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diagrams, as Fig. 6 will show ; while 
Fig. 7 is taken from Sir Robert 
Ball’s “ Primer of Astronomy/’ 
and shows a chart of the Northern 
Constellation. 
ft is interesting to recall that 
the need for these now indispens- 
able diagrams was once shown 
by a pathetic ignorance on the 
part of a young blind scholar. 
Being asked to describe a cow’s leg, 
FIG. 5. — A SHEEP MARKED INTO JOINTS 
FOR COOKING. 
literally with the meaning of perspec- 
tive. The sensitive fingers of the 
student, travelling over the dotted 
lines, wil reveal the degree of per- 
spective as well as do the eyes of a 
normal man. 
Domesticity is not forgotten by any 
means, as even cookery books are 
illustrated, and in Fig. 5 is shown an 
embossed diagram of a sheep, with the 
various joints for cooking marked, 
and with the name of each given in 
Braille type. 
Music., that great joy to most blind 
people, is partly taught by embossed 
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FIG. 6. — AN EMBOSSED PAGE OF MUSIC. 
the poor child thought of a leg in the only 
shape she knew anything about — her own — 
a very natural inference under the circum- 
stances. Fortunately, the mistake served 
not only to illuminate the ignorance of 
those who dwell in darkness, but also to shed 
light upon a path by which that ignorance 
might be dispelled. 
If Miss Keller, Dr. Campbell, and a 
host of others just as famous have been able 
to achieve what they have without the aids 
now available, what may not the younger 
generation of blind do ? While there are 
men and women who are willing to spend 
their lives in the service of the sightless, 
there is no telling what is possible. 
