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HELEN KELLER

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VOLUME 1 0

1912 - 1913
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Helen Keller

Editor (People's Column— Will you please tell
me where and when Helen Keller was born
and give a brief sketch of her life?

Jay, Me. Inquirer.

Htelen Adams Keller was born, at Tuscombia,
Ala, June 27, 1880, the daughter of Capt H.
and Kate A. Keller. She was descended on
her father's side from Alex. Spottswood, Colo-
nial Governor of Virginia, and through her
mother was related to the Adams and Everett
families of New England. She became deaf
and blind at the age of 19 months as the re-
sult of illness. She has been educated by
Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who has been
jmptaaaMv from the beginning of her educa-
tion in 1887 to the present time. Miss Keller
entered Radcliffe College In 1900 and gradu-
ated in 1904. She contributed occasional arti-
cles to papers and magazines and is the author
of three books. 'She lives at Wrentham, Maes.

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Helen A. Keller.

Inquirer— Miss Helen A. Keller received her
education from Miss Anne Mansfield Sullivan,
now Mrs John A. Macy. She niw lives at
Linden Grove Farm, Pennellville, on Casco
Bay, near- Brunswick, Me, having given up
her home at Wrentham, Mass.

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Most remarkable are the dreams of
those both deaf and blind, when they
are recorded by so-remarkable person
as Miss Helen Keller, says Hampton's
Magazine. She recalls that in her
dreams, as in her dark and silent
world, "things \ I suddenly, heavily.
I i'eit my clothing afire, or I fell into a
tub of cold water."

Miss Keller's dream of reading the
raised print of the blind reads strange-
ly to seeing minds.

"In sleep I think I cannot sleep. I
toss about in the toils of tasks unfin-
ished. I decide to get up and read for
a while. I know the shelf in my library
where I keep the book I want. The
book has no name, but I find it without
difficulty. I settle myself comfortably
in the morris chair, the great book
open on my knee. Not a word can I
make out, 'the pages are utterly blank.
I am not surprised, but keenly disap-
pointed. I finger the pages, I bend
over them lovingly, the i;ears fall on
my hands, I shut the book quickly as
the thought passes through my mind.
'The print Will all be rubbed out if I
get it wet.' Yet there is no print tangi-
ble on the page."

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"Blind men were once beggars holding out *a cup. Today tliej
are your fellow-citizens asking for an opportunity to earn theii
bread. Only when they work can they hold up their heads.
"Wrentham, March, 1912. "HELEN KELLER

This is the plea of Helen Keller in the appeal of the Massaclm-1
setts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind. Here is
a case of multum in parvo. Helen Keller knows whereof she speaks
She is endowed with a wonderful mind. This fact has attract©*
great minds to her and she has benefited by the blessings of educa
lion and culture. All blind people are not gifted with such menta
power as Helen Keller but many of them are capable of "earning
their bread." Great strides have been made in the science of help
ing the blind. Such progress is one of the undoubted good signs o
jJie times.

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len Keller a Member of
mily of Lunn's New
Secretary.

RS. MACY HER TEACHER

tiremcnt of Walter Lippmann Will
Bring Famous Young Woman
to Schenectady to Live.

.■"hrcugh a shift in the political affairs
Schenectady, Miss Helen Keller the
intry's most famous deaf and
nd girl, who, despite, ner handicap,
nt through .Radcliff college in four
irs winning an A.B. degree, and has
:ained no little fame as an authoress,
11 make Schenectady her home soon.
This is due to the resignation of Walter
ppmann as executive secretary to May
George R. Lunn. The resignation was
nounced yesterday and will take effect
ay 1.

Mr. Lippman will be succeeded by John
Macy of Wrentham, Massachusetts,
hose wife, formerly Miss Anne Mans-
■ld Sullivan, has been Miss Keller's
jacher and constant companion since
80. Miss Keller has always made her
)me with Mr. and Mrs. Macy at Wren-

iam and will come with them to Sche-
;ctady.
In the life of the Macy family Miss
eller has played an important part.
,fhen she was a contributor to tile
Youth's Companion, Miss Sullivan met
Mr. Macy, then an associate editor of

that publication, and the marriage of
Miss Sullivan and Mr. Macy followed.

Mr. and Mrs. Macy and Miss Keller
are Socialists.

Miss Keller's Difficult Career.

Miss Helen Adams Keller was born at
Tuscumbia, Alabama, June 27, 1880. She
is descended on her father's side from
Alexander Spottswood, a governor of Vir-
ginia in colonial times, and through her
mother is related to the Adams and
Everett families of New England.

When nineteen months old she became
deaf, dumb and blind as the result of
illness. Her subsequent struggle against
her handicaps, obtaining a college educa-
tion and becoming a frequent contributor
to magazines, . and publishing essays
which have been widely read, have made
her famous all over America.

Her teacher has been Mrs. John A.
Macy, who was Miss Anne Mansfield Sul-
livan when she first took up the education
of Miss Keller in 1887.

Miss Keller entered Radcliffe college
in 1900 and by studying her lessons
through Mrs. Macy was graduated with
her class in 1904 with the degree o)
bachelor of arts.

Since leaving college Miss Keller has
been active. She was formerly a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts .commission
for the blind and is still on the advis-
ory boards of various societies for the
blind and deaf.

i Miss Keller has contributed occasional
papers to the Century magazine, Youth's
Companion, Ladies' Home Journal an
Mcflure's magazine.

Among her best known works ar

"The Story of My Life," published ii

1902; "Optimism," an essay publisher

.in 1903, and "The World I Live In,'

published in 1908.

Lippmann's Resignation.

"I deeply regret," said MrM. Lippmar
in his letter of resignation, "that the di
mands of my work make it impossib
for me to continue my residence
Schenectady. For this reason I am o
fering you my resignation from the posj
tion of executive secretary, this resign!
tion to take effect May 1, 1312.

"Every one has been most kind ai
generous to me. I have learned a go<
deal. I have made some friends. I hoi
I have served a little.

"Knowing the duties of this positioi'
it is a great pleasure to recommend m'
,friend, John Macy, of Wrentham, Massa
chusetts, as my successor. I am suii

you will find him an asset to the city,
power to your administration and a de
lightful person to have as a friend."

"Your work as executive secretary,
said Dr. Lunn in reply, '"has beeii s
completely satisfactory that I acce'
your resignation with unqualified regr
understanding as I do the necessity
your residence in New York city. I wt
you to know that I shall always appi
ciate the splendid service you have re
dered the city.

"I thank you for your recommend
tion of John Macy as your successc
It has been my pleasure to know hii
I agree with you as to^his special quali:
cations for the position of executive se
retary and will appoint him."

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HELEX KELLER'S BENEFACTOR

Willian* Wade of Pittsbnrgrh, Pa., Was
One of the Oldest Iron Manufacturers
in the Conntrj-

William Wade, a former member of
Macintosh, Hemphill & Company, and
one of the oldest iron manufacturers in
the country is dead at his home, "Rohns-
wood," Oakmont, a suburb of Pittsburgh.
He was seventy-five years of age and re-
tired a few years ago. Since then he
had passed his time between his residence
in Oakmont and a plantation in Virginia.
He was a philanthropist in a quiet way.
Notable among his acts was the educa-
tion of Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
blind girl. Miss Keller had visited Mr.
Wade frequently at Oakmont. Mr. Wade
was also a noted horticulturist and an
enthusiastic breeder of mastiff dogs and
Shetland ponies. His widow, two sons
and a daughter and a sister, Miss Bessie
Wade, survive.

Helen Keller, Blind and
Deaf Author, Appointed
To Cabinet Of Mayor

DR. GEORGE R. LUNM
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., June 14.—
The announcement was ' made last
night by the Rev George R. Lunn, So-
cialist mayor of Schenectady, that he
had tendered to Miss Helen Keller,
deaf and blind author, a position in his
cabinet, and that she had accepted.

Early in the fall Miss Keller will be-
come a member of the board of pub-
lic welfare. Miss Keller will make her
home in Schenectady with 'Mrs John
Macy, her former teacher. Mayor
Lunn's attention was first attracted to
Miss Keller by a magazine article she'
wrote on Socialism.

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MISS KELLER NAMED.

Deaf and Blind Girl App&fiTtett "to
Schenectady Public Welfare Board
by Socialist Mayor.

SCHENECTADY, June IS— It was an-
nounced at the office of Mayor Lunn
today that Miss Helen Keller, the deaf
and blind author of Wrentham, Mass,
wfculd he appointed In the Autumn as a
member of the Board of Public Wel-
fare.

Miss Keller will make her home when
she arrives in Schenectady with Mrs
John M. Mack, once her teacher. Miss
Keller will spend the Summer with Mrs
Mack at their vVrenthum home or in
the BerkJshires.

Miss Keller recently finished a maga-
zine article on Socialism, and Mrs Mack
says she has many Socialist ideas. It
was not known until recently whom
Mayor Lunn was considering for the
oosition on the board.

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HELEN KELLER TO

BE CITY OFFICIAL

SCHENECTADY, N. Y.. June 14.—
The announcement is made by the
Rev. George R. Llinn, Socialist mayor
of Schenectady, that he had tendered
to Miss Helen Keller, deaf and blind
author, a position in his cabinet, and
that she had accepted. Early in the
fall Miss Keller will become a member
of the board of public welfare. Miss
Keller will make her home in Schenec-
tady with Mrs. John Macy, her former
teacher.

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|F the report is true that Mfesjfrefen
*■ Keller will become in the rail a
member of the Board of Public Wet-
fare of Schenectady, N Y, her offi-
cial career will be watched with
keenest interest. Mayor Lunn, the
Socialist Chief Executive of that city
of 75,000 inhabitants, is said to have
offered the position to Miss Keller
and to have received her acceptance.

Her only means of communication
with the outer world is by the sense
of touch, but that sense is so highly
developed and so wonderful that
sight and hearing seem all but su-
perfluous for her. It is by no means
a dark, silent and remote world in
which she dwells. She is quite at
home in the great world around her.
She understands its problems fully
as well as most people who have all
their five senses. Better and more
necessary than that, she has a deep
| and intelligent sympathy for all suf-
fering. "For whoso walks a furlong
without sympathy, walks to his own
funeral, dressed in his shroud."

Miss Keller's brilliant mind and
her warm heart, her lively apprecia-
tion of. economic and social problems
and her strong common sense, would
seem to qualify her for her delicate
duties on the Schenectady Board of
Public Welfare, which is a sort of
advisory council to the Mayor.

That Miss Helen Keller has accepted
a place in the cabinet of a' socialist
mayor gives surprising evidence of th'o
originality of that official.

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PLACE FOR HELEN KELLER.

Schenectady, N. Y., June 14.— The an-
nouncement was made by the' Eev. George
R. Lunn, socialist mayor of Schenectady,
that he had tendered to Miss Helen Keller,
deaf and dumb author, a position in his
cabinet, and that she had accepted.

Early in the fall Miss Keller will become
a member of the board of pub'ic welfare.
Miss Keller will make her home in Sche-
nectady with Mrs. John Macy, her former
teacher.

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!ayor Lunn, the socialist mayor of
Schenectady, N. Y., has offered to
make Miss Helen Keller a member of
the board of public welfare of that
prosperous industrial city of 1 75,000
people. It is said he has received her
acceptance, and that she will in the
fall take up her new duties. The
board of public welfare in Schenectady
is an advisory council to a very pro-
gressive and intelligent executive.

Miss Keller is denied the sense of
.sight and hearing, but her l^ffffifnt
nfflfcTand her common sense keep her
in touch with all humanity. She
knows what is going on. in this world
better than most people do who have
the five senses. She understands its
problems, and best of all her sym-
pathy, goes out to all who need help.

The story of Helen Keller is more
marvelous than anything romance has
to offer. Her active years have been
full of usefulness and dignity, anc
he call to public service is simply
a tribute to her broad views and syj
pathetic understanding.

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HELEN KELLER— A LESSOX.

The -iripnintmrnt nf Mi" H,iato« Kel-
ler to the board ol public welfare In
Schenectady is not to be passed care-
lessly over as a matter of no moment.
It offers an opportunity for a career al-
ready marvelous in achievement to
round itself out into service of great
public benefit.

The story of Helen Keller is a mod-
ern miracle more wonderful to the re-
flecting mine" than those of the an-
cients. It was accounted mar-
velous of old if the blind
were made to see, the deaf to hear and
the dumb to speak; hut this woman,
born deaf, dumb and blind and remain-
ing so all her life, has yet, through the
mystery of touch alone, mastered a wide
range of learning, classic, literary and
scientific: has brought to herself a
sympathetic understanding of almost
everything that goes on around her, and
has widened her thoughts, her hopes
and her interests until they extend
now into the activities of politics and of
enterprises.

TheTe has been nothing spectacular or
sensational in this career. Miss Keller
has been been the wonder of a show or
the protegee of society. She has made
her way upward by steps so sure and
so silent that it is only when the tre-
mendous handieno of her life is con-
sidered that the innate strength of her
will and the clearness of her intellect
are revealed. But now the public re-
ward comes. She who is deaf is to sit
in council; she who is dumb is to advis
she who is blind is to lead a city of
magnitude and enterprise. Here is a
story in quiet life that nothing told of
in history surpasses either for wonder
or for praise. — New York World.

Read and ponder this, ' you young
men and women who are about to re-
ceive the sheepskin, badge of your wis-
dom and of your loyalty to the alma
mater which has brought you along in
the paths of rectitude and learning. Be
not satisfied with the consciousness that
you have won, and honestly won, a
certificate that you have an educa-
tions, but in all humility admit that,
with school days over, you are but on
the threshold of the boundless knowl-
edge of the world.

Newspapers and magazines devote so
much attention to men and women in
high public station — they dilate upon the
success achieved by those who are the
fortunate children of a lucky chance —
that unfortunately the conclusion forces
itself home sometimes to those who are
striving to overcome obstacles that
there is really nothing worth striving
for that is not wrapped up in those oo-
sitions upon which the persistent and
pitiless limelight forever plays; that the
only jewels worth winning are those
which come through sacrifice of personal
dignity and not infrequently honor it-
self, and that the only thing the world
holds worthy is distinction's worthless
badge.

But Helen Keller in many ways the
most fortunate woman of our time is a
living refutation of any such absurd
theory. The lines of her life were orig-
inally cast in the quiet, retired places —
far removed from the clamor of the
heedless throng — the desirable publicity
that has come to her has been unsought,
but naturally and justly earned. It is
inconceivable that so wonderful an indi-
vidual— so remarkable a woman — could
for all time keep herself in the back-
ground however much she might desire
to spend her hours there. As one after
another the lessons were learned and the
honors started to flow in upon her, her
case began to attract that large measure
of respectful attention that the sincere
always bestow upon genius. Now at
what is really the commencement of her
career an avenue of large usefulness
opens to her and in it her feet will tread
— and to her credit and that of the city
in whose employment she is.

It is the power of Helen Keller and
the glory that no obstacle has been so
great as to disconcert her; no task so
formidable as to chill her courage or
shake her faith; no discouragement so
bitter as to dishearten utterly; no road
eo thorny that she hesitated to walk
therein. Some of the rarest and the
sweetest of the world's flowers bloom
apd shed their fragrance in the isolated
and desolate spots of earth and many of
the brightest minds grow and flourish
where the natural opportunities for de-
velopment are the least inviting.

We would not discourage fun-^-we
would not still the playing fountain of
rippling laughter. They are as necessary \
to a clear perspective and to the attain-
ment of a sense of proportion and to a '
really influential life as are the rains in
quickening to service the dead earth.
But the stern realities should not be
subordinated to mere enjoyment. It
ought to be the case that he who plays
the hardest works the best Colleges en-
deavor to magnify this principle — they
provide that while a student may labor
to achieve athletic honors,he must main-
tain a certain high rating in the class-
room. The system should be kept in op-
eration even after the college days are;
past. Perhaps we ought not to take life
too seriously, but contrariwise we
ought not to go to the other extreme
and regard it as a joke.

When we see young men and young
women wasting their talents; when we
see them chasing a fleeting bauble; when
we see them seeking to be merely the
butterflies of fashion and, by aimless
method, to scale the giddy heights of
frivolity and fun in order that they may
win a fickle crowd's applause; when we
see the precious moments wasted and
chances for honorable advancement
lightly and scornfully cast aside; when
we see boys and girls fighting to gain
those evil things which in the end must
work their own destruction;- — when we
contemplate all these we marvel that so
many are content to avoid the splendid j
highway that Helen Keller walks and!
which leads to the bright sunlight and I
the fruitful fields, and instead wander,
in the byways that lead to life's deep
morasses and its crimson stains.

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The apj^intment oiTliss Helen Kel-
ley4J^ie%pard of Public Welfare in
ScheilctadyT leads tihe New York-
World to remark — and that these re-
marks are fitting and applicable, empha-
size once more a modern miracle, in its
■way as wonderful to the reflecting
mind as any recorded in the history of
the human race, or indeed in the im-
aginative creation of myths and le-
gends. "Tt was accounted marvelous ot
old," says the World, "if the blind were
made to see, the deaf to hear, and the
dumb to speak; but this woman born
deaf, dumb, and blind, and remaining so
all her life, has yet, through the mys-
tery of touch alone, mastered a w*4e
range of learning, classic, literary and
scientific; has brought to herself a
sympathetic understanding of almost
everything that goes on around her,
and has widened her thoughts, her
hopes and her interests until they ex-
tend now into the activities of politics
and of civic enterprizes. She who is deaf
is to sit in council; she who is dumb is
to advise; she who is blind is to lead in
a city of magnitude and enterprize.
Here is a story of quiet life that noth-
ing told of in history surpasses either
l(jr wonder or for praise."

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Helen Keller Plans
to Lecture in Public

The action of Mayor Lunn, the Socialist
Mayor of Schenectady, N. Y'., in reserving
a position on his personally created Board
of Public Welfare for Miss Helen Keller
has aroused deep interest in Boston. Miss
Keller is expected to take up a permanent
residence In that city in the Fall with ner
lifelong teacher, companion and friend,
Mrs. John Macey, wife of the private
secretary to Mayor Dunn. They are now
residing at Wrentnam, the Macey home-

"Miss Keller's opinions would be ^-ex-
tremely valuable to the board," says' Mayor
Lunn. "The board has to do mainly with
intimate life of the people, and I think
Miss Keller is specially fitted, and, indeed,
should devote her life to just this kind of
work."

That Miss Keller is not yet satisfied
with her wonderful achievements, but
hopes to become a public speaker, is. the
declaration of Mr. Macey. If experiments
being made by Dr. Charles A- White of
the New England Conservatory of Music
are successful, Miss Keller's voice, now
thin and hardly audible in a large room,
will be cutivated so that she can deliver
lectures from public platforms.

"Dr. White visits Miss Keller every
"week," explained Mr. Macey, "and when
the conservatory closes for the Summer
he will devote. all his time to her. If this
works out all right she will not have ' to
stay in Schenectady ; she will go all about,
"" ***** heT lsctures °" socialism."

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HELEN KELLEJ

In this new age of womjL|fe|bJpad-
ened activity in affairs it need occa-
sion, no surprise that the Socialist
mayor of Schenectady has appointed a
woman to the board of public wel-
fare that is to advise him on various
matters. But it is a particularly strik-
ing thing that the woman thus hon-
ored should have been born into the
world both blind and deaf. That wom-
an is none other than Helen Keller,
who, by the way, has seen service
in this state on the commission for
the blind.

Massachusetts, 8£$§cij*ily,' feels proud
of Helen Keller. Though naturally
possessed of but two of the five senses,
she was endowed with wonderful cour-
age and perseverance. Of pronounced
mental capacity, she has become highly
educated and a great power for use-
fulness, and has applied herself with
such patience to the task of overcom-
ing natural obstacles that she has cul-
tivated the faculty of speech to such
an extent as to be able to converse
without the medium of writing or signs
and even hopes to become a lecturer.
To the force of intellect she adds a
deep and tender sympathy for un-
fortunates of every class. Her life is
a marvel, a source of deep inspiration
to persons who would succeed in spite
of handicaps.

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HELEN KELLER, DEAF-BLIND WONDER

WOULD LIKE TO BE SOCIALIST ORATOR

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"If I am appointed to the Board
of. Public Welfare in Schenectady,
I shall first of all try to improve
conditions among the extreme poor,
for poverty is the fundamental
cause of almost every evil.

"The slums will continue to exist
as long as the capitalistic class

rules. Socialism is the only solu-
tion of our present problems, it
seems to me.

"LaFollettc is the best of the
prominent public men today, and
even he is 30 years behind the
times," — Miss Hekn Keller.

Helen Keller, the blind, deaf and dumb
woman whose mastery of an education
in the face of these handicaps has made
her world famous, is now considering the
proposition of becoming a city official of ,
the city of Schenectady, . N. Y.

The position for which Miss Keller has
been mentioned is a membership on the
Board of Public Welfare, a body much
favored by the Rev. George R. Lunn, the
Socialist Mayor of Schenectady. Miss
Keller is herself a Socialist and is a firm

believer in votes for women.

Mayor Lunn intends that his new board
fehall have jurisdiction over tenement
conditions, children's playgrounds and
i numerous other matters that do not
properly come under any regular depart-
ment of Schnectady's ciey government.

Miss Keller has made a study of social
conditions today and it is undoubtedly \
partly on account of this that Mayor i
Lunn has thought of making her a mem-
ber of the board which has bo much to '
do with improving the slum, situation in
Schenectady.

At present, Miss Keller is at the home
of Mrs. John Macey in Wrentham and
it was there that she told a Sunday Post
reporter of her plans and of the oppor-
tunities she might find for doing good
as a member of the Schenectady board.

A New Scheme

"I have heard nothing from Mayor
Lunn regarding the matter," said Miss
Keller, "though I knew such a board
was to be established. I think it will
do a great good. It is a new scheme,
fraught with many difficulties. The
problems would have to be met as they
might arise.

"One thing I would try to do would
be to wipe out the slums, for it is
there that sickness, disease and im-
morality are born.

"The only way to bring about any
permanent improvement is to prevent
rather than to alleviate. "When the chil-
dren are born blind, we have Institu-
tions for them. But how much better it
would be to be able to prevent blind-
ness.

"Should I be appointed to the board,
I would first of all try In some way
to Improve conditions among the ex-
treme poor, for of all evils poverty
tops the list.

"I would go so far asr to say that
poverty is the fundamental cause of
almost every evil. Poverty is a horrible
thing. It is the cause of crime, disease
and suffering of all - kinds. Poverty
drives people to vice. I am convinced
that that is true, rather than the old-
fashioned theory that vice drives peo-
ple to poverty.

"Why do the slums exist? They exist
because they pay dividends to those
who own them, better dividends than
improvements would pay."

Remedy for Poverty

When asked as to what she would sug-
gest as a remedy for poverty, Miss
Keller's socialistic ideas asserted them-
selves at once, for she said:

"Let every man get off his fellow
man's back, so that he can stand on his
own feet, and do his own work with
his own hands and faculties.

"No money belongs to us that is not
earned. Let us get rid of our money
that is received from invested capital
and give the workmen a chance to get
their proper share of what rightfully
belongs to them."

The reporter suggested that the pres-
ent great fortunes might stand in the
way of such procedure, and Miss Kellej
said:

"Let the fortunes stay where they are.
They cause trouble enough to those who
have them.

"I believe that Socialism is the only
hope at present of any lasting improve-
ment in the existing conditions. We
cannot possibly have a better world un-
til we better the existing conditions. So
far as the old systems are concerned
they have done well enough so far as
jthey go, but they do not go far enough.
They are for the few, not for the many.

World Growing Better

"Yet I am convinced that the world fs
growing better. There are more healthy,
happy children today than ever before,
though there are still far too few.

"There are more schools and colleges,
more hospitals and institutions for the
blind, the crippled and the deformed.
There are more intelligent women than
ever before, but there are still far too
few.

"If I should be called to help in the
work in Schenectady, I think perhaps I
might be able to be of some assistance
there. At least I should try very hard."

HELEN KELLER

• It is said that the late Herbert Spen-
cer, when about to mount to those
wirtitudes of thought which he alone
could attain, stuffed his ears with cot-
ton and closed his eyes in order to
shut out of his consciousness ■ all dis-
tracting trivialities of sound and^ight".
Miss Helen Keller does not have to
be content with such makeshifts. To-
tally deaf and blind since the age of
.19 months, she is freed from the thrall
of the petty impressions and irrita-
tions that constantly intrude upon the
mind of the person of normal senses?
Few have the philosophic spirit tc$
look upon such an affliction as a bless-,
ing, but, then, few people have within
them the spark of genius — that infinite
capacity for taking pains that persists
in spite of all handicaps. Miss Keller
does not live in a cavern of rayless,
soundless gloom. She inhabits a
world of her own, illuminated by the
light that never was on sea or land.
Her eyes are sightless, her ears use-
less, yet her mind is alert, and her
heart beats strong and true with the
great heart of humanity. She has re-
ligion. It is socialism.

Helen Adams Keller is a southern
girl, born at Tuscumbia,' Ala., June
27, 1880. She will celebrate her 32d
birthday tomorrow. The Rev. George
R. Lunn, socialist mayor of Schenec-
tady, N. Y., recently appointed Miss
Keller a member of his board of pub-
lic welfare, which had its inception
with the incoming of the socialist ad-
ministration. The functions of the
board are the recommendation to the
common council of such measures as
do not come within the scope of other
departments.

The blind genius is descended on
her father's side from Alexander
Spottswood, who was colonial gover-
nor of Virginia before the American
Revolution, and on her mother's side
she is related to the famous Adams
and Everett families of New England",
which have given so many statesmen
and men of genius to the service 'of

the United States. Miss Keller's early
| education was in the hands of Miss
Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by whom she
was prepared to enter Radcliffe col-
lege in 1900. She graduated from that
institution, with the degree of bache-
lor of arts, in 1904. Since then she
has written several books and scores
of magazine articles, including the
wonderful "Story of My Life," an
autobiography such as the world had
hever before read. "The World I
Live In," the essay on "Optimism" and
other works of similar character have
the frankness and originality of
genius and their literary style is all
but perfect.

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Helen Keller Offered Public Office.

Miss Helen Keller, known all over
the world for the" brave fight she made
to gain an education in spite of her
physical handicap (blind, deaf and
dumb) is now considering the propo-
sition of becoming a city official in
Schenectady, N. Y.

The position for which Miss Keller
has been mentioned, is a membership
on the Board of Public Welfare, a
body much favored by the Rev. Geo.
-R. Limn, the Socialist mayor of
Schenectady. Miss Keller is herself a
Socialist and a firm believer in votes
for women.

Mayor Lunn intends that his new
board shall have jurisdiction over
tenement conditions, children's play
grounds and numerous other matters
that do not come under any regular
department.

"Should I be appointed to the board"
Says Miss Keller, "I would first of all,
try in some way to improve condi-
tions among the extreme poor, for of
all evils poverty tops the list. I would
go so far as to say that poverty is the
fundamental cause of almost every
evil.

HELEX KELLER, 32

TO-MORROW, IS BLIND AND

DEAF, YET A GENETS'

It is said that the late Herber
Spencer, when about to mount t(
those altitudes of thought which h»
alone could attain, stuffed his ear;
with cotton and closed his eyes in or
der to shut out of his consciously
all distracting trivialities of somn
and sight. Miss Helen Keller doe1
not have to be content with sue!
makeshifts. Totally blind and dea
since the age of nineteen months, sh<
is freed from the thrall of the pett'j
impressions and irritations that con-
stantly intrude upon the mind of th<:
person of normal senses. Few have
the philosophic spirit to look upon
such an affliction as a blessing, but,
then, few people have within them
the spark of genius that infinite ca-
pacity for taking pains that persists
in spite of all handicaps. Miss Kel-
ler does not live in a cavern of ray-
less\ soundless gloom. She inhabits
a world of her own, illumined by the
light that -never was on sea or land.
Her eyes are#sightless, her ears, use-,
less; yet her mind is alert, and her
heart beats strong and true with the!
great heart of humanity. She has
her religion. '"■ It is Socialism. You;
mstf- deride the ' Socialism of Eugene'
Y-^ Debs or Herr Bebel. You will not
deride the Socialism of Miss Keller.

Helen Adams Keller is a "Southern
girl, born at Tuscumbia, Ala., June-
27, 1880. She will celebrate, her
thirty-second birthday to-morrow. The
Rev. George R. Lunn, Socialist may-
or of Schenectady, X. Y., recently ap-
pointed Miss Keller a member of his
Board of Public Welfare, which had
its inception with the incoming of tho
Socialist administration. The func-
tions of the board are the recommen-
dation to the Common Council of
such measures as do not come with-
in the scope of other departments.

The blind genius is descended on
her fathers side from Alexander
Spottswood. who was colonial gover-
nor of Virginia before the American
Revolution, and on her mother's side
she is related to the famous Adams
and Everett families of New Eng-
land, which have given so many
statesmen and men of genius to the
service of. the United States. Mlsa
Keller's early education was in the
hands, of Miss Anne Mansfield Sulli-
van, by whom she rv1 9 - -prepare
en,ter Redcliffe College in 1900. She

graduated from that institution, with
xhe degTee of Bachelor of Arts, in
1904. Since then she has written
several books and scores of magazine
articles, including the wonderful
"Story of My Life," an autobiography
such asi tho world had never before
read. "The World T Live in," the es-
say on "Optimism" and other works
of similar character have the frank-
ness and originality of genius and
their literary style is all but perfect.

A dozen years ago Miss Keller
wrote: "Sometimes a sense of isola-
tion enfolds me like a cold mist as 1
si."* alone and wait at life's shut gate."
Tragic and pitiful beyond words is
this confession of one deprived of the
common joys, of humanity. . . Since
then the gate has been opened and
the mist has been dissipated. . Ona-
must have faith, or die. If not in
God, in oneself; if not in oneself, in
humanity. Miss Keller pins her
faith to humanity, and, though bund,
she sees a vision of a future when
man shall no longer make war on
man, and when brotherhood and com-
petition shall take the place of com-
petition and strife.

A dream? Yes. But who,' with
eyes to see the squalor and ears to-
hear the cry of humanity, does nqt
envy Miss Keller, her dream? I, tor
one, am glad that Miss Keller thinks
we are wiser, and more merciful, and
better able to govern ourselves than
we really are.

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TALK BY MISS HELEN
KELLARTHEEEATURE

_ \

She Addressed the Convention at
the School for the Deaf.
" To-day's Programme.

An ui' expected address by Miss Helen
Keller was the feature yesterday at the
; meeung of the American Association to
Promote the Teaching of Speech ~*»-t»w
Deaf, which is being held at the Rhode
island Institute for the Deaf on Hope

street Miss Keller, who is deaf and
bhnd and who has been dumb until very
recently, is one of the delegates to the
convention. She said in part

"Dear Friends— I cannot tell you what
a pleasure it is to me to be with you
once more. Nor can I thank you too
warmly for your continued interest in
me. i remember well the bright June
bay that I spoke before, you at Mt. Airy
16 years ago. How strange and like a.
dream it all seems! That day I used my
detective, halting voice to urge that
every deaf child should be taught to
speak. To-day my voice is still defective
and halting; Kit I lift it, imperfect as it
is, in praise of the work of the associa-
tion. Your progress rejoices me, and such
!progre*'D as I have made is valuable to
me because it reinforces and proves your
work.

'"It has always been a' joy to be able
to speak. True, it is poor speech True,
only a few near friends understand me
readllyq. Nevertheless, what speech i
have has mean more lo me than I can
ever say. My words are lame and broken;
but they bind me td the world of men
F.nd women. Through isolation, silence,
darkness, I send forth a winged word;
Us pinions are crippled, but so-nehow it
flies and reaches another heart. With
the first word that unloosed my tongue
began a greater fullness of life. Before
that I had' been happy when a flutter ot
the fingers ci ened to me a small ipart of
the world 1 was exploring. But the
spoken word— that mighty, thought-
quickening power— flung back the gates
and gave me a wider access to the world
of knowledge and companionship.

'It is a pleasure and a privilege to in-
troduce to this association Mr. White,
who is working to improve my speech.
I am glad to be the bond that unites his
art, his skill to yours. He will explain
to you what he has been trying to do for
my voice, and you can judge how well he
has succeeded; for of that I have no
right to speak. 1 must tell you. however,
in his presence that the lessons he has
given me have been, despite all difhcul-
jies, a continuous delight and inspiration.
Tcu can judge if my speech is ciejirer.
I know that, thinks to him; I am free
from much of the discomfort, tension ana
rrxlety that used to hamper me.

"I wish this association Godspeed in its
endeavors to open the lips of the deat.
Every time I open my mouth I shall
think of myself, 'I must speak well; I win
sipe'ak well; for my success will encour-
age you to go forward, touching silent
lips and setting free mute voices.' I am
rioua to present to the teachers of the
deaf rny teacher who has taught many to
hll the world with beautiful sounds, and
who has now become your colleague in
the dicffiult art of making; the speech of
IPe deaf Jot beautiful, perhaps, but clear,
fluent, natural."

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MISS KELLER TALKS
AT MEETING HERE

Famous Blind Girl Addresses
Teachers of the Deaf,

CAN ENUNCIATE DISTINCTLY

Prof. William Mat-Donald of Brown
Tells of "The New South" at Eve-
ning Session of American Associa-
tion to Promote Teaching of Speech
to the Deaf.

Miss Helen Keller, the famous blind
girl, delivered an address yesterday at
the meeting: of the American Association
to Promote the Teaching of Speech to
the Deaf, which is being held at the
Rhode Island Institute for the Deafon
Hope street.

Miss Keller, who is deaf and blind
and who has been dumb until very re-
cently, is one of the delegates to the
convention.

At the meeting last night Prof. Wil-
liam MacDonald of Brown University de-
livered an interesting talk on "The New
South." Prof. MacDonald said that one
of the principal reasons for the South' s
political condition at the present time is
the fact that it has been solidly for one
party since the Civil War. He also de-
clared tn*at the biggest social problem
which ever confronted a civilized people
was that of the race question facing the
South to-day.

Miss Keller's speech was a feature
which was not upon the programme. She
was present during the morning session
when addresses were given by Dr. Crou-
ter, President of the association, and Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell, another officer
of the association.

"Dear Friends— I cannot tell you what
a pleasure it is to me to be with you
once more. Nor can I thank you too
warmly for your continued interest in
me. I remember well the bright June
day that I spoke before you at Mt. Airy
IS years ago. How strange and like a
dream it all seems! That day I used my
defective, halting voice to urge that
every deaf child should be taught to
speak. To-day my voice is still defective
and halting; but I lift it, imperfect as it
is, in praise of the work of the associa-'
tion. Your progress rejoices me, and such
progress as I have made is valuable to
me because it reinforces and proves your j
work.

JOY TO SPEAK. ■

"It has always been a joy to be able
to speak. True, it is poor speech. True,
only a few near friends understand me
Ireadily. Nevertheless, what speech I
have has meant more to me than I can
ever say. My words are lame and broken;
but they bind me to the world of- men
and women. Through isolation, silence,
darkness, I send forth a winged word;
its pinions are crippled, but somehow it
flies and reaches another heart. With
the. first word that unloosed my tongue
began a greater fullness of life. Before
that I had been happy when a flutter of
the fingers opened to me a small part of
the world I was exploring. Bu.t the
spoken word— that mighty, thought-
quickening power— flung back the gates
and gave me a wider access to the world
of knowledge and companionship.

"It is a pleasure and a privilege to in-
troduce to this association Mr. White,
who Is working ft> improve riiy speech.*
I am glad to be the bond that unites his
art, his skill to yours.. He will explain
to you what he has been trying to do for
my voice, and you can judge how well ha
has succeeded; for of that I have no
right to speak. I must tell you, however,
in his presence that the lessons he has
given me have been, despite all difficul-
ties, a continuous delight and inspiration.
You can judge if my speech is clearer,
I know that, thanks to him, I am free
from much of the discomfort, tension and
anxiety that used to hamper me.

"I wish this association Godspeed in its
endeavors to open the lips of the deaf.
Every time I open my mouth I shal'
think to myself, 'I must speak well; I will
speak well ; for my success will encour-
age you to go forward, touching silent
lips and setting free mute voices.' I am
proud to present to the teachers of the
deaf my teacher who has taught many to
fill the world with beautiful sounds, and
who has now become your colleague in
the difficult art of making the speAch of
the deaf not beautiful, perhaps, but clear,
fluent, natural."

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ESS IS
BY HELEN KLUER

At Session of American Associa-
tion to Promote the Teach-
ing of Speech to the
Deaf.

At the meeting of the American asso-
ciation to promote the teaching of speech
to the deaf which is being held at the
Rhode Island Iistitute for the Deaf on
Hope street, Miss Helen Keller the
famous blind girl, delivered an address
Wednesday. She said in part:

"Dear Friends— I cannot tell you what
a pleasure it is to me to be with you
once more. Nor can I thank you too
warmly for your continued interest in
me. I remember well the bright June day
that I spoke before you at Mt. Airy 16
years ago. How strange and like a dream
it all seems! That day I used my defec-
tive, halting voice to urge that every
deaf child should be taught to speak. To-
day my voice is still defective and halt-
ing; but I lift it, imperfect as it is, in
praise of the work of the association.
Your, progress rejoices me, and such
progress as I have made is valuable to
me because it reinforces and proves your
work.

"It has always been a joy to be able
to speak. True, it is poor speech. True,
only a few near friends understand me
readily. Nevertheless, what speech I
have has meant more to me than I can
ever say. My words are lame and broken;
but they bind me to the world of men
and- women. Through isolation, silence,
darkness, I send forth a winged word;
its pinions are crippled, but somehow it
flies and reaches another heart. With
the first word that unloosed my tongue
began a greater fullness of life. Before
that I had been happy when a flutter of
the fingers opened to me a small part of
.the world I was exploring. But the

spoken word— that mighty, thought
quickening power— flungt back the gates
and gave me a wider access to the world
of knowledge and companionship."

Prof. William McDonald of Brown uni-
versity delivered an interesting address
on the theme "The New South" at the
meeting Wednesday evening. He said in

"It is hard to analyze a contemporary
movement, and it is especially difficult
to give in a brief talk an outline of the
new forces which are now in operation in
the South. The South to most of us here
in the North is merely one vast region,
alike with same characteristics through-
out. But the different sections of the
South vary greatly.

"To many in the North the word
'South' conjures before us a picture
which has not changed since the Civil
War. Some of us fail to realize that the
country has changed vastly during the
last 60 years and that the South has un-
dergone a change even greater than the
North.

"The Civil War left the South the vic-
tim of a humiliating, disastrous defeat.
The South had put every dollar it had'
into the war, and had lost. The end of
the war found the Confederacy bankrupt.
But aside from the financial overthrow,
there was a change in the whole social
system.

"The excesses of the reconstruction
were not due to the war, but were due
wholly to the swindlers who came down
from the North and also to the bestowal
of the suffrage upon the negro popula- |
tion. The suffrage of the negro was thrust j
upon the South, and it was a calamity j
to the negro.

The session Thursday morning will con-
sist of a talk on drawing and manual
training by Miss Florence M. Clegg, a
demonstration of work under the direction
of Mrs. Edwin G. Hurd, and a lecture on
"Visible Speech" by Dr. Alexander Gra-
ham Bell. Thursday afternoon the dele-
gates will take a trip to Newport.

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HELEN KELLER AND OTHERS

The life of Helen Keller is a bright
example of what may be done when de-
prived of so mu<Jh that is possessed by
most people. WitMlfsight, or hearing,
or speech, she bf« risen to eminence.
Lately she has been appointed a mem-
>»r of the Board of Public Welfare in
New York. Without doubt she will
prove a very efficient and valuable mem-
ber of that board. There are phases of
the work which she will comprehend and
know how to manaro better than oth-
ers. Her past life shows her well fitted
for the position. No truer thought has
been given expression than that,

•'Lives of great men all remind us,
We can make our lives sublime."

l Jhe life of Helen Keller should
stand out as a shining light to all who
suffer from physical disability. If one
cannot achieve the same usefulness,
there is yet room and a place and a
work that the world needs and that
may be accomplished by one who tries.
But what of him who has all of the
senses? There is no excuse for his not
doing to his utmost all that is in him
to do, to make the world, society, his
neighbors and family better and hap-
pier for his having lived. Whatever may
be the obstacles in your way, do no^
despair nor be discouraged. Surely
Helen Keller, lacking sight and heari
could achieve usefulness, it is possj
for you.

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A Believer in Woman Suffrage:

and Now Working to Imurove

Her Speech, This Wonderful

Blind and Deaf Girl Until

Recently Dumb, lells a

Sunday Tribune Writer

of Her Outlook on the World.

(By Nettie B. Pettis. I
"Out of the night that cover's me,

Black as I lie pit from po'c lo pole.
I thank whatever God's may Lie

for n.y unconquered' sua.

in the fell clutch of eircums Unite,

J have not winced or rried alotid
Under the bludgoonings of chanee

My lical is Lilo'otiy but iijin>OV.".-'-c|.

Beyond the place of wrath and tears,

Looms hut the horror of the .shade.
And vet the menace of the vears

l'*inds and shall Lnd me tinairaul.

H matters not how strait the u^te.
How charged with puntslmienl th"
scroll
T am thjs master of mv fate
1 •nn the captain of my soul'."

These immortal lines i"rnni Henley's *'T
Al"-*' spoken clearly and distinctly tiy]
Miss llrl.-n K'p.lrr, born deaf, dumb ."; i
blind, broOght inspiration and astonish-
ment to a large audience at the Rhode

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HELEN KELLER.

From a Picture by Tribune Photographer.

Island Institute for the Deaf, where the
convention of the American Association
to Promote the Teaching of Speech was
held during the week. That this young
woman, totally deaf and blind from
.biflh, and' until very recently dumb also,
lias been able to master the art of speech
was something beyond the ken of those
who hung with rapt attentu
?very word.

To all alike these lines, spoken slowly,
somewhat haltingly yet distinctly and in
a deep, minor key, come as the revela-
tion of a soul, .strong, serene and su-
preme in the face of every obstacle. Her
sweet, attractive race lighted up

isiasm as she spoke and ail realized
ice and charm of a great pei
ality which had conquered iii the battle
of life. Few who listened failed to grasp
tl'~ lesson which the 1 lies and her en-
thusiasm conveyed.

Ua.Djllcs.ppe J hi mic race of life, shut
ou'i from the world by force of circum-
stance, her face revealed the serenity of
her soul, and her « yes—wide open though
sightless. — lighted up with the expression
of her soul and all fe"t that she had
Found the happiness which all the v.'orld

"Uiss Keller's Appearance.

Seated on the platform, beside Mrs. J. i
H. Macy, her faithful friend and teacher, :
she was the centre of all interest, livall- j
ing- even Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, I
inventor of the Eel] telephone. She was
tastefuily and even attractively dressed !
in a delicate pink and white muslin with
yoke and sleeves of white lace and a be-
coming- hat of leghorn trimmed with pink
roses. Graceful, youthful looking and
most attractive in manner with a pecu-
liarly winning smile, she was sweet and
fair to look upon.

"With her hand in that of Mrs. Macy,
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Bell, she followed his every word, now
and then bowing her head in ippri
Bis suggestions, it was when she rose' to.
speak, however, that the entmisiasai was
greatest, and at the end of the poetn sr>e
Recited with so much of pathos, sh- had
won all hearts -for sightless and deit
jrlipugl) she may be, s,he has yet th&t gift
of the Gods— a great personality." con. •
pclling and magnetic; which has enabled
her to rise above physical limitations
nnd attain to heights of intellectual cul-
ture .reached by few under the most
i i cred physical and woridly .circum-
stances.

, Her voice, too, which she d- ems so
"poor," had yet a something Indefinable
in it. a certain soul quality which way in
itself a charm nnd not an affliction. Deep
and ringing, it had in it the notes of
(sincerity as though it were (he' cry of
her heart. "Out of the depth? have 1
brlefl unto Thee, o Lord, hear mv voice,''
She spoke slowly, carefully and v.'itli
much cure, her effort, unlike thai o,C,j
many who thus learn to speak, bein™
pp'fisant to hear-.
Her First Address.

Jn :) short address to the aud'rn o. her
first address, by the way, since she mas-
tered the difficulty of speech, she ex-
pressed her joy in being aide to speak;
"True," she said, "it is poor speech. My
words are lame and broken, but they
bind itfe lo a World of men and women.

jb isolation, silence, darkness 1
Bend forth a winged word; its pinions are
crippled but somehow it flics and reaches
mother heart.

"'With the first word that unloosed my
tongue," she said, "began a greater full-
I ness of life. Before that I had been happy
tvhen a flutter of the fingers opened to
me a small part of the world 1 was ex-
I ploring. But the spoken word Hung back
the gates and gave me access to the
world of companionship."

In a. personal interview with Miss Kel-
ler after the session at which she spoke.
the writer 'was introduced and cordially
greeted' and, through an interprets^'-, ii.it
gifted young woman conversed rather
more rapidly than in her address, yet
clearly and distinctly so that every word
was understood

In response to the question as to her
present life and activities. Miss Keller
said, "I am working to improve my
speech, to get more tone, more distinct-
ness and ap leasaner voi.'-e. 1 am writ-
ing letters, too, so many letters, for T
have letters from all parts of the world
and T try to answer them."

"I am writing, too. on the woman ques-
tion for publication."

This last from Miss Keller brought the
brief conversation to the ques+ion of
woman suffrage. In response to a query
by the writer as to her attitude on the
suffrage question, Miss Keller was in-
stantly all alert and quickly replied. "I
believe in woman suffrage with all my
heart."

"V\*e shall never have a better wo'-lil
until men and woman work side by side
and with equal freedom for the .good of
all, for after all what are th o government
pnd the laws but ministers to the g'"eat
horsehold of the nation?

"Th" laws and the government are onb*
ministers to the great world hoisehoid
nnd if she does not understand laws how
shall she be the intelligent head of her
world?"
To Sommer in AllegJhanles.

Miss Keller is spending the summer
with Mrs. J. A. Macy at. her home in
Wrentham, Mass. She goes, however,
soon to Pennsylvania where, with Mrs.
Macey, she is to be the guest of J.Irs.
i "Wiliam Thaw, mother of Harry -W.
( Thaw, at her country place in tlib Alle-
ghanies.

Here she will indulge in her love of
mountain climbing, for she revels ;n me
jov of out-of-door life; in the scent of
the woods and flower-filled fields w-iere,
blind though she may be, she is able to
call each familiar flower by its name and
to enjoy the beauties of nature, even
' MxSfcJvorld of color must forever
be to' her a closed, hook. -<4m*wmma*.~

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Marvelous Blind and Deaf Girl Also Recites a
Poem at Gathering in Providence- — Professor
White, Her Teacher, Tells of the Pupil's Progress
Under His Direction.

MISS PIELEN KELLER— Public Speaker! The marvelous blind and deaf
girl, dumb till . now through her deafness, has not only learned to talk,
but to speak in public.
At the sessions of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of
Speech in the Deaf, which just closed in Providence, Miss Helen Keller ad-
dressed the delegates twice.

The first day she spoke she delivered
an address of three or four hundred words.
It was an expression of exquisite senti-
ment.

"Through isolation, silence, darkness,"
said Miss Keller, "I send forth a winged
word; its pir.ions are crippled but some-
how it flies and reaches another heart."

That sentence along from her speech
told a story of pride and pathos, one
which touched the audience infinitely.

The next day Miss Keller reTited a
poem. She chose for her recitation Hen-
ley's "I Am," that breathing of an in-
domitable spirit which concludes thus:
"I am the master of my futc.
I am the Captain of my soul."
There was none in the audience but who
realized that the lines applied with
peculiar force to the blind and deaf girl
who had mastered speech at fearful odds.

Professor J. W. White of the New Eng-
land Conservatory of Music, who has been
giving Miss Kellar lessons in speech twice
a week all the Spring, is delighted be-
yond words.

He has told friends that Mis3 Keller
speaks so as to be understood, though at
first none but* Mrs. John Macey, with
whom she lives, could get her spoken
meaning.

Fir years Miss Keller has conveyed her
thoughts only by the "finger talk." She
would tap her sensitive finger-tips on
.•us. Macey's wrist and the latter would
talk back to the girl tte same way.

