Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1926 — Page 18

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BLIND, SHE COULD SEE THINGS; SEES, NOW® BLIND Girl Terrified as Knife Restores Sight After Life Darkness. C'jpjirinht, 7.92i>. .Vl £■ rp(r,; OAKWOOD, Ohio, June 4. —When Octa Sherry was blind she could see. Now that Octa Sherry can see she Is blind. > This* in short, is the strange story of a slim, bob haired girl of 25 who had walked all the years of her life in darkness, until the wizardry of a surgeon’s knife brought tl?e yellow' sunlight of -day Hooding into the black caverns of night where she had lived for a quarter of a century. C* • And with this thing called sight comes terror to the girl, who though blind, saw—saw wrth fingers and ears as keen as the eyes of most. "I am afraid,” shudders the blind girl who now' can see. Terrible Apparitions She is afraid of automobiles that Chug down upon her like monsters in the fairy tales, afraid of trains that spout fire-like dragons of which she has read —read by means of raised type and sensitive finger tips. And, in fact, until someone tells 25-year-old Octa that trains are trains and automobiles are only that, she fears that they are indeed monsters or things terribll that mortals do not ordinarily see. But one ray of hope shines through the glaam of sight which has come upon her, and that is the hope that now she may be self-supporting and not a burdeh to the parents gnd brothers and sisters who have helped her along all these years. Last week, she tells you proudly, her new-born eyes were able to hem 1,000 towels for the Ford factory, and that means sls. ‘‘Perhaps it will grow in says Octa bravely, unconsciously closing her eyes “seeing” things and people in the dear old familiar way of “sight” through touch sound. Realities Less Lovely Thus does one of the world's very few blind people who, after so many years of darkness, regain sight, shatter the fairy tale which always read “and so the blind were made to see and did shout with joy and laugh to see the moon and stars.” Octa Sherry had never seen moon and star, sunset or sunrise, bird or blossom, but the realities are no more than the things she “saw” in her world of darkness. i ' “First of all,” says she, peering Into the glass, "the sight of my face startled me. I thought I was rather pretty. Now I know I’m not.” Her mother's face was-the first thing Octa wanted to see when the surgeon's bandages were removed. “b could hardly believe it was my mother,” says Octa. “I had always been told that people's faces were white. I thought that really meant ns white as sugar or soap is. And I thought lips were verry red —like these tulips in the yard—but people are not white at all.”

Prettiest? —Dandelions And what seems most beautiful of all to a human being' who for 25 yeaj"s has seen no rose, no brighthued bird, no sunset, no noon, no fields of green? “Dandelions." says Octa, who picks the great yellow flowers constantly in these new-found days of sight. “They are the most beautiful things I have.seen." Octa has lived for twenty-five years with her father a/id mother, her sisters and brothers, and for several years with little nieces and nephews. N*v that she can see, she does not know them, with her eyes open. It Is only when she closes her eyes, after failing to recognize mother or father, only when they speak or move about or are touched by that she knows them for the familiar parent or brother or sister. Octa herself realizes now how imperfect have been th'b.images formed by words. For instance, they told her that a flag was red and had stripes. When Octa saw a small red-backed comb on the first few days when she had her sight, she immediately called it a flag. It was red and the teeth might be considered stripes. Seeing With Her Hands “Octa, please give me that pan,” said a sister. The pan was directly before Octa. But she did not know it for what it was. Only with eyes closed and lingers outstretched did she “see” and find the pan, “But I will learn to see like other people,” she says, chin firm, a bit of terror in her eyes. "I must.” Dr. L. 13. Grant of Detroit gave sight to the blind girl—or blindness to tho seeing girl, if you prefer it that way. There will be more operations before the surgeon is through. The Mason-Dixon line took its name from two astronomers and 1 mathematicians who were sent from ’ England to survey it.

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STONE AGE STILL LIVES IN MEXICO, AVIATOR REVEALS r Finds Tribe on West Coast That Eat Raw Food —Wed Children at 12. NEA Service NOGALES, Ariz., May 4.—The old Stone Age still lives—lives in North’ America, within a few hundred miles of skyscrapers and express trains and radio stations. Tucked away in an obscure island off the western coast of Mexico. there is a swiftly dying tribe that lives just as primitive man lived ten thousand years ago. It is the most primitive colony of North America. This tribe uses no fire. Ail food is eaten raw. Its women are given in marriage at the age or 12 or 14. They tattoo faces hideously with the idea of making themselves beautiful. This queer tribe recently was visited by Major Pabla Sidar of the Mexican aviation corps, who has reached Nogales for a short rest on a flight around the rim of his native land. Charting Air Highways Major Side:- left Mexico City a month ago to make a complete eirruit of Mexico. He didn’t set out to make any records for speed, altitude or distance; his work was to chart, map .and log Mexico's aerial highways, so that the Mexican air service could have the kind of data about its own ai£ lanes that the United States air service has about United States flying routes. But on his he found severs'

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FALL PROVES FATAL Woman Dim in Hoaphnl as Iteftiilt of Injury. Mrs. Margaret Thurston, 66. of 2015 Nowlancl Ave., died early today at city hospital, following a fall at itpr home May 8. Hospital attaches say they learned Mrs. Thurston had been confined to her room witfT illness and fell while attempting to walk about. In the fall she sustained a broken ■ve>f?. Coroner Paul F. Robinson will determine the cause of her death, it wuh said. One-.fiftieth of the World War debt owed ft,' the United States has boon funded.

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