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Show f TELL OF STATE SCHOOLS' WOHK Supts. Driggs and Hinckley T?lk Before Sail Lnke Women's Clul3 I'rcinir .1 more avvukenr d citizenship a to the duties and responsibilities t toward childhood. K B. L'lnrl'.Irv. of Ociden. superintendent of the T'tah Siatc Indua'rtal ""hool. delivered m address n Salt La'-e yesterday at the 1-adks' T.lternrv cluh At the sam Bpmibht P. M Iirlior of Odn, superintendent super-intendent of the I't.ih State School for the Deaf and Blind, explained the .'.y.if C m? of e-lnration In practice ft ' e1 lof.il Institution and furnished concrete demonstrator of result." attained, uslnK deaf and dumb pupil ns lllus-trntlons lllus-trntlons The "esslon Wan :lc regular lrionth'V , pencrnl nieciln of the 'Ladles' Literary Liter-ary oTtih. Mr. B, M P.igley, president presided find Introduced the npeakers l' Both of the addresses nml tho dem onstration fftjm followed with Inter- j Wit, rilling forth applause at frequent 1 Interva's. YOT FAIRLY TK1. Ti;n. Profrv.r Hinckley deftlt. in a broad Way, with the necessity of a bitter understanding un-derstanding of child nature on the 1 part of both loach era and parent! H" maintained that about inn por Cent of 1 the bo s In the Industrial school are) there mainly bocaune they have not been fairly treated, eltht r at horn.- or at school- He ifflrmed thu whrn a 1 boy, through the exercise of perfect-i y nntunl proclivities, pssped Into thf category of "mischievous" he bcoimes. I not nn object of care and spile Itudc . but a "militant" object against whieh Is dlroeted the efforts of the conituu-' nJty and the Juvenile court officers I progress on 1 in i;t. Spraklntr upon the tnple, "Teaching' 'Sfi i ,n 1':,f fo Hear ami the Blind to bSHh See.' 1'roffx.sor Iri!?C first briefly 'iSBp outlined the prosross made in instruct ing the deaf which began in tin or X4H sranlaed manner about 2r''i yearn ago ( in Europe He In Id tun under the LiH Advancement nf r. rent - firs thf word PtB "mute'' or "dumb' as applied to n gflfl deaf individual If a misnomer, as tho: D9mV per cent of deaf persons who ran-, m not be taught to speak. If instruction begins in childhood, is so small as to I 1 bo almost negligible A demonstration Whi Rlvn Pour1 t : V pupils, from 6 to 10 yeArs of a to. from (v the Ogden school wc rc uaed, Thre,- i f Wl them were "Htone deaf." yet they read jEBLI rommanda and rcquetfta from ihi lips :jfg1l of their teacher and obeyed promptly and comprehend ln' Thr method A 1 f teachlnir lip-reading wns Illustrated I Children who have never Iroara a rHd sound tranplated into spoV.en word tin- 1 derstood the movimmls of their ir.- lPC structor's lips nMM QIRI s ' HI I " E Following a brief resume of the jH work at the school fqr the blind, Pro- HH frssor Prlpcs Introducd io llttU- tjl ffP'f 0-acr' :i,,out 10 years, of anf and jffi totall'.- .slffht If sjl Pnder the niodnrn HjPI tnethods of rca'dlpg fur thf blind, the b-ttcrs of the alphabet are fornifd CH through cnmbinatlons of "ril.snl 'iirWw dots each lot about thf size of the -ttt! hr id of a "omnion pin. the proximity I ;JUn of the dots to ench other helng nbqutl their own vidth Two sysi-ms of read-! lnp are taught at the, school and each Hr . pupil drmonstrntf d one nf thr -. l' j-i. - .. Thf little rrlrls. through scneq of IfjCW touch alone, read with expression:. I ' poemr. rind storlfH with about therame 'iii profklency normal children nf their jiB33 own ai?e would d( in thf school room , One of the Klrls was tested with a : story she had never "si-en" before " c.nd she read It Just as thr r.xerae1 jAytJ Child Would, not OS rapidly and flu-1 IH ently. but with Intelligence and rom -1 OflH prehension. |