The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02
BLIND, BUT A HOUSEKEEl 2R
THREE no iRDERS CiRED IUR
n rms SIG HTLESS UOHIN.
she Cooks, WASHES. irons ami WATTS
baskets between Times Bough' rl.r
Furniture on InsiAlmrntS. hut SOW
She Pays cash Fourteen Year, e. o..

| -aAf NA9N v e-aA ~ ANs
A blind woman in this city is a... g..
do the sntir, hoiiSawork for hers .rE
| three boarders. This she has don.
/ fourteen years.
! Yes. l do everything for tho f0r- ?
us, che said 10 a visitor; cooking a ...
/ ing and ironing aud all the Cl',.. .,
Then between times make basket ..s.l
read.
] 1T was a lucky thing for me that
knew all about hou-ework befurv vls
actually blind. lost my sight grain
ally, which think made IL easier. "a
soon AZ the doctors said therr wa -
| help for me began teaching nfyr.f
how to do things without looking q
! them BY feeling. tasting and sfn"lI0g
I gradually got - | was able 10 sv- ne
7 daily Improvement IN my work.
sThe DAYS when | could see pretty
well would shut my eyes while "a
things and then open them just long
enough to -ee how Id succeested, |
found this a great help; eSPeeally no
| | live now shows how well ! sucosei"i
/ in teaching myself how TO he blind. I
can cook anything We need In family
! like ours and can iron nice shirtwals
J "a well as anybody. ~
easy To me Use gas stove and who
| people ask IL | don't burn myself fe"l
| like laughing at them. Why should |
| burn myself I'd like To know? | think
some Of the simple things, like eggs. fo-
| instance. are the hardest for me To COOS.
| I find that an omelet nr a poached egg :
harder to cook to my liking than roast
oI beef on AN apple pie.
This sightless housekeeper then show
the materials for the dinner she VS.
about preparing Her boand9rs cave
home from business about . Is and dinner
! was al $50 There were a roast of be- z
not atoes Of uniform size 90 he roastei
around the beef. lima beans. all shell
and now immersed in cold water before
boiling and a big bowl of the best LOOKING
aud most fra grant apple saucA that anv
cook could make. no matter how well she
could see
blind housek eeper said. FOR II ssers
foolish to take lime with things Won ran
buv easily could do - lot on my hashe'
in the time IL would take me to MAKE
bread We have hot bread sometinn"'
for a change
mo as much IVA cooking as II does mo-
blind housek e-pars ! can't explain how
il IL that know when a thing Is done. bur
| seldom make n mistake. IN roastins
meat go by the time and the sire OF H."
roast / have a notched clock. so that
can tell the time 10y feeling the face.
know about how long y roast of a certain
size takes 10 cook. and by hasting IL can
tell hdNN its getting along
The "a " smell and the done smell thev
talk about don't mean N much tn rue In
cooking as to other blind women, hut I'll"
smell IN ironing = a great help, and Of
cp.irs" al my senses a 70 much keener nov
than thav were whom I was first blind
i don't like ga do nv own InarkeunE.
Il takes time in tn" morning which nt-ni
for NV houSawork and tia hard to get
child - act a. - guide, for they ~ al In
school about tho time ! want them. Iv"
found II WIS best 20 make list OF what
/ want and give Il to the butcher or tn
grocer I'm good pay and they know this.
and thny treat me ~ well a. " ! went ami
picked ont the things myself with par
81 good ewes ,
things 10 do over again Id Just hAv-
roomars and not boaTdors There's more
money in renting the rooms now thai
meat. eggs and butter are 90 high.
I begin nv little boarding house Wi.
lets than 500 ia the hank aud With ~
enough sight to Distinguish light trrfn
lark Now ! can see even That mug
I didn't Srend hall my savings ~ de
cided To- sta,t getting furniture ON tho ~
s'alment plan rather fhan spend ~"
ready cash .rl-rIel 'h1t even VI 7
didn't succeed Ia h4v" tho ESQ - tho
furniture - lone - p1Ii Tor y md '"r
II had - Civ" - up - wa ~" Tr"rH than
having r"tt f"r ~" Use ~ N" things "hI'
| had then,
I've mover regretted starting IN ~
small wRv and there was never q we"s
whom I iiir' has" IA" money for ~
collector Whom he ,'rn" for ~ Most -
me furniture vas Iiatd for long ago IN ~
wav. and wh"- ' r"f rrvthing nov l'-.
able to paw FOR Il m cash
i prefer T." ai ~" when I'm dnI.
INV h,uSsvork Tor I ,rrf - 10 w,l
when I Fo"' - batuG watched Lots {
sighted r,.,rrl" i.-.l no" same way. Co.
-" ms nothing unusual when IT c''I.
ing ur .r.r|.. J.. u trz me la-S SlrA -
mv~alf o. have anv IN" around. hat whap
I'm making b. -su.- M glad - company,
Tor 7 can talk without losing track
when I Use two colors oT rairia in tho
same basket keep them Iu iiTerent h1C-
\ good way b. - nm paper q un me hag
with th. groom rafia and = paper II go
the one holding IN" rcd. and So on Tho
minute Won teal 'hI- % upr letter Won know
what color rama ~ IN that particular b1r
OF cour-" | got ON" ~ the girls who boa
here ~ sort the Cplor- out A. tho star,
and after TINT ! don't have any trouble
When ! begin strip" Of a new cdr
| Uut pin in the first row - that color
Then when | get several rows aud hav"
made the stripe a. wide as J want u :
put IN another pln, which shows tha,
I've begun another NV II - easv 90
k""p track ~ IA" " 'i'h Ut IA" d'ncreUr
stripes M this Wav
i read q good i"aI hut as I've nevc-
learned Bralle Or New Work point thero
are lots - nice. cheerful books that nrr
no u~.' e. me IRE TYNE | real has tho
greatest lot ~ religious and ~ad hooks
! ever know and when want 4 real funny.
lolly book hly" - ask one ~ the Rl'rl
Associations readers - got 4 for me
Nv girls VIII live with me are good -
me They We All been with me over fya
YEAR. - that they are Just like my ovu
family They tell mo an The news amt
whats been talked about every dav,
- that keep mp with the times a. vol
~ anybody
4 remember once heard that Mi.
Helen Keller said that the burden ~ NJ
blind WASH their blindness but their idle
ness She was right can stand bsinr
blind hut II had ~ b" idle u would XII
moro can ask