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Show A WONDERFUL LITTLE LAD. Our schoolbojs must not Imagine lint thej are tho smartest In the world, for theie Is a little boy In Doston who Is deif, dumb nnd blind, and who, In spile of this will miko oven mo of them look out rooI and lively for hla honoia In manual tr lining Tom Slrlnger has few cnualH and no sureilors, more et, he is a mechanical Renlus Tom Is now 15 enr old Thc little, fellow lost his slRht unl hearing when ho wis about a cti and a lulf ol I fronnsplnal meningitis He forgot how lo wulk, and nt live scars of age, when he was admitted to the Iciktns In-Mltutlon In-Mltutlon foi tho lllli it In lloston. he crept backward fw Mr Anagnos, -tho director of the Institution, consider consid-er Tom the equal of any hov of his ugo 111 mental development, so Hint ull hu has learned, Imlullng how to walk, has been accomplished In ten veaia loin b conn osltlon for the coinmemo-ment coinmemo-ment exercises of If 99 was ' T O HOSTOV UOVS Tin: puritan hoy or ic30 inn hoston nov or ism ' Boston Is an old city. More than MO Sears apo the Puilliins came ueioss the (ccan to llnd a new homo In Ameilca Thes built a town on three hills und named It lloston That was their old homo In Pnglind "Ihe little Puillan bos walked through the grusss lanes Instead of stieels Ho drove the cowb to pasture 011 tho common Washington street Is the old cionked towpath Them was a high benion nn lleacoii Hill 1 lie boss liked to coast clown Beacon Hill In vv Intci, An Indlin wis tho postman who cairled letters from town to town The people triveled bs Mm,e The onls ships were sailing vessels Because the people In Huston town were good nn I hruve It grew to be a big city, Theie uie 500 000 1 eoplo In lloston now ' 1 he lloston bos of 1&93 rides in stcim unit elrctrlo cars nnd eirrlaces vvlthout horses The mill nnd telephone and tele-kraph tele-kraph 1 airy our messages Htenmboats cross the ocean In n week There was not land enough for all tho leoile, o moro linl was made In tha harbor The old town dock Is part of the sub. way now The little Puritan boy would find everything changed except the common ' I am very glad that tho little Purl-tan Purl-tan bo eamo across the sea from ling. land to live tn Boston In lb90 but I would lather bo the boy of 19J " Tom wioto this composition In llralllo point cha 1 niters duiliih his play houis When that part of the work was clone he set himself about making Ills lllus. tratlons They consisted of the old stugecoach of IMO nnd the electric over-head over-head tiolley eni of 1819 a silling vch-srl, vch-srl, the leaeon on lit icon Hill und the windmill on Copps Hill which he cut out ot whllo piper and n islet upon black eiidhoird Tho unlquo feature of Tom b Hlustiutlons was that they were all made nut of straight lines and set uny poison could Instnntly tell what they weio Intended for If Hiiji'iio Imagines this would he nn cass tusk let him blindfold himself nnd try to cut out of stilt white puper nn old stngceoich pulled bs a horse nnd a trolles mi with Its nvciheiid eleetrl wire unci Its trick to t tin on Tho vvli mill sjlllug vessel nn I beacon lo easier, but thiy would bo huid enough goodness knowH with ones erses shut 'the commencement exercises took place In Iho Hoston theater before an Immenso nudlence, and when It came Tom s turn to load his composition this Is the way It was done lie passed Ihe ' rcadliiR finger' of one baud over tho raised chniacterH and with the other hand spelled It out In tho manunl or deaf-mute nlphnbet lo an Intcrrretcr which Interpreter lepcntcd tho story of the 'Two lloston Boss to the assembled as-sembled audience. At tho right tlmo Tom held up the Illustrations ho hud made The tnble upon which his manuscript man-uscript rested has been made bs his own hands Isono of the pupils that day got longer or heartier applause than deaf, dumb ant blind Tommy fUrliit,er. |