Show Blind Young Woman Gives Instructions to Sightless s i MISS MARIE HANSON UNFORTUNATES LEARNING MUCH Miss Marie Hanson and Oth Others Others ers Are Doing Excellent Work Let them alone al e for they are r blind guides a and NI lf if the blind Mind shall hall 11 Stride guide the blind shall shan fall into the pit When the gentle Nazarene spoke this parable It ft was particularly apt for the Palestine blind were the Wind beggars of the street incapable of doing anything a to aid themselves lve until their vision was restored by bv the miracles of the Savior But Bitt today the blind bUnd are guiding the I blind safely fely around the dark dack pits and the miracles of healing the blind are rivaled I Ly ty the blind teaching the blind wind to see without restoring the vision on In Utah there ate ale 36 lie people peo le who sit it in darkness 20 of sight ight bas has been taken away from them In Utah there are a aI dozen blind guides who are teaching these the to see Deft fingers are taking the place of sightless e ef eyes Handicraft that is I the envy el of their seeing brethren Is being done by th blind Talented musicians accomplished thinkers and writers skilled killed workmen are art in the Ute place of the help helpless helpless less blind beggars bears of Palestine In the delicate touch of the fingers of the blind is a II keen discerning eye placed there ther thereby by the remarkable instruction of the blind guides guld s Each Saturday forenoon from three to toa toa toa a dosen adult blind tenons meet in the little reading room for the blind at the Salt Lake public library and there they i iare are instructed how to see by b Miss Marie I Hanson a charming blind girl girt who is de devoting devoting devoting voting her life to making easier Ier the way for those who share her misfortune There Theft the blind adults are taught to read and write taught something of the world taught to become useful and Industrious citizens Life Lif Story tad Sad ad The way of ot Miss 1811 Hanson was a par particularly particularly particularly hard one even had she abe been spared parro f the misfortune of blindness Scares a score of years ago she was born in France Her father was French and her ber mother Scandinavian Both died when she he was an infant and she baa has no memory of parental care When only four years old she was wu brought to America and to Utah by a family named Hanson and from this family she takes her name The life of this orphan was w not the t at best but when she ah be became became came blind when only 11 ii years old it was almost unbearable She was taken to the Ogden school for the blind Mind and there her aptitude for lor or clever work won her quick recognition not only in Utah but butan all an over the country Her crochet work won on a first prize price p c at the St Louis Louts expo exposition exposition exposition and an brought a gold medal for fur ex excellence excellence excellence to the Ogden school After completing the course cour e at the Og den school Miss Hanson sold silverware and perfumes perfume from house to house to earn enough that ehe che might continue her education She attended school at the LD LD L U UD D S university in Salt Lake and the Brigham Young university Her He work in inthea these thea schools averaged well with that of her seeing friends Since leaving school Miss Mi Hanson has haa been devoting her life to the blind bUnd She was active in the organisation of the Western Association of the Adult Blind and is a member of its ns board of direct directors ors era At the instigation of ot this association a la tion the legislature last ast spring passed pa ed a law authorizing the appointment of a commission for tor the adult blind and nd ap appropriating appropriating appropriating for the establishment of a school for tor the adult blind Free Reading Room Auxiliary to the tM association of the blind blinda a number of women of Salt Lake formed another association last laR tall fan talland falland and opened free reading rooms room for fec the blind at the public library The opening of Miss MIs Hansons little school in the same rooms followed On Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays the tho blind meet in this reading room and liten to the best literature which is read to them by members of the auxiliary as association On Saturdays Miss M Hanson teaches them to read by the Braille 1111 syster s ster ter tt r of perforated writing She teaches them to writs the Braille Brame system on a perforating typewriter and to write on onan onan onan an ordinary typewriter She teaches them to hv h th Ann Arn avi A f AK nh I I I I I V j ets with which they come in contact In addition to her work for the blind Mind of Salt Lake Miss MillS Hanson goes out into different rent parts of he the state Rate where she shi visits and teaches the blind The blind do not need pity Ity as much muchas as they need work said aW Mile MIas Hanson There is no peed need Jet d for the blind to beg bee on the street They are capable of be ing lug and should be made to support themselves I have no sym sympathy sympathy sympathy pathy at all for the blind Mind beggar begar In industry the blind person forgets his hie hi af and is 13 happy In idleness his mis mi misery miery misery ery is intensified I am kept busy buy all aU of the time and I am very verv happy I never think about being boIng Nin It U all I never have time But if I were Wf re idle that would be all aU that I could think about I 1 wish the people could rould realize realise that if it were possible for us to train all of the blind to useful work how much happier we could make them and how much muot more good they would be to the community than if we w encourage them to beg on the street Life Is Good Example Through her own OWl efforts Effort Miss Hanson has bas made of her life Ufe an admirable ex cx I ample to be followed by all who know her whether they be blind Wind or not nOL Sh SI has baa an excellent education has read or heard read much of ot the best beet be t literature 55 She writes write and play py the t piano with exceptional talent Hr Her l I music mule is written In the Braille system and Is taught her het by Prof Professor or Edwin P Slip She Is II now arranging arran mg an alt ex hibit of or the handiwork of the adult blind for the Inland Empire exposition to be held in Salt Lake in October Others in th tho work of the adult blind are Albert u M Talmage ge blind Mind man who has done a great deal dal of work for the blind of the state K N P C Hanks Hanka of Heb lieber Hebor r who In addition to W hi blindness has bas lost both of his hands ad aa the wom worn en of f the auxiliary to 10 the association of th the w blind whose direction the readings ant and an instructions s at t the library are an conducted The auxiliary of the reading room for i the blind was a year ago a o by bv Mrs Morris Morrill wife of I Major Andrew Rowan Of the Fifteenth In is fantry tan tn Mrs Rowan lias h ha been active in I the work for the blind bUnd and lulling during the lat lait ten years has established several free reading rea rooms for the Mind blind She Site Is the president of the auxiliary Mrs W V S te Is first vIe vice v President nt Mrs Windsor V V Rice is i second vice pros pres ideaL ident Miss Minnette Baer ILir secretary Mrs 7 B E l Allen treasurer Mrs Airs J j Snider librarian The directors are Mrs George Y Wallace Vallace Mrs 1111 Charles Charlet D a Moore Miss MiNI Joann L i St Si Mrs George Ceorge P Holman Mrs Walter Va Iter a S S Scott Ml Mrs MIlL W v Mont Mrs John M 1 Shepherd Mrs Russel G and ani Mrs Irs David David Moore During the tho first week in September N F C Hank flanks Of at Heb Heber will wUI give lec 1 tuMS lures at the library for fer th the blind and atul will wili Sly ve Shakespearean n readings In saveri S several ve 1 public P Mr fla Hanks s had lied from U th We tY fore bIM I a e cx le thet i nf t It a lids s well as his lie He Ja Is t k AI eat of In fn the bU f Jt tate and 1 8 devoting ninell his of 1 8 t t to their |