DEAF AND DUMB CLUB.
A SILENT RECEPTION." In a room over a shop in Store-street, Tottenham Court-road, said the Daily Mail of 7th Oct., meets a club which is ideal in some ways — not a member says a word even when tho olub egoist is sitting on all the newspapers. It is the National Deaf Club, composed entirely of members who have no other language than that of signs. Hardly any have loarned the lip systom, and tho only method of communication is with the fingers. They aro a small but interesting body. Nearly every member is earning his living in commerce, and some are even travellers. Tho landlady of the house where they have their olub-room described them as the quietest, gentlest tenants that a woman could have. "I lot them just one big room, and they have their meetings, and you would never know they were there." On Saturday this week, 9th October (continues the Mail) the olub will _ hold its annual meeting, and in tho evening a reception takes place at Portman Rooms. This promises to bo the stillest reception over known. All the members will talk and an entertainment will go on, but not a sound will bo heard.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 13
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203DEAF AND DUMB CLUB. Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 135, 4 December 1909, Page 13
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