The Archive · 1934

ANOTHER INNOVATION

4s described in the illustration. This time ft is the use of white lina plang in"an. original. design planned. eliminate the "iecessty of heavy slips during the' summer "weather. A panel of bright cotton inserted adds Emartness, while '2 huge bow of the same material relieves the too-tailored impression. things of life, she says, which don't matter, are much the same in most Tands, the little things, which do, are amazingly different. Her arrival coinded with new experiments in traff management in London. When I told liber that we kill about seventeen people a day on the roads of Great Britain she was quite scornful. "Why we can do better than that in New York alone" she exclaimed. Clearly publicity is Miss Kelsey's life's work.

"Learning" to See Amazing accounts have published of a woman, blind all h life, who is now learning to see, at the Central London Opthalmic has pital, a Welsh surgeon, Mr. Tudor jamas, has grafted two healthy many months of bandages, she is endowed with sight.

That is not quite the same thing! as being able to see. Now, perhaps, for the frst time it is discovered how sight is an accomplishment which we acquire gradually from childhood.

Thus this woman has difficulty in seeing things as a whole. When blind she learnt how to identify people and objects by running her Singers over them. A moments thought shows that this meant identifying what she touched by a succession of details. She uses her eyes in the same manner looking first at one point, then! at the next, but unable to take them li in simultaneously.

Another discovery which amazes her that the faces of men and women coan be $0 different, also that a cat {fs s0 different from any dog of approximately the same size. With her she could. always distinguish one from the other, but the subtle differences in which the whole difference

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