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Show Red Cross Aided by Blind Woman & a Is an Adept in the Use of Needle MISS MARIE HANSEN, although blind since she was eight years of age, is I an able scholar and deft with the needle. She lias done much Red Cross work for soldiers. ; f?' ' " ' 1 i t , ' ? " J P ' K's ' " I X f K ; , ' V i f f - s '''V Completes Various Articles Which Are Turned Over to Local Shop. When she was 8 years old, and a student stu-dent in a school at Manti, Utah, Miss Marie Hansen met with an accident that deprived her of her sight. The mishap, however, did not destroy her desire for knowledge; rather it created a keener desire for learning. Today she is an able elocutionist and a fluent piauorm speaker, speak-er, and has developed a knack of using sewing, knitting and embroidery needles. Miss Hansen was born in Norway, her father being French and her mother Norwegian. Nor-wegian. Her parents were poor, and when the girl was 3 years of age Mr. and Mrs. Niels Hansen, neighbors of the child's parents, officially adopted little Marie. A few years later the Hansens emigrated to the United. States, seUling in Manti. In the year 1906 Miss Hanson was en- i rolled in "the Slate School for the Deaf: and Blind at Ogden, and made such rapid : progress in studies of all sorts that the , following year she was sent to the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university at Provo. She was a student at the D. iJ. S.- university in Salt Lake during the years 10S to 1911, Inclusive. Jn liV2 the young woman was sent to the Perkins Institute tor the ; Blind at Boston, and in 111 1 4. V.nb and 1916 toot a. course in oratory in Pittsburg, j She won signal honors in scholastic work . in this college and was awarded a gold 1 medal with her diploma. While attend- i ing school at Ouden she gave some re- , markable exhibitions of deftness with the embroidery needle, some (if her ex- , amples of craft being sent to the St. , Louis exposition, where the exhibit won i a gold medal. J Miss Hansen spends much of her time: working in the interest of soldiers, and i recentlv completed six sweaters, sixteen ! scarfs." six wash cloths and eight lace; bandages. Dressing dolls for sale is an- j other of this blind girl's accom- plishments. I |