It is utterly impossible for Miss Keller
to bear. So the tremendous difficulty of
teaching her to talk is apparent.

The girl's vocal organs are souud and
normal. The trouble was that . she did
not know how to use them. She did not
know how to shape her lips and how to
enunciate. She could make the vocal
sounds, so to speak, but could not make
them rightly.

Professor White went down to Wxen-
tham twice a week. Sometimes Miss Kel-
ler came to Professor White's studio for
vocal expression in this city. The lessous
were pursued patiently. Miss Keller has
wonderful persistence. That is the way
she has learned. And she was pitifully
eager to learn to talk.

Speech Comes at Last.

Finally speech came. At first it wa3
"clouded" so to speak. Only Mrs. Macey
could really understand her. But the
girl overcame that. Her articulation be-
came more clear and firm. She practiced
incessantly. It was i'elt that her first ap-
pearance in public should be before a
body of those who have been associated
with the deaf.

In the first place, they could more
readily understand Hiss. Ke:!ei\ In tb»
next piace, they have a warm and per-
sonal interest, as teachers of the deaf and
dumb, in the famous Helen Keller.

Miss Keller prepared carefully her brief
speech. Standing on the platform at the
Providence meeting the girl talked to 'her
■udience. Here is what she said in her
test public address:

Miss Keller's Address.

Dear Friends— I cannot tell you

what a pleasure it is to me to be

with you once more. Nor cau I thank

you too warmly for your continued

interest in me. I remember well the
bright June day that I spoke before
you at Sit. Airy sixteen years ago.
How strange and like a dream it all
seems! That day I used my de-
fective, halting voice to urge that
every deaf child should be taught to
speak. Today my voice is still defec-
tive aud halting; but I lift it, im-
perfect as it is, in praise of the work
of the association. Your progress
rejoices me, and such progress as I
have made is valuable to me because
it reinforces and proves your work.

It has always been a joy to be able
to speak. True, it is poor speech.
True, only a few near friends under-
stand me readily. Nevertheless, what
speech I have has meant more to me
that I can ever say. My words are
lame and broken; but they bind me
to the world of men and women.
Through isolation, silence, darkness,
I send forth a winged word; its
pinions are crippled, but somehow it
fiies and reaches another heart. With
the first word that unloosed my tongue
began a greater fullness of life. Be-
fore that I had been happy when a '
flutter of the fingers opened to me
a small part of the world I was ex-
ploring. But the spokeq word~--tkat
mighty, thought-quickening power —
flung back the gates and gave me a
wider access to the world of knowl-
edge and companionship.

It is a pleasure and a privilege to in-
troduce to this association Mr. White,
who is working to improve my speech. •
I am glad to be the bond that unites
his art, his skill to yours. lie will ex-
plain to you what he has been trying
to do for my voice, and you can judge
how well he has .succeeded ; for of that
I have no right to speak. I must tell
you, however* in his presence that the
lessons he has given me have been,
despite all difficulties, a continuous de-
light aud inspiration. You can judge
if my speech is slearer. I know that,
thanks to him, I am free from much
of the discomfort, tension and anxiety
that used to hamper me.

I wish this association Godspeed in
its endeavors to open the lips of the
deaf. Every time I open my mouth I
ehall think to myself, "I must speak

well; I will speak well; for my suc-
cess will encourage you to go forward,
touching silent lips and setting free
mute voices." I am proud to present
to the teachers of the deaf my teacher
who has taught' many to fill the world
with beautiful sounds, and who has
now become your colleague in the dif-
ficult art of making the speech of the
deaf not beautiful, perhaps, but clear,
fluent, natural.

Audience Amazed.

The address was heard in amazed and
ftdrniring silence.

The next day Miss Keller recited Heii-
ley"s "I Am." She demonstrated to her
ftudience that at last she has speech.

Now it is planned for her to continue
her lessons under Professor White till
«he has as perfect control of her vocal
organs as is possible to a girl so long
without speech.

The point has been raise'1 o, whether
Miss Keller may not acct^t ^be offer by
the Socialist Mayor of Schut tady, N. Y.,
to become a member if the Board of
Charities of that city.

Miss Keller is a Socialist in many ya.
She has contributed to Socialist papers and
believes in many theories of that propo-
ganda. Her interest in sociological and
economic questions was one cause for her
being offered the position on the Schenec-
tady Board of ChTities.

When Miss Keller/ was gr a dimmed at
Radeliffe the public failed this as a^tafeTft*
achievement. But, the attJalmmeracNftf
speech surpasses,«ll she has done beforeV
That Miss J£©Wt herself thinks so is gath-
ered from her first public effort.

** A NEW IDEA.

The socialist mayor of Schenectady,
Dr. George Lunn, wishes to create as
part of his city administration a board|
of public welfare, with Helen Keller,
the famous bliflyjjgjoman, as a member.
This board will address itself to a solu-
tion in part or in whole of the "problem
of society's neglect of its human re-
sources, the problem of enlarging and
enriching the lives of the people." That
is the way Mayor Lunn explains it.

The people whose lives are to be en-
riched and enlarged by the efforts of
this board are those to whom enlarge-
ment and enrichment are now denied
by the conditions attending the very
struggle for existence. Just how this is
to be brought about is not explained by
those interested, though it is quite
probable that they have some definite
ideas on the subject. One thing Miss
Keller thinks should be done first of all
is to wipe out the slums, "for," as she
says, "it is there that sickness, disease
i and immorality are born." Poverty,
that is extreme poverty, she puts as
the fundamental cause of every evil —
the cause of crime, disease and suffer-
'ing of all kinds. The old theory was
that, these, generally and broadly
speaking, were the cause of poverty.

Tf Mayor Lunn succeeds in getting
his board of public welfare estab-
lished, it will doubtless find no end of
work ready for it. Every community
would offer a field for the efforts of
such a board, intelligently and hu-
manely directed. The problems which
it would have to solv* are among the
greatest that confront us. Therefore,,
the suggested experiment at Schenec-;
tady should command general interest;
and attention. ^J

THE SEATTLE SUNDAY TIMES,

JULY 7, 1912.

POVERTYl/IAN'S curse,
MISS KELLER ASSERTS

WRENTHAM, Mass., Saturday, July
6. — "I have heard nothiner from Mayor
Lunn," Baid Miss Keller, "though T knew
such a board was to be established. I
think it will do a great good. Tt is a
new scheme fraught with many difficul-
ties. The problems would have to be
met as they might arise.

"One thing I would try to do would
be to wipe out the slums, for it is
there that sickness, disease and immor-
ality are born.

"The only way to bring about any
permanent improvements is to prevent
rather than to alleviate. When the
children are born blind, we have insti-
tutions for them. But how much better
It would be to be able to prevent blind-
Bess.

"Should I be appointed to the board,
I would first of all try in some way to
improve conditions amon? the extreme
noor, for of all evils poverty tops the
list.

Poverty Causes EviL

"I would go so far as to say that
poverty is the fundamental cause of al-
most every evil'. Poverty is a horrible
thing. Tt "is the cause of crime, disease
and suffering of all kinds. Poverty
drives people to vice. I am convinced
that that is true, rather than the old-
fashioned theory that vice drives people
to poverty.

"Why do the slums exist? They exist
because they pay dividends to those who
own them, better dividends than im-
provements would pay."

When asked as to what she would
mirerest as a reraedv for poverty, Miss
Keller's socialistic ideas asserted them-
selves at once, for she said:

"Let every man get off his fellow
man's back, so that he can stand on his
own feet, and do. his own work with his
own hands and faculties.

"Let the fortunes stay where they
are. They cause trouble enough to those
who have them.

Socialism Only Hope.

**I believe that socialism is the only
hope at present of any lasting improve-
ment in the existing conditions. We can-
not possibly have a better world until
we better the existing conditions. So far
as the aid systems are concerned they

have done well enough so far as they go,
but they do not go far enough. They
are for the few, not for the many.

"Tet I am convinced that the world
is growing better. There are more
healthy, happy children today than ever
before, though there are still far too
few.

"There are more schools and colleges,
more hospitals and Institutions for the
blind, the crippled and the deformed.
There are more intelligent women than
ever before, but there are still far too
few."

HELEN KELLER

>N, \^. Willy
to. after %eing

CRESSOX, \|Q, fculy 10.— Miss He:on
Keller, who. after %eing deaf, dumb and
blind since her birth, two weeks ago
made a speech at Providence. R. I., nas
arrived here and will pass the Summer
with ber teachers on the estate of Mis.
Mary Copley Thaw, mother of Harry K.
Thaw* Miss Keller will complete her
study of articulation and by Fall is ex-
pected to be able to talk as clearly as
any one. Miss Keller's teachers are Mrs.
John Macey, her lifelong companion, and
Professor and Mrs. John W. White of the
New England Conservatory at Music in
Boston.

Professor White has spent months teach-
ing the- girl to talk. Miss Keller's vocal
organs are perfectly normal, but sbc never
has been able to hear a word nor see. It
is difficult for ber even to learn the proper
lip movements. By slow degrees she got
control of tbe sounds she always has been
able to make- At first only Mrs. Macey
was able to understand her, but when Miss
Keller spoke in Providence most of the
audience, members of the American Asso
ciation to Promote the Teaching of Speed
to the Deaf, understood her words.

How would you go about it to describt
a sound, to a person wiio never had heart
one? How would you tell a person t<
make the sound of the letter A, for in
stance, wben that person bad never hean
a sound, aud bad nothing with which U
make a comparison? Answer that ques
tion, and the difficulties under which Mis:
Keller's teachers have worked, may b(
understood-

Miss Keller and her teachers this Sum
mer will occupy a fine old house whicl
formerly wart *a rectory on the Thaw
estate near Cresson.

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FOR HELEN KQUJEk

Schenectady Mayor Appoints Deaf and
Dumb Author to Welfare Board.

The announcement was made by the
Rev. George R. Lunn, Socialist mayor
of Schenectady, N. Y., that he had ap-
pointed Miss Helen Keller, the deaf,
dumb and blind author, a member of
the board of ptrblic welfare, which had
its inception with the election of the
Socialist administration. The board's
functions are to recommend to the
common council such measures as do
not fall within the scope of other de-
partments.

Mayor Lunn's attention was first at-
tracted to Miss Keller by a magazine
article on socialism. Socialists of
Schenectady expressed the opinion that
Miss Keller would make a valuable
member of the board, and her appoint
ment followed.

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GUEST OF MRS. T

Helen Keller, Blind Girl, Occupies
Country Estate.

Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother of
Harry K. Thaw, has turned over a
large house on her country estate, near
Cresson, on the outskirts of Pittsburg,
to Helen Keller, the blind girl.

Mrs. Thaw is staying at the Hotel
Carlyon Arms, at White Plains, during
the sanity proceedings. The big Thaw
house, it is understood, is closed.
Mrs. Thaw did not care to talk about
her charitable act, but she gave out
the following statement:

"Miss Helen Keller, her teacher,
Mrs. Macy, and her Instructor in artic-
ulation, Prof. White, and his wife, of
Boston, are guests of Mrs. Thaw at
her country home near Presson, Pehn.
They>\will remain there until fa

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Miss Helen Keller, Who
^fi\Will Occupy Thaw Home

Blind Girl Given Use of

Handsome Home Near

Pittsburgh.

NEW YORK, July 10— It is learned1
that Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother o^
Harry K. Thaw, has turned over e
large house on her country estate, neai
Cresson, on the outskirts of Pittsburgh
to Helen Keller, the blind girl.

Mrs. Thaw is staying at the Hote
Carlyon Arms, at White Plans, during
the sanity proceedings. The big Tha\i
house, it is understood, is closed. Mrs
Thaw did not care to talk about he
charitable act, but she gave out the fol
lowing statement:

"Miss Helen Keller, her teacher, Mrt
Macy, and her instructor in articulal
tion, Prof. White, and his wife of Bod
ton, are guests of Mrs. Thaw at he
country home near Cresson, Pa. Thd
will remain there until fall." '

Boston, VWctSS.. Q,olvertu

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HELEN KELLER GUEST OF

HARRY THAW'S MOTHER

Pittsburgh, July 10— It was learned that
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother of Harry
Iv. Thaw, has turned over a large house on
hor country estate, near Cresson, on the
outskirts of Pittsburgh, to Helen Keller,
the blind girl.

Mrs. Thaw is staying at the Hotel
Carlyon Arms, at White Plains, during the
\ proceedin

The big Thaw house, it is understood, is
closed. Mrs. Thaw gave out this state-
ment:—

.. "Miss Helen Keller, her teacher, Mrs.
Maey, and her instructor in articulation,
Prof. White, and his wife, of Boston, are
guests of Mrs. Thaw at her country homo
near Cresson, Pa. They -will remain
" fall."

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REMAftKABLE ADDRESS

BY MISS HELEN KELLER.

Excha

MisJFHelen Keller — Public Speaker!
The marvelous blind and deaf girl,
dumb till no^UpMi' ner deafness,
has not ony^"learned to talk, but to
speak in public.

At the sessions of the American As-
sociation to Promote the Teaching of
Speech in the Deaf, which just closed
In Providence, R. I., Miss Helen KeUer
addressed the delegates twice. The
first day she spoke she delivered &n
address of 300 or 400 words. It was
an expression of exquisite sentiment.

"Through isolation, silence, dark-
ness," said Miss Keller, "I send forth
a winged word; its pinions are crip- j
pled, but somehow it flies and
reaches another heart."

That sentence alone from her speech
told a story of pride and pathos, one
which touched the audience infinitely. !
The next day Miss Keller recited a |
poem. She chose for her recitation
Henley's "I Am," that breathing of an
indomitable spirit which concludes
thus:

"I am the master of my fate.
I am the Captain of my soul."

There was none in the audience l'»ut

who realized that the line applied

with peculiar force to the blind and

deaf girl who had mastered speech

i at fearful odds.

j Prof. J. W. White, of the New Eng-
land Conservatory of Music, who has
been giving Miss Keller lessons in
speech twice a week all the spring, is
delighted beyond words. He has told
friends that Miss Keller speaks so as
to be understood, though at first none
but Mrs. John Macey. with whom she
lives, could get her spoken meanings.
For years Miss Keller has conveyed
her thoughts only by the "finger talk."
She would tap her sensitive finger
! tips on Mrs. Macey's wrist and the
| latter, would talk back to the girl the
['-same way. It is utterly impossible for '
Miss Keller to hear. So the tremen-
dous difficulty of teaching her to talk
is apparent. The girl's vocal organs
are sound and normal., The trouble
was that she did not know how to use
them. She did not know how to shape
her lips and how to enunciate. She
could make the vocal sounds, out
could not make them rightly.

Miss Keller prepared carefully her
brief speech, and, standing on the
platform at the Providence meeting,
talked to her audience.

"Boston. . YWa.ss. , Jt-^tv 5 cr^jpf.

j>uivf n„ i^ri^

Miss Helen Keller Leaves

Miss Helen Keller and her teachers, Mrs.
Macy and Professor Charles White and
his wife left Altoona, Pa., yesterday, with
Boston as their destination. ~" They have
been at the summer home of Mrs. Mary
| Copley Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw,
| where they had expected to spend the sum-
mer, but decided to make a change in their
plans.

le-oivn^sfer, Vruss., "Views

My share in the work of the world
may be limited, but the fact that it is
work makes it precious. . . Darwin
could work only half an hour , at a
time; yet in many diligent half hours
he laid anew the foundations of
philosophy Green, the his-
torian, tells us that the world is moved
along, not only by the mighty shoves
of the heroes, but also by the aggre-
gate of the tiny pushes of each honest
worker.— Hr Jen Kelter. „„,rir

bo5Lorv, 7VLa.ss., Cldo^r'tiS^-r'

Georgefte Le Blanc, best known as Mine.
Maeterlinck, has had to decline an invita-
tion lately exetnded to her in Paris by Mr.
Hussell to revisit America,

"Xo," Mme. Maeterlinck said, "I am not
■writing my American impressions. They
Were delightful, but I do not think them
important or original enough to warrant
my making them into a book.

"I may, however, write one article about
a visit which I paid in Boston to that won-
derful American. Helen Kellar. Though
she is deaf and bUgd and dumb, she has
genius. Many have written about her, but
none, I believe has put such questions to
her as I, a woman, could without offense.
I questioned . her, above all, about love.
And— yes, monsieur, you have guessed
rightly— I found that, though so sorely
tried and crippled, she was quite femnine
in all her thoughts and feelings. I shall
name my article 'The Woman Who Found
the Blue Bird.' "

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HELEN KELLER TO SPEAK

Blind and Deaf Girl Will Address the Oto-
logical Congress Tomorrow at the Har-
vard Medical School J ff

Helen M. Keller, the blind and deaf
girl, will address the ninth International
Otological oCngress tomorrow afternoon
at the Harvard Medical School. She will
speak without an interprter, which is a
remarkable effort, r.'and one of her few
attempts at so addressing a public au-
dience, a^ough^seh has articulated for
many years. Her audience will be com-
poesd 0$, noted ear specialists from all
parts of this country -and from abroad.
Miss Keller has been away this summer
and has just returned to her home in
Wrentham.

liBo stTo-n^ , V/la-SS.-, "VV\oy n.m^ Jp-vc-r wa.1

HELEN M.. KELLER,
Deaf and blind girl, to address anti-noiae specialists.

Otologists Ring the Welkin

at Copley-Plaza

Hotel.

MISS HELEN KELLER
TO DELIVER ADDRESS

Deaf and Blind Girl Will

Make Unique Speech

Today.

Despite the fact that the Inter-
national Society of Otologists is
fighting continually the unneces-
sary noise throughout th,e country,
there was plenty of noise and ex-
uberance shown last night at
their banquet held in the grand
ballroom of the new Copley-
Plaza.

Addresses in Native Tongue

Whether or not this noise was neces-
sary or unnecessary is a question left
to the minds of the otologists, but
without question if the clanging of
chimes is conducive to nerve exhaus-
tion certainly the popping of corks and
the clatter of dishes, together with
the music of a f ourteen-piece orches-
tra, will result in nervous fatigue for
many of the member*

The evening's features were the ad-,
dresses of the foreign delegates in
their native tongues, which was more
than pleasing to those understanding
the different languages. All of the
speakers representing the foreign
countries spoke in their own language
except Professor Luc, representing the
College of France, who spoke in de-
lightful English with just a touch of
the foreign accent. Dr. Luc was more
than impressed with Boston and ex-
pressed deep gratitude to the commit-
tee on arrangements who had planned
the many festivities for the week.

Professor Xeiman from Vienna, the
celebrated teacher under whom many
Americans have studied, addressed the
doctors in a very pleasing way. which
was made the more impressive by the
striking up of his national hymn dur-
ing a pause in his speech.

Dr. Dench of Xew York responded for
the Americans, and thanked the foreign
delegates for their kind words in ap-
preciation of the hospitality tendered
them here in Boston.

Telegram of Greeting

During the evening a telegram was
sent to Professor Politzer, one of the
organizers of the society in Germany.
The telegram took the form of a mes-
sage of greeting from the ninth con-
gress to one of the earliest of theT*
organizers.

Dr. James Blake, present president
of the Otologists, was the toastmas-
ter of the evening and introduced the
following speakers: Urban Pritchard
of England, Professor Alfred Denker
of Germany. Professor Lue, College'
or" France: Professor Siebennann of
Switzerland, Professor Xeiman of
Vienna. Professor Balance of Eng-
land, Dr. Mackuen of Philadelphia
and Dr. Leland of Boston.

Today the congress will listen to
Helen M. Keller, the blind and deaf
;irl, who will addr^jjsstjja-convention
n the Harvard Medical School. She
ill speak without an Interpreter,
hich is a wonderful effort, and this is
ie of her few attempts at so address-
er a public audience. Miss Keller has
^ently returned to her home in
entham.

lA/oT-ieste-r, )K a,ss.7 G> a-iet^a-

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HELEN KELLER.

I, TO
S PUBLIC

Noted Blind Girl's Ac-
complishment Puzzle to
Hub Physicians

BOSTON, Aug. 16. — Miss Helen
Keller, the famous deaf, dumb and
blind girl, has learned to sing. For
several months Miss Keller has been
taking singing lessons of one of. the
best known Boston teachers and she
is now able to sing fairly well.

This afternoon she will sing for the
first time in public before the otologi-
cal congress at the Harvard Medical
School.

Born deaf, blind and dumb Miss
Keller has steadily overcome one after
another of her handicaps till her life
is an inspiration to all who read of
it. It was only five years ago that
she gave a lengthy speech at the con-
vention of the blind meeting in Bos-
ton. Everywhere she goes she uses
her developing powers of expression
to the utmost of her ability.

'Reading and writing with her sen-
sitive finger tips, interpreting the little
groups of dots which are the letters
of the blind alphabet, she has read
and studied, and even written for
publication, and in her relations with
normal people she talks so naturally
that no one who did not know would
realize her triple affliction.

Today she is. to speak without an
interpreter, almost for the first time
in the many years she has been ad-
dressing public audiences. In her au-
dience will be some of the most noted
ear specialists of Europe and Ameri-
ca*

IBosfon^, YVVa-SS., d-m^ruoa.-

Miss Helen Kelier, tlie marvellously
gifted blind, deaf and dumb young woman,
was the chief attraction today at the after-
noon session of the ninth Otological Con-
gress in the medical department of the Har-
vard Medical School.

She gave a short address in English,
which was followed by one tn French at
the request of Dr. E. J. Moure of Bor-
deaux, France. She then spoke In German,
which was very pleasing to the German
members.

Miss Keller, accompanied by Mrs. B. J.
Macy, was the centre of interest just be-
fore the delegates assembled in the Amphi
Theatre, where she gave an exhibition of
her skill in articulation. The report that
she would sing was not true and was denied
by Dr. Henry O. Reik of Baltimore, secre-
tary of the Congress.

The presence of Miss Keller at this
congress means much to the ear specialists
of the world. Dr. Goldstein of St. Louis
set forth certain principles in a paper he
read, using- Miss Keller as an illustration
of his points. He gave the newer devices!
to he used upon those who are born deaf.
The foreign members of the congress were
much impressed with the way that Miss
Keller had mastered her difficulties in
speech, and pronounced this session of the
congress one of the most profitable of the
meetings.

Miss Keller has been under instruction
for more than a year with Professor White
of the Boston Conservatory of Music. She
has made such progress that she will lec-
ture this Fall and will begin in Septem-
ber in Sc'henectady, where she has been
appointed on the Public Service Commis-
sion of that city by Mayor Lunn.

This makes the second time that Miss
Keller has spoken in public, her last ef-
fort being made in Providenc".

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HELEN KELLER 10
EAK 3 TONGUES

Famous |Deaf, Dumb and

Blind Girl Will Address

Otologists.

Miss 1 1 >-jeii Keller, the famous voiing
woman who was born deaf, dumb and
blind, this afternoon will demonstrate
her wonderful success in overcoming
the infirmities of her birth by address-
ing the congress of otologists at the
Harvard medical school in English ,
French and German.

Dr. M. 'X. Goldstein of St. Louis will
use Miss Keller to Illustrate a paper he.
Will read. This rivals with (he progress
of the later education of fhe deai
dumb. Dr. Goldstein told a Traveler-
Herald reporter today that H was not
true that Miss Keller would sing at the
convention. He said while she could
talk, she had not progressed sufficiently
to be able to sing.

"Miss Keller will address the con-
vention in English, French and Ger-
man," sard Dr. Goldstein to the re-
porter, "but she will not sing. The
demonstrations this afternoon will be of
international importance. There will
be tw« papers read. I will read one
of them and will use Miss Keller to il-
lustrate my points. A series of cases
will be shown to indicate the progress
of the newer education of the deaf and
dumb."

"I expect that the demonstrations will
begin about i P. M. and last for two
hours."

Admission to this afternoon's demon-
strations will be by ticket only. The
public will not be admitted because of
limited space.

Some of the most noted ear special-
ists in this country and Europe will be
present to hear Miss Keller talk this
afternoon. They' realize that she is the
most wonderful young woman of her
type in the world and consider it a
great treat to be able to see and hear
her.

Miss Keller's battle to overcome her
handicaps is known throughout the civ-
ilized world. i .

Bosfo>v VVIOT"

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Miss Helen Keller Talks on Phone)

and Tells of Her Engagement

to Sing Today

Miss Helen Keller, the famous deaf,
dnmh.^nd blind girl, has learned to
sing. ^*Ww«w*ww*

Miss Keller herself told the Post the
news last night over the telephone.

For sev.eral months Miss Keller has
been taking singing lessons of one of;
the best known Boston teachers and
she is now able to sing fairly well.

This afternoon she will sing for the
first time in public before the otological
congress at the Harvard Medical
School.

ENUNCIATION PERFECT

When Miss Keller talked for a moment
with the Post reporter over the
telephone, so clear was her enunci-
ation that the reporter did not realize
until told afterward that it was Miss
Keller herself he had been asking ques-
tions of.

In asking the . toll operator for her
number at Wrentham the reporter had,
thought it quite superfluous for the form-
er to ask, "Will you talk with anyone
else if Miss Keller is not there?"

MISS HELEN KELLER,

Famous blind mute girl, who has learned
to sing.

Then over the wire came a voice, low
but absolutely distinct, each syllable pro-
nounced perfectly, though the tone was
slightly lacking In expression. Asking
of Miss Keller's singing he was answered
readily enough, and in the third person.
Suddenly the voiced ceased, and to his
amazement a louder voice announced:
"Miss Keller doesn't feel like talking
any more."

Born deaf, blind and dumb Miss Keller
has steadily overcome one after another
of her handicaps till her life is an In-
spiration to all who read of It. It was

only Ave years ago that she gave a
lengthy speecn at the convention of the
blind meeting in Boston. Everywhere
she goes she uses her developing P<WS3fgg„
of expression to the utmost of her
ability.

Reading and writing with her sensitive
finger tips, interpreting the little groups
of dots which are the letters of the
blind alphabet, she has read and studied,
and even written for publication, and in
her relations with normal people she
talks so naturally that no one who did
not know would realize her triple afflic-
tion.

She is all good" cheer and never ending
ambition. She has taken up the voice
culture largely as a means of beautifying
her speaking voice, for with a knowledge
of tone she will henceforth be able to nut
expression into her words. She herself
modestly describes her efforts thus far,
however, as the performing of a few
scales.

Today she is to speak without an In-
terpreter, almost for the first time in the
many years she has been addressing
public audiences. In her audience will
be some of the most noted ear specialists
of Europe and America.

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&ELEN KELLER TO SPEAK

Otologists Will Hear Blind and

Deaf Girl at Meeting Today.

Helen M. Keller, the blind and deaf
woman, will be a speaker before the
members of the ninth otological con-
gress at the Harvard Medical School
this afternoon. While Miss Keller, who
was born dumb also, has articulated to
some extent for years, this afternoon's
address will be one of her few attempts
without the aid of an interpreter. Her
audience will be composed of noted ear
I specialists, to whom the case of this
woman is not unknown. Helen Keller's
gaining of an education in spite of such
obstacles has excited the attention and'
admiration of specialists all over the
world.

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Today will wind up the convention
of otologists at the Harvard Medical
school.

A conspicuous feature of this after-
noon's proceedings will be an address
by Miss Helen M. Keller, a blind and
deaf woman. She was born dumb
also, but has articulated to some ex-
tent for years. This afternoon's ad-
dress will be one of her few attempts
without the aid of an interpreter.

The various daily sessions during
the present week have been attended
by eminent aurists from both hem-
ispheres ,and the world has been
made wiser by their deliberations
and addresses which have been deliv-
ered in many tongues.

A new epoch in reporting was es-
tablished during this convention, the
dictagraph with other contrivances
being used for the first time to re-
cord verbatim the utterances of the
various speakers throughout the
sessions.

Dr. Clarence J. Blake of Boston,
the4 newly elected president of the
congress, who presided at the last
meeting of otologists in Boston 3<6
years ago, acted as toastmaster at
a banquet given by American otolo-
gists-to the foreign guests at the
Hotel Copley-Plaza last night.

A telegram of greetings was sent
to Prof. Pulitzer of Vienna, probably
the oldest ear specialist in the world
and often called the ''father" -of mod-
ern ideas as regards the treatment
of ear diseases.

The speakers included Dr. Urban
Pritchard of London, Prof. Alfred
Denker of Germany, the newly elect-
ed president who will preside at the
next Otological congress in Germany
in 1915; Prof. Giuseppe Gradenigo of
Italy, Prof. (H. Luc of Paris, repre-
senting the college of 'France; Prof.
F. Siebermann of Vienna, Prof. Chas.
A. Ballance of London, Dr. Upton
Makuen of Philadelphia, representing
several American Otological socie-
ties; Dr. E. B. Dench of New York,
Dr. J. A. Stucky of Kentucky, Dr.
James F. MoKernon of New York
and Dr. George P. Leland of Bpston.

With the exception of Prof. Luc
WrM*3\mm in English, all of the for-
eign speakers delivered their ad-
dresses in their native tongues.

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[United Press Association.]
BOSTON, Aug. 16. — The unusual
spectacle of a woman — deaf, dumb
and blind for years, singing and talk-
ing, was witnessed today by ear ex-
perts from all parts of the world,
when Miss Helen Kellar ,who recov-
ered the use of her voice several
years ago, appeared before the Oto-
logical Congress at the Harvard Medi-
cal School. It was her first perform-
ance without an interpreter. Miss
Kellar's voice is low but her enuncia-
tion is remarkable. She gave a short
performance, her voice being easily
strained.

Miss Kellar's progress in her fight
for an education has been closely
watched and her success in graduat-
ing from both the Perkins Institute
for the Blind and Radcliffe College,
with many other accomplishments,
has attracted-iilj^diWide^ttejjttan. * v'(

The wonderful spectacle of Helen Keller, deaf, dumb and blind for
years, talking in a low but perfectly clearly enunciated voice to the
otologutil congress in Boston shows to the world the wonderful work
which can be done in assisting an unfortunate person to regain the use or
partial use of faculties by constant and c?.' " education.

The advance in this since Miss Keller's ca&e was first undertaken has
been remarkable and today the schools, public and private, throughout the
world which are assisting mentally deficient, backward, or similarly unfor-
tunate little ones to take their places in the intelligent body of human
beings are doing one of the greatest and most valuable works in the whole
educational curriculum.

Sjor-'u^^ 5

Helen Keller's Example.
Miss Helen Keller has proved that
a person can sing without having an
"ear for music," and her latest victory
over bodily afflictions, demonstrated at
the congress of ear specialists at Bos-
ton, strikingly exemplifies the triumphs
within human possibility if one only
persevere with undaunted spirit. The
amazing accomplishments of this deter-
mined woman must be a wonderful in-
spiration to all unfortunates handi-
capped as she was. At the same
time, the phenomenal success at-
tained through indefatigable persever-
ance-by this brilliant woman, who was
Stricken deaf and blind, must shame
all who do enjoy the blessings of the
normal faculties of sense for not put-
iJ" 2- their talents to more complete

litLtirKELLtR_AS SPEAKER

She Addresses the Congress^ of
Otologists

Speaks

English,
German

Also Fairly Successful as a
Singer

Pleads with Scientists to Help the Deaf
Mute

Miss Helen Keller addressed the Inter-
national Otological Congress last e,eninp
at the Harvard Medical School. She
spoke in a monotone, somewhat high m
pitch but not unpleasing, and enunciated
her words distinctly, both in English,
French and German, The audience was
large, filling every seat in the amphi-
theatre, and was composed of the worlds
noted ear specialists, surgeons and aurists.
Dr. Clarence J. Blake presided. Dear-
mutism was the subject of the symposium
and papers were read by Dr. G. Hudson
Makuen Of Philadelphia and Dr. M. A.
Goldstein of St. Louis on the educational
problem of the deaf. Presentation of
pupils in illustration of methods and re-
sults was made by Professor John D.
Wright of the Wright Oral School of New
York. He presented three such pupils-
Miss Mabel M. Johns of New York, a
totally and congenitally deaf girl, who
addressed the Congress in English, Ger-
man, French and Italian; and Charles
Henry Over, a young boy who is deaf and
dumb but is learning to talk.

Then Miss Keller was presented. She
both spoke and sang, her musical efforts
being directed by Professor White of the
New England Conservatory of Music. Her
address was as follows:

"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen—I
am glad that this congress of doctors is
going to give some time to the problem' of
the deaf, to the problem that must be
solved, not by surgery, but by education.
You have devoted yourselves nobly to the
study of the organ of hearing and to the
treatment of its diseases. But those whom

you could not help, and who therefore
ceased to be your patients — you have left
them to the school teacher. You have
done splendid work in the laboratory and
the consulting room ; but you have not
usually followed your patient into the
schoolroom and into the paths of life where
he Is part of the human throng. You have
not shown much interest in his efforts to
understand the speech of men and to make
his own speech intelligible.
r "This gathering is an indication that
your interest will henceforth embrace the
deaf pupil and the deaf citizen as well as
the diseased ear, that you will cooperate
with the teacher, that, in words of Dr. James
Kerr Love, you will 'raise the deaf child
to the rank of a patient.* I am very
grateful to you, gentlemen. This is a new
day in the education of the deaf— the day
when the physician is no longer content
to fight the hostile silences with medicine
and surgical instruments alone, but helps
the teacher to pour the blessed waters of
speech into the desert of dumbness.

"The physician of olden times had no
duty but to heal wounds and give medi-
cine. It was his function to make sick
people well. The modern physician is labor-
ing to keep mankind well. He is a sanitary
engineer, a sociologist, a constructive phi-
lanthropist. I am but urging you in the
direction which your profession has al-
ready taken when I ask you to look beyond
the deaf ear to the deaf child, to the hu-
man being whose problem it is to recover,
despite deafness, his golden birthright of
spoken words. „ You will look behind the
closed doors of sense and see the impatient
spirit waiting to be set free. It will be-
come your painful duty to tell the parents
that their child will never hear. Resist the
tendency— some physicians call it humane, I
call it barbarous— of leaving the patient in
hopeof ultimate recovery when you know that
it is impossible. I have heard of doctors who
continued to prescribe useless remedies, such
as electricity and osteopathy and even
Christian Science, when they knew that
there was no hope, simply because they
had not the courage to tell the truth.
Such kindness is expensive consolation. It
would be much more to the point to pre-
pare the unfortunate one for his fate, to
help him arrange his life in anticipation of
the changed conditions under which he
must henceforth live.

"I "was about six years old before any
of the specialists whom my parents con-
sulted was brave enough to tell them that
I should never see or hear. It was Dr.
Ghisholm of Baltimore who told them my
true condition. 'But,' said he, 'she can be
educated,' and he advised my father to taka
me to Washington and consult. Dr. Alex-
ander Graham Bell as to the best method

of having me taught. Dr. Chisholm did
exactly the right thing. My father fol-
lowed his advice at once, and within a
month I had a teacher, and my education
was begun. From that intelligent doctor's
office I passed from darkness to light,
from isolation to friendship, companion-
ship, knowledge. The parent who brings
his child to your office, to your hospitals,
should find in you, not a teacher, perhaps,
but one who understands how far it .s
possible to right the disaster of deafness.
"You should know about such work as
that of my friend Mr. John D. "Wright.
When you know about the work that he
and his teachers are doing, you will not be
satisfied until every deaf child within your
knowledge receives oral instructions.

"How splendid it will be, what new cour-
age we shall feel if all aural surgeons
henceforth use their influence to secure for
every deaf child the opportunity to speak!
The deaf and the teachers of the deaf
'»*eed your help, and I am sure that you
will help them in all the countries of the
world from this day forth. Gentlemen, I
thank you."

To show her . enunciation in other lan-
guages as well she continued, for the bene-
fit of the . foreign delegates who were
present:

"Deutschland herzlich gruesse ich Dich,
DuXVorkaempfer menschlicher Freiheit,
Land- Karl Marx's, Meines Kameraden."

"O Hrance! Le pays du bon Abbe del'
Epee, <Ji»j. a donne L' Education aux
sourds-muets, le pays de Valentin Hauy
qui ha donne la lumiere aux aveugles, le
pays de Pasteur qui a detruit L' Ennemi
de la Sante du Monde. Salut a tous, et
Vive la France."

The doctors were deeply interested, both
in what Miss Keller said and in the way
she said it. They applauded generously
and at the close of the meeting surrounded
her to congratulate her and ask ques-
tions. What was going on during, the
meeting was interpreted to Miss Keller in
her hand, by Professor Wright, but the
applause for the various speakers she per-
ceived through the vibration and joined
heartily in it.

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iss Keller's Speec

Amazes 500

Makes Wonderful Plea for Blind

and Speechless, Then Sings

for Experts

Helen Keller, speaking in French, Ger-
man and English, singing a series of notes
to show- the flexibility of her voice and
telling of hev battle since she was six to
overcome the handicap of being blind,
deaf and dumb, amazed scientific men
from all over the world by her plea for
her fellow sufferers before a meeting of
the congress of otologists at the Harvard
Medical School.

For twenty minutes Miss Keller held
an audience of 500 spellbound. This
wonderful graduate of the Perkins In-
stitution for the Blind in South Boston
and of itadcliffe College made each word
clear and spoke without faltering to the
end.

The singing tests so amazed the experts
that they burst into applause. After she
had finished scientists and friends
gathered to congratulate her on the won-
derful occurrence.

She pleaded earnestly with the men of
science to do more towards helping the
deaf and dumb as well as the blind, but
as the congress was more directly con-
cerned with the deaf, her earnestness for
this class of unfortunates was most pro-
nounced.

HELEN KELLER, WHO

AMAZED EXPERTS AT

OTOLOGICAL CONFERENCE.

Photographs show Miss Keller in Had cliff 'e cap and gown, **°rtfait asJ%
looks today, and in conversation with two experts on hearing at U<u
vard Medical School Conference.

wmm

Miss Keller came upon the platform
accompanied by Professor J. Dutton
Wright of New York, with whom she was
a pupil for two years. She wore an opal
silk dress with a black bow as a neck
ornament. Her hat was trimmed with
lillies of the valley. This she removed
before she began to speak. Her long
■wfhite gloves were also removed from her
Jaands before she reached the platform.

Miss Keller's Speech.

She was introduced by Professor Wright.
Who gave in detail the progress she had
made and how she was gradually overcom-
ing the drawbacks of former years. He
referred to her as one who enlisted the
interest of the scientific '.world.

When Miss Keller appeared at the little
desk upon the platform, she was perfect-
ly composed and began in slow measured
tones to tell of her experience and her
gratitude for her progress. $}■' said in
part :

Gentlemen! I am pleased to speak
before you and to say you have done
splendid work in laboring for the af-
flicted.

Your splendid efforts are known
everywhere. You have, however, more
work before you that yon may send
the pure waters of speech into the
desert of dumbness.

Tells of Her Progress.

It will become your painful duty to
tell parents that their child iwill never
hear. Resist the tendency — some phy-
sicians call it humane, I call it bar-
barous— to leave the patients in hope
of ultimate recovery when you know
that it is impossible. Such kindness
is expensive consolation. It would be
much more to the point to prepare the
unfortunate one for his fate, to help
him arrange his life in anticipation
of the changed conditions under which
he must henceforth live.

I was about six years old before any
of the specialists whom my parents
consulted was brave enough to tell
them that I should never see or hear.
It was Dr. Chisholm of Baltimore who
told them my true condition. "But,"
said he. "she can be educated," and he
advised my father to take me to Wash-
ington and consult Dr. Alexander
Graham Bell as to the best method of
having me taught.

Dr. Chisholm did exactly the right
thing. My father followed his advice
at once, and within a month I had a
teacher and my education was begun.
From that intelligent doctor's office
I passed from darkness to light, from
isolation to friendship, companionship,
knowledge. The parent who brings
his child to joul' office, to your hos-
pitals should find in you, not a teacher
perhaps, but one who understands
bow far it is possible to right the
disaster of deafness.

Your work lies among the young.
To make them your study is your op-
portunity. You are removing, one by
one, some of the causes of deafness.

Those that are not congenital, yo.i
have succeeded with well. So many
advances have been made with elec-
tricity that the same advances will,
come to you in your province of work.
This congress illustrates what, you
have accomplished and what you are
striving to do in the future.

But your work., it seems to me. be-
gins with the very young. You at:
doing all in your power to correct the
evils of disease, which bring on deaf-
ness.

With the congenital cases, science
has not been slow to arrive at reme-
dies.

Do all you cau to prevent certain
marriage-: whose offspring show de-
fects.

You must help the mothers of deaf,
and dumb children. (Jive them every
opportunity to improve the condition
of their children.

Praises Her Professors.

I owe much to Professor Wright
and to Professor White. They hare
toiled with me. I am so grateful for
their interest and their h«lp.

For eighteen months I have been
going to Professor White, and the im-
provement that I am trying to make
I shall leave to you to judge.

Gentlemen of this congress, I thaDk
you very much for listening to me.
Professor White of the Conservatory of
Music then called upon Miss Keller, and
gave an exhibition of how he taught her
to improve her vocal organs in breathing
and resonance.

She then gave a wonderful exhibition of
how she has mastered, with his help, cer-
tain vowel sounds and consonants. She
then sounded different musical notes that
she had been training upon, and sent forth
many sweet notes, which the audience
roundly applauded.

At first it was hard to give Miss Keller
any idea of rhythm, but Professor White
by daily instructions this Summer has ac-
complished wonderful results in this re-
spect.

While Professor AVhite was putting her
through the test of rinding out musical
notes, she had to say "Dum. Burn, Dura'1
several times with many inflections, and
after she had finished she looked expres-
sively and humorously towards tbe profes-
sor and exclaimed, "Don't be calling me
names."

Makes Singing Tests.
Miss Keller sang in different Botes "sol
re." Then she changed to "ia, la. la."
Professor White asked as a final te-
ller to sjiy "Scare me." in m-rter to bring
011 1 the different intonations. . which ,-h'A
did with great effect.

Miss Mabel Johns of New York g;:v<- an
exhibition of her improvement i'.! spec-'b.
She was deaf and dumb but can now
well and in different languages.

John Henry Over showed how He
overcome many of the difficulties of sj
Both are pupils of Professor Wright.

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HEAR HELEN KELLER

BO FOR DEAF

Otologists Charmed by Re-
markable Blind and
Deaf Girl.

"What is the most priceless treasure
you have received by being- able to un-
derstand speech?"

Slowly the deep, almost mournful
voice of Helen Keller, the most remark-
able deaf and blind person in the world,
repeated the question which she had
heard by means of placing her sensitive
finger tips on the iips of the speaker,
& Traveler -Herald representative.

She hesitated a moment and then re-
plied firmly:

' The most priceless treasure I nave
i eeeived is the opportunity of entering
into friendships with my fellow beings
and the feeling that the doors of knowl-
edge are opened wide to me."

-Miss Keller finished her sentence with
the radiant smile which transfigures her
race, and makes it as beautifully ex-
pressive as if the blue eyes could see
and return friendly glances.

From the moment, when guided by
Prof. John D. Wright of New York, she
entered the hall in the Harvard medical
school where the most interesting, ses-
sion of the International Otologtcal con-
gress was held, all eyes were centered
upon her. Dressed in a pale green and
gold taffta frock, her throat left bare.
her face shaded by a little bonnet on
which pink roses and lilies of the valley
were massed, there was nothing in her
appearance to differentiate her from the
other women of the congress, except"
perhaps the wonderfully sweet and hap-
py expression which is never absent
from her face.

Even more remarkable than her ad-
dress to the congress in English,
French, German and Italian, wore Miss
•Keller's tests in singing, when she was
able to give scales and octave* with
several combinations, the high tones
of her voicr: being exceedingly sweet.

Professor Charles A. White, of the New!
England Conservators- of Music, de- ;
Glares that if Miss Keller had not been
deaf she would have possessed ir. a
fine degree that quality known as posi-
tive pitch.

Humor Brings Laughter.
More than once during the exhibi-
tion which she gave she caused a laugh
by her humor, as when, after repeat-
ing the word "scamp" several times,
to illustrate a point in Prof. White's
address, she laughingly said to him:

"These people will think I am call-
ing you names!"

Miss Keller's address to the congress
is here given in full.

"Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle-
men: I am glad that this congress of
doctors is going to give some time to
the problem of the deaf, to the problem
that must be solved, not by surgery,
but by education. Tou haVe devoted
yourselves nobly to the study of the
organ of hearing and to the treatment)
of its diseases, but those whom you
could not help and who, therefore,)
ceased to be your patients — you have;
left them to the school teacher. Tou
have done splendid work in the labora-
tory and the consulting room; but you
have not usually followed your patient
into the schoolroom and into the paths
of life where he Is part of the human
throng. Tou have not shown much
Interest in his efforts to understand
the speech of men and to make h)s own
speech intelligible.

Pleads for the Deaf.

'This gathering is an indication that;
your interest will henceforth embrace |
the deaf pupil and the deaf citizen as '
Well as the diseased ear, that yon will
co-operate with the teacher, that in the
words of Dr. James Kerr Love, you will
'raise the deaf child to the rank of a,
patient.*

"I am very grateful to you, gentle-
men. This is a new day in the educa-
tion of the deal'— the day when the
physician is no longer content to fight
the hostile silences with medicine ana
surgical instruments alone, but helps!
the teacher to pour the blessed waters
of speech into, the desert of dumbness.

"The physician of olden times had
no duty but to heal wounds and give
medicine. It was his function to make
sick people well. The modern physi-
cian is laboring to keep mankind well.
He is a sanitary engineer, a sociolo**- '
gist, a constructive philanthropist.

Urges Courage to Tell Truth.

"I am but urging you in the direc-
tion which your profession hay already
taken when 3 ask you to look beyond
the deaf ear of the deaf child, to the!

whose problem it is to
recover, despite deafness, his golden
birthright of spoken words. You will
look behind the closed doors of sense
and see the impatient spirit waiting
to be set free. It will become your
painful duty to tell the parents that
their child will never hear. Resist the
tendency — some physicians call it hu-
mane, I call it barbarous — of leaving
the patient in hope of ultimate recovery
when you know that it is impossible.
I have heard of doctors who continued
to prescribe useless remedies such as
electricity and osteopathy and even
Christian Science when they knew that
there was no hope, simply because they
had not the courage to tell the truth.
Such kindness is expensive consola-
tion. It would be much more to the,
point to prepare the unfortunate one
for his fate, to help him arrange hiR
life in anticipation of the changed con-
ditions under which he must hence-
forth live.

"I was about 6 years old before any
of the specialists whom my parents eon-
suited was brave enough to tell them
that I should never see or hear. It was
Dr. Chisholm of Baltimore who told
them my true condition. "But," said he,
"she can be educated," and he advised
my father to take me to Washington
and consult Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
as to the best method of having me
taught.

From Darkness to Light.

Dr. Chisholm did exactly the right
thing. My father followed his advice
at once, and within a month I had a
teacher, and my education was begun.
From that intelligent doctor's office I
passed from darkness to light, from
Isolation to friendship, companionship,
knowledge. The parent who brings his
child to your office, to, your hospitals
should find In you, not a teacher per-
haps, but one who understands bow
far it is possible to right the disaster ot
deafness.

"You should know about such work
as that of my friend Mr. John D.
Wright. When you know about the
work that he and his teachers are do-
ing, you will not be satisfied until
every deaf child within your knowl-
edge receives oral instructions.

"How splendid it will be, what new
courage we shall feel if all aural sur-
geons henceforth use their influence
to secure for every deaf child the. op-
portunity to speak! The deaf and the
teachers of the deaf need your help,
and I am sure that you will help them
in all the countries of the world from
this day forth. Gentleme,nJ.,..J_ thank

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Deaf, Dumb and Blind Girl

Makes Addresses in

Four Languages.

SHE URGES PROPER
CARE OF THE DEAF

Astounds Learned
With Her Proficiency
and Talents.

In a marvelous plea for the
alleviation of the sufferings of
the deaf, Miss Helen Keller,
the wonderfully gifted blft!*r
deaf and dumb woman, spoke j
to an audience of noted otolo- j
gists yesterday afternoon in
English, German, French and*
Italian. It was the second ap-
pearance of her lifetime before
a large audience.

