| Show TO TRAIN CRIPPLED CHILDREN Bodily Defects Sometimes Entirely Cured by Physical Exercises Directed by Teacher Corrective physical training for crippled children is of great importance importance import import- ance as bodily defects can be partly and sometimes entirely y cured by special special special cial physical exercises under the direction direction di- di of a trained teacher Twenty three three ty-three such classes for Cor crippled crippled crippled crip crip- pled children with an enrollment of over children were can carried led on onree tree ree of charge in New York last year yearby yearby yearby by the Peoples People's University Extension society of No East Seventeenth street six Ninety-six free classes in ann annual ual and domestic training were were given to an enrollment of about nine hundred d- d crippled crippled crippled crip crip- pled children by the same society besides besides be be- sides 24 free classes for mentally defective defective de de- de children The manual work taught included basketry bookbinding chair caning economic cooking dressmaking elementary elementary elementary ele ele- carpentry embroidery cord work sewing shirtwaist making and weaving One badly crippled boy of often often often ten learned chair caning so quickly that he soon hung out a sign for hairs to cane One of the largest d departments of the work of this society is supplying free lectures by physicians to meetings meetings meetings meet meet- ings of tenement mothers giving them simple practical advice about the care of children and prevention of contagious and other disease More than mothers were given such instruction last year in English ItalIan Italian Italian Ital Ital- ian German and Yiddish I |
