Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-04

tation DR., Campbell would have returns
ed To America
He went to the tea party. 1t was one
of those stereotyped, charitable affairs
| where the afflicted, i'm return for tea
and cakes, express with unctious piety
| their gratitude to the donors. But IN
| talking to Dr.. Campbell, fellow suf-
| ferer, they threw aside the mask and
| spoke freely of the depressing and
| hopeless inonotony of their lot. DR..
Campbell learned that of $3.50 sightless
persons then in London 200 were de-
pendent on charitable relief. Before I
left the meeting" said DIR. Campbell,
the burden OF the blind poor in the
great metropolis rested heavily upon
me"
MEETING NEXT DAY.
The party led to a meeting next day
with Or. Armitage, the founder of the
British aud Foreign Blind association,
and the mainstay of the INDECENT Blind
their heads together and discovered
that they had the same notions about
the best way to deal with the problem
of the blind. The idea of starting an
institution which should embody these
ideas was discussed between them
And the ship sailed from Liverpool
without DR.. Campbell. The man and
his work had met.
There Is no space to tell the story of
the seeming prOvidential interventions
by which the money necessary to make
start was obtained. The present
magnificent college at Norwood. near
the Crystal Palace, standing In IS
acres of beautiful grounds, was begun
with three small houses one of the
pleasantest experiences of my life wa
the visit which | paid to 1t not long
ago But of such absorbing interest
is the life story of the man to whom IL
is more splendid monument than
Westminster Abbey could afford that
| have little space in which to describe
IT,
\ PEN PICTuE.
First, however must record my i'm,
pressions OF DR.. Campbell himself, who
showed me around. He is little
man, now "A years old, gray and grz-
zled, but brimful OF energy and vital
~ In his conversation there rover was
n note of Iepining over the afflctiOn
which had made his life one long night.
He had found abundant happiness In
his work. II would have been pardon
able If he had shown some vanity in
speaking OF It, but there was not
trace of II. There was only great JOY
that Inc had been able TO do IL. with
such case and CELEBRITY did he move
about from place 10 place that IL was
difficult TO believe the dark colored
spoctacles which he wore screened
sightless eyes,
THE Sixth SENSE.
one visits an institution for the blind
with the expectation or having feelings
of pity aroused FOR the inmates who arc
labormg under such terrible aflctiou,
But Il was impossible 90 feel that way
at Norwood, The master had impart
cd his optimistic spirit 70 his pupils.
They were the embodiment Of health
and happiness. "a healthy mind I'm a
healthy body Is nur MOTTO said the
doctor. "The blind have greater need
Of physical vigor ana vitality than
those who enjoy the blessings of sight,
Because their nfnlctlon makes the
struggle for existence and a living 10
much harder for them than for nor
NAL persons" As one watched the pu-
pils playing nincpins Ia tho bowling al
ley performing daring acrobatio feats
IN The gymnasium. dashlng around the
rink ON roller skates az strollng about
the grounds, the difficulty was TO be-
lcYc that they were really befett OF
sight by some miracle they seemed