The Exeter Advocate, 1924-3-6, Page 2Home Teachkg for . the Blind
One of the greatest problems which lished in Halifax, Winnipeg and Van-
bonfronted .the Canadian National In- couver.
atitute for the Blind in its early stages' WHAT DOES THE INSTITUTE AND ITS
Was that of reaching the blind people', iAt ucEs MEAN TO SI'WT PEOPLE?
In their homeA with necessary instruc-1 "IrThis may be best. answered, by a
Um. It was found that many blind critical examination of the conditions
people could not be concentrated for Matin
instruction, hence the decision to >3 prior to 1918 and at the pres-
zeaala out to all corners and render de- exit time. organized anted home teachinfore the g Institute
d,
$mite services with the least eln- children and adults were losing their
venience to the blind people receiving si ht everye
such. The Institute has been build- g year, in many cases need-
ing up this home teaching department lessly, The provinces were prepared
and staff in various sections of the to furnish education for juveniles in
country during the past six years. organized schools, but in many cases
There are now eighteen of these children were not reported and so did
teachers scattered across Canada eve not receive education. For the adult,
Ing instruction to approximately two however, there was practically na-
hundred and twenty-five blind people thing. He blundered hisway about
and giving on the average ten thou- his own home steeped in idleness and
sand individual lessons per year. in most cases knew little or nothing of
HOME TE4GiiINO DISTRICTS. the accomplishments of other blind
people or the possibilities in his own
Home teachers are usually station- case and certainly was given little or
ed at a city or largo town and give no opportunity to learn or become pro -
lessons to pupils of that centre, as ductive in any definite way. Possib-
well as to those in the surrounding ly the greatest handicap he felt was
district. These home teaching centres the lack of ability to read and to
.are loeated as follows; Halifax, N.S.; enjoy the contents of books on which
Vaneouver, B.C.; Edmonton, Alta; we all depend so much for entertain-
t�algary, Alia: Saskatoon, Sack; Be- rnent. In some instances blind people
l iia, ;ask ; Winnipeg, lion. (two were found who did not know that
teachers) ; and in Ontario at the fol- there was another blind person in the
lowing points; Ottawa, Kingston, Pet- world and felt that they bad been un-
crbBrough, Barrie, Stratford, London, duly afflicted. Cases have also been
Ha Alton, and Toronto (three teach- discovered where a blind person was,
are). ' owing to ignorance of relatives and
enie AND WHAT ARE THESE TEACHERS? friends, looked on as being mentally
In selecting prospective teachers it impaired as well, with the result that
was found that there was a definite treatment was intolerable. Scarcely
advantages to be gained through using any community in Canada can now
blind people as instructors of the truthfuIIy say that it doesn't know of P.
blind. When a blind person is con- the Canadian National Institute for
winced through ignorance that blind the Blind and its widespread interests
people are ineapable of working with and work. It is .very simple then to
them hands it is extremely difficult refer the case to the Institute, which
for a righted person to prove other- in most cases can furnish with little
telze. The invariable answer to a or no delay, home teaching to adults
uli be sighted instructor is, "You or refer children to provincial author-
.: do that with sight, but it is im- Ries for school education. This enables
-eible for me without sight." With the newly blinded adult to learn to
blind instructor, however, their read embossed print which takes the
• -- presence gives confidence to the place of the ordinary printed page,
ad people. For this reason, the and to secure one or other of the sev-
• capable blind people have been eral thousand books ready for loan by
▪ in nearly every instance to the Institute. Usually it enables the
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Author of Battle Hymn.
Baring -Gould, the author of "On-
ward, Christian Soldiers," has passed
to his reward.
When, at the age of almost ninety,
the Rev. Sabine Baring -Gould died at
his home in England, his prolific pen
in poetry and prose, the Christian faulty. Certainly nothing has sur-
STEAMING COLD.
