Show INCURABLE DEFECT IN BRAIN BRAIK color blindness cannot bo be over come th though ugh word may be alleviated two defects la in regard to sight yord blandness and color blindness are described by on an english writer lie ho points out that they are not do de fech of the eyes at nil all but tire are really mental defects and curiously carlou sly enough are ara found vry very often in clever nen inea tho discoverer of the defect dalton the great scientist being himself color blind color blindness occurs in about three to four por per cent of males and in a smaller number of females it la is frequently heredi hereditary tarr but strangely enough though the males suffer froin the defect the females carry it on color blindness Is it defect in tile the registering apparatus in the brain and is Incur Inc lible it Is of importance to recognize the defect early and to turn the attention of the hie sufferer tifft brer to tit in which tills this defect will not ho be a handicap such children should learn early curly that there Is no work for them on n tit atio railway word blindness Is a much morp corp so se rious defect unil und may be the cause of tho the difficulty dini culty some children find in learning to reail they see tested with alth 11 angures urea or pictures they may pass thu tho standard but the let f i aera of the alphabet when strung together to form words word 3 convey no meaning to them the effect Is duo due to it n want of association of the brain centers the 1 I he defect Is usually mistaken tit at first to indicate detective defective eyesight but this is not so it la 14 noteworthy that these saine children may 8 show considerable ease case in reading leading figures lle uros even money sums to teach leach these children to read words roust not bo be taken letter by letter but as a whole the word cat must be taken not as c cut ut u u t equals cat but the whole thing thine must be the sign for cat the method Is known ns its the look anti and say plan and by its aid it Is pos possible bible to teach tho the child to read |