| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER Exchanges The Silent- Suedes* aim ounces its intention of turning over its editorial ■columns to its friends. We regard this as poor policy. The editorial page is what gives individuality and character to a paper; the excuse for its existence is to be looked for there. The Siiccesn should not surrender its present position of strength and influence to become a j ■lly-tish.— The Kentucky Standard. On Wednesday, Nov. 3rd, Mr Keith left Berkeley for an extended tour in the East. He goes, by direction of the Board, to make a study of the schools for the deaf and the blind and of the. various methods in use in their educational, industrial and domestic departments. He will he accompanied by Mrs. Keith and will probably be gone for six or seven weeks.—The California News. During the labor day parade in Seattle a few of the deaf-mute workmen marched in line. The following is what the daily paper said: A notable featuie of the parade was the demonstration of the deaf members of different unions who were assembled under a banner labeled: “Deaf workmen. We work but don't talk. We can’t hear, but we cau work.” * Another placard borne by one of these silent artisans that made a big hit with the .spectators, read: “Silence is gold-e u. ”— The 1 Yanking ton tan. The Western Pennsylvania School is building a $35,000 gymnasium. It will be 50 by 80 feet, of red brick lined with glazed yellow brick and will be complete in every detail. In the basement will be a 25 by 30-foot swimming pool, a bowling alley and a running track. The greater part of the inside work and finish is reserved for the boys of the woodworking shop to do as a means of giving them practical knowledge and experience in their art. — Ohio Chronicle. *r *r Word was received last week that bur exhibit at the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition at Seattle had been awarded a gold medal by the Jury of Awards for educational exhibits. All who had a band in preparing' the exhibit feel highly gratified at the result At the St. Louis Fair the school exhibit received complimentary notice*,- at the Lewis and Clark Fair in Portland a bronze medal was awarded. Getting the gold medal at Seattle seems to be at least a fair indication that the school has been-making progress meantime.— The Oregon Outlook. The Texan Lone Star calls attention to the''fact that an agricultural college for the (leaf is to be established in central Sweden. We desire to join the Lone Star in its endorsement of the teaching of fanning to deaf children. W think every state school for the deaf, especially in agricultural states, should not. (inly teach farming, but should teller kindred occupations, Mich as poultry-raising, dairying, stock-raising, fruit culture, dower and vegetable gardening, etc. The Lone Star says: “There is nothing in all range of human industry to which the deaf are better adapted. It is a healthy,' independent, satisfying life, one in which there is perhaps more contentment and happiness than any other, and the ability .to converse readily with the hearing world is less ao element essential to success in it than any other. Yet some wiseacres who have seldom seen the outside of a large, congested city and never experienced the exquisite pleasure of breathing freely, for an extended period, nature's pure.air iu field an l meadow, decry the idea of a rural life for the deaf. Sweden is oil the right track.”— The Deaf Oklahoman. There was graduated at Shaw University in Raleigh, N. C., last month, a young negro lawyer who deserves a high place among his race and ,for his splendid exhibition of courage, among the entire human race. This young man's name is Roger D. O’Kelly, and it is said that he comes from the O’Kelly family of Wake county colored men who have won the confidence of both races by their honesty and integrity. There were only two deaf and dumb lawyers in Am-rica until last month, and O’Kelly makes the third, But being deaf and dumb is not the handicap which this young negro has. He played on the Shaw football eleven and was injured so that one of his eyes had to ho removed. His friends thought that this loss, added to his other afflictions, would depress him and prevent bis getting a license, but when sympathized with this deaf and dumb boy bravely said: “Pve got one good eve yet and I will make it anyhow.” And he got his license from the Supreme court and his diploma from the University, and is going out into the world to “make it anyhow.'- Such bry.ve determination in the face of such seemingly overwhelming odds: certainly merits bounteous success, and the Journal joins his friends in wishing him its fullest measure.—Kaunas City Journal. uThe blind have a sense of smell always exceptional and sometimes as keen as a dog’s,” said a physician. ‘-There is a young Baltimore blind woman Julia C., who can take a .dozen gloves, and after smelling the hands and faces of several person present, she can return each glove to the hand it belongs to. Helen Keller recognizes the ownership of clothes by their odor, even after they have been washed. A patient of mine, if she stand by an open window, can tell by the smell who is coming towards her. “The blind are ingenious in other ways. I know a blind man who, at. a strange restaurant, can tell in advance the approximate, cost and quality of his luncheon. He tells, he says, by the way of the table is laid, the thickness of the crockery aud glass, polish of the plate, mauners of the waiters, and texture of the linen. “The blind are very suceptible to love. They love invariably beautiful persons. Love is nearly always tragic with them, since their defect forbids a happy issue to their passion.”—Selected. Choosing a Christmas Present. When yon make a present of a periodical to a friend or a family you are really selecting a companion to influence them for good or ill during a whole year. If the aquaintances of your sods and daughters were to talk to them aloud as some periodicals talk to them silently, how quickly you would forbid the companionship! 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