Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1904 — BLIND GIRLS AS WIVES. [ARTICLE]

BLIND GIRLS AS WIVES.

They Make Good Ones, Says Elind Mrs. Lena Osborn. Mrs. Lena Osborn, chairman of the lady hoard of managers of the Social and Mutual Advancement Association of the Blind in Chicago, a free organization, is a blind woman herself. She says that the life of a blind person is not the great misery that it is generally thought by seeing people, and it is the purpose of the organization to show that even blind periple may have a happy time of it. Here Is a remark of Mrs. Osborn’s that should nbt pass unnoticed: “If men knew what ideal wives blind girls make the blind girls would soon be all taken. I ban cook, sew, darn, and do almost anything except to venture far from the house. I can write the ordinary handwriting from the memory of the letters I was taught forty years ago in the public schools. We become so sharp in our observations that we can almost describe the appearance of the person we address.’’ V.