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MS OF THE BLIND
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steal instruments and other sound making
Ibaratus. and amused herself much with this
stime of painting, as she called it. / never
bid understand her pictures. and people
th ewes have told me that she herself had
+ idea of color And the same is true of
,se born deaf as regard sounds. There have
Fn many attempts to convey ideas OF music
certain odors or colors. My knowledge OF
sic is not very great but have never been
ravens note from a Whit of hydrogen
|phid.
Lieut.. Gov. Jones's Experience
HE dream experiences of those persons
who have become blind after having fully
Ieloped the sense and memory sights are
ly to be very different from mine Take
han like former Lieutenant Governor Ed
I'd F. ZONES, who is we'll past middle life,
who did not become blind till about six
rs ago All his normal dream images are
IIal One would scarcely be able to infer
n most of his dreams that he is blind at
On the other hand, Professor Stephen
bcock of Yonkers, who is now sixty-four.
b could see we'll till he was sixteen, but lost
sight so absolutely at twenty that he was
sensible to the brightest flash of lightning
kkture of visual and other images Unlike
self. Professor Babcock does not dream
idly He had eyes so long in the early
of his life that other senses were not
hlv developed, and since the coming of his
kdness these senses have not been able to
lime the great burden laid down by the
Professor Babcock in writing about his
hms says
After waking seldom recall my dreams
hetimes in them l am troubled for the want
sight at other times l appear to have as
ID sight as ever Awhile ago had dream
b perfect sight l seemed to be at the home
INV grandparents, where in childhood | had
tied hundreds of times mile distant was
tgh hill sloping toward me. The scene was
hay harvest The farmers had cut ana !lS
kked their hay on that sloping side hill
! hay stacks were tall, symmetrical, and
utiful. the fields and trees were green, and
whole view was natural and charming.
seldom have such a pleasant dream. In
1t of nv dreams am blind, and am asking
lie ore to help me do what | am trying to
This feeling is not reflection OF my
ting moments; for then l never allow my
to feel discouraged. But in sleep this
htal and moral brace gives way, and most
ret, dependent blindness overwhelms me
a dream of unutterable darkness and help
ness which is sometimes unrel1eved by
ges of the other senses
If Professor Babcock had become Dino at
wears of age, the images of the sense of
1t would not have appeared in his dreams
II Miss Nina Rhoades, Who lost her sight
tour. has no recollection of form and color,
her dreams are all imaged in the senses of
ing and touch On the other hand. in a
Of four young deaf and blind nutes at
New York Institution for the Deaf and
i'd, each girl affirmed that she had never
amed of the sense of touch and very sell
of the sense of hearing. These girls now
rage about fifteen years of age. Till they
about eight, they all could see and hear.
Remembered When She Could See
Ne of the most thoroughly trained and
intelligent of these girls is Katie Agnes
iirr. student almost as apt at learning as
en- Keller BY the Braille system of raised
ers Miss McGirr has read most of the books
literature history, and science printed in
alphabet Evidently this girl had de-
ped vivid visual, pictorial imagination
bre her double affection Of blindness and
mess overlook her: for though for seven
rs she has not seen the light of day, she
listed in using the word see to describe
lily all her memory images of what had