Care of the Deaf

Although at times her speech was in-
articulate, the doctors were able to un-
derstand her and to comprehend her
vital statement that not so much the
work of the knife should enter into he
lives of he deaf, taut provisions for the
proper care and education of the deaf,
that they may not be isolated from so-
ciety, should be made.

"Particularly important," declared
Miss- Keller, "is the education of chil-
dren afflicted in early infancy, while
their minds are in a state of formation
and in a receptive condition."

With the continual thought in mind
that Miss Keller can neither hear nor
see, the doctors were apparently
astounded at her ease on the speakers'
platform.

Following her plea to alleviate the
sufferings of the deaf Miss Keller fur-
ther astounded the audience with three
short addresses in French, German and
Italian.

Until two years ago Miss Keller had
made scarcely any attempt to speak,
owing to the fact that her time was en-
tirely taken up with her studies at
Harvard, where she was graduated with
honors, after years of hard work. This
accomplished, Miss Keller was inter-
viewed by Professor White of the Bos-
ton Conservatory of Music, who be-
lieved that in time he would be able to
help Miss Keller to speak.

Professor White' demonstrated at the
meeting before the congress yesterday
his methods in the teaching of the only
deaf person he has ever had under his
instruction. With the aid of Miss Kel-
ler he described the workings of the
throat and the affectations of the vocal
chords in the case of a deaf person.

The report that Miss Keller was going
to sing was not true, although Pro-
fessor White in demonstrating the range
of her voice caused her to run through
two octaves.

Dr. Goldstein in introducing Professor
Wright, who was one of Miss Keller's
first teachers, read an interesting paper,
in which he urged the co-operation of
his colleagues in the proper education
of the deaf boys and girls, of which
there are stated to be in the United
States over 4,000,000.

».i.iss Keller, although the center of
attraction, was accompanied to the
convention by four other deaf and
formerly dumb people. One, Miss Mable
M. John of New York, spoke to the
convention as an example of the work
accomplished by the correct teaching.
Not being able to hear a sound, this
young woman, who has passed success-
fully the examination of Columbia
College, addressed the audience in

three languages, and but for ,a slight
hesitancy in speaking, would not be
believed to have been so afflicted.

A boy from New York who, in early
childhood had been made deaf and
dumb by an attack of spinal menin-
gitis, spoke to the audience and an-
swered questions put to him by Pro-
fessor Wright and others. All of these
examples of the deaf people mingle in
society because they are taught "lip
reading" and become accustomed to
mingling with others.

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ORE MUSIC

DEAFMUTE

MissJECeller's Teacher

Says Progress Is

Wonderful

Miss Helen Keller, the famous deaf-
mute, who sang before the otological
congress Friday, is to go right on with
her vocal lessons this year, continuing
her studies with Professor Charles A.
White, head of the vocal department at
the New England Conservatory of
Music.

Her first ambition is to cultivate a
better speaking voice, that she may have
less difficulty in speaking from a public
platform.

REMARKABLE PROGRESS

Professor White said in an interview
yesterday: "My chief aim is to develop
resonance and tone in her speaking voice.
She has made remarkable progress In
the past year and a half, hut there is
much still to be made. In fact, this
far, as demonstrated at the Harvard
Medical School meeting, she has but suc-
ceeded in performing certain vocal ex-
ercises without as yet being able to co-
ordinate what she has learned in her or-
dinary speech. You will understand that
never has anyone attempted voice cul-
ture under such extreme difficulties, for
Miss Keller can learn only by her sense
of touch, studying the correct position
of glottis, vocal cords and tongue,
without being able to test herself by
either sight or hearing.

"She has been remarkably patient, go-
ing over her exercises studiously many
times a day. In that she is quite won-
derful. Of course not nearly so much
can be done with her voice now as could
have, had she taken up this work in
her childhood. Early infancy is not too
early to begin vocal training with the
mute. The long unused cords, like un-
used muscles, must be developed and
strengthened only very gradually.

"One of the first things I taught her
was the military standing position,
which brings all the organs of voice-
production into proper relation to one
another. No one can speak as clear-
ly with the chest in and the chin out
as when perfectly erect, nor will the
voice carry as well.

"I give her, separately and in com-
bination, the ' correct pronunciation of
first the aspirants, then the vowels,
diphthongs, labials and so on through
the list. This division is merely for my
own convenience, however. She has
learned a couple of scales and can give
them when called for in the terms of
musical notation."

Miss Keller leaves her lungs quite
free and unhampered by corsets.

Besides tone and articulation, Pro-
fessor White is trying to teach her to
speak with a natural rhythm, accelera-
ting or decreasing her rate of enuncia-
tion, as do normal people, for it is, of
course, a great tax on the attention
to have anyone emit one syllable after
another of precisely equal lengths. Miss I
Keller's courage and persistence are ap- I
parently indomitable. She laughs mer- |
rlly'at her own failures, and says she!
will yet be singing "America" with the ]
best of them.

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HELEN KELLER'S POSSIBILITIES.

The announcement that Helen ;
■Keller has learned to sing suggests
!that through her may come wholly
inovel Information as to adjustments
or sensations which may, in the ab-
sence of hearing as commonly un-
derstood, detect and classify the
vibrations which we record as sound
;and in which we distinguish the tim-
bre as well as the pitch. If it is true
]that she can sing in tune the thing is
astonishing enough, but if in
time it shall also appear
that she can not only give
the notes, but make the song effective,
those facts will inevitably suggest
.that some other power than that we
llcnow is working in her brain cells or|
In certain nerve cells. She must in
some way be able to recognize the
tones she produces, distinguish be-
tween one and another, produce them
iaccurately and determine their modi-
!fication. Needless to say, this is not a
'clear statement; it is no more than
ian attempt to suggest what would be
!the general nature of the problem
that would be presented by her ac- 1
complishing what it is now said she
can do, accomplishing it fully and at
any time, not imperfectly and occa-
sionally.

To support the new hope for he,r
achievement it is said that she speal#
now more clearly than used to be the
case, and an illustration is given in
|the account of her interview with I
isome one who called her telephone
| number, and was answered by a
jfemale voice "low but distinct, each
■ syllable pronounced perfectly." The
interviewer assumed this to be a
companion, and asked several ques-
tions concerning Miss Keller which
were answered. It was only .when
the interview was over that he learned
,that Miss Keller herself had been
talking to him.

" It must be understood that Miss
Keller does not yet attempt to sing (at
least before an audience) more than
the scale. This much she did on Fri-
day at the congress of otologists at
t?.eir congress in the Harvard Medical
school. Before the singing, however,
she gave a demonstration of the con-
trol ehe has gained over her vocal
chords, tongue and lips. Her teacher
conducted the test vocally, Miss Kel-
ler's finger tips resting closely on his
mouth. If we understand the process
correctly she read from the movement
of his hps the instruction for the
sounds she was to produce. The re-
port says: "All the vowels and the
consonant sounds utered by Miss Kel-
ler came out clearly and precisely, and
the audience spontaneously broke into
the heartiest applause." JFollowing
this came the singing of ttte omtave on
Sol and Fa and Re. of -wipch i\is_said
thaf some of the tones were very
sweet. Professor White says that his
pupil has the rare sense of absolute
pitch. This -in fact must be presup-
posed on the conception of the case
already suggested.

Before the musical exhibition Miss
Keller made a speech, parts of which
were repeated by her in French and
in German for the benefit of represen-
Lyes of those nations.

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Experts attending the Otologic?.! Con-
gress here today discussed in amazement
the wonderful performauce of Miss Ilelen
' Keller, who almost from her birth has been
deaf, .dumb and Wind, yet who talked to

tbem with almost perfect distinctness for
sereral minutes at the Harvard Medical
School yesterday.

Miss Keller spoke in French, German and
English, and also sounded several musical
notes on which she has been practicing in
en effort to learn to sing. It is hardly
correct to say, as has been said, that Miss
Keller can "sing," but these singing tests
so amazed the otologists that they burst
into applause — inaudible, however to the
•wonderiri deaf woman.

Miss Keller in her speech has more
chest tones than the ordinary speaker.
Her articulation is at times almost per-
fect, but if she hurries the words then
become somewhat indistinct.

When she is not particularly earnest she
is heard with better advantage. There is
perceptible here and there a nervousness
in her manner which at times affects the
clearness of her enunciation.

She has more mastery over the vowels
than consonants. The smaller the wore
the better she can say it. In a long word
the different syllables are run together.

Her address yesterday was clearly un-
derstood all over the amphitheatre, and it
was only here and there that a few sen-
tences were missed.

The tones of her voice ara deep. Sho
lias not yet mastered the high notes usually
associated with a woman's voice.

During experiments with her by Profes-
sor White, she showed some mastery of
a musica'e scale, but not enough to give
her any continued musical voice. It is only j
here and there that she can change from ;
one musical note to another. She knows
how to beat time.

She will be nble to sing ► the "Star
Spangled Banner" after she has acquired j
better control of her voice and is able to j
change to the high pitch of the musical
notes, according to Professor White.

Miss Keller came upon the platform
pccompanied by Professor J. Dutton
Wright of New York, with whom she was
k pupil for two years. She wore an opal
ullk clress with a black bow as a neck
ornament. Her' hat was trimmed with
lillles of the valley. This she removed
before she began to speak. Her long
white gloves were also removed from her
hands before she reached the platform.
I owe much to Professor Wright
and to Professor White. They hare
toiled with me. I am so grateful for
their interest and their k«ip.

'"or eighteen months I have been
going to Professor White, and the im-
provement that I am trying to make
I shall leave to you to judge.

Gentlemen of this congress. I thank

yoa very much for listening to me.

Professor White of the Conservatory .of

Music then called upon Misr, Keller, and,

gave an exhibition of bow he taught her

to improve her vocal organs in breathing

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Aural experts of the world, attend-
ants at the closing session of the In-
ternational Congress of Otologists,"
held yesterday in Boston, were held in
rapt attention by a dramatic speech?;
from the lips of Mis^^elfi^n Kellar.

She spoke first in Englisn, making
a plea for the education of her simil-
arly stricken sisters and brothers, who
are deaf and blind, and later gave
toasts in French and German, as a fur-
ther demonstration of her triumph
over natural obstacles.

Miss Kellar sang, giving the ear
specialists the benefit of some lessons
in vocal culture she has recently un-
dertaken. In her address, Miss Kellar
said :

"I ask you to Took beyond" the deaf
ear to the deaf child. You will look
behind the closed doors of sense and
see the impatient spirit waiting to be
set free. Resist the tendency — some
physicians call it human, I call it
barbarous — of leaving the patient in
Hffe of ultimate recovery when you
know it is impossible. It is your pain-
ful duty to tell the parents their child
will never hear. Prepare the unfortu-
nate one for his fate. Help him to
arrange his life in anticipation of the
caged conditions under which he must
henceforth live. "

Miss Kellar pleaded with breaking
voice for the deaf mute children, but
when she came to speak of those de-
prived of their three most important
senses as herself was, she was under-
standable. She pleaded for greater
sympathy, for untiring effort to under-
stand such children, but she said above
all they needed education.

"B-rooK/toTv , "VWatss., D'.uvxi-e.s

HELEll KELLER

PLEADSJOR DEAE

Blind Girl Speaks Before
Noted Doctors.

In a marvelous plea for the allevia-,
tion of the sufferings of the deaf, Miss;
Helen Keller, the wonderfully gifted
blind, deaf and dumb woman, spoke i
to an audience of noted otologists' at
Boston yesterday afternoon in English,
German, French and Italian. It was
the second appearance of her lifetime
before a large audience.

Although at times her speech ; Was
inarticulate, the doctors were able to
understand her and comprehend her
vital statement that not so much
the work of the knife should enter into
the lives of the deaf, but provisions for
the proper care and education of the
deaf, that they may not be isolated
from society, should be made.

"Particularly important," declared
Miss Keller, "is )the education of chil-
dren afflicted in early infancy, while
their minds are in a state of forma-
tion and in a receptive condition."

With the continual thought in mind
that Miss Keller can neither hear nor
see, the doctors were apparently as-
tounded at her ease on the speakers'
platform.

Following her plea to alleviate the
suffering of the deaf Miss Keller fur-
ther astounded' her audience with
three short addresses in French, Ger-
man and Italian.

Until two years ago Miss Keller had
made scarcely any attempt to speak,
owing to the fact that her time was en-
tirely taken up with her studies at Har-
vard, where she was graduated with
honors, after years of hard work. Thif
accomplished, Miss Keller was inter
viewed by Prof. White of the Boston
Conservatory of Music, who believed
that in time he would be able to help
Miss Keller to speak.

Prof. Keller demonstrated at the
meeting before the congress yesterday
his methods in the teaching of the only
deaf person he has ever had under his
instruction. With the aid of Miss Kel-
ler he described the workings of the
throat and the affectations of the vocal
chords in the case of *a deaf person. / .

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Pleads for Deaf MutlST^* f
Miss Helen Keller, who has long
been of so much interest to scientists
and to those interesteoTvi*r!fKi!fe' af-
flicted of her class, appeared before
the Otologieal congress in session at
the Harvard Medical school, yester-
day and gave a demonstration of her
newly acquired powers of speech and
song. /

Miss Keller, begged the physicians
to help in the work of enabling the
deaf mute child to speak, to make
himself intelligible by the use of his
voice and to understand what the peo-
ple about him were saying with their
lips. When she came to speak of
those deprived of the three most pre-
cious senses as she herself, her earn-
estness was so intense that she could
hardly be understood. The most re-
markable thing in the demonstration
was Miss Keller's rudimentary at-
tempts at singing or tune culture. She
is taking lessons of Froressor White
of the New England Conservatory of
Music and with her teacher showed
the results of a few -lessons. Miss
Keller sang parts or the scale takinv
an octave fifths or thirds with perfect
ease and much accuracy. It was
made known during the afternoon that
Miss Keller could speak both French
and German with fluency and could
also read both laguages from the lips
of a speaker. . *{,

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The Lesson from Miss Keller. ,

In her quiet v/ay, Miss Helen
Keller is again about the work of
teaching a; busy world a valuable
lesson. The achievements of this
deaf, dumb and blind woman, who
won her way out of the darkness
through the remaining sense of
touch, have before served as sermon
topics, but her latest successful at-
tempt to talk in three languages and
sing before experts deserves renew-
ed attention. Cut off from the world
as she was, Miss Keller made her-
self notable by learning to speak, to
read and to write. Others would
have been content to rest here, but
a Radcliffe degree, a book or two,
including the memorable autobio-
graphy, numbers of magazine ar-
ticles and the passage' by several
states of a law to minimize the
danger of blindness in babies, attest-
ed her continued activities. What
she did before the doctors' congress
in Boston last week is evidence
enough that she refuses to recog-
nize yet a limit to her field of en-
deavor.

The admiration she has won is as
nothing to the encouragement she
has given the many others handi-
capped in body and wanting just
such a splendid spur. Her persist-
ency has even wider lesson and is
for those too who are mentally
handicapped. There are too few who
know the power of application.

President Eliot of Harvard phrased
it in striking fashion when he said
that fifteen minutes a day with a
row of books would make an edu-
cated man. There is room for argu-
ment in the list of volumes he
picked out, of course, but there can

be no argument with the principle.
The stray .moments added up mean
advancement which is too often
-credited to "luck" by the envious.

The trouble is that it takes years
to see it, and that even then only
the few value it at its true worth.
But the percentage of real success
is not higher than the percentage of
those who perceive the real truth
and act upon it. The correspondence
school is a comparatively modern
institution in America, but it is to
be commended in a broad sense for
the efficiency with which it is accom-
plishing the task of awakening the
plodder and the careless. It is capi-
talized on the unrest that is the first
mark of progress.

The ideal life, say the books, is
divided into eight hours for sleep,,
eight for work and eight for recrea-
tion. Work takes 10 for most in the
shops; recreation is the last to be
stinted in time and sleep the first.
Too few see the many advantages
of devoting a part of the rest period
to a work which is a recreation be-
cause voluntary and from which
dividends in some sure form may be
expected.

Every man should ride a hobby.
The collecting of stamps or the
making of snapshots is neither to be
despised as a preliminary to some-
thing more worthy. The man who
builds up a small library according
to his own particular and individual
specifications or who devotes him-
self to some study and thought
about the changing trend of govern-
ment is on the right road. Sooner
or later such activity opens up somf
lead that is at once interesting and
profitable. When ambition sets a
task that seems too great, a though
of what Miss Keller has done and is
doing should rouse a resolve worthy
of the effort. "Every man carries
a marshal's baton in his knapsack.'
Napoleon told his soldiers. In this
day, -he would say; "If you want suc-
cess, go and get it. It's yours and nc
6n| can obtain it for yon - ■*« • i~'"a
from yon"

ifflSS KELLER'S PROGRESS*

Not the least of our modern miracles
is the astonishing' success which has
attended the efforts of wise teachers
in dealing with the seemingly hopeless
case of Helen Keller — born deaf, dumb
and blind, but today able to speak, and
even to sing, words , and notes the
sound of which she has never heard.
And as if that were not enough, it ap-
pears that she can also converse in
German and French. Naturally the
singing is rudimentary in its charac-
ter, being confined at present — if we
correctly understand the case — rto dem-
onstrating that Miss Keller can pro-
duce with accuracy the vocal scale
and the various common intervals; but
her teachers believe that having pro-
ceeded thus far she may be able to go
much farther in the" musical art. Pos-
sibly this amazing success in her case
is enabled by the possession of an ex-
traordinary brain, with an abnormal
aptitude for learning things without
the use of all the ordinary avenues
of sense. But the idea seems to be
i that this is by no means all; and Miss
i Keller herself makes appeal for the
' greater knowledge of how to deal wi'tHtf
the deaf, dumb and blind, which ap-
peal bases itself on the theory that
even the normal victim of those de-j
fects may be made to share in some
considerable measure her own prog-
ress. To us the whole subject of
teaching is more or less attended by
miraculous features. There are well
known difficulties in beginning the in-
struction of any child possessed of all
the usual channels of apprehension.
But to contemplate the case of a cul-
tured woman who has learned all she
knows without seeing, hearing, or even
being able to speak until her woman- 1
hood, is most certainly astounding:,
and makes of Miss Keller, in our can-
did judgment, one of the most remark-
able women in the world. The satis-
faction of those who gave her this
light must be a constant benediction
and reward, and to the rest of man-
kind an inspiration.

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BLIND MUTE LEARNS TO SING.

Miss Helen Keller, the wonderful
blind, deaf and dumb girl, is learn-
ing to sing. Year by year the plucky
young woman has kept up her uphill
fight against the handicap of nature.
Through her wonderful sense of
touch Miss Keller has succeeded in
making more of life than any other
blind woman or man has ever done.
She mastered reading by means of
raised and depressed characters for
! the blind and became a student of
J more than ordinary ability. Her
fame as an accurate and speedy type-
writer operator is national. Then
there remained a greater feat. Her
voice, never heard, was next brought
into being. Her perseverance and
ability made her known the world
over. To continue her marvelous
success she recently employed, a vo-
cal teacher and started at the mu-
sical end of vocal cord development.

| NATURES COBIPENSATTONS,

That# nature has a way o£. conipen
sating, in some degree, for gifts that
are witheld has been demonstrated in.
the case of Helen Keller. The worf-
derfu! mental development of that
woman, who is handicapped by being
blind and deaf, is one of most strik-
ki&'illWJftrations of what can be ac-
complished in spite of natural ob-
stacles. The world has marvelled at
what Miss Keller has been able to do,
and recently she gave an exhibition at
Boston, before an audience of special-
ists, that indicates that she has not yet
exhausted her capabilities.

Miss Kellar spoke in three languages
and in addition gave an exhibition oi
singing that was really* wonderful,
That, one who. could neither see noi
hear should be able to accurately
sound notes, taking an octave, fifths 0]
thirds with ease and accuracy, seems
to be beyond the realm of possiblity)
but she accomplished it and there does
not seem to be any limit to the im-i
provement that she is capable of mak-
ing.

When one stops to think how easily
many, whom nature has treated so
kindly, are discouraged by trivial
things and then consider the accom-
plishments that Miss Keller has made,
under such circumstances, the possi-
bilities of an indomitable will are
much better appreciated.

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A LIVING PROOF

The announcement that Helen Kel-
ler has learned to sing suggesttf^frat
through her may come wholly new
demonstration against materialism. It
has been puzzle enough how there
could ever have been a "start," ir
teaching of this afflicted child, deaf
dumb and blind, that has resulted ir
the gifted and cultured woman she is
Her ability to converse in French an
German only illustrates her accom
plishments. But when, in add
tion, in the absence of hearii
as commonly understood, she ce
detect and classify the vibratior
which we record as sound, dis
tinguish timbre as well as pitch, nc
only give the notes, but sing the seal
well and effectively and fully, hot im
perfectly and occasionally, the wonde
indeed broadens and deepens.

This much she did Friday at the con
gress of otologists at their congress ir
the Harvard medical school. Befor-:
the singing she gave a demonstratior
of the control she has gained over hei
vocal chords, tongue and lips. Her
teacher conducted the test vocally,
Miss Keller's finger tips resting close-
ly on his mouth. If we understand
the process correctly she read from
the movement of his lips the instruc-
tion for the sounds she was to pro-
duce. The report says: "All the
vowels and the consonant sounds ut-
tered by Miss Keller came out clearly
and precisely, and the audience spon-
taneously broke into the heartiest ap-
plause." Following this came the
singing ef the octave on sol and fa
and re, of which it is said that some
of tho tones were very sweet. Prof.
White says that his pupil has the rare
sense of absolute pitch.

How is the man that insists that we
know nothing except what we learn
through the senses, that reason and
thought, mind and soul, have nothing

and are nothing beyond these mate-
rial and sense acquisitlves . and their
•use, going to get along with such
facts? Even with all the helpfulness
of senses and experience accumu-
lations, Helen Keller is a living proof
(of the existence of something highei
and better, back of it all.

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and

Helen Keller, born -deaf, dumb and

blind, astounded a company of famous
doctors in Boston by singing and talk-
ing intelligibly in three languages, her
first public demonstratiojQ of near-
miraculous powers.

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HELEN KELLER SINGS""*^
TO MANY NATIONALITIES.

Girl Born Deaf, Dumb and Blind Also
Delivers Address.

Iss Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb
and blind, showed the assembled otolo-
gists at their congress in' the Harvard
Medical school that she had added still
another to her phenomeual list of ac-
complishments when she sang to them.
During the formal addresses, which
were mostly in foreign tongues, Miss
Keller sat on the platform listening
through the fingers of her teacher,
Professor White of the New England
Conservatory of Music, and now and
then applauding when a speaker* made
particularly pleasing reference to the
new education of the blind.

When it came Professor White's turn
he demonstrated the extent of control
that Miss Keller had gained over her
vocal chords, tongue and lips. His illus-
trations were conveyed from his lips to
Miss Keller's finger tips, placed tightly
over his mouth. All the vowels and
the consonant sounds uttered by Miss
Keller came out clearly and precisely,
and the audience spontaneously broke
into the heartiest applause.

Then .came the crowning achieve-
ment, the singing of an octave on sol
and fa and re, some of the t6nes be-
ing very sweet. This performance not
only amazed but delighted the savants.

Miss Keller, Professor White says,
has the rare faculty of absolute pitch.

Previous to giving this exhibition
Miss Keller made an address jn IJftg.-
lish, in which she saich

"Xhis is a new day in the education
of the. deafj the day when toe physi-
cian is no longer content to fight the
h_ostj,le silences with medicine and sur-
gical instruments alone, but helps the
teacher to pour the blessed waters of
speech info the desert of dumbnessV"

Portions- of his address Miss Keller
repeated in French and German for
the edification of the representatives of
those nations.

Moreover, she talked over the phone,
and so clear was her enunciation that
the reporter at the other end did not
realize until fold afterward that it
was Miss Keller herself he had been
asking questions of. ' -

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„1 A Song From the Soul

ItKfS-remained for a woman born
deaf* mute and blind to teach us
patience, to urgejjjgjjff^ake higher
uses of great gifts, to esVs^ from the
deadening imprisonment of our own
selfish senses, to permit no environ-
ment to dismay us, no conditions to

"Mnd us, no obstacles to baffle. Helen
Keller, deaf mute, blind, has never-
theless found means by which her
soul communicates with the world
about her, receiving and giving in-
struction and inspiration. In spite
of her seemingly insuperable disad-
vantages, she has become highly edu-
cated in the best sense of the word.
She has stored her mind with the
best learning that science and litera-
ture afford. And that learning and
the broadened love and sympathies
born of it strive to find expression, as
the shoot creeps from its seed-germ
to the light- Nothing can restrain it.

Born mute, she has slowly and
painfully acquired the power of
speech. Every word gained is to her
more than a nugget . of gold- She!
does not use them idly. And now she
has astonished the savants of the
world by singing in perfect pitch and
making a speech in English, French
and German, every word rich in ap-i
peal to the world for help for the un-
fortunate. And we who have every
advantage prate of our lack of ad-
vantages; we, born to perfect con-
ditions, complain of a want of
chances to make good.

Helen Keller, the blind, has seen
more clearly than have most persons
who have physical eyes; she, the
deaf, has heard more clearly the
pleadings of the afflicted than have
we who have ears; she, the mute,
has spoken more eloquently for 'them
than have we who have words .to
waste, unaccounted. The soul that is
strong cannot be restrained. \ It
knows no conditions and no limits, i
Though blind, it can see, if it will;
though deaf, it can hear, if it wall;
though securely bound to silencej-by
congenital muteness, it can burst
forth into song. There is littlejthat
•is impossible. I

Helen Keller,
Gains

Dumb,
of Speech

"Out of the night that oorers me,
Black as the -pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul."

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MISS KELLER'S SIGNATURE AND, SAMPLE OF TYPEWRITING.
Stanza Which Miss Keller Struck off on the 'Typewriter and to Which She Signed

t j. ■■.'. Her Name^

Will Aid Similarly Afflicted Per-
l?!'^sons in City of Schen-
ectady.

APPOINTED BY MAYOR LUN

Helen Keller Is too wen biown to re-
Ij&we a lengthy introduction. The na-
tion has followed with the greatest
solicitude the progress of the girl who
since infancy has hjgri_bllnd, deaf and
dumb. ^^■■■■■^^

But Miss Keller is no longer dumb.
She is still blind, her ears do not hear,
but she has astonished the scientific
world by regaining, through sheer per-
sistence and unremitting effort, her
power of speech. This feat, which had
always been held:- an impossibility for,
the congenitally deaf was the more re-
markable in that her vocal chords,
atrophied through long disuse, had to
redevelop before they could produce
even the simplest sounds.

Recently Mayor Lunn of Schenectady
asked Miss Keller to assist him in some
of the branches of civic administration,
and it was about her work there that I
wanted to question her.

After the first greeting, as she came
out on to the spacious porch of her
Wrentham home on the arm of her
frlend> she asked me my name.

"You are going to Schenectady, and
you are to be a city official?" I asked.

"Yes, that is so. Mayor Lunn has
said that he would appoint me to the
board of public welfare."

"Won't you tell me about the nature
of your work?" I asked.

"It's not very definite yet," Miss Kel-
ler told me. "I am not going out there
till later In the fall, and . know only in
a general way what I -will do. Before
I go out I am hopeful of trying some-
thing new. I want to give a few short
lectures and talks to women's clubs
and other organizations. You know I
have not talked in public for any length
of time — only once^-at the Harvard
Medical School. Talking Is one thing,
but to make myself understood is an-
other. Did you understand what I said
at the congress?"

"I told MissKeller that I had understood
every word of It. And I repeated to her
the consensus of opinion at the tinae that
her speech was in every way clearer and
more natural than that of the two deaf
pupils, who had their vision, who also
spoke at the time. Later, when I asked
her the reason why she, who had not
their opportunity of seeing the lips, yet
who had succeeded so much better, she
gave her explanation:

"Perhaps I have had more patient
teachers. Maybe I applied myself more.
It means work and untiring application."

"In Schenectady," she resumed, "my
work will be to help along the cause of
better health and more healthful living
conditions. I hope to make my work
preventive rather than ameliorative.

"I was reading the statistics of the
physical condition of our school chil-
dren the other day. Do you know that
over 75 per cent, of our school children
are suffering from some physical de-
fect or other? A great many of them
have defective eyesight. These are con-
ditions that can to a large extent be
remedied by getting at their homes and
their living conditions. So much can be
done by education in just such cases.
So many of the causes of disease and
suffering could be eliminated by preven-
tion.

"More schools are needed for the
blind and for the deaf. The oral method
of talking for the deaf should be uni-
versalized as far as it can. It is not
possible everywhere, perhaps, because
it requires so much concentration. But
it is a wonderful boon to have it. It
puts one In touch with the whole world
where one was formerly so much
shut off."

I asked Miss Keller Why she was a
Socialist. She told me with the ut-
most enthusiasm. Under s'ocialism only,
she said, could every one obtain the
right to ' work and be happy. She is .
very ardent in her socialistic doctrines,
and kept referring to socialism as the
cure for any of the economic ills which
came up in the course of our talk. In
her study, over her desk, is a Socialist
banner of the Industrial Workers of
the World.-

"What do vou think of the imprison-
ment of Bttor , and Glovannitti?" I
asked.

"Outrageous!" The word burst out
before I hag spoken .the first man's
name. "A burning shame. A disgrace
to the whole country and to Massa-
chusetts. They ought to be let out at
once."

While we were talking visitors came
up on the porch, and entered the house.
This prompted another question.

"When you speak to an audience do
you know that there are many, people
In the room. For instance, when you
were speaking at the Harvard medical
school, did you know that there was a
big crowd there?"

"I should say I did. I could f<_el them
and smell them."

"How did you feel them?"

"By any number of vibrations through
the air, and through the floor, from the
moving of feet or the scraping of chairs,
and by the warmth wnich is present
when there are people around."

"How could you tell by your sense of
smell?"

"There was the doctors' odor and the
odor 0f clothing."

"Do you mean to say that doctors
have a special odor which you can
recognize?"

"A very decided odor. It's partly the
smell of ether and partly the smell of
that lingers from the sick rooms in
which they have been. But I can tell
many professions from their odor."

"Which ones?"

"Doctors, painters, sculptors, masons,
carpenters, druggists and cooks."

"What does the carpenter smell like,
and the druggist?"

"The carpenter is always accompan-
ied by the odor of wood; the druggist
is saturated with various drugs. There
is a painter who comes here often, and
I can always tell the minute he comes
anywhere near me."

"Could you tell my work in that way,"
I asked. "Did you smell any ink?"

"No, a typewriter," I think, Miss
Keller answered quickly, laughing.

"Could you really tell that," I asked
in surprise.

Miss Keller's rippling laugh continued,
"I'm afraid that was a guess," she ad-
mitted.

"Is there any difference between the
odors of children and grown-ups?" I
asked, "and between the two sexes
apart from the women's use of per-
fume."

"A big difference. Odors In children
are far less pronounced and less varied
than in grown-ups. Men and women
have entirely different odors.

"Do different individuals have dis-
tinct odors? Can you tell people by
their odor?"

"Every one has a distinct odor. I can
recognize anybody whom I have known
at all well, In that way."

"Do you receive many sensations by
means of vibrations? Can you tell,
for instance, when it's thundering?"

"Yes. And I can tell when It's
ing. Not only from the dampness, but
from the vibrations through the air and
from the odor of fresh turf, as well as
from the suppression of most other
odors."

"But can you tell the difference be-
tween the time that it's raining and the
period immediately following rain, when
practically the same conditions pre-
vail?"

"I can Judge pretty nearly when the
rain starts and stops." t

"Can you distinguish between- noise
and music?"

"Oh, yes, there is the rhythm."

"Aside from the rhythm, if someone
were to beat rhythmically with a ham-
mer, could you tell?

"There Is an entirely different feel-
ing between music, which is pleasant,
and noise, which is harsh.

"In listening to an orchestra, can you
distinguish the Instruments?"

"I can tell a violin, piano, and, best
of all, the' organ, with its full tones.
And, of course, a drum Is easy to
recognize. I can tell the dlfferenoe be-
tween brass and wood wind instruments.
The brass are much more pointed, the
sound from the wooden one seems more
cut off."

"Aside from the matter of rhythm,
can you distinguish a singing voice from
spoken words."

"Yes, there is the difference in pitch.
I was out walking in the woods the
other day with a friend of mine — a Ger-
|man. He sang to me in German. The
song, "Gypsy John,' was all about a
poor old organ-grinder."

"Can you understand German as well
as English," I asked Miss Keller's fin-
gers.

"Not nearly so well. I can understand
it, as well, to read, but I "haven't had
the practice in reading lips in German."

"Konnen Sie mich jetzt yerstehen?" I
asked without any Intimation of the
sudden change.

"Miss Keller hesitated for Just a mo-
ment longer than usual. "Jawohl, Ich
verstehe. ja ganz gut," she answered
with perfect fluency.

Miss Keller's companion was good
enough to suggest that we visit the
study. It is a long oblong room,, one
side lined with shelves, filled with great
quarto sized volumes. Miss Keller ran
the tips of her fingers lightly over their
backs. "These books for the blind are
pretty big, aren't they?" she said. "Her9
is '-David Copperfield' in five volumes,
Green's short ■ history in five, and Car-
lyle's 'French Revolution' in 15 vol-
umes."

Among the books I saw two large
volumes of one of Miss Keller's own
writings— "The Story of My Life," and
a wide variety of books in English,
French and German.

On the long table in the middle of the
room, where Miss Keller attends to her
voluminous correspondence, are two
typewriters, one a special machine for
writing the raised print used for the
blind, the other the ordinary style of
typewriter. It was marvellous to see
the agility with which her fingers flew
over the keys of the latter. Without
means of knowing whether she is strik-
ing the right keys or not, she turns out
pages without a single typographical
error. I was shown a letter which she
had just written to a teacher of the
blind in South America, who had writ-
ten asking for advice on certain ques-
tions of instruction. In all four pages
there was not a mistake that had been
left uncorrected by the typewriter.

I felt that I had imposed on Miss
Keller's good-nature long enough. It
was an effort to tear myself away,
however. Doubtless many have felt
the oharm of her personality.

"I haven't stood on the order — " I be-
gan— half in curiosity.
, "Of your going." Miss Keller fin-
ished the quotation and ' laughed hap-
pily. All through, her rapid-fire mind
nad more than kept pace— it had con-
tinually leaped ahead of the lip to fin-
ger transmission.

But before I took final leave, she wrote
for me on her typewriter with that
same agility, which like much that I
had seen that hour left me marvelling,
her favorite verse, from a poem of
Henley. Arid she signed it in her own
hand — that wonderful hand which
serves as organ of sight and of hear-
ing.

"Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be,
For my unconquerable soul."
And perhaps it is ill-fitting to add to
this embodiment of Helen Keller's in-
domitable spirit and to her sweet per-
sonality, by further comment, the
acknowledgment of an inadequate, ef-
fort to reproduce and re-impart a slight
trace of the thrill of admiration that
must inevitably come to those who have
had the good fortune to know her— if
only for a brief while. It is in the |
presence of nature's wonders, that man
is supposedly brought to a realization
of his own littleness. Yet never were
the feeble successes of full-equipped
man more infinitely dwarfed than by
the accomplishment in the face of hope-
j less handicap of this one fellow-being.
j But Helen Keller has done more than
! to help concretely both herself and
I those who to a leaser degree were
| afflicted as she is. Indelllbly she has
furnished proof of unsurmountable ob-
stacles surmounted, and^established for>
all the ideal of fighting the good fight.

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HELEN KELLER TO GET OFFICE.

Noted Blind Woman Will Make Her
HonTlTTta Schenectady, 3V. Y,

Schenectady,. N. Y., Sept. 3.— Announce-
ment wm Made to-day that Miss Helen
Kelf?\ ■\Wpted blind and deaf woman,
will Iha^tJ&-Weave for this city, .wnere
she jpSkes »r future home. She has
been^. lifelong companion of Mrs. John

MISS HELEN KELLER.

Famous Blind "Woman Appointed on Schenectady

Public Welfare Board.

Mackey, whose husband is secretary to
Mayor George R. Lunn.

On Miss Keller's arrival in this crty
she will be appointed by Mayor Lunn as
a member of the Board of Public Wel-
fare. She will also doubtless receive ap-
pointments to other civic boards. She
is a Socialist and will assist in the af-
fairs of that party in this vicinity.

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TALENTED BLIND GIRL.

Helen Keller linly iftiimHir --irrl Medi-
cal School.

Miss Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb,
and blind, showed th,e assembled oto-
logists at their congress in the Har-
vard Medical school recently that sh€
had adde still another to her pheno-
menal list of accomplishments when
she sang to them.

During the formal addresses, which
were mostly in foreign tongues, Miss
Keller sat on the platform listening
through the fingers of her teacher
Professor White of the New Englanc
Conservatory of* Music, and now anc

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MISS

HELEN KELLER,

then applauding' when a speaker made
a particularly pleasing reference to
the new education of the blind.

When it came Professor White's
turn he demonstrated the extent of
control that Miss Keller had gained
over her vocal chords, tongue and lips.
His illustrations were conveyed from
his lips to Miss Keller's finger tips,
placed tightly over his mouth. All the
vowels and consonant sounds utterec
by Miss Keller came out clearly anc
precisely, and the audience spontane-
ously broke into the heartiest applause

Then came the crowning achieve-
ment, the singing of an octave on sol
and fa and re. some of the tones being
very sweet. This performance not only
amazed but delighted the savants.

Miss Keller, Professor White says,
has the rare faculty of absolute pitch.

Previous to giving this exhibition
Miss Keller made an address in Eng-
lish, in which she said:

"This is a new day in the education
of the deaf, the day when the physi-
cian is no longer content to fight the
hastile silenes with medicine and
surgical nstruments alone, but helps
the teacher to pour the blessed wa-
ters of speech into the desert of
dumbness."

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fllL^N KELLER
XO LECTURE SOON

Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. ■ 5.— Miss Helen
Keller will not come to this city until No-
vember, although she planned earlier in
the year to Join the public welfare board
here. John Macy, secretary to Mayor
George. R. Lunn, at whose home in Wren-
tham, Mass., Miss Keller has lived for
many years, explained that Miss Keller
is now training her voice for a lecture
tour, and that she will not leave home un-
til her studios are complete and she has
attempted her first speech in public,

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EXPLAINS CHOICE

HELEN KELLER

3NE> TADY. Sept. 17— With the
beginning o November, Miss Helen Kel-
ler, blind and deaf, will be at the head
of the welfare board in this city, with
an office adjoining that of the Socialist
Mayor, George R. Lunn.

"I have selected Miss Keller because
of several vital reasons," said Mayor
Lunn. "Because her mental viewpoint
is different from that of ordinary mor-
tals who can both see and hear, Miss
Keller is particularly valuable In welfare
work. Welfare work is heart work. We
are not trying to make the poor people
look better; we want them to feel bet-
ter and to be in really better circum-
stances.

"The Welfare Board of Schenectady
is, broadly speaking, the social problem
itself, the problem of society's neglect
of its human resources, the problem of
enlarging and enriching the lives of the
people. It should become an agent of
the city specifically devoted to human
welfare.

"Within the limits set by antiquated
laws and inadequate resources, this
board of public welfare should become
the clearing house of the city's effort to
make itself cleaner, sounder and hap-
pier. The central problem of poverty it
cannot solve. The nation, not the city,
must do that. But this board can study
the problem of poverty in Schenectady;
can make known the facts and can
show the remedy.

It can undertake welfare work, sup-
plementing and co-ordinating the duties
of the health department, and the
schools. It could take up the pressing
work of recreation, of parks, play-
grounds, dances, concerts, social cen-
tres, festivals, gymnasiums, swimming
pools and moving picture shows. It
could take steps toward beautifying the
city and providing art exhibits; it could
supervise skating rinks, tobogganing,
municipal ice plants and workhouses ;.
it could take up the provision of free,
legal aid, the management of the em-
ployment bureau and the introduction
of greater efficiency into city depart-

ments; it might supervise libraries, ex-!

tend their services and bring them to

greater usefulness."
Miss Keller is a pronounced Socialist,

and it is expected that she will take an

active part in the city government.

While in this, city she will live with her

friend and teacher, Mrs. John Macy,
whose husband is Mayor Lunn's con-
jfidential secretary. Mrs. Macy is Miss
'Keller's instructor and has looked after
jthe wants of the affiliated woman for
many years.

The board will meet in the mayor's
office every Friday. The social problems
of the city which vitally affect the la-
boring and the poorer classes will be
taken up with a view to alleviating
hardships.

The welfare work, already started in
the city, consists of selling ice to the
poor at cost, and the city has already
begun to take orders for the winter sup-
ply of coal at cost prices. An effort
among the local merchants to stop this
coal and ice system has failed.

A municipal grocery is already in
operation and will be in full swing by
the time Miss Keller bej :ns her duties

G' I "f '

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Schenectady will at least be adver-
tised by having Miss Helen Keller on
the Board of public welfare. AndwKBtat
is probably what the mayor wishes.
It is hardly to be expected that the
young woman will be profoundly
versed in questions of municipal ngan-'
agement.

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Schenectady, N. Y., Sept. 21.-Miss Helen
Keller will not become a member of the
public welfare board of this city after
all. She had been named for the place by
Mayor George R. Lunn. the socialist ex-
ecutive of Schenectady.

John Macy, executive secretary of Mayor
Lunn, has tendered his resignation, to take
effect immediately. Mr. Macy's wife has
recently undergone an operation and he
states in his letter to the mayor that it
will be necessary for him to return imme-
diately to Wrentham, Mass.

Miss Keller must remain with the Macys.
Upon Mrs. Macy's recovery Miss Keller
must go upon the lecture platform.

Mayor Lunn said:

^'1 regret exceedingly the necessity which
Mr. Macy away from the mayor's
office and from the city. He has been an
able, efficient and loyal secretary.

"I am deeply disappointed also that our
city is not to have the benefit of the work
of Miss Helen Keller."

Miss Helen Keller visits the Vincent Me-
morial hospital in Brokline every day to
help cheer Mrs. John A. Macy, the teacher
who enabled her to And happiness— though
born deaf, dumb and blind— and who is
convalescing from an operation.

In order to repay this debt of gratitude
Miss Keller has decided to give up her
cherished plan to serve on the municipal
welfare board of Schenectady, N. Y.

Now Miss Keller's voice, the use of
which was learned through patient practice
with her teacher, is helping to cheer Mrs.
Macy in her illness. As much time as -the
physicians permit is spent by Miss Keller
at the bedside.

Mrs. Macy is resting comfortably at the
hospital. Her husband is expected home
ioday.

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HELEN KELLER SHOWS DEVOTION

Gives Up Ambition for Welfare Work to
Minister to Mrs. Macy, Her Life-Long
Teacher N

Helen Keller, dear and blind, of whom
the whole country, if not the whole world,
has heard, has sacrificed her ambition to
show her love for her life-long teacher,
Mrs. John A. Macy, who, as Miss Annie M.
Sullivan, took her almost In infancy, and
with marvellous patience, won the heart
of the afflicted ohild and through many
years trained her until she became self-re-
liant, educated, and filled with a desire to
serve humanity. Mr. Macy recently be-
came secretary to 'George R. Lunn, the
Socialist mayor of Schnectady, N. Y., and
Miss Keller was appointed to the mayor's
executive board. She was enthusiastic
over the prospect of using her energies in
public welfare work, but Mrs. Macy was
taken ill, and was operated upon in the
Vincent Memorial Hospital, a few days
ago, where she still remains. This has
made imperative a complete change in the
family programme; Mr. Macy has resigned
his position, and Miss Keller will devote all
her time to the care of her beloved teacher
and friend.

As soon as she is able, Mrs. Macy will
be taken to Wrentham, where the family
has lived for several years. Miss Keller's
ability to articulate, although she was ap-
parently dumb until about the time of her
entrance to Radcliffe, gives her wider op-
portunities than formerly and those about
her can understand her conversation; but
for her, there is only the sign language
through the sensitive hands in a code de-
veloped by the faithful, devoted teacher.

Miss Helen Keller's plans have again

ary's welfare board. The reason is
that she has lived with the John Macy
family, her warmest friends, and Mr.
Macy, who was executive secretary to
Mayor Lunn of Schenectad3r, has re-
signed. That means that the Macys
will not remove from Wrentham to
Schenectady, so Miss Keller will stay.
Miss Keller, an ardent Socialist, had
looked forward eagerly to her welfare
work u rider the administration olf a
'Socialist, mayor. Mayor Lunn appoint •
ed her pd she expected to begin her
duties very soon. Through her recent-
ly acquired aibility to spaek she had
said isihe would find great enjoyment
in addressing women's olulbs and other
civic organizations there. As a mem-
ber of the mayor's cabinet she wou Id-
have served on other civil boards besid-
es that engaged in the welfare work
of selling ice and coal to the city's poor
ait cost, conducting a municipal groic&viy
and otherwise alleviating hardship. Yet
the disappointment at the loss of an
opportunity to help an works oi char-
ity has been disip'laiced by the love ot
tender ministration to Mrs. Macy, whose
devotion of a quarter of a century has
enalbled Miss Keller to become an aic-
comipilished young woman, despite her
handicap's. Mrs. Macy, then Miss An-
nie M. Sullivan, became acquainted wit!)
Miss Keller when the latter was a mere,
.child. Since then they scarcely have
ibeen separated. They attended Rad-
oliffe together and it was through Mrs.
M«;cy's translation of 'lectures and text-
books into finger speech that Miss Kel-
ler acquire 1 her degree of honors. Mfes
Keller's idea of duty precedes every/

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Helen Keller will not become a
member of the public welfare board
of Schenectady after all. She had
been named for the place by Mayor
George R. Lunn. John Macy, execu-
tive secretary of Mayor Lunn, has ten-
tered his resignation, to take effect
immediately. Mr. Macy's wife has re-
cently undergone an operation and he
Ktj^jjjLJj^iis letter to the mayor that
it wiinie^P&essary for him to return
immediately to AVrentham, Mass. The
resignation of Secretary Macy causes
the change in the plans of Mayor Lunn
regarding the board of public welfare.
He has been keeping open a place on
the board for Miss Keller. This she
cannot now fill, as she must remain
with the Macys. Upon Mrs. Macy's
recovery Miss Keller may go upon the
lecture platform.

% Miss Helen Keller won't go to
SKienectady as a member of that so-
cialist ruled city's public welfare
board, because the wife of the mayor's
executive secretary, with whom Miss
Keller makes her home, finds that her
health prevents residence there. It
would have been interesting to observe
what direction Miss Keller's remark-
able abilities would have taken when
applied to the problems of an indus-
trial community, but the will and
energy which have enabled her to tri-
umph over her terrible afflictions are
assurance that her activity will be
manifest in some other field.

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MISS KELLER NOT
TO TAKE OFFICE

To Remain With Mrs
Macy, 111 at Wrentham,

Named for Public Welfare Board of
Schenectady, N Y.

SCHENECTADY, N Y, Sept 20— Miss
Helen Keller, the blind girl who has
won such a name for herself, will not
become a member of the Public Wel-
fare Board of this city after all. She
had been named for the place by May-
or George R. Lunn, the Socialist execu-
tive of Schenectady.

Today John Macy, executive secretary
of Mayor Lunn, tendered his resigna*
tion, to take effect immediately. Mr
Macy's wife has recently undergone an
operation and he states in his letter to
the Mayor that it will be necessary for
him to return immediately to Wrent-
ham, Mass. He has arranged to leave
this city tomorrow.

The resignation of Sec Macy - causes
the change in the plans of Mayor Lunn
regarding the Board of Public Welfare.
He has been keeping open a place on
the board for Miss Keller. This she can-
not now fill, as she must remain with
the Macys. Upon Mrs Macy's recovery
Miss Keller may go upon the lecture
platform.

Mayor Lunn made the following state-
ment:

"I regret exceedingly the necessity
which takes Mr Macy away from the
Mayor's office and from the city. He
has been, an able, efficient and loyal
secretary.

"1 am deeply disappointed also that
our city is not to have the benefit of
.the work of Miss Helen Keller on the
Board of Public Welfare. Sickness
knows no friends and regards no pro-
grams."

