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li v ALLEGE SUMNER
N E V Service Writer
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'i he on| .y person in the world who
lets ' Vl ‘ r t'eally seen Raphael’s Sis
l“>o Madonna is a blind woman,
< JL 1,1,1 5;li ’
'' d sing teacher,”^who
|Wts loved never set n sun or moon or any
‘ faces -inee
she was a six
months.old baby.
I’ll!., is the V edict of an old
""'de in the Dresden gallery where
the tetiderest of all mathinnas
dwells. He guided the hand of the 1
blind woman over the immortal ,
% canvas as ^she told him what she
saw; .awed he told the guides
to keep •lent, and bade all the
visitors be still while •i blip'l
“woman .told them what the ma
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Mis Almeda V Adams, totally
blind, “saw” the madonna wh'Ui
A on year’s
a tour of lCurope uttee-
1 y unaecom pa itied. All alone, she
traveled thousands of miles, trust-.
to pa -by foi* any nr,-.
vary help.'
Never Had Any Trouble
She brings home with her not
only a liii in. ry •f honors never
•before given any human being,
blit Ills o a strong faith in humaii'
y.
In twelve months of wanderings
strange tongues, (slie^ had never
one second of danger, she says
;ind very few disngreeabl e i xperi
ences. i
There was the time when, in a
hotel at Rome, her sensitive fin
gers found too much dust and
dirt about her pension room and
> lee decided to leave. :
The proprietor forbade any ser
vanf to help her find* her way
•dmvtr- +hree flights of---stairs arid
out * f the pension.
'd was ton American to stand
l.;at,” says Miss Davis, giggling
at the memory, ”so I threw a
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I started out by myself,
knowing that 1 did not have the
slightest, idea where the door was.
That frightened them, as they
knew they w< uld get into trouble
if I fell. They almost pushed me
into the street and insisted
i give them 100 lire for tKeic
trouble. I had intended to give
them som thing reasonable, but
that madden, d me, I had noth
ing smaller than 100 lire in 1
change it. It’s a wonder I
prowling about looking for a wine |
sin p or someplace where 1 could j
change it. It’s a wondedr I
wasn’t robbed of all 1 had, hut j
I wasn’t.”
The year’s travel trip alone i
was to Miss Adams just, a takei
for-granted thing.
When she was only a baby her
m 'dher asked her to bring her a
dish towel. *- 1
“I can’t,’* she told her mother.
“Why not?” asked .her mother.
“ ’Cause Pse blind.”
A .martjeut <n the ear followed*
. id Ip r mathf r said: I
'“Don’t you ever again let m*
hear >,'.r any that you’re blind or
I hat you can’t do anything that
anyone or everyone else can do.
YnureVni.i blind and thi world
owes you nothing. You owe the
world a double amount of service
yourself,
And the little girl never again
was afraid, sorry, for herself, or
willing to admit that she couldn’t
“do' everything that everyone else
can do.
But other people did not take’
this spectacle of a blind - woman!
wandering strange c*ount.ry| i
over., a
so much for granted.
The Pope himself pronounced :
a stMidal blessing upon her,
ing his hands upon her head, pray
ing rt that for the blind one God
may enlighten her sight...”
It vyas the Pope himself who
gave a special order that every
thing in the Vatican, irtefudm;
t he choicest treasures, be
for her touch.
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Blind Mdss Adams did not mi s
single thrill.
She descended info the cat>
with her flickering w^
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Miss Almeda I
<Adams, blind woman who spent a year louring
Ktirropc i unattended.
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taper while other women screamed
and turried" back. “
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They were gruesome ftn. I
says. “But i ioved
the ex pdiiejme." ’ |
She climbed Ml. Blanc, roped toj
a guide atul thrilled at the view,
, She bar a smile for the memo-i
ry of the cemetery of the Cappu
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at death,” she says—“as if theyj
-»■' No memory k,Bi " so lives , as hers.
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“The view was superb!” the
i,ii " <i woman “»•
She climbed the 560 steps to
the top of Milan cathedral, cling
to :il< ng the na"
row steep flight.
She wandered through the Paris
shops, buying the things any
woman loves.
“Seeing” to this blind woman
i.j an extra sense which we with
sight cannot quite understand. .
A Mailer of Concern! rat ion
“Perhaps if I ever saw in thu
normal sense I would know that
I had never ‘seen’ before at all."’
she. says, “but it dot s me very
well. H
It’s a matter of concentration,
she says. Shi approaches “see
ing’’ much us a mathematician
would approach his problem.
“I perhaps see more beautiful
things than I would with real
..ighl,” she says, “for 1 can elimi
nate all the ugly things. “
Her trjp to Europe was beau
tiful, wonderfuul, but—
“I’m not whining; I’ve had more
than f deserve, but I’d give the
rest <d - my life for just one day
of sight in Florence or Rome.’’
SELECT EMERGENCY
LANDING FIELDS FOR
AIR MAIL ROUTE
SPARTA NRUItG, K. C„ August
10. t,V) Selection of the II emer
gency landing fields on the south
ern section of the New York At-
l.nta air mui. route were an
nounced here this morning by 0.
I. Stanton department of commerce
official who has been engaged in |
going over the ground. Th« j 1
southsim- section extends from
» to ■Atlanta; — ——
Emergency fields are to-be lo-j
eate. at l.exington, Mooresville,.
Stauey, ami Kings Mountain, in
North Carolina; Blacksburg, Gaf
Simpsonville and Anderson,
in Smith Carolina, and Royston,
■ Ipff<, r»on, and LaWrencevillc, ir
Geor,ri *‘‘ Work of preparing the
em( ‘ r 6ency fields and the install
ation of be^on lights will negin
at the earliest possible moments.
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DENY PETITION OF
GEORGIA RAILROAD
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ATI.ANTA, August * 10.—DP)—
The petition of the Georgia rail-
SB
feathered it* a i. j facts r* m and t ran jr*
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IN THE DEEP. SOLEMN vyOOO, AT DAWN I HEAR. +#
VOICE SERENE AND PORE, NOW FAR, NOW NEAR., '*
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SPOTTEO, SIDES BROWNISH ; BELLM WHITE. ■
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KNOW WHETHER. At* _.
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L Aon t HE ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN REGION FOLK OF HAVE THE
s£ll oyo * NAMED SWAMP THE ANGEL," HERMIT ITS THRUSH VOICE THE
A APPEALING TO THEIR HIGHER.
HMMN EMOTIONS. AND NOBLEST
ALL IN ASPIRATIONS .
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road to discontinue trains 5 and 1
10 ope-aling t.etween Atlanta and ’
Augusta was denied today by the !
publie service commi.'-sion.
The Rev. J. E. Sammons, of j
Rome, a former beloved Grilfinite, •
»n, a visitor in the city today,
coming to officiate at the mar
ot Miss Elizabeth Owen and
Henhy It. Floyd
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DR. HARRY J.
COPELAND m
Phyatcian and Surgeon
Office over Ward,* Drag Co
Phone 266, Ret. Phone 14(
Office Hours
11 to 12—2 to 4
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