Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings- World War Blind, 1915 (1915) (14595083527)
Резюме
Identifier: perkinsschoolfo191501perk (find matches)
Title: Perkins School for the Blind Bound Clippings: World War Blind, 1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Perkins School for the Blind, formerly Perkins Institution
Subjects:
Publisher:
Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
Digitizing Sponsor: Perkins School for the Blind
Text Appearing Before Image:
m&
Text Appearing After Image:
oc o oU 0 < —* X 0 ■ The chairs come from a near-by furni-ture factory, and the weavers, new asthey are lo the trade, are already beingpaid for their work. A nurse and a blindinstructor direct their labors. They smokeavidly as They ply their long bodkins;they talk critically of the war situation;they barter each other happily. They areliterally made men already—and thevknow it. In another corner of the same workshopa handful of former trench warriors isturning out very passable willow bas-kets, which will sVortly be sold to provi-sion merchants in the big Parisian mar-kets at Los Halles. The proceeds willrevert to the pockets of the blind work-men and keep them in tobacco for a fort-night. Other professions, too, are rapidly de-veloping new votaries among the blindsoldiers. A professor from a Parisian,music school holds a class in piano tun-ing three times weekly, there is a dallyclass in massage; typewriting and stenog-raphy are being taught to a score ofclerically inclined
Теги
Дата
Источник
Информация о правах