THE EYES OF YOUTH.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 September 1932, Page 6

THE EYES OF YOUTH.

THEY MET AGAIN WHEN BLIND, PERTH, Sept, 1. Romance is at every corner if we look for it—it is there even, for those who cannot see, as this story shows. Eifty years ago, a young man and a. young woman were dancing partners in Melbourne. Whenever th£y met, she was his favourite partner. Her, name was Annie. The young man joined the gold rush to the* West, and stayed here. He never saw Annie again. A piece of quartz, lodging in his eye, made him blind. OUT OF THE PAST. The other day, he was sitting in the Braille Society’s home for aged blind, in Victoria Park, and Mrs Annie Duck joined him. She is also blind. She chanced to recall a dance-hall in Melbourne —an|d 'Charlie Sparks had found his Ann. As young dancers, the principals of this strange little romance met in one world—the world that we know. Bowed down with age, and a common affliction, they have met again in another world—a world of darkness and. memories, in which they see each other as in the days before their lives were robbed of light.