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•^0m Helen Keller and Music. *| ' '

Helen Keller, though deaf as^Wal
as dumb and blind^ has repeatedly
written that she is able to enjoy
music by standing close to a piano
and putting one hand on it. Several
psychologists have expressed the opin-
ion that she deludes herself, and that
she cannot possibly be impressed by
music in a definite manner. Profes-
sor W. Stern, of the University of
Breslau, made up his mind to study
the problem personally, so he paid
Miss Keller a visit, the result of which
he relates in the current Zeitschrift
fur angewandte Psychologie. He sat
down and played the piano, while
she leaned with her body against It
and also placed one hand flat on the
lid. First, he played a simple melody
in four-four measure, the rhythm of
which he specially accentnuated. Miss
Keller soon began with her other
hand to beat time, on the whole cor-
rectly, and when the piece was ended
she called it a "soldiers' march."

The professor then played Strauss's
"Blue Danube" waltz, which visibly
agitated her; her whole body began
to vibrate and sway while her facial
expression also indicated enjoyment
in an unmistakable manner. This
piece was pronounced a "country
dance." Chopin's funeral march she
called a "lullaby," which was not so
inappropriate, the professor remarks,
as it might seem, for, as a whole,
this piece is less tragic than elegiac
and sentimental. Miss Keller was also
able to tell when a very high or a
very low key was touched, and she
recognized a trj H nrniM BihtewiWIWIIWIWmn

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| LEASE don't speak quite so fast,
Miss Keller. You must remember
that I'm but an ordinary morUl,
and my pencil won't keep pace
with your speech, much less with the flow of
your ideas."

Miss Keller laughed heartily and tapped me
lightly on the hand — a gesture which she fre-
quently employs when she wishes to emphasize
a remark — and said:

"Forgive me. I'll try and speak more slowly.
Everybody tells me I'm an awful chatterbox.
There— is that better?"

A trivial conversation to record? By no
means; It is the symbol of something very
astonishing, for I was speaking with a lady
who, at the age of nineteen months, had suffered
the complete loss, through illness, of the powers
of sight, hearing and speech.

In a general way the story of Miss Helen
Keller's life is known to the reading public
through the pages of her fascinating autobiog-
raphy, published in 1905. I shall therefore
content myself with paying a tribute of sincere
admiration to Mrs. John Albert Macy (Miss
Anne Mansfield Sullivan), to whose devotion,
patience and skill it is due that Miss Keller
is to-day a graduate of Radcliffie, a charming
cbnversationalist and a keen and interested
spectator of everything that goes on in the
world, and will proceed to an account of one of
tbe most agreeable and interesting interviews
in which it has ever been my good fortune to
take a part.

' In order to appreciate the significance of the
interview it is necessary that the 'reader should j
realize that there is a distinct Helen Keller,
that this witty, adroit and well informed woman
is in no sense a mere reflection in the mental
field of Mrs. Macy or of any one else, and that
Bo far from being under the intellectual domi-
nation of her friends she follows a highly inde-
pendent line of thought and takes the greatest
pleasure in arguing against her friends in sup-
port of her convictions.

Accustomed to Thinking for Herself.

I may note two instances in support of this
view of Miss Keller's character. In .religion Miss
Keller follows the teachings of . Sweden'borg,
although no other member of the family, and
no one among her friends belongs to that
sect; while her adhesion to socialism origi-
nated, and still persists, despite the fact that
her oldest and dearest friend, Mrs. Macy, whose
influence must have been greater than that of
any other person with whom she has been
brought in contact, 1b strongly opposed to the
Socialist movement. .<

The only preparation I had for my talk with
Miss Keller — who, it must be remembered, is
still totally blind and totally deaf — was that I
was told that when I .wished to speak to her I
must let her place her fingers against my lips.
Shortly after my arrival at her home in
Wrenthftm, Mass., Miss Keller entered the room.
She walked toward me without hesitation, and
as. soon as we had shaken hands I placed her
fingers against my lips and said, speaking in my
ordinary voice, without any attempt to exag-
gerate the distinctness of my words or to de
crease the speed of my ordinary speech:

"I'm very gladv-to meet you; your name has,
of course, been familiar to me for a long time."
Miss Keller smiled and replied at once, speak-
ing with ease and distinctness, "And your name
to me. I was very much interested some years
ago in the Boer war, and I read your book on
the subject.

"You are an Englishman," she continued, "and
there is one thing I long to Arisit England for —
your hedge-rows. You know how fond I am of
our New England stone walls; but I realize
what a peculiar beauty there must be in the
hedges, the beauty of life and of growth."

This love of the stone walls Miss Keller has
expressed very finely and vigorously in her
"Song of the Stone Wall," written in blank
verse, frcm which the following lines, describ-
ing the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, are
taken:

:onrse upon a trackless sea.

They stood upon i-.ed

men:

real solitudes of sar. -'.

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Her Study and Library.
Ei i vMle :

might like to go w Xeller tc

and have a good, long talk wij Hiss

Keller's stndy is a Iar?

coimtmodation for books, a fla - that

state of confusion which tells of daily work not
to be inter:-.!, su aonri

habits, two ordinary typewriters and one type-
writer for printing Braille, tie embossed writ-
taf taed by the biini The decorations axe
simple; at one end of the room a ha\
statue of the Yoras i bung am

walls a number of plas-
form of plaques in high re.

The only indication thai - - that

of a blind person lay in the enormous size of
the books which filled the snelves to overflow-
ing. Here were Shakespeare and Char
Boswell, Car.
Barrie., Mered:

to name a few w'aicb cau: But

they were all clothed in an unfamiliar form,
for, being printed either in Braille or ■

fashioned Bible, and Green req-uir four

feet 1: - se and

the top.

In the midst of ber
Miss Keller makes a charm
above the medium beight. but not s -
to appear tall, she was I - • gown

of a soft s in wfcirt

extreme of m:

yield to :ions of easy

movement. A head beautifully p report i
and ol a bignly intellectual

an abundance of wav- hair.

ant in Miss
appearance is the mobility of h .
which changes f re-
sponse to her thought, and leaves the general

impression of great .good humor and a kindly
inquisitiveness. In speaking Miss Keller em-
ploys her hands freely, with an almost Gallic
use of gesture; indeed, her hands, strong, well
formed and nervous, lend an additional fascina-
tion to the wit and readiness of her conversa-
tion.

A Charming Hostess.

Miss Keller seated herself at her desk, and
I took a chair beside her, so placed that she
could easily put her fingers to my lips. "When
I spoke she placed her first finger lightly against
my lips, her second finger against the side of my
nostril, and her thumb against my throat, just
above the Adam's apple. In the course of an
hour and a halfs conversation Miss Keller
caught everything I said, with perfect clearness,
except possibly on half a dozen occasions when
I spoke too rapidly, and once when I spoke
French, when she explained that French was a
very difficult language for a deaf person to hear
by touch, a remark which I more than suspected
to have been a tactful comment upon my pro-
nounciation.

For my part I had no difficulty In under-
standing everything Miss Keller said, except
when her vivacity and mental alertness ran
away with, her and she spoke very rapidly.
Her voice is in no way disagreeable, its only
peculiarity being a little excess of distinctness
and a marked separation of the syllables in
long words. This is offset, however, by a per-
fectly natural variation in the pitch and tone
of the voice and by the employment of emphasis
perfectly adjusted to the thought in her mind.
Miss Keller does not say "Of course I am in-
terested in politics," but "Of COURSE I'm in-
terested in politics."

"Now, ask me anything you like," said Miss
Keller.

"Well, I'd like to hear something about what
plans you have in your mind in regard to the
work you propose to do in Schenectady."

Light for Social Blindness.

"I do not know yet exactly what I shall do
there. You see, I don't yet know very, much
about the local conditions there or about the
functions of the Board of Public Welfare; but,

of course, I shall study the laboring people and
their lives and get into as close touch as I can
with everything;- and it seems to me that in a
busy place like that I ought to find very good
opportunities for gaining a clear knowledge of
the things I want to write about, matters re*
lating to wages and conditions of labor and the
standard of living, and kindred topics.

"One of the tilings I want to write about is
the soeial blindness from which so many people
seem to suffer, an inability to see and to under-
stand the fundamental conditions underlying
the relations between the workpeople and
their employers. The key of the situation lies
in the central fact of our present industrial
system — the ownership of everything by the
few."
"Are you a convinced Socialist, then?"
"Indeed I am! I've discussed socialism with
many people, and, of course, I've read a good
deal of the Socialist literature, What books?
Oh, well, a great many. Some of those which
have interested me most are H. G. Wells's 'New
Worlds for Old,' and Hunter's 'Poverty,' and
Morris's 'Socialism: Its Growth and Outcome,'
and Blatchford's 'Britain for the British,' and
Untermann's summary of Marx, and Kautsky's
— yes, K-a-u-t-s-k-y — 'Die Forderungen von dor
Sozial-^Democratie,' which I have read in Ger-
man Braille."

I shifted my speech to German and asked if
she spoke the language of the Fatherland.
"Ja, gewisz! Das ist nicht schwer."
After a little desultory talk in German I
harked back to Miss Keller's socialistic views.
"What would you say was the greatest curse
from which the laboring classes suffer?"

Poverty a Curse and a Crime.

"Why, poverty, of course! But, mind you, I
agree emphatically with Bernard Shaw that
poverty is a crime rather than a misfortune.
You remember how he drives that home in
'Major Barbara?' I think Shaw is a great'
force in the world of new ideas ; his keen sar-
casm cannot fail to destroy many of the
fallacies and superstitions of the day."

"And how would you define poverty?"

"Oh, it means so much! It means facing the
world and the vicissitudes of life unprepared.
It means want of proper equipment, scanty-
leisure and a shameful waste of precious capa-
bilities. It means being cut off from the full
benefits of education, science and medical as-
sistance."

""And what causes poverty?" I asked.

"Did you never ask yourself that question?"
replied. Miss Keller.

"No; I never dared to, because I feared I
might find that my own poverty was my own
fault."

Miss Keller laughed heartily, touched me on
the arm with a protesting hand, and said:

"No, no! In your case it must be the stupidity
of the magazine editors who don't ask you to
write about all your wonderful travels. But in
most cases poverty can be traced to general
economic conditions rather than to individual
shortcomings.

"In the main, poverty springs from the cir-
cumstance that the mines, the factories, the
railways, the machinery and the great resources
by which people must live are owned by the
few in their own interest and not for the benefit
of the people."

"You talk like W. D. Haywood," I said
laughing.

"Well, I take that as a compliment. I'm glad i
you think I'm as intelligent as that."
Socialism and Woman Suffrage.

At this moment Mrs. Macy, who had been
sitting on the other side of the room, came
over and, taking Miss Keller's hand, said some-
thing to her in the manual alphabet, which is
commonly used by the deaf. Miss Keller
laughed long and loud and clapped her hands—
a sign of pleasure and amusement. Then turn-
ing to me she said:

"She says it's all very well for me to talk
like that, but that my views don't prevent me
accepting the dividends on a few railroad
shares that I own."
"And what have you to say to that?" I asked.
"Oh, I don't set up to be perfect; and, any-
how, whatever you may think of my conduct

the instance certainly proves my point, for I
know nothing whatever ahout railroads, and I
never worked for one, and yet I get my dividend
just the same. That's exactly the point I've
been trying to make."

"To leave economics, let me ask you if you
are interested in American politics?"

"Of course I am. Every Socialist Is. If there
were no politics ithere'd be no socialism. Does
it seem strange to you that a woman who can't
vote, and whose work seems to lie so far from
the ordinary tasks, should be deeply interested
in politics and in the questions of the day?
Think of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and
dumb person to be educated by Dr. Samuel G.
Howe. In her writings there is no reference
to the civil war, although she lived through it!

"In that respect, however, she was not more
deaf or blind than many seeing and hearing
people I learn about every day. Many women
to-day don't know what's going on in politics,
but they know about the width of the skirt
which fashion's decree will compel them t<j
wear, and they know about the latest novel by
Mr. Chambers."

"In view of such criticism," I asked, "do you
think they ought to have the right to vote?"

"Of course I do. They'll never know ANY-
THING if they don't vote. The fact is, women
hare got to have more responsibility before
they'll think it worth their while to study the
problems of the day. Perhaps it may not seem
so strange to you that I should be interested in
woman suffrage when you know that my work
for the blind has led me to study the deeper
economic conditions which have caused the
building of our institutions for the blind. You
see, most of the blind are poor, and much
blindness is caused by poverty, for disease is
one of the consequences of the unsanitary con-
ditions in which the poor live. It is, indeed,
largely because of tlie existence of so much
poyerty that we have so many men and women
in our institutions for the sightless, the deaf,
the feeble-minded, the insane and the crip-
pled."

"You mustn't let me tire you out with all this
discussion," I said.

"Oh, no; 3
talk."

Enjoys Study, Writing and Nature.

"Well, then, will you tell me something about
your occupations and amusements?"

"My work? Oh, I read a great deal, or am
read to, and then I have written and do write
a good deal in the ordinary sense, because of
course I work slowly; but it's ia good deal for
me. As a rule I read a long time about a sub-
ject before I begin to write. Then I put my
thoughts into shape on my Braille typewriter,
and finally I make a fair copy on an ordinary
typewriter.

^As to my amusements, I get great pleasure
from a good book, a good comedy and a good
friend. But my greatest enjoyment is in Nature
— in the trees, the flowers and the grass. They
afford me something better than mere amuse-
ment. When I feel wearied by the misery and
ignorance which sometimes seem to be the only
things in the world — when I feel like that I go
out of doors and breathe the sweet, fresh air,
and feel the trees and the flowers and the
grass, and that strengthens me .and changes
my mood, and I feel again that the world is
moving toward the highest good. Oh, and then
sometimes I play hide-and-seek with the chil-
dren, and I generally catch them."

"Just one more question — what about war?"

"Oh, war is just one of the many things in
which the means of production are used to ex-
ploit the people. Now, an illustration helps to
make a point clear. Take the"

"Just a moment," I interrupted. "Don't forget
I'm English and that we are accounted a stupid
people. Make your illustration very simple."

"Nonsense!" laughed Miss Keller. "It's all a
foolish slander about the English being stupid.
Of course they're not. Well, about my exam-
ple; take the Boer war. You sympathized with
the English, I sympathized with the Boers.
Why, bless you, we were both wrong, we bot
missed the point,

"Who fought that war, and for whom? It'
wasn't a war between the people of the Trans-
vaal and the people of Great Britain, but be
tween two sets of capitalists interested in get'

ting as much gold and territory and labor asf
they could out of South Africa. It made no dif-
ference who won, the wealthy British or the
wealthy Dutch, because the people, the workers
did all the fighting and bore all the suffering
while the masters on both sides got the advan*
tage. Well, there— that IS war."

Two ''Stunts."

We went out on the cool, shady piazza, where
a few of Miss Keller's friends had assembled foi
afternoon tea. Here somebody suggested tha
Miss Keller should do a "stunt." She assented
with great good humor and asked what we
would like.

Oh, I know what I'll do," she said, "I'll beat
out some rhythms."

CAP &*d,
<SOWN

The difficulty of conveying a sense of rhythm
to a person totally deaf will be readily appre-
ciated. Miss Keller gave us samples of the'
various musical rhythms, marking the beats by
clapping her hands, and changing from three
time to four time and back again, chanting
words to fit the rhythm and assigning the
proper accent to each syllable, as in "Califor-
nia" and "Panama."

At some one's suggestion she then repeated
with great rapidity and precision:

Peter Piper picked a peck of peppers.
If Peter Pdper picked a peck of peppers.
Where Is the peck of peppers
ITfhat Peter Piper picked?

Now the time had come for me to catch my
train back to Boston, but I was emboldened by
Miss Keller's great good nature to make one
more request.

"Won't you write me a lew lines on your
typewriter?" I begged.

She assented readily, and we went back to
the study. There, striding confidently to the
desk, Miss Keller felt around among the books
and documents till she found a piece of type-
writing paper. Then, seating herself, she in-
serted the paper in the machine and typed a,
few lines almost without hesitating. The key-
board was an ordinary universal keyboard, and
the typewriter differed in no respect from one
that might have been chosen at random out of
any business office. Here is what Miss Keller
wrote:

It is true I am shut out from the world of the
eye and the ear. Yet how rich I am in what I
know through the sense of touch alone! The
seasons come round to me like old friends. The
breath of new flowers in spring- brings joy and
sweetness. As I walk along the winds caress
my cheek, and I feel the play of sun and cool
shadow upon my brow. Through the sense of
touch, too, I feel the force of the sea waves,
and I can say with Byron, "Roll on, thou decg
and dark blue ocean, ■■•"""> MW—iwiim—'

/f He/en JfeUer TW

Conquere4?4ut May

— ♦ —

Rev. Dr. Hyde Draws Lessons

From Three Great Women

—Other Sermons.

Last evening at the Porter church,
Dr. Albert Marion Hyde drew illustra-
tions for his sermon from the lives of
three great women prominently men-
tioned this summer, Helen Keller,
Jane Addams and Catherine Booth.

In the course of the sermon he
spoke of the marvelous achievement
of Helen Keller, in singing before a
company of physicians at Harvard
University, a performance that was
little short of marvelous. In speaking
of her he said:

"Born deaf and dumb and blind, her
body a living sepulchre whose opaque
walls shut her spirit within, she con-
quered her unconquerable environ-
ment and achieved a noble, cultured,
well rounded Christian womanhood
which is a help to all who know her.

"There is not a woman in this con-
gregation who is handicapped as she
was; there is not a woman in this city
who is bound hand and foot as she
was bound. There is not a woman in
the hardest place for whom the door
of opportunity is locked and bolted
and barred. Environment is not a ty-
rant over man. Society is not a despot
With the power to rule him. The .soul
is still on the throne. We may bow
before it and still say 'Thine is the
kingdom and the power and the glory
forever.'

"Standing over against this woman
who so gloriously conquered, every
toiler may conquer; every seeker
after character may conquer; every
helper of his fellowmen may gather
harvests of courage which will yield
many fold in service and uplift."

YUvQ TSecUorol, 'YY\ A.SS., St^wctsurgt.

Famous blind gikl

wm«D OFFICE

Miss Helen Keller, the famous blind
and deaf girl, has been selected by
George E. Limn, the Socialist Mayor of
Schenectady, N. Y.s to head the Welfare
Board in the latter city. Miss Keller
will assume her duties some time in
November.

fHa.-d\i.K&a,cl, "Mass., TTWsSfeyigc.^

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•Helen Keller's Dreams.

Most ]|>m%-kable are the dreams of
those^ltoffAi^i and blind*-- When these
are vejforded by so remarkable a person
as Miss Helen Keller they become prized
human documents. -The altered sense-
terms of her dreams speak for them.
selves — and eloquently.

She recalls that in her dreams, as in
her dark and silent world, "things fell
suddenly, heavily. I felt my clothing
afire, or I fell into a tub of cold water.
Once I smelled bananas ; and the odor I
in my nostrils was so vivid that in the
morning, before I was dressed, I went
to the sideboard to look for the bananas —
and mo odor of bananas anywhere ! My
life was in fact a dream throughout."
This was written much later, but refers
to the period before her education.

Miss Keller's dream of reading the
raised print of the blind reads strangely
to seeing minds.

"In sleep I think I cannot sleep, I toss
about in the - toils of tasks unfinished.
I decide to get up and read for a while.
I know the shelf in my library where I
keep the book I want. The book has
no name, but I find it without difficulty.
I settle myself comfortably in the Morris
chair, the great book open on my knee.
Not a word can I make out, the pages
are utterly blank. I am not surprised,
but keenly disappointed. I finger the
pages, I bend over them lovingly, the
tears fall on my hands, I shut the book
quickly as the thought passes through
my mind: "The print will be all rubbed
out if I get it wet. Yet there is no print
tangible on the page." — Hampton's Maga-
zine.

TV^OYU, WUS5., Jl^^irvo^^

ses Frie:

m*acy

Miss Helen Keilei; <-& put aside *w an
indefinite time her precious, cherished plan
of serving- on the Municipal Welfare Board
of Schenectady. N. Y., in order to be of
what service she can here during the ill-
ness of her more-than-friend, Mrs. John A.
Macy.

Grasping eagerly at one of the few oc-
casions when she can help Mrs. Macy,
Miss Keller has thrown aside, temporarily
at least, all thought of going to Schenec-
WWmmm*mmm<" this welfare board.
What a sacrifice it means to the blind
girl none can appreciate rightly, who has
not realized the intense, burning ambition
of Miss Keller to take up this position in j
Schenectady. It meant to her that she was I
actually serving as a public officer on a
public commission, doing welfare work and .
demonstrating in another way that her life '
has been raised to practical use, as well
as to high example.

Comforts Old Friend.

Miss Keller has eacerly prepared to go
to Schenectady. Now she has called off all
plans for that so that she can he at Mrs.
Macy's bedside as much as possibe.

Mrs. Macy, Miss Keller's famous and
wonderful teacher, through whom Miss
Keller has been led to happiness, is con-
valescing in Vincent Memorial Hospital
from an operation.

Today, as she has for the past . week,
Miss Keller called at the hospital to talk
with Mrs. Macy and to cheer her. She
will remain in Boston as long as Mrs.
Macy is ill.

The anxiety of Miss Keller to do any-
thing or everything for Mrs. Macy is pa-
IKMMnAL combines the trusting love and
devotion of a child with the unselfish
sacrifice that comes only with tuaturer
years.

For the last quarter of a century Mrs.
Macy has devoted lier life to Helen Keller.

" - •!'•' t:". latter was

brought, deaf, dumb and blind, from the
South to the Pisyldns Institute for the
Blind.

HELEN KELLER (on left) AND TUTOR, MRS. JOHN A. MACYJ

HELEN KELLER

The Appoint merit of
This Wonderful Deaf
and Blind Woman to
Public Office Gives
Her a New Chance to
Display Her Remark-
able Ability.

HE recent action of the mayor :
of Schenectady, New York,
in appointing Miss Helen!
Keller, the widely-known
deaf and blind woman, to a
place upon the board oTpTlnWCwelfare
of that city has again called atten-
tion to one whom Mark Twain de-
scribed as the most remarkable per-
son of the last century. The object
of the board of public welfare is to
co-operate with the existing agencies,
such as health and education, and to
provide machinery for carrying out;
the larger problem of a modern city.
Miss Keller will, of course, not be
able to do any active field work
along social lines, but she is known
to be a woman of ideas and of ad-
vanced thoughts upon socialistic
problems, and she will be of the great-
est assistance to the more militant
members of the board.

An ardent socialist, she has radical
views upon the present situation of
the lower classes. She thinks that
poverty is the greatest curse of man-
kind, and that to eliminate this evil
should be the great work and aim
of the present generation. She has
little patience with ordinary relief
measures and plans for temporary
alleviation of existing bad conditions-
of the poor. She wants to remove
causes and get down to the roots of
the evils of modern life.

Miss Keller and Her Teacher.

She is convinced that the world is:
getting better, but also insists that I
Socialism is the only hope as a force1
to improve conditions at the present
time.

Miss Keller will have, in the board1
of public welfare of Schenectady, a
broad field in which to sow the seeds!
of her advanced radical ideas and
ideals, and Schenectady cannot but
benefit from having her advice and
assistance in its social campaigns.
When one considers the physical han-
dicaps which Miss Keller has over-
come, the problems of Schenectady;
seem almost insignificant in compari-
son.

While a great deal has appeared in
the public prints about Miss Keller,
her outdoor sports and indoor amuse-
ments and her proficiency in them, de-
spite her privation of sight and hear-
ing, is one side of her remarkable;
life of which little is known.

There is hardly any form of outdoor
sport, except where sight is an abso-i
lute requisite, such as tennis or golf,
in which Miss Keller has not taken
an interest and made some progress.

One summer a friend presented her
with a fine tandem bicycle. At first
this appeared to the family about as
useless a gift under the circumstances
as one could well imagine. But with
Miss Keller it was different. There
was no reason why she should not
learn to ride the machine, she argued,
and immediately made an appeal for
volunteers to help her "man" it.

Before long Miss Keller acquired
the knack of balancing herself cor-
rectly and thereafter everything was
easy.

All the steering was done from the
rear, where her companion sat, they
arranged a little system of signals in
the form of sundry taps, which were
made on her shoulder; one to stop,
two to slow up and three to go ahead.

Rowing was another of Miss Kel-
ler's favorite recreations and she soon
became exceedingly skillful with the
oars. While it was usual for some
one to sit in the stern and manage
the rudder, she would just as often
row without it. On such occasions,
it was merely necessary for the boat
to be pointed in a certain direction,
and then her delicate sense of touch,
enabled her to keep the oars so even-
ly poised that she could maintain a
straight course for almost any dis-
tance.

When it was her pleasure simply to
row about at random she guided the
boat, or rather kept it from running
aground, by the scent of water
grasses and lilies, and the bushes on
the shore, for her sense of smell, like
her other senses, is extraordinarily
acute.

She was also fairly expert at canoe-
ing. In writing to a friend on this
subject, she said :

"I enjoy canoeing even more than
rowing, and I suppose you will laugh
when I say that I especially like it
on moonlight nights. I cannot, it is
true, see the v moon climb up the sky
behind the pines and steal softly
across the heavens, making a shining
path for us to follow* but I know she
is there, and as I lie back among the
pillows and put my hand in the wa-
ter I fancy that I feel the shimmer
of her garments as she passes.

"Sometimes a daring little fish
slips between my fingers, and often
a pond lily presses shyly against my
hand.

"Frequently, as we emerge from the
shelter of a cove or inlet, I am sud-
denly conscious of the spaciousness
of the air about me. A luminous
warmth seems to enfold me. Whether
it comes from the trees, which have
been heated by the sun or from the
water, I can never discover.

"I have had the same strange sen-
sation even in the heart of the city.
I have felt it on sold, stormy days and
at night. It is like the kiss of warm
lips on my face."

Being so accomplished on the water
it was natural that Miss Keller should
want to prove her ability in it, sO she
began to take swimming lessons, and
in a fortnight was not only able to
swim quite a distance, but to dive,
float and even to swim a little under
water.

Horseback riding was another of
her favorite sports, and, with another
person as a guide, she would go gal-
loping over the country with absolute
fearlessness. Physical fear seems to
be unknown to her, although she ex-
ercises the greatest caution when the
need of it exists. In winter; she was
fond of skating, and there was no to-
boggan slide too long or too steep
for her to attempt.

Chief of Miss Keller's indoori
amusements was the game of check-]
ers. A friend had made for her al
specially devised board, the squares
being cut so that the men would
stand firmly in them. The blackj
checkers were flat on top and the'
white ones round, and there was a
hole in which fitted a brass knob to
distinguish the kings from the com-
mon.

In playing she would run her hands
quickly and lightly over the board to;
get a mental picture of the groupings,]
then make her move, and so play on,]
following her opponent's maneuvers!
as easily as one who sees.

At school Miss Keller invariablj*

took a leading part in all the amuse-
ments in which her schoolmates, all
of whom, like herself, were deaf, but
not blind, participated. Once a little
play to be given by the pupils was
prepared, and when she heard of this
immediately expressed a desire to
have a part in it. The only difficulty
in the way was her inability to read
by sight, as the others did, the lips
of those taking part in the piece and
thus to know when her own lines
should be spoken. This difficulty was
overcome by having one of the other
characters in the piece stand near
enough to signal by a slight and in-
conspicuous touch when she should
speak. She had previously memorized
the entire play and in the performance
not only s"poke every line at the
proper time, but with a dramatic force
and feeling which astonished even
those who were most familiar with
her former achievements.

When actually in toujrh with any-
one she always responded to every
mood perfectly and instantly. She
would sometimes speak with amazing
intelligence upon subjects which no
one could remember having more
than briefly mentioned to her.

It is now eight years since Miss
Keller took her bachelor's degree
from Radcliffe college, being un-
doubtedly the most remarkable girl
graduate of that or any similar insti-
tute of learning in this country.

That she took the full four years'
course with honors, in spite of being
deaf and blind, and possessing but
imperfect powers of speech acquired
after she was 16 years of age and
that she did her work under precisely

the same conditions as her more nor-
mal classmates is proof of the so-
called higher education of women dur-
ing the past quarter century.

Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, 32
years ago, she had perfectly devel-
oped faculties until, when about three
years old, an illness deprived her of
sight, speech and hearing.

The training which made possible
her quite unusual scholarship began
when Miss Sullivan, now Mrs. John
Macy, of the Perkins Institute for the
Blind, in Boston, went south to under-
take the education of the child, who
was then seven years old. Five years
later Miss Keller went to Massachu-
setts, where she has lived ever since,
until within the last few months, with
Miss Sullivan as a constant compan-
ion.

Although she learned to speak, to
hear by touch, and to see through
the eyes of those about her under her
teacher's guidance, she was put In
the hands of a special tutor in pre-
paring to enter college, and all the
while she was a student at Radcliff*
she had to depend upon her own won-
derful memory and her keen under-
standing to a much greater extent
than the average college girl has to
do.

Miss Sullivan was her ears, so to
speak, sitting beside her in the class-
room and lecture hall and repeating
to her verbatim, hour after hour, by
the touch of her fingers on her pu-
pil's hand, every word that was said.

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DUNG

Helen Keller is shown in a new
light in the following article. It is
more or less common knowledge that
she and those who have worked with
her have overcome to a large extent
the handicaps of her blindnessf deaf-
ness and dumbness. It is difficult,
however, to think of her entering
fully into the intellectual life of" the
intelligent thinker of today; and it
is even more difficult to conceive of
her as a participant in athletic
sports. Miss Keller rides bicycle.
She rows. She paddles a canoe — -and
'she gets perhaps more pleasure from
this byplay than the average person
obtains who has' had such diversion
for years.

By ROBERT H. MOULTON.

I WAS privileged to be associated
with Miss Helen Keller in a New
York school for several years and
later to spend an entire summer
at her home in Wrentham.

During this time I had every oppor-
tunity to study her carefully. Though
I saw and conversed with her daily,
I was continually astonished by some
new phase of her wonderful mind and
her no less remarkable nature.

How she came to be so fully in-
formed about many of the things of
which we would speak was always a
puzzle to me. Sometimes I fancied
that she absorbed knowledge from,
people about her through some intan-
gible psychic process.^and without ;he
need of visible means of communica-
tion.

She has always tried to be "like
ether people," and so her habit of
speaking of things as they appear to
those who .see and hear has become
second nature with her. Indeed, her
whole life since her education was be-
gun has been a series of attempts to
do whatever other people could do.
This unconquerable desire has mani-
fested itself not only in her mental
achievements, but in her physical ac-
complishments as well.

One summer a friend presented her
with a fine tandem bicycle. At first
this appeared to 'the family about as
useless a gift under the circumstances
as one could well imagine. But wi'h
Miss Keller it was different. There
was no reason why she should not
learn to ride the machine, she argued,
and immediately made an appeal for
volunteers to help her "man" it.

Being rather at home on the wheel
myself, I thought she could fare no
worse under my tutorage than that
of anyone else, and after a little per-
suasion Miss Sullivan, her teacher,
agreed to let us try it together.

I had my misgivings when we took
our seats, the machine being support-
ed for us, but when we had been given
a start in the shape of a generous
shove from a half-dozen hands, I
found no special effort necessary to
keep the machine erect and moving.
After a few lessons my companion
acquired the knack of balancing her-
self correctly and thereafter - every-
thing was easy. ■ >

All the steering was done from thej
rear, where I sat, and we arranged a,;
little system of signals in the form!
of sundry taps which I was to make
on her shoulder: one to stop, two to:
slow up, and three to go ahead. I
cannot recall that we ever had a
serious accident of any kind, al-
though 10 and 15 mile trips were al-!
most a daily occurrence throughout
the summer.

Now and then when we came to a
particularly rough bit of road, where
it became necessary to slow up to
such an extent that the wheel would
fall over' simply from lack of mo-
mentum, Miss Keller would pick her-
self up out of the duet, laughing, and
declare that it was great fun to be
spilled once in a while.
I' "When on a long, level stretch of
road we would make frequent
"sprints,", and the more rapid the
pace the better she was pleased. The
swift, rush through the air, with the,
. wind blowing in her face, seemed to j
accord her more intense enjoyment'
than any other form of exercise,
though her other outdoor diversions
were numerous.

One day we were out with a party
of other cyclists whom we soon out-
distanced. This seemed to Miss Kel-
ler a fine opportunity to play a joke.

"Let's pretend we've had a spill,"
she said. "We'll muss up the road aj
bit, put the machine against that
stump over there (how she knew of
the existence of the stump I never
learned) and then lie down, as if we
had been bowled over." The stage
setting for the affair was perfect as
she designed it.

When the rest of the party arrived
a little later and, jumping from their;
wheels, ran to the assistance of the;
supposed victims, Miss Keller sprang
to her feet, with shouts of laughter,
and fairly danced about in her de-
light at the success of her scheme.

Her sense, of humor was remark
ably keen. In fact, it was this char
acteristic, a trait which one would
hardly expect to find in a person situ

ated as she is, which struck me most
forcible in the beginning of our ac-
quaintance.

She was quick to perceive the point
of- the most subtle joke, and would
even display rare patience in trying
to discover the meaning of a dull one,
while her skill in the use of words
made her ready with repartee.

Upon one occasion I asked her if
she had finished her work for the day.
"Yes," she said, "I have discharged
all ray duties."

"Were they so bad," I asked, "that
you had to discharge them?"

"Well," she replied, "it would have
been very naughty if I had not dis-
charged them. Besides," she added,
her face taking on a roguish look,
"isn't this the place where the young
idea is taught how to shoot?"

Another time when we were seated
at the evening meal tbe lamp on the
table began to flicker spasmodically.
Immediately in some inexplicable
manner Miss Keller's attention was
attracted.

"What's the matter with the lamp,"
she asked. "Has it got the hic-
coughs?"

Humane instincts.
Her sympathy, which is of the quick
and ministering sort, is easily awak-
ened by the knowledge of suffering or
oppression, and in the case of dumb
creatures sometimes becomes truly
pathetic.

One day I chanced to meet her as
I was returning from a fishing trip,
and when she learned what had been
the mission of my early morning ex-
cursion she immediately began a dis-
course upon the cruelty of the sport
in general and that part of it relating
to the use of bait in general.

But I told her that I had been us-
ing-„"artificial flies," and when I ex-
plained about these she clapped her
hands in delight at what she thought
was the emancipation of the luckless
worm. Then her face clouded up
again and she spoke of the pain en-
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"But," I said, "think of the good I
do. When T catch a large fish I save
the lives of a great many small ones,
for the old fellows are regular canni-
bals, you know," an argument which
seemed to amuse even if it did not
entirely satisfy her.

Rowing Avas another of Miss Kel-
ler's favorite recreations, and she
soon became exceedingly skilful with
the oars. On such occasions it
was merely necessary for the boat
to be pointed in a certain direc-
tion, and then her delicate sense of
touch enabled her to keep the oars so
evenly poised that she could maintain
a straight course for almost any dis-
tance.

her other senses, is extraordinarily
acute.

She was also fairly expert at canoe-
ing. In writing to a friend on this
subject she said:

Canoeing Sensations.

"I enjoy canoeing even more than
rowing, and I suppose you will laugh
when I say that I especially like it
on moonlight nights. I cannot, it is
true, see'the moon climb up the sky
behind the pines and steal softly
across the heavens, making a shining
path for us to follow, but I know she
is there, and as I lie back among the
pillows and put my hand in the water
I fancy that I feel the shimmer of her
garments as, she passes.

"Sometimes a daring little fish slips
between my fingers, and often a pond
lily shyly presses against my hand.

"Frequently, as we emerge from the
shelter of a cove or inlet, I am sud-
denty conscious of the spaciousness of
the air about me. A luminous warmth
seems to enfold me. Whether it
comes from the trees which have been
heated by the sun or from the water
T can never discover.

"I have had the same strange sen-
sation even in the heart of the city.
I have felt it on cold, stormy days
and at night. It is like the kiss of
warm lips on my face."

Being so accomplished on the water
it was natural that Miss Keller should
want to prove her ability in.it, so she
began to take swimming lessons, and
in a fortnight was not only able to
swim quite a distance, but to dive,
float, and even to swim a little under
water.

Horseback riding was another of
her favorite sports, and with another
person as a guide she would go gal-
loping over the country with abso-
lute fearlessness. Physical fear
seems to be uknown to her, although
she exercises the greatest caution
when the need of it exists.
XSood at Checkers.

Chief of Miss Keller's indoor
amusements was the. game of check-
ers, A friend had made for her a spe-
cially devised board, the squares be-
ing cut so that the men would stand
firmly in them. The black checkers
were flat on top and the white ones
round, and there was a hole in which
fitted a brass knob to distinguish the
kings from the common.'

In playing she would run her hands
quickly and lightly over the board to
get a mental picture of the groupings,
then make her move, and so play on,
following her opponent's manoeuvres
as easily as one who sees. I flattered
myself upon being an exceptionally
good player at checkers, and at first
when teaching her the game, allowed
her to win occasionally. But after a
few days' practice the need of this
concession begtn to grow less and
less, until at the end of a week I
found myself forced to play my best
to win a fair percentage of the games
we played.

At school, Miss Keller invariably
took a leading part in all the amuse-
ment;; in which her schoolmates, all
of whom, like herself, were deaf, but
not blind, participated. Once a little
play to be given by the pupils was

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prepared, and when she heard of this
immediately expressed a desire to,
have a part in it. The only difficulty
in the way was her inability to read-
by sight, as' the others did, the lips of
those taking part in the piece, and'
thus know when her own lines should
be spoken. This difficulty was over-
come by having one of the other char-
acters in the piece stand near enough
to signal by a slight and inconspicu-
ous touch when she should speak.
She had previously memorized the en-
tire play and in the performance not
only spoke every line at the proper
time, but with a dramatic force and
feeling which astonished even those
who were most familiar with her for-
mer achievements.

Miss Keller's sense of touch, of
course, is wonderfully developed. She
remembers anyone with whom she
has ■ once shaken hands simply
through the individual grasp of the
fingers which each person possesses.
In "this way she gets a mental picture
of the person, so to speak, just as we
would with our eyes.

Sense of Touch.

Both when writing- and speaking
she describes things as if she saw
them, a fact which puzzled me until
I grew to understand that she saw,
not with her eyes, but through that
inner faculty which our eyes serve.

^. She appeared to comprehend what
was going on about her, and to under-
stand the feelings of those in whose
company she happened to be, even
when quite left out of the conversa-
tion.

When actually in touch with any-
one she always responded to every
mood perfectly and instantly. She
would sometimes speak with amazing
intelligence upon subjects which no
one could remember having more
than briefly mentioned to her,

It is now eight years since Miss
J£fcli©r. .took her bachelor's -degree
from Radcliffe College, being un-
doubtedly the most remarkable girl
graduate of that or any similar insti-
tute of learning- in this country.

That she took the full year's course
with honors in spite of being deaf
and blind, and possessing but imper-
fect powers of speech, acquired after
she was 10 years of age, and that she
did her work un^er precisely the same
conditions as her more normal class-
mates, is proof of the so-called higher
education of woman during the past
quarter century.

Born in Tuscumbia, Ala.. 32 years
ago, she had perfectly developed fac-
ulties until, when about 19 months
old, an illness deprived her of sight,
speech and hearing.

Mrs. Macy's Devotion.

The training which made, possible
her quite unusual ticholarship began
when Miss Sullivan, -now Mrs. John
M-acy. of the Forking, -l&atitoU^'ajaifi-,
Blind in Boston, went south to under- '
take the education of the child, who
was then 7 years old- Five years
later Miss Keller went to Massachu-
setts, where she has. lived ever since,
with Miss Sullivan as a constant com-
panion.

Although she learned to speak, to
hear by touch, and to see through the
eyes of those about her under her
teacher's guidance, she was put in
the hands of a special tutor in pre-
paring to enter college, and all the
while she was a student at Radcliffe
she had to depend upon her own
wonderful memory and her keen un-

derstanding to a much "greater extent
tha« the average college girl has to
do.

JV'Jiss Sullivan was her cars, so to
speak, sitting beside her in the class-
room and lecture hall and repeating
to her verbatim, hour after hour, by
the touch of her fingers aflFher pupil's
M^j^&yery word thatjF^s said. i

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JLE^KELLER 'AS A SOCIALIST
It has been understood for several

.weeks that Mayor George R. Lunn, a

■ former minister in Brooklyn who was
elected as a Socialist, has secured from

, Miss Helen Adams Keller of Boston, a
promise to go to Schenectady this au-
tumn and become a member of his
Welfare Committee. Miss Keller is
now 3.2 years old, in the prime of wo-
manhood. .She is internationally known
as having overcome the disadv^injjjyp*?
of being deaf, ,'i^ijy^B««riWWf!faVThat
her persistence aided by careful train-
ing has succeeded in opening the door

';of her mind to broad cultivation is a
fact everywhere recognized. Of late
she has taken up the doctrines of So-
cialism, and we are now informed that
sha has an "I. W. TV." banner ov" her
desk; that she is denouncing ta im-
prisonment of Ettor and Giovanitti at
Lawrence as "a burning shame, and a
disgrace to the whole country and to
Massachusetts," and declaring that
"under Socialism alone can. everyone

i obtain the right to work and be happy"
"We think the spectacle thus pre-
sented Will be generally regretted.
Hampered as she has been by condi-
tions. Miss Keller cannot realize the
meaning of the Heywood "I. W. W."
reversion to anarchy in labor disputes.
Nor can she realize the practical prob-
lem that confronted the police and the
military in that Lawrence strike. There
are times. when theories have to give
way to facts, and this was such a time.
The blood of the Spotswoods and
the Lees, the blood of the Everetts, the
Hales and the Adamses runs in Helen
Keller's veins. American hatred of in-
I.ugtice ana American conservatism
it be fairly expected in her menta
altitude toward any problem of
she has grasped the silent facts. But
of the glowing, and wholesome competi-
tion of" modern liie.^Vid Hle rTo—"
ment of "individual character springing
from such competition, Miss teller can
hardly hope to learn much. For her,
life ' has been a continuous nursery.
Dependence has never ceased.

loving care of individuals who are
^0™ives the best evidence of tne

themselves the

wholesomeness of competitive ' influ-
ences on citizenship, has meant every-
thing- to her. The dream otf making
life a nursery for everybody is a pleas-
ant normal dream, not.a nig-htmare for
her. But the fact is that the world
has to be fed, has to be clothed, has
to be housed -by its own exertions, and
that is has never been so' well fed, so
well clothed, so well housed as under
free competition which Socialism would
end if it could.

As a member of Ma3ror Lunn's Wel-
fare Committee in Schenectady, Miss
Keller can do much good. We all
wish her success. We are all sorry
for her mistakes which spring out of
the manifest limitations of her devel-
opment.— Brooklyn Eagle.

Helen Keller, in the current Metropoli-
tan, says IdmiwKlllWfflSpftar^'s ideas of
women are neither original nor enlightened.
This is indeed news, and the explanation:
"Wedlock, no matter what the conditions,
or how deep its essential indignity, ia
good enough for the loveliest Shakspear-
ean maiden," shows the brilliant blind
girl to be thoroughly up to date in ner
ideas and not at all abashed by centuries
of different thinking in expressing them.

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STUDIES HELEN KELLER

Physician Sent by Spanish Queen,!
Whose Second Son Is Speechless, j
NEW YORK, Nov. 5.— The method'
of teaching Miss Helen Keller, wko j
was born deaf and dumb, to speak and j
understand what is spoken to her has
made such a deep impression on the ,
queen of Spain, whose second son,
Don Jaime, was also born unable to

speak or hear, that she has sent a
special court physician here to gather
data on this matter and undertake the
same sort of upbringing with the lit-
tle prince.

Dr. Vicente Lorente is the court phy-
sician who was sent here. He has
completed the collection of such facts
concerning the Helen Keller method
as he was seeking and will sail Thurs-
day to report to the queen.

SPAIN'S QUEEN SEEKS
HELP HERE FOR CHILD

Court Physician to Study Hel-
len Keller to Aid Prince

PRAISE FOR OUR DOCTORS

AmericanMedieal Eesearch Leads the

World, Sayi Ur. Llorente, After

Two Months' Stay.

©toamissioned by the Queen of Spain,
trhose second child, Don Jaime, was
born witho-i*t the power of speech or
iesrfng, to make a special study of the
career of Helen. Keller, Dr. Vicente
Llorenfe, physrefo?! to the Spanish royal
fooBSeh^ld,, has just completed collecting
data aUxwjt 3g£ft,.,B*U»» ^hich he ^m
presen* la several weeks to the Queen,
ia persoa, says the New York Times.

It -was fee interftion of Dr. Llorente
t» interview Miss Keller in person and
obtain a statement from her as to the

frag* means of alleviating, the condition
of those who cannot talk or hear
throughout Kin£ Alfonso's realm, but
i^i« he did not find possible. Instead
h« made a detailed study of the meth-j
"cda esnpbyed. at the Institute for the
l>*af and Dumb at Sixty-eighth street
tfind 1/erfttgton Avenue* and obtained
froia its superintendent, Dr. Taylor, a I
*et of the books by Helen Keller and
all other- authorities on the condition of
Tthe deaf and dumb in this country- i

ll&e tsssk of interviewing Miss Keller
"Dsc. Lforeote has intrusted to the Span-
-laa Ambassador at Washington, and "will
expect, from him a statement for Al-
.jfeocso's Queen.

Br. liorente came to this conutry
•♦firty to September, primarily to attend
"the session of the Intel-national Hy-
yeene OoogJess, which convened at
Washington on Sept. 2S. He was com-
Baissioned at the same time to make the
investigation for the Spanish Queen, and
after comaneneins' it found so many
wonderful things to study in New
Ifork'e research laboratories that, to use
late owaa esppesskRa, he "could not go
fc&stQv away." Be stretched an in-
t«nded ten-day -visit into a visit of two
to&b&*h> daring most of which time he
'jb&srfr&ek&igi the methods rased at the
T3ocfcefi&.-3er InsS&ute, tha city research
JaboTatories, the Institute for the Deaf
f&dL Dumb, and the principal hospital?,
ipn Thursday of this week lie will sail
aboard the stsamsMira Ca Provence, and i
ha Dec. 15 he wOl appear before a spe-
«4a3 conference of the leading physicians
;ef Spain in order to tell them of the
'wo©cteir£uI things in medical research he
vitas encouiftsered here.

MTs Impressions of Mew York

': iXft 43ie Ptea the other night. Dr.
tikweaita, with the aid of an interpreter,
Rfscnssed hig impressions of the (New
Jjftodc hospitals and the task he has ap-
teointed for hianself "fco, spread some of )
thesr' fine methods" through the hospitals

*It is wonderful what you are doing."
he staid, **the world lias nothing like it.
©nlty you yxrarselves do not yet appre-
ciate the fine pasjdon will wine1: y ur
mesa os£ science are forging abead of us
all. I entered clingy, dirty buildings
and found in cramped- quarters the most
excellent work being done — work that
wcraid mafce the European world gawp
tMrxtb, astcaiisiment if our surgeons coahl !
tmt know afeont it.

*I3Etere am I, the first Spanish surgeon i
w4w> ever came to this country and look-
ed into your hospitals.. The othescfe
have not looked in. They have come1
.sun: that they knew it all in advance,
aud have spent six or seven days here
altogether I have made eo many
notes."

Dr. IJerente here pointed to a half
dozen notebooks lying oin a nearby
table, each one completely full of writ-
ing in a fine Spanish, hand.

uWe have known yon Americans as a
great commercial people," he continued,
"and a capable people in administrative
matters. But we shall have to become
acquainted with you ail over again. We
shall have to learn of you as a^ great
nation of scientists. Of what you have
' done in science and research we have
.been profoundly ignorant. And conse-
quently we have been 1 amentably be-
hind in our methods.

"I shall venture upon one forecast as
a result of my trip. I have been the
first to look into your hospitals but I
am sure I shall be far from the last.
.After I make nay report to the surgeons
at the Academy of Science in Madrid,
I am sure others will come — many oth-
ers. And I am sure they will bring
back with tbem ideas that will be of
the greatest benefit to us.

