PART OF A CLASS OF BLIND IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM 

 Tlic American Museum can give opportunities to these children not easily found elsewhere. For 

 insliiiico, it furnishes models illustniting methods in the history of transportation, — moccasins, canoes, 

 l)ack horses, prairie schooners, steam cars, sail and steamboats, hydroaeroplanes. It also has an accurate 

 model of the Panama Canal. In New York the greater number of blind children and children partly 

 blind come from the homes of the poor. As a rule they are not highly gifted intellectually. In other 

 words they are just like the masses of all other children, except that they start with a definite handicap. 

 Tlie public sdiools of New York now provide study classes and teachers for partly blind children, with 

 suitable medical attention and provision of raised type. These children however, recite and receive 

 instruction in tlie roETiilar classes. Not isolating: the children from normal cliildrcii results in an adapta- 

 tion for till' l;itcr time ulicn tlicy must cam a livelihood aiMonic noi-nial pcoijlc 



