Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . uildings. The more expe-rienced walked without aid, and evenconducted others; the later arrivalsand the more timid were guidedby nurses or volunteer helpers. Ifollowed one bright-faced, straight-backed young fellow, who started hiswork with a song; and I wondered, asI watched him, what could be his in-spiration for song. It was the joy ofwork, I found; for when I asked abouthis family, an inexpressible sadnesscame over his face as he said: Mywife is in the invaded district and Ihave had no word since the mobiliza-tion. All o
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . uildings. The more expe-rienced walked without aid, and evenconducted others; the later arrivalsand the more timid were guidedby nurses or volunteer helpers. Ifollowed one bright-faced, straight-backed young fellow, who started hiswork with a song; and I wondered, asI watched him, what could be his in-spiration for song. It was the joy ofwork, I found; for when I asked abouthis family, an inexpressible sadnesscame over his face as he said: Mywife is in the invaded district and Ihave had no word since the mobiliza-tion. All of the articles are well madeand marketable. There is no com-pulsion about the hours for work northe kind. It is all a matter of choice,of privilege. In this institution thereare no rules to break, for how couldthere be punishment for those who al-ready have so much to bear? Wehave only to love them very much, andthat is not hard; and to teach themhow to work, explained the is no trouble and we are re-paid every day by their B. Tle,ixJ ^nrK,, 71. W., J-rub *vX^VU^^- A. erica s ^^ «6 S>* of t oioiers Miss Wirairaifred Molt Has Been Ses^t to Bordeatis to. Le&d the Sightless Victims of War Into the Light. By GEORGE PAYNE. THAT an American woman has beenaccepted as the instructor ofFrench specialists in the work ofreclaiming soldiers who have beenblinded in battle and teaching them tosee again is the interesting newsthat friends of Miss Winifred Holthave brought back from France. Miss Holt, it will be remembered, isthe founder and leading spirit of theLighthouse, the institution of the NewYork Association for the Blind, in EastFifty-ninth Street, which has done somuch to make blind people self-sup-porting. Several months ago Miss Holt wentabroad as the representative of a com-mittee on men blinded in battle, andalready she has done so much good inFrance that it is proposed to have aPhare Americain in imitation of theLighthouse in East Fift
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