The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-08
A WORD FROM THE DEAF TO THE DEAF.

cent and we can comfort the sorrowing and help the needy and make com 1ort bags for the soldiers.
 Some of the unfortunate deaf ones may not count as many blessings as l can, but we can all count what God has done for each one of us. Keep busy and don't fret! Fretting killed cat or was 1t worry?
 Just now I was called into the kitch- en to roll pie crust thin because my arm is stronger than my daughters. There is something l can do in spite of deaf ness! I go to town alone and if the crossing is crowded I ask some nice looking person to allow me to cross with her. You don't know what sweet answers I get and how my arm is taken and am led across. One woman with a young baby pulled me back from dan- ger one day. I looked for her in the crowd, but before could thank her she was gone. Yes. the deaf are objects of pity and kindness.
 "I have found one appliance that helps my hearing: it is ugly and looks like a dust pan. but all helps are cum brous, and this one cannot be hung around the neck. I inclose the adver- tisement of the article to which I refer. hope may have given some cheer to some one and I will sign myself.
 ONE OF THEM"
 If cheer has not been conveyed to the readers of this it must be because they are deaf of spirit as well as of bodily hearing. Both this writer and the other correspondent are evidently determined to turn their clouds inside out and see the silver lining. The advice not to fret is admirable. I believe the correct form of the old proverb is that care killed cat but what is care but another form of worry and fretting?
 One of the details which impresses me much about the first letter is that the writer was evidently not in good health. Discomfort of any sort almost always shows itself in the spirits and one hardly expects as bright an outlook from deaf invalid as from one who is in good physi- cal condition except for deafness. If Millie '' can view the world and circurn- stances with courage, those who are no worse off than she in>bodily plight should surely show equal force and pluck. And it ia great thing to be able to pick out the advantages of the situation and to be thankful, that one has strength enough to roll out the pie crust even if the hearing is defective.
 A third letter differs little from the others, but sounds the same note of optim- ism:
 am sorry for all the deaf people who. , like myself, cannot hear the voices of those they love, the songs of the birds, the notes of music. and all the beautiful varieties of heavenly sounds that are given to those whose ears are good. But we whc have been called the barred out have one great advantage over those with perfect hearing We lose lot of ugly noises.
 When I read in the papers of the per- sons who complain of the racket made by the early milk carts and trucks, of the banging of garbage cans on the pavefflents by the scavengers. of the yelling of the fruit hucksters and scissors grinders, and old clothes men, of the footing of the auto mobile horns, of the discords of the phono- graphs, and pianolas in the adjoining houses, of the dreadful notes emitted by the man on the next block who is learning to play thecornet, and the child across the street taking music lessons, of the yells of the boys playing in the vacant lot. I