Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . First attempts to meet the situationwere unsuccessful in their issue. Whenhostilities were only two or threemonths old and the numbs/ of blind hadnot grown alarming:, the Government con-tented itself with equipping for them aspecial ward in the National Hospitalof the Three Hundred, the venerableasylum for the blind founded by King: of France, in the thirteenthcentury. But there is a reason why?blinded soldiers whose salvation is in-tended should not be lodged in the hos-pital of the Three Hundred. The institution,
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . First attempts to meet the situationwere unsuccessful in their issue. Whenhostilities were only two or threemonths old and the numbs/ of blind hadnot grown alarming:, the Government con-tented itself with equipping for them aspecial ward in the National Hospitalof the Three Hundred, the venerableasylum for the blind founded by King: of France, in the thirteenthcentury. But there is a reason why?blinded soldiers whose salvation is in-tended should not be lodged in the hos-pital of the Three Hundred. The institution, which in colloquialusage, is called Les Quinze-Vingts, hasbeen associated in the minds of the entireFrench nation during the six centuriessince its foundation with all the real andimagined terrors of blindness. TheFrenchman has learned to look upon theinmate of the Quinze-Vingts as a lostsoul, a pitiful creature possessed ofnothing but melancholia and a follows then that the unfortunate sol-diers who, during the first months of thewar, were sent to th
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