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August 04, 1916 - Image 11

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Publication:
The Jewish Chronicle, 1916-08-04

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HELD IN RUSSIA FOR
EIGHTEEN MON

Jewish Woman Reaches H
After Suffering Many
Hardships.

Ridgefield Park, July 3
Driven from her father's hom
I-Iorodok, Russia,. in Septem
1914, by the Russian Cossacks, I\
Ida Greenhouse, a resident
Ridgefield Park, has just return
to the village, almost two years of
she set out for the United State s
When the Cossacks entered
odok everything was seized,
even the walls of her father's hoi
torn down in the mad search f
valuables and gold. One of t
most heartrending sights w as tl
tearing to pieces of her Ameriu -
citizen's papers and the birth ce.
tificates of her two children.
Mrs. Greenhouse hired a cart am
driver to take her and two smalI
children to Minsk, nine miles dis
tant. The ride cost $50. Repeate ,
appeals were made to the America ,
consul at Petrograd for a permit t
travel through Russia to Japan, I
the loss of her papers, which id(
fled her as an American cit;
proved an almost insurmoun
obstacle.

LIP READING IS BOON
SUFFERING HUMANIT

Has Been the Means of Enab
Thousands to Regain an I'
terest in Life.

Those who experience an
creasing difficulty in underst2
ing the conversation of th
about them will be glad to le
of a new method of securing
lief, which has been the subjec
much favorable comment
criticism. The development
lip reading, the art of understa
ing the speech of others
watching the movements of th
lips, has come as a boon to t h e
with defective hearing, who w
to retain their business and soc
interests. For the totally deaf
is the only means of understar
ing oral conversation. For tho
whose hearing is failing, it
lieves the nervous strain caus ,
by trying to catch every wo
and thereby restores courage a
confidence. For those wh(
hearing is only slightly dulled
removes the handicap of d(
ness.
The success of lip reading a
remedy for deafness is well
tested by the remarkable gro1
of the Detroit School of Lip Re
ing. Starting some years age
a modest and unassuming ni;
ner, this institution today ra
as one of the leading schools
its kind in the country. It 1 - 12
large corps of teachers, all trai
and experienced in the most
vanced methods. It is safe
say that it has been the mean
enabling thousands of suffer
humanity to regain the joy
living.

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