. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . hours of leisure. The Institution has now an average attendance of aboutfifty pupils of both sexes, most of whom are boarders. Four teachers are constantly employed; this number includesthe principal. Thus far this School has been supported mainly by the en-deavors of the community in chaige, though a small tuitionfee is required of those able to pay. No pupil of good morals, capable of receiving instruction. 4 The Marice Consilia Institution. is rejected for want of means; neither does a difference ofreligious views exclude any one. Wi
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . hours of leisure. The Institution has now an average attendance of aboutfifty pupils of both sexes, most of whom are boarders. Four teachers are constantly employed; this number includesthe principal. Thus far this School has been supported mainly by the en-deavors of the community in chaige, though a small tuitionfee is required of those able to pay. No pupil of good morals, capable of receiving instruction. 4 The Marice Consilia Institution. is rejected for want of means; neither does a difference ofreligious views exclude any one. Within the past year the Sisters of St. Joseph have boughta very fine piece of property in the southern part of the city,about one-half mile south of the electric railway, with the in-tention of removing thereto the deaf-mute boys, where theymay have desirable facilities for learning trades and other in-dustries. It is hoped that this new Institution may be in readiness bythe coming September. This work is especially dear to the Sisters of St. Joseph, as. MAKI« CONSILIA DEAF-MUTE INSTITUTION. it was the main object which cavised the congregations foun-dation in the United States. In 1836 the Rt. Rev. Bishop Rosati, then presiding over thediocese of St. Louis, invited them from Lyons, France, for theexpress purpose of instructing deaf-mutes. The Sisters appointed for the work set about learning themethods then used in the deaf-mute schools of St. Etienne,France, and, leaving their native land, were the first to open aCatholic school for this affiicted class west of the settled in South St. Louis in 1837, and here Sisters and Celestine undertook their duties as teachers of deaf-mutes. The former became foundress of the congregation inPhiladelphia, while the latter remained in the first house and The Marim Consilia Institution. 5 became the first superioress-general of the Sisters of of Carondelet. The congregation dates back to 1650, when the fir
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