A steaming radiator in bitter cold
weather is a paradox many car own-
ers have met. All parts of the ;car are cold weather only a little of the radi-
.apparently in good working order. ator need be open. The open space
The owner starts on a trip on a cold should go all the way across the rade-
day, and after running a while finds ' ator at the top. But a square h . ¢
that the radiator is steaming. He the centre of the cover, may allow,
knows that the radiator is full of few tubes to freeze while the rest are
water and by lifting up the hood finds . hot.
the fan belt working all right. Why }} Alcohol and other antifreeze solu-
then the steaming? tions are used to prevent the radiator
It seems unreasonable that the boil- from freezing, but they do not do
ing in the radiator is due to the cold away with the need of a radiator cov
weather. But it is a fact. The water er. Modern automobile engines aro
in the radiator moves downward. The made to run with hot water in th
hot water is on top and as the water cooling system. If it is cold th
moves toward the bottom it is cooled. temperature of the ergine is too: low,
In extremely cold weather it is cooled the gasoline will not vaporize as ib
so much that by the timeit reaches should, and some of the unburned fuel
the bottom of the radiator it has turn-: will work down into the crank case.
ed into a sort of slush. This will not Cover up the radiator enough to keep
circulate either by the thermo-siphon the engine warm at all times.
system, such as the fiivvers use, or
by the pump system. With the supply
of water cut off from the engine cyi
inders the water in the jackets be-
comes hotter and hotter and finally
starts to boil. The condition can be of a teaspoonful of baking soda dis-
told by putting the hand on the radi- solved in a cupful of water. This will
ator. At the top it is hot and at the wash off the acid and cut the corro•
bottom quite cold. lion, making the terminals last long
rGr Quite soon the slush will freeze solid er. However, use extreme care that
�-' and then the radiator will be damag- none of the soda gets inside of the
ed. The quickest way to stop the battery. After carefully tightening
steaming, when it is first noticed, is the terminals smear them with a sma
to cover the radiator with a blanket; amount of petrolatum, which wattleand let the engine run idle until the off the corrosive" effects of the acid .,
bottom of the radiator thaws out. I, that seems to work out of all storage
Then some covering must be put on batteries, spreading in a sort of film
the bottom of the radiator to stop it over everything.
from freezing again. I The efficiency of a storage battery
Many forms of radiator covers are, depends much on how easily the curb
used for this purpose. A very effec-a rent can flow in or out, and if we al-
tive one can be made out of a piece of low dirty or corroded terminals to
cardboard, which is fastened to the obstruct this flow it naturally follows
radiator by fine copper wires run that it will greatly reduce the effl-
through it. The cardboard should be' ciency of both the battery and of the
on the bottom of the radiator and, of electric system.
course, on the outside. The space to
be left open to the air depends upon
the carand on the weather. In very
BATTERY EFFICIENCY.
It is a good practice occasionally
to clean up the terminals of a car's
storage battery with a solution made
composer like Sir Arthur Sullivan to
express its spirit in music.
"Onward, Christian Soldiers" was
written on Whit Monday, in a York-
shire village where young Baring -
Gould was then curate, as a marching
song for a band of echool children and
with no thought of publication. He
has told the story himself:
"I wanted the children to sing when
marching from one village to the
other, but could not think of anything
quit suitable, so I sat up at night re-
solved to write something myself. It
was written in great haste, and I am
afraid that some of the lines are
r on this bonne teaching work. ; individual to regain confidence in get- was stilled, but, of his many works
,Th: Institute first of all carefully ting about, to make saleable articles
ee .ed blind people who possessed in basketry or re -cane chairs for the church will keep immortal, through prised me more than its great popu-
ore than ordinary ability, then ar- community and as a result of this countless generations yet unborn, that larity."
