The Detroit times., 1912-03-09
BEING GtRRtI , HELPLESS
AND DYING, BATTLES IN .
DAZZLING LIGHT, THEN SIZES
Dances, Laughing, Amid Sob
bing Relatives Who Had
Scattered at Her Bedside Y
ENGLAND is BEWILDERED
4 An Angel From Heaven Net Me
at the Gate" Says Girl, and
People Believe 1t
ENGLAND is BEWILDERED

LONDON, March s.--on the morn
ing OF Feb. Is, Dorothy KERN lay
dying at No. 2O4 Milkwood-rd., this
city.
In the evening she was we'll!
When the sun rose that Sunday she
was blind.
Three hours after it set she could
see as well as anybody.
At breakfast time she lay smitten
with pain, unable TO walk.
She ate supper at the table sur
rounded by joyful father and moth
er and friends.
An angel from heaven met me at
the gate and brought me back"
That is how Miss KERN explains
her remarkable recovery. And nearly
ali England believes it.
Miss Dorothy is a beautiful glrl,
with dark flowing hair and large, lus-
trous eyes She Is %. During moA
OF her life she has been helpless III.
valid. For five years she never stood
upright. For fortnight she was I'M
conscious and delirious. That Sunday
she seemed TO be dying. The last OF
81 physicians had made his last vain
effort to prolong her life.
I'VE did not think she would live
until sunset" her mother said. las
the shades of evening were falling we
gathered about our loved daughters
bed expecting that she would leave us
||any minute. She suddenly gave a
great sigh, and We thought she was
gone. But with a wonderful smile,
which none Of us can forget, she
stretched out her arms and held them
up for a few moments.
Then she lay still. Presently her
hips moved. She stretched out her
arms again, then drew her hands over
her eyes. always smiling in that won
sderful way. For weeks she had been
blind and deaf. Her terrible weak
ness, due TO tuberculosis and dia.
betes, had made her helpless.
And then we saw a miracle per-
Horned before our eyes. She looked
at us, her eyes at first squirting and
then becoming quite natural in ex-
preston. | asked her: Dolly, 10
you know me?' and she replied: or
course, do, mummy
up! She seemed under some mysteri-
Gus influence. You can't get up, my
.darllngi' answered. But she did
get up! The angel told me to, she
said. She was the calmest person in
the room.
"One man present was professed
atheist He fell on his knees, sob
bling and praying aloud.
Next day Dolly laughingly ran up
and down stairs. She was in the high
est spirits when newspaper man
called 10 see her.
Yesterday Sunday | was lying
there, conscious for the first time for
several days. seemed TO feel slip
ping from life. heard whispers and
sobs aud prayers OF those who loved
me best. Things grew B1acker than
even my blind eyes had made them
before. | didn't fear. / didn't even
think. / just drifted, without an eff
fort. without thought, into black
ness.
Suddenly l saw a dazzling light
brighter than any fire / had ever
seen. From out the great, golden
fame | saw two hands, while a voice,
clearer than any. / had ever heard,
said: Dorothy, your sufferings are
over. Get up, You can walk!
Then / heard mother asking me IL
! knew her.
DIR. Norman, an eminent London
who had given her but
few brief hours of life that Sunday
morning, was nonplussed when he
saw his patient Monday. Hers is
the most unusual case have known"
he said. Il should have said Satur-
day evening that it was quite impos-
sible for her to have ever stood for
one moment again upon her feet and
now l just saw her running down
stairs. / don't know what TO say
about it,
Meanwhile Dorothy rs wearing her
sisters clothes. for she herself has
been an invalid SO many years that
her wardrobe IS extremely limited