. Curious schools. hem some metal frames,perforated with square holes, and on these curiouslittle slates they soon learned to set the types up-right, and to spell out apple, chair, and otherwords in common use. Sheets of stiff pasteboard, marked off with elevatedlines, showed the boundaries of countries—just asthe colored lines do upon the maps in your Monroesgeography; rough, raised dots indicated ranges ofmountains; and pin-heads, big and little, showedthem, according to size, the cities and the towns. Half play and half study it seemed to the twolittle sisters, as, with tireless patience, t
. Curious schools. hem some metal frames,perforated with square holes, and on these curiouslittle slates they soon learned to set the types up-right, and to spell out apple, chair, and otherwords in common use. Sheets of stiff pasteboard, marked off with elevatedlines, showed the boundaries of countries—just asthe colored lines do upon the maps in your Monroesgeography; rough, raised dots indicated ranges ofmountains; and pin-heads, big and little, showedthem, according to size, the cities and the towns. Half play and half study it seemed to the twolittle sisters, as, with tireless patience, their kindteacher led them on. Soon four other blind children entered the littleschool on Hollis Street; but Abby and SophiaCarter, now happy, useful women, not only supportingthemselves, but at one time helping their parents by Perkins Listitution For The Blind. their labor—were the very first pupils, let us remem-ber, of the very first American School for theBlind. And while many kind hearts and many helping w. <& i DR. SAMUEL G. HOWE. hands have carried forward the good work, let us notforget it is to Dr. John D. Fisher, and Dr. SamuelG. Howe, the Cadmus of the Blind,that the nobleInstitution really owes its birth !32 Perkins Institution For The Blind. On the other side the water, in Paris and Berlin,the Abbe Haiiy had established some twenty-fiveyears before, a series of Schools for the Blind thatalready were doing an immense amount of good. These schools Dr. Fisher visited in his Europeantour; and he became so deeply interested in them,that when he returned to Boston he at once talked thesubject over with his friend, Dr. Howe, Couldnt something of the kind be done for theblind in our own country ? Well, the strong will always does find a way ;and through the united efforts of these noble-heartedmen, a State appropriation for the education of theblind was made in 1829, followed by a charter thenext year which incorporated the present Institu-tion. At first all the mon
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