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Show INCURABLE DEFECT IN BRAIIN H Color-Bllndness Cannot Be Over. B Come, Though Word-BlindnesS H May Be AllevlAted. H Two defects In regard to sight m word-blindness mill color blindness H are described by mi Kngllsh writer. H Ho points out Hint they are not de H fects of tin- eyes nt nil. hut nn- renlly H mental defects, lllid, curiously enough, H are found very often In lover men, H tho discoverer of tln defect-Halton, H tin1 greet scientist being himself B color-blind. 1 Color-blindness occur" In nliout m three to four per cent of males nnd In m a smaller number of fcinulcH. It Is H frequently hereditary, lut, strangely b enough, though tin- matea suffer from B the defect, the fcinnles enrry It on. B Colorblindness is ii defect In tho B registering nppnriilus In the hrnln n:nl m la ineuruiiie. u la of Importance to R recognize the defect enrl.V, nnd to turn m tho attention of the sufferer to work B In which thiM defect will DOl be B hun- M (liciip. Such children should loom M early thai there In uo work for thein H on the railway. m Word-blindness Is n much more so- B TloUM defect, lllid lllll.v he tlie cause of m the ihllleulty Nome children Bad in H learning to rc.nl. They Baa correctly. B Taatad with figures or pictures, they BB may iiiixH the slamlurd, hut the let- ters of the alphabet, when strum; to- Bjjf gather to torn wofda, convey no metin- Bjj lug to them. The effect is due to u Bm want of association of the hrnln cen- BM tors. The dafeel is usually mistaken BJ nt Brat to iliilnale (lefeill'.e eyesight, BV hut tins Is not so. It is noteworthy Bl that these same children may show Bl considerable ease In rending BgUNft BjB even money sums. To teacli these Bl children to read, words must not he Bl taken letter hy letter, hut US u whole. BK (ho word "out" must he taken not as BV "c-u-t," equals cat, hut tho whole B thing must Ik- the Klgn for cut. The a1, method Is know n as the "look and say" lilan. und hy Its uhl It Is possible to BJ touch tho child to read. |