The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-16

was in a hospital with his sight forever gone
"You have opened for me a new light on The
world" answered the man.
Then she did her duty to France
The picture is typical 1t illustrates a chapter
in grim-vsaged war as no other event might. 1t
brings to the fore the kind Of people that Amer
ican women, Miss Esther Cleveland, Miss Winifred
Holt and score Of others are serving in an effort
to supply the light of training TO; the future path
way Of those who cannot They are substf
tuting the sense Of touch for the sense of sight
and doing it with a lnack that promises well.
How great this field for work is cannot be ap
preciated without study Of the record. And how
fine a field the blind god Of love picks for his
wanderings afed can only be realized when one
knows that among the 5000 blind Of France alone
are the picked men Of the land selected for the
most daring assaults and the most critical mo-
ments of great fights.
II can say with truth that no engagement that
existed before the war has been broken because the
man lost his sight" said Eugene BreuX, the ia
nous academician How we'll these psychological
matches will result time must tell, but they were
founded on the highest sentiment and the noblest
sacrifice
As all the world loves lover, there attaches
particular interest to Miss Esther Cleveland as an
American worker among the blind. She is engaged
TO wed Capt Alfred Basaquet, d. S. o., of the Cold
stream Guards-that crack command that has
made its place in war and in peace, and is known
wherever men know soldiers. Report had 1t that
he too had lost his sight in battle, but Mrs
Thomas j. Preston, mother to Miss Cleveland, set
tbat reDort at rest with statement that the cap
tain has his eyes.
Miss Cleveland, daughter of the late Grover
Cleveland, was White House baby From her
birth the American people have had more than
N13, hon tIa "
came on she went out to do her part, and she hit
upon the service Of the blind as one OF the most
needed things before the world
After month at 81. Dunstans, in London she
went over to Paris, where she is now with Miss
I1o,t's Paris Lighthouse aiding in the reconstruc
tion of blind pous. To facilitate her work she
learned the Braille system Of stenography, and
she is teaching disabled. sightess men, how to
use the system and to make for themselves place
in the business world, in spite Of fate.
And there is Mrs Lewis B. Woodruff, called by
Penryn Stansaws the most beautiful of authors
"The Dresden China Author"-who is keeping her
interest in the great work undiminished This
pretty woman has much more personal reason
for her devotion to the cause than any Of her Sis
ters because for two years, following an attack
Of illness, she, too, lived in a world without
light The gifted woman did not know that she
would see again and when the light did come, it
brought with it "a valued worker for all Of those
who suffer in the shadow.
Those who had read her Lady of the Light.
house" in which is told the methods by which the
New York Lighthouse for the Blind leads its
charges to mental view of world they cannot see,
can appreciate the deep feeling that she has
brought to the task Probably no writer of the
period has so thorough an appreciation of the sub.
ject and can almost feel his way through her
book as it portrays the dificuties-and the hopes
of the blind.
And their charges from the field of battle?
Take peep behind the scenes IN the great war
and watch them
Here is Joseph Amar who came from Wash
ington. He was In Lyons at the exposition when