Our Great Opportunity

"You have your grand opportunity
now— to command the world in ad-
vances of medical research. But youx
public officials must find out what won-
derful work your men of science are do-
ing and give them buildings to work iu.
Our surgeons would hardly believe
great work could come out of some* of
the humble laboratories I saw it being
done in, and I know our surgeons will
soon be coming here to study.

"We formerly expected you to come to
us. But we cannot expect that now. I
stood beside Dr. Alexis Carrel in the
speak They will be officially an-
animal'e heart, stomach, brain, ami nerv-
ous system alive after removing them
from tlie body. A report that such a
thing has been accomplished may sound
iikc a fairy tale in Spain, but I shall tell
our surgeons all about it.

"And there were other discoveries
about which I am not at liberty to
speak. hTey will be officially an-
nounced, however, and when your people
hear about them they will be startled —
as will, in fact, the whole -world.

For his work in Spain in introducing
tubes into the throats of children af-
flicted with diphtheria, from which they
were in danger of choking to death, Dr.
Llorente received the Grand Cross ot
Spain.

"That task," he said, "was made pos-
sil.de __ through the discoveries of Dr.
O'Dwyor, which fortunately came to
the. notice of surgeons in our country.
I had the pleasure of meeting Dr.
j O'Dwyer's son there. We saved 6,000
children by means of that one discovery.
! But they have gone far beyond it now.

I am very g'ad that Dr. Ingebretsen,
iwho has been Dr. Carrel's assistant in
his wonderful researches, is going
abroad -with me. He will only g» as far
as- Paris, but there he will make sorno
demonstrations of Dr. Carrel's work
that will startle the scientist*.

"While I was at the Rockefeller in-
stitute I saw Dr. Peyton at work on his
cancer researches, and he ha$ made
.srreater advances than hare been made
anywhere e.^e in the rcorld. Dr. Bash-
ford of the Imperial Institute of Cancer
Research at London visited the Rocke-
feller institute while I was there and
praised it very highly.

The Gift of Organization

Dr. Llorente was asked what im-
pressed him most about the hospitals
here, as contrasted with those in his
own country.

"It is jour power of organization," he
said, "the executive administration has
been so splendidly worked out. There vve
have little co-operation. Tihe special-
ises in each line remain too far apart.
Here they all are knit together in an
organization that makes each one's
work count for the others. I have never
seen such., organization as I saw at
Bellevue and in the research laboratory
of the Department of Health. Your
public health is guarded here in a mag-
nificent way, but in shabby quarter*. I
studied especially ■ the way they make
anti-toxin here, and I found in Dr.
Banzhaf a man enabled to make anti-
toxin in a way I shall hope to imitate.
It is too bad your city and state for
whom he works appreciates him so
slightly. You do not take account of
the benefits he has brought you."

Dr. Llorente has purchased many
pieces of apparatus used in the newer
surgical operations. It k his plan to
attempt to introduce them into general
use in Spain. He will place them on
exhibition at the Academy of Science in
Jlfidrid.

One of Dr. LToTente'a visitors during
the evening wais-an American who had
served in the war against Spain and
afterward in the Philippines.

"The Philippines," smiled Dr. LloT-
ente; "they are the castigation visited
upon you for stalling that war with us.
We do not miss them." ^m

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SCHOOLMATE

TELLS OF BOATING

AND BICYCLING

WITH
HELEN KELLER

TH^jecent action of the Mayor
"of Schenectady in offering Miss
Helen Keller a place upon the
Board of Public Welfare of that
city has again called attention to one
whom Mark Twain described as the mrst
remarkable person cf the last century.
The object of the Board of Public Welfare
is to provide machinery for carrying out
the larger problems of a modern city.

Miss Keller could not of course do
any active field work along social lines,
but she is known to be a woman of ideas
and of advanced thoughts upon social-
istic problems. An ardent Socialist, she
has radical views upon the present situ-
ation of the lower classes. £he thinks
that poverty is the greatest curse of
mankind and to eliminate this evil should
be the great work and aim of the present
generation. She has little patience with
ordinary relief measures and plans for
temporary alleviation of existing con-
ditions. She wants to remove causes
and get down to the roots of the evils of
modern life.

Miss Keller thinks that poverty is the
cause of all social degeneration and scouts
the old fashioned theory that vice drives
people to poverty. Her ideas for the
relief of poverty are socialistic. She
would have every man get off the other
man's back and allow all men to labor

fcr the fruits of their own efforts. No
money belongs to the individual except
th::t vhi,h he himse'f earns, she says.
Peop e sh :ud get rid cf money that comes
from invested capital or unearned incre-
ment and give the workmen a chance to get
a proper share of the results of their labor.

She is convinced that the world is
getting better, but also insists that Social-
ism is the only hope as a force to improve
conditions at the present time.

While a great deal has been printed
about Miss Keller, her liking for outdoor
sports and indoor amusements and her
proficiency in them despite her depriva-
tion of sight and hearing is one side of
her remarkable life of which little is
known. It was the privilege of the writer
to be associated with Miss Keller in a
school for several years and later to
spend an entire summer at her home in
Wrentham, Mass.

During this time we became fast friends
and I had every opportunity to study
her carefully. But though I saw and
conversed with her daily I was continually
astonished by some new phase of her won-
derful mind and her remarkable nature .

How she came to be so fully informed
about many of the things of which we
would speak was always a puzzle to me.
Sometimes I fancied that she absorbed
knewledge from people about her through
some intangible psychic process and with-
out the need of visible means of commu-
nication

She has always tried to be "like othei
people," and so her habit of speaking of
things as they appear to those who see
and hear has become second nature to
her. Indeed her whole life since her
education was begun has been a series
of attempts to do whatever other people
could do. This unconquerable desire
has manifested itself not only in her mental
achievements but in her physical ac-
complishments as well.

There is hardly any form of outdoor
sport, except where sight is an absolute
requisite, as in tennis or golf, in which
Miss Keller has not taken an interest and
made some progress.

One summer a friend presented her
with a fine tandem bicycle. At first this
appeared to the family about as useless
a gift under the circumstances as one ;
could well imagine, but with Miss Keller
it was different. There was no reason why

she should not learn to ride the machine,
she argued, and immediately made an
appeal for volunteers to help her man it

Being rather at home on the wheel
myself, I thought she could fare no worse
under my tutora-e than that of any one
else, and after a little persuasion Miss
Sullivan, her teacher, agreed to let us
try it together.

I had my misgivings when we took our
seats, the machine being supported for
us, but when we had been given a start
in the shape of a generous shove from
half a dozen hands I found no special
effort necessary to keep the machine erect
and moving. After a few lessons my
companion acquired the knack of balanc-
ing herself correctly, and thereafter every
thing was easy.

All the steering was done from the
rear, where I sat, and we arranged a little
system of signals in the form of sundry
taps which I was to make on her shoulder:
one to stop, two to slow up and three to
go ahead. I cannot recall that we ever had a
serious accident of any kind, although ten
and fifteen mile trips were of almost daily
occurrence throughout the summer

Now and then when we came to a par-
ticularly rough bit of road, where it be-
came necessary to slow up to such an
extent that the wheel would fall over
simply from lack of momentum, Miss
Keller would pick herself up out of the dust
laughing, and declare that it was great
fun to be spilled once in a while.

When on a long, level stretch of road
we would make frequent sprints and the
more rapid the pace the better she was
pleased. The swift rush through the air,
with the wind blowing in her face, seemed
to afford her more intense enjoyment
than any other form of exercise, though
her other outdoor diversions were numer-
ous.

One day we were out with a party of
other cyclists, whom we soon outdistanced.
This seemed to Miss Keller a fine oppor-
tunity to play a joke.

"Let's pretend we've had a spill," she
said. '"We'll muss up the road a bit, put
the machine against that stump over
there"— how she knew of the existence
of the stump I never learned— "and then
lie down, as if we had been bowled over."
The stage setting for the affair was per-
fect as she designed it.

When the* rest of the party arrived a
little later and, jumping from their wheels,

Miss Keller ^.nd ~F>T°f- Alexander Gra^li^Tn. Bell

ran to the assistance of the supposed
victims, Miss Keller sprang to her feet,
with shouts of laughter, and fairly danced
about in her delight at the success of her
scheme.

Her sense of humor was remarkably
keen. In fact, it was this characteristic,
a trait which one would hardly expect
to find in a person situated as she is, which
struck me most forcibly in the beginning
of our acquaintance.

She was quick to perceive the point
of the most subtle joke, and would even
display rare patience in trying to discover
the meaning of a dull one, while her skill
in the use of words made her ready with
repartee.

Upon one occasion I asked her if she
had finished her work for the day.

"Yes," she said, "I have discharged
all my duties."

"Were they so bad," I asked, "that
you had to discharge them?"

"Well," she replied, "it would have been
very naughty if I ha d not discharged
them. Besides," she added, her face
taking on a roguish look, "isn't this, the
place where the young idea is taught
how to shoot?"

Another time when we were seated at
the evening meal the lamp on the table
began to flicker spasmodically. Im-
mediately in some inexplicable manner
Miss Keller's attention was attracted.

"What's the matter with the lamp?"
she asked. "Has it got the hiccoughs?"

Her sympathy, which is of the quick
and ministering sort, is easily awakened
by the knowledge of suffering or oppres-
sion, and in the case of dumb cref.tures
sometimes becomes pathetic.

When it was her pleasure simply to row
about at random she guided the boat, or
rather kept it from running aground, by
the scent of water grasses and lilies and
the bushes on the shore, for her sense of
smell, like her other senses, is extraor-
dinarily acute.

She was also fairly expert at canoeing.
In writing to a friend on this subject she
said:

"I enjoy canoeing even more than row-
ing, and I suppose you will laugh when I
say that I especially like it on moonlight
nights. I cannot, it is true, see the moon
climb up the sky behind the pines and steal
softly across the heavens, making a shin-

ing path for us to follow, but I know she
is there, and as I lie back among the pil-
lows and put my hand in the water I fancy
that I feel the shimmer of her garments
as she passes.

"Sometimes a daring little fish slips
between my fingers, and often a pond lily
presses shyly against- my hand.

"Frequently as we emerge from the shel-
ter of a cove or inlet I am suddenly con-
scious of the spaciousness of the air about
me. A luminous warmth seems to enfold
me. Whether it comes from the trees,
which have been heated by the sun, or from
the water I can neArer discover.

It is now eight years since Miss Keller
took her bachelor's degree at Eadcliffe
College, being undoubtedly the most
remarkable girl graduate of that or any
similar institution of learning in this
country.

Born in Tuscumbia, Ala., thirty-two
years ago, she had perfectly developed
faculties until when about three years
old an illness deprived her of sight, speech
and hearing.

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IMPORTANT PLANS AHEAD

Care of Blind and Protection of Shade

Trees Will Be Up For Con»

sideratlon.

The meeting of the Schenectady board
of public welfare at 4:30 o'clock this
afternoon in the office Of Mayor George
R. Lunn will be the reopening of the
activities of the board, which has not
met since Mayor Lunn and other city
officials began fighting for free speech
in Little Falls.

The- board is planning to take up seve-
era! important matters, including th'
further consideration of the work for thj
Schenectady blind, and the coTTsJderatioi
of nlCHW Mtw-protec t shade trees agains
blights.

School for Blind Planned.

The work of caj^iwa1 Iffi^the blind was
taken up at the last meeting of the
board. Action was deferred. It ii-
planned to carry the plans to a point
where a committee can be appointed tc
take up the work. It is proposed tc
equip and open a school for the blind
and to afford all possible relief to those
aulicted who live in the city and are no(
employed.

The matter of taking- up the protection
of shade trees will be a new matter foi
the board to consider. Piano have not
matured for this work, but in general it
is proposed to plant trees in the streets
wherever possible, and to take steps to-
ward protecting trees from blights next
summer.

Park Commission Probable.

It is also probable the board will con-
sider establishing a permanent park com-
mission to take up the work of develop-
ing the plans of the city planner, John
Nolan. Professor Nolan and his assist-
ant, Philip Foster, are laying out a park
system for Schenectady, which will in-
clude a river-front park, with park units
at convenient points throughout the city,
and playgrounds and breathing spots,
wherever the city can consistently pro-
cure ground.

Mayor Lunn said yesterday he was not
prepared to say whom he would appoint
to take the place on the board left opei
for Miss Helen Keller of WrenthamJ
Mass. Miss Keller, who was enthusiastic
at first over the prospect of her becoming
a member of the Schenectady board, has;
declined the appointment, and will de-J
vote her time to lectures I

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HEL,E\ KELLER'S JilsToVERY

In the December American Magazine,
Helen Keller writes an article entitled
"The Hand of the World." Mips Keller is
now thirty-two years old and has been
deaf, dumb and blind since babyhood. She
is at the same time one of the most intelli-
gent persons in the world. An extract from
the article follows:

"As the years went by, and I read more
widely, T learned that the miseries and
failures of the poor are not always due to
their own faults, that multitudes of men,
for some strange reason, fail to share in
the much-talked-of progress of the world.
I shall never forget the pain and amaze-
ment which I felt when I came to examine
the statistics of blindness, its causes and
its connection with other calamities that
befall thousands of my fellow-men. l
learned how workmen are stricken by the
machine hands that they are operating?, It
became clear to me that the ■^bor-saving
machine does not save tbe laborer. It
saves expense and makes profits for the
owner of the machine. The worker has no
share in the increased production due to
improved methods, and, what is worse, as
the eagle was killed by the arrow winged
with his own feather, so the hand of the
world is wounded by its own skill. The
multipotent machine displaces the very
hand that created it. The productivity of
the machine seems to be valued above the
human hand, for the machine is often left
without proper safeguards, and so hurts
the very life it was intended to serve.

"Step by step my investigation of blind-
ness led me into the industrial world. And
what a world it is! How different from the
world of my beliefs! I must face unflinch-
ingly a world of facts— a world of misery
and degradation, of blindness, crookedness
and sin, a world struggling against the un-
known, against itself. How reconcile this
world of fact with the bright world of my
imagining? My darkness had been filled
with the light of intelligence, and behold,
the outer day-lit world was stumbling and
groping in social blindness. At first I was
most unhappy; but deeper study restored
my confidence. By learning the suffering
and burdens of men I became aware as
never before of the life-power that has sur-
vived the forces of darkness, the power
which, though never completely victorious,
is continually conquering. The very fact
that we are still here cawying on the con-
test against the hosts of annihilation proves
that on the whole the battle has gone for
humanity. The world's great heart has
proved equal to the prodigious undertaking
which God set it. Rebuffed, but always
persevering; self-reproached, but ever re-
gaining faith, undaunted, tenacious, the
heart of man labors toward immeasurably
distant -goals. Discouraged not by difficul-
ties without or the anguish of ages within,
the heart listens to a secret voice that
whispered: 'Be not dismayed; in the future
lies the promised land.' "

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WITH EYES. TH^^I NOT.

Helen Keller writes an article, en-
titled "The Hand of the "World." Miss
Keller is now 32 years old and has
been deaf, dumb and blind since baby-
hood. She is at the same time one of

the most -' i ^ - "' ^fflijL _ T]fifln]Eiiii ii tfr tT

world. An extract from the article
follows:

"As the years went by. and I read
more widely, I learned that the mis-
eries and failures of the poor are not
always due to their own faults, that
multitudes of men, for some strange
reason, fail to share in the much-
talked-of progress of the world. I shall
never forget the pain and amazement
which I felt when I came to examine
the statistics of blindness, its causes and
its connection with other calamities
that befall thousands of my fellow
men. I learned how workmen are
stricken by the machine hands that
they are operating. It became clear to
me that the labor-saving machine does
not save the laborer. It saves expense
and makes profits for the owner of
the machine. The worker has no
share in the increased production due
to improved methods; and, what is
worse, as the eagle was killed by the
arrow winged with his own feather, so
the hand of the world is wounded by
its own skill. - The multipotent ma-
chine displaces the very hand that
created it. The productivity of the
machine seems to be valued above the
human hand; for the machine is often
left without proper safeguards, and so
hurts the very life it was intended to
serve.

"Step by step my investigation of
blindness led me into the industrial
world. And what a world it is! How
different from the world of my be-
liefs! I must face unflinchingly a world
of facts — a world of misery and deg-
radation of blindness, crookedness, and
sin, a world struggling against
the unknown, against itself. How
reconcile this world of fact with
the bright world of my imagining? My
darkness had been filled with the light
of intelligence, and. behold, the outer
day-lit world was stumbling and grop-
ing in social blindness. At first I
was most unhappy; but deeper study
restored my confidence. By learning
the suffering and burdens of men. I
became aware as never before of the
life-power that has survived the forces
of darkness, the power which, though

never completely victorious, is contin-
uously conquering. The very fact that
we are still here carrying on the con-
test against the hosts of annihilation
proves that on the whole the battle
has gone for humanity. The world's
great heart has proved equal to the
prodigious undertaking which God set
it. Rebuffed, but always persever-
:ng: self-reproached, but ever re-
gaining faitb, undaunted, tenacious.
the heart of man labors toward Im-
measurably distant goals. Discouraged
not by difficulties without or the an-
guish of ages within, the heart listens
.to a secret voice that whispered: 'Be
Mot cismayec!: in the future lies the
promised land.' " — [American.

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MARY J. WEATHERBEE RICE ON
JOY.

"STUDEXT" SAYS PROTECTION IS
AGAINST RIGHTS OF LABOR.

KNOWLEDGE AND COURAGE
GIVE THE JOY OF LIVING.

To the Editor of THE GAZETTE:

Sir, — I read in the wonderful "Song
of the Man" that:
"Joy upon joy and gain upon gain,
Are the destined rights of my birth."

And though there are wars, and
rumors of wars, and the poor are al-
ways with us, and life has many a
heart ache for all, yet does any one
doubt for a moment that there is a
joy for every one, free as the air, if
only one holds himself open to receive.
Thajeceptive attitude being the only
T^^uiSHe to the opening of the door
through the world's densest darkness.

I have in mind a little girl holding a
luscious stalk of celery, grown from
her own seed -sowing, too poor for a
garden plot of her own, until through
the City's beneficence as one of the
school children she receives a bit of
garden and seeds withal for her first
knowledge of the mysteries of garden-
ing. As a result, great joy has come
to her in handling and examining the
lovely stalk of eelery, and for the rais-
ing of which she has been awarded a
first prize.

Gladness is on her face and in her
eyes for there is a wondrous beauty in
the fine cut, delicately pale green leaves
and long white stalks, and as wonder-
ful are tender little wandering rootlets

as she turns the plant upwards and
downwards to examine this mysterious
development of her little seeds.

Were I only a portrait painter, I am
sure the inspiration would come to me
to reveal as great a mystery in the vi-
tality of the joy that spreads in every
feature of the girl's face. This much
as a testimony to the fullness of joy
born in the heart by the gift of : a
little piece of ground and garden seed
for planting.

Does it pay? This beneficence of the
City to. the children of the schools?

I have another picture in mind of
the blind Helen Keller, a soul buried
so deeply in surrounding i matter,
'twas said, "we think she has a soul,
but how are we scientists to search
for it, and how is she to manifest it,
since all doors are closed save this
one single avenue of touch." "Souls
In prison are these," as one most
truthfully says. Here is indeed the
miracle to be wrought. What wonder
that -after the tragedy of trying to
find her way out of darkness, that lay
seemingly as a pall over her, she has
at last come painfully, slowly, into
consciousness of a world of light
through this one avenue of approach,
the sense of touch; to undertsand lan-
guage and music without the power
to hear, and to enjoy the presence of
objects yet without sight, and to con-
verse through the sense of touch.

Surely her education has been a true
leading of a soul out and up into the
light.

When her first consciousness came
that she must break her own prison
bars, what wonder she now says:

"I thank whatever God's may be

For my unconquerable soul."
Here was knowledge she was sorely
in need of, yet like one in thickest
darkness she must try all ways that
might perchance lead her into the
open.

What an untold measure of cour-
age she had need of and faith and
patience to the uttermost. As a re-
sult, she has grown from the grub to
the butterfly by all the means that
have been used "to try her soul's
strength on."

Who doubts the fullness of her joy-
ous salutation, "I am glad to see you?"

Looking at the joy apparent in
these two happy faces, a joy welling
up from the very depths of being, it
seems to reveal to me a recognition
of a divine process, working outward
from the heart within.
"For it is my God, my wondrous God,

My tender Lord divine,
What should I fear from far or near

Since even God is mine."

MARX. J. " I I III II I hlli tlll'iH

. — 7-

Helen Keller "Will Not Be There

It is announced at the home of Miss
Helen Keller that she will not speak
at the I. W. W. rally which is to be held
I on the Common nsxJ Sunday.

HELEN KBLLBR.-THE MOST WON-
DERFUL PERSON ALIVE.

The most Avonderfui person now alive
is Helen Keller.

When a baby of nineteen months an
illness left her deaf, dumb and' UlllW."'

Deaf, dumb and blind,— robbed of tha
chief three senses before having a chance
to store away any of their fruits for
future use!

"She w; s just a little animal," said the
i late Laurt/ice Hutton to me. He was one
i of her guardians. "She was not even a
normal animal. She showed no intelli-
gence whatever."

Yet, as the result of the consummate
skill and patience of a remarkable wom-
an named Sullivan, Helen Keller has for
many years been able to do nearly every-
thing that any physically normal person
can do, and she also has excelled in some
things that the average individual cannot
do.

If you wish to better acquaint yourself
with her astonishing ability, read her
article on "The Hand of the World" in
the December issue of the American
Magazine.

Preeminently it is the leading maga-
zine article of the month— and it is the
product of a brain walled in from baby-
hood by such barriers as might reason-
ably be deemed insurmountable.

Save" that nothing is absolutely insur-
mountable. In some degree anything can
be overcome.

In this notable article Helen Keller
makes a statement that ought to be
seared into our very souls, so vital is
its truth. She says:

' — ,

I SOCIETY MUST MOVE ON- |

I WARD TO A STATE IN WHTOH |

| EVERT HAfND SHiALiL. WORK ]

|: AOSTD RTESAIP THE FRUITS OP ITS j

I OWN ENDEAVOR, NO LESS, NO |

I MORE, j

I _l

Here, from a mind unclouded iby such
m'tete as always are admitted with the
light of the senses, is a vision that
.beans with it a promise of economic
freedom, and with such freedom is
hound to come a remedy for many of
the worst of present-day evils.

So simple is Misis Keller's way of
.putting it that even Children m.ay un-
derstand-
All hands m»ueit work.

All holdings must be the fruit of per-
sonal effort.

Each will have what he earns through
lalbor — no less than this, no more.

In a few plain words s>he ihas summed
up the obligation of man to man, — trwi
ultimate of social progress, so far are «'*
now can see. By whatever naime m
may choose to call it, it stands as tlv>
only just basis upon which to build tha
better day; the only guarantee of gen-
eral f airplay.

A great saint of old said lalbor is
prayer. It is that, and more. lit is
man's .salvation in this world, whatever
may lead to perfect haprpiness in a wcrld
whatever may lead to perfect happiness
in a world to come. It is fadth in ac-
tion. All power and all progress ara
dependent upon lafcor.

It us the first of blessings.

But these generations may not mak«
a personal appeal to you. If so, look
bas>k into ytour own *fe, whether you
be rich or poor, Be honest with yourself
ami see if your truest satisfaction has
not 'been the fruit of leal work done as
well as you know how-.

Look forward into the future and
giM-mpse the fullness of that social state
herein all reward shall be earned by the
work of men's hands and in which
equal justice will measure to each hia
or her portion according to the endeav-

IB os to -w YYlo-rnvvvg JinyrxlL.

HELEN SELLER'S.
SCHOOLMATE
HERE TO IMPROVE
HER SPEECH

Mabel Johns, Deaf Since

Babyhood, Studying

with Voice Expert.

THE success of Charles A. White,
head of the department of
singing of the New England
Conservatory, in aiding Helen
Keller to speak, has Drought him an-
other pupil upon whom to test his
methods.

The new pupil is Miss Mabel Johns
of Bronxville, N. Y., who has never
heard a sound since she was two
months old, yet is an exceptionally
cultivated young woman, with a
knowledge of four languages, a
trained book-binder and a graceful
dancer. She was a schoolmate of
Miss Helen Keller at the John Dut-
ton Wright school of New York.

The greatest enthusiasm of this
young girl's life is for the education
of the deaf. "Every normal deaf child
can and should be taught speech/'
she said in a recent interview. "He
should be taught speech not as qn
ornamental accomplishment, but as his
natural means of communicating with
his fellows. _ This can be done suc-
cessfully only by giving him purely
oral instruction from his earliest
childhood for at least 10 years.

Talks with Slight Accent.

In conversation with Miss Johns, it
would be easy to imagine her an edu-
cated foreigner. She makes the same
effective selection of words and has
the same elegance of phrasing. There
is sometimes in her vowels, just that
slight difference in color, which one
expects from any foreigner, and some
of i the consonants come with effort.
It i is for these few imperfections of
speech and for the purpose of getting
a fuller resonance in the voice itself,
and a surer control of its resonance
and inflections, that Miss Johns has
come to Boston and to Mr. White.
"I am going to prove in my work,"
she said, her eyes sparkling with
eagerness, "that it is possible to de-
velop in the deaf the full powers of
speech' and voice with the proper
training."

Chance brought Miss Keller and
Mr. White together. Until the time of
their meeting the teacher of singing
had never given any attention to the
subject of voice production among the
deaf. Miss Keller's speech was then
almost inaudible, what small voice
she had being breathy, high pitched
and falsetto in quality, yet produced
with the greatest amount of effort
and strain.

She began her studies with Mr.
White, having at first one lesson a
week. When summer came, her
teacher had become so interested in
working out his new problem that he '■
and Mrs. White gave up the vacation
they had planned to take in travel
abroad and went instead to Wren- I
tham, where Miss Keller was staying
with Mr. and Mrs. John Macy, n
order that he might work every day
with his pupil.

At the end of 18 months her im-
provement was such that she spoke
first before the Association for the
Promotion of Speech for the Deaf in
Providence last June, arid later at
the international congress of otolo-
gists held in the amphitheatre of the
Harvard medical school. Her address
here was delivered in English, though -
she gave a few closing remarks in
French and German, and astonished

her audience of doctors by intoning
an octave, a third and ' a fifth, Mr.
White indicating the intervals he de-
sired her to sound on her fingers.
These were Miss Keller's first ex-
periences in addressing audiences
without an interpreter.

MISS HELEN KELLER

How the Dumb Speak.

"At first," said Mr. White in de-
scribing the method he used with
this interesting pupil, "I directed at-
tention to position and breathing and
proceeded to get the lower ribs and
diaphragm to participate more freely
in the act of respiration. We then
practised to open the resonating cavi-
ties through inhalation, and to retain
this position through control of
breath. My idea was to get the breath
and resonating cavities under control
of the will before using: the larynx;

we. ther-afora, practised these exer-
cises without tone. Next we took up
the action of the larynx. There was
great difficulty in bringing about the
state of the closed glottis and the
open throat. I asked her to inhale a
complete breath and ' then expel it
without resistance; next I asked her
to inhale and catch it, the cords being
thus so tightly compressed that no

vocal sound could escape. Then I ex-
plained to her that there was a mean
betweeen those two extremes, that by
offering a minimum of resistance to
the air struggling to get out it forces
a little crack between the cords and
passing through this causes them to
vibrate, thus producing vocal tone.
By way of analogy I illustrated by
the action of the air at her mouth.
We can blow through the lips without
sound, or we can blow against them
without sound, or by allowing the
air to force a tiny opening we can
send a sound vibration through them,
though the coarser the substance the
more indefinite the sound. Down in
the throat are two little lips of finest
tissue coming together horizontally
and bearing a like relation to the
breath. After having thus brought
about the valving of the cords we ex-
perimented on different degrees of
resistance in order to vary tension
at the cord.

• "Having now attained some con-
trol of these three factors of voice;
namely, motor, vibrator and reson-
ator,, we began to study vowels sepa-
rately and in combination. I classified
them according to the plan which I
had developed and used with the pupils
in the normal, or teachers' course at
the New England Conservatory of
Music in the vocal department. After
this drill we were ready to practice
actual speech. But in trying to give
accents and rhythm, I found that
Miss Keller had no idea either of
time or rhythm; and although she
could recognize changes in accent and
rhythm which I gave her, she could
not project rhythms herself. After
repeated trials, however, we got two
units of equal duration, which opened
the wa'v to further development. We

did this by patting the hands, first
taking double, then triple and quad-
ruple measure, in simple and com-
pound forms and in syncopation.
After this preparatory work, I found
to my surprise, that my pupil could
not coordinate the spoken syllables
with the motion of the hand. "We
were able to overcome this difficulty,
however, in a short time.

Learned Tones by Hand.
"Then came the matter of pitch
and quality. At first she showed no
ability to raise or lower the pitch of
the voice at will and we had to ex-
periment. By this time, through fre-
quent recourse in our lessons to tac-
tile sense, Miss Keller had become
somewhat expert in observing the
changes which took place in the

throat, by lightly touching her fingers
to her, own throat and to mine, so
when I started to sing on a low pitch,
and suddenly raised it, say an oc-
tave, she soon caught the idea. Much
to my amazement, after following
this up for some time, I found that I
could get her to approximate definite
pitches.

. "It is not to be supposed that the
deaf will ever arrive at speaking as
musically as a person who hears1, but
it is certain that through the aid of
voice specialists they can be taught
to speak far more naturally and more
freely and comfortably among people,
which is half the fun of life."

One trouble with the present sys-
tem of teaching speech to the deaf, in
Mr. White's opinion, is that training
is not begun soon enough, and the
best years are lest. Alexander Gra-
ham Bell has called attention to the
fact that a deaf baby cries as nor-
mally as any other child. Why then
is it not possible to induce a natural
use" of the voice in other modes of
expression? Mr. White suggests kin-
dergartens for deaf children, taking
them at three and four years, and
teaching them to play at singing and
speaking. Little garner could be de-
vised to develop the perception, and

the senses of touch and sight. Take
a mirror, for example, open the
mouth and blow out the breath upon
it. It is covered with mist. Then sing
a tone, putting the child's hand to
your throat. There is a little buzz
inside somewhere. The child will im-
mediately want to make this funny
iittle buzz inside his own throat,
"And when the buzzer gets to buzz-
ing, that's all there is to it"; said
Mr. White.

Miss Mabel Johns, Deaf Since Childhood.
Lost Hearing as Baby.

"I think deaf girls should associate
as much as possible with other peo-
ple," said Miss Johns, "and that they
should go for at least two years to a
school for girls who hear." The man-
ner of her own education has been
most interesting and one that any
girl might envy. Miss Johns lost her
hearing when she was two months. old
through an attack of spinal menin-
gitis. At 3 years, under the guidance
of a private tutor, she began to talk.

"1 always made sounds and wanted to
tolk," she said, "and I used to weep
because I couldn't." At 5 she was put
into a New York school and at 9 she
entered the Wright school for the
deaf, remaining eight or nine years
there. Here she met Miss Keller and
Mrs. Macy. A lack of physical
strength defeated the plan she had
cherished to go to Bryn Mawr Col-
lege, so she contented herself with
three years of travel and residence
abroad, visiting nearly every foreign
country and entering Miss Nixon's
school for young women in Florence,
where she studied for^ two years.
Here she acquired her knowledge of
book binding, Florentine decorative
work, fancy dancing, and added Ital-
ian to the French, English and Ger-
man which she already spoke. '

Charles A. White, Who Is Trying to
Improve Her Speech.

Miss Johns was very carefully chap-
eroned by her family during her resi-
dence abroad. Her first declaration
of independence, she relates, was fin
Paris. She needed some things from
the shops, and none of her family was
free to accompany her, so she got or
a tram and went down alone, doing
her errands quickly and easily. In-
cl'-.rd, it has been said by her friends
that her French is better than hei
English. After returning to Americ?
Miss Johns was permitted to take £
complete vacation from her family tc
go to a New Jersey boarding school
and now again she is proving her self-
sufficiency.

MRS. JOHN MACY,

Is Fond of Theatre.
Miss Johr.d enters into all the en-
joyments and occupations of the nor-
mal girl as a matter of course. She
is admired and beloved wherever slie
gees and is in fact more normal and
hc-althy in her mental outlook than
the average girl. She is passionatel>
fond of the theatre. She likes to sit ir
the front row, where she can water
with the least effort the movements
of the lips and the play of facial ex
pression, though she regrets the diS'
enchanting effect of paint and powdei
at close range. Miss Johns is extraor'
dinarily quick at reading the lips
She hears with her eyes, as it were
while Miss Keller hoars with her fin
gers. The dramatic makes a stron,-
appeal to Miss Johns. One of he
favorite amusements is dressing up lj
the different national costumes o!

Europe, of which she and her siste
have a most interesting collectior
She is an enthusiastic sportswomar
plays an excellent game of tennis
operates a motor boat and rides wel

HELEN KELLERS MESSAGE.

Hear, oh, hear! The Christmas bells'
are ringing peal upon peal, chime upon
chime! Full and clear they ring, and
the air quivers with joy. What is the
burden of their music as it floats far
and wide? Awake! Awake! it says.
A Great Change is coming — peace upon
earth, good will to all men.

The bells and I are strong with a
new hope, vibrant with expectancy of
this Great Change. Already men and
women are working and thinking and
living for this Great Change, and their
efforts are mighty with the might of
intelligence and good will. For them
the bells of a world Christmas are ring-
ing, and shall not cease with the brief
hours of one glad day. Every d?iy,
every year these men and women plan,
work and dream, and their works are
the heavenly message of the sweet-
tongued bells!

Hear, oh, hear the bells! For agos
our Christmas bells have rung their
message of peace upon earth and good
will to all men. For ages they have
summoned a sleeping world to a. new
life, a new ideal, a new joy. But. too
often they have sounded in ears sealed
with ignorance. Too often has their
glad news passed unheeded: "O chil-
dren of men, your happiness lies but
your will away from you. Unite, love,
serve all, and ye shall grasp it."

Now, here and now, the bells and 1
will be heard! Not once a year, but
from morning to morning we will be
heard singing exultant, sure of our
message. Let the sun pour its no >d or
light upon the land, or let the whole
sky be dark, we will send our song up
and down and all around, our song of
the Great Change. Too long have men
'turned their faces from their tasks,
from the needs of the common day and
fixed their eyes upon a better life some
time, somewhere. Too long have they
dreamed of a distant life, instead of
bringing that life into their earthly
days. The Great Change ushers a true
religion into the world, now and here—

service for all men equally, devotion oi
each to the good of all alike.

Hear! Today the bells and I call yor.i
to the Christmas of mankind. Fo;- it
has begun, and we shall not falter nor
turn back until every man and woman
UW8**c-hiid in this land and in every land
has a chance to live happily and to
develop his mind and do the best ot
which he is capable. Generation at'tei
generation has learned from its moth-
ers' lips the story of the birth of Chrisl
and slowly the words have borne flow;
ers — and the fruit is the Great Change
The Great Change is the new faith, tlx
new effort to secure for every man hi:
full share of the means, the comforts
the health and knowledge, the w'^'J
wnich humanize life.— [Helen Keller in
the Metropolitan.

—Helen Keller.

NEW YORK, Feb. G.— Helen Keller, 1.1k,
blind, deaf and dumb philosopher, au-
thoress aud humanitarian, tonight will ap-
pear for the first time on the lecture plat-
form in Montclair, N. J., "and deliver an
addrees on "The Heart and the Hand, or
the Right Use of Our Senses." Mrs. Anne
Macy, who for twenty-six years has been
her teacher and companion, will accom-
pany her pupil and give an account of her
life and education.

"You are all more deaf and blind than
1," said Miss Keller to a group of news-
paper men and women, to whom she
granted an interview in her apartments
in the Hotel Astor. "I would not change
my identity for that of the ordinary hum-
drum person who has eyes and ears, yet
sees not nor hears. The ability to under-
stand and the will to do are the true
lights of life."

Miss Keller sat on a sofa, ighl band

clasping that of her teacher. h<
along Mrs* Macy's cheek, one finger, laid
across her mouth. The sensitive fingers
of the blind girl pulsed to the vibrations
in the mouth of the speaker, and made
her understand what was being said. Alt
questions were put. to Miss Keller through
this medium, but she answered for nerselt
in a voice powerful, though slightly hoi-
low and indistinct. _

"What is your latest fixed interest* ;
she was asked.

'.'Socialism," was her reply. I am a.
Socialist because I believe in fair play.

mi ^^^

MISS HELEN KELLER,
who believes deafness the
affliction which most complete-
ly cuts her off from the world.

"Do you take interest in your dress?"
queried a woman.

"Of course I do. I am a woman. Etcii
Eve thought about her flg leaf," she an-
swered.

Asked which of her afflictions the con-,
sidered the worst, >rtss Keller unJi'esi-;
tntiugly ana ,,|is- Jt cuts y»»J

off from all the world, bile blindness only
shuts you from the ltg.M."

ISkELLER TELLS
HOW BLIND PROGRESS

Patience, aniTwoOhe Abnormal
Development of Other Facul-
ties, Helps Them, She Says.

SOCIALIST AND LIKES BEER

Having Acquired the Power of Speech,

Miss Kelier Will Go on the

Public Platform.

Dressed in a becoming evening gown
of pink and. pink satin slippers, with her
dark hair arranged in waves down either
side of her face and tied low on the back
of her neck, with a large bow of black
ribbon, Miss Helen Keller, the young wo-
man who, though blind and deaf and
dumb, has acquired the power of speech,
talked with -reporters at the Hotel Astor
last evening.

Miss KeHev likes to talk, and she sent
back gay, crisp answers to the questions,
which were repeated to her by Mrs.
Macy, better known as Miss Anne M.
Sullivan, -who for years was Miss Keller's
devoted teacher.

" There are so many fallacies about the
"blind," Miss Keller said at the outset
of the interview. " They say we- can tell
colors by the sense of touch, but we
can't. I like to imagine colors and talk
about them, but my idea of color is dif-
ficult to define. It might not mean much
to you, but it means a great deat to me.
Tied -is my favorite coloc. because it
means health and strength and warmth.
Roses all have the same general per-
fume, and yet there are shades of dif-
ference, so that I realize different roses
may have different colors.

" And the blind, because they have lost
some of their faculties, are not com-
pensated by a higher development of
other faculties, as many persons sup-
pose. The thing- that helps them to over-
come the loss of sight is the habit of
patience. By practice and .training we
overcome very great obstacles."

Some one asked Miss Keller which she
would rather have if she was forced to1
make a choice, her hearing or her sight.
" The sfeiise of hearing is the most im-
portant of the senses," she said. "I have
found the greatest difficulty in trying to
cultivate my voice. I repeat the same
sound over a hundred times and I am
never sure I am right until someone tells
me. I am like the Irishman, I feel that
T never open my mouth without putting
my foot in it."

The conversation was carried on in short
riuestions and answers, Miss Keller sit-
ting very erect and accompanying her
words with gestures of her hands and
her whole body. Occasionally she al-
lowed her fingers to stray to Mrs. Macy's
lips to learn what was going on. Miss
Keller is a Socialist, and when she was
asked if her views were obtained from
Mrs. Macy, Miss Keller's teacher laughed-
" No, indeed," she replied. " I am not
a Socialist."

""ies," said Miss Keller, when she was
told of the question. " They think be-
cause I am a Socialist that I am a
Christian Scientist and a vegeterian.

" I say no indeed I am not, for I eat
meat, and I am not a teetotaler either, for
T drank beer." When the laugh which
the thought of the little woman in pink
drinking beer had aroused subsided, Mrs.
Macy said slyly, talking aloud and with
her fingers in Miss Keller's hand:

" Of course you do; beer and Socialism
go together."

Some one asked if Miss Keller would
rather be blind and deaf with the great
reputation which she has acquired or an
unknown person with those senses unim-
paired. She responded instantly:

'* Of course I would rather have my
sight and hearing, because it would '•
greatly, increase my powers for service."

" The world is full of persons who. can
see and hear," said Mrs. Macy. talking
with her fingers in the blind girl's palm,
" but who do not see and hear and un-i
derstand as much as you do with no eyes
and ears. Would you rather be one of
those? "

"Never." came the reply instantly. "I
would rather be blind. One does not like
to give up one's identity," she continued
after a second's thought. "The will to
do and the power to think is the life of
your life."

There was silence for a moment and
Miss Keller continued:

" That was a very intelligent question.
Jl made me sit up and think."

Miss Keller forms her first impressions
of persons by the way they shake hands,
but she said that, as with persons who can
fcc, she sometimes had to change her
opinion. Persons she first disliked she
Brew to like and vice versa. To show her
power of recognition through her fingers •
Mrs. Macy told of how Miss Keller had

recognized a bust of Phillips Brooks,
whom she had known as a child. Feeling'
the bust long after his death, Miss Keller
exclaimed : " This is like my friend,
Bishop Brooks."

Miss Keller picks out her own clothes
and has decided opinions upon matters of
dress.

" Clothes? " she said, in answer to a,
question. " Of course, I like them. I'm
a girl. Did you ever see one who didn't
like clothes? "

Miss Keller will speak to-night at Mont-
clair, N. J., under the auspices of the
local branch of the Socialist Party there.
Many New York artists and writers who
live there will be in the audience. She
will speak upon " The Heart and the
Hand; or, The Right Use of the Senses."
This will be the first of a series of pub-
lic addresses which Miss Keller will de-
liver.

"YAe-u) ^or><1 ,,7i

. , ,\ ~r c S S

Fe/Wvt>a.Ti ; 1 5.

HELEN KELLERJALK
TO HEME

Chides Interviewers for

Being More Blind and

Deaf Than She.

Helen Keller, the deaf and blind
genius whose voice development has
astonished the scientific world, talked
to reporters last night in the Hotel
Astor as a preliminary to her first
lecture tour, which begins to-day in
Montclair. N. J.

And all because Charles Dickens
wrote "American Notes" and told<the
story of Laura Bridgman, whom Dr.
S. G. Howe educated in Perkins In-
stitute, Boston.

Helen's mother, grieving over the
fate of her 7-year-old daughter, whom
she believed forever deaf, dumb and
blind, wrote to the institute, and;
Anne Sullivan was sent to (each
Helen.

That was twenty-six years ag-o.
The two have never been separated
since. Last, night Anne Sullivan,
now Mrs. John Macy, sat by Helen's
side and interpreted the conversa-
tion. At first it is difficult to un-
derstand all Helen Keller says. Her
voice is low and a monotone. She
speaks slowly and measures her
words.

Her language is full of poetry and
color. She has a rai*e sense of word
values. Also she has a keen sense
of humor and laughs a spontaneous,
rippling laugh, far more musical than
her speech.

She told the reporters she thought
they were more deaf arid blind than
she.

"I have eyes in my fingers," she
said. ; "Your fingers are as sensitive
as mine, but feeling is an acquired
art.

"I often walk with perfect persons
who see no beauty in the sky and sea.
The beauty they miss overwhelms
me. They see the stars every night
and feel no emotions. They shine
forever in my thoughts."
As a rule for happiness, she said,
"keep busy" and added, "the will to
do and the power to think is the life
of life."

Asked which she considered the
greater misfortune she answered un-
hesitatingly: "Deafness. Hearing is
the most human and philosophic of j
our faculties. The na'oit of patience
is the only compensation given us
to bear our burdens. Our great ob-
stacles remain forever. It is hot true
that poverty builds up character and
awakens faculties that otherwise
sleep."

Recently Miss Keller has interested
herself in Socialism. "I believe in
fair dealing and have a sense of one-
ness with humanity."

In faith she is a Swedenborgian.
She loves pretty clothes. "Why not?
I am a woman," she said, adding:
"Eve did, you know." Red is her fa-
vorite color. "It means strength,
health, warmth and courage," she ex-
plained, "and I know the difference of
color in roses by their fragrance. The
blind see beautiful colors. They
mean poetry and perfume." She con-
fessed' she could read charatcer by
shaking hands and was seldom wrong
in her judgment.

"I talked two hours in French with
Mme. Maeterlinck," she said, "be-
cause I liked her handclasp. We dis-
cussed 'What is happiness?' "

Her greatest ambition, she says, "is
to help my fellow men and make
them see and hear as well as I do."

CALLS DEAFNESS THE
WORST AFFLICTION

Helen Keller Says It Cuts One Off Com-
pletely From the Rest of the World*

NEW YORK, Feb ft-Helen Keller, ac-
companied by Mrs Anne Macy, for 26
years her teacher and companion, gave
an interview in her apartments in the
Hotel Astor to a group of newspaper-
men and women.

"Nearly all are all more deaf and
blind than I," she said. "I would not
change my identity for that of the
ordinary humdrum person who has eyes
and ears, yet sees not nor hears. The
ability to understand and the will to do
are the true lights of life."

Miss Keller sat. on a sofa, her right
hand clasping that of her teacher, her
left laid along Mrs Macy's cheek, one
finger laid across her mouth. The
sensitive fingers of the ' blind girl

pulsed to the vibrations in the mouth
of the speaker, and made her under-
stand what was being said. All ques-
tions were put to Miss Keller through
this medium, but she answered for her-
self in a voic-3 powerful, though slightly
hollow and indistinct.

"What is your latest fixed interest?"
she was asked.

"Socialism," was her reply. "I am a
Socialist because I believe in fair play."

"Do you take interest in your dress?"
queried a woman,

"Of course I do. I am a woman.
Even Eve thought about her fig leaf,"
she answered.

Asked which of her afflictions she con-
sidered the worst, Miss Keller unhesi-
tatingly answered: "Deafness. It cuts
you off from all the world, while
blindness only shuts you from the
light."

MISS HELEN KELLER,
Who Considers Deafness as the Worst Affliction.

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HELEN KELLER TO
GIVE FIR5TLECTUHE

Blind, Deaf and Dumb Woman Will

Make Her Initial Appearance

at Montclair.

Helen Keller, the blind, deaf and
dumbpnilosopTTer, authoress and hu-
manitarian, will to-night appear for
the first time on the lecture platform
in Montclair, X. J. and deliver an ad-
dress on "The Heart and the Hand," or
the right use of our senses. Mrs.
Anne Macy, who for "6 years has been
her teacher and companion, will ac-
company, her pupil and give an ac-
count of her life and education.

"You are all more deaf and blind
than I," said Miss Keller last night to
a group of newspaper men and women,
to whom she granted an interview in
her apartments in the Hotel Astor.

"I would not change my identity
for that of the ordinary humdrum per-
son who has eyes and ears, yet sees
not nor hears. The ability to under-
stand and the will to do are the true
lights of life."

Miss Keller sat on a sofa, her right
hand clasping that of her teacher, her
left laid along Mrs. Maey's cheek, one
finger laid across her mouth. The
sensitive fingers of the blind girl
pulsed to the vibrations in the mouth
of the speaker, and made her under-
stand what was being said. All ques-
tions were put to Miss Keller through
this medium, but she answered for
herself in a voice powerful, though
slightly hollow and indistinct.

"What is your latest field of inter-
est?- she was asked.

"Socialism," was her reply. "I am a
Socialist because I believe in fair
play."

"Do you take interest in your dress?"
queried a woman.

"Of course I do. I am a woman.
Even Eve thought about her fig leaf,"
she answered.

Asked which of her afflictions she
considered the worst, Miss Keller un-
hesitatingly answered "Deafness It-
cuts you off from all the world, whilq
blindness only shuts you from tha
light."

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ECTURE 'PLATFORM

HELEN KELLER'S LATEST
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Bon/Hleaf, Dumb and Blind,

She Wil! Exhibit Mastery

Over Speechlessness.

JOKES OF EVE'S CLOTHES

Shows Sense of Humor Highly-
Developed, but Denies That
Blindness Aids Other
Senses.

Helen Keller, whose achievements in
conquering the threefold handicap of be-
ing born deaf, dumb and blind have
amazed the world for years, is yet to take
one more great step forward out of the
darkness and silence. It was announced
last night that she would appear on the
general lecture platform to tell with her
own voice of her life and achievements
and thus prove her complete triumph over
speechlessness.

To those who think of her Simply as a
phenomenon and expect to listen to her
simply as a wonderful curiosity she Will
show that she is 03 intensely human and
almost as normal in her attitude toward
life as though she had lived all her
in the open, every day life. It will reveal
in her. too. a keen sense of humor

HELEN KELLER.

