The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-02-27
WILL SEE WORLD
WITH BABY'S EYES
CBy United Press


COLORADO SPRINGS, Feb. gin
a little home at Lake George, % miles
from here. there is a baby boy who,
when he grows up, will be able to tell
his father, his mother and a brother
and sister, of the beauties OF the
mountain region in which they live,
but which have been hut out to them
throughout their lives.
This baby, the pride and wonder of
the entire district, possesses the bless
ing of sight, denied all other members
of the family. The baby's father is
BENJAMIN Richadrs. Tie is blind. the
little mother, now the happiest woman
i'm all Colorado, was Miss Myrtle Hig-
by. She was born blind. She was a
student in the state school for the
blind and while there met Richards.
His sight had been destroyed in an
accident.
Drawn together by their affliction
which sent them through the world in
darkness, Richards and the little blind
girl were married. Five years ago a
baby girl was born. Anxiously they
waited for the wor1 that would tell
them whether the innocent little new
conner had also entered the world IN
darkness. Their hearts were torn when
they were told the baby girl would
never see. Three years later a baby
boy arrived and he, too, had been de-
MED the gift of sight.
Two years passed. A little girl, now
five years old, playcl in a world of
darkness about her mother who had
also never seen the light of day. A
little boy CROPPED about the floor, his
sightless eyes toward the mother he
knew only by the sound of her voice
or the touch of love from her hand. II
was a home of darkness. Father and
mother unable to look upon their chill.
dren and the little ones growing and
b~lossoming despite the blight east up
on them at birth. Bnt the neighbors
told Mother Richards hat her little
ones were pretty children and she
smiled and coddled the little hands
and faces she could not see.
Time went on. As Mother Richards
heard the voices Of her two little
ones as they played in the darkness
of their baby lives, she knew that the
great, 2oOu bifu- fHt oloIhs NVhAd HvoA
hover over her hcme again. She
knew that he was about to bring an
other baby soul into the world, and
Mother Richards prayed that this in.
nocent might be spared the blight OF
eternal darkness. Mother Richards
was cheerful and hopeful, but when
the time came for Father Richards to
summon the village doctor, his heart
fairly stood still.
Some friends accompanied the man
of medicine to the Richards home
They knew of the prayers of the mo
Their and father and of their hope
The doctor could only tell them that
he hoped, but there was prenatal in
fuence to be overcome.
Before him was the sightless mo
Their. Waiting with the mountain
friends was the sightless father ant
the children of night. The doctor
came from the room. His face wai
wreathed in smiles. He grasped IA
Their Richards by the hand.
GA boy-seven aud one-half pounds
and perfect eyes; he seesl'' the big
man told the father, even as he him
self was almost overcome with emo
ton.
There were tears OF JOY in thu
Richards home that day. Though the,
did not know just why, the childish
laughs of the little ones of darkness
carried a new note of cheer and hope