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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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A blind girl is operating the Braille typewriter which uses a system for the blind invented by a French teacher, Louis Braille, in which the characters are represented by raised dots. The "touch method" in typing here reaches the point of perfection
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A deaf and blind girl reads proofs of The Matilda Ziegler Magazine and records errors on the typewriter. Useful employment removes the greatest burden, idleness, from the shoulders of the blind when one told him a thing was red it came to him as a shrill whistle; he knew that the foli- age was green and a restful color, and when told a thing was green it came to him as soft music. My brother's sense of hearing is so acute that he can tell when we are passing telephone poles or lamp-posts at the edge of the sidewalk from six to ten feet away. If we are driving along a country road, he can tell hy the sound when we are passing a tree and when we are in open country or in woods. This comes from the law of compensation — he has to depend on sound and he has cultivated this sense. I have heard it said that the blind can tell color by touch, but I have never seen one who could, and I do not believe that there is anyone who can do this. I do know a blind lady, though, whose sense of touch is so acute that she can tell the denominations of paper money. She really feels the ink in which the numbers on the bills are printed. The blind, as a rule, have a keen sense of humor, which is surprising to the average person who supposes that they think gloomy thoughts only. One blind person once said to me, in complaining that most of the literature printed for them dealt with religious matters: " They seem to think that we blind can have no pleasure in this world and must always be thinking of and preparing for the next." I remember, on one occasion, my brother and I called to see a very pious old relative in a distant state, who had never met him. She w'anted in some way to express her sympathy for him and she said: "Oh, James, you should be so thankful that you

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