New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
HOPE FOR THE BLIND.
Carmen SyIUa" Predicts a Great
improvement in Their Lot.
BY the Queen of Rumania.

My conviction has been for many years that II is
a mistake TO make the blind work so much with
their hands, when brain work would be very
much better, and their capacity soc brain work
shows where their real future lies. They ought
to be the greatest students earth, those two
millions OF blind people. They ought to be phllos-
Cphers, theoogians, mathematiclans' nnsu1sls'
teachers OF languages and musicteachers OF every
thing that does not require the telescope or the
microscope and therefore doctors TO certain de-
gree, masseurs with very deep medical knowledge
And toward this grand aim have been moving
for many years with all my heart ana 10 souI' SOU 1 ana
with something that will let Them rise r&ploly 10
what I think they ought TO be. IN my mouse
machine has been invented that enables every blind
person, young or OLD, weak or @ strong. 10 10
acters for the blind without the slightest enor5:
= blind printer Theodoresco had tne IN nrst i loea
q servant, but whom made a kind OF secretary
learned merchant, took the idea in hand worked at
IL day and night for year ano hAIIL and 40"
With this machine Monske the inventor-who. by
the-bye. viii not take penny for himself but o. OF
fers ais invention TO our blind. OF wnom itumanla
has twenty thousand-and have built after long
and careful work our plan for the blind colony or
city that We have begun already. Mos Most OF the the
blind are adults and saw from the HTst me tLter
impossIblty OF doing what the other countries
pu4Id enormous schooIs lnat COST mar +nl4ioA m 40
Tor seventy blind children, etc It would De Ut
the fathers Of families who nave eone bind ana are
reduced TO begging IN the streets ana IN the ceie enc
earn their bread by making chairs and ropes, and
20 over the sea, and nets by hundreds OF thou
sands. We to build them small houses
around big gardens, with church ana scnoql N me
middle. We mean TO let the seeing and the bind
in those families work together, have one large
kitchen IN common and table. which IS already
installed in the garden, and where MOnske and mis-
one kitchen chez AND and one table % ,he Women and chi
dren can work the knitting machines. the ropes,
snail tnd-and then choose the most gifted among
them for higher work. nave one who IS going
machines are ready. The blind Will have as many
books and as large libraries as the seeing, for the
printing Of them creates 10 overwork. but is, on
the contrary. new way for the blind 10 earn their
Hy-Ag. t ! ne dlIlcu!ty mas 1een u4 now that TOO
few books were printed Now every blind man
editions for themselves, and sell them. They can
print as many editions al q time as they choose
few united setting six or seven pages and having
ready orders for thirty-six machines before they
were ready, 50 much the need for them is felt
everywhere The simplicity of it strikes every one.
nave one house and garden now, but hope soon
10 build one little house after the other. with
XeEsnda round IT, as Rumanlan houses mostly
nave I1sa d me school the music hall and the c6urch
country-but We shall have religious instruction
IN every religion, ss the blind are already OF four
acbiYe It was 80 TasT C- M Oe fA UfsSg d on Sn Ils Us
blind master 10 arrange a Rumanian alphabet
Much light snail stream from the blind peoples
as many Libraries as they want private and public,
LtG @ llese BOOKS VIII spread over the world and
@ b pr M f99h a 94A9s att d tdat there viii soon
aany voices We shall lie hear all 4Fa ande S suRs Wls
We 9 shan Be- 5e 6' tn mako %ai them rs bo9f. %Ss.
tba :, nrnTs S,,a as Inc press Is SO powerful
II is not 70 De foreseen what the blind may
grasp by these means of instruction which bring
been expressed IN writing in every Language Of the
world And, as the inventors do not take a pernv
sing at their work already, and when they fret
entered the new home they stood there discon-
SG1aSe 9 ana we're SO AFRAID! But the seeing chill
70 seize their hands and to conduct them toyfully
to their home, with bright welcome, Their wives
,Ate ho more IN Despair, but smile and hope and
know that they educate their children We shall
nave plnd washerWomen among the seeing with
me knltui4S machines we shall not only make the
socks and woollen underclothes for the whole
tebHShment 9 sim b but great deal for selling that
ira Luminoasa- We hope to weave also and TO
sure shall discover many new ways Of helping:
but TO me the principal thing is no more to sep
eTste saeIn; nnt TO Keep them together in happy.
We shall begin newspaper directly, and
have sent for a blind English lady who writes three
languages perfectly 2nd who is going to be
correspondent on the Hammond machine and she
wiz teach English and German and write stories
mates OF the Vatra Luninoasa viii be as happy as
their sad CONDITION VIII allow, and help each other.
and laugh and sing, and live as II they were hap
pier than the seeing that are not SO well taken
square metres Of her country place, so that can
have gardens there taken care Of by the blind
that viii bring forth all our fruit and vegetables
hibitiOn There have even been tenpence and half
iran francs g. fTom o. poor workp@eopls @ Everybody feels
one. and that am going TO give back to the
country ever SC many useful citizens who were beg
The whole world will change for the blind as
soon as they can have as many books the see
bad taste of the charitable souls who copy.-The
Outlook for December,
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