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Show I She Did Not Realize Her Bllndneaa. In the report of Superintendent Perkins, Per-kins, of the Massachusetts Institute for the Blind, is the following account of st blind girl: Until recently Edith Thomas has seemed unconscious of her blindness, and although it was freely spoken of ia her presence while her hearing still remained re-mained she has from the beginning insisted in-sisted that she conld soe. Before she was able to leave her bed her mother went down and asked her child if she conld see her. Edith stretched out her little hands, and passing them over her mother's head, unswered in the happy tones of childhood. "Course I can soa you!" And a little later, when Bhe began be-gan to run about tho house, and the chil-, , dren remarked that she was blind, she j indignantly donied it, insisted that sha could see everything, and appealed to her mother, saying, "I ain't blind, is 1, mamma?" She would put on some favorite article of dress which she had worn before she lost her sight, go to the mirror, and turning from side to side survey herself with childish delight. Thenceforward she continued this apparent use of the eyes with seemingly tha same degree of satisfaction as if physical vision remained. re-mained. If she had a new hair ribbon she would go to the glass to try it on, and would even hold a hand glass, looking look-ing into it all the while her hair was being be-ing combed. |