Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . MISS ESTHER CLEVELAND, Daughter of the Late President Grover Cleveland, as Volunteer Worker at St. Dunstans Home ForJ31ind So/diers in London. (Photo ^bH IMSrnational News Service.) R/ocWeete-r, : Ji^l^x/ ^ I^lb. ^omes for Blind in France. mgHBBHHHBE The Reuilly open-ed by the French government nearthe Vincennes Gate of Paris to ac-commodate so many as possible ofFrances ever-increasing number ofblinded soldiers. A blinded mechanic was teaching ablinded soldier there, several weeksago, to mount
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . MISS ESTHER CLEVELAND, Daughter of the Late President Grover Cleveland, as Volunteer Worker at St. Dunstans Home ForJ31ind So/diers in London. (Photo ^bH IMSrnational News Service.) R/ocWeete-r, : Ji^l^x/ ^ I^lb. ^omes for Blind in France. mgHBBHHHBE The Reuilly open-ed by the French government nearthe Vincennes Gate of Paris to ac-commodate so many as possible ofFrances ever-increasing number ofblinded soldiers. A blinded mechanic was teaching ablinded soldier there, several weeksago, to mount a tire on an automobilerim. Do you see? asked the blind in-structor. •Certainly I see, the blind pupilanswered proudly. So interested were both in the les-son that neither was conscious of thepathetic irony of their words. Very few blind soldiers are seenin the streets of Paris, nowadays. Thefortunate ones are learning trades notrequiring sight in the French gov-ernments present available institu-tions. The rest, helpless and despon-dent sometimes to the extent of sui- ctde. are being cared for in the homesof friends and relatives. Wheneverone of these blind men appears in thestreet, he la saluted by almost everypedestrian. This custom, too, thoughbeautiful, is pathetic, since the objectsof the honor cannot, of
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