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The range and angles of the "Big Bertha," the gun which has been shelling Paris of late, are set 

 forth on a page of The Matilda Ziegler Magazine. The scale of miles shows the heights and liorizontal 

 distances reached by the shells. The blind take as lively interest in the events of this world as most 

 other people, and naturally do not appreciate the apparent attitude of many of their friends that 

 they should only be preparing for the next 



point of my finger in tlie palm of her 

 hand, and she can comprehend it as 

 rapidly as I can write it, or she can 

 hold her hand on mine as I write with 

 a pencil and read what I write. This 

 girl gets a pleasurable sensation from 

 placing her hand on the piano as it is 

 played. She knows in this way a dozen 

 pieces, and will repeat the words of the 

 songs, going slowly or rapidly as yon 

 play them. 



The American Musenm of JSTatural 

 History of New York is doing much in 

 its special work for the blind, — the pro- 

 gram of which is changed monthly, 

 where they can feel the objects exhib- 

 ited, — and also in its course of lectures 

 for the blind. It has arranged with the 

 boy scouts that they act as guides for 

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the blind who have no one to bring 

 them, and it is one of the finest sights 

 to watch one of these husky boys care- 

 fully leading a stooped old blind wo- 

 man or man into the lecture hall; and 

 it may be that he has gone away over 

 to Brooklyn to get her. I wonder, too, 

 if the public knows that the American 

 Museum furnishes the car fares for 

 those blind who are unable to pay. It 

 is done gently, with no suggestion of 

 charity that so hurts the blind, but the 

 almoner sits at the door and asks, 

 "Cannot I give you car fare for you and 

 your guide?" 



A few weeks ago I took our deaf- 

 blind girl (Katherine McGirr) to the 

 American Museum, and as the editor of 

 this Journal and I walked with her. 



