Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . ndsoldier to forget his misfortune. We never permit the word blind tobe used within the precincts at the insti-tution. Nor do we make the mistake oflavishing sympathy and condolence ongloomy newcomers. But, rather, we try tohelp each man to laugh away his sor-row. Work is our best aid. We seek atonce to divert the mens minds by settingthem to a task tc perform. This courseof treatment has never yet failed. We made the mistake at first of tryingrecreation, concerts, games, we quickly discovered that the mendesert
Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915 . ndsoldier to forget his misfortune. We never permit the word blind tobe used within the precincts at the insti-tution. Nor do we make the mistake oflavishing sympathy and condolence ongloomy newcomers. But, rather, we try tohelp each man to laugh away his sor-row. Work is our best aid. We seek atonce to divert the mens minds by settingthem to a task tc perform. This courseof treatment has never yet failed. We made the mistake at first of tryingrecreation, concerts, games, we quickly discovered that the mendeserted everything in favor of work. They would rather make brushes andbaskets or cane chairs than listen to thefinest music we could offer them. It wasthe same with games and lectures. Wefound the psychological value of worksuperior to that of any other diversion wecould devise. A visit to workships at the con-valescent home proves the worth of themethods described by M. Emard. In oneroom a dozen blind men sit busily weav-ing cane seats into the bottoms of JLace MaKmO) afie,r a cL<xy in thc«Shop*
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