. Curious schools. THREADING A NEEDLE. perceptibly elevated above the paper. Mr. Edison says, however, that hedoes not yet feel quitesatisfied with the prepa-ration, as with furtherexperiment he thinks hecan make the elevationstill more marked. O, this wonderfulsense of touch! Why,it is almost like havingeyes at ones finger-tips. Here are some young girls doing a long example insquare root; the queer little slates they use look likeprinters cases, and the little nickel types travel overthe boards just about as fast as chalk lines over theblack-board. Isabel Romily, a very intelligent colored g
. Curious schools. THREADING A NEEDLE. perceptibly elevated above the paper. Mr. Edison says, however, that hedoes not yet feel quitesatisfied with the prepa-ration, as with furtherexperiment he thinks hecan make the elevationstill more marked. O, this wonderfulsense of touch! Why,it is almost like havingeyes at ones finger-tips. Here are some young girls doing a long example insquare root; the queer little slates they use look likeprinters cases, and the little nickel types travel overthe boards just about as fast as chalk lines over theblack-board. Isabel Romily, a very intelligent colored girl, givesus an excellent recitation in physiology, and takes topieces a model of the human figure to prove what shehas told us of the digestive organs. But it is in Miss Shattucks recitation-room thatour wonder and admiration reach a crisis. What!is it possible that the blind can be taught themysteries of Natural Philosophy ? Just listen to therecitation upon Light: its laws and phenomena,from this class of boys !. STUDYING PHILOSOPHY. Perkins Institution For The Blind. With intelligent fingers they handle the philosoph-ical apparatus, and, as they cannot watch, like seeingpupils, each others explanations, a part take theprism — as you will notice at the right hand of ourpicture, — while the others stand about the table. The course of study at the Institution is now soextended that when a pupil graduates it is with adegree of knowledge quite equal to that obtained inour public schools and private academies. The one hundred and twenty-six boys and girls(the Institution wouldaccommodate many more) nowenrolled as pupils, are divided, according to theirdegree of progress, into eleven classes — experienceshowing that fifteen or sixteen blind children arequite as many as can profitably be taught the thirty-six officers of the Institution, there are,in the literary department, seven teachers, all ladiesand no one can listen to the different recitationswithout being
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