The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-02-18

I been supplanted by the great whir-
ring bird, the aeroplane.
Since the fairy prince. Uncle
Sam, has made it possible for many
OF US to visit strange lands and
stranger places, 1, too, decided to
visit Evergreen" near, Baltimore,
where our dear returned blind SOL
diers are, being helped to become the
same normal useful men they were
before the scourge of war and pesti-
lence swept over thes world. To de-
eide is to act, and, shutting off the
motor, my winged servant settled
lightly and easily upon the grounds
of Military Hospital No. Z.
II am at once in the midst of va
rious recreational and reconstruc-
tional work. This is the, hour for
bowling, and amid laughter and
good-natured competition, two, en-
tirely blind, are making 80, "a, lis
and lao points. The man setting up
the pins having two-thirds the sight
Of one eye.
Next are the Braills rooms, where
men read as truly and as quickly
with a series of raised dots as they
formerly did with the eye.
The click of typewriters caused me
to pause, and going inside, find the
boys answering their letters, business
as we'll as social, and without any
mistakes. AS many as 80 words per
minute being written by the more
advanced.
1.-The class in book-binding is an
, advanced one, and many beautifully
bound books are here displayed, the
result of the work of the wholly
: blind.
| There is the piano-tuning room
) with the blind instructor; the man
) ual training room, the most popular
room and the most needed of al
= work. Here are baskets, pink, blue
4 ! green, brown and grey-waste bas
kets, flower baskets, work and scral
l baskets, serving trays, jardinieres
e hammocks, fringed, tassled and beau
: tifully- made. They will last life
q time. Hand woven rugs, hand-cane
t chairs, settees and other furniture
And here our boys, blind, are a
: work upon these various articles
a whistling, singing Joking and max
o ing their way to the various parts o
|, the room, to get their own material
It and selecting the different grade
S and numbers.
l. ''If there is picture in you
s mind of poor blind boys" discor
g tented, weary and tired, get rid c
Y il. Truly, as Sir Arthur Pearso
1t says, eve are not blind, but nofns
n men who see through, the nerves {
r. the fingers instead Of the nerves
e, the eye And so they do and
e they want others to know that the
lie do.
le .sThere is q class in English, wheI
o, q real blackboard is used, and 6
lie the instructor writes, he spells eac
rs letter aloud. AS he reads Know
Ks edege is Power" they see the pictul
ne mentally. The one command
in See. See, See,' (never feed, get
picture. It'may not be an absolute
n accurate one, but it is his picture,
g. it something seen. -
ne "As 1 listen hear, We want mol
r of this sympathy stuff" Tell ever
Id body to cut it out. We are going
1g do things, and be men just as we ev
In were They dance and play al
it work and walk. Overhead is Il
". blue of the sky, and the sun shinin
nix Around are wonderful old trees al
ut formal gardens, and lawns and no.
Is ers. And in the trees are birds 81
ay ON the lake are snow-white swar
as BIue-gowned, white aproned reco
up struction aides, scarlet-caped K
en- Cross nurses and strong, valiant IN
re ara here to teach the boys to fore
NO the hate and horror of war, and
,rs remember the love and goodness
ut Cod. and man, (when guided by Go
q as loving and kind. And as SLOW
as and refectively guide my steps
I'D word my bird of passage. l utter
prayer of gratitude for all the 10
Its and goodness that is yet in the Wol
his and what it is meaning to these m
in who will go out-not the poor bill
to seller of shoe laces, the lineup bt
i've rer-but strong, determined. user
tn shle-bodied men, Who are not oil
on hut who see through nerves of
for ferent medium than the eye,- anc
he realize the truth Of an oft repeal
re, statement, Sight is not OF the e
err but of the mind
zee "a MODERN CINDERELL
not