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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
Digitizing Sponsor: Perkins School for the Blind

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Marriage of Lieut. Peptina(badly wounded in the foot)at the Church of St. Jacques,in Paris. The Lieutenant,Who Won Honors for Bravery,Was Supported to theCarriage by HisBeautiful Young Bride.
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Backed by the French government and the society he represents.he has created a second LightedHearth of the blind community un-der his direction in Paris. Earthly Purgatory. The first three days I spent herewith the blind, he says, in tellingof his work, were passed in themidst of a sort of earthly purgatory.I have never before seen so muchthoroughgoing misery foregatheredin a single place. My chargesmoped through the long hours ofthe day, nursing their bitterness.The stillness of the eights wasbroken often and of^en by theirhoarse sobs as they lay in tortureon their narrow cots. * At that time our workshopswere not ready, and I was in de-spair to know what to do with themen. But the end of my difficultiescame unexpectedly. On the fourthday of our history here I discoveredthat our instructor in the Braillesystem of reading and writing—himself a blind man—had learnedthe trade of a brushmaker. Hesaid he could teach a man to makea brush, after a rough fashion, in afew hours. Salvation

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