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Perhaps the busiest house connected with the Perkins Institution is its workshop for adults. Here twenty blind people assemble daily from their several boarding places to make and renovate mattresses, to recane chairs and to renovate feather pillows. This shop has been well conducted; it is a busy hive of industry, and general contentment prevails; some of its workers have been there for fifteen years. This year the amount paid in piecework wages to these twenty blind people is $8,040.24 or an average of $402.01.

Through the four Home Teachers of the adult blind 81 of these people have been reached at their homes. These teachers, who are themselves blind, carry about embossed books and occupation material to their pupils and give it out to their charges, teaching, encouraging and enheartening them better than seeing teachers could. This work is a genuinely useful one: it could be better carried out, we believe, under the direction of the Mass. Commission for the Blind, whose field it overlaps. Our director scarcely has the time to follow it up as he would like to.