Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1917 — WOMAN BLIND FOR 62 YEARS NOW CAN SEE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN BLIND FOR 62 YEARS NOW CAN SEE

Her Boy Wkae Most Beautiful Thing Bhe Hoped to See, Her RGreat Big Boy.” San Frapcisco.—Dawn peeped in the window of St. Francis Hospital anJ found a woman waiting. A bird on the window sill. “So thia" is day?” mused the woman. “And that is a bird. And those are flowers. It is ah just as I dreamed it would be.” “Yes,” repeated: “the nurse. “This is day and that is a bird and those are flowers.” The wofnan, Mrs. Mary O’Farfel, saw daylight for the first time. She had been blind for 61 years. Dr. Aaron Green had performed the operation that brought light out of darkness. All night long the woman waited restlessly for the day, so that she might enjoy the things she has visualized in her years of darkness. “And what is the most beautiful thing you hope to see?” inquired the nurse. “I have already seen it,’* was the reply. “It was my boy—my great big boy whom I never saw until last night. My only regret is that I never sa my husband, that he died before my vision was restored.” Mrs. O’FarrelTa son, 24 years old, visited her at the hospital. She tiff not know him. At his own suggestion he was presented to her as a physician. But the instant he spoke, she was in his arms. To her eyes he was a stranger, but her ears she rec-} ognlzed the pet and purpose of all her life.