Brigham City Bugler | 1891-07-11 | Page 3 | Deaf Mutes

Deaf M tit ok. F. G. Jefferson, of Toronto, Canada, thus writes to Tho Mail of that city: "The following oiiso has come under my i notice: A farmer married tain cousin, and both possessed all their faculties, and they have nino children, of whom five danghters wero burn deaf mutes. Three of these daughters married speaking nnd hearing husband. The first one baa three deaf mute children out of five, the second one has two deaf mute children out of three and the third has one deaf mnto child out of two. This proves that Professor Bell, of Washington, United States, has made a mistake by publishing publish-ing largely that the intermarriages of deaf mutes bring a deaf mute race, when the f;w t is that deaf mnte children proceed pro-ceed from married cousins poftsessing all their 1 acuities. In the Belleville deaf mute scIukiI there are 240 pupils, and not one of them has deaf mute parents. Th.-re are many other similar ca&es in Lngland and the States,"