Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — IS ANGEL OF THE DEAF [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IS ANGEL OF THE DEAF

Mrs. John Peyton Clark is the head of the Silent Voice Neighborhood clubs and director of the New York League for the Hard of Hearing. There are In New York city over 100,000 who have either completely lost their bearing or else are so hard of hearing that tley are classed with the deaf. In the United States, according to the last census, there are 5,000,000 thus afflicted. Through the extension of the silent voice, or, in other Words, the science of reading the lips, the ’ost sense is being restored to these . afflicted through the medium of their eyes, for, having ea£s and hearing jnqt, they make up for it with their eyes, which not only see, hut hear.