Show SAVE WILLIAM PENNS CHAIRS national heirlooms Heir looms about to fall apart have been repaired by blind women two quaint find and graceful chairs that once belonged to william penn have just been repaired by two women who have never seen tho the chairs chaira says the philadelphia ledger the two women are inmates of 0 the pennsylvania industrial du home for blind women ther chairs are preserved in tho the east room of independence hall on the second floor year by year the cane bottoms of f the famous old relics have beem gra gradually dually cracking and falling out the tha committee in charge decided that unless the cane was replaced the woodwork might soon collapse but they did not dare to let the chairs be taken out of congress hall so they sent for miss ira frost mistress of handicraft at tile the industrial home for blind women and shei brought with her to the room two of the blind women who understood chair repairing the work was peculiarly difficult for it was impossible to erect in congress hall the caning trl le needed to hold the chairs firmly in place and moreover their woodwork waa soft with age but the deft seeing fingers of the wing bling women did the work in spite of all the difficulties and now the precious william penn chairs are safe bate |