Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . hrusts and parrie*so quickly and so cleve-rly, one tyxjuldhardly Imagine that these men hadi lostthe use of their eyes. Teaching fencing to the blind soldiersgives rise to still further possibilities ofpro^viding adequate exercise and activediversion for these poor ?war -victims, since ,boxing, wrestling, JIu-Jitsu and simllapsports may be just as easily taught sage has once said that the greatest SU0- ifortune that couJd befall any one Is to be-come dead to the w^orld before the explra- ition of ones natural life. Su
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916 . hrusts and parrie*so quickly and so cleve-rly, one tyxjuldhardly Imagine that these men hadi lostthe use of their eyes. Teaching fencing to the blind soldiersgives rise to still further possibilities ofpro^viding adequate exercise and activediversion for these poor ?war -victims, since ,boxing, wrestling, JIu-Jitsu and simllapsports may be just as easily taught sage has once said that the greatest SU0- ifortune that couJd befall any one Is to be-come dead to the w^orld before the explra- ition of ones natural life. Such a fate r» Ilonger threatens the blind French soldier,:whose confidence in himself may be re-newed by his participation in practicallyall kinds of athletic recreation that ar«open to his more fortunate fellow men. y\evA; ^o-rVC. YV. tj., Svcvv. 7V\; ^^.. I^llb. BLINDNESS JSTHE GREATESTfTRAGEDY OF THE WORLD WAR »/ But One Man, C. Arthur Pearson, Although Himself Sightless, Is Leading the Blind Victims of Modern Fighting Machines Out of Their Affliction. By EDWARD MARSHALL. I HAVE seen thorn V-y the dozens,in LonUon and in l^^^is, led friends or groping theirown -«?ay about uncertpinly—WindedVictims of th? war. 1 have seen them jby the dozens and they are in Londonby hundreds. In Paris thfrs are far more of themend I by chance was present at ajtouching meeting. The wounded fromVerdun were coming into a great hos-pital. Some of them were met bymen. but more were met by womennurees and a few by mothers, wives, |sweethearts or sisters. | There were six blind men amongthem—and a man whose eyes havebeen forced out by the concussion of anearby bursting shell, or have been;burned out, or have been literally shot;out is not. a pleasant blind man to look Iat. One chap, one little Poilu. was jmagnificent—calm, dignified, appar- jently resigned. His sweetheart methim. I watched them. Hs remained quite calm until, sud- denly, he realized that he could neversee he
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