American Fork Citizen | 1920-07-10 | Page 2 | To Teach Blind to Draw

TO TEACH BLIND TO DRAW English Idea Is That Art May Help the Slflhtleti to Communliato With OuUlde World. One of tho many exporliueiils of the Royal Drnwlns xoelcty.has been to tench people to drnw lyejRichl' The pupil Is lillmlfoMtMl and feelsn slmplo shuiie, like u hammer of n spade, uiul drnvs It with his eyes open, An uit-vnnccd uit-vnnccd pupil has druwn tlie'hcnd of n classical bust nnd the mask of lUo-thovoii. lUo-thovoii. Thesu experlmontM flreil 'Mr, C3. H. Alilett, tho director of the boclet.v, Willi the Men of druwIiiK by the blind. He bus (levied n mcdluin ulikli looks like thu frosted stuff on u iiintt'libox mmlo llitild, by which the (InuilitMimu cuti follow by touch what he lias drawn nnd correct or add to his work. So far there luiu been no experiments with a blind pupil. Mr. Alilett does nut claim for It more than that n blind man enn draw the plan or a dcslgu of something he wishes to record mid explain. A blind gnrdenpr has been known to go Into' ccstnsles over the unfolding si in pes of a plant, and the drawing of these sbnpes, known to him by touch would undoubtedly give him a form of esthetic es-thetic pleiisure. In any case, It would Increase his meam of communicating with tho outsldo world. A great boon, If the method Is practicable, prac-ticable, would bo that It would enable tho blind to write and to reud writing. writ-ing. Manchester Ounrdlnn.