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Title: Blind Deaf
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: William Wade
Subjects: Deafblindness
Publisher: Hecker Brothers
Contributing Library: American Printing House for the Blind, Inc., M. C. Migel Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Hoosier, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 26,/904.) It is difficult for those in the full possession oftheir senses to believe that one bereft of two of them,and the two the most important of our five, can be apower for good, or that such a one could mingle inthe concerns of the people about her. But we haveseen several instances in our own land of the intenseinterest the doubly bereft may take in the lives ofothers, and we have just had the pleasure of read-ing a letter from a blind-deaf young woman of Eng-land which indicates that her mind and her activi-ties are not restrained because of her sense limita-tions. The young woman is Miss T. Jane Patter-son, of London. A part of her letter follows: I hope your Christmas was a perfectly happyone, as mine was. I went to attend service at Ox-ford street, after which there was a good dinnergiven to thirty very poor men, most of them out ofwork. I went to see all their things, and it made meso happy to think they were going to have some 140
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JANE PATTERSON. enjoyment for that day at least, and I hoped the New TheYear would bring- better prosperity for them. Just Blind-Deafbefore coming- away I stood on the platform and ad-dressed a few words to the men, and was much sur-prised to hear the roof coming down. They werecheering, and then they all came to the front of theplatform to shake hands with me, and said theywere so pleased, and hoped I would go again thisyear. There was really nothing- to cause such acommotion, but enough for me to be glad of an es-cape. It was a thing I had not done before, andwas not prepared for. What more inspiring spectacle can be conceived ?A sweet-faced young woman whose sightless eyestake in nothing of the world about her, either of itsjoy or its woe ; whose deaf ears hear naught of thesongs of gladness, the hum and whir of industry,or the sharp sounds of strife ; yet she stands beforea crowd of the needy, the inefficient, the unfor-tunate, as a personification of optimism, and speakssuch word

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