instructed, as to be reminded.

Our first borrower was a lady of ninety years, and so we realized at
once that there was practically no age limit in this work, thus proving
the truth of the well-known saying, "we are never too old to learn." A
man of ninety, with hands toil-worn and crippled from rheumatism, was
able, after a few weeks of study, to read with pleasure, his only regret
being that he had not learned twenty years before, when blindness first
came upon him. When it is considered that, during all those years, the
man had not read a single word, his progress is truly remarkable, and
the fact that he is reading has stimulated others who, on account of
their advanced age, hesitated to study the raised types. The
requirements for study are simple--a love for reading, persistent
application, and a determination to succeed. If a person did not care to
read with his eyes, he will certainly not be willing to learn with his
fingers. This is a fact not well understood, and it is very generally
supposed that all blind people want to learn to read. Among our elderly
borrowers are doctors, judges, ministers, teachers and authors, and to
them the reading has given a new lease of life. There are invalids among
our elderly people--men and women in wheel chairs, with crippled limbs,
sometimes deprived of the use of one hand--but they are reading, and
their pleasure is beautiful to see. One woman of eighty-seven, who has
not walked for four years, and blind one year, learned to read last
January, and since that time she has read twenty books, besides knitting
squares for the Red Cross.

The type read by the elderly borrowers, and those with toil-hardened
hands, or suffering from some nervous affection, was formulated by a
blind man, Dr. William Moon, of London, about 1845, and is called Moon
type. The characters are large and distinct, many of them being shaped
like the ordinary printed letters. They are easily learned, and this
type is invaluable, not only for old people, but in cases where, in
order to restore lost confidence, a quick return is imperative. Dr. Moon
lost his eyesight in early manhood, and spent the remaining years of his
life perfecting his system, printing books and pamphlets, and going
about teaching the poor of London, thus inaugurating home teaching for
the blind. Moon type books have been printed in many languages, and
thousands of men and women have been blessed and brightened by the
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