Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . o great for words, Sergt. Ma-jor MiddlemLss said recently. Strangeas it may seem, even immediately af-ter being Minded, I did not feel the1 pain in my wound at all, my real suf-^fering came later and was entirely,mental. I had lived in the open all my lifeand the future looked black and hope-less to me. I could not bear the wordsof sympathy from the nurses andfriends, so I assumed a cheerfulnessthat I was far from feeling to escapeexpressions of sympathy. No onewho has not passed through a similarexperience can understand th
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . o great for words, Sergt. Ma-jor MiddlemLss said recently. Strangeas it may seem, even immediately af-ter being Minded, I did not feel the1 pain in my wound at all, my real suf-^fering came later and was entirely,mental. I had lived in the open all my lifeand the future looked black and hope-less to me. I could not bear the wordsof sympathy from the nurses andfriends, so I assumed a cheerfulnessthat I was far from feeling to escapeexpressions of sympathy. No onewho has not passed through a similarexperience can understand the feelingof helpfulness that comes to the new-ly blinded. I was fiiUed with a greatbitterness at the fate that had befall-en me; I even thought of self-de-struction I was never to see thebeautiful world about me again, thefpces of dear ones were to be onlymemories to me/ It was not until he had entered aschool for blind soldiers and began torealize that he could still shift forhimself that he felt his courage The entertainment is bemg arranged Pifi y. Sergeant Major Robert Middlemiss, Blinded British Soldier, LecturingThroughout United States For Felow Blinded Soldiers Under B. F. B. BlindpurydAuspices: (Below) as Ho Was Before the War; (Above) as He Is Today. by Messrs. H. P. Brown, RichardOsborne, Spencer Borden, Jr., and Charles B. Chase, whorecently org-anized a Fall River com-mittee of the B. F. B. Fund. CharlesM. Shove, president of the Massasoitand Pocasset National Bank, will betreasurer. All money obtained throughthe entertainment will be used toteach trades to the blinded soldiers ofGreat Britain, France and Belgium,to give them tools and materials andto sell the products which they make. ~Y\e.^AJ ^o-rK., J., ^le-rat--i^. yioJ^^vvvbe-T 30 l<^lio. *i ^Aid for Blinded Soldiers of FrancZO .—^ Concert To Be Given To-Morrow Night and Benefit Performances on Sunda} Evening. A concert for the benefit of the blindsoldiers of France will be given
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