| Show ion OF beav lutes i A WRITTEN BY A DEAF AND bui dui bumb DUMB eoy roy BOY AFTER ONLY SEVEN MONTHS SCHOOLING AN AN INTEREST ba iao STORY OF THE EARLY EAKLY nos nok X OF DEAF MUTES SALT sant LAKE CITY august 27 1885 1883 udor deseret news idyle layle in yiew view w bithe of the attention which the Mu cation ot deaf mutes mules in this terri lot riia rila Is now receiving it may interest public to read the simple but eur dur muy mur any y expressed contents of A LETTER bitten at home by a young man of 16 r j who has been but S even seven months a school at the university consider wee fee fact that this time last lash year yean the inter had bad not the slightest idea of rettea written language much less of the leaning meaning of the words he uses in com catIng with his teacher his bis pro is a lafair affair fair sample of what can be vone lone bv by the aid of signs in ih a single jear year what other system could have a congenital mute better j lehr lehl ieni august 1885 1883 ua harty harry mite 1 I am well weli are you well when I 1 get et through through making hay bay I 1 will go to achrol 1 will go to school in ia septem ber ier 1 4 lwi salt lake cit city ehl ill T like ilke to oto school 11 twill will come ith my fat lerlin the buga YOU write to me jonn JOHN BECK JR Byth clr cir fruits shall shill jo ye know theal them apropos of this subject I 1 crave the indulgence of the patient editor to relate i A BIT OF HISTORY which dates far back to the dawn of deaf mute education in america and conveys a moral of its own to the present time That great man peyton Randolp hot virginia the president of the first continental congress the same once said contemptuously in refer referring to john and samuel adams of mass massa chu the northern clodhoppers talk well and write well ivell but upon a fair field they will prove poor soldiers in comparison with southern chivalry a boast that was waa bloodily refuted less than a century later upon many a hard fought battlefield had A DEAF MUTE diute NEPHEW by the name of st george rucker whom he had destined for the of of his vast wealth and princely property properly en passant it may be lie remar remarked kedi kede tj that t hon randolph tucker the present member of congress is a lineal descendant of the t two families the famous statesman of rot eo t was a man of keen in intellect but strong prejudices he emp employed loved an ingenious gentl gentleman emani prof to teach his big nephew by means of articulation and lip read int ins inc ine r st george the deaf mute finished bis big education in due timeout time but unfortunately he fell in love with a hearing young lady of his bis neighborhood an heiress and the belle of the county who rejected his suit backed though it was wag by the great influence of his u acle and the disappointed lover brooded blooded to such an extent over his rejection rel L jec tion his big sensitive hatun nature attributing the cause to his want of hearing that his mind became deran deranged bed and he was A LIFE LONG MANIAC there was a rich farmer in the neighborhood with two stalwart t tsong song sons who were deaf mutes one day dak a clockmaker or peddler from connecticut made his appearance in the same neighborhood and being acquainted with the use of the finger fluger alphabet he managed to inform the two deaf mutes in the language of signs that there was a good school for the deaf in hartford connecticut I 1 upon which they persuaded their indulgent father to send them to that distant school before deciding however the father consulted PEYTON OPINION upon the wisdom ot of giving his deaf mute sons an education and ana the irascible statesman over his heir bluntly advised the old farmer to keep his sons to work upon the farm like his horses or cattle upon the principle expressed exor essed in those well known lines of the poet gray 11 where ig ignorance morance Is bliss folly to be wise 11 for ad ari education would only make them unhappy and drive them insane upon realizing their condition the simple old farmer returned home with the determination not to give his unfortunate sons the benefit of any education whatever but what parental firmness can withstand the MUTE plea PLEADING DING APPEAL of ofa a pair of eloquent but voiceless eyes the tha hour came when the father yielded and the two young men set out for lor school at a somewhat advanced age they rode on hor horseback eback to richmond taking the boat thence to new york and then ilien travelled in a stage coach to hartford where they were kindly welcomed by dr thomas H gallaudet the he pioneer of deaf mute education in america such was the primi tivit mode of travelling tra velling ilg tig and after a fe faw nv years the two completed melr weir education returning home astonishing dhe THE is j NATIVES by their perfect command of all their senses but one their father was wag so much delighted with their intelligence that he presented each of them with a fine farm stocked with horses cattle and a body of slaves the two educated deaf mutes were more fortunate than the unhappy st george kerin securing hearing wives to suit them and they managed their farms with such prudence and wisdom that they left them in a prosperous condition to their children some of their sons were killed upon the side aide of the late rebell rebeil rebellion aon lon but others survived and b beat eat their swords luto into plough shares resuming the peaceful occupation of their silent fathers the moral of the story is well expressed by th eLatin proverb abuse is s no argument against proper use abas nen non tollit ausum ili ill C W |
