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Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . to the changing conditions or to shiftfor themselves, they were practicallyhelpless. Down from Belgium andNorthern and Western France theycame, bringing nothing but themselvesand memories of misery, another objectof charity. Dr Shurtleff, open-h»arted, generousand sympathetic, turned his attention totheir cause. His wife took the first ofthem into her home, clothed them andfed them and started them to work,while he busied himself with acquiringthe means for their subsistence. Stu-dents who had remained in Paris andAmerican w
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . to the changing conditions or to shiftfor themselves, they were practicallyhelpless. Down from Belgium andNorthern and Western France theycame, bringing nothing but themselvesand memories of misery, another objectof charity. Dr Shurtleff, open-h»arted, generousand sympathetic, turned his attention totheir cause. His wife took the first ofthem into her home, clothed them andfed them and started them to work,while he busied himself with acquiringthe means for their subsistence. Stu-dents who had remained in Paris andAmerican women offered him their as-sistance. Help From America. He communicated at once with hisfriends in America, begging them forhelp, and received a willing of his former students who hadreceived spiritual inspiration or prac-tical help from their pastor in schooldays and have since become famous andprosperous in the field of letters, art andpainting, dug into their pockets andrummaged in their garrets for thingsthat would be used in the relief workto the
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