When she noticed Harry having trouble with small print, she took him to a Chinese doctor in Kansas City (an all-day horse-and-buggy round trip), who diagnosed him with “flat eyeballs” and fitted him with glasses. The spectacles were expensive, so Harry was forbidden from playing sports. “It was very unusual for children to wear glasses then,” recalled Mize Peters, a schoolmate of Harry’s. “Kids had a tendency to make fun of people who wore glasses. They’d call him four-eyes. But it didn’t seem to bother him to be called that.”
His mom who taught him
