spirit, unquenchable valor, and minds untainted by the lust of
wealth."

IDA M. TARBELL




Sight to the Blind

One morning in early September, Miss Shippen, the trained nurse at
the Settlement School on Perilous, set off for a day of
district-visiting over on Clinch, accompanied by Miss Loring,
another of the workers. After riding up Perilous Creek a short
distance, they crossed Tudor Mountain, and then followed the
headwaters of Clinch down to Skain's Fork, where in a forlorn little
district-school-house the trained nurse gave a talk on the causes
and prevention of tuberculosis, the spitting of tobacco-juice over
the floor by teacher and pupils abating somewhat as she proceeded.
Two miles farther on she stopped at the Chilton home for a talk to
half a dozen assembled mothers on the nursing and prevention of
typhoid, of which there had been a severe epidemic along Clinch
during the summer.

Afterward the school-women were invited to dinner by one of the
visiting mothers. Mrs. Chilton at first objected to their going,
but finally said:

"That 's right; take 'em along with you, Marthy. I allow it 'll
pyeerten Aunt Dalmanuthy up to hear some new thing. She were