was given by the pupils on the evenings of Feby. 8 and l)tb. A small admission fee special care to secure the use of was charged i;L the door, the object of words in their place. Man is by which was to increase the Library. nature a social being, and commu- Upon entering the front door, a beautinication with his fellows a matter ful sight presented itself. On two of necessity. If one medium is lengthy tables was spread the handiwork taken away he wili invent or avail of the girls, in the way of fancy-work- . himself of some other. Could then From here the visitors were ushered the pupils of our advanced classes into the chapel, where the enh iTnn-mebe induced to relinquish altogether was to be given. the use of siyits in their intercourse At 8:IJ0 o'clock the curtain was with each other, as well as in the school room, we should see them drawn aside, revealing an imitation of a advancing in the use of lanyiutye, pumpkin on the stage and Riley Carter with a rapidity that in comparison as "Peter. Peter, Pumpkin Hater." lie to our past experience would be gently lifts his little wife. Ivy Griggs, into it, where be hopes to keep her very truly surprising. well. The next number was a tableau and both example precept "The Little Doctor." The anxious By then, let the teachers of our advan- mother was well represented by Pearl ced classes discourage the use of who tenderly nursed a sick doll. signs. Though it be wearisome, Wright Ivy Griggs was the busy little houselet them spell out the various directions that are given in the school keeper, and the sympathizing doctor, was room. Let all their questions upon Elmo Kemp, who prescribed the medithe lessons be spelled or written, cine. While he was feeling the pulse and let them rigidly insist on of the doll baby the red lights were having the answers returned in the thrown on making a very pretty scene. same way. By constant repetition, Then three patriotic little girls, .Mamie the forms of language will become Pearl Anlt and Lillie Swift, familiar and the pupil, almost with- Young, dressed in red, white, and blue, signed out knowing, it will find himself the familiar song -- The Red, White in and this talking thinking and Blue," and very nicely gave the medium. three cheers with the Hags. John Ji. Kttvju lSo3. The fourth number was a tableau. Acts. Andrew Some minds are so constituted as 'The Bachelor," in to be incapable of appreciating the Madsen took this part. The rats and importance and necessity of bring- mice led him such a life, he was forced ing all theories, and especially new to go to London to get a wife, lie was theories, to the judgment of a calm fortunate enough to have five blushing, and unbiased timid maidens from and undisturbed which to select. reason, before substituting them in The choice was finally made, and the place of old and well tried the roads were st) rough, and the lanes systems, or even 'before nt Under the head of "Retrospect, ives' we reproduce some of the ideas of men who were leaders in the instruction of the deaf forty odd years ago. The same subjects were under discussion then that are being today and there is very little change in the ideas expressed other than that they are possibly more radical. The advocates of a diminished use of signs have abandoned them, so they claim, entirely and have substituted speech or spelling engrafting The advocates of them upon the old; but led on by a in I heir stead. wild enthusiasm, which repudiates on and still are deck, although signs calmness and reason and 'thev see much that is good and use-fu- l moderation asregards antequated ideas, and in other methods still claim that with the cant of progress on their signs have their proper place and aid lips, recklessly abandon that which dis-cuss- ed i were so narrow, he started home with his wife in a wheel-barrobut w, wheel-barro- w the broke and down came his. wife and all. ; , Following this tableau, was the tableau of Liberty.'7 In the 1st Scene |