The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 22, 1899, Page 34

E nt . smalil ot who sees = 5" eve " 3 g 8 AN Ep €5 to peor that has Tane 4y ke T g weather ughty, s other in a brilliant es to see and or his patient the consequences. 1 were to walk out some foggy there was not mone enough he city lights and found peo- »u rending spaper: L es or watching ants t work. you feel at home? Would you to join them at their trifling oc- © and be part of the world? That is the way Stanley feels in the day. If he tries to play hide-and-sesk, Ned ng to dev makin ty avold And Loves to Ream the Strgets at Night When Cther Qhildren Are Aslecr, Green will slide around the corner of the house and e and Stanley never t tag he gropes blindly in the nd the other boys would except that there which refuses It is hardly ibly not even a fineness of every- boy common sense shows them the e e in point of view. But at night all is different. Then, when n play, Stanley astounds them 18 in darkness to them, nd-seek under these condi- terpiece. It was in one of 15t Thursday night that he came upon a tramp who had crawled for & 10dging into a black corner of the barn, and there is no telling how many family tcaspoops the youngster saved by reporte ing his find. Long after Mrs. Smith and Mra, Robloe ense of pathos, by ng W and his hide tions is a 1 these games Jtanley Jhaefer, the Boy &dho Jees THE SUNDAY CALL. 4444444404404 44 494444440 Poses by Mrs. Pedar Brugulere Gowns From White House @++4444 49 - + 3¢ + + + 34 D R S R RS in the Dark o, ing kne. this exer no or he form feminir re glides th as you or 1 rv them once he st exercises initiated will anprec quired. It's circumve b alrea it. It is time well sper ested the mornir are the two most day As T said before an_infinite c; 1nd - » sar quite after the Anna confessed to over a_cup of chocol that she cised daily to keep from getting fat that ees so ugly n'est ce pas?” and ¥Yet RFffective. goes through beauty presers s w her French ner of othe i Sexatink ha I lovelines ., sav out of the twenty:-fou Sxere Then of on be st Grow old vor ses to the contrary not but you will grow ol Qannot See Rut in the Dark 15 Perfectly Qomfortable and Enjoys Reading a Good Book. son have called Jimmy and Robby home their uncanny little friend Is roaming through the streets with his old dog Tim for compar The two chase Jate cats or play tick-tack at some sieeper's window. Neighbors wake in the depth of the nig to hear the dog barking merrily au little boy laughing and scampering him. Mrs. Shatfer forbids these night bles, but the young man tak matters into his own hands as often as possibie and escapes from the house. He is full of 1ife and fun as soon as the dark comes and daylight makes him drowsy and dull. His mother has hoped to guide her strangely deformed child into a normal path, but she has failed utterly. Stanley is given lessons to keep him awake dur- ing the day and at night he is put to bed very emphatically. Hle is a bright littls student. In the schoolroom where other children study in Daylight he would be lost; but he has a teache: all his own, who hears him read in s darkened room. He studles at home under a queer little tin tent that lets ir no ray of light There is no time when as by moonlight. Total darkness does well enough, but the faint light 1s st! better. He loves good stories, and he take his “Robinson Crusoe” or *Bius ry Book' to his favorite corner of t g-room Do 1e reads so eastly din Y sprinkles through a t is his favorite way of ing. His parents tested all tha skill Columbia has DoV to offer, and till thelr ] W Nno more like other childrer aid outside with no be ) is no end of theorles c the subject, but explanations are cures. Dr. Dillon Bond of St. Louis spoke © the case with hesitation “I should want to take much time t study the case before I could attem to treat it,” he said. *“As for my theor of it—why. the child has cat's eyes, T eniarge in the dark more th average pcrson, and so sees better. In the sun, the puplls co tract and cause faulty vision.” Pr. H. M. Post 1 found even more con- rervative. “The boy may have what called a central he ven “In that case the n causes the pt > contract until it is entirely covered by t'a cataract. In the dark the pupil ex: s and he sees around the cataract. All of which is deeply interesting to ponderous science. ut while doctors a8 disagreeing, what is to become of the lonely little boy who nrowls while ha people and good _eople slesp, and wha mopes in the sunshine of pl-ydays?