Cincinnati—The use of an amplitier as a means of enabling dear persons to hear proved a decided success yesterday, according to R. J. Condom, superintendent of Cincinnati public schools. The amplifier, installed in the room of a school where deaf persons are taught, was pronounced a success after three boys, two of them who could hear slightly, were subjected the test.
The climax came when a seventeen-year-old girl, who has been deaf since birth, startled her examiners by a cry of astonishment as Superintendent Condom spoke to her through the medium of an amplifier. It was the first sound she had ever heard, the superintendent said.—'\N, Y... Times."
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