Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1915-04-01
SIGHT SUDDENLY
COMES TO Girl.
Blind For Tventy-one Years.
She Nov Sees Clearly.
PHENOMENON UNEXPLAINED.


While Miss Maude Lincoln Was At
tending to Household Duties Some
thing Snapped In Right Eye and She
Saw-Two Days Later Vision Came
to Other Eye In Similar Manner.
Marblehead, Mass.-slowly recover
ing from the nervous shock Of sight
after twenty-one years Of blindness.
Maude Emerson Lincoln, daughter of
William f. Lincoln of this city, is get
color and motion.
Recently the darkness suddenly lift
ed from her right eye, and then the
left eye cleared also, both unexpected
~ and without rational explanation.
according to specialists who have been
questioned on the case. From condi-
ton in which only night and day could
be differentiated she suddenly awoke
In the sunlit world Of which she had
heard 50 much.
In an instant one afternoon as she
was about household duties this seem
ing miracle came. With snap the
covering was rent from the right eye
a. she was putting dishes in the china
closet.
Two days later, in the evening, as
she sat with her parents the other eye
was uncovered, and sight was given
to 1t.
II went to the closet to put up some
Dishes" she said. "Of course, there
was no light in the closet and it all
looked dark to me. The top Of my
head did not feel good. 1t hurt 1t
was as heavy as-as load of bricks
That's just the way it felt reached
up with the dishes. Then suddenly
something snapped in my right eye.
it-like that"
And she snapped her fingers.
'Then," she said, everything seem
ed all light to me and brightness.
did not know what to make fit.
could not realize what had happened.
l looked around the room. ran and
looked out the window. And could
see."
"She went out with me the other
evening, heavily yelled" said Mrs. Lin
coin. 1--WE passed boy leading man.
said nothing, thinking l would not
call her attention to it.
Mother she said. was that boy
leading the man?'
eyes, replied.
ooh, the man is blind?' she asked
again. And / told her he was. She
paused moment, then said. What a
pity"
Miss Lincoln is tall, slender and fair
haired. Her eyes are blue, like those
of her parents. She had on gown of
deep red, with little black bows on it,
and she talked entertainingly and al
ways she laughs with joy at her mir
acle."
"Maude was born on April %. 1884,
said Mrs. Lincoln.
"She was born blind. We did not
realize at once that she could not and
might never see. Her eyes had the ap-
pearance Of eyes which have cataract
There seemed to be a thin, white,
Opaque substance over the pupils.
mo one seemed to know what the
matter was But she grew up blind
When she was nine years old we sent
her to the Perkins Institute For the
Blind, and she was there nine years
and received an education. Then we
took her home, and she has lived here
since. helping me as she could. When
: she was examined by DR.. F. l. Perkine
o at the Perkins institute six years age
II he told her never to have anything
done to her eyes, never to put anything
o In them. that some day she would see
z and he was right"
# Then Mrs. Lincoln told how sight
y came to the girl as she went to the
J. closet to put up the dishes.
e II actually heard something snap
p said Mrs. Lincoln. "She sort o.
screamed and trembled all over.
Il "She cried, 4 don't know what all,
It me, but isn't everything lightY
o called the family physician at once
and we have kept her in darkness al
.e we could so as to be sure and not hav,
$, the eyes injured.
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