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Helen Day, Blind and Deaf, Edits Book For Sightless. A magazine for blind people, edited by a young woman who is both blind and deaf, is the phenomenon found at the New York Association for the Blind, 111 east Fifty-ninth street. The editor is Miss Helen Day, who has been blind since she was 19 years old and for the last few years almost totally deaf. The magazine "The Searchlight," printed quarterly in Braille, or "raised" print, for sightless young boys and girls all over this country. The American Magazine for March contains a who's who of Miss Day. To the task of selecting manuscripts, editing copy and reading proof. Miss Day has dedicated all her time for the past eight years. Today she is one of the busiest editors in New York City, and is said to have developed, through self-training, remarkable editorial judgment, and an unusual proficiency in her work. When only six years old, Helen Day had an attack of hip disease, which made it impossible for her to go to school. Four years later another serious illness left her totally blind. After her deafness made attendance at Hunter college, where she had gone for four years, impossible. Miss Day turned for instruction an amusement to books printed in Braille type, and in a short time became so proficient in the reading and writing of it, that she undertook Braille proof reading for the Red Cross. Practically all the articles which are printed in The Searchlight are transcribed into Braille. For almost eight years Helen Day has selected, "cut" and rewritten ten articles that she considered appropriate for the minds of young sightless children. This she does after having them read to her, for, fortunately, she is not entirely deaf. After hearing them they transcribe them into Braille by means of small Braille typewriter. The articles have a wide range of interest, usually including short stories, poems and educational articles. Concerning her work. Miss Day said: "It is hard to find interesting stories of a length which will make transcribing possible. Most good stories are too long. It is hard, too, finding whimsical. Imaginative stories, for blind people prefer these, I have found, to realistic tales. Adventure stories and fairy tales I cannot get enough of and poems of a cheerful nature. Blind people need to have sunshine brought Into their lives through reading, and I try enormously to do this."

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