The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27
WIFE MAKES WAY
How Woman Supported Fam
lily: Husband Was Blinded.
Tragedy in Life of Hutchinson
Teacher SsMakeS'' Woman.
SHE PASSES HIS MARI
Shrewdness Enables Her to
Earn Good Living.
Husband Reads, Plays and
Tunes Pianos.

OF course. it is pretty hard lines 10
lose ones eyeSight in q cnehilcal eA-
pIosfon. Perhaps harder for man
who has spent his life in books ana
+e.cti,,e~ mar, for another. Still. if the
man has good, loyal VIE 10 step
right into the harness. that heIps a lot'
And if he finds something he can 90,
too-With prospects OF realiy SSeeiilS
ON his feet again-the lines aren't so
Anvwav. that's the way w c.
Hutchinson loks at it
Mr.. Hutchinson was principal OF the
high school at Hutchinson, Kan, three
Years ago While instructlng a class
in chemistry he suffered the loss OF
both eyes in an explosion cauSsu - q
defective chemical. None OF the Grass
That was terrible crisis in Mr.
Hutchinson's life. He had WlIe anu
a little boy years old then. he hau
spent his active career as an educator;
7aN-ine been a superintendent or
schools in various Ohio clLles LOT -
years before he went to Hutchinson.
There seemed to be n SI;la go 1Ui nm
How Woman Succeeded
Rtit as Mr.. Hutchinson stepped INTO
the background, Mrs. Hutchinson step
ped into the foreground, allI s-re ~ = :
the crisis She had been a woman VI
domestic tastes, and had never uoile
anything outside of her own nome s Stle
had never canvassed in her me SiS
baDpened that a Hutchinson nusicai
concern was conducting contest az
the time. and Mrs. Hutchinson went
out and sold $500 worth of sheet nu-
So in six weeks. She started out TO
sell the music among the women OF
Hutchinson, but here she met sltua-
ton that puzzled her me women
vould not buy the music, but She Soiu
the s5O0 worth in the business district
of Hutchinson. In canVaSSlng LOT
sheet music she found that some
homes she visited did not contain
niauos This gave her an idea ana she
14-rota IN Chicaco piano house and
ASKED FIR the amOUat q &c mlnlssiolt
allowed on p:,nC stl+1' Sne hhs
where she could sell one, she thought,
She sold that piano. Snsl Slrl neI, anu
ono+her an5 soon S.se was H-ade coun-
~ agent aud that vas three years
ago and she now sells several pianos
each month. In her home she Keeps
several pianos, she has turned her ut
tie cottage into piano store she IS
making more money than her husband
made before he lost his sight
All of this was little more than
two years ago Now Mr. Hutchinson
is at the school for the blind in KAN
sas city, Kan. He has learned to
read lin point''=the system of print
ing for the blind He can read tnree
pages or three and a half pages an
hour. He is studying other things that
the blind learn. And he is taking
special course in piano tuning
He Learns to Play Piano.
Mr.. Hutchinson laughed little.
We'll, he said, you know that will
put me somewhat in line with the
work my brave little wife is doing.
For Mrs. Hutchinson is keeping right
after the piano selling, in and around
..This course here is helping me
vonderfullv.' Mr.. Hutchinson said Il
got to where 1 felt I must be doing
mething-anything to put me on my
feet. felt that I must make the
most of the faculties left me. And
you might be surprised to know how
easy it is to be philosophical when one
has something to do all the time
Mr. Hutchinson is a graduate of the
National Normal university of Ohio
and took a post graduate course at
the Ohio State university His mis-
fortune came the first year he was in
Hutchinson.
And Mr.. Hutchinson had a pretty