. Blind Deaf . ached the Perkins Institution for the Blind, inSouth Boston, Mass. Durch die charakteristiclarge-Heredness von Seiten seiner Treuhänder und derphilanthropischen Öffentlichkeit, die Türen seiner KindergärtnerInnen in Jamaica Plain wurden weit offen geschwungen, um diesen kleinen Verzicht auf die Menschheit zu empfangen, Für die kein anderer gar-den in der ganzen weiten schönen Welt erblühte. Er wurde am 8. April 1891 dorthin gebracht, ein bloßer Klumpen atmenden Tones, der über eine instinktive Erkennung der Bedürfnisse der Existenz hinaus nichts von Intelligenz zeigte. Er kroch statt zu Fuß, und war in allen anderen Aspekten l

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. Blind Deaf . ached the Perkins Institution for the Blind, inSouth Boston, Mass. Through the characteristiclarge-heartedness on the part of its trustees and ofthe philanthropic public, the doors of its kindergar-ten at Jamaica Plain were swung wide open to receivethis little waif of humanity, for whom no other gar-den blossomed in the whole wide beautiful world. He was brought there on the eighth of April, 1891, a mere lump of breathing clay, showing nosigns of intelligence beyond an instinctive recogni-tion of the needs of existence. He crept instead ofwalking, and was in all other respects like a baby.It was obvious that the earliest training must bedirected toward making him more independent. Areversal of his waking and sleeping time was thefirst necessity, for since he had been the charge ofa nurse doing night-duty at the hospital his dayhad been turned into night. This was soon accom-plished and Tommys hours became those of thekindergarten world. He was taught to walk, to dress and feed him- 94. THOMAS STRINGER. self, — in a word, to exchange infanthood for child- Thehood. He proved to be a good-natured, affectionate Blind-Deaflittle fellow, whose tiny arms would reach out for amute embrace whenever he detected a kindly touch, but he made no discrimination between friends andstrangers. Although signs of latent intelligence were notlacking, his extreme apathy added another barrier tothose which his twofold infirmity had set about himand which were of themselves sufficiently impene-trable. Day after clay he passively allowed his fin-gers to be placed so as to form the word bread, whenthis was given to him to eat, but with no respon-sive act on his part, until at last, on one glad dayin November, Tommy brightened up and volunta-rily spelled b-r as he took a mouthful of bread. Thevictory was won ! Tommys education was begun ! It is indeed a far cry, as one friend has aptlyexpressed it, from the Tommy Stringer of thoseearly days to the one who stands before us at t

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