TR. CLUTHA MACKENZIE.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3276, 26 June 1917, Page 2

TR. CLUTHA MACKENZIE.

" It is hotter to go blind i-udd'jnly, , ' said Clutha Mackenzie at his lecture in Piilmerston Inst night. "The nis who ha\'o hopes of regaining sight, or to whom v glimmer of lifbt remains, never settle down >o bo blind man, ami they aro more discontented. We don't particularly 'me the terms 'our afflictions ' or ' our r,itiablo condition,' when referring to the loss of our sight. One day amm enmo to tho hostel,- and, seeing us, marked. 'Poor devils! A pity they ire not dead!'" The speaker a.to 3a id : " People so often wopt over the blind soldiers and wanted to lok , i:heir hands by the hour. It is so kindly meant, but so tinnecess.v y " lio added. Ho told how, on ona occasion, an elderly lady wrote to th , ? hostel offering to entertain some blind soldier for the week-end, stating that she was married and elderly and had i family of her own, and would personally see to bathing, dressing, and feeding her guests 1