Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1917 — WOMAN BLIND FOR 62 YEARS NOW CAN SEE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN BLIND FOR 62 YEARS NOW CAN SEE

Her Boy Was Most Beautiful Thing She Hoped to See, Her “Great Big Boy." San Francisco. —Dawn peeped in the window of St. Francis Hospital and found a woman waiting. A bird chirped on. the window silk “So this is day?” mused the woman? “And that is a bird. And those are flowers. It Is all just as I dreamed it would be.’* . “Yes,” repeated the nurse. “This is and that is a bird and those are flowers." The woman, Mrs. Mary O’Farrel, 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’Farrell’s son, 24 years old, visited her at the hospital. She did 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 st ranger, but her ears she recognized the pet and purpose of all her life.