| Show Blind for 25 Years dears Gains Gans Sight re S Sees Ses es Better With Ears Than Ees f W t L M ti tit t to J t o 1 7 1 Z f i 1 ff t f i r Octa Sherry herr her sl sight ht restored rc I plays play's s I Multi leer her nephew and nieces but cannot recognize them unless she hears their familiar voices At t the tho left Is May lIar 0 center in n Octa's lap lal Is old car Alva hll Morrison right II Maxine ti S B By Dr 1 ALLENE SU 1 LR J EA Service Wr Writer Titer OAKWOOD When Ohio When Octa acta Sherry was blind she could see Now that Octa acta S Sherry erry can see sho Is blind This In short Is the strange story of a slim haired bob-haired girl cirl ot of 25 who had walked all aU the years yean of her life In darkness until the wizardry of ot a 0 surgeons surgeon's knife brought the yellow ellow sunlight of ot day dav flooding Into the black caverns ot of night where she had had lived for tor a aquart quart quarter r of a IL a century And with this thing thin called sight sl-ht comes terror to the girl cirl who though blind saw saw-saw saw saw with flag fing- fingers finc ers ens and ears cars as keen as the tho ees eyes of most I am nm afraid shudders the blind girl eirl who now v can see APPARITIONS APP She Is afraid of ot automobiles that chug down upon her like mon mon- mon mon- monsters monsters In tho the fairy tales talc afraid or of trains that spout fir fird like dragons dragon a ot of which she has rend read by means of raised type an and d flue finger tips I And AnT In fact until someone tells year old year old Oct Octa a that trains are trams trains and automobiles are only that she fears that they are arc in- in indeed In Indeed deed decd monsters or things terrible that mortals do not ordinarily see But nut one ray of ot hope shines through the gloom of ot sight which has come upon her and that Is the hope that now she may be bo self self- supporting and not a burden to the parents and brothers and sisters who have havo helped her along alone al all t these heso years rs Last week she sha tells you proud proud- proudly proudly proudly ly her new born eyes ees were able to hem 1000 towels for tor the Ford facto factory and that means 15 Perhaps It will grow crow easier easler In time says Octa bravely unconsciously unconsciously unconsciously closing her eyes s and anil set see see in Ing In things and people In the dear dearold dearold dearold old tam familiar way of ot sight through touch and sound REALITIES nF LESS LOVELY IOnLY Thus does dols one of ot the worlds world's very ery few blind people who after so many y years ars of ot darkness regain sight shatter th the fairy tale talc which always read and so the blind were made to s see sec e and did shout with Joy and laugh to see the tho moon and stars I Octa Sherry had never s seen en moon and star sunset or sunrise bird or blossom but the realities are no more than the things she saw 1 In n her world of ot darkness First of ot all says she peering Into the tho glass the sight of ot my face startled me rae I thought I was rather pretty Now I know Pm Im not Her lIer mothers mother's face was the th first thing Octa Octo wanted to see sc when the surgeons surgeon's bandages were ro- ro removed re removed moved I could hardly believe It was my mother says sas Octet Octa I had always been told that peoples people's faces were white I thought that really meant as white as sugar or soap is And I thought lips were very red like red liko th these tulips In the but yard but people are not white at atall atall all 1111 DANDELIONS D DANDELIONS And what seems most beautiful ot of all to a human b being who for 2 25 Ii years has seen n rose no hued bright bird no sunset no moon no fields of ot green Dandelions says Octa who picks the great yellow flowers con con- constantly constantly con constantly In these new-found new days ot of sight They are aro tho ho mot most b beautiful things I have seen Octa has lived for 25 ears cars with her father and mother her sis sisters and brothers and for several years ears with little litti nieces and nephews Now that she can see sec she does not know them with her eyes open It Is only when she sh closes her eyes after filling falling to recognize recognize nize mother or father only when they speak I or move about or aro ao t touched by her that she sho 1 snows them tor for the familiar parent or brother or sister Octa herself herselt realizes now how Imperfect have hav been the Images formed by words For Instance they told her that a II flag was red re and had stripes When Octa acta saw sawa sawa sawa a small red-backed red comb on the first few days das Then she had her hr sight she Immediately called It Ita Ita a flag flae- It was red and the tho teeth might be considered stripes SEEING WITH lIEn HER HANDS II Octa acta please give me m that pan said a II sister The pan was direct direct- directly directly directly ly before Octa But Dut she did not know It for tor what It was Only with eyes closed and fingers out out- outstretched outstretched out outstretched stretched did she see sec and find th the nan But nut I will le rn rn to see like othEr people she says ys chin firm firma n a bit hit of ot terror In her eyes I must Dr L Ii E C Grant of ot Detroit gave sight to tho the blind girl or cirl or blind blindness ness to the seeing girl It if you pre pre- preter prefer pre prefer fer ter It that way ay There will be bemore bemore more operations before the th sur- sur surgeon sur-scon sur geon Is through Copyright 1726 NEA Service Inc op 00 Chinese have taken so kindly to the automatic telephone that Har- Har Harbin Hal Har Harbin bin plans to extend Its automatic m in |
