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Show Totally Blind But ' He Saw Again The death of J. F. Fish, retired 'yi':.il-id ut tlu; North wcdtt-rii Bu:,im-t;i Cujl--g.e, in Chicago, is-(.iilib is-(.iilib ttur umazlng recovery of sight tluit he experienced after being totally blind for thirty years. In IP 00 he lost his sight but in 1930, while sitting at home, he remarked to his wife that he believed be-lieved he could see the furniture. His sij'ht improved and a few days later vision was completely restored. To an interviewer, some months later, he described his reaction to the changed appearances appear-ances that greeted him, after thirty years of blindness. Here is what he said: "At breakfast the morning after I recovered my sight my wife asked me: 'And do I look old and crinkled and gray to you?' I answered: 'No more than I do.' Of course, I had always thought of her as the girl she was when I first lost my sight. I was shocked at the changes in myself when I held the mirror close. I had grown fleshy and wrinkled and my hair was gray. "When I was last able to see the world, women were wearing bustles and waspwaists, men had mustaches and sideburns. I was shocked at the short skirts of the women of today, and the wide, flat faces of men without mustaches. mus-taches. But gradually the women's styles have acquired grace in my eyes, and I am beginning be-ginning to approve of clean shaving" |