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Evening Star, Issue 15481, 1 May 1914, Page 6

One of the most remarkable blind gurls in London is Miss Mabel Green, who Lives at 25 Gloucester road, Regent's Park. She is the daughter of Mr William Green, the postmaster at Great Portland Street Post Office. She was born 21 years ago last week, and has been blind since infancy. Miss Green is engaged on secretarial work, being an accomplished short i hand writer and an accurate and quick typist. Her outstanding gift is that of a i prodigious memory. Every Sunday she attends church, and when she returns home she proceeds to write cut accurately the whole of the sermon from memory. On a recent Sunday morning she went to I the morning service at Regent's Park Baptist Chapel, Park square East (Rev. F. B. Meyer), and, although she did not take a single notej escapt roeptaUy, she afterwards reported the whole sermon in short-, ■hand gn a special Braille ma-chine, invented -fey Mr Henry Stainsby, the secre-tary-general of the National Institution for the Blind. i I