Discards Blindness Fallacy.

"Blindness," she^9faTasTK'riight, in an
interview at the Hotel Alitor, "is thought
by those who don't know to increase the
power of the other senses. That is not
so. The habit of patience iv the
■ ompensation. The great obstacle still
remains."

"What active socialistic work are you
doing- now?" she was asked, her "hear-
ing" being1 done by placing her fingers' on
the speaker's mouth.

"Talking!" she answered quickly,
laughing heartily at her juke. "But wait
till I get a chance— then I'll be doing,
The highest ambition of my life is to help
ray fellow men— to make them see and
hear as well as I do. The majority of
mankind doesn't see or feel what they
ought to. Often I walk with people who
<an see the sea and sky and the stars,
hnt feel no emotion. T can't see these
things, but they shine in my thoughts."

It was noted that she was dressed with
particular taste and her teacher. Miss
Anne Sullivan, now Mrs. Maey, was
asked if she showed a great deal of in-
terest in such feminine matters as dress.

- "Oh, yes: she always selects her own
clothes and is very particular about the
colors, too — I'll ask her what she thinks
ahout dress," she said.

Clothes Interested Even Eve.

"Do I take much interest in clothes?"
Miss Keller repeated the question when it
was put to her. "Of course. I am a
girl. Eve did!" an'd she laughed heartily
again.

Her first appearance on the lecture plat-
form will come to-night in the Hillside
Auditorium, in Montclair, X. J. Her sub-
ject is "The Heart and the Hand." She
will be accompanied by her teacher. "Mrs.
Macy, who will first give an account of
her education from the human and sci-
entific point of vie.w. Then Miss Keller
will tell for herself of the results of this
work, as she feels it. and of her views of
life.

This final step in her career has been
made possible only during the last year.
Before that, although she had been able
to speak to a certain extent, her voice
had not proved strong enough to carry
far. She has been under the care, how-
ever, of Charles White, a teacher of
singing at the Xew England Conserva-
tory of Music, and her voice, has been
developed so That it is expected to carry
in. a public auditorium. She .speaks
slowly, in rather deep tones, easily un-
derstood. But it is not the was' she
speaks that attracts attention as much
as the fluent comiiiand she has of Ian
guage and the poetical style in whic
she expresses herself.

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Helen Keller in Public

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Debut Talks Socialism

jjen Keller, famous deaf and biind
girl, made her debut as a public speaker
in Montqlair, N. •(.. last night, when,
from the platform of the auditorium in
the Hillside School she delivered a lec-
ture to an audience of 1,000 on "Social-
ism."

Miss Keller said

"The lands, the life; the machinery,
belong to the few. All the work they
do gains for the workers a mere liveli-
hood. We fall to understand that if
the workers were adequately - paid
there would be no rich people. The
rich are willing- to do everything for
the poor but give them their rights.

"II the worker is not successful it
is because part of what he produces
t;oe:' to sonu- one else. U is tiie labor;
of the poor and ignorant that makes u/s
ax-fined and comfortabk

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Blind and Deaf , Helen Keller

Becomes Public Entertainei

Marvellous Woman Gives Rehearsal and Shows How She

Can Talk, Despite- Her Afflictions, Preliminary to Her

First Appearance in Montclair This Evening.

Declaring that she could dance, that she
could turkey trot, that she loved music in
her own deaf way, that flowers were her
constant companions and that her greatest
ambition In life was to be able to teach
others to see and hear as well as She
•ould. Miss Helen Keller, the marvellous
Jeaf and bl.intLj&'oman, entertained a score
if persons at the Astor Hotel last night, to
;how how well she could talk. She is to
nake her first public appearance as a
alker to-night in Montclair, and Mrs. John
viacy, her constant companion and in-
structor, helped her to receive and con-
verse with those who called last night.

Her exhibition was remarkable, and
those who talked with iter could under-
stand well her monotone replies to their
auestions. They found Miss Keller witty
Mid unembarrassed, and she spoke as
openly and frankly as if she had 'been
alone.- She was asked numerous questions
^bout her likes and dislikes and her im-
pressions of persons and the world. Tow-
ard the end of the reception she showed
that she had perfect respect for a well set
table. ■ She said her questioners must
hurry, as she had not had her dinner.

"Have you a good appetite?" she was
'asked.

'•Fine, and it's getting bigger every min-
ute," she replied, clapping her hands in an-
ticipation.

"Do you dance?"

"I Jove it. I waltzed with Donald Brian,
and I think if I had as much practice as
he and got paid for it I could waltz better."

"Can you do the turkey trot?"

"Of course."

"Are you fond of dress?" she was asked.

"I'm a girl and Eve was," was her quick
response.

In more serious vein, the interest turned
to her various senses, and »he was asked
if she appreciated music

"In my deaf way," she answered. "I
feel the notes when they are high, when
they are low, when they are fast a-nd wihen
they are slow. I can tell a march by the
vibration. I feel the billows of sound and
I can feel the notes rise and fall like the
billows of the sea."

"What is your highest ambition?"

"To make others see and hear as well
as I can."

"Do you anticipate stage fright to-mor-
row night?"

"No, indeed, but I know I shall feel very
queer about standing there all alone and
not being able to tell how the people are

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taking me. I don't know if they will be
friendly."

"What will you tell them?"

"I'm going to tell them that many of
them are as deaf and blind as I am, but
they don't know it."

Macy suggested that they might
not like t hat;

"It's good for them," responded Miss
Keller with spirit. "It's medicine for
them."

She was asked how long: Mrs. Macy had
been her instructor.

"I met. her twenty-six years ago— took
her ijor better or worse," Miss Keller re-
plied, with keen appreciation.

Miss Keller conversed through Mrs.
Macy, who held Miss Keller's left hand
and into the palm talked with her finger
tips at the same time she pronounced the
words. Occasionally Miss Keller would in-
terrupt by placing her hand on Mrs. Macy's
lips. She gave a remarkable exhibition of
reading with her fingers. Frank Speaight,
a Dickens interpreter, portrayed many of
the novelist's characters, and Miss Keller
read them correctly by passing her hand
over his face.

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MtEBLINDTHANSHE,
MISS KELLER SAYS

All Are Sightless Who Do Not
Open Their Eyes to Fellow-
Men and Know Their Rights.

SPEAKS FOR THE SOCIALISTS

Her Debut as a Lecturer — Rich Will-
ing to Give Poor Everything
\ , . •» Except Their Rights.

Special 'to~The Neiv York Times.
MONTCLAIR, N. J., Feb. 6.— Helen
Keller, the famous blind and deaf girl,
made her debut as a public speaker in
Montclair to-nignt at the auditorium in
the Hillside School, her audience num-
bering nearly one thousand. Miss Kel-
ler lectured under the auspices of the
Montclair branch of the Socialist Party.
She is a Socialist and she expressed
radical political views.

Those in the rear of the hall heard Miss
Keller with difficulty at times owing to
her lack of emphasis, taut she made a
Strong ircpression.

Previous to Miss Keller's address Mrs.
Macy, ner teacher, and companion, gave
the life history of the blind girl and de-
scribed the methods whereby she had
acquired an education and the power of
speech.

" I am going to try to make you feel
that no one of us can do anything alone,
that we are bound together," said Miss
Keller. " I do not like this world as it is.
I am trying to make it a little more as I
would like to have it. Perhaps you are
thinking how blind I have been. You
have your eyes, and you behold the sun,
and yet you are more blind than I am.
It was the hands of others that made this
miracle in me. Without my teacher I
should be nothing. Without you I should
toe nothing. We live by and for each
other.

■ "We are all blind and deaf until our
eyes are open to our fellowmen. If we
had a penetrating vision we would not
endure what we see in the world to-day.
The lands, the life, the machinery taelong
to the few. All the w:ork they do gains for
the workers a mere livelihood. Strange
that we do not see it. and when we do we
accept the condition in blind content. We
fail to understand that if the workers
•were adequately paid there would be no
rich people.

"The rich are willing to do everything
for the poor except give them their
rights. They say the workers are not
thrifty enough, and does not save, it is,
thrifty enough, and does not save it is
because the greatest part of wrhat he pro-
duces goes to some one else, who does
the saying.

" It is the labor of the poor and igno-i
rant that makes us refined and comforn
table. I am no pessimist. The pessimis^
says that man wasf born in darkness anc"
for death. I believe that man was
tended for the liarht, and shall not die.'
It is a good world, and it will be much
better when you help me to make it more,
as I want it."

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Will Talk to Montclair SocialjMs on
Right Use of Sense*' *\

"The belief that the loss of one
sense increases the power of the
others is a fallacy. The habit of pa-
tience is the only thing that helps one

to bear the limitation," said Helen
Keller, who is deaf and blind and
who was born dumb, in a very un-
derstandable speech the other night.
Her voice is deep, her intonations not
always "usual, but not unpleasant,
says the N. Y. Sun.

"I spend hours every day in vocal
exercises for the improvement of my
voice," she explained. "I must not
only get the sound right, but I must
fix it in my memory by thousands of
repetitions."

Miss Keller's teacher, Mrs. Maey,
explained that the delicate vibrations
of lips, nose and throat which en-
abled her pupil to hear with her
Angers were too elusive to be repro-
duced. It was only by saying the
i sound over and over until she got it
right, .and then repeating until the
right way became a vocal habit that
she has learned to talk:

"Deafness is a greater misfortune
than blindness," said Miss Keller, an-
swering a question without hesitation.
"Hearing is the most human of the
senses. I have realized that in my
struggle to Jipeak I must repeat
sounds over and over without being
sure they are right. The great handi-
Mgjp>p> remains."

Miss Keller will give a lecture on
the right use of the senses in Mont-
clair Friday night before social ists of
that town.

"Most people put too little thought
and feeling into what they see and,
hear," she says. "I would rather be
blind and deaf than be one of the
people who can see and hear, but do :
mot."

"The will to do and the power to
think are. the life of your life. I
want to help my fellow men — to make
them see and bear as well as I do.1'

Miss

Keller Gives All Credit
for Her Joy td
Teacher.

Miss Helen Keller, the
and blind girl, made he first public
platform appearance last night be-
fore an audience in the auditorium of
the Hillside Grammar School, NTont-
elair. The large hall was filled to
overflowing by those desiring to hen-

the young- woman speak, who had
been deprived of her speech since
.she was 19 months old, and by pluck
had secured a college education. She
spoke under the auspices of the Mont-
clair branch of the Socialist party,
Iher subject being "My Life Impres-
sions.'"

She made great effort to speak each
word distinctly, but it required very
close attention to catch her words and
it was hard, to get complete sen-
tences. She said:

"Dear friends, it is with great joy
that I appear before you. I am go-
ing to try to explain that joy. I was
blind, now I see. I was deaf, now
I hear. I was dumb, now I speak.
It was through the hands of Others
that I found these, and" through my
teacher and my father and God.

"All the best in me belongs to my
teacher. There is not a talent or
aspiration or joy in me that has not
been awakened by her loving- touch.
1 have found much joy in the world.

"This is a good world. It is a bet-
ter world than it was. We are every
day gaining in knowledge. i Men and
women are' turning their faces to tht
light and the dark days will soon bf
ended. The commonwealth of the
future is growing surely out of the
state in which we ar? now living
There will be strife, but no aimless,
self-defeating strife. There, will be
only honest emulation in cooperative
effort. Each hand will do its part
in the providing of food, clothing,
shelter and the other great needs of
man, so that if poverty comes all
will bear it alike and thus in pros-
perity all will rejoice in its warmth.

"The things that we workers de-
mand are not unreasonable. It can-
not be unreasonable to. demand the
protection of women and little chil-
dren and an honest wage for all who
give their time and energy to indus-
trial operation.

"We shall learn that we are all
related, one to the other; that we
are all members of one body."

Mrs. Annie Macy, who taught Miss
Keller, told how she became the girl's
teacher. She herself was blind, but
the affliction was overcome by a
surgical operation. She had grad-
uated from an institution in Boston
and it was there that Miss Kellers
father applied for a teacher for his
daughter.

That was twenty-six years ago.
Mrs. id how si

girl progressed so that she found it
necessary to educate herself to keep
ahead of He!?n. It took Miss Keller
twentjr years to learn to speak, she
said. It was a Miss Fuller, of Bos-
ton, who taught Helen to articulate
and after the seventh lesson, the girl
said: "I am not dumb now." When
Miss Keller was a sophomore at Rad-
■cliffe College she wrote her auto-
biography which she sold for $3,000.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 7.— Helen Keller,

\rlH> s p e n t*-hitt sf^ oT^i or early 1 if e in
Boston, lecturing- in Montclair, N. J.,
as a Socialist, denounced the rich as
willing to do everything for the poor but
give them their rights. She urged co-
operation by all classes, and cited hen
own career as an example. Miss Keller,
who declared she was no pessimist, said:
I am going to try and make you
feel that no one Of us can do any-
l.hing- alone: that we are bound to-
gether. T do not like this world as
il. is. I am trying to make it a little
aioce as I would like to have v!\
Perhaps you are tlhiiiking how Mind
i have been. Sou have your eyes
and you behold the sun, and yet you
are mote blind 'Mian r am.

it was the hands of others that
made this miracle in mo. Without
my teacher I should be nothing. Wc
Jive by and for each >i lieri We are ■
all blind and deaf until our eyes are ,
open to our fellow men. If we had a

penetr ion we wuiild not en-

what we see in the world today.
The lands, the life the machinery
belong to the few. All the work they
do pain for the workers a mere liveli-
hood. Strange that we do not see it.
hen we do wc accept the con-
dition in blind content; We fail to
understand that if the workers wore
adequately paid ould be no

rich people.

The rich are willing to do every-
for t>e po i ■ them -their

rights. They say the workers are
enough. If the worker is
nor thrifty enough and docs not save
it is because the greatest part of what
he produces goes to some one else
who does i he s.

Ji ;s the labor of the ooor and ig-
norant: that makes us refined and com-
fortable. I am no pessimist. The pes-
simist says that ma!; was born in
darkness and for death. I believe
that man was intended far the light
and shall not die. It is a good world
and it: will be much better when you
me to make it more a- 1 want ii.

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LECTURE PLATFORM
FORI

Born Deaf, Dumb and Blind,

Will Exhibit Mastery Over

Speechlessness.

JOKES OF EVE'S CLOTHES

Shows Sense of Humor, but

Denies That Blindness Aids

Other Senses.

NEW YORK, Feb. 6— Helen Keller,
whose achievements in conquering the
threefold handicap of being born deaf.

dumb and blind, have amazed the woridi
for years, Is yet to take one more great,
step forward out of the darkness and)
silence. It was announced last night
that she would appear on the lecture
platform to tell with her own voice
of her life and achievements and thus
prove her complete triumph over
speechlessness.

To those who think her simply as a|
phenomenon and expect to listen to her
simply as a wonderful curiosity she will
©how that she is as intensely human
and almost as normal in her attitude
toward life as though she had lived all
'her years in the open, everyday life.
3t will, reveal in her, too, a keen sense
of humor.

"Blindness," she said last night in an
interview at the Hotel Astor, "is
thought by those who don't know, to
increase the power of the other senses.
That is not so. The habit of patience
is the only compensation. The great
obstacle still remains.

"What active socialistic work are you
doing now?" she was asked, her "hear- i
jng" being done by placing her fingers i
on the speaker's mouth.

"Talking!" she answered quickly, !
laughing heartily at her Joke. "But
wait till I get a chance— then I'll be
doing. The highest ambition of my
life is to help my fellowmen — to make
them see, and hear as well as I do. The
majority of mankind doesn't see or feel
what they ought to. Often I walk with
people, who can see the see. and sky |
and the stars but feel no emotion. I
can't see these things, but they shine
in my thoughts."

It was noted that she was dressed
with peculiar taste and her teacher,
Miss Anne Sullivan, now Mrs. Macy,
was asked if she showed a great deal
of interest in such feminine matters as
dress.

"Oh, yes; Bhe always selects her
own clothes and is very particular
about the colors, too — I'll ask her
what she thinks about dress," she said.

"Do I take much interest in
clothes?" Miss Keller repeated the
question when it was put to her. "Of
course. I am a girl. Eve did!" and
Bhe laughed heartily again.

Her first appearance on the lecture
platform will come tonight in the Hill-
side auditorium in Montclair, N. J.
Her subject is "The Heart and the
Hand." She will be accompanied by
her teacher, Mrs. Macy, who will first
give an account of her education from
the human and scientific point of view.
Then Miss Keller will tell for herself
of the results of this work, as she
feels it, and of her views of life.

This final step in her career has
been made possible only during the
last year. Before that, although she
had been able to speak to a pertain
extent, her voice had not proved strong
enough to carry far. She has been un-
der the care, however, '"of Charles
White, a teacher of singing at the New
England Conservatory of Music, and
her voice has been developed so that
it is expected to carry in a public au-
ditorium. She speaks slowly, in rather
deep tones, easily understood. But it
is not the way she speaks that at-
tracts attention as much as the fluent
command she has of language and the
poetical style in which she expresses
herself.

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HELEN KELLER AS

Deaf and Dumb Woman

Amused Society in New

York Hotel

SPEECH UNDERSTOOD

Declared She Can Turkey Trot and
Loves Music Through Pul-
sations of Air.

New York, Feb. 6.— Declaring that
she" could dance, that she could turkey-
trot, that she loved music in her own
deaf way, that flowers were her
constant companions and that her
greatest ambition in life was to be

able to teach others to see and hear
| as well as she could, Miss Helen
: Keltes^Jthe marvelous deaf and blind
woman, entertained a score of per-
sons at the Astor Hotel, to show how
well she could talk. She is to make
her first public appearance as a talker
soon in Montclair, and Mrs. John
Macy, her constant companion and
instructor, helped her to receive and
converse with those who called.

Her exhibition was remarkable, and
those who talked with her could un-
derstand well her monotone replies to
their questions. They found Miss
Keller witty and unembarrassed, and
she spoke as openly and frankly as if
she had been alone. She was asked
numerous questions about her likes
and dislikes and her impressions of
persons and the world. Toward the
end of the reception she showed that
she had perfect respect for a well set
table. She said her questioners must
hurry, as she had not had her dinner.

Has Good Appetite

• "Have you a good appetite?" she
was asked.

"Fine, and it's getting bigger every
minute," she replied, clapping her
hands in anticipation."'

"Do you dance?"

"I love it. I waltzed with Donald
Brian, and I think if I had as m'xch
practise as he and got paid for it I
could waltz better."

"Can you do the turkey trot?"

"Of course."

"Are you fond of dress?" she was
asked.

"I'm a girl and Eve was," was her
quick response.

In a more serious vein, the interest
turned to her various senses, and she
was asked if she appreciated music.

"Irt my deaf way," she answered.
"I feel the notes when they are high,
when they are low, when they are
fast and when they are slow. I can
tell a march by the vibration. I feel
the billows of sound and I can feel
the notes rise and fall like the billows
of the sea."

"What is your highest ambition?"

"To make others see and hear as
well as I can."

"Do you anticipate stage fright?"

Reads With Her Hands

"No, indeed, but I know I shall feel
very queer about standing there all
alone and not being able to tell how
the people are taking me. I don't
know if they will be friendly."

"What will you tell them?"

"I'm going to tell them that many
wt" them are as deaf and blind as I
am, but they don't know it."

Mrs. Macy suggested that OTey might
not like that.

"It's good for them," responded
Miss Keller with spirit. "It's medi-
cine for them."

She was asked how long Mrs. Macy
had been her instructor.

"I met her twenty-six years ago—
took her for better or worse," Miss
Keller replied, with keen apprecia-
tion.

She gave a remarkable exhibition of
reading with her fingers. Frank
Speaight, a Dickens interpreter, por-
trayed many of the novelist's charac-
ters, and Miss Keller read them cor-
rectly by passing her hand over his
face.

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Helen Keller, wifro is brave enougfh 'to
tPj* t'hie*, laotJuire pilatt'f'orm with aill her
h*B,ais*as .af bean© deaf cttumlb and
ifcBmd, says of her 'fonaintog: "I spend
:h'0ium=3 every day in vocal exercises for
■the -i improvement 'of my voice. I imu.at
not onily get Mie sound ri©ht, but 1
muist fix it in any .memory by t'hiou'sa.nd.s
of repetitions. Deafness is a greater
irtisifcrburate them .blindness. Heairdn© lis
the most biuunan 'Br^lTIMiimnimeis. I ihsuve
realized that in my .stnuiggie to speak J
must repeat sounds over and over with-
out 'being enure they aire right. The
©treat (handicap remains."

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She Talks Remarkably

Well, With Exception That

Tones Lack Emphasis.

New York, Feb. 7. — Helen Keller

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made her d'ebut as a Socialist speaker
in Montclair, N. J., last night, lec-
turing in the Hillside School to an
audience of nearly 1000. She spoke
under the auspices of the Montclair
branch of the Socialist party. A So-
cialist herself, her speech voiced
sentiments that revealed radical po-
litical inclinations.

Those in the rear of the hall un-
derstood Miss Keller with difficulty
at times owing to the lack of empha-
sis in her tones, but she gave a re-
markable performance, considering
the handicap under which she la-
bored. Previous to Miss Keller's ad-
dress, Mrs. Macy, her teacher and
companion, gave her life history and
described the methods by which she
acquired an education and the power
of speech.

"I am going to try and make you
feel that no one of us can do any-
thing alone; that we are bound to-
gether," said Miss Keller. "I do not
like this world as it is. I am trying
to make it a little more as I would
like to have it. Perhaps you are
thinking how blind I have been. You
have your eyes and you behold the
sun and yet you are more blind than
I am.

"It was the hands of others that
made this miracle in me. Without
my teacher I should be nothing.
Without you I should be nothing. We

live by, and for each other. We are
all blind and deaf until our eyes
are open to our fellow men. If we
had a penetrating vision we would
not endure what we see in the world
today.

"The lands, the life, the machinery
belong to the few. All the work they
do gains for the workers a mere live-
lihood. Strange that we do not see
it, and when we do we accept the
condition in blind content. We fail
to understand that if the workers
were adequately paid there would be
no rich people.

"The rich are willing to do every-
thing for the poor but give them
their rights. They say the workers
are not thrifty enough. If the work-
er is not thrifty enough and does not
save it is because the greatest part
of what he produces goes to some
one else who does the saving.

"It is the labor of the poor anfi
ignorant that makes us refined and
comfortable. I am no pessimist. The
pessimist says that man was born
in darkness and for death. I believe
that man was intended for the light
and shall not die. It is a good world
and it will be much better when you
help me to make it more as I want
ijt.

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Hfc,L01iCELLER SPEAKS
AFTER LONG TRAINING

Helen Keller, born deaf djjtelb an
blind,, lias almost fully surrounded
o"n«' of tlie handicaps and will make
her first public appearance on the lec-
ture platform at a Socialistic meeting
at Montclair, N. J., tonight. Althoujjti
MiSs- Keller has been ajble to speak [.j
a certain extent during the past year,
the development of her voice under
the care of a singing teacher, has now
reached the stage where her word?
will carry in an auditorium.

"The belief that the loss of one
sense increases the powers of the
other is a fallacy," she said in a very
understandable way recently. The
hafolt of patienefe is the only thing
:hat helps me to bear the limitation."

•Miss Keller's teacher explained that
the delicate vibrations of her ilps,
nose and throat, which enabled aj
pupil to hear with her fingers, were !
too illusive to be reproduced. It was
only by saying the sound over and
over again until she got it right, and
then repeating until the right way be- !
came a vocal habit that she learned
to talk.

"I must not only get the sound right
but I must fix it in my memory by
thousands of rep'ititions," Miss Keller

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Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
)Iind prodigy, is going to lecture; she
Jas gone into training for the plat-
form. "1 spend hours every day in
^ocal exercises for the improvement of
ny voice," she say. "] must not only
jet the sound right, bub 1 must fix it in
my memory by thousands of r
tions. • Deafness is a greater tniSfor-
tune than KteftdiE2££u Hearing is the
most human of the senses. I have
realized that in my Struggle to speak I
must repeat Bounds ovar avid over
without being sure (hey are right. The
great handicap remains.

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HELEN KELLER FOR PARADE

Blind Girl an Ardent Supporter of
Votes for Women

Washington, Feb. 14 — Helen Keller has
been invited to take part in the woman
suffrage pageant to be held here on the
day before inauguration. The famous blind
girl is an ardent suffragist and has recently
been making public addresses under the
auspices of the Socialist party in favor of
suffrage and Socialism. The invitation was
sent last night and the committee in charge
of the pageant is bringing all possible pres-
sure to bear upon Miss Keller to cancel
other engagements in order to help "the
cause" on March 3.

Tebr-via.rw' 1 5. 1^)3.

HELEN KELLER, in her recent wonderful address to
a Socialist gathering, said: "It was the hands of
others that made this miracle in me. Without my
teacher I should be nothing." If we ever had doubts of
immortality, the discovery of this beautiful soul immured for
life in a windowless dungeon of clay would be enough to end
them.

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Helen Keller to speak In Newark.

Helen Keller will deliver an address in
the First Presbyterian Church on Mon-
dav evening, February 24, on "Heart and
Hand-, or the Right Use of the Senses."
Miss Anne Sullivan Macy will speak, pre-
ceding Miss Keller, and relate the story
of the latter's life and describe the proc-
l ess by which she was educated. These
addresses will be given under the aus-
pices of the New Jersey State Commis-
sion for the Blind. Tickets may be obj.
tained at 859 JgrWfi street.

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HELEN KELLER TO

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SPEAK MARCH 3

Washington, " Feb. .15.— A delegation of
suffragists from national headquarters will
^"hike" to the White House today bearing
a formal petition to President Taft that
he grant at least a half holiday to gov-
ernment employees March 3, the day of
the suffragist parade.

Headed by Senator Sutherland, a com-
mittee of women called on the President
last week and verbally requested that the
holiday order be issued. It now is learned
that no official action was taken because
no formal petition had been made. The
oversight will be remedied.

Miss Helen Keller has been invited to' ad-
dress the suffragists March 3 immediately
after the pageant.

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HELEN KELLER ACCEPTS

Will Talce Part in Suffrage Pageant on
March 3

Washington, Feb. 19— Helen Keller has
accepted the invitation of the managers of
the Suffrage pageant, to be held here on
March 3, and will participate in the great
demonstration in favor of votes for women;
She will probably address a meeting of
suffragists before the pageant begins. She
will be accompanied by her teacher, Mrs.
John Macy. W. E. B.

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HELEN KELLER TO TALK.

Miss JHelenKgygg^jvill appear before
the BrooKl9ff'lrHsntUTe ou Thursday even-
ing, March 6. She will deliver her lec-
ture on "The Heart and the Hand— or
the Right Use of Our Senses." and will
be accompanied by her teacher and com-
panion, Mrs. John Mack (Anne M. Sul-
livan), who will precede the lecture by a
brief account of Miss Keller's life and
education.*

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Neither Teetotaller Nor Vegetarian,
She Declares in an Inter-
view. .

NEW YORK, Feb. 20— Dressed in be-
coming gown of pink and pink satin
slippers, with her dark hair arranged
in weaves down either side of her face
and tied low on the back of her neck,
with a large bow of black ribbon, Miss
Helen Keller, the young woman who,
though blind and deaf and dumb, has
acquired the power of speech, talked
with "reporters at the Hotel Astor.

Miss Keller likes to talk, and shs
sent back gay, crisp answers* Uo tha
questions, which were repeated, to her
by Mrs. Macy, better known as Miss
Anne M. Sullivan, who for years was
Miss Keller's devoted teacher, i

"There are so many fallacies about
the blind," Miss Keller said at the out-
set of the interview. "They say we
can tell colors by the sense of touch,
but we can't. I like to imagine colors
and talk about them, but my , idea of
color is difficult to define. It might
not mean much to you, but it means
a great deal to me. Red is my favorite
color, because it means health and
strength and wai-mth. Roses all have
the same general perfume, and yet
there are shades of difference, so that
I realize different roses may have dif-
ferent colors.

"And the blind, because they have
lost some of their facilities, are not
compensated by a higher development
of other faculties, as many people sup-
pose. The thing that helps them to
overcome the loss of sight is the habit
of patience. By practice and training
we overcome great obstacles."

Some one asked Miss Keller which
she would rather have if she was
forced to make a choice, her hearing
or her sight.

HEARING MOOT IMPORTANT.

"The sense of hearing is the most
important of the senses," she said. "I
have found the greatest difficulty in
trying to cultivate my voice, I repeat
the same sound over a hundred times
and I am never sure I am right until
some one tells me. I am like the Irish-
man, I feel that I never open my
mouth without putting my food in it."

The conversation was carried on in
short questions and answers. Miss
Keller sitting very erect and acdom-
pasrying her .words with gestures of
her hands and her whole body. Oc-
casionally she allowed her fingers to
stray to Mrs. Macy's lips to learn what
was going on. Miss Keller is a Social-
ist, and when she was asked if her
views were obtained from Mrs. Macy,
Miss Keller's teacher laughed.

"No, indeed," she replied. "I am
not a Socialist."

"Yes," said Miss Keller, when she

was told of the question. "They think:

because I am a Socialist that I am a

Christian Scientist and a vegetarian.

NOT A TEiHTOTALUEIR.

"I say no, indeed, I am not, for I eat
meat and I am not a teetotaller, either,
for T drink beer." When the laugh
which the thought of the little woman
in pink drinking beer had aroused sub->
sided, Mrs. Macy said slyly, talking
aloud and with her fingers in Miss
Keller's hand. ^

"Of course you do; beer and Social-
ism go together."

Some one asked if Miss Keller would
rather be blind and deaf with the
great reputation which she has ac-
quired or an unknown person with
those senses unimpaired. She respond-
ed instantly:

"Of course I would rather have my
sight and hearing, because it wouWl
greatly increase my powers for ser-
vice."

"The world is full of persons who
can see and hear," said Mrs. Macy,
talking with her Angers in the blind
girl's palm, "but who do not see and
hear and understand as much as you
do with no eyes and ears. Would you
rather be one of those?"

"Never," came the reply instantly.
"I would rather be blind. One does
not like to give up one's identity," she
continued after a second thought. "The
will to do and the power to think is
the life of your life."

There was silence for a moment and
Miss Keller continued :

"That was a very intelligent ques-
tion. It made me sit up and think."
Miss Keller forms her first impres-
sions of persons by the way they shako
hands, but she said that with persons
who can see, she sometimes had to
change her opinion. Persons she first
disliked, she grew to like and vice
versa. To show her power of recog-
nition through her fingers Mrs. Macy
told of how Miss Keller had recognized
a bust of Phillips Brooks, whom she
had known as a child. Feeling the
bust long after his death, Miss Keller
exclaimed: "This is like my friend',
Bishop Brooks."

Miss Keller picks out her own
clothes and has decided opinions upon
matters of dress.

"Clothes?" she said, in answer to a
question. "Of course, I like them.
I'm sa girl. Did jon ever see one who
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Gives $500 Toward Paying Off

Mortgage on Settlement House

\u\]^. to Aid the Sightless.

MISS KELLER IN HIS CHAIR

" First Woman to be President," She

Tells Mr. Choate, When She

Takes Mr. Taft's Place.

" I -am the first, woman to be President
of the United States," said Miss Helen
Keller, the wonderful girl who, though
blind and deaf, can now spetik aloud to
an audienoc.

She made this statement at the opening
yesterday afternoon of the new . " Light-
house " for the blind at ill East Fitty-
ninth Street, which, through the efforts
of Miss Winifred Holt, has been estab-
lished to help the sightless. President
Tat't, one of the guests who was expected,
had not arrived, and ^Joseph H. Choate,
who presided, put Mies Keller in a big oak
chair which was made for the President.

"The President will be an hour and a
half late," said Mr.' Choate. "and Miss
Keller will occupy his chair."

Then the news came that the President '
was at the door, and Miss Keller wis
about to return to her own seat when the
report that the President had arrived was
flenied.

" This is a curious sort of President,"
said Mr. Choate''. "Now he is here and
now he isn't."

" And I shall not abdicate again," said
Miss Keller so quieklv thai no one who
did not know would have imagined that
.-ill" had not heard the words ncrselj in-
stead t>f through the ttngera of Mrs,
Mac , her teacher and friend. But the]
President had arrived, and amid 'the
cheers o'fj the blind ana those who could
i stepped upon the platform. There
was m at - the close of his

remarks and after his departure when

it was announced that lie had presented
$300 toward paying- off the lighthouse
mortgage.

The exercises yesterday were held on
the main floor of the settlement .house.
This room is surrounded by a gallery, and
every available inch of space was taken
up by the blind and their guests. Among
the sightless persons present were mem-
bers of the girls' " camp fire " club and the
blind Boy Scouts. On the platform with
the President and Mr. Choate, Miss Holt.
Mrs. Macy. and Mj6s Keller, were Bishop
David H. Greer, M.er. M. J. Laveile, Rabbi
H. G. Enelow, D>'. William H. Maxwell,
City Superintendent of Schools ; Dr. John
H. Finley, President of the Association for
the Blind and of the City College, and
Eben P. Morford, President of the Amer-
ican Workers for the Blind, and William
I. Scanlan, President of the Blind Men's
Improvement Club.

Mr. Choate wielded a gavel made for
the occasion by a blind workman. It was
presented to him by Miss Nellie Brown,
the Light House staff stenographer. The
Chairman looked at its admiringly.

"I could govern, a room full of London
suffragettes with this," he said.

In introducing President Taft, who was
next to the last speaker, Mr. Choate said :
" Here is one who is as good as he is
great — President Taft."

As the President left his chair, every one
in the audience arose and applauded
heartily. He said :

" I have often wondered, when I have
read the Declaration of Independence of
Jefferson, signed by all those people we
like to think we are descended from, what
fhe blind must think about the statement
that all men are born free and equal. Be-
hind those eyes that do not. see there
must be a good deal of question. We are
not equal in opportunity o*' environment.
What is meant is that it is the aspiration
of a popular Government to bring about
as near equality of opportunity as possi-
ble.

'" That is why we are here. We who
have sight feel that those who have not
have not had quite a square deal. We
want to help them, and we find that the
best way is to help them to help them-
selves. By a little aid they can apply the
faculties they have and make good those
they have not. We want to help four
faculties do the work' of five. I have
sometimes felt the deprivation of sight
might not be such a bad thing when it
keeps us from seeing the things we should
not see. It certainly gives concentra-
tion.

" My friend Mr. Choate and I have been
figureheads in this work for the last
three years. I can't help as much as he
can. with his mellifluous voice and hon-
eyed word, and— to give a Roland for his
Oliver — he grows more eloquent and sweet-
er in his old age; he is growing younger
every day to make the world happier."

A hush pervaded the hall when Miss
Keller arose to speak. She said she was
glad to be among such good friends of
the Kind, and thanked those who were
working for her blind brothers, including
the President, who, though bearing the
vvp-vht of public affairs, could find time
to ■--. p lift their burden.

■ ;-.i ■• friends, I have such c nfidenee in
your kindness of heart," she said. " I ask
you to help us still more. I am shameless
in mv begging. I beg you to constitute

yourselves keepers of the lisht not only
for the blind of this citv but for the blind1
of New York State and of the .United
Stales. The moment ynu write your name
upon a check you kindle a light that will
shine far and wide. Establish a light-
house in every city and hasten the day
when there shall be no blind child un-
taught, no blind man r woman unaided."

There was much applause as she sat
down, and she arose again to say " Thank
you."

Sunt. Maxwell said that it was after
hearing Miss Holt speak for the blind
that he undertook to have the blind
taught with the seeing children in the
public schools, and he gave instances of
the remarkable work blind children had
dene. One girl, after graduating from
other schools with honor, was graduated
from the Washington Irving' High School
he said, danced in the folk dances, and
walked unaided to get her diploma. There
wras applause when lie said "and the
graduating dress she wore she made her-
self."

"We have gone far enough in the'
work," he continued. " for me to say that
the way to train blind children is not!
to send them to institutions, but to send ■
them to the ordinary school, where they i
can learn independence and get as near- ■
ly as possible the. natural conditions of i
life For this T have to thank the Light
House and Miss Holt, and I hope the
money to pay off the mortgage on this
building will be obtained and a fund to
carrjy on the work without skimping."

Milss Holt, who was introduced- as "the
light of the Uigflt House." told of the
pitiful condition of the blind, in poor
houses and confined with the insane be-
fore they were taught to help themselves.
That was less than seven years' ago.
and in that time the association had
been in touch with 7,000 blind persons,
many of whom had been made happy
and self-supporting.

" In the State outside of New York,"
said Miss Holt, " we have started seven
committees of the association, and in-
spired many others. In the last seven
months we have opened three model
buildings in this city. In this light house
our dream has become concrete. But still
there is a cloud. We started with a
deficit of $400.

" The. President of the United States
laid the cornerstone of this building on
land with a mortgage for $40,000. • That
mortgage is still there, and, in addition,
we must have $00,000 to pay for and
equip this building and put it on a good
footing."

Miss Holt told of -pathetic offerings of
the blind themselves for the building.
Mr Choate gave $1,000 on his eighty-first
hirthdav to head the list to pay for it.
she said.

There is a 75 V°i' cent, yield on what
you give," she continued. " Much of our
best work is done free and of out' salaries
ene-half go directly to the blind. We
have seventeen blind persons on our
staff, not including the blind in the
workshops and ciasses."

Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. rlaft occupied
front seats in the audience yesterday,
and among others present were Mr. and
Mrs Felix Warburg, Miss Louise Schuy-
i,.v Hepry Hayden. Miss Miry U May-
den Mi's I-Tenrv VPlard. Mr. and Mrs.,
William Ordway Partridge Joseph P.
Uierbach, Mr. and Mis. Joseph Hunt,
.Tohn A. Me'Kim, Henry Morgffn Post.

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Miss Winifred Holt always succeeds in getting an
imposing array of patrons and patronesses for the
annual fete given for the benefit of the New York
Association of the Blind. The affair will be given
this year on March 25, the Tuesday after Easter, and
will be held as usual at the Hotel Astor. The pro-
ceeds will go toward paying the $100,000 debt on the
new "lighthouse for the Hlllljli'f*,whif*'n was formally
opened by President Taft yesterday.

Among those interested in the affair, in addition to
the President and Mrs. Taft, are Mr. and Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson, Gov. and Mrs. Su.izer, the British
Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce and the German Am-
bassador and Countess von Bernstorff.

Last year the entertainment tooi'c the form of a
Durbar Fete, and was preceded in former years by
the Redoute Rote, Bal de Tete and Fete d'Aviation.
The nature of this year's fete has not yet been
divulged, but an elaborate programme Is expected.

Joseph Howland Hunt is Chairman of the Commit-
tee of Decorations, Mrs. Richard Irviji and Mrs.
Frederick Longfellow Chairmen of the General Com-
mittee, Charles Stewart Butler Chairman of the Floor
Committee and on the Committee of Invitations are
Mrs. Richard Irvin, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, Mrs.
J. Borden Harriman and Miss Holt. The Treasurer
la Henry Morgan Post and the Executive Secretary
Mrs. M. R. Sherwood.

Most of the well known peaple of society have taken
boxes for the occasion, among them Mrs, W. K.
Vanderbiit, Mrs. J. Pienpont Morgan, Mrs. Ogden
Mills, Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer, Mrs. James Speyer, Mrs.
August Belmont, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Henry
W. Taft, Mrs. James Roose-velt and Mrs. Joseph- R.
Cihoate.

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To Teach the Spanish
Prince Jaime

The Famous Mute Tells Her Plan
to the Sunday Post

i 1

The Queen of Spain has sought Miss Keller's aid. The
royal mother of Don Jaime, the deaf and dumb prince, the
boy who might become King of Spain if anything happened
to his older brother, has asked this wonderful Massachusetts
woman to help educate her afflicted second son.

Queen Victoria Eugenia has read Miss Keller's books.
She admires the American's pluck and abilities. She has
sent tokens of royal esteem to adorn Miss Keller's home in
Wrentham.

And now Helen Keller, as she tells the Sunday Post,
will give Don Jaime the benefit of her experience.

In the royal palace at Madrid lives
a speechless little prince. The Infanta
Don Jaime is his name, and he is
the second son of the King and Queen
of Spain. |

Don Jaime cannot speak, nor can lie
hear, so his education had to be en-
tirely different from that given his
brother, the crown prince, or his little
sisters. Don Jaime Is over four years
old. The crown prince is six; the two
sisters are younger.

Her Majesty, the Queen of Spain, is
even more concerned about this little
prince than she is about his brother,
the crown prince, or his little sisters.

THE DUMB TO TEACH THE DUMB
Miss Helen Keller, whom five Queen of Spain has asked for advice
upon the education of her son, little Prince Jaime, zvhose afflic-
tion has made him the idol of the Spanish people.

A. CHILD WHO LIVES IN
SILENCE
Prince Jaime, who is the second son
of the King and Queen of Spain.
He can neither speak nor hear.

All of which shows that being a
Queen does not destroy the finest at-
tributes which can go with that title,
mother.

The Queen Is much interested in
Miss Helen Keller. So muoh so, in
fact, that she has decided to have her
child, the little Don Jaime, brought up.
and educated as much like Miss Keller
as possible.

Miss Keller, the Queen thinks, is a
most wonderful girl. She thinks this
because Miss Keller has conquered all
the handicaps put In her way; be-
| cause in spite of her Inabilities to hear
or see, she is one of the most inter-
esting and useful women in the coun-
try.

Queens may not go about making
plans for their own children, even as
freely as others can. That is why
all of her Spanish Majesty's communi-
cations to Miss Keller have been
through the American minister to
Spajn or the court physician, Dr.
Vicente Llorente.

The court physician was In America
late last year. He was commanded
to secure all of Miss Keller's books
for the Spanish Queen.
1 The Queen was delighted with. Miss
Keller's personality, which she felt
from the books. And she wag not less
pleased with the great quantity of
helpful Ideas which she, herself, could
use In training the young prince.

At once she ordered a bas-relief of
herself. And this she sent over to
Miss Keller by the American minister
to Spain.

Miss Keller Is fond of the picture. It
is hanging near the door of her study.
Frequently she stops to "look" at it,
and the crown-topped frame in which
it hangs. Miss Keller, by passing her
sensitive finger tips over the medallion,
can form a clear idea of the' Queen's
appearance.

Miss Keller's Advice
The young Spanish prince will have
an advantage over her, Miss Keller
says, in that he can see. "And it must
be wonderful to see," Miss Keller de-
clared. I
"I have not been asked to do any
special planning for Don Jaime's edu-
cation," Miss Keller continued, In her
low, and very English voice. "But I
think it of more importance that he
have a teacher who loves him, than
any sort of training without such."

Not long ago a message came to Miss
Keller. It was indirectly from the
Spanish court. And it assured her of
the Queen's interest and sympatny.

To this Miss Keller replied, in French,
that she felt great sympathy for the
little prince, and that she should be
glad to place at his disposal all she
knew. Since she wrote the message in
some haste, she did not keep a 'copy,
she said.

"The first day I visited Dr. Alexander
Graham Bell," Miss Keller related, "I
felt es if life commenced from that
time. I hope Don Jaime will have
some one so quick to understand as
Dr. Bell was."

It is said that, the Queen 1b learning
the alphabet for deaf and dumb, and
that she will converse with her child,
as Mrs. John Albert Mac5r does with
Miss Keller. King Alfonso, and the
Grown Prince, with his little sisters,
will also learn how to talk to -Don
Jaime.

At La Granja (Spanish for farm-
house), whieb is the royal estates near
Madrid, the four children of the King
and Queen of Spain play quite as
American children do, and they have
American-made toys.

The Queen has never lost her love-.
| for outdoors. She rides about, or is
trout-fishing, while the King is playing ;
i polo, or motoring.

"Don Jaime can enjoy everything
quite as much as either of his sisters
or his brother," Miss Keller declared.
"Becatise," she explained, "1 enjoy
living.

"When Madame Maeterlinck was in
Boston, she came out to see me. She
was most gracious. She sang some for
me from 'Melisande,' and I was
charmed with the vibrations of her
beautiful voice.

"Maurice Maeterlinck has also in-
vited me to come and sit fn his beau-
tiful garden when I go to France. I
know I shall be delighted with it. rt
is lovely to feel beauty and fragrance,

"I conversed in French with Madame
Maeterlinck," Miss Keller laughed, for
she is adorned with a strong sense
of humor and an unusual amount o?
vivacity. "My French, I assure you.
was most abominable. I can read the
language perfectly; but I am unused
to speaking it. But Madame Maeter-

linck, who was unable to understand
a word of English, could tell what I
was saying:.

"So if Don Jaime's training is com-
menced at once, he should be able to
converse in several languages within
a few years. Of course he cannot
speak; but his eyes will more than
make up the deficiency."

A PHILOSOPHER'S TRIBUTE TO
GENIUS

On a leaf, in French, and sent by
Maeterlinck himself, is written: "To
" Helen Keller, who has conquered
silence and darkness"

prizes most highly, la a leaf from M.
Maeterlinck's garden. Maetarlijnck
has written upon it, himself, and sent
it in a letter to Miss Keller. She
has it hung in the hall of the Macy-
house in Wrenthem. where she lives.
"To Helen Keller, who has conquered
silence and darkness," it reads in
French.

"Boston .THjlss., "morning TU|-

r 4rwa,Yy 1,3,, [ ^ i 3

ome

HELEN KELLER

GIVES HER VIEWS

ONjyOW WOMEN

SHOULD DRESS

She Condemns Hobble Skirts,

Very Low Neck Gowns

and Ciga-rette Smoking,

but Enjoys Dancing the

Turkey Trot

(Copyright, 1913, ly the Post Publishing Co.)
That Helen Keller, once totally deaf as well as
dumb, and still blind, shares the common interest
of all women and takes a keen interest in dress,
in passing styles and in reform of some of the
extreme fashions, will come as a striking surprise
to the world in general, which has heard so much
of this wonderful woman and her opinions on
every other conceivable subject.

Yet such is the case, and Miss Keller, seated
in her home at Wrentham. told a Sunday Post
reporter her views in a sprightly manner which
indicated that, although she has never actually
"seen" a gown, she has learned as much about
them as any other woman. Moreover, she has
her pet aversions in the current modes, among
which are pointed shoes, slit skirts and extremely
decollete ball gowns.

Miss Keller also declares that the present
hobble skirt is no improvement over the old-
t'me hoop skirt, and recalls the days when women
wore bustles "to make themselves look like

camels." She is not in sympathy with the slit
skirt for the ballroom, insisting that the only
place for any divided skirt is when women are.
riding horseback.

And as to the. amount of money the women
of today spend on clothes, the advisability of
women smoking cigarettes and the advantages of
the turkey trot, Helen Keller has her own ideas,
which are along the line of sane retrenchment
and reform.

AN ATTRACTIVE FIGURE

Amid her home surroundings Helen Keller
makes an attractive figure. A little above me-
dium height, but not so slender as to appear tall,
she was dressed in a loose gown of soft, blue
colored material in which the extreme of mod-
ern fashion had been made to yield to consider-
ations of comfort and easy movement.

She was as neatly and pleasingly dressed as
any person would be who could go before the
mirror every few minutes and see herself as
others see her.

Miss Keller's head is of beautiful proportions
and her highly intellectual countenance is crowned
with an abundance of wavy light brown hair.

But perhaps the most striking element H*
Miss Keller's appearance is the intelligent mo-
bility of, her expression as it changes to reflect
her varied thoughts and leaves the general im-
pression of great good humor. In her conversa-
tion Miss Keller looks so directly at one that
he soon forgets those large eyes are sightless.
Great animation leaves no place in Helen Kel-
ler's face for any blankness of expression such
as sometimes is- found, on the countenances of
persons having a like misfortune.

Miss Keller was ushered into the room where
the. Post man awaited her by Mrs. John Albert
Macy (Anne Mansfield Sullivan), to whose de-
votion, patience and skill is due the ability of
Miss Keller to do many of the things which have
made her world famous. It was due to Mrs.
Macy that Helen Keller became a graduate of
Radcliffe College, became a brilliant pianist and
violinist and, far and above everything else, re-
tained her power of speech which, with her sight
and hearing, was lost when Miss Keller was but
19 months old.

