Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1929, Page 46

46 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. €, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1929. BUNDREADERS PREFERNDVELS Romance in Braille Volumes| Get First Call From i Lighthouse. @pecial Dispatch to The Star. | NEW YORK, March 15—A blind | reader wanting to take home the entire story of “Helen of Troy” would have to hire a wheelbarrow. Nevertheless, the New York Association for the Blind. as. a birthday present to itself on its twenty-third anniversary, has voted to enlarge its reading room, for use by the countless blind people who work in and come to the Lighthouse every day. | Modern novels come in as many as| seven volumes, and each volume is as large as a section of the Encyclopedia | Brittanica in the Lighthouse reading; room. But the blind readehs read, in | spite of this material obstacle, and they | borrow their novels in sections for home consumption. | Braille Uses Up Space. While approximately only 200 books. | fiction and non-fiction, are available to | Lighthouse readers, they total more than 1,000 volumes when transcribed into_ Braille, and require a great deal | of shelf space. The average novel set; into raised character print fills an av. erage of seven volumes—for each Braille | letter, large enough to fit comfortably | under the cushion of the “feeling” fin- ger, necessarily takes up three times as| much space as the ordinary letter. | “The necessity of deciphering each letter in a word makes reading slow business for the blind.” said Grace Keator, librarian, herself blind. “How- ever, from the necessity of feeling their way slowly and precisely the blind in- stinctively move and live quietly and leisurely. It would be hard to find | anywhere a reading room that breathes the calm and effortless concentration of the Lighthouse reading room.” Romance and Adventure Preferred. | Examination of the Braille books most in demand gives interesting side- lights on the interest of blind people. Novels and narratives are preferred, showing that the sightless seek in fic- tion the world denied them in realit Books of travel and adventure are read | eagerly, and, at the present writing, Lindbergh's “We” has broken all rec-| rds. o While the Braille system of embossed | e e o0 0 00 %070%6%6%0%0%6%6%6%0% %% %% % Everything you bake tastes better Pil Best Flour e 0 0%0%0%0%4%0%0%6% %% % %" 00%0%0%0%0%0% 0% %% %% %% %" i | / L dots is almost 100 years old, it has | assoctation’s bulletin, and the Search- lately been revised and is the standard | light, its children's quarterly 'mag o_rr odbllndnpfl‘nnng um;d th;"'(c:ld over. e e o et | lay raille has broug e worl d beneatn the blind's fngertips. 10 3d- | reugers are: Toompeons. -Outine. of on the hundreds of s tran: oty o scribd monthly by Braille presy: " Benet's “John Brown's Body throughout the country, there are nu- merous Braille weekly, monthly and R e Lyon Phelps' “Happiness,” the novels Fifteen magazines, devoted to cur-| ¢ Wnlpo]ep:nd Warwick Deeping_and rent events, literary, religious and | music interests, are received monthly at | Jocy, O Leacock. Chesterton and Edna | the Lighthouse and kept on file. For | | French readers there is La . Lumiere, | | published in Paris. Printed in the' Skating, with skiing is part of com- Lighthouse building are Gleams, the 'pulsory training in schools of St. Moritz. Prescription He Wrote in 1892 is the World’s Most Popular Laxative When Dr. Caldwell started to! practice medicine, back in 1875, the needs for a laxative were not as great as they are today. Peo- & ple lived normal, quiet lives, ate ¢ plain, wholesome food, and got glemy of fresh air and sunshin: ut even that early there were drastic physics and purges for the relief of constipaticn which Dr. Caldwell did not believe were good for human beings to put @ into their system. So he wrote a prescription for a laxative to be used by his patients. 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That’s the reason forthe steadily increasing popularity of Pillsbury’s Best Flour—fit is zade only from carefully selected, full- flavored wheat, and women have found that it improves the flavor of everything they bake—Dbiscuits, bread, cakes or pastry. Try this out for yourself—get a sack of Pillsbury’s Best Flour from your grocer tomorrow. Use it to. bake a batch of biscuits—notice the delicate, unmistakably richer flavor. Try it in all your baking (Pillsbury’s Best is a real all- purpose flour, milled and tested to work perfectly with everything that’s made from flour)—try it with every baking recipe you know, and you'll find this same improvement in taste, the same rich, wholesome, hearty flavor in everything you bake! Get a sack from your grocer tomorrow! 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