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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 19 September 1913, Page 7

Remarkable interest lias been aroused throughout the United States by despatches from Chicago, Illinois, describing the restoration by an operation of sight to Mrs Mary Welsh, of Hillsdale, Michigan, after fihe had suffered from total blindness for half a century. Mrs Welsh, now a feeble woman of sixty-six, was (says the Telegraph) a beautiful girl of sixteen when she last saw light. She married at the age of twenty-two. She never saw her husband, who died several years ago. Mrs Welsh had eight children, six of whom are now living, and yesterday she for the first time looked upon her children's faces. After her. first recovery from the emotion aroused by seeing her children, she asked to be taken to the graves of her husband and two children. In the little country cemetery she looked upon thj epitaph of a man she Lad married and had never seen, and, sobbingly, she murmured, "Too late, too late!" For Influenza take Woods' Great . Peppermint Cure. Never fails. Is 6d, 2s 6d.