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Show Blind Woman Knits Toy Dogs They Bring Joy to Children ' ' s .i '' ' J Mice Etta Knowlten knitting her toy doge. By MARIAN HALI NEA Service Writer. WORCESTER, Maaa., Aug. it Some of tha funnleet toys on the market todey, and Ihoea that afford the grsaseen amusement to given-upe given-upe aa well aa children, are made by a woman who haa never aeen one of her creations. e Etta Knowlton of thle city la responsible re-sponsible for an aggregation of woolly doge that havg an Irresistible appeal. Borne have a waggish tilt to their heada. eome look fierce and aggressive and othore are cuddly onee that Juat beg to be taken home. No two ever quite alike becauee her sensitive ftngera get no guidance from her eyes. Blind alnca aha waa t. Miea Knowlton had a limited field from woolly dog, ag much like the onea she could remember aa possible. The fact that the features were ellghtly different only added to the charm. It amused the nurse and the call ere eo much she made more for the sick children In tha Institution and then eome Interested friend sent a cample of her work to New Tork, to the Ligbthouae Handcraft Bhop. where the work of the blind la exhibited. ex-hibited. Today aha haa more ordera for doge than she ran fill, though she turns them out with amaalng rapidity. rapid-ity. OUT OF LOVE. "You're so much happier It you are busy all day long." she saya. "I love children, and It waa al-waya al-waya my dream to do something for them. Of course I wanted to teach hern, or be a nurse that sp-c aMd on children's caeea. but sines I cant do that, I find the greateet "(-tlon "(-tlon In being able to amuee them by supplying toys. . , . I never make a dog but I try to visualise the boy uwh.,117',, get It. and I alwaya offer P " prayer that they may, have the girt ,Ml.a"t"KnowUon la w I-"P-portlng and la teaching other blind -Trie her craft. which to aelect her career. She became be-came an expert knitter and ruge. aweatere, we eh clotha and other knitted artlclea grew under her fingers. fin-gers. Then ana time aa she lay In a boepttal recovering from an illness, a friend brought her a ekein of diver di-ver glow yarn that ahe might knit during ber convalescence. CHILDHOOD MEMORY. Inotead of eorne useful - article. Miss Knowlton evolved her flret i |