BLIND CHILDREN LIKE "TIP," THE ASIAN ELEPHANT 



Fortunately for the children of the blind classes, many specimens exhibited in the American Museum 

 are not under glass. The children cannot quickly grasp through the sense of touch the idea of the whole 

 of a large object, or such a thing as a garden or a room, but they can get acquainted with the parts, 

 and the mind makes the combination. The American Museum has had made especially for use with the 

 blind classes small plaster models (one inch to one foot) of elephant, buffalo, giraffe, camel, and hippo- 

 potamus, from which an idea of the shape and pose of the whole can be gained before studying the real 

 object. One small blind boy, passing his fingers over the face of "Caliph," the great hippopotamus in 

 the African hall, remarked that it must have a good disposition as the corners of its mouth turned up 

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