Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . lashed but little and under thecareful coaching of Mr. Colcutt, of theVesta Rowing Club, they turned out areal good team. The practical as well as the sportingaide of life Is being well looked after atSt. Dunstans. The Tommies have theirwalking, swimming and rowing, and theyfollow more serious pursuits just as keen-ly. They are learning massage, typewrit-ing, joinery, boot repairing, basket andmat making, and many have alreadypassed the Braille tests for the blind. Itis a great thing they are doing at , taking the
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . lashed but little and under thecareful coaching of Mr. Colcutt, of theVesta Rowing Club, they turned out areal good team. The practical as well as the sportingaide of life Is being well looked after atSt. Dunstans. The Tommies have theirwalking, swimming and rowing, and theyfollow more serious pursuits just as keen-ly. They are learning massage, typewrit-ing, joinery, boot repairing, basket andmat making, and many have alreadypassed the Braille tests for the blind. Itis a great thing they are doing at , taking these broken victims ofwar and turning them into happy, self-supporting members of the community,,allwearing the smile that positively refusesto come off. ?ttei Letfer from American WomanTells of Work for Sight-less Soldiers. A HEARTRENDING TASK Fifty More Teachers Needed to In-struct Patients in Hospitalsand Their Homes. In a letter received by the ExecutiveCommittee of the Committee for MenBlinded In Battle Miss Winifred Holt ells of the work she is -Going in France. for the soldiers who have lost their sightat the front. Miss Holt recently was ap-pointed expert in blindness for the Ameri-can Relief Clearing House. Her lettersays:— W© hay© begun teaching in the hos-pitals here and have among our pupilstwo very interesting and grateful blindofficers who will make good teachers andattractive agents for the Paris Lighthousewhen it is opened. We have found all theblind men in the hospitals of Paris andsome in their homes. I estimate that theremust be from three thousand to four thou-sand blind soldiers in this immediateneighborhood, but the government knowsof only 200. This shows you how very im-portant our coming is. The work is very heartrending, but un-speakably essential. We found a blind sol-dier the other day who had not left hisroom in the (hospital since his accident andwas afraid to walk. After Mile. Passodoithad talked to him and told him of Fau-cetts wonderful life th
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