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Show permit the girl to prove her cure and also to prove that she retains the wonderful won-derful powers of touch and smell. The physicians, after a careful examination, examina-tion, announced that she is virtually cured. Miss Hugglns has been partly blind and deaf since she was born. At times her condition would Improve, and then soon it would decline until she was almost al-most totally blind and deaf. Now, however, her senses of hearing and smelling seem to be growing stronger steadily. Miss Hugglns was called a faker by many medical men and scientists when she first declared that she could rend with her finger tips and see with her nose. To prove that she had not lied, the girl underwent some of the most rigid examinations science could arrange. ar-range. Given a necktie in which the colors were so blended that they would confuse con-fuse a person with normal sight, the girl named the colors without hesitation hesita-tion and without a mistake. A heavy blindfold was fastened over her eyes during the test. "Read" Newspaper. By passing her fingers over the pages she rend a newspaper without a single ndstnke. A single hair was placed under five sheets of fairly heavy paper. Miss Hugglns passed her fingers over the paper and pointed out the exact location of the hair. The remarkable cure of the young woman has caused physicians who mailt? no comments on her powers of touch and smell to come to her support. sup-port. They have declared that the sclent ists who culled the girl a faker formed a s-nao j Hlu'iiiont. They arc sure that Wllletu Is cured. I MIRACLE GIRL CAN NOW HEAR AND SEE Scientists Are Astounded by Case of Willeta Huggins. Janesvllle, Wis. Willeta Huggins, the deaf and bllml girl who could read a newspaper by touch and distinguish colors by smell, has' been cured. Her hearing in one ear Is )j per cent normal nor-mal and in the other car -10 per cent normal, and her power of seeing Is f0 per cent normal. Willeta Is eighteen years old. "Faith Cured Me." "Faith in 'bid cured me, nothing else," explained the young girl when a nunil e: oT noted p!;ysiri;ms called at her home. le-ur .l;-:v-svoe Wis., to i |