Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . H. Richardson TWO. Watch Hill Kenneth Banjo Club. Ou the Road to Mandalay Oley Speaks Glee Club, with solo by Kreutzer Selection. I Sing to Thee Hartzel \ Glee Club. Tfl^^lpuntalns, Dr. Washington Gladden 59 ruecuctu-rvor» , K ^-r-a^-rt.^- Qu^ . BLIND SOLDIER HERE/FDR BENEFIT LEfTURE >Serg| MHJory ^Eidlemiss, the blindedBrltislS soldier whose remarkable nar-rative •fuie European/was is to bea feat/ure of Tuesday nights musicallecture at the Auditorium, arrived inReading was accom
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1917 . H. Richardson TWO. Watch Hill Kenneth Banjo Club. Ou the Road to Mandalay Oley Speaks Glee Club, with solo by Kreutzer Selection. I Sing to Thee Hartzel \ Glee Club. Tfl^^lpuntalns, Dr. Washington Gladden 59 ruecuctu-rvor» , K ^-r-a^-rt.^- Qu^ . BLIND SOLDIER HERE/FDR BENEFIT LEfTURE >Serg| MHJory ^Eidlemiss, the blindedBrltislS soldier whose remarkable nar-rative •fuie European/was is to bea feat/ure of Tuesday nights musicallecture at the Auditorium, arrived inReading was accompan-ied by his -wife and manager, Irving , and also by Mime. Lurreyne,the grand opera star of Paris and TheHague, who will sing at the bene-fit. The money received from the enter-tainment will be supplied to aid thefund in giving permanent relief to theblinded soldiers and sailors of GreatBritain, France and Belgium. Incase the United States becomes in-volved in the present war, part of theproceeds will be used to care for thisnations own blinded REMAKING THE BLIND& Miss Winifred Holt, Founder of Light-houses in the United States and France,Explains Her Work at Meeting at Per-kins Institution for the Blind America is to have the benefit of theAllies experience in caring for the menblinded in battle .should there be anyneed of it here as a result of fighting,j according to Miss Winifred Holt, founder[of the lighthouses for the blind, whospoke this afternoon at Perkins Institu-tion for the Blind. Miss Holt was intro-duced by President Lowell of Harvard,who praised the work that she has beendoing both in the United States andabroad. Miss Holt impressed upon her audiencethe fact that her work, as president ofthe French Comite Pour les Aveugles dela. Guerre, is both temporary and per-manent. More than ;!000 blinded sol-diers have been helped in various ways,more than 300 have been taught tradesor arts which will make them self-sup-porting and independent and more
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