The affection of Mrs. Macy for Miss Keller
was noted instantly, and the fact that her pupil
reciprocates in kind was equally apparent. The
delightful welcome of Mrs. Macy was exceeded
only by the extremely firm and cordial hand-
shake of Miss Keller.

HEARS WITH HER FINGERS

Miss Keller took her seat in the centre of a
large couch directly in front of the big. parlor
fireplace. Mrs. Macy took a seat on Miss, Kel-
ler's right and the reporter on the left. Although
Miss Keller can hear sufficiently to catch vibra-

tions, she is unable to grasp ordinary conversa-
tion, and Mrs. Macy explained that it was nec-
essary for Miss Keller to place her fingers on
the lips of those with whom she talked in order
to understand remarks.

It was the coldest morning that Wrentham
had experienced this winter and the Post re-
porter's lips got somewhat congealed during the
sleigh ride from the railroad station to the house.
This made the conversation rather difficult at
first, but Mrs. Macy quickly simplified this ob-
stacle by placing Miss Keller's finger tips
against her lips and acting as interpreter. At
other times she asked her questions by the use
of the manual alphabet which is commonly em-
ployed by the deaf.

"I- think the pointed shoe and the extremely
big hat are a reflection on the intelligence and
common sense of women," said Miss Keller
after a hearty laugh at the thought of a blind
girl giving her views on the lines of woman's
dress.

"Imagine," she continued, her face lighting up
as the humorous picture flashed across her alert
mind, "women going to the polls wearing such
extremely big hats. No one else could get any-
where near the voting places and it would take
so wxh time that it would be a great obstruc-
tion to the voting. Such enormous hats don't
go with motherhood.

"They are an abomination, and some of the
hobble skirts that these same women year re-
mind me of the; swaddling clothes that are worn
by Chinese babies. I do not understand why wo-
men want freedom to vote and don't want free-
dom for their bodies."

HAS A PLEASING VOICE

Miss Keller was talking in a low voice that
was pleasing and sufficiently varied in tones not
to be monotonous. The inflections she gave to
her work were most remarkable, in view of the.
fact that she has never heard a natural human
voice which she might try to imitate.

After paying her respects to the big hat and
the hobble skirt Miss Keller went on to say
that she Relieved women ought to dress more
for comfort than for a slavish observance of
extreme styles.

"No, I do not believe in the extremely low
cut ball gown. Neither do I believe in the neck
dress that is so high that it is uncomfortable.
I consider the extremely low neck fashion both
immodest and unhealthfuL

"I should think no woman would want to
dress in such a manner she would hate to
have her children see her. It seems to me
there is a good opportunity for dress reform
along this line among a certain class of people
in society. fflBBm

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\lllSS-teER- AND.MKS;fOHN-AliERT- AAC

''Divided skirts should be used only for
horseback riding. One has to consider the horse
as well as the rider," she added by way of ex-
planation, "and of course it is easier for the
horse -to carry the. rider who wears the divided
skirt and can ride astride."

"Do you think the subject of woman's dress
deserves a great deal of thought?" asked the
reporter. ,

"I believe that women should give some time
and thought to their clothes," Miss Keller said.
"Clothes are, of course, important, but women
should not devote themselves exclusively to the
question of dress and pleasure, as some of them '
do.

WHERE TO BUY GOWNS

"I think every woman snould sit down once,
or twice a year and consider her wardrobe. The
spring and fall are good seasons to do it. Then
her dressing would be more consistent and every-
thing would go with everything else," said Miss
Keller with a smile which indicated that women
once in a great while buy clothes which are not
in entire harmony with the. rest of their ward-
robes. : \

"When a; woman buys some of her clothes at
one. season of the year and other parts of her
costume at another time, all the garments do not
agree with one another. In such cases we have
to go out again and buy something suitable."

Here Mrs. Macy remarked with a smile:

"But buying all of our clothes at only two
stated periods during the year would do away
with bargain sales."

Miss Keller did not seem at all worried over
the possible passing of the bargain sale, for she
replied quickly:

"Yes, such a plan might do away with bar-
gain' sales, but very few women are intelligent
enough to avail themselves of such sales to ad-
vantage. It takes great discrimination to buy in-
telligently on such occasions, because everything
is thrown together."

"Do you believe that women should follow
the Paris fashions, no matter what startling
creations these Parisian style originators may
bring forth?" asked the Post representative.

"I believe women should dress according to
their various types of beauty, whether the styles
come- from Pans, Berlin, London, New York, or
originate in Boston," she replied. "I think that
if each woman would pay more attention to her
own individual type, her clothes would be more
becoming and distinctive."

Turning for a moment to the subject of ma-
terial most commonly employed in the making
of evening gowns, Miss Keller said she loved
the soft goods which are now being used in these
dresses. .

"I am of the opinion that women should never
sacrifice comfort or freedom in the clothes which
thev wear, whether in riding or driving or walk-
ing" she remarked. "If they dress properly they
>vill do all these "things with more grace and less
fatigue."

At this point Miss Keller again laughed mer-
rily, put her head on Mrs. Macy's shoulder and.
proceeded to give the reporter a little inside in-
formation as to why men have kept ahead of
women in some lines. This is her explanation :

"There are a great many women in Boston
and in other cities who in the winter wear low
shoes and very thin . stockings. And what is
still worse, they wear the very pointed-toed
shoes. As long as women continue to go about
shod in this way the men will outstrip them."

INTERESTED IN COLORS

The conversation turned to the colors of
evomeus gowns and how it is that Miss Keller,
without the use of sight takes any interest in
or has any definite ideas about them. Some peo-
ple have thought that Miss Keller, along with her
other miraculous powers, could distinguish colors
by touch, but this is not true.

"I can imagine how colors differ, because
I know there are differences in odors and
tastes/' she said. "For instance, all rosea havt
the same general perfume, yet there are shades
of difference between them, so'that I realize that
different roses may have different colors. The
American Beauty does not have the same fra-
grance as the Killarney rose.

"1 love colors, because poets have filled their
poems with color. And colors correspond to all
the different - shades of feeling and thought in
my mind.

"Red is my favorite color, because it is warm,
vital and strong. The color I like next is blue,
because it is like the violets and the sky. It is
mystical, because it was made so by the old
painters.

"I am very fond of green. It is so exuberant
and so associated in the mind with youth and re-
newal. While my idea of color means little to
you, yet it means a great deal to me."

"Can you tell by feeling when you are
dressed in the most attractive manner and when,
on the other hand, you are not as well satisfied
with the clothes you are ■wearing?" asked the re-
porter.

"Yes. I can tell without the use of feeling,"
was her rather startling reply. "My friends tell
me," she added with a laugh.

"But I can also tell by feeling whether what
I am. wearing is attractive, or otherwise. And I
love satins, chiffons, gauze and muslin/'

"In your opinion, do American women spend
too much money on dress?"

"Judging from what I hear, they do." she
answered. "I do not think great wealth, or
even considerable wealth, is necessary to dress
well."

She then turned toward Mrs. Macy and- jok-
ingly said:

"But fortunately I do not live with the so-
called fashionable set, so I only know of them
from hearsay, and a great deal of what I hear
disgusts me."

"What is your opinion of present day styles
as compared with those of olden times?" asked
the Post reporter.

"Nothing could be more beautiful than the
Greek costumes which were so simple and yet
so graceful," Miss Keller replied.

"But those costumes were not suited to our
ways of life, end these timet so many women
have to work in factories and •hops," suggested
Mrs. Macy.

"No, but they were very beautiful," declared
Miss Keller.

"Present day styles," she continued, "arc very
pretty and less clumsy and a*a cealb/ an im*
provement in many ways over those of the. past.
Fancy how women must have looked in hoop
skirts, which were as absurd as the hobble skirts
of today. Also, think of the time when women
wore bustles in an apparent attempt to make
themselves look like camels1."

AMUSEMENTS FOR WOMEN
' Turning from the subject of woman's dress
to that of amusements for women, the reporter
asked : "What do you think of some of the lat-
est dances such as the turkey trot and the bun-
ny hug?"

"As I dance them they are all right"— the
fact that Miss Keller is a dancer being rather
startling to the newspaperman— "but I under-
stand they can be done in a very objectionable
manner.

"The best amusements for women, I should
sav, are dancing, walking, talking, riding, horse-
back (if one can afford it;, swimming, rowing
and basketball."

"Then you really do dance?" asked the re-
porter, fearing there might have been some
misunderstanding.

"Yes, why not?"

"And vou also row and swim?"

"Certa'inly."

"While speaking of .pastimes for your *ex,

what do you think of cigarette smoking for
women?.' asked the reporter.

"I do not believe in smoking for men or
women. Women have the same right to smoke
as men, but I think there are special reasons
why women should "not smoke. It weakens their
nervous systems and makes them unfit to be-
come mothers.

"Many women seem to have forgotten what
the Lord made them for. They should take
care of themselves so that thqy may bring into
the world strong, healthy, beautiful children.

"Don't you think that such advice applies
equally to the men?" asked Mrs. Macy, indicat-
ing to Miss Keller that she ought not to confine
all her advice and criticism to the women.

"We. will discuss the man question some other
time," said Miss Keller firmly and in a tone to
indicate that even the men may not ye_t be
perfect.

"I am a warm supporter of woman suffrage.
I hope the ballot will teach women many things
about their responsibilities. ' I think the reason
why so many women are frivolous is partly be-
cause they have never had the ballot. They have
not had some of the serious responsiblities of
life.

"Many women have so little sense of their
own value. Many of them are mere models for
dressmakers. The word 'society' has come to
mean almost nothing but fashion.

"Speaking seriously, I want all women to be
sane. Whatever women do in dress, in amuse-
ments, in their work or as members-of society*
f want them to be sane, free and as happy a;
their surroundings will permit."

Before leaving the house the Post reportei
glanced into Miss Keller's study.

It is a large room with ample accommodation
for books. In it are two ordinary typewriter!
ane one typewriter for printing Braille, the em-
bossed writing used by the blind. The. decora-
tions are simple; at one end a half life-size statu*
of Venus d'e Milo, and hung on the walls a num-
ber of plaster casts, chiefly in the form oi
plaques in high relief.

The only indication that the study was that
of a blind person lay in the enormous size of the
books which filled the shelves to overflowing.
Here Shakspere, Charles Lamb. Boswell, Carlyle.
Swedenborg, Thackeray, Barnc. Meredith "and
Green's "Short History" were among the name?

seen. But they were all either in the BrailU
system or in raised letters, which made "Ham-
let" as large as the largest old-fashioned Bible.

Miss Keller considers hearing to be the most
important of the senses. But she declares thai
she would not give up her identity and what hei
friends call her great understanding, and become
some unknown person, if by doing so she would
have the use of all her senses unimpaired.

Yet she longs for her sight and hearing, "be-
cause it would greatly increase my powers of
service/' she says. And Miss Keller declares
that the blind, because they have lost some of
their faculties, are not compensated by a higher
development. But this bright, sunny, clear-brained
and quick-thinking girl appears to be a living
contradiction of her own statement.

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*■

BLINILJLECTURER HERE

Under the auspices of the New Jersey-
State Commission for the Blind, Miss
Helen Keller will speak tonight In the
First Presbyterian Church. She will take
as her theme, "Heart and Hand, or the
.Bight "Use of the Senses." Miss Keller's
teacher and companion, Miss Annie Sulli-
van Macy, will relate the story of Miss
Keller's life.

7\frw ^OTJC. fatm^lft* Jowr>vaiU-

'■^ nefen &//er Deplores Harmful Fashions

BLIND GIRL RAPS FREAKS

Helen Keller, who is in New York
to-day, says that even a girj who is
totally blind — as she is — can see that —

Hobble skirts are aasuiti.

Extreme high collars for women are
harmful.

Extreme low cut evening' dresses in-
vite piiounionfa.

High heeled shoes and enormous pic-
ture lints are ridiculous.

Turkey trotting is not immoral or
suggestive unless made so by the
dancer.

Cigarette smoking for women Is
criminal.

Woman suffrage is bound to come.

Miss Keller's hljlndnaas from birth
has stimulated her imagination so that
in her mind's eye she can see clearly
everyday fashions and styles. She hears
the description of a dress — for she is
no longer deaf — listens to her inform- !
er's word picture of tne various colors |
and goods, and at once forms in her i
mental vision an exact reproduction of
the gown as it really is.

In this way the wonderful girl, who
has overcome her handicaps until she
can accomplish many things that the
girl who can see fails at, becomes as
familiar with up-to-date styles and
fashions as her more fortunate sisters.

Her Simplicity.

Miss Keller's protests against th-a
costumes of present-day women are
not alone voiced in her speech, but are
silently given in her own mode of
dress, which is both simple and attrac-1
\ : {she wears a waist cut with a
slight "V" at the neck, which gives her
head and neck ease of movement, and
has the rest of her costume made fori
freedom of limb.

"Of course," she says, "different!
women need different styles of dress,
but no woman needs to dress out- .
landishly simply because some Paris
dressmaker tells her to. I cannot un-
derstand how the hobble skirt cama
into vogue. I gave American women

credit for more sense than to take up
a style like that. It must be terribly
uncomfortable, and retards easy walk-
ing-. Of course it is ali vanity, vanity.
"Once I triad to wear one of those
horrible high collars with ribs around
it. I thought I would stifle, and be-
sides the ribs or whalebones in it
pressed on my neck and throat so that
it gave me a headache. That is an-
other style, that I cannot understand
any sensible woman accepting."

Low Cut Dresses.

Miss Keller then turned to the sud-
! ject of clothes for evening wear. She,
i herself, possesses a skin of dazzling
whiteness that would be the envy of
countless women at a social function.
But in spite of this Miss Keller said
nothing could induce her to wear an
evening gown cut to the extreme lowr
ne3s that is all the mode now-a-days.
"Why I would be afraid of catching
my death of cold," she said laughing,
"besides being embarrassed. Women
of modern times are so inconsistent.
In the Summer they wear bathing cos-
tumes that consist of extremely short
skirts, but cover up their necks, while
in the Winter their gowns trail to tl\i
ground and their necks and backs aie
j fully exposed. Why do women Waljt
to do those things? Why can't th^y
!be sensible in all things? I am a
great believer in woman suffrage and
feel sure that some day women will
vote, but they should show more sense
in the clothes they wear and perhaps
they would advance faster in the fight
for equality with men."

Other "Ridiculous" Things.

High heeled shoes and enormous
hats also came in for severe criticism,
"ridiculous" being the term most used
by Miss Keller in discussing them.
On the subject of cigarette smoking
she was most emphatic.

"How can a woman hope for good
health, which all of us should desire
above all things, when she Indulges In
such a harmful practice?" said Miss
Keller. "I have talked with physi-
cians about this and all of them Join
in saying that this vice can work
nothing; but the utmost harm to Amer-
ican womanhood. A habit of this kind
is always reflected in the children
borne by such a woman, and this fa ct
alone should be enough to make a
woman, especially a mother, reflect
deeply on tbc criminal effect of this
pernicious practice."

Miss Keller sprang something of a
sensation by defending the latest ,
dances, including the Turkey Trot and

J£3T

EXTJ2EMEiyA
JZIGff

HOBBLE
x5KZET

THEVE&r
TOED *5JfOi: *=t

At the top is a photograph of
Miss Keller, and underneath a
drawing of a woman wearing the
styles which Miss Keller protests
against. It is woman's catering
to ridiculous and harmful modes,
such as these, that Miss Keller
believes is retarding the advance-
ment of her sex to-day.

Bunny Hug, and declaring- that they
were only immoral and suggestive
when made so by the dancers them-
selves. She even admitted to dancing
them herself, but said that nothing in
the steps taught to her could be said
to border on the objectionable.

Miss Keller an Athlete.

Miss Keller lives in Wrentham. She
I speaks in so animated a manner that
it becomes hard to believe that the j
speaker is without sight. Her prowess
in various forms of athletics, such as
swimming, horseback riding and row-
ing, is shown in her clear complexion,
healthy color and sprightliness of
movement.

Now that she is able to hear and

speak, which for years she was un-

ble to do, she has advanced marvel-

ously in the studies and work begun

hen her afflictions were three-fold.

Throughout it all, owever, she re-

ains as modest as one could imagine,

r ability to typewrite with wonder-

1 dexterity, and keep herself famil-

r with everything that is going or

ing nothing, in her opinioj

ast about."

Tl^nAj \JorK

F^fc-v-w-a-r^ XT, ilia..

MISS KELLER AT MISS HOLT'S.

Many Guests Meet and Converse
With Her.

Miss Helen Keller was the guest of honor
yesterday afternoon at the last of a series
of receptions held by Miss Winifred Holi
at her house, 44 East Seventy-eighth street
Miss Keller was accompanied by her teacher,
Mrs. Sullivan Macy. Among those who
responded to Miss Holt's invitation were
many who are interested with hex in the
New York Association "ito&ftNjLli nd, to
which Miss Holt devotes nearly all her time.

Miss Keller was present last Saturday
at the opening of the new Lighthouse for
the Blind, and many who heard her on
that occasion expressed a desire to meet
her. Yesterday afternoon she conversed^
with the aid of Miss Macy, with many peophr
Assisting Miss Holt were Mrs. Seth L<*tf,
Mrs. Edward R. Finch and Miss Remsen.

""7

VOICES ONCE STILLED NOW
* RING OUT CLEAR AND TRUE

Helen Keller at Academy of Medicine Makes a Speech Giving

Advice to Doctors and Sings a Song— -Miss Keel with

Artificial Palate, and Ernest Lorensen Also Sing.

Voices that tout for modern American
j science would have sounded imperfectly
I or not at all rang1 out clear and true last
night before the members of the sec-
tion of laryngology and rhinology at
the Academy of Medicine.

Miss Helen Keller was the (principal
illustrator of Dr. Frank E. Miller's
paper, "The Voice Before and After
Surgical Procedure." and herself dem-
onstrated in a characteristic little
j speech how, born deaf, dumb and blind,
she had yet learned to speak and
j understand speech. Her head slightly
advanced, her face lighted up with eager
enthusiasm, her hands clasped before
her, Miss Keller thus addressed the
doctors:

"I can hardly say much to scientific
men, nor am I prepared to talk to-night,
for I am on my way to Washington to
take part Monday in the woman's suf-
frage demonstration there. You doctors
give a great deal of advice and I should
like, to give y-ou a little, for I may- never
have such a chance as this again."

Here one of Miss Keller's wonderful
smiiles transfigured her face and the
j doctors laughed with her.

"My advice to you is," she continued,
I growing more serious, "that you doctors
! get closer to the teachers of the deaf
\ and see the advantage of working with
! them. When you find a patient who Is
absolutely deaf, send him to the best
teachers of the deaf so that the child
may not also lose the priceless blessing
of speech. Very often doctors do noi
have the courage to tell the parents of
a child that he will never hear again,
and keep on applying electricity, mas-
sage and other treatment, knowing that
it will be of no avail. So I ask you
rather to keep in touch with the teach-
ers, , ' ,
"Please co-operate with the school
teachers in their efforts to teach chil-

dren'to speak as early as possible, for
it is all important that the dumb be
not alone taught to speak, 'but to speak
tv ell. Let .rrne tell you how it was with
ime.

"I was six years old before any doctor
had the courage to tell my parents I
would never hear or see again. Dr.
ChishoLme of Baltimore sent them to
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
of the telephone, Who directed them to
the Perkins Institute for the BJin
Boston, from where Miss Sullivan, now
MflK John Maoy, Was sent to teach me.
So from Dr. OhMiolime's Inteilligem
direction I have passed from darknes:
into light and joy and companionship."

Then Charles Adams White, head of
the New England Conservatory's vocal
department, who has taught her the
modulation which enables her to speak
y and who hopes to teach
her to ,':ing, igot Miss Keller to show
how in the beginning she could only
utter a babbling sound like a child,
next how through learning relaxation
control was established. Leading her
to the piano, she sounded the notes of
the octave, but her conception of them
was either a flat or a note or two from
the key.

Following Miss Keller Miss Keel
was presented. A plaster cast of her
mouth was passed among the doctors,
which showed a yawning gap where
her palate and the roof of her mouth
should have been. First she was
asked to pronounce the consonants,
none of which was recognizable. Then
Dr. Mitchell, inventor of a new arti-
ficial paiate, applied it to Miss Keel's
mouth. Every letter of the alphabet
now came out clear as a bell, while
Miss Keel's voice sounded pleasingly
and sympathetically in as good a
rendition of a ballad as could be beard
in the average drawing-room. Dr.
Mitchell explained that the artificial
palate is as flexible and imperceptible
as would be the natural one. Miss
Keel also was used to demonstrate a
set of artificial tonsils, her natural
tonsils having been removed.

Finally Ernest Heinrich Lorensen, a
singer who lost his upper tones above
F after an operation necessitating the
removal of the turbinate, a small bone
in the nostril, was asked to prove that
he could sing the full scale. He re-
sponded by a high C of remarkable
ourit.v and volume. A surgical, opera-
tion had not only restored the register,
but mellowed his tone.

Mrs. U. S. Bengner, another patient
whose voice was completely destroyed
thirteen years ago through epithelioma
of the larynx and who was speechless
for years, "was able to sound every let-
ter and to make herself understood, al-
though sh-i could only speak in a whis-
per.

Boston, YVWss., THo-r-rvuwg: Qub^

Feb -r-u.^v 2-S,. 1^13.

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GIVING HAYWOOD THE HOOK.

BY a vote of more than two to
one of the dues-paying mem-
bers of the Socialist party, Mr Wil-
liam D. Haywood has been recalled
from the National executive commit-
tee, to which he was chosen last
year. Mr Haywood was charged
with having repudiated certain fun-
damental principles of the party
platform, especially with having
publicly advocated direct action, in-
eluding the general strike and sabo-
tage, and with having disparaged
political action. He never made a
denial of the charges.

The result of the referendum for
his recall— 22,500 for and about
11,000 against — may be taken as in-
dicating that the rank and file of
the party are opposed to direct
action and to radical syndicalism.
The full extent of this opposition is
said, however, not to be shown by
the vote, since many are believed to
have cast their ballots for Mr Hay-
wood because they did not think the
charges against him had been
proved, not because they favored the
policies which he is alleged to have
advocated.

A most animated campaign for
and against Mr Haywood has been
waging in the party newspapers for
several months, one of the more
picturesque features of the contest
being an eloquent appeal in his
behalf by Miss Helen Keller. One',
third of the party members, how-
ever, who took ,the trouble to vote,
was' all the strength he could mus-
ter. As a whole, therefore, the So- j
cialist party . has gone on record as !
overwhelmingly in favor of legiti-
mate political action, as opposed to
anarchistic direct action.

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HELEN KEMjER'S^EAOHER,

Remarkable Career of Mrs. Maey. For-
merly Anne M. Sullivan. Springfield.

The contemplated lecture tour of
Helen Keller, who has accomplished
such wonders in self -improvement and
a thorough education, in spite of the
hindrances of blindness and deafness,
will be of great interest to Springfield
people, owing to the fact that is not
generally known, however, that Mrs.
Maey, formerly Miss Anne Mansfield
Sullivan, her old teacher and the one
who is to accompany Miss Keller on
I her journeys about the country, was
born in Springfield and spent her early
years in this city. The career of Mrs.
Maey is almost as unparalleled and re-
markable, in some respects, as is that
of Miss Keller, her pupil, perhaps no
less noteworthy in some respects.

Anne Mansfield SuU'van was born in
Springfield in 1866. Her experiences in
childhood and youth were of the most
distressing character. Owing to her
very severe limitations, her stock of
information as a child and young girl
was painfully meager. Even before
the obscuration of her vision occasion-
ed by an accident, her struggles for
the means of existence had been so
constant as to preclude the possibility
of her acquiring even the rudiments of
knowledge. Hence, when, on Oct. 7,
;1880, as an almost totally blind girl of
14, she entered the Perkins institution
in Boston, she was obliged to begin
her education from the lowest and the
most elementary point. But she show-
ed from the very first that she had in
| herself the force and capacity which
insures success. She was characterized
by an iron will which knew no
discouragement and undoubtedly some-
thing of this spirit of determination
was imparted from teacher to pupil,
and accounts, in a measure, for the re-
markable progress of Helen Keller her-
self.

Miss Sullivan's talents were of the
-highest order, so much so that when,
in 1886, she was graduated from the
Boston' institution, she stood the first
in the class. Her valedictory address
on the occasion of the commencement
exercises of that class of eight, which
were held in Tremont temple, June 1,
1886 was truly remarkable. Following
an address by Gov. Robinson and oth-
ers of the trustees, and officials, Miss
Sullivan delivered a noteworthy ad-
dress in the course of which she

brought out f t of the great

value of a good edi he pleaded

for the improvement of whatever tal-
ents each one may possess and showed
.d vantages of self-culture for the
idual and for society.

It was because of her brilliant ca-
reer in the school and her evident su-
perior talents that Secretary Anagnos
recommended Miss- Sullivan as just the
teacher for Helen Keller, when Captf
Keller applied to the directors for a
^r for his little girl, so sadly af-
flicted.

Thus, in February, 1887, Miss Sullivan
undertook the education of Helen Kel-
ler, her own eyesight having been al-
completely restored through a
successful surgical operation. And in
all the years that have intervened since
then, numbering a quarter of a cen-
tury, Miss Sullivan, now Mrs. Macy.
has been Miss Keller's closest friend
and helper and naturally, now. that
ollege-educated girl, the marvel
of the age, in some respects, is to lec-
ture, she has asked Mrs. Macy
company her. as she tours the country.
showing to the American people what
it is possible to accomplish even though
handicapped by -. incomparable

to most people, of the light of the eyes
e#4 Um f&nsa, ox 'be&r.infr-

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CAPITAL POLICE
A SORRY LOT

HE TO PROTECT

SUFFRAGETTE FARMERS

JEERS AND INSULTS

HURLED AT WOMEN

Cavalry From Ft. Myer Sum-
moned to Washington's Main
Thoroughfare — Mrs. Taft and
Daughter Forced to Leave Re-
viewing- Stand Because of Hood-
lums' Actions.

Washington, March 3. — Five thousand
women, marching in the woman suffrage
pageant today, practically fought their way
foot by foot up Pennsylvania ave., through
a surging mob that completely defied the
Washington police, swamped the marchers,
and broke their procession into little com-
panies.

The women, trudging stoutly along under
great difficulties, were able to complete
their march only when troops of cavalry
from Ft. Myer were rushed into Washing-
ton to take charge of Pennsylvania ave.
Xo inauguration has ever produced such
scenes, which in many instances amounted
to nothing less than riots.

Later, in Continental hall, the women
turned what was to have been a suffrage
demonstration into an indignation meeting
in which the Washington police were
roundly denounced for their inactivity, and
resolutions were passed calling upon
President-elect Wilson and the incoming
congress to make an investigation and
locate the responsibility for the indignities
the marchers suffered.

Helen -Keller UnuerTed.

Helen Keller, the noted cieaf and blind
girl, was so exhausted and unnerved by
the experience in attempting to reach a
grandstand whe^e* she was to have been a
guest of honor that she was unable to
speak later at Continental hall.

The scenes which- attended the entry of
Rosalie Jones and her "hikers" on Thurs-
day, when the bedraggled women had to
fight their way up Pennsylvania ave.,
swamped by a mob with which a few po-
licemen struggled in vain, were repeated
today, but upon vastly a larger scale. The-
marchers had to fight their way from the
start, and took more than one hour in
making the first 10 blocks. Many of the
women were in tears under the jibes and
insults of the mob battle en route.

Wire Eopes !Vo Barrier.

The stout wire ropes had been stretched
up and down the length of Pennsylvania
ave. from the Peace monument to the
mall behind the White House, but enor-
mous crowds that gathered early to ob-
tain points of vantage overstepped them or
crawled beneath.

Apparently no effort was made to drive
bark the trespassers in the early hours,
with the result that when the parade
started it faced at almost every hundred
yards a solid wall of humanity.

Crowd Yery Hostile.

On the whole it was a hostile crowd
through which the women marched. Miss
Inez Milholland, herald of the procession,
distinguished herself by aiding in riding
down a mob that blocked the way and
threatened to disrupt the parade.

Another woman member of the petticoat
cavalry struck a hoodlum a stinging blow
across the face in reply to a remark as
she was passing. The mounted police rode
hither but seemed powerless to stem the
tide of humanity.

A group of hoodlums gathered in front
of the—reviewing stand on which Mrs.
William H. Taft and Miss Helen Taft and
a dozen invited guests from the White
House stood. They kept up a running fire
of caustic comment. Apparently no effort
was made to remove them, and, evidently
disgusted, the White House party left be-
fore the procession had passed in its halt-
ing and interrupted journey toward Con-
tinental hall, where a mass meeting: was
held.

Around the treasury department the
crowds were massed so tightly that re-
peated charges by the police were seem-
ingly ineffective. It was as though the
police charged a stone wall. Occasionally
the mob gave way in one place, only to
break over and under the wire hedge at
some other.

Cavalrymen Cheered.

When the cavalry suddenly appeared
here was a wild outburst of applause in
he reviewing stand. The men in brown
virtually brushed aside the mounted and
oot police and took charge. In two lines
he troop charged the crowds. Evidently
•ealizing they would be ridden down, the
nobs fought their way back. When they
lesitated, the cavalrymen, under the or-
lers of their officers, did not hesitate.
Their horses were driven into the throngs
md whirled and wheeled until hooting
nen and women were forced to retreat. A
flace was quickly cleared.
; The parade in itself, in spite of the de-
ays, was a great success. Passing through
;wo walls of antagonistic humanity, the
narchers for the most part kept their
:emper. They suffered insult and closed
their ears to jibes and jeers. Few faltered,
although several of the older women were
forced to drop out from time to time.

The greatest ovation probably was given
to "Gen." Rosalie Jones, who led her little
band of "hikers" from New York over
rough roads and through snow ar.d rain to
march for the "cause."

"Gen." Jones was radiant. She carried
a great bunch of American beauty roses,
which made a splash of scarlet against the
dull br^wn of her hooded tramping gown.

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WA#HINy^ON, March 4.— Three hun-
dred or more persons, most of them wo-
men, were hurt in the crash along Pennsyl-
vania avenue during the big suffrage
parade, according to hospital 'estimates to-

day. As a result of the wild disorder of
thousands of spectators, prominent suffra-
gists -will present to President Wilson this
afternoon resolutions condemning the police
lI's ' i and do »
investigation of. the hostile
demonstrations and of the alleged indif-
ference and negligence of the police.

The most serious of the injuries reported
from the hospitals are several broken arms
and scores of painful sprains and bruises.

Helen Keller Unnerved.

It became known today that one of those
. suffered in the rush of crowds of men
who hurled insults at the women was Miss
Hole!/ Keller, the notect deafandJjJ^niL
^w^Hyyj^Jj^liss Keller >ras caught in one of
the demonstrations and was so unnerved'
by bet harassing experiences in attempt-
ing to reach a grandstand where she was
to have been a gust of honor that she
was unable to speak wben called upon.

Indignant suffragist leaders also pointed
out today that Mrs. Taft, wife of the
former President, and Miss Helen Taft
and a dozen or more friends in a White
House party watching the pageant from
a special reviewing stand became so dis-
gusted with the insults hurled at the
paraders that they left the stand.
Wmen Strike Back.

Miss Inez Milholland, the herald of the
procession, it was also pointed out today, at
one time had to ride down a mob that
blocked the street. This resulted in dis-
persing them. Another woman in the suf-
frage 'cavalry struck a hodlutu a, stinging
blow across the face as her reply to a slur
that came from bis lips. Sonre of the
scenes are described as riots.

The women leaders were extremely bit-
ter today in telling what they thought of
police officials. The resolutions they
passed call on President Wilso'n and Con-
gress to make an inquiry and place the re-
sponsibility for the indignities the si%.'-
fragists wter forced to put up with.

The resolutions accuse the police of fail-
ing to protect the Suffragists and of per-
mitting by their negligence eonditions
"which would have been a disgrace to any
fclty, but which was doubly so htre. "Thej
suffrage leaders demand that President I
in and Congress see to it that the
responsible authorities be punished.'" .

Anna Shaw, president, of the National
Suffrage Association, attacked the police
in bitter words. She said:

'"Ashamed of Capital."

Never was I so ashamed of our
National Capitol before. It anything
could prove . the need , of the ballot,
nothing could prove it more than the
treatment we . received here. The
women in the parade showed wonder-
ful dignity and self-respect by keep-
ing cool in the midst of insult and
lewd remarks. Hoodlums were given
possession of the streets here with-
out any adequate attempt being made
to protect us.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of
the International Suffrage Association, de-
clared that members of Congress should
demand an investigation. Many of the
men along the line, she declared, "were
drunk enough for the lockup." In no
other country but Switzerland, she said,
hare the women been forced to take their
appeal for the vote to the "rabble."

Helen Keller To Talk

Jl at Tremont Temple

Edwin Bower Hesser announces the
first Boston appearance of Miss Helen
Keller and her teacher, Mrs. John
Macy, at Tremont Temple, March 24.
Miss Keller will deliver an address
on "The Heart and the Hand," which
is really the story of her remarkable
life.

Helen Keller has been known
throughout the United States since
she was 7 years old. Although a
deaf and blind child she learned to
read and write in six months. Her j
life has been an unbroken series of

I triumphs over obstacles. Deaf and

'blind at the age of nineteen months',
she remained in intellectual darkness

■ until she was nearly 7.

At the age of 10 Helen Keller
learned to speak. At 16 she was pre-

I paring for college. She was gradu-
ated from Radcliffe College in 1904,
receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Arts, cum laude (with distinction).
While she was in college she wrote
"The Story of My Life," which has
been translated into fifteen languages.

Recently at Carnegie Hall, New
York, Miss Keller made her first pub-
lic lecture appearance, and to the
topmost galleries her voice could be
heard. Those who attended were en-
thusiastic in praise, and her lecture
at Tremont Temple will 'doubtless be
a great success.

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MISS KELLER AT TREMONT

TEMPLE ON MARCH 24

Edwin Bower Hesser announces the first
Boston appearance of Miss Helen Keller
and her teacher, Mrs. John Macy, at Tre-
mont temple, on March 24. Miss Keller will
deliver an address on "The Heart and the
Hand"— really, the story of her remarkable
life.

Helen Keller has been known to the
world ever since she was seven years old,
when the first reports of her education
were published, telling how a deaf, blind
child had learned to read and write in
six months. Her life has been an unbroken
series of triumphs over obstacles. Deaf
and blind at the age of 19 months, she
remained in intellectual darkness until she
was nearly seven. Then Mrs. Macy (Miss
Sullivan), a graduate of the Perkins insti-
tution, where Dr. Howe had done his great
work with Laura Bridgman, went to Helen
Keller's home in Alabama, and began her
education. At the age of 10 Helen Keller
learned to speak. At 16 she was preparing
for college. She graduated from Radcliffe
college in 1904, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude (with distinc-
tion). '

' Since then she has written three books,
and has devoted herself to work for the
blind and the deaf. At first her voice did
not carry far, but under the instruction of
Charles White, a teacher of singing at the
New England Conservatory of Music, she
has greatly improved her speaking voice.

Recently at Carnegie hall, New York,
Miss Keller made her first public lecture
appearance, and to the topmost galleries
■JWiir vni~" could be heard.

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>NDERFUL WOMAN WHO DESCRIBES THE
/ INAUGURATION FOR NEWS-BEE READERS

HELEN" KELLER, who, as a baby, was deaf, dumb and blind.

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Addresses Large Academy
of Music Audience.

FORMER BLIND DEAF-MUTE

TELLS OF SENSE'S USES

Teacher, Mrs. John Macy, Describes
Her Work for the Afflicted Girl-
Lip Heading Demonstration Fol-
lows Speeches.

'% was bliacL-iind now I can sec; 1
was- dumb and now I can speak; I was
deaf and now I can hear," and "I thank
the Lord." When Helen Keller .said
these words in the music hall, Academy
of Music, last evening, people saw her
through swimming eyes. When ,she said
that she has received so very much kind-
ness through her hands tbat she longs to
give it back to the world in helpfulness,
and then that il is through a sense of
brotherhood, a working together, that
much cm be accomplished for good, her
audience-! loved her. When she spoke. of
the help that imagination joined to a
strong Willi can give, they admired her
for her grit.

Admiration was divided between Miss
Keller and her teacher, Mrs. John Macy
(A ime M. Sullivan), who gave the pre-
liminary address, . sat by Miss Keller
while she talked, and afterward gave a
demonstration with her of lip reading.
Miss Keller placed her hand on ber
teacher's fair?, the fingers in contact with

I years and 8 months old at the time Mrs.
Macy began to teach her. she had learned
the primitive signs of "Yes'' and "No,"
etc.. and could express herself very vigor-
ously. Somehow she knew that some one
was expected to arrive that day and had
stood ill the doorway nearly all day long
waiting to greet the newcomer. She at
once took Miss Sullivan's traveling bag
and made the sign of turning the key in \
the lock, then patted Miss Sullivan's ;
hand. The child was looking for candy.
She helped Miss Sullivan unpack her
trunk and was delighted to find there
the candy for which she was looking and
a doll which the children in the Perkins
Home for the Blind had dressed and
sent to her. In spelling "doll" and mak-
ing Helen know that the name was that
of the object, Miss Sullivan gave her
first, lesson.

Could Sense Vibration of Pet Dog's

Bark.

In twenty-five days the child had
learned eighteen nouns and three verbs.
At length, one day, it dawned upon her
that everything has a name. She seemed
greatly excited and in that day learned,
thirty words. "She was transformed
into a radiant little child." said Mrs.
Macy. In six months she could read
simple stories, and like, any other child,
had to act them. Her dolls were made
I he babes in the wood, and the teacher
was pressed into service as the wolf-
grandmother in "Red Riding Hood."
She tried to teach her pet dog to spell
with his fingers: was attracted to nature
study and planted her dolls, watering
them well, so as to have a good ■ crop of
them. She was much interested in the
origin of life and in knowing how
"Mother Nature"' cares for the flowers,
birds, puppies, etc, saying, after being
told, "Mother Nature mu3t work very
hard every minute, to care for so many,"
later asking, "What does Father Nature
dor

•She knew the vibration of her dog's
bark. One day, when the wind blew very
hard, she spelled out, "The winds bark
loud, like dogs." She learned so fast,
once she was started, that, Mrs. Macy
Mid "It was a question whether the
teacher led the pupil or the pupil drove
Ihe teacher." She gave up the idea of
stated times for lessons and adapted the
work to the child's fancies, teaching
through them, often. "At length I was
haunted by the idea that, because our
work was so pleasant, there was some-
thing wrong with it," she said. Helen
was unusually quick to learn. Miss
Sara Fuller, of Boston, taught her the
elements of articulation in ten lessons,
and after she knew them she said, with
the utmost jo", "I am not dumb now."
Helen Keller's going to college was com-
pared in the wonder of a blind deaf mute
making such an aterapt. to Wright's first
flight through the air.

the nose, lijps and throat, and read so
quickly that she answered before one
w.ould think she could have read the
question. Several- questions were asked,
after the address. One man wished to
know how many words were in it. Miss|
Keller answered "Many." and then said
that there were about 600, though some,
of course, were often related. Then
Frederick W. Hinrichs, Avho sat near the
p;atf'orm. asked her to speak in German,
w lien she responded as quickly as she
had .in English, finishing with "Guten
abend." as she left the platform.

Of course she was recalled and bowed
many times when her teacher's ready
hand told her that people were applaud-
ing. The marvel of it all Avas apparent
while Miss Keller was upon the stage.
But the still greater marvel came Avhen
one talked with her afterward. Then the
fact that she is deaf and blind was
hardly noticeable, so light is her touch
upon ono'^ face, so merry the light in her
eyes, and so immediate her comprehen-
sion. A number of her Brooklyn friends
afterward came to the greenroom to see
her.

"To Help Others Is the Right Use

of Our Senses."

Miss Keller's topic was "The Heart
and the Hand, or the Right Use of Our
Senses."' This was shown to be in help-
ing others and in enjoyment of the beauty,
which God has .given to His children
loth upon the earth and in the heavens.
But. she emphasized that the God-given*
beauty and the kindness which He has
shown should be reflected in the recipient
and appear in beauty of spirit and kind-;
ness toward others. Under the instruc-
tion of Charles White, teacher of singing
in the New England Conservatory of
Music. Miss Keller has greatly improved
her speaking voice in the past year.
Before then it did not carry very far
and it was necessary for some one to
repeat what she said, sentence by sen-
tence.

Mrs. Macy was introduced by William
I,. Fetter, Ph. D., LL. D.. principal of
the Girls' High School. She was suf-
fering from a sore throat, but said she
has "a faculty of overcoming obstacles,"
and she overcame that. She proved to
be a charming speaker, and told of the
amusing and characteristic things that.
occurred while she was teaching Helen
in her Alabama home. She had a certain
very real sympathy for her small charge
because she was almost totally blind her-
self until 18 years of age, when a sur-
gical operation gave her such eyesight as
she now possesses. The patience and
the tact that she showed were to be
read between the lines of her instructive
1alk. The story of how and what she
taught Helen is well known, 1ml it
seemed much more remarkable to hear
her tell it. Though Helen was but t;

When she was discouraged in her de.
»h*e to go through Radcliff, she wrote,
"A good soldier does not aeknowledsp
fefrai Utaxe a. battle." Whllo she Wd,
the satisfaction of knowing thai: she com-
pleted her college course "ram laude."
yet, Mrs. Macy said, she I Mrs. Mary),
from an educational point of view, con-
sidered the four years about wasted, She
had to work very hard and missed so
much that is valuable in college life,
that is. the life itself. However, it was
said, "probably no other college under-
graduate, has received $3,000 for a com-
position." Avhich is what Miss Keller
received for her writing.

"She has had to work hard, very hard,
for every victory she has won. Whether
you understand even part of what she
says, you will have witnessed a modern
miracle when she speaks,'' said Mrs.
Marry, just before Miss Keller was led
to the stage.

She was received with an ovation. Ap-
plause had been immediately responsive
for Mrs. Macy also. The music hall held
a capacity house and bids fair to do so
when Miss Keller and Mrs. Macy return
again under the auspices of the Brooklyn
Institute, on the evening of March 19.
It has been said that Miss Keller de-
votes the proceeds of her public speak-
ing entirely to the work for the blind and
deaf. Mrs. Macy said last evening that
this is not so. While she does a great
deal for them, yet these lectures are for
herself. She has to make her living— ojf
add to her income. j0^

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SLAVERY STILL SURVIVES

Its Elements Exist in United States and
in*aJl Capitalist Nations, Says Socialist

That slavery in its essential elements
still exists in this country today was the
charge that William E. Duffey of Syra-
cuse, N. Y., hurled at modern society,
when he voiced "The Socialist's Chal-
lenge" before a large audience in Tre-
mont Temple, last night. As a basis for
this indictment he asserts that in an ago
so productive as the present, poverty is
an outgrown and unwarranted condition
in the wcrld

"With the marvellous development of
our productive forces, made possible by
the introduction of power-driven ma-
chines, the excuse for poverty has disap-
peared and only the maladjustment of
our economic system prevents the real-
ization of plenty for all," he said.

"Between the working class and plenty,
with all that plenty implies in the way of
higher development, stands a- small class
of capitalists, for the central fact of the
capitalist system is that it has produced
en the one hand a class of machine own-
ers who are not machine users, and on
th'e other hand a great class of machine
users who are not machine owners, witn
the result that there exists in this nation
today, and in every other capitalist na-
tion, the essential element of slavery.

"The whole working class, as such, is
subject to the will and pleasure of the
whole employing class and will continue
to be so subject as long as the system of
private ownership of the instruments of
production continue."

Miss Helen Keller will speak in Tre-
mont Temple. March 24, under the auspices
of the "Bo^To'h "Social Science School,
George K. Roewer announced at the close
of Mr. Duffey's lecture.

The next address in the Socialist course
will be delivered Thursday, March 18, by
William Francis Barnard, a Chicago
newspaperman, on "What IsSocJaligm^JV

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NKELL
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Blind Deaf Mute, Now Able to

Talk, Gives Remarkable

Demonstration.

HEARS BY SENSE OF TOUCH.

Preliminary Address By Mrs.
Macy, Her Teacher.

"I was blinxLand now I can see. I
was dumb and now I can speak. I
was deaf and now I •can hear," and
'"] thank the Lord. O Lord, in Thee
have I trusted." When Helen Keller
said these words in the music hall,
Academy of Music, last evening, so
cheerful and brave, people saw .her
through swimming eyes. When 'he
said' tliat she has received so \ ry
much kindness through her hands that
she longs to give it back to the woricj
in helpfulness, and then that it is
through a sense of brotherhood; a
working together, that much can be
accomplished for good, people loved
her. When she spoke of the help that
Imagination joined to a strong will
can give, people admired her for her
grit.

Admiration was divided between
Miss Keller and her teacher, Mrs:
John Macy (Anne M. Sullivan), who
gave the preliminary address, sat by
Miss -Keller while she talked, and
afterwards gave a. demonstration with
her' of lip reading. Miss Keller placed
her hand op her teacher's face, the
fingers in contact with the nose, lips
and throat, and read so quickly that
she annwered before one would think
she could have read the question. Sev-
eral questions were asked after the

address. One man wished to know
how many words were in it. Miss
Keller answered "Many," and then
saifl that there were about 600, though
§ome, of course, were often repeated.
Then Frederic W. Hinrichs. wso sat
near the platform, asked her to speak
in German, when she responded as
quickly as she had in English, finish-
ing- with "Guten Abend," as she left
the platform.

Of course, she was recalled and
bowed many times when her teacher's
ready hand told her that people were
applauding'. The marvel of it all was
apparent while Miss Keller was upon
the stage. But the still greater mar-
vel fame when one talked with her.
afterwards. Then the fact that she
is deaf and blind was hardly notice-
able, so light is her touch upon one's
face, so merry the light in her eyes,
and so immediate her comprehension.
A number of her Brooklyn friends
came afterwards to the greenroom
to see her.

Miss Keller's topic was "The Heart
and the Hand, or the Right Use of
Our Senses." This was shown to be
in helping others and in enjoyment
of the beauty which God has given
to his children both upon the earth !
and in the heavens. But she empha-
sized that the. God-given beauty and
the kindness which he has shown
sMould be reflected in the recipient
and appear in beauty of spirit and
kindness toward others. Under the
instruction of Charles White, teacher
of singing in the New England Con-
servatory of Music, Miss Keller has
greatly improved her speaking voice
in the past year. Before then it did
not carry very far, and it was neces-
sary for some one to repeat what she
said, sentence by sentence. While it
is not a normal voice, it is yet a won-
Qer to hear her speak. Each word is
perfectly formed.

Mrs. Macy w"as introduced by Wil-
liam L. Felter, Ph.D., LL.D., principal
i of the Girls' High School. She was
I suffering from the prevailing "bad
J throat," but said she "has a faculty
; for overcoming obstacles," and she
1 overcame that. She proved to be a
I charming speaker and told of the
amusing and characteristic things
that occurred while she was teaching
Helen in her Alabama home. She
had a certain very real sympathy for
her small charge because she was al-
most totally blind herself until at
eighteen year of age a surgical
operation gave her such eyesight as
she now possesse. The patience and
the tact that she showed were to be .
read between the lines of her in-
structive talk. The story of how and

what she taught Helen is Avell
known, but it seemed much more re-
markable to hear her tell it. Though
Helen was but six years and eight
months old at the time Mrs. Macy
began to teach her, she had learned
the primitive signs of "yes" and "no.''
etc., and could express herself very
vigorously. Somehow she knew that
some one was expected to arrive that
day, and had stod in the doorway
nearly all day long waiting to greet
the newcomer. She at once took Miss
Sullivans' traveling bag and made
the sign of turning the key in the
lock, then patted Miss Sullivan's
hand. The child was looking for
candy. She helped Miss Sullivan un-
pack her trunk and was delighted to
fhid there the candy for which she
was loking and 'a doll which the
children in the Perkins Home for the
Blind had dressed and sent to her. In
spelling "doll" and making Helen
know that the name was that of the
object, Miss Sullivan gave her first
•lesson.

