BLIND: ANOTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION. [To THE EDITOR elan
.SPECTAT0141 SIE,—I thoroughly endorse every word in " Subscriber's " letter in the Spectator of April 4th. For four years I have been doing all I can to help the blind in a district of Sussex. Many have learnt to read the Moon type, but, with one excep- tion, they read very little. Their one cry is, "Give me some- thing to do," and some of them will go nearly crazy because there is nothing to do. A blind man or woman must go to a workshop to /earn a trade; amateur teaching is of very little use. Workshops are very few, and their terms are often more than the blind man or woman can afford to pay, though they are longing to go. So they linger at home, and many of them grow silly. For the poor blind workshops are a much more urgent need than books, Braille or Moon, for it is only work, remunerative if possible, that will keep the poor blind folk in their senses.—I am, Sir, &e., IDA SHARPE. Albemarle Club, 37 Dover Street, W.
Previous page
