New-York tribune., 1906-07-30

They cannot read, they cannot write they cannot
use their hands in any way. Their means OF IfVeI-
hood is gone.
Yet it is couparativeIy easy to make them happy,
in spite OF their terrible action and many stories
are told at the associations Office Of the wonderful
change wrought in few weeks by the opportunity
TO work and otherwise employ their faculties Only
a few weeks ago an old German came TO the office
from the island lie could stand the life there.
he said and he asked very humbly Tor an oppor-
shop, where he learned broom making, and now he
is able maintain himself He Is perfectly
happy it is said. and overcome with gratitude
Another protese of the association. although an
expert chair Gamer, was unable to secure work ana
living upon aims. In order to shorten the IN
toerable length of his empty days, he used to stay
than he can do and the days are not long enough
The gratitude Of these poor, people for what is
done done for them and and the small things that make
A blind woman in an Institution visited by a
II there vas apYtbinr that thew could do For her
she said oh. if only could have an orange now
and them The association saw that she got
oranges occasionally. but would have liked 20 send
The tickets for concerts and theatres which are
distributed to proteges of the association are
ures are so few and many touching letters Of
thanks are received from reciPents, s., one man IN
express his thanks personally Knowing that he
paving his carfaTe, but he absolutely refused to
contribution to the association
These concert tickets were the means Of intro
duclng TO the association of its most interesting
proteges-a blind young man who, when he pre-
sented himself at the Office such a spectacle OF
filth and uncouthness that he told tnat he
really could not have tickets unless he could make
himself more presentable. He departed. to reappear
again in few days in state OF wonderful trans
formation He had borrowed collar, he said. and
bouht some soap. and the rest had been the result
OF his own exertons. This man afterward learned
10 cane chairs. and is earning money enough
TO pay for lessons on the mandolin, which has been
recovered from the pawnshop to which his drunken
father had taken il.
The New York Association for the Blind is the
outSroWth of committee formed by the Misses
Edith ana Winffred Holt in 1903 for the distribu-
ton or theatre and concert tickets TO the blind. II
was organized during the last winter, with DR..
Lyman Abbott president, Miss Helen Keller and
Dr. F. Park Lewis as vice presidents. Hiss Wini-
fred Holt. No. 44 East 18th street as secretary,
Herbert s. Barnes Mo- 50 Wall street. treasurer.
ana Miss Edith Holt as recording secretary.
The association is one OF the exhibitors at the
Milan Exposition, its exhibit including lace bor-
Gered Il. handkerchief for The Queen Of Italy This
bllnd teachers. She may be in the
pany1ng picture, where she is teaching another
plind woman to make an apron Her pupil, who
was horribly disfgured by the accident which
blinded her, Is the inventor of broomhoder which
also went to Milan. The holder is a clever and
convenient little device, and inventors husband
makes about 81 a day peddling it.