Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . h), into the former ball-room, where some 20 or 30 sightless ex-warriors are studying Braille and read-ing it, working typewriters, and tappingat the other queer little machines thathave been mentioned. These prove to beshorthand machines, which write thesigns. 5n Braille, on a thin paper the operator reads, between hisfingers, and then transcribes the con-tents on a special Braille machine are necessary, saidPearson, because no blind person canwrite accurately by hand. Sly own writ-ing has now bec
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . h), into the former ball-room, where some 20 or 30 sightless ex-warriors are studying Braille and read-ing it, working typewriters, and tappingat the other queer little machines thathave been mentioned. These prove to beshorthand machines, which write thesigns. 5n Braille, on a thin paper the operator reads, between hisfingers, and then transcribes the con-tents on a special Braille machine are necessary, saidPearson, because no blind person canwrite accurately by hand. Sly own writ-ing has now become next to indecipher-able. Soon it will have become quite , with the aid of these machines,there is nothing to prevent any of thesechaps from becoming expert stenog-raphers and typewriters. Now, lets go out into the grounds,he continued, and led the way through a.,dbroway arid out upon the terrace, at thefront of which a flight of some fouror Ave stone stairs, l noticed thawe^-e now on a slate path, which, out ofdoors, takes thn place of tho baize ones.
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