96 GOOD HEALTH 



tick when it was as far from their ears as fifty-one inches, 

 while most of the dull children could not hear it unless 

 it was as near to them as thirty-one inches. 



All these experiments showed that when children are 

 a little deaf they seem dull in the schoolroom, and that 

 when they are not deaf they 

 are more apt to seem bright. 

 Nevertheless we know that 

 very often deaf children are 

 not really dull, for doctors 

 have cured them, and after 



TESTING HIS HEARING 



the cure they have been as bright as anybody. Of 

 course the chance is that the better we hear the quicker 

 we shall understand. It is important, therefore, to have 

 good hearing. 



If you wish to decide about your own hearing you 

 might try this experiment. 



Get several children together ; ask some one to hold a 

 watch for you to listen to, and see who can hear it tick the 