,raged special . normal classes from production, be enabled to contribute stirring, martial, devotional song, and When the young curate wrote the. Reit><Iarkabla and Cox.IprelrensiF.�e Plan to Show Resources .pfi
' e to time to improve their knowl partly or wholly to his own support his name will live as millions sing words to swing his marching children
ENO MOUS MAP FOR P I ITION
-.,age. These blind teachers were in-' and is in many cases able to provide
,'rusted to some extent in the psy-' for his family as well. What does this
logy of teaching, the services that all mean to the person who, losing
tne Institute was prepared to render; his sight, has felt that further plea-
:ar the reporting of new cases found sure or interest in this life is lost and
in their districts and in short, render-' then finds that a new field is open
ed capable of dealing with the varied; for him where he may be useful and
situations to be met with in theirs self respecting, not dependent? At
round of calls. 1 the same time he hears of other blind
The blind teacher using a guide; people enjoying all sorts of recrea
provided by the Institute wherever! tions and pleasures. Have you ever
necessary, makes her round of callse been lost in a prairie blizzard and of Columbus, a Roman Catholic fra-
instructing here, encouraging there, felt that hopeless despair that comes ternity, sing it at their public gather -
and everywhere bringing a cheery at-; to one whose strength is spent, then ings, and, at the conclaves of the
;no:There and optimistic viewpoint to , the joy of seeing a light twinkling Knights Tempters, the watching
bear. No one can estimate the value. through the darkness? What hope thousands on the streets feel an es
Dias a by the blind in general on this' springs up! It is for this very rea-quisite thrill as the plumed Masons-
teen
asons
to w i e. l son that we use the symbol "HOPE" march, twenty abreast, singing the
on products of the blind, great battle hymn of the church.
Ei'=i AT svniLCrS ARE TAUGHT: 1 In thinking of this work, just re -
"With the Cross of Jesus going on be- along, they sang them to the tune of
fore." "Brightly Gleams Our Banner." Sev-
Surpliced choir boys have wafted eral musical settings have been given
the words through incense -laden air, them at various times, but Sulivan's is will indeed be "put on the map." There
as they marched up the vaulted aisles the one everybody knows --- the one has just been completed in Ottawa
of churches and cathedrals; at Metho- with the thrill in it. one of the largest and most illuminat-
dist revivals it has brought thousands ing maps of this Dominion ever made.
to the sitar rail in repentance and con- Occ n Too Small. It will tell in a flash everything there
version; in Presbyterian and other Aunt Hannah hailed from the West, is about the natural resources and in brown, and so on. Each city is
houses of worship it has thrilled the and had never seen the sea. Her physical features of this country, and shown with a larger Iight, and edek
Covenanter and dissenter; the Knights nephew, who was doing well in the tell it in a way that no map bas ever railway line is shown through a series
East, invited her to spend a month at told it before. l of perforations in different colors --the
his Halifax home. She accepted the
invitation, of course.
Well, as soon as she arrived, her
nephew took her down to the dock and
showed her the boundless ocean, with dian Pacific Railway. It Is 28 feet be lighted separately. If a visitor
its white foam and crashing breakers ;long and 10 feet high, and is iliumin- wants to know where gold is found in
and. fresh, salt -laden winds, ated by more than eleven hundred Canada, the official in charge of the
"There," he said. "There, Aunt electric lamps. It is made of steel, map will simply prees a button and
and is in eight sections for transports- every place where gold is found will
`tion purposes. The actual map is ; be illuminated, and none others. Shut -
painted on to the steel in permanent; larly if he wants to see where wheat
colors, with all the rivers, lakes, cities, 15 raised, where textiles are inanuf c -
transportation lines, boundaries and f tured, or where timber is found, L�
territories marked in the usual way. ± distinguishing lights will be switched
In addition, every natural resource 1 on. At each side of the map an II -
and product of the Dominion is clearly laminated index ' will be placed. on
marked in the locality where they are !which the key color of each reseuree
found. Everything there "is to know • or industry will be given. On the see
about the wealth of Canada is record- 1 posite side of the map will be an inti
ed. !cater which will reveal the statistics
But the unique feature of the map is I connected with any particular product''r
chirrupodist is a chap what teaches that every spot where a certain na- If a prospective settler asks where
canaries to whistle." tarsal product is Patine or an industry is produced, the lights will go on the
map, and it he wants to know the mat
anal production and ether thfnge, it ie
immediately available on the indir.
This wonderful map will undoubted-
ly
nth ubted-
ly be one of the sights of the Empire
Exhibition, but it will also be need in
other parts of the world, for it is built
on permanent lines.
Domi nion.
When the British Empire Exhibition is in existence, is illuminated with
opens in London next April Canada electric lights, of distinetve colors.
