"iirnv SHALL i leaux to teach ruh' iilixdei) soldi eiis?" 567 



are blind, as there are so many wicked 

 things in this world thai yoii caiiiint 

 see." At once ho replied. "Wi'll. Cousin 

 Sarah, there are a lot (d' ilinii \\\ likt' 

 to ehaneo one eye on." 



'I'he l)lind do not want sympathy — ■ 

 they want to he treated jnst as otiier 

 people are treated, and they do not 

 want to be reminded constantly (d' their 

 blindness, of which they already know- 

 enough by_expericnce. A blind girl 

 once said to me, "I wish my friends who 

 knew me before I lost my sight wonld 

 help me to forget that 1 am not normal, 

 because I am. except that I do not have 

 my sight. They are always sympa- 

 thizing with nie and sympathy makes 

 me weak." 



It is interesting to note that sooner 

 or later there comes to all blinded peo- 



ple a sense to detect obstacles in front 

 ol' them. I have wondered if this fac- 

 ulty came from sound, a sort of echo, 

 or if it came fi'om a pressure of the 

 atmospheu' which they felt on nearing 

 an oliject. Psychologists have attrib- 

 uted it to the latter, but I believe it 

 comes from the former, for I have 

 heard blind persons "clucking" or mak- 

 ing a slight whistling sound when walk- 

 ing in unfamiliar places. They told 

 me they wei-e "sounding" to see if any- 

 thing was in front of them. I am con- 

 lirmed in this belief by the fact that a 

 gii'l in my office, who is both deaf and 

 blind, does not have this sense of de- 

 tecting objects in front of her. This 

 girl, however, has the sense of touch 

 developed to an unusually high degree. 

 I can write in ordinary script with the 



Blind girLs collate the slii-uts of ilii- Matilda Zieylfr Matjazinc. — The one week ot eaili month 

 which finds them thus engaged they call their "week of happiness," as they are then profitably em- 

 ployed. Much of tlie world's work could be done by the blind, and the present shortage of labor is 

 calling attention to the fact 



