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Show SAVING BLIND BABIES. "The baby hi Its first year works harder than at any other time in life, getting a grip on vital things," writes .Mrs. Cynthia Wostover Aden, president presi-dent general of the International Sun-shine Sun-shine society in the Survcj. "Tennyson's "Tenny-son's lines emphasize this; 'But, as he giows, he gathers much, And learns the u&o of I and me. And finds I am nnt what I see J And other than th things I touch." "Now, the blind baby has to como to this apprehension of the ego by devious de-vious processes, through touch, hearing hear-ing and tho sense of -mf 11. The work is heavier. And h-ip from the untrained un-trained parent Is not to be expected, oven whore the parent is not compelled compell-ed by the need of earning a livelihood to neglect the loved little boj or girl. With children who can seo, tho parent par-ent has tho gnido "f personal memories mem-ories ninnlnt back almost to babyhood, baby-hood, and the guide of common and conventional treatment of babies. Both fall miserably when applied to the "case of tho blind baby. "Until the recent eetabllshmrnt of homes for blind" babies, s.ich infants tool; their chances with special attendants at-tendants always unscientific and often oft-en unsympathetic If the parents wero morp than well-to-do people: or, In middle-class homes, wero fed and washed and pitied by affectionate mothers whoso Ideas of drawlug out the mind were primitive and Impossible, Impossi-ble, or the wage earning class they were loft long hours each day, locked In rooms or even tied up. to guard against accident, while the mother earned a living, or. If foundlings, the were picked up and classed as idiots and mado to become Idiots by institutional institu-tional surroundings." |