Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1904 — BLIND MAN FINDS HIS WAY. [ARTICLE]

BLIND MAN FINDS HIS WAY.

Smell# of Shop* Help Him When Seaae of ToncK Fall*. There Is a blind man living In the heart of New York who walks nearly every day to a little restaurant near Canal street. The distance each way is from eighteen to twenty blocks, according to his route, and to see him sauntering carelessly along one would never suspect his Infirmity. When some one asked him the other day how he managed to find his way so easily about the streets, he said: “When a than has his sight, the smell of the streets are all mixed up, but when he is blind he learns to separate them. The odors of the shops a when the doors are open these fins days are almost as plain to the nose as the signs used to be over the doors. Some of them you might never notice. Take a dry goods store, for instance. It smells of cloth. Iron and tin have smells of their own, and I can tell a hardware store immediately. I pass two book Stores nearly every day, and I scent them yards off by the old books. Then there are a great many other indescribable odors by which I know this place and that. “Of course, my feet are my principal guide, and I've been over the same ground so often that I have learned evefy inequality by heart But I couldn’t get along with either nose or feet alone. They work together, and when one fails the other helps out. Between them they make a very good substitute for eyes. “The secret of my stepping out is that I’ve learned how to step. People who can see hurl themselves forward like locomotives. That’s why the shock is always so unexpectedly violent when you collide with another person. But I put no extra power whatever in my movements, and if the toe of my shoe touches some unknown object I stop stock still instantly.” Her Proper Qaarry. Gertrude— Unde, what wOuld yon advise me to do to Had a husband? Unde Geyboy—Let the husbands alone, my deer. Go for a single man. —Boston Globe.