The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-22
Charles Lincoln Smiths Sixth Week Brings Grand
Success-Hundreds Of Our Best Citizens Are
Endorsing His Knowledge and Ills Art.
A PATHETIC STORY
Is RELATED,
Doctors Had Given UP All Hope
Wonderful Results We're
Achieved.

] In connection with the wonderful results
which arc being achieved by Charles
| Lincoln Smith. among those In Rich
/ mond who are not blessed with perfect
sight there comes pathetic story from
the far east end Of the city.
But this story while pathetic Is not
all one OF sorrow for where there once
was darkness, now there is light. nnd
where there once was home under me
shadow of great sadness. now the
1, shadows have passed away and mlrth
! and JOY reign supreme.
Charles Lincoln Smith has BY his skill
/ and by his marvellous knowledge OF the
! m echa nism OF that all important organ,
| the human eye--the window OF the SOUL
| lifted from this Church Hill family. the
/ sha dow, which for days, for years has
!. hung over the home. veil 50 heavy
| that no ray OF light could penetrate It.
J There was no hope In view. Occulists
! had been onsulted-occullsts OF note and
fame~but In Their presumtive wisdom
| they shook their heads and said that
| hope was dead And SO It seemed until
GOOD fortune pointed the way Of Charles
/ Lincoln Smith.
II is a story Of both mother and child
! The mother suffering great eyesight
4 defects. the child all but blind. Books
laid aside school aba ndoned, and
little mind. all unframed. and mis-.
guided. because the windows to that
mind were nearly da OK. The mother,
Mrs. F. w. Palmore. OF 1920 e. Marshall
Street, most popular Richmond ma
! tron. who moves graciously among
large circle OF friends heard from some
lady associate Of the works that were
being wrought by Charles Lincoln Smith,
! and at once the fame OF smoulderins
hope burst afresh. Could It be, was It
possible. that here at last was a ma y
who might bring relief to her unfortu-
E, nate. but precious ch!ld-that could give
nav light to those eyes that were grad
ually growing dark :.
I. Mrs. Palmore herself was alarnaingly
f, In need OF the services OF skilled eX-
/, pert. and before taking any cha noes Win
her child she decided to find u she her
self might not secure relief at the hanos
4 At the man Of whom she had heard SO
much and besides to thereby test the
Il skin OF Charles Lincoln Smith, before
allowing him to try his hand on tbs
child Mrs Palmore says that she hae
suffered intense misery with her eye:
"A neuralgia and hea dac che constantly tol
six years and that + she had spen
4 hundreds OF dolalrs ,sin;. a.. vain ei
+ fort to find relief; that occullst az.
her trouble had only been alleviated for
time. Now. however, she says al Is
cha nged Charles Lincoln Smith mas
Il turned the current OF her whole HE, she
sees with perfect ease and comfort ano
pain Is q thing Of the past.
Small wonder that when Mrs. rai-eo1e
\ found what mighty works Charles Lincoln
Smith was capable Of performing. ina,
she hastened to give to the child tha'
Il con, fort which had come to herself,
y Ailene. the little daughter, Just e'gn'
Il Years old and pretty smart and attractive
4 but with a face full OF sadness recaus
her books were denied her. and her play.
|. mates we're not always kind to one "he
was tenderly carried. with eaplng hops
to the man who had done so much Tor IN
# mother. A serious attack OF measles
had, when A!lene was mere tot, Whlct
caused a muscular deficiency In her eyes
. Ever since she had suffered almost con
/; stan, pain. and then to add to the serious
ness OF her condition. She tev years
later fell victim to typhoid FEVER. toi
lowed BY pneumonia and bronchitis; Al
OF these maladles only complicated thf
trouble with her sight w eli seemed e