. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . omeof the reverend clergy, we opened a gratuitous day-school forfemale deaf children in which the oral method is pursued asmuch as possible. The branches taught are language, com-position, history, geography, arithmetic, penmanship, drawing,and needlework. The number of pupils attending at presentis twelve. This School is connected with the Academy of theConvent of Notre Dame on Sixth street. The Deaf-Mute Institution of theHoly Rosary, CHINCHUBA, LOUISIANA,1890-1893. BY THE VERY REVEREND CANON H. C. MIGNOT, President of the Institution
. Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893 . omeof the reverend clergy, we opened a gratuitous day-school forfemale deaf children in which the oral method is pursued asmuch as possible. The branches taught are language, com-position, history, geography, arithmetic, penmanship, drawing,and needlework. The number of pupils attending at presentis twelve. This School is connected with the Academy of theConvent of Notre Dame on Sixth street. The Deaf-Mute Institution of theHoly Rosary, CHINCHUBA, LOUISIANA,1890-1893. BY THE VERY REVEREND CANON H. C. MIGNOT, President of the Institution. THE DEAF-MUTE INSTITUTION OF THE HOLYROSAKY. The Deaf-Mute Institution of Rosary Solitude is beautifullysituated in one of the healthiest localities of Louisiana, in apretty rural district called Chinchuba, county of St. Tam-many. It is about thirty miles northeast from New Orleans,and occupies a beautiful site in the heart of the PineyWoods, which rank among the healthiest in the South, isfavored with rich productive soil, surrounded with magnificent. THE VERT REVEEEKD CANON H. C. MIGNOT. woods and glades that abound in mineral springs, which havebeen utilized through artesian bores, that yield sixty or eightygallons a miuute. This house of charity is the first Catholic institution of itskind in the South, and by its erection a long-felt want hasbeen supplied, and the hearts of Catholic parents, who here-tofore were either obliged to keep then- poor unforttmate little 4 Institation of the Holy Rosary. ones at home and let them grow up in ignorance, or else sendthem to an institution in which they receive no knowledge ofour holy faith, were gladdened, as now an oj^portunity wasafforded them to give their deaf-mute children a religiouseducation as well as their speaking and hearing children. The founder of this valuable Institution is the Very Mignot, who with untiring zeal devotes a large portionof his time as well as his means to the service of this afflictedportio
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