Show takes her work into new fields beaver girl is winning renown through her assistance to the blind the press lias has probably always been partial to tho the endeavors of beaver young people and when one has advanced a little farther or a little faster thania than another nother it is a pleasure to chronicle the fact that it might encourage others to lead out and show their metal the following clipping from tile the society columns of a salt lake paper tells what one beaver girt girl is doing kathryn mathews assistant in chat charge go of the psychological clinin clinic in the university of pittsburg is venturing into a new neld of psychological tion bion that mast prove of interest to her friends who have watched her progress from a position as a teacher in public t to her present one the work or of miss mathews in dealing with children of subnormal mentality has won her national re recognition ignition now she phe has undertaken to perfect a system by which to determine the mental status of blind children the diirr osei is to deters mine if the child under observation is or is not afflicted with a feeble mind in addition to his hia handicap of blindness blind blindness miss misa mathews is is expert in die he binet billet system of studying and grading children according to their mental powers now she ia endeavoring to adapt this invention of the french psychologist to the study of blind subjects je acts in this work miss 9 Vh has been associated with and of assistance to robert B irwin head of the municipal school for the ahe blind of Gl cleveland eveland ohio mr irwin who is a master of arts of harvard uni university hersity ver sity is himself blind he is convinced that the hope of the lightle is child of normal or subnormal nind ind lies in in segregation but the difficulty of testing children without eyesight as to their psychic powers is greater than with children who see with the aus assistance istance of miss mathews mr irwin recently conducted a series of experiments at western pennsylvania institution for the blind in pittsburg in adapting the binet system of testing blind children instead of pictures used in testing children who see weights objects ol of the same form bui but v varying arbing in in size and fabrics of different texture were made use of in testing the sigh sightless tess little ones by this means it was found that their mental powers could be rated and intelligent segregation accomplished miss mathews is a native of beaver city utah she taught school in beaver and eureka and later studied in california and chicago her success at the state industrial school in ogden under tinder the administration of dr E G gowans won her admission to the vineland institution of now new jersy while there she wa wai vw i honored with a fellowship at the pittsburg university and is now assistant in charge of the psychological clinic of that institution such is the suc success su cess ess so ao far of a utah teacher who was not content to accept a backward child as a dullard and let it go at that her real can never be meas red or held up to consider aaion but will be made record of in the hearts of grateful hu man beings whose mental powers have been freed of shackles that might have condemned them to mental stagnation but for her kind offices |