In twenty-five days the child had
learned eighteen nouns and three
verbs. At length, one day, it dawned
upon her that everything has a name.
She seemed greatly excited and in
that day learned thirty words. "She
was transformed into a radiant little
child," said Mrs. Macy. "In six
months she could read simple stories,
and like any other child, had to act
them. He dolls were made the babes
in the wood, and the teacher was
pressed into service as the wolf-
grandmother in "Red Riding Hood."
She tried to teach her pet dog to
spell with his fingers; was attracted
to nature study and planted her dolls,
watering them well, so as to have a
good crop of them. She was much
interested in the origin of life and in
knowing how "Mother Nature" cares
for the flowers, birde, puppies, etc.,
saying after being told, "Mother Na-
ture must work very hard every min-
ute, to care for so many," later ask-
ing, "What does Father Nature do?"

She knew the vibration of her dog's
bark. One day, when the wind Mew
very hard, she spelled out, "The
winds bark loud, like dogs." She
learned so fast, once she was started,
that, Mrs. Macy said, "It was a
question whether the teacher led the
pupil or the pupil drove the teacher."
She gave up the idea of stated times
for lessons and adapted the work to
the "child's fancies, teaching through
them, often. "At length I was haunt-
ed by the idea that, because our work
was so pleasant, there was something
wrong with it," she said. Helen was
unusually quick to learn. Miss Sara

Fuller, of Boston, taught her the el-
ements of articulation in ten lessons,
and after she knew them she said
with the utmost joy, "I am not dumb
now." Helen Keller's going- to col-
lege was compared in the wonder of
a blind deaf mute making such an
attempt, to "Wright's first flight
through the air. When she was dis-
couraged in her desire to go through
RaJdcliffe, she wrote, "A good soldier
does not acknowledge defeat before
a battle." While she had the satis-
faction of knowing that she com-
pleted her college course "cum laude"
yet, Mrs. Macy said, she (Mrs. Macy),
from an educational point of view,
considered the four years about
wasted. She had to work very hard
and missed so much that is valuable
in college life, that is, the life itself.
However, it was said, "Probably no
other college undergraduate has re-
ceived $3,000 for a composition," which
is what Miss Keller received for her
writing.

"She has had to work hard, very
hard, for every victory she has won. J
Whether you understand even part
of what she says you will have wit- ,
nessed a modern miracle when she j
speaks." said Mrs. Macy just before i
Miss Keller was led to the stage.

She was received with an ova-
tion. Applause had been immediately
responsive for Mrs. Macy also.

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"VVLaurok, 1, 1^13.

EN KELLER LECTURES,

the Hand to
Describe the Possibilities of
. the Senses.

At the Academy of Music last evening
Helen Keller and her tutor, Mrs. John
Macy gave a joint lecture on the right
use of our senses. Mrs. John Macy mad*
g address, dwelling upon their
school l companionship, and the

awal . this remark)

lowed how in '>' ob-

•unted
, , In her

I he Keen lfleigb.1

The in<lon
will-c; ice that ha

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for. '

[audieri.

bond of synip-j... ivig betv;ee

and tutor ta'ey and h<

simplicity of her bearing, brought
into greater prominence, the latest
iichievemer. 3 won, the power of

e words were slight-
ly indistinct, niar.y were carefully ar-
:t, \ "The Heart :
and the Hand.." showed the possibilities;
of using our senses, and what may be!
attained by those who look for the best in '
life. Her -losing words were' in them-

Posto-ru - . r l. X l.

Helen Keller to Lecture
in Boston on March 24

[elen Keller, the most interesting
character of the century, comes to
Tremont Temple for a single even-
ing, on March 24, under the manage-
ment of Edwin Bower Hesser. She
will tell the story of her life in a
lecture called "The Heart and the
Hand, or the Right Use of Our
Senses," and her recent development
of a speaking and singing voice as-
sure that she can be well heard. Re-
cently she had a successful evening
at the still larger Carnegie Hall in
New York, and was heard with ease
everywhere in the • house.

Anne Sullivan, her teacher (now
Mrs. Macy), will accompany Miss
Keller, and will also speak on the all-
absorbing topic of this wonderful
deaf, dumb and blind girl's education
and achievements. •*

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W, <&» 1^13-

Famous Young Woman Gives
Wonderful Description of Event.

By Gilson Gardner.

Washington, D. C. March 8 — How
did Helen Keller "see" the inaugural
pageant?

She had a seat in the grand stand
'built in Lafayette park opposite the
White House. Her seat faced the
reviewing stand in which President
Wilson stood. With Helen Keller
were iMf. and Mrs; John A. Macy and
myself.

Mr. and Mrs. Macy have been
devoted and inseparable comparisioris
and teachers. Tl is through [hern that
the world communicates with her.

Though Miss Keller can now com-
municate with the world through
cal speech, which she has learned
hears nothing.

Not a sound of the blaring hands

reaches her. yet she "senses" a i

and pageant.

She says she "feels" it until she
tually "sees" and "hears" it all.

She knows immediately when a
is going by. It impresses her infhl
fine sense of touch.

I So she is. in reality, in thorough
communication with the world

! sense, although lacking the actual

j senses of sight and hearing.

Mrs. Macy hits near her, and

I fingers play rapidly into the palm of
Miss Keller's hand and the words
reach her almost as rapidly as slowly

She answers vocally!

Miss Keller operates, by sense of
touch, a regular typewriter and turns
.out her copy as rapidly as the skilled

| stenographer. She. wrote this story!
on her own typewriter in this manner. ■

By Helen .Keller.

I have just come from the inaugural
parade.

It has been a mild .gray day.

I felt no sun, but a slight breeze. It
was good marching weather for the
troops.

As my friends and 1 went through
Lafayette park to the stand, I noticed
a delightful spring smell in the air.

The stand where we sat was on the
■ north side of the court of honor. The
President's reviewing stand, just oppo-
site, was decorated with roses.

II had a simple, dignified colonial
facade- So the President seemed to
be standing in' the doorway of a great
mansion.

We waited about two hours before
the review began. When we got ther^
the crowd was already considerabl

It kept increasing.

I felt the masses of humanity
they came up the steps, causing the
stand to vibrate.

It was a clean, good-natured, jolly
crowd out on a holiday. I really en-
joyed being in a multitude of men,
women and children who were having
a good time.

Now and then the jar and the shak-
ing r, f -the stand 'made me think that 1
felt the base drum and band, but it
\yjis <mly the music of the multitude.

But at last the first band of the pa-
! rade arrived, and T felt its spirited 11111-
I sic peal forth "Hail to the chief!"

I could get much more out of the
wonderful spectacle than some people
think I can. They do not know tbc
sensation that T have when che ground
under my feet is shaken by the tramp
of ten thousand feet, when 1 feel the
thumping and the prolonged roll of
many drums, the incessant hum in the
air all about me.

I enjoyed most the rich, far, robing
music of the United States Marine
baud.

1 would also feel the people before,
behind, and beside me. bending for-;
ward as they looked with all their :
eyds at fine horses and the handsome',
troops. Now and then there were
bursts of applause and loud cheering.
So I think I entered into the pleasure
of (he people just as fully as if I could
have seen and heard them.

There, was another pleasant thing
about the parade — the remarkable free-
dom, of the city from dust. The as-
phalt streets were so clean that the'
troops scarcely raised any dust when
they passed by.

Judging 'from all the details w
were ,uiven me of the parade, it had
no simplicity whatever. It was elab-|
orate and expensive-

But it was jolly and did not seen
to do anybody harm. As regiment.'
after regiment passed, i was thrilled
by the splendor of it.

But I could not help thinking that
we are a military nation. EicnveverJ
if our soldiers do nothing more de-
structive than to look handsome and
salute the President, as they did to-
day, w^e can all be proud of them.
So much for the ceremony, which

graceful and good to watch.
What of the President himself?
This is no place lor a pollilical ar-
ticle.

[hit it occurs to me \<> say a little
about the meaning of the day.

Dr. WoodCrow Wilson, historian,
student and governor, ha- -aid:

"Nothing was -ettled in the election
08 but the name ()i the next
President."

I aay the same thing i- true 0
election of 1912! Mr. Wils
for 1 1 • > great idea, lie ha- not been

swept into power by an aroused
pie., The great capitalist parly broke
in two, and the other capitalist party.

the Democratic party, walked through
the broken ranks of the enemy.

Mr. Wilson is not a Tilden who has
brought his party back to a declara-
tion of honest, though out-worn prin-
ciples.

He is not even a Bryan!

For iMr. Bryan's ideas were more
advanced in relation to the year 1896
than are Mr. Wilson's ideas in rela-
tion to the year 191 2!

Our new President is not the leader
or the expression of a revolt, ethical
or economic.

In spite of genuine differences of
temperament and belief between
Taft and Mr. Wilson, the President of
the United States has simply changed
his name.

Capitalism is still king!

The great industry empire, which is
the reality behind our democratic in-
stitution, is powerful as ever, and noth-
ing that Mr. Wilson can do, or will do,
need give uneasiness to the sovereigns
of industry or hope to the subjects!

I should be more deeply stirred by
this great ceremony if I could feel
that it ushered in a new day.

f should rejoice if it signified that
henceforth every working man and
woman in the country s'hould have a
sufficient wage — that every child would
be free from the necessity of labor —
that all factories would be sanitary ami
safe — that every worker would have
'a chance to perform his work with
some degree of comfort and happiness.

Mr. Wilson honestly believes that
he can make his administration one of
reform and uplift. The whole nation
can only hope for his sake and for the
sake of all that his earnest expecta-
tion.-, may be fulfilled.

I met Mr. Wilson some years ago in
Princeton. From his Jinn hand and
the few sentences which he spoke to
dged that he was a man of
aracter and unusual moral

e doubts his integrity, but
realize the facts?

Dues he understand l_hr.it it is not]
'government which controls industry;'
but industry which controls, shapes
it-nd determines government?
. Mr. Wilson finds something hard.
cold, unfeeling in the world of business'
Ijand labor, and he has set himself the
task of humanizing ever)'' process
"without impairing the goods."

Rut the facts are hard, cold and un-
feeling!

The world is divided into owners and'
wage-earners.

The owners are centralizing, meth-
odizing the business in the interest of
efficiency and for the increase of pro-!
fits.

That is the meaning of the trusts.

Nobody invented the trust. It grew

from the necessities of business. It is

no more moral or immoral than aj

steam engine!

The old method .of doing business
cannot be restored.

If the worth <jf restoration to which
IN I r. Wilson looks forward means re-
version to the old competitive
■method of industry, he is foredoomed
to failure!

The world does not evolve or .'in-
volve backward. The next step in in-j
dustry — and that. means in government
and politics — is a greater, more peace-
ful trust than has ever been.
...That is the people's trust!
That is coming to birth!
The forces that shape it are nidi.-'
ferent to regulation and dissolution.

It means the ownership and control
of the nation's industries and re-
sources, not by a group of people, but
by all the people.

The transformation is being brought
about, not by the government in'
.Washington, but by the workers of
the world.

It is this contest which Mr. Wil-
son, scholar, historian, humanitarian,
finds hard, cold, unfeeling.

The place to study it is not the capi-
tal, but in Passaic and in Patterson,
right in Mr. Wilson's home state.

1 [as he been to that school? ' ,

I doubt it.

There the documents are being writ-
ten, there the evidence is accumulating
which future professors of history at
Princeton University must scrutinize
and comprehend.

Mr. Wilson, then, represents the
passing of an era, not the inaugura-
tion of a new age. Conditions pro-
claim the coming of the new age, and
conditions are stronger than the Presi-
dent, stronger than- the constitution.

Mr. Wilson is an old-fashioned
Democrat and an admirable specimen
of his class.

For him as an individual T have the;
utmost respect.

Bui the future belongs to a m
greater class — the new- fashioned
Democracy!

The new Democrat does not wish to
call back yesterday from the outlived
past.

Me understands today, and has vi-
sions of to mi »rrow.

When such a Democrat is elected

President of the United States, I shall

feel, not only the thrills of excitement

' which fill me today, but a deep, hope-

I ful joy.

The woman suffrage pageant Mon-
day was in some ways more signifi-
cant than the inauguration Tuesday.
[t symbolized the coming of the
•l new, not the passing of the old.

For after all, our real parade is nori

a theatrical affair in the holiday

1 streets of , Washington.

1 It is a determined, ccaseles-s mare!]

in the work-a-'day world. Nothing

can stop it.

The idle, the thoughtless, the reac-
tionary may get in the way and onr
.ranks may be apparently disordered.

But the women's army is moving on
j 111 . every nation.

It will not be long before a Presi-
|dcnt shall ride down these broad ave-
nues -elected by the people of Ameri-
ca— women and men!

IBosfow, TVt^ss., He-ra.lJL,

TVU-r^k £„ II I 2..

HELEN KELLER TO LEC*UlE

Helen Keller comes to Treraont Tem-
ple for a single evening, March 24, un-
der the management of Hdwln BoWe*
H««**er. She will tell the story o£ her
Ufa In a lecture oalled "The Heart and
the Hand, or the Kight TJse of OUT'
Senses," and her recent development tt
a speaking :id singing voice assure
that she can be •well heard. Recently
she had a successful evening at theetill
larger Carnegie Hall In New York, and
was heard with ease everywhere 111 the
house. Anne Sullivan, her teacher (new
Mrs. Macy) will accompany MlM 1WV»
ler, and will also speak on the wonder-
ful deaf, dumb and blind girl's eda©*-
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Miss Helen Keller's first New York ap-
pearancTwlU Bl'ttt IHe Forty-eighth Street
Theatre Sunday evening, March 30. Mrs.
John Macy, who instructed Miss Keller,
will appear with her pupil. ^gl

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YVULvik, 11- 1*113.

Helen Keller to Lecture
\/ in Boston March 24

Helen Keller has been called one of
the wonders of the world by mhny
people; certainly there is no more in-
teresting character in the universe
than this deaf, dumb and blind girl
who has surmounted every difficulty
and even learned to sing and speak j
distinctly.

She comes to Tremont Temple on
the evening of March 24 for a public
lecture; her famous teacher, Miss Anne
Sullivan telling the story of her earfy
life and progress. Miss Keller"* topic
i* "The Heart and the Hand, or the
Right Use of Our Senses." Seats will
be placed on sale today.

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MISS K

Present Plans Prove to be
Successful

ON MARCH 28

Methodist Church Hopes to
Secure Remarkable Woman
: on Tnat Date.

Arrangements are under way for

securing Miss Helen Kellar, together
with her teacher, Mrs. Macy, who was
formerly Miss Annie Sullivan of
Springfield, to appear at the Methodist
church in this city on the evening of
March 28.

As is well known, Miss Kellar is
considered one of the most wonderful
women in the world, while her teach-
er is almost as famous. Miss Kel-
lar, despite the fact that she has
been withou three of her senses, being
deaf, dumb and^bllnd, graduated from
college, has written books and is con-
sidered one of the best educated w<_-
men in the country.

The subject of the entertainment
rwhich Miss Kellar and Mrs. Macy will
provide at the local church, providing
that plans for securing them are suc-
cessful, will be "The heart and the
hand," Miss Kellar has been taught
to speark but she is unable to heat-
her own words.

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TVla,-rc^ 13* 1113.

lany Women Discuss teacher's Problem.

AY HOMENEEDS MOTHER

By Margaret Hubbard Ayer.

Almost every woman, of any prom-,
inence has expressed her views on the
case of the Brooklyn school teacher
who asked for a years' leave of ab-
sence from her duties, with the inten-
tion of returning- to her teaching after
her child is born

Her courage and frankness are ad-
mirable and modern. She seems to be
the first woman who has not hidden,
her real reasons behind a sheltering
doctor's certificate, but her case has
raised a storm of protest from those
women who believe that she will be
neglecting her own child if she takes
up her vocation again, as she intends
to do.

A great many children have to bring
themselves up, others seem to just
grow, like Topsy, but what becomes
of the exceptional child if the mother
is employed outside the home?

There are many exceptional children
who develop into extraordinary men
and women, and behind each one of
them you will find the unremitting
self-sacrifice, the eternal vigilance and
care of the mother or of one person
who takes the mother's place — some-
times the father, but usually another
woman.

The most remarkable example of this
kind is Helen Keller. A child who
was deaf, dumb and blind, and who is
now a. woman engaged in civic
work, a lecturer, member of Public
Service Commission, a writer and a
wholesome, happy, immensely helpful
human being.

"One Mrs, Macy."

"There are many exceptional blind
children, but there is only one Mrs.
Macy," said a member of the Associa-
tion fur the -Blind to me the other day.
"M^s^JNIacv na^been' Helen's companion
and teacher since she was a child. She
never left her even, after she married,

tand for years she was with her day
,and night. Why, she has beep, the

girlrs mother,'* and" that" was the h 'gh-
rest praise this woman could bestow

upon the person who has made Helen

Keller what she is to-day.

Wherever you read of an exceptional

child find the mother or her who takes

the mother's place.

The youngest star on Broadway

Would not see her name in big electric

lights over the theatre if her mother

had not fostered tne • dramatic talent
and worked night and day with her
daughter 'and for the girl's interests as
only a mother can.

A certain golden-haired little girl-
entranced the Metropolitan audience
this Winter with her art.

"What a genius!" people said, think-
ing that the rose had blossomed with-
out care and forgeting the motehr-
gardener who for years had patiently
worked and planned and drudged, who
had persisted and encouraged and
petted and trained the talent, and
slaved for that exceptional child that ,
she might develop into the genius she
was intended to be.

If you think that the exceptional
child developes all by himself, ask Mrs.
Thomas Tapper. Mrs. Tapper was the
quiet power behind a certain little boy,
an exceptional child, too, who is be-
coming famous all over the country,
young Leo Ornstein, the pianist.

"In the case of the exceptional child,
in the case of any child at all, I think
it is a great mistake if the mother is
forced to be away from home, espe-
cially when the children are young, or,
indeed, at any age," said Mrs. Tapper.
"A child must be constantly studied
and watched in order to find out what
tendencies of mind and character he is
developing. Certain characteristics
have to be guarded against, other qual-
ities developed and strengthened. There
ai'd outside influences to watch and di-
redjt! and no one can do this but the
one person who is with the children
all the, time — their mother.

''We are finding a . great deal to
criticise in certain politicians just
now — men whose sense of honor and
justice is not what it should be, and
we can ask ourselves what their moth-
ers were and why they did not instill
the right ideas into these sons.

Need Home Atmosphere.

"The entire atmosphere of the home
5s lost to a certain extent if the mother
is not always in it. There must be
thai one personality whose influence

pei vades the home, who creates the
home atmosphere — ont person to whom
the child can always come, sure ol
finding- sympathy and interest," con-
tinued Mrs. Tapper.

"For many years, when my own
children were little* it was necessary
for me to be, away from them many
hours a day. No matter how hard I
tried to make up for this time spent
out of the home by my efforts when I
got back, I never quite succeeded until
the time came when I had more leisure
and my teaching was done at home.

"The mother whose work takes her
out of the home cannot help losing- tire
companionship of her children to a
certain extent. They grow to have
other interests; they make other
friends, and they are subject to influ-i
ence and ideas of which she knows!
nothing, for she has not time to be]
their most intimate companion. Inl
some cases she cannot really get ac-i
quainted with her own children. That
is the danger and the misfortune of-
the present tendency."

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Helen KeeeER to Lecture at Tre-
mont tempee * ... a

Edwin Bower Hesser anf|ourij^s" the
first Boston appearance of JMiss Hel-
en Keller and her teacher, Mrs. Macy
at Tremont Temple on Monday,
March 24th. Miss Keller will deliver
an address on "the Heart and the
Hand"— really, the story of her re-
markable life.

Helen Keller has been known to
the world ever since she was seven
years old, when the first reports of
her education were published, telling
how a deaf blind child had learned to

life has been an unbroken series of
triumphs over obstacles. Deaf and
blind at the age of nineteen months
she remained in intellectual darkness
until she was nearly seven. Then
Mrs. Macy (Miss Sullivan) a gradu-.
ate of the Perkins Institute where Dr.

Howe had done his great work with
Laura Bridgman, went to Helen Kel-
ler's home in Alabama, and began
her education. At the age of ten Helen
Keller learned to speak. At sixteen
she was preparing for college. She
graduated from Radcliffe College in
1904, receiving the degree of Bachelor
of Arts cum laude (with distinction).
While she was in college she wrote
"ine Story of My Life," which has
been translated into fifteen languages.
During th past year she has taken
another step forward in her remark-
able career. Under the instruction of
Mr. Charles White, a teacher of sing-
ing at the New England Conservatory
of Music, she has greatly improved
her speaking voice. During the sum-
mer of 1912 she spoke before a con-
vention of teachers of the deaf at
Providence, R. I. This was the first
time that she stood alone on a public
platform. A few months later she ad-
dressed an audience of physicians at
the Otological Congress held in Bos-
ton at the Harvard Medical school.
The success of these experiments has
encouraged her to, appear before the
general public.

Bosfo^, Wl&ss., .G>iobe^ ,
Helen Keller's Lecture.

Miss Helen Keller will deliver a lec-
ture in Tremont -Temple Monday eve-
ning-, March 24, her subject being "The
Heart and the Hand; or the Right Use
of Our .Senses."

Under the instruction of Mr Charles
White at the New England Conserva-
toi y of Music Miss Keller has learned
not only to speak distinctly, but to
sing, and she will give a demonstration
of ability in this direction during her
lecture. Miss Anne Sullivan, her teach-
er (now Mrs Macy), will also speak.

MISS HELEN KELLER

TO APPEAR MARCH 26

Methodist Church Completes Plans

For Securing Wonderful

Blind Girl

Miss Helen Kellar, the wonderful
blind girl of national fame and her in-
structress, Mrs. Macy, are to appeal' at
the Methodist church on the evening- of
March 28. The appearnce here of. Miss
Kellar is among her first efforts to
speak in public. She has for a number1
of years been regarded as the most
wonderful girl of the time.
^"kllMi}, "W5af and dumb from infancy,
she has learned to talk, also to hear
through the sense of touch, and the
wonderful teaching of Mrs. Macy, who
is equally as wonderful as Mliss Kel-
lar, who has been taught, and lives and
converses through the heart and hand.

Tickets can be obtained at Hastings
Drug store, Apothecary Hall and at the
store of the Standard Mercantile Co.

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Helen Keller to Talk

at Tremont "temple

Miss Hellen Keller's name has be-
come so familiar that one hesitates
to proclaim any discovery concerning
her, for fear it has already been made
by some one else. A visit to the Tre-
mont Temple box office, however, will
develop that many people have discov-
ered she is to give a public lecture
Monday evening, March 24, and that a
majority of the tickets have been sold.

Miss Keller has so mastered her voice
that she can control It with ease. Un-
der the instruction of Mr. Charles
White, at the New England Conserva-
tory of Music, she has learned not
only to speak distinctly, but to sing,
and she will give a demonstration of
ability in this direction during her lec-
ture, which is called "The Heart and
the Hand; or the Right Use of Our
Senses."

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Edwin Bower Hesser announces the
first appearance of Miss Helen Kel
and her teacher Mrs. Macy at Tremon
Temple on March 24th. Miss Keller
will deliver an address on "The Heart
and the Hand" — really, the story of her
remarkable life.

Helen Keller has been known to the
world ever since she was seven years
old, when the first' reports of her edu-
cation were published, telling how a
deaf blind child had learned to read
and TV] ili- in m^,, months. Her life
has been an unbroken series of triumphs
over obstacles. Deaf and blind at the
age of nineteen months she remained
in intellectual darkness until she was
nearly seven. Then Mrs. Macy (Miss
Sullivan) a graduate of the Perkins
Institution where Dr. Howe had done
bis great work with Laura Bridgman.
went to Helen Keller's home in Ala-
bama, and began her education. At the
age of ten Helen Keller learned to
speak. At sixteen she was preparing
for college. She graduated from Rad-
clift'e College in 1904, receiving the de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts cum laude
(with distinction). While she was in
college she wrote "The Story of My
Life," which has been translated into
hfteen languages. ~

Since then she has written three
books and has devoted herself to work
for the blind and deaf. At several
meetings in their behalf, she has de-
livered0 a spoken address. But her
voice did not carry far then and it was
always necessary for some one to re-
peat what she said, sentence by sen-
tence.

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HELEN KELLER LECTURE

Helen Keller and her teacher, Mrs.
Macy, will lecture on Monday evening',
March 24, at Tremont Temple. She is
a. graduate of the Perkins Institution
and from the earliest period has di-
rected Miss Keller's development. At
the age of 10 speech was possible, and
since then her remarkable pupil has
reached enviable heights in the world
of literature and research.

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Helen Keller's Teacher £ %
Is Interesting Person

Mrs. John Macy, who will assist Helen |.
Keller in her lecture at Tremont Tem-
ple March 24, became famous as Anne
Sullivan for her work in teaching Miss
Keller. The account which Mrs. Macy
will give of the blind, deaf and. dumb
girl's remarkable triumph over the
thrice-barred gates of sense is a story
not only of interest, but of force and
intensity. Not second to Miss Keller's
part of the program is her teacher's
speaking, it is said.

Mrs. Macy is a graduate of the Per-
kins Institution, and from the earliest
period has directed Helen Keller's de-
velopment. At the age of 10 speech was
possible, and since then her remarkable
pupil has soared to enviable heights in
the world of literature and research.

J 7

HELEX KELLEE TO LECTUI

Edwin Bower Hesser announces the
$rst Boston appearance of Miss Helen
Keller and her teacher Mrs. Macy at
Tremont Temple March 24. Miss Kel-
ler will deliver an address on "The
Heart and the Hand" — really, the
story of her remarkable life.

Helen Keller has been known to the
world ever since she was seven years
old, when the first reports of her ed-
ucation were published, telling how a
deaf blind child had learned to read
and write ''m'sTx' month s . Her life has
been an unbroken series of triumphs
over obstacles. Deaf and blind at the
age of nineteen months she, remained
in intellectual darkness until she was
nearly seven. Then Mrs. Macy a
graudate of the Perkins Institution
where Dr. Howe had done his great
work with Laura Bridgman, went to
Helen Keller's home in Alabama, and
began her education. At the age qf
ten Helen Keller learned to speak. At
sixteen she was preparing for college.
She graduated from Radcliffe Col-
lege in 1904, receiving the degree of
Bachelor of Arts cum laude. While
she was in college she wrote "The
Story of My Life," which has been
translated into fifteen languages.

During the past year she has taken
another step forward in her remark-
able career. Under the instruction at
the New England Conservatory of
Music, she has greatly improved her
speaking voice. During the summer
of- 1912 she spoke before a convention
of teachers of the deaf at Providence,
R. I. This was the first time that she
stood alone on a public platform. A
few months later she addressed an
audience of Physicians at the Oto-

logical Congress held in Boston at the
Harvard Medical School. The success
of these experiments has encouraged
her to appear before the general pub-
lic.

Recently at Carnegie hall, New
York, Miss Keller made her first pub-
lic lecture appearance, and to the top-
most galleries her voice could be
heard. Those who attended were en-
thusiastic and her lecture at Tremont
Temple will doubtles be a great suc-
cess.

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SOCIETY WILL HEAR

LEN KELLER TALK

Tremont Temple Lecture

Monday Night Is Her First

in Boston.

At Tremont Temple Monday evening
Miss Helen Keller will give her first
public lecture in Boston. She will be
assisted by her teacher, Mrs. John
Macy, who, as Anne Sullivan, became
famous for her work in educating the
deaf, dumb and blind girl who has
astonished scientists by her triumph
over seemingly insurmountable obsta-
cles. The event is to be not only one of
peculiar public interest, but the patron-
age under which it is given assures that
the evening will ) also be of social Im-
portance.

It Is announced by Edwin Bower
Hesser, who presents Miss Keller, that
the lecture is given under the patron-
age of Governor and Mrs. Eugene N.
Foss, Mayor and Mrs. Fitzgerald. Other
patronesses of the event Include Mrs.
Louis Brandeis, Mrs. Franklin Walter,

Jr., Miss J. W. Frothingham, Mrs. Ed-
ward C. Jeffrey, Miss Helen Leah Reed,
Mrs. Charles G. Ames, Mrs. R. D.
Evans, Mrs. Edw. D. Blake, Mrs. F. H.
Robinson, Mrs. Mark Hollingsworth,
Mrs. Philip Hale, Mrs. W. B. Wheel-
wright, Mrs. J. C. Barr, Mrs. Henry I.
Bowditch, Mrs. Geo. R. Fearing, Mrs.
H. L. Bearse, Miss Mary Ware Allen.
Mrs. E. D. Mead, Miss Anne "Whitney,
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. J. G.
Brooks, Mrs. Arthur A. Shurtleff, Mrs.
J. Montgomery Sears, Miss Gertrude L.
Farmer, Mrs. F. H. Williams, Mrs. W.
A. Newell, Miss Josephine R. Harring-
ton, Miss Vida D. Scudder, Mrs. C. A.
Adams, Mrs. D. D. Addison, Mrs. R. G.
Fuller, Mrs. A. U. Winslow, Miss Kath-
erine Abbott, Miss Mary S. Perrine,
Mrs. D. R. Dewey, Dr. S. E. Palmer,
Mrs. T. A. Choate, Mrs. Henry D. Proc-
tor, Miss Eugenia Frothingham, Miss
Eleanor Garrison, Mrs. A. N. Rantoul,
Mrs. N. H. White, Mrs. S. J. Mixter,
Miss Margaret Lang. Mrs. Lionel
Marks, Mrs. Isaac O. Rankin, Mrs.
Oliver Ames, Sr., Elizabeth Evans, Mrs.
J. T. Fields, Mrs. C. M. Cabot, Mrs. J.
A. Pray, Mrs. C. P. Parker, Mrs. A. M.
Morton, Mrs. G. F. Pratt, Mrs. F. Liv-
ingston Grandin, Jr.

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■yVLeL-r-ok. 2.2*« 1113

HELEN KELLER

OUR COUNTRY is blessed in its visitations, and Bergson, the
famous French philosopher, received the welcome he richly de-
erved. Bergson has shown how matter, ponderous and of close-knit
iber, is ever in front of the troubled currents of man's spirit, shutting
hem off from an easy flow to their place of emergence. The tides of
nan's restless spirit, searching for the light as if they were a current in
he tunnel of a rocky hill, must turn aside from the too great thickness
nd toughness of the interposing rock, and seek a new direction and
asier outlet. Then later, after they have gone around and passed beyond
|e barrier they could not penetrate or undermine, they resume their
assage toward the light, picking up the old direction. The}/ do not know
;efeat, but the thwarting is constant. In all his travels Bergson will
nardly find a more perfect illustration of this than in the person of the
>vely woman who has gained victories all through life over her two
.ipreme limitations. Helen Keller has been blind and deaf since
lfancy, but her spirit has won through every stubborn barrier.

yW^-r-ci^ %TL v l°f 13.

HELEN KELLER REJOICES

triad to Find Herself in "the City of Kind
Hearts," with the Prospect of Speaking
in Public

Helen Keller, with face illumined at the
though of what the future has in store for
her, sat in the foyer of the Copley-Plaza
this morning and talked of her coming lec-
tures. Nothing in all her wonderful life
has given her so much pleasure as the
consciousness that at last she can articu-
late so well that she can speak to public
audiences the message that is so close to
her heart.

"Twenty-five years ago," said this re-
markable young woman, "I stood on the
platform of Tremont Temple, gave a mes-
sage into the hand of my teacher and my
words were interpreted to the people as-
sembled. On Monday night I am going
to stand there alone, use my own voice,
and express what I have thought out my-
self. Do you wonder that I am rejoicing?
I love to find myself in Boston which I
named 'the city of kind hearts' when I was
only a little girl. What good friends I
found here! Many of them are gone, but
their memory is still with me."

Miss Keller then spoke of Oliver "Wen-
dell Holmes, who learned that she could
articulate and wanted to witness what
seemed like a greater miracle than any-
thing in her previous training. The teach-
ing of this little afflicted child up to that
point had attracted wide attention, but it
seemed hardly possible that she could ever
converse, because she has no sense of
sound, only of vibration. "I was ten years i
old," said Miss Keller, "when I went to see |
Dr. Holmes. He placed a copy of his own
poems in Braille in my hands and asked
me to read. He pointed out The Cham-
bered Nautikis.' The words were very
hard, but I stumbled through it some way,
and he patted my head approvingly. I am
sure he would be glad to know how much
better I speak now," she added with sat-
isfaction.

And, indeed, Miss Keller may be proud
of her progress for, under the tutelage
of Charles E. White, she has overcome
many difficulties, gained confidence and
acquired a more, pleasing quality of tone
than before she studied rhythm. On
April 8, she is to address the German
Scientific Society of New York in Ger-
man, which she understands fully as

well as English. "Yes," said Miss Keller,
"and I am going to make a plea for the
teaching of speech to the deaf."

She spoke with sincere affection of
Michael Anagnos, who was head of the
Perkins Institution when she was
brought to Boston from her Southern
home; of John Boyle O'Reily, Dr. Hale
and uther people who showed her many
kindnesses. "I did love Dr. Hale," she
said. "He was on of my best friends. He
would take my hand, place it to his lips
and rattle off Greek and Latin and say,
'Now Helen, tell me what that is?' Mr.
Brooks (he was not bishop then) took
me on his lap one day and I asked him
why there were so many churches. I
have never forgotten his answer; it was
that each church is a different mani-
festation of God in the hearts of His
children, just as the beautiful flowers
have different fragrance and hues."

All these thoughts were not spoken at
once. Mrs. Annie Sullivan Macy, the
devoted teacher of Miss Keller from child-
hood, sat by her side and acted as in-
terpreter. Miss eller's fingers were placed
in such a way as to touch the nose, lips
and throat of the speaker and in that way
she gets the nasal, labial and gutteral
sounds with ease. The sign language in
the sensitive palm enables the two to carry
on a continuous conversation, but Miss
Keller always responds now with the
spoken word. Her fine imagination radiates
her features which are wonderfully ex-
pressive. "When asked if she liked to travel
she said "No" with a minor cadence and
her entire body seemed to droop. "But,"
she was quick to add, "I love to meet peo-
ple and widen my experience in that way.
I hope to go abroad some day and meet
the people of whom I read in my German,
French and Italian magazines."

Miss Keller is an ardent suffragist. When
asked how she came to be converted to
that cause she laughed and said, "I never
was converted; I was. born that way. If
men and women are as different as some
people say they are" (she continued) "sure-
ly neither one can fairly represent the
other. Think of a State which produced
such men as Emerson, Phillips and Garri-
son still opposing this forward step!"
Here Mrs. Macey reminded her that she
should" not be too hard on Massachusetts,
to which Miss Keller replied: "I love
Massachusetts and I am so proud of her
that I cannot bear to have her faults go
uncorrected nor have her lag behind in the
world's great march, toward a brighter and
hetter future."

The topic of Socialism, to which Miss
TCeller is devoting herself, caused her face
fn shine with animation. "Yes, indeed, '
«L said *1 am a Socialist because I be-
: ?eve in fair dealings for every man, woman

and child. I believe in State ownership of
all public utilities. I also believe in trusts,
if they are public ones. There are Social-
istic magazines printed in Braille in dif-
ferent countries, and I have studied the
subject long- and carefully for myself. I
am certainly a radical on that subject."

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HELEN KELLER j

TO SPEAK HERE

MRS. MACY, HER TEACHER,
WILL ALSO TALK.

W*2derful Attainments of a Deaf
Mute Child and Blind.

HER OPTIMISM HAS CHEERED
THOUSANDS.

There is probably no American wo
man in whom more people throughout
the world are interested than Helen
Keller, the blind girl, whose wonderful
educational attainments, acquired in
spite of the three-fold handicap of
lack of sight, hearing and speech, have
amazed scientists the world over.

Miss Keller has made one more con-
quering step forward, and is now able
10 a^eak in public. She had been able
to speak for many years, but it was
only last summer that she improved
her voice so as to be able to address
large audiences. She has gone upon
the lecture platform, and will appear
at Unity Hall, Friday evening, April 4,
under the auspices of the Hartford Aid
of the Connecticut George Junior Re-
public. She will be accompanied by

■■■WHBHW

HELEN KELLER.

Mrs. John Macy, who led her from
darkness, having been her teacher and
companion since Miss Keller was 8
years old. Mrs. Macy willl give an ac-
count of her pupil's life and educa-
tion, after which Miss Keller will de-
liver an address entitled: "The Heart
and the Hand, or the Right Use of
Senses."

The main outlines of Miss Keller's
life are well known to the American
people through the innumerable news-
paper and magazine articles that have
been written regarding her, as well as
from her own account, entitled "The.
Story of My Life," written while she
was an undergraduate at Radcliffe
College.

She was born at Tuscumbia, Ala,,
June 27, 1880. Her father Captain
Arthur H. Keller, was a member of the
Spottswood and Lee faimlies of Vir-
ginia, while, on her mother's side she
is descended from the Adams and
Everett families of New England, and
was a distant cousin of the late Ed-
ward Everett Hale.

While still an infant, she was de-
prived of her faculties of sight, hearing
and speech through illness, and re-
mained in intellectual darkness until
she was nearly 7 years old. Then Mrs.
Macy, at that time Miss Annie Sullivan,
a graduate of the Perkins Institute in
Boston, went to Helen Keller's home
in Alabama and began the education
of the child, who up to this time, had
been practically cut off from human
intercourse, because of her affliction.
Her only occupation was playing with
her doll.

To Mrs. Macy belongs the credit for
the wonderful change by which the
child in darkness became in the course
of a few years, a remarkably talented
young woman. Her faculties seemed to
have been gathering power and her
mind keenness during the period~"of
her isolation, and, when once the door
was opened, through the instruction of
Mrs. Macy, the progress was rapid.

She soon learned to read in the blind
alphabet, and, by the time she was 10
years old, had learned to speak. Her
voice was weak, however, and had
little carrying power, so that when she
was speaking to a group of people, it
was always necessary for someone to
repeat what she said, sentence by sen-
tence. She was able to carry on a
conversation, however, reading the re-
plies to her remarks by feeling the
speaker's lips.

She proved to have unusual ability
in language, and learned all the more
important modern languages with a
rapidity and accuracy far superior
to the normal student. Edward
Everett Hale, who was a linguist of
no mean ability himself, says that
Miss Keller surpassed him in the
nicety of her pronunciation of French
and German. She also became a
master of Latin and Greek. Dr.

Hale tells of repeating to her the
first words of the first line of "Xeno-
phon's Anabasis," and having her pick
it up from his lips and complete it
orally, line after line, with absolute
accuracy of pronunciation and con-
struction.

She entered Radcliffe College in
1900, and was graduated "cum
laude" In 1904. While in college she
wrote her autobiography, "The Story
of My Life," which has since been
translated into sixteen languages.

Since Miss Keller's graduation she
has devoted herself to the interests
of the blind and to literary work.
She was, for several years, a mem-
ber of the Massachusetts Commission
for the Blind, and has served on the
advisory boards of many societies for
the blind and deaf. She lives with
Mrs. Macy at Wrentham. Mass..

Besides a number of articles con-
tributed to magazines, Miss Keller
has written three books and *-•-.
autobiography. They are "Optimism,"
a collection of essays, mostly of a
philosophical nature; "The World I
Live In" and "The Song of the Stone
Wall." Through her afflictions, she
has reached a wonderfully sympathe-
tic optimism, that is well expressed
in her own words, from her essay
"Optimism." She calls it her creed
as an optimist: —

"I believe in God, I believe in man,
I believe in the power of the spirit,
I believe it is a sacred duty to en-
courage ourselves and others, to
hold the tongue from any unhappy
word against God's world, because no
man has any right to complain of
a universe which God has made good,
and which thousands of men have
striven to keep good. I believe we
should so act that we may draw
nearer and more near to the age when
no man shall live at his ease while
another suffers."

Miss Keller's appearance here is
under the patronage -ofthe following
directors of the Hartford Aid of the
Connecticut George Junior Republic.
Professor M. W. Jacobus, president;
James P. Andrews, vice-president;
Miss Lucy S. Taintor. secretary-trea-
surer; Miss Mary Bulkley, Miss Elinor
Bulkeley, Mrs. Louis R. Cfcfney, Miss
Eliza T. Cheney, Mrs. Ansel G. Cook,
Miss Katherine F. Gallaudet, Miss
Julia L. Havemeyer, Mrs. Appleton
R. Hillyer, Miss Annie E. Trumbull,
Mrs. Charles Dudley Warner, Mrs.
Geopge G. Williams. Ralph D. Cutler,
Judge Walter H. Clark, Rev. Dr.- James
Goodwin. Judge L. P. Waldo Marvin,
Professor E. K, Mitchell, Charles C.
Russ and Frank C. Sum

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ELLER

Blind and Deaf Girl, Here for Lecture, Discussing

Suffrage, Says Once It Promoted Liberty,

but Seems to Have Lost Interest.

By SALITA SOLANO.

"I was born a suffragette, and two
years ago I became a Socialist," said
Helen Keller, the wonderful blind and
deaf girl, who is to begin her lecture
tour at Tremont Temple Monday even-
ing.

"I believe in suffrage because from
what I am told men and Women are:
so different that neither sex is able to
represent the other. I became a Social-
:st through my love for fair dealing.

"It seems incredible that the men of
Massachusetts, descendants of such
ighters for liberty as Adams, Hancock,
iSumner and Phillips, should oppose
ivoman's suffrage now. And here the
somen are in the majority! Year after

ear women are turned down in the
.legislature— and not chivalrously. either.

"Once Boston promoted liberty,, but it
teems to have losl interest."

Mrs. Macy Protests.

"You mustn't talk like that," protest-
■d Mrs. John Macy, formerly Anne Sul-
ivan, Miss Keller's guide and teacher,
'especially to Boston reporters."
"I think that Boston needs to be told
he truth as much as any other city,"
nswered Miss Keller with spirit.
"It is because I love Boston that I
cold her. I am so proud of her that I
an't bear to have her lag behind in th^»
world's great march toward a brigta<£r
and better future. g

"When I was a little girl I usrri to
call Boston 'the city of kind hearts.' I
am so glad and proud to speak here.
The first message I ever gave to the
world I spelt through an interpreter at
Tremont Temple 25 years ago. Now Ii
shall stand alone and speak the best I;
can."

Miss Keller's articulation is slow, but
clear. Her voice is monotonous and
throaty. She receives all her ideas
through the seftse of touch by two
methods. One is lip reading with her
finger tips and the other by her teach-
er's telegraphing letters on the palm
of her pupil's hand. Mrs.Macy is con-
stantly with her and is devoted to her

"Can you understand those senses Si
sight and hearing that you do not pos-
sess?" I asked her.

Mrs. Macy rapidly telegraphed th«
question.

Miss Keller's expressive face lit ui
with a smile.

"Oh, yes!" she replied. "I can imagin<
what sound and sight are from the iMial.
ogies I am able to draw from the vfora
tions I receive. I can even enjoy musii
by feeling its vibrations. I can als<

distinguish the difference between the
odors of American roses and English
roses of the same variety. My sense oi
smell is keener, I suppose, than . if I
were normal.

"Your- Dr. Hale once said that one had
to be blind and deaf to get a good edu-
cation," ajid Miss Keller laughed heart-
ily.

Has Message of Unity,

"He wag a wonderful man. I asked
him one day why there were so many
religions, and his answer was indicative
of him. 'The flowers all grow in the
same soil and are nourished by it. It
is so with religions,' he said. The doc-
tor used to test my lip reading by rat-
tling off Greek and Liatin to me.

"My message that I am to give to
the world in my little lectures is a sort
of golden rule— a message of unity and
good will to all mankind.

"I want to tell the world that we do
not use our senses enough. How much
more rich and beautiful life would be if
we appreciated them more!" And a
realization of what she has missed in
life seemed to sweep over her. Her face
saddened for a moment, and then the
old cheery smile appeared, and she
leaned over and patted hejvteacher's

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HELEN KELLER AND HER TEACHER.

Many people teay they do not know whom they admire
more — Helen Keller or her teacher, Mrs. Macy, who will
assist her at the lecture scheduled for Monday evening,
March 24, at Tremont Temple. Mrs. Macy became famous,
is Anne Sullivan, for her work In teaching Miss Keller.
The account which Mrs. Macy will give of the bUnd— jteafc
md dumb girl's remarkable triumph over the thrlce-ban ed
pates of sense Is a story not only of interest, but of force
and intensity. Not second to Miss Keller's part of tho pro-
gram is her teacher's speaking, it is said. Mra. Macy is a
graduate of tue Perkins Institution, and from the earlier
period has directed Helen Keller's development.

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CHIDES OLD BAY STATE.

Helen Keller Declares Failure to
Give Women Votes Shows Lack of
Progress.

That Boston, once in the van of
progress and devotion to liberty, is now
Vehind the times, is the opinion of
tttftlen Keller, student and advocate of
special- reform, who was born deaf, dumb
fend blind. She said so yesterday in an
interview 'given several newspaper rep-
resentatives at- the Copley Plaza.

Questions were communicated to her
Vy means of signs, by Mrs John Macy,
her companion, but Miss Keller is able
to answer by word of mouth, having
acquired the power of speech of late
I ears. ■_

Miss Keller thought it regrettable that
(he State' that produced Samuel Adams,
Otis, Warren, Emerson and Thoreau,
Ihould be found antagonistic to the en-
franchisement of women, and she said
lhat Whittier's "Massachusetts to the
Ration" will have to be reversed and
Rendered in future: "The Nation to
Massachusetts."

Miss Keller- said she became a suffra-
gist because of a desire to have some-
ihing to say about her own affairs. She
iidded, "If there is such a difference as
'.hey say between men and women, then
neither can. represent the other. With
Women in the majority in Massachu-
Betts the women are turned away, not
Very chivalrously, every year, when
tl'ey go to tbe State House to ask for
!ihe suffrage."

She "declared that she scolds Boston
because she loves it, and does not want
i;o see it behind in the march of progress,
yhe also declared herself a Socialist; be-
lieving in having all the great industries
conducted for the benefit of the people,
and not for a small group of owners or
;"or individuals. She would also have
the State take over the railroads. She
:.*eads regularly two German Socialistic
magazines printed with raised letters.

Miss Keller showed both delight and
'•■jnlUsement over the fact that she was
'•» Boston to "make a speech." She
-ecalled with regret the fact that many
?riends of her childhood, as Dr E. E,
Hale, John Boyle O'Reilly and Dr
Oliver Wendell Holmes, are dead.

She is engaged in writing an article
[ni one of her old friends, Mark Twain,
hind her constant companion, Mrs Macy,
fays that Miss Keller operates the type-
writer admirably, though when the
Hbbon slips off she, of course, is un-
aware of it, and often goes on working
"he machine long after the types have
jje&sed to make any impression on the
Saper.

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[ELEN KELLE

She Says That Boston Is Lag-
ging Behind in the World's
Progress.

SHE WOULD REFORM CITY

This State in Denying Votes for

Women, She Thinks, Is

Retrogressing.

By SALITA SOLANO.

"Yes, I am a suffragist," said Helen
eKller. "I think I was born one. I
want to have something to say about
my own affairs. Women should have
the vote. Men and women are so es-
sentially different from each other that
I cannot see how one sex can justly
represent the other."

Living in a world of perpetual silence
and darkness. Miss Keller, who Is in
Boston to begin her lecture tour, is,
nevertheless, a sociologist, a suffragist
and a 2-year-old socialist. In spite ot
the fact her three senses have to do
the work of five, this young woman has
superbly overcome her overwhelming
handicap. She absorbs and tries to solve
the vital problems of society. Then she
gives the result of her cogitations ana
her fine philosophy in five-sense per-
sons. They are enabled therely to view
their lives with new eyes— their keener
visions born from her blindness.

"Of all the states that should approve
suffrage, it seems to me that Massachu-
setts should be heard demanding en-
franchisement for its women, especially
as they are in the majority here," she
continued.

What Massachusetts Lacks.

"The state that bred such men as
Adams, Phillips, Sumner, Hancock and
many others, who fought so staunchly
for liberty, is wofully lacking in the
spirit of justice now. Once Boston led
in the cry for liberty. But she is lag-
ging behind in the world's march toward
the goal of progress, and I am ashamed
for her."

Miss Keller received a delegation ot
newspaper folk yesterday at