CLEVER BLIND MEN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3140, 23 October 1922, Page 8

CLEVER BLIND MEN.

Tlic Yorkshire tradesman who, although blind. has only been stopped by police interdict from driving a motorcar is (says tlit* Manchester Guardian) something of ;i prodigy. He can tell, almost to an inch, where he is in Leeds or Harrogate, or on the road botwcttfV those towns. lint since the days of biiiid Jack of Knaresborough. tho greatest roadniaker of the north, blind Yorkshiremen have seemed to delight in proving the lose of sight to be little handicap. Leeds long bad its blind cabinetm.aker. specimens of whose work found their way into foreign courts as well as English mansions. One of the most famous botanists of the day. again a Leeds man. is blind. Selby has a blind shopkeeper who manages his own business, easily recognising the dliferent articles, and who put's in his spare time tramping the country roundabout and preaching. One of the most consistent supporters of Huddersheld Town Football Club last season was a blind' man. who went to every match, and on occasions supplied reports of the game to a newspaper, which were wonderfully accurate, including details that spectators who could see had not, particularly noted. In many districts there are blind men who daily journey several miles along the roads between their home and pLaco of work. Darkness and fog have no terror for them; Ihe one thing that can up-ct their equanimity is a fall of snow, lor snow deadens all sounds and leaves tlieiu as much a! sea as a thick fog does those people uho rel\ on i heir eyes.