ortance to
the Library, and when a new reader is added to the list, a note is
usually sent, welcoming him to the family circle. For we are all like
one large family circle--with common aims, common interests and a common
goal--namely, to spread far and wide the gospel of home teaching, to do
our best in order to help others similarly placed, and to prove
ourselves worthy of the help so generously given by the State Library.

Another potent factor in the work of re-education is the Matilda Ziegler
Magazine, a periodical in raised type published since 1907, through the
generosity of Mrs. Matilda Ziegler, head of the Royal Baking Powder
Company of New York. This magazine is printed in New York City, and sent
to the homes of more than twelve thousand persons in the United States
and Canada. It is like any other magazine, with current events, timely
articles, short stories, poetry, a woman's page, and a page of humor. In
addition to this, every month there is an article telling of the success
of some blind person, the account written by the man or woman in the
form of a letter to the editor. And the manager, Mr. Walter G. Holmes,
is a man with a heart of gold; he has his finger on the pulse of the
blind of the country, and he believes in them, loves them, and brings
out the best that is in them. Every number contains a map of some of the
warring countries, and so the readers are kept in touch with all the
vital issues of the day. Many a man is induced to learn to read raised
type just to read this magazine. And so Mrs. Ziegler's philanthropy can
not be too highly commended, and her name and that of Mr. Holmes are
enshrined in the hearts of the blind. Her service to them is
incalculable.

The government is making extensive preparation for the re-education of
our blinded soldiers, both in the hospitals of France and the hospital
school at Baltimore. The grounds and some of the buildings of this
school were given to the government by Mrs. T. Harrison Garrett of
Baltimore, and no expense is being spared in providing every care and
facility for the training and comfort of the blind soldiers who are to
be rehabilitated and returned, not to the battlefields of France, but to
the battle ground of life. The government plans to begin the
re-education in the base hospitals, to continue it at the ports of
embarkation, and complete it in the hospital school at Baltimore. The
training in this school is to be patterned after that of St. D