Show MIRACLE OF THE TIlE NEW NW CENTURY C TURY I Children Enabled ERa led to Hear Bear the Souad Sound of Thur Own Ow Voices and to Listen to a Pianist Play Py Sosa r Marches o I KW YORK ORX 1 March 14 By means mean N I N of an invention of Millar KIller Reese Rene Hutchinson a young Alabamian who was waa recently decorated by b Queen I Alexandra for tor hi I his effort ht In behalf of ot the deaf three children deaf cleat dumb db and aDd bUnd blind have ba ve been beeD enabled to her hear a pianist plaat play ply Sousa Bou marches a phone phonograph graph reproduce the sounds and end the Ute I sounds of their own on voice uttering the words weed M ampt Paa pa ag 11 in ma quavering childish treble The experiment were wre made Ai the laboratory of Mr and a were witnessed by many man persona persons The Th invention convict consists primarily of ofa ofa ofa a transmitter an ear piece and aDd a small electric battery By means of these in instrument j strument sound is ita projected into the ear in a manner to stimulate the audi auditory auditory auditory tory nerve The volume of sound has nothing to do with the action of these theae instruments The penetrating quality of the else elec electric Irk sound pound und wave apparently disregards the mechanism m of the outer eat ear and af at affects frets the inner Inn r ear direct The first patient brought out to try the effects of ot the invention was wa Orris Ornis Benson Bunion who is I blind des deal and dumb A physician tried to make ke him hear in f various ways ays but nil all hi his bIs efforts were ere f vain va The little If tle instrument wag waa then th n I clapped on os the tilt lad Ids ear the tile current switched nd Mr Hutchinson slid IcI in Sa an n ordinary 7 tone toDe papa The tb language worked hi I a Anger IW rapidly in 1 the tW gu guHe He say sayi he be can hear bear something but does doe not know what it la is remarked Prof Van VaD no who wa was in m charge eltar of the children The TIle current was made stronger Toe T e youths eye eyeballs e eyeballs balls were raised rallied and he Mt smiled MIlled Then Thea I he Mad gw t a Noticing N that the patient w wab quite excited over lUll his novel experience neace Mr Hutchinson suggested 8 ted that one of the air girls be brought into the reception room mom She could not hear bear a sound BOund no mat matter matten ter ten how hour loud but when she be had the ear earpiece piece of the instrument fastened to her bead head and the pianist at the end ead of room mom began to i play a Sousa So march her bir cheeks cheek flushed and her fingers beat heat tints time t ton I on a table Another girl born bora blind bUnd deaf d t and dumb clapped cI ped her ber hand handi In whey she alae heard beard her own 0 voice vote cry u mamma and reached out toward tord the piano when the stopped playing and the t new w died out of ot her ear Mr but bt II lingered vividly j in her memory |