Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . estimate the skill of the blind artisan. Inrooms on the upper floors we nun- seemen engaged in the \-arious branches ofbrush and broom manufacture, and makingsash-lincs. In the carpenters shop a blindcarpenter is planing a set of .shches forthe st(jre-room, while in another room the blind foreman] ^ 7 casting up accounts andmaking arith-metical calcula-tions b_\- meansof a metal plateperforated withsmall holes, into\\hich large-headed pins canbe stuck. Thenwe descend intothe basementwhere, as thel
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . estimate the skill of the blind artisan. Inrooms on the upper floors we nun- seemen engaged in the \-arious branches ofbrush and broom manufacture, and makingsash-lincs. In the carpenters shop a blindcarpenter is planing a set of .shches forthe st(jre-room, while in another room the blind foreman] ^ 7 casting up accounts andmaking arith-metical calcula-tions b_\- meansof a metal plateperforated withsmall holes, into\\hich large-headed pins canbe stuck. Thenwe descend intothe basementwhere, as thelight is failing out of doors,it is nearly dark. Here, aswe grope our way along,we make out in the glooma kind of scaffolding, in theinterior of which a humanform appears dim and spec-tral. It is a blind weaverseated at his loom making. BLIND AXn CRIi=PLKD. doormats. As we strain oure\es in an endeavour to see what he isdoing the reality of his affliction is strongh-brought home to us. But a still morestriking demonstration is presently given tous. Through the open doorway of an un-lighted room come sounds of hammeringand the whirr of machinery, and we peerinto the black darkness in a \-ain effort todiscover the source of the sounds. Suddenlythe manager switches on the electric light,and we then pcrcei\e with astonishment arow of elderl)- men seated at blocks choppingfirewood, and on the opposite side of theroom a pair of stalwart fellows turning acrank that clri\es a circular saw with whichanother man is cutting the wood into shapessuitable for the choppers. The men do not seem to be aware of ourentry or of the sudden transition fromdarkness to light, and when on ourdeparture the light is the AFlLICTI-l) LONDON. !i wink, as juclt;ed b_\- tlie sound, goes on w ith-out a pause. Before leaving tlie buildi
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