WOMAN’S RESTORED VISION.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1921, Page 4

WOMAN’S RESTORED VISION.

A BERTI LLER Y (.Mon.), Feb. 2 To-night? 1 sat by the bedside ol a (i7-yeats-old woman of the Welsh valleys, who, after being blinded by lightmiii•_’) years ago, lias just regained her lull vision. Sin* is Mis .Jenkins, and she lives in a little old-world cottage in the tiny colliery village of Fleur tie Lis, deep down in. the Rliymney Valley, near Cardiff. "it is very wonderful,” she said. "It is so wonderful and sudden that though I can see 1 hardly dare open my eyes. "Vott cannot realise how beautiful to me it is to see my children again. I have live sons, and the youngest, Evans, is now 2l>. When I last- saw t i ui he was a toddler oi two. Ur.t though they are now so hig and bonny 1 know them for my own. "It is a great joy to me to see the hits of furniture again.” Her voice faltered, and she let her wide-open eyes wander round the dimly it room. Her sight is too weak yet to bear st'ong light. Ikesentiy sheVsaid quietly: "1 am wondering what the world outside my little cottage looks like and whether I shall lie afraid to look up at the mountains. It is such a long, weary time ago that 1 saw them. "How glad I shall he when the curtain is pulled hack and I am allowed to look out into the garden ! Yesterday 1 saw my four daughters-in-law for the first time.” Her husband, Andrew .Jenkins, is alne.st hesid.* himself with joy. "When site came round as though out of a trance,” he said, "she cried out: ‘Oil, Andrew, I can see!’ 1 ran for Dr Roidy, nnd'wlien we came back she was daring like a child at all the things iu tm* bedroom.”