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86 UNFOLDING TALES The following winter, sister Emma had a serious illness and in the spring of 1929 when it came for the A.A.W.B Convention, held at Lake Wawasee, Indiana, she was unable to go with me. I went with Mrs. Maude G. Nichols, who was now Librarian for the Blind in the Library of Congress. We got along nicely together. Earlier that spring the American Liberty Association convened in Washington D.C. Here for the first time Braille Transcribing was represented on a A.L.A program. I presided over the Round Table for Librarians for the Blind and I did the same at Lake Wawasee, Indiana. I mention these facts only to show that I now had a standing among professional workers for the blind. During that summer we installed an oil burner in our home and bought our second radio, also an Atwater-Kent in a beautiful cabinet. In the fall, Emma being much better we paid a visit to her cousin in Auburn, N.Y.,, and also visited our good friends in Warren, Pa. All these trips were my vacations. I always came back refreshed, and with new ideas and greater inspiration for the work which now absorbed my whole life. The year 1930 is chiefly memorable because at the end of the year our little housekeeper, Grandmother Chew, decided she was getting to old to work. She left us to enter the Baptist Old Ladies' Home where she lived for many years. In February of the next year Mrs. Edith Darr came to take her place. She was a very fine women and we learned to love her. She was not strong so we employed a colored woman to come in once a week and do the cleaning and what laundry we could not send out. In April 1931 the World Conference on Work for the Blind was held in New York City. The invitation issued by President Hoover through the State Department was accepted by thirty seven countries, and about one hundred foreign delegates met with our own representatives. For those privileged to attend this conference it was an event of a lifetime. The deliberations were characterized by earnest, thoughtful attention on the part of all present. A
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86 UNFOLDING TALES The following winter, sister Emma had a serious illness and in the spring of 1929 when it came for the A.A.W.B Convention, held at Lake Wawasee, Indiana, she was unable to go with me. I went with Mrs. Maude G. Nichols, who was now Librarian for the Blind in the Library of Congress. We got along nicely together. Earlier that spring the American Liberty Association convened in Washington D.C. Here for the first time Braille Transcribing was represented on a A.L.A program. I presided over the Round Table for Librarians for the Blind and I did the same at Lake Wawasee, Indiana. I mention these facts only to show that I now had a standing among professional workers for the blind. During that summer we installed an oil burner in our home and bought our second radio, also an Atwater-Kent in a beautiful cabinet. In the fall, Emma being much better we paid a visit to her cousin in Auburn, N.Y.,, and also visited our good friends in Warren, Pa. All these trips were my vacations. I always came back refreshed, and with new ideas and greater inspiration for the work which now absorbed my whole life. The year 1930 is chiefly memorable because at the end of the year our little housekeeper, Grandmother Chew, decided she was getting to old to work. She left us to enter the Baptist Old Ladies' Home where she lived for many years. In February of the next year Mrs. Edith Darr came to take her place. She was a very fine women and we learned to love her. She was not strong so we employed a colored woman to come in once a week and do the cleaning and what laundry we could not send out. In April 1931 the World Conference on Work for the Blind was held in New York City. The invitation issued by President Hoover through the State Department was accepted by thirty seven countries, and about one hundred foreign delegates met with our own representatives. For those privileged to attend this conference it was an event of a lifetime. The deliberations were characterized by earnest, thoughtful attention on the part of all present. A
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