Show I TWO LEAVE FOR Frank F ank and mul B Button Burton Drig sto to Attend Executives I Convention Frank Fronk M H superintend superintend- en of the Utah state school sChool for forli he li deaf dear and blind and hi 1 broth broth- brother forI er Cr Drigge superintendent I of a similar institution In South left Saturday afternoon for lor San Francisco to attend a of deaf and blind school executives Frank Fronk Driggs recently returned from Nashville Na Tenn where he attended the convention of the American Instructors ot of the Blind nod and led the tho discussion on th the question How to Develop the of ot Pupils 1 Ir Driggs said In port parts roil FOR Cr We Wo might go goon go on with Innumerable erable orabie illustrative lessons with which to la develop elop the Imagination e Abo Aboy au nil all things let us have play and plenty of It It Let us hove have training games and more sense training games Let us pl pictures tures stories and history Finally let us be bo surO that thal every overy every child gets a clear and accurate picture pl ture of the thing we weare weare weare are talking about lt To Io this last and very important thOught ma may I con conclude with this story a 0 story that has been ring ring- ing ringing In my ears for tor more than 30 0 years a story told at a con con- convention con convention of teachers and one that every teacher teacher- should know Imagine If It you ou will III that th t we weare weare I weI are aboard ship frozen In the Arctic ArcUe r gions In In our explore explorations In thu thil Ice-bound Ice world we I happen to meet a little Eskimo lad la of 10 or 12 Suppose for or convenience this thia lad lad understands ds English so that we may converse with hint him In our desire to iv hInt him some knowledge of In the United States we wo try to describe de- de scribe an orange We tell him It ItIs iti ItIs Is i round and yellow and Juicy II a delicious fruit It Is about as large as os an apple It grows on onI ona ona I a tree In the warm sunshine of Florida and California Oranges are picked sorted sorted- boxed and then shipped hipped to all parts of the United States People buy and eat cat them They are so ao good to eat cat The Tho lad hag baa never seen seen ceo a tree an apple opple a cherry or any ny kind of o fruit Picking sorting bo boxing and shipping are aro unknown quantities to him What sort of of picture has ho he from our lion lion of ot an an orange 1 Suppose wo we realize that he dOes docs not see the tho orange We Ve get a II picture of one lie He has never before seen a picture of oC anything so he still does docs not know what an orange Is is Sup Sup- Suppose Suppose Suppose pose we wo get a II colored picture lIe Is still at sea S uI POSO we find a 0 mOdel beautifully painted which Is la cut cutIn cutIn In halt half to show the seed sted seeds and the delicious delicious- fruit The model Is made mode of ot woo wood J Ho lie does not see Bee a juicy fruit fruit good to oat eat TRIES BEAU nE FRUITS A A happy thought comes to us usand usand and we st supply stewards ward ards yel yel yel supply of ot ii a real low orange This we ond 1 to the o lad We are happy to 10 watch him peel and eat It handles When this little foreigner han dies the real thing feels it Its vel- vel velVety vel velvety vety skin peels and eats eata It It then and then thea only does doeR he really Im- Im Imagine Im Imagine agine what we have hove been trying so hard to describe friend and teachers are lire not our blind children those who hove have no In orthe the position of the youth or of the thu regions of ice lee and snow now |