Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — SEES MOTHER FIRST TIME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SEES MOTHER FIRST TIME

Miss Tomsyna Carlyle, the student whose sight has been almost miraculously restored, is here pictured taking a happy look at her mother’s face, which for a lifetime of twenty-five years she had been deprived of seeing. The almost miraculous restoration of the sight of Miss Carlyle as she sat on the deck of the steamer “Bear” en route from San Pedro to San Francisco, Cal., is the topic of much discussion among scientists. But the gtrl. herself waives aside all technical Inquiry in the joy of actually seeing things for the first time in' life. Born blind at La Crosse, 1718., the youngest of nine children, Miss Carlyle attended a kindergarten, ju»d later graduated at the Wisconsin State School for the Blind. Against many protests she entered and took her diploma from the La Croaae State Normal school and for several years has been tutoring blind children, mniring enough money thereby to enter the University of California. Now she can see and intends to devote her life to blind children who may never be so fortunate as she now is. “I am in a new universe,” she declared, “one in which my eyes are not yet able to convey definite impressions to my brain, because my brain does not yet know just what the pictured scenes really mean. Things are pictured so differently to the blind eye from what they really are. Yesterday 1 saw some small living thing <«orning toward me, and I did not know what It was until I touched it —then I knew it was a do*/“