DRAMA OF RESTORED SIGHT

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20266, 7 August 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

DRAMA OF RESTORED SIGHT

How He Saw His Wife for the First Time.

Twentv-slx years after ho became f blind as the result, of a colliery explosion. Gwilym John, who takes an i active Interest In social and public I work at. Tonyrefait, Glamorganshire, has had his sight suddenly restored ' to him. He was at a conference with his wife, and when ho bent down to tie Tip his bootlace he found ho could see | the laces. Then he had his Host j glimpse of his wife, whom ho nincried | 15 yeags asm. Hurrying homo, ho saw ] his two children for the first time. John, who had boon employed as a brushtnaker in the Blind,p. Blind Institute, has now been recommended by the Glamorgan Blind Persons’ Committee for a job as a Journeyman. He has already been “looted a member of the district council. “I Went to the Mirror.” Describing his feelings when his sight came hack to him, John said he was so upset that ho had to call for a drink of water.

f “Later,” he said, “I went to the ! mirror to see myself, and cried, ‘By i gum, I look like Napoleon.’ I “Everything has been so amazing ever since. ) “I meet people I knew as kiddies j and find they are old men. “Of course, I can’t recognise them. ! As a blind man l recognised by sound.” | Mrs John is naturally overjoyed. She : recalled that when her husband told hor he could --she thought he was ! Joking, and asked him to stop “kidding.” “My husband," Mrs John remarked, "recognised the electric switch from descriptions he had heard. He did not know what electric light was before he w>nt blind. “Going out, he saw ’buses for the first time, and was amazed at their luxury. “He met old friends and tried to recognise them. “It was a touch on the shoulder that gave him Hi" clue better than tho sight of faces lie had not seen for so