Woman's Work for the Blind.
There are eighty public libraries which have embossed literature for circulation, and there are also many state commissions and associations for the welfare of the blind. The Misses Trader, of Cincinnati, Ohio, have accomplished wonders through their Library Society for the Blind and their Clovernook Industrial Home for the Blind. (Miss Georgie Trader is without sight.)
Mrs. Andrew Cowan, of San Francisco, Cal, organized an auxiliary for the blind before the disastrous earthquake in that city, and had a delightful library, where books were circulated and entertainments and readings given by volunteers.
The work in Dayton and Cleveland, Ohio, was started by ladies, and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, of Boston, began the work which is now done by the Massachusetts Commissioners. Mrs. Hadder, of Brookline, Mass., did splendid work in this connection. Mrs. Fairchild and Miss Chamberlin and Miss Goldthwaite and Miss Trader, of the New York State Library, are well known in this work. Miss Bubier (blind) of the Lynn, Mass., Library, and Beryl Ghuhac, of the Brookline Library (also blind), are among the well-known women workers. Matilda Zeigler, of New York City, spends more than $25,000 annually on the fine publication which she founded, with Mr. Walter G. Holmes as managing editor, for the benefit of the blind. Miss Winifred and Miss Edith Holt, of the New York Association for the Blind, have done some particularly good work in the New York Association for the Blind, Department of Blind Home Teachers. Mrs. Laborio Delfino, formerly Miss Emma R. Neisser, is in charge of the
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