The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-02-27

to tell him what he had just learned, but was cut short.
 q know" said Pearson, "So-and-so has just phoned me It's fine, isn't it?'
 APPEARS YOUNGER
 He took a small pad from his pocket made a note on it, and laid the memoran- dun beside the stenographer's machine Then he wound his way back to the fire place. and offered me a case of cigarettes. He held them within few inches of my hand. Since I last had seen him he had shaved his moustache and looked 10 years younger, and, as he eercises every morning, very fit. He might have been an officer of the navy out of uniform. I had been in the room five minutes and only once, when he wrote on the pad, and I saw he did not look at the pad, would I have guessed that he was blind.
 What we teach them here" he said, firing the words as though from ma chine gun, "is, that blindness is not an 'affliction.' We won't allow that word. We teach them to be independent. Sis ters and the mothers spoil them! Afraid they'll bump their shins Won't let them move about. Always leading them. That's had, very bad. Makes them think they re helpless, no good, invalids for life. We teach 'em to strike out for themselves. That's the way to put heart into them. Make them understand they're of use, that they can help themselves, help others, learn a trade be self-supporting. We trained them to row. Some of them never'd had oars in their hands except on the pond at Hampstead Heath on hank holiday. We trained 2 crew that swept the river"
 It was fine to see the lighs zl M aca His enthusiasm gave you tnrl s might have been Guy Nichals tslius ha1F the crew he coached won at Maw kC
 "They were the best crews BOO yn versity crews. Of course our e9N Q see, but the crew were hliad e not only taught them to ro taught them to aVna ~ taught them trades who rQ1Nf here have lost thel1 sBot " haAflN in this war, but alrs nave fe some of them a trs a et
 in business. And tte Ne w
 husfness will be goc r
 must be nursed and we have an after Efe
 care, for them aftef n8 To buy raw material, U 49els t3a f1 up to the mark. to dispees Of it WA need money for those men. 9e 2
 who have started life agen for tfea selves. DO you think the M sprF in America who would like 9a men?'
 asked, in case there vsf r pie. to whom should they if
 gro me-" he said, "St sa gents park"
 EASY TO MOVE ABOUT
 I found the IT acres of St. Dunstan's so arranged that no blind man could possibly lose his way. In the house, over the carpets were stretched strips of mating. So long as a man kept his l, 1~w.1 11r trr1- m the right path to the door. Outside the doors hand rails guided him to the workshops. school rooms, exercising grounds and kitchen gardens. Just be- fore he reached any of these places a brass knob on the hand rail warned him to go slow. Were he walking on the great stone terrace, and his foot scraped against a board, he knew he was within yard of a flight of steps. Wherever you went you found men at work, learning a trade, or having learned one, intent in the joy of creat- ing something. To help them, there are nearly 60 ladies who have mastered the Braille system and come daily to teach it. There are many other volunteers who take the men on walks around Regents park and who talk and read to them Everywhere was activity. Ev- anywhere someone was helping some | one, the blind teaching the blind, those | who had been a week at St. Dunstan' s doing the honors to those just ar | rived.
 The place spoke only of hard work mutual help and cheerfulness. When first you arrived you thought you had i over the others certain advantage ] but when you saw the work the bltno 1 men were turning out, which they
 could not see. and which you knew with both your eyes you never coule have turned out. you felt apologetic There were cabinets. for instance measured to the twentieth of an inch
 and men who were studying to be mas l seurs, who, only by touch, could dis | tinguish all the bones in the body There was Miss Woods. a blind sten'
 ographer. I dictated a sentence to her
 and, as fast as I spoke she took 1 | down on a machine in the Braille al
 phabet. It appeared in raised figude' 1 on a strip of paper like those tha
 carry stock quotations. Then, reading the sentence with her fingers. sh'