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Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1916
Year: 1916 (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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e. There will be about 75 debu-tantes .attired as waitresses and flowergirls. Throughout the remainder of theFashion Exposition the proceeds of thetea garden will go to a different organiza-tion of charity each day. On the executive committee of the Per-manent Blind Relief Committee are LadyArthur Paget, Vincent Astor, AugustBelmont, Hon. Lyman J. Gage, Hon.Thomas P. Gore. Hon. Myron T. Her-rick. Otto H. Kahn, George AlexanderKessler, C. Arthur Pearson, WhitneyWarren and Joseph Widener., This fund is doing excellent worktowards teaching trades to the blind mencoming back from the front and is es-tabli.«hing permanent homes and work-shops and exchanges where their workmay be brought into a favorable and pay-ing market. Some samples of the workdone by these blind will be exhibited atthe Fashion Exposition. T\fcu; ^OY-K.. y\. ^■, ftme-ruc-evw. IV\a.M II- I I to ;liss Cleveland to Tutor Blind^mite House Bab/in War Work 4^ «>4 ^^^ ^♦^ French Soldiers to Be Pupils
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MISS ESTHER CLEVELAND, the famous White HouseBaby, who will go abroad to tsach blinded soldiers ofFrance how to become self-supporting-. . Daughter of Late Grover Cleve-land Now Preparing Herself toAid Sightless Fighters. Once famous all over the world asthe White House Baby, Miss EstherCleveland is preparing to devote her-self to the teaching of blind eoldiersIn France. From her home in Princeton, N. J.,she travels every day to Overbrook. asuburb of Philaflelphia, to study thesystem in use at the PennsylvaniaInstitute for. the Instruction of tbeBlind. ^, -^ ■ •MISS(Clevelands companion in thedaily study is Miss Maria Osborne,daughter of the president of theAmerican Museum of Natural History.When they are thoroughly efficient inthe work of teaching the blind how>.to take care of themselves in a world^pf-darkness, and how to engage in,handicrafts by which they can sup-iport themselves, the young womenwill sail for France and attach them-selves to the American Hospital atiNeuilly

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