TRIUMPHING OVER DIFFICULTIES.
By Golden Rule
THERE lives in Brooklyn a remarkable blind woman, who, tho totally deprived of sight, conducts successfully a large business. She became blind when a little girl, through disobeying her mother, who told her not to wear a certain dress. She put it on, nevertheless, and, finding that it needed a slight alteration, was using a pair of scissors upon it when a point entered an eye. The unfortunate girl became the friend of Laura Bridgman, and evidently received a share of her fine spirit. She became skilled in music and pushed her own way, until now she has a profitable establishment for the sale of musical instruments, which she manages without assistance. She finds her way alone with no trouble, and even visited alone the World's Fair at Chicago, and made, unaccompanied, a trip through Europe. She devotes her life and her wealth to the training of the blind. How such a history of one who lacks the priceless advantage of sight should put to the blush us sluggish mortals who can see!