Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . Pearson comingto greet his caller, and one rises to re-turn his greeting with curiosity mingledwith sympathy. I had not seen him for 10years. Then he was most active. Hehas changed little, save for his darkeyes, which are obviously sightless. Talland well built and, quite evidently, as fullof ginger as ever, the only other signof his affliction is the fact that when heextends his hand to grasp yours, he putsit out, not straight, but far to the sideand too high up, making it necessary foryou to do ditto. Now let me take you r
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . Pearson comingto greet his caller, and one rises to re-turn his greeting with curiosity mingledwith sympathy. I had not seen him for 10years. Then he was most active. Hehas changed little, save for his darkeyes, which are obviously sightless. Talland well built and, quite evidently, as fullof ginger as ever, the only other signof his affliction is the fact that when heextends his hand to grasp yours, he putsit out, not straight, but far to the sideand too high up, making it necessary foryou to do ditto. Now let me take you round, he says,and with quick strides leads the way(along a baize path) 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 tobe shorthand machines, which write thesigns in Braille on a thin paper the operator reads between his fin-gers and then transcribes the contents ona special Braille C. ARTHUR PEARSON Former publisher, himself sight* U«l win. direct* a home for hiinrt veterans. A Tour of the Grounds Those machines are necessary, saidPearson, because no blind person canwrite accurately by hand. My own writ-ing has now become next to Indecipher-able. Soon it will have become quite with the aid of these machines thereis nothing to prevent any of these chapsfrom becoming expert stenographers andtypewriters. Now lets go out into the grounds,he continued, and led the way througha doorway and out upon the terrace, atthe front of which was a flight of somefour or five stone stairs. I noticed thatwe were now on a slate path, which, outof doors, takes the place of the baizeones within. Pearson was ahead, just atthe top of the stairs. Involuntarily Itook his arm, but he released himselfgently. Im quite all right, he laughed, andthen I noticed that just above the firststep and under the last there w
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