e nerves as knitting or crocheting to feminine ones.
The ability to use the hands in some light work, removes the feeling of
helplessness and enables the adult to keep his mind on his fingers; and
this effort at concentration is often the means of preserving reason,
and reviving in the soul the desire to take up the struggle of life
again.

At this stage, the adult should be induced to learn to read raised type,
and to write letters to his friends. There are several writing devices
by means of which a blind person can once more use pencil or pen, and
the ability to do this marks another milestone in his progress.

When the adult is able to read and write once more, perhaps to use the
typewriter, he feels encouraged, and begins to ask what other blind men
are doing, and to wonder what avenues of usefulness still remain open to
him. Whenever practicable, I induce the men to resume their former
occupations, or suggest other lines of work suited to their altered
condition. One young man who was an electrical engineer before his
blindness, now wires houses in Los Angeles, his work always passing the
inspector, despite the opposition of sighted competitors. He has his own
shop, and there he assembles chandeliers, repairs motors, and charges
storage batteries. It takes him longer to do the work than formerly, but
its character is the same, and his heart sings with the joy of the task,
and he is working off his handicap, in the hope that others may follow
where he leads. In May he cleared one hundred and fifty dollars, above
all expenses. Another young man supports two small children raising
poultry, designing his own roosts, coops and troughs. Another man is
making good selling janitor and sanitary supplies to hotels and
apartment houses. Two of the men are doing well in a house to house
canvass for brushes of various kinds. Several men are in the real estate
business, and one has bought a home and is supporting his aged father.
Another does expert work with the typewriter and dictaphone.

I encourage the women to knit, crochet, sew and cook by proving to them
that this is possible without eyesight, and I feel certain that, through
such efforts, many a domestic tragedy has been averted. I induce the
older men, or those who can not take up any line of business, to work in
the garden, chop wood, cut lawns, go to the near-by stores, and make
themselves a necessary factor in the household. The possibilities of our
work, and the