Weekly Chemawa American., November 13, 1908, Page 8, Image 8

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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
Language L?sson.
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went to Aberdeen in a Street Car; the
fare is only 10 cents to there. The dis
tance is - about two miles I suppose.
The two little cities there look fine.
We went back on the 28th. It was
about 8:30 P. M. when we left Hoquiam
for Moclips. When we came back we
stayed at Taholah for two or three
weeks, then came back to LaPush with
Bill Garfield; rested a dixy and then
went to Neah Bay to fish. The first of
October '! returned to LaPush to attend
the Quileute Indian School.
!- F. Fremont Bennet.
Quileate Day School LaPush, Wash.
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Gift of Speech.
Few, indeed, -there are among us who
have adequate appreciation of the bless
ings we enjoy. All of our most common
and greatest needs are supplied by
Nature-and we do not even pause to
give thanks.
To be deprived forever any one of our
five senses is certainly a great affliction,
but through the loss of one to lose, or
be denied the gift of speech is unfortu
nate . indeed. The following article
from the Oregon Outlook is well worth
the serious consideration of all:
To be without language is to be depriv
ed of the vehicle, perhaps the very con
tent, of human thought; it is to lack the
chief possession which divides man from
brute. Never to have heard the word of
love, never to have put the desires of the
heart into prayer, never to have read the
word which God vouchsafed to put into
human tongues this is worse than to
dwell in the blind man's darkness or to
sit with moveless lips of the paralytic.
And such is the lot with every deaf child
who is -not properly taught.
By proper teaching what wonders can
be wrought! I lately listened to a young
woman who has been deaf since' early
childhood, who has never heard a spoken
word to'know as a word. She stood on
the platform of a large hall and spoke
in behalf of an important educational
movement. In the audience where
philanthropists, men of letters, educators,
and they listened eagerly to her words
as they fell from her lips, sweet, audible,
expressive.
Some in the audience who had never
before heard her speech, or . thaUof any
educated deaf person understood immed
iately whaf she said. Manv would not
have understood all the words, for it was
an artificial speech, lackin the full, easy
human tones and natural inflections; but
it was real speech, marvelously likeonr
for on to achieve who cannot hear her
own words. Moreover, so.finelv had this
young woman learned to think, ?o excel
lently did she c'nooe and combine her
words, that her address had what literary
men called "style," beauty of , phrase
and aptness of expression. Men of let
ters in the audience remarked on her
skill in using the English language.
CHEMAWA'S SCHEDULE.
Oct. 2d University of Oregon Second atChe-
mawa. Won 5 to 0.
Oct. 30- Albany College at Albany. Lost
7 to 0,
Nov. 7 Fort Stevens at Chemawa. Won 31
to 5.
Nov. 13 Pacific University at Forest Grove.
Nov 21 Oregon Agriculture College Second.
Nov. 26 Young Moti's Catholic Club of Port-
land at Chemawa.
Dec. 5 SalemHigh at Salem.
Dec. 12 (Open)"
Dec. 19 (Open)
Dec. 25 Astoria Athletic CI nb at Astoria.
Jan.l The Dalles Athletic Club at The Dalles