HOW THEY MANAGED.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12140, 15 January 1908, Page 4

HOW THEY MANAGED.

The way in which deaf and dumb, people make love is rather queer. A gentleman belonging to a deaf and dumb asylum tells of a courtship recently carried on between mutes. "During the progress of the match,'' he says, "the young man experienced but one difficulty, and that in a short time he surmounted. The thorn that lay in his bed of roses was a gas-jet, which, as he, of course, Conversed with his adored one in tha sign language, it was always necessary to keep ablaze — a woefully embarrassing thisg for lovers. "Finally they discovered that they could utilise their sense of touch in deciphering their sign-language. By holding one .another's hands they found that they could carry on a' conversation with tolerable facility, and in about a week were adepts. Thus deaf, dumb, and practically blind, they enjoytd the pleasure of love. They have spread their discovery among their friends, and! believe the disdovdry has tatfen fast hoid upon deaf-and-dumb lovers."