Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . toldthem so, and gave each one the hope ofa useful and happy life when we hadopened our Lighthouse for the valiantsoldiers of the 4Sud-Ouest in Bor-deaux. We all had our pictures taken, tothe intense amusement of the blindmen, and I finally left the once pa-thetic group in a merry, hopeful mood. We discovered in Bordeaux lAbbeMoureau, a marvellously capable man,progressive, intellectual and eighteen years, entirely by his owneffort, he had financed and educated alittle group of industrial blind in brushmaking an
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . toldthem so, and gave each one the hope ofa useful and happy life when we hadopened our Lighthouse for the valiantsoldiers of the 4Sud-Ouest in Bor-deaux. We all had our pictures taken, tothe intense amusement of the blindmen, and I finally left the once pa-thetic group in a merry, hopeful mood. We discovered in Bordeaux lAbbeMoureau, a marvellously capable man,progressive, intellectual and eighteen years, entirely by his owneffort, he had financed and educated alittle group of industrial blind in brushmaking and basket making. The warhad deprived him of all possible in-come to keep his people a remarkable naturalist, he hadgathered a great collection of butter-flies, which he had just sold to keep afew of his blind people busy. Theprice of willows and brushes is almostprohibitive here and everybody is abbes work had been carried onin an old building adjoining a church,and a very lovely cloister full of beau-tiful flowers and vines was used by the. Miss Winnifred Holt, Whose Task It Is to Remedy in Her PeculiarWay One of the Most Tragic Cruelties of the Great War. blind people for their recreation. Wepersuaded the abbe to increase hisplant, to take the young blind lieuten-ant as his aide-de-camp, and to receivethe blind soldiers of the southwest re-gardless of race or creed. We agreedto instruct the lieutenant in the arts,crafts and intellectual pursuits of theblind, so that he would be able todirect his little group. With the assistance of the abbe weperfected and enlarged his organiza-tion, ^which has now among its officersDr. Lagrange as chief oculist. Dr. duMajny as chief doctor and surgeon andMonsieur Dumelle as chief businessmanager. The abbe remains a directorof the whole establishment and spe-cialist in industrial work. The littlelieutenant, who is highly educated, willbe a specialist in intellectual pursuitsand the re-education of the blind, sothat the
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