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Herald Of The Valley
Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia
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An American gentleman recounts his visit last winter to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum in Paris, where he observed pupils' proficiency in religious and musical concepts, viewed their handmade crafts like breast pins and snuff boxes, and learned of the institution's trade training for over 100 mostly male pupils.
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An American gentleman, who paid a visit last winter to the Asylum of the Deaf and Dumb at Paris, states that he was received by the Director in a very affable manner. The proficiency of the pupils was exhibited to him. The following question was put to one of the lads--"Whom do you love the most?" to which he replied thus--"I love God the most because he is all powerful--because he made heaven and earth, and all things that we enjoy." To another was asked, "have you any idea of music?"--who answered, "Yes I think I have. it is the means of singing and of enchanting the living ears; it is to speaking what dancing is to walking; it is the flux and reflux of harmonious sounds." In one of the apartments of the institution, a case was shown full of breast pins, snuff boxes, and a hundred other articles, made by the pupils. The practice of the institution is to give trades to the scholars, and whenever a pupil shows a disposition to any branch, that talent is cultivated. There are in the school upwards of one hundred pupils, mostly boys.
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Paris
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Last Winter
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An American gentleman visited the Asylum of the Deaf and Dumb in Paris last winter, received affably by the Director, and observed pupils' proficiency through questions on love for God and ideas of music, viewed handmade items like breast pins and snuff boxes, and noted the institution's practice of teaching trades to over 100 mostly male pupils based on their talents.