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60 UNFOLDING YEARS

from school to school and making comparative tests. Again I had to reject what seemed a wonderful opportunity. It was thought I could not well be spared from home and the growing work for the blind in Iowa; also, it was a question if my heath would stand the strain. 
I recommended Miss L. Pearl Howard, a graduate of the Iowa School. She was duly appointed and acquitted herself well. She not only visited the schools in the United States and Canada, but she crossed the Atlantic twice to study English Braille in England. I will not deny that I was a little envious of her in having such opportunities to travel and help in the work which now had become to me the all absorbing theme of my life. Not that I would have taken anything from her, or felt that i could have done better. We in Iowa were proud that one of our number had been able to do such a real service. 
I was fairly contented. There was never anything more satisfying to me than to make home comfortable for those I loved. Eva and I shared in the household tasks and got a lot of fun out of trying new recipes and attempting new things. My friends, father and sister Emma accepted Eva and came to be fond of her not only for herself -- but they soon saw what she could do for me. They were all most cooperative in making her feel at home with us. I also had my two clubs which offered mental and social stimulus. 
"The Mentor" the magazine in which my little story had appeared, had long been discontinued. However, in 1910 Mr. Charles F. F. Campbell had established "The Outlook for the Blind." He write to me asking permission to republish my story, "After Graduation" Of course, I was willing and on looking it over found very little change. I wrote a short "introduction" and again it went forth, destined this time to carry its message to a much larger audience. Later Mr, Campbell had it published in pamphlet for and sold in a limited edition. Mr. Walter G. Holmes also printed it in the "Ziegler Magazine" and it was translated   into at least one foreign language. I received many complimentary letters and it brought me a host of acquaintances, both at home and abroad.

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60 UNFOLDING YEARS from school to school and making comparative tests. Again I had to reject what seemed a wonderful opportunity. It was thought I could not well be spared from home and the growing work for the blind in Iowa; also, it was a question if my heath would stand the strain. I recommended Miss L. Pearl Howard, a graduate of the Iowa School. She was duly appointed and acquitted herself well. She not only visited the schools in the United States and Canada, but she crossed the Atlantic twice to study English Braille in England. I will not deny that I was a little envious of her in having such opportunities to travel and help in the work which now had become to me the all absorbing theme of my life. Not that I would have taken anything from her, or felt that i could have done better. We in Iowa were proud that one of our number had been able to do such a real service. I was fairly contented. There was never anything more satisfying to me than to make home comfortable for those I loved. Eva and I shared in the household tasks and got a lot of fun out of trying new recipes and attempting new things. My friends, father and sister Emma accepted Eva and came to be fond of her not only for herself -- but they soon saw what she could do for me. They were all most cooperative in making her feel at home with us. I also had my two clubs which offered mental and social stimulus. "The Mentor" the magazine in which my little story had appeared, had long been discontinued. However, in 1910 Mr. Charles F. F. Campbell had established "The Outlook for the Blind." He write to me asking permission to republish my story, "After Graduation" Of course, I was willing and on looking it over found very little change. I wrote a short "introduction" and again it went forth, destined this time to carry its message to a much larger audience. Later Mr, Campbell had it published in pamphlet for and sold in a limited edition. Mr. Walter G. Holmes also printed it in the "Ziegler Magazine" and it was translated into at least one foreign language. I received many complimentary letters and it brought me a host of acquaintances, both at home and abroad.