The nineteenth report of the executive council of St Dunstan's, which is doing such noble work for those blinded during the Great War, has come to hand. Though it is an unpleasant reminder of the price which iso many brave men are still paying for the salvation of their country, the account of tile institution's activi-tes, and the wonderful fortitude of lis inmates, gives to the knowledge of immediate bravery that wonderful sense of extended courage which is one of the attributes of humanity under suffering. Perhaps the most {remarkable thing about the report {the story of how certain amount {of light is imported into the men's Jaarkness, how they are taught to Jenjoy themselves despite their in-Armities. Thus some can kick at a goal, one or two play a round of golf; many swim, others row, while of a few can go hiking. Indoors they play cards, capturing prizes at outside whist "drives, they play dominoes, and any "inmate who wishes is taught to perform on some musical instrument even if it is only the humble mouth organ, while some even lift up their voices in song. Tt isa comprehensive organization which sells a quarter of a million homemade articles in a year, bespeaking the application and courage of these _men who dwell in the " perpetual darkness. The average age of these men is forty-tve years; the youngest is thirty-three, and, though they live in the gloom for "the duration," this worthy Institution has opened the fingers of their hands 30 that they now can see. A mere travesty of sight, but how worthy of support is an undertaking which does
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