The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-07-20

| cracked in laugh. THAT kid has stood
on that corner and begged every man
| to be his father that passed all after.
noon, but guess he's earned these
He handed over pair of gorgeously
green spectacles and filed Mortimer's
empty hand with an immense amount
of literature on some new cure for
eyes," Mortimer walked to the side
walk and put the child down. He look
ed at him thoughtfully.
Now I've told a lie for you, are
you happy?"
The child's eyes glowed. He took
out his handkerchief, red and dirty,
and drapped 1t around and around the
glasses.
But why don't you wear them?"
"Oh, moi" The child held them as
something sacred with both his hands.
But you must that's the fun of it.
All the boys do. I'll put them on
you. Things will Hook green then. 1t
will be like new world"
The child shook his head and shrank
back. Mortimer insisted "Of course
you must. That's what l got them
for, to see you wear them. Give them
to me. I'll put them on you" He
reached for the glasses.
mo, you mustn't, They're not
mine. They're for sister. She's blind
and has never seen thing. She doesn't
know how the trees and the grass
look when they begin to get green
and she can only tell the flowers apart
by the smell and the feeling of them.
That Is the way she finds out how
people look, too, by putting her hands
on their faces and hair, but she knows
everyone by their voice. She couldn't
see any of the parade today, so she
just staid home and is waiting for me
to come and tell her all about 1t.
have to be eyes for she, she
says, and | lead her all around.
"She used to just sit quiet and walt
for me to come home from school to
take her out, but nice lady sent her
to a school where she learned whole
lot OF things, and now she isn't lonely
any more. She can knit and crochet,
and she has some big books with
funny print, all raised up, that she can
read with her fingers. She learned
how to do sums the same way, too,
and has some books with all the num-
bers in it and she can add and SUBJ
tract and do everything with them.
She does it so fast sometimes that 1t
seems almost as if she had eyes in her
fingers She can read the stories in
her book lots faster than | can read
any of mine, but maybe it's cause she
has read them so many times she
knows what they are all about.
have been trying to make some money
so l could buy her some new ones,
and some picture-books, too, that have
raised pictures in them, but now she
won't need any after she gets these
glasses, for these will cure her. The
man said so. He said sure they would.
He's said so all afternoon. They will
cure anything that's the matter with
eyes, and she is only blind, so all she
needs is those glasses and then she
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body.
"She will be waiting for me on the
steps, and will creep up so quiet, and
put them on her before she knows 1t,
and then"
His voice broke with joy, his eyes
lit, his shoulders Strengthened
"GCed-bye."
He darted down tihe street, as JOY
GUS and happy as the others-a
changed boy.
Mortimer stood on the corner. The
street was almost deserted. He pulled
out his watch. There was yet an hour
before his train, yet he turned toward
the station.-Pictoria Review.