Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . m&. oc o oU 0 < —* X 0 ? The chairs come from a near-by furni-ture factory, and the weavers, new asthey are lo the trade, are already beingpaid for their work. A nurse and a blindinstructor direct their labors. They smokeavidly as They ply their long bodkins;they talk critically of the war situation;they barter each other happily. They areliterally made men already—and thevknow it. In another corner of the same workshopa handful of former trench warriors isturning out very passable willow bas-kets, which will sVortly be s
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . m&. oc o oU 0 < —* X 0 ? The chairs come from a near-by furni-ture factory, and the weavers, new asthey are lo the trade, are already beingpaid for their work. A nurse and a blindinstructor direct their labors. They smokeavidly as They ply their long bodkins;they talk critically of the war situation;they barter each other happily. They areliterally made men already—and thevknow it. In another corner of the same workshopa handful of former trench warriors isturning out very passable willow bas-kets, which will sVortly be sold to provi-sion merchants in the big Parisian mar-kets at Los Halles. The proceeds willrevert to the pockets of the blind work-men and keep them in tobacco for a fort-night. Other professions, too, are rapidly de-veloping new votaries among the blindsoldiers. A professor from a Parisian,music school holds a class in piano tun-ing three times weekly, there is a dallyclass in massage; typewriting and stenog-raphy are being taught to a score ofclerically inclined
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