For example, where copper is f Ail a
purple light, conspicuous and brilliant,
will mark the place. Where water
power is present, it will be shown by a
white light, with pulp In green, timber
Blind people are naturally limited
member our home teachers and th err
iia the variety of occupations in which
tireless rounds and the blind people
they may engage. For the most of us, that are being faithfully served. You
'`Seeing is believing," however, and it can assist in your own conununity by
is astounding even to those engaged taking a helpful interest in your blind
in work for the blind to see the var-`neighbor, buying his products if he
ety of excellent articles produced and can make what you want, and refer -
an many eases the almost incredible; ring his ease to the Institute if he
:genuity shown by individual work needs help and has not already re
ars. The actual subjects on the home ceived it, or by assisting our home
teachers in their rounds. "HOPE"
ercher's list are as follows: For men, i
g.
atrnetion in Braille reading and ns our watchword and our motto is
writing, and Moon's Type (embossed), Help Them to Help Themselves."
-s ewriting or pencil writing, and' - —y
such handicrafts as basketry, chair High Ideals.
eaeing, string work, etc. For girls
anal women: Braille reading and writ- ''We can't all be extraordinary," a
ing, Moon Type reading, typewrit- speaker said recently, addressing a
ing or pencil writing, and such Iines gathering of young men. "Many of us
as light basketry, hand sewing, do- must be common, ordinary men,"
:gestic machine sewing, knitting, cro- This may be a level-headed, com-
et ng, rug weaving. mon-sense statement, but it is a very
The instruction which is given in uninspiring doctrine to preach to
the various embossed systems of read- young men, os to men or women of
ing mentioned above, is designed to any age.
enable blind people scattered through-
The truth is that it is possible for
out the country to receive free loan all of us to be one hundred per cent
of books from the Institute's library more efficient, more successful, better i
and publishing department, also the
developed all round than we are to -day.
:monthly magazine published by the But as long es we hold the idea that
Institute. The instruction in handi-1 we can't be anything out of common,
raft makes possible the production' As can't.
of saleable articles which can be dis-j As Emerson says, he who aims at a
posed of either locally or forwarded star will shoot higher than he who
to the salesroom department of the only aims at a tree. As long as we
'InstituteIn return for cash. Included think that we, with 'multitudes. of
;Yr -:Perles of articles. will be a de-; ethers, must be very ordinary men
;ptien of the salesroom department and women we will be ardina:y,
whir'n was originally established in A seulptor cannot exceed Ms model.
Toronto. There will also be a de -1 The model of ourselves. that we hold in
scription of the salesroom branches 1 mind determine the heightto which
which have more recently been estab- j we will rise.
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This huge map is being prepared by ; C.P,R. in red, the Canadian National in
the Natural Resources Intelllgenee green, and others in yellow.
Service of the department of the In -1 These are illuminated by an intrl•
terior in co-operation with the Cana` ! cate system of wiring. But they can
Written in 1865, it never has lost its Hannah, is the Atlantic. What do you
hold on the hearts of men battling for think of it?"
ideals. In the world war bands played 'Humph,"
said Aunt Hanah. "I
the hymn while the youth of the war- thought it was larger."
ring nations rushed to the colors, and
in the tamps of armed men there rose What is a Chiropodist?
the strain: Two small boys halted before a
"We are not divided, all ane body brass plate fixed on the front of a
we"— -, house, whereon was inscribed in bold
So great and universal is its appeal characters the word "Chiropodist"
that it belongs to no sect, or no race "Chirrup:dist:" remarked one of
it has become the heritage of civilize them perplexedly, "What's that?"
tion, rather than exclusively the rally- "Why," replied his companion, "a
ing cry of the Christian church.
The hymn was fortunate In finding a.
Braving the cold at thirty-five degrees below zero, men, women and children from all parts of
their last respects to Nieolai Lenin, as his body was laid to rest in Moscow. Photograph shows
funeral procession
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part of the
He Might Have Guessed Caesar.
Why do people name doge of abbe..
they are fond for suck a desperate
creature•as Nero? We don't kn..n". but
like the boy of Whom the Los An;eles
Times tells we must accept the fact.
"Who fiddled while Rome honed?".
asked the schoaI teacher.
"Hector, sir."- • r'
"No," said the school teacher
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"Towler;' sir,'
"Towler!" •exclaimed the 1.4: ' er-
"What do you mean? Tt was' e ro.'"
"Weil, sir," was the reply. •'1 lately
it was somebody with a dog Q nan.f "
Tho noblest motive is the •,ci')lie
good.
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