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Show MYSTERY TO THE ULIND. ""wis ll..tn Mhlls time X Ac eiiralu I'onrrpllon nt Mltit, Tl'hat a profound mystery Invest: ! "lithe operations of our senses'" said I a miogo protestor of this city. ' I j H talking, the other day, with a very "Alllxent blind man He had been bftid from birth, but had received an euillent education, and was fully as 3 Informed ns tho nverago person eoi meets In cultured circles. He Ixse freely of his Infirmity, and final-'ft final-'ft asked him whether he had ever "seeded In forming n cletr menial "Vteptlon nt tho sense ot sight. Ho "Wed frankly that be had not, and t he asked mo several very curious 1ntlons The Idea of color, he said, u a great puzzle, to him, snd he had ntter been able to obtain the slightest elt to what was meant when ono "It, for Instance, that one thing was rttand another thing was blue 'Your e&r Impressions are absolutely etn-Notary, etn-Notary, arc they not?" he asked. The "nation startled me. It was so strange. Nov, what could possibly have Heen la Ms mind? Ono would Inter that bt UMoclatcd color with some sort of metemen't, yet. when I asked him to "Jlaln he couldn't do It He soon lost bltaclf In words, sighed, and gave It "a. He understood, ns nearly as I cesM gather, that the scnto ot sight oaehow furnished us with Informatics Informa-tics ns to the sire, shape and general eitracter nt surrounding objects, but I Ui satisfied, from his questions tlint I'liad formed no Idea whatever of the Pteurc that Is presented to the brnln Hi wan unable to undvitand how n watlo sccno could bo tnken In ot once Hicould distinguish 11 flat on n viol's, vio-l's, he tald, but suppose the whole mounding country was full of vlo-lu. vlo-lu. all playing different airs? Tint emed to him n good apology for tho vilous things In n landscape I soon rn!xcd that explanation on either sldo u hopeless Thcro was a barrier ot lbt Inexpressible between us L went tiy with an Immentcly Incretsnd re-pect re-pect for the teachers nt Initltutea for tbe blind nnd deaf and dumb. It It tmanelnua thing that they ever tur-reel tur-reel In breaking Into these sealed bnlns nnd bringing children so terribly ter-ribly handicapped Into touch with tbetr fellow-beings "New Orlcant Times-Democrat. |
