San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-23
By GRAHAM STEPHENS.


Los Angeles, Cal, March "a
Sightless love-love that preys In the
dark with whatever visions come TO
those who have been blind from Dlrth
and the heart aches embroidered IN
pain upon that eternal field of black
twists its uncertain way, too, into
triangles whose corners mark the
turns to ruin, to disgrace and to the
divorce courts. =,
Alexander Cameron, now OF mid
die age, blind from birth, but through
that undespairing energy and compen,,
sating gift of application, able to hold
his own among men in the affairs OF
the world. told this week the first
story ever heard in the divorce courts
here of the ways of love in the dark
where two blind men engage in the
fight for the love of one woman-one
of the men with legal claim of home
and children, but the other with the
stronger appeal of romance and pas
sion.
Tells His Story.
Cameron came into court with a
plea to be granted a divorce from
Elizabeth NJ. Cameron and he stood
straight and stiff before the judge,
q pitifully commanding figure with
his chin up, when he was called to
tell his story. Judge Summerfield,
made aware of his affliction, had him
take a chair, and as he launched into
his story, first bravely and then with
hesitation and the plucking at his
clothes that bespeaks emotion in the
blind, he half sobbed out from his
dark world the tensest drama heard
in that room of many sorrows.
Cameron went back to his birth
blind and knowing no other world
than that of darkness He was
taught as are the blind and went to
school where his quickened intelli-
gence was fed from books through his
finger tips. At the next desk to him
was a girl, almost his same age and
also blind from birth and they spoke
to each other, through their finger
aisle. And when she spoke to him
her voice was low and tender and he
loved her--the great JOY of his life.
They went through school together,
grew up together. and their sensitive
fingers loved to caress the features OF
one another. And his to linger In
her hair, whose beauty he could sense
and feel. And when the time came
they were married and went to live
: together and Cameron, blind, but tai
ented, went out in the world to make
his way, while she remained to make
their home.
No Longer Loved Him.
Children came and Cameron, busy
as are other men engaged in the strug-
gle Of the world, fancied his wife to
be happy in her own little nest, but
soon found that dream shattered. She
had grown cold. had become discon-
tented and told him that she no long
er loved him. There was nobody else
in her life, but she had tired of the
darkness and routine that had grip
ped her. She wanted life--life of the
kind of which romance is made.
Cameron pleaded with her, as has
many another man, to remain with
him for the sake of the children. His
hope was that her love would return.
She listened to his plea and for twen-
" years they lived together, but
never did Cameron feel that he had
won back her love.
Befriended Blind Musician. -
Then came Tom Carruthers, a
blind musician and a vagabond:
Cameron, with a sympathy for all
blind men. found a place in his heart
for this Tom Carruthers SO gay and
care-free in their dark world and who
could tell more to the blind than
those who could see, the stories OF
his hopes and fancies, in the music
that he made.
Carruthers visited the Cameron
home, but he was wanderer and
wanted to go out on the streets to
play his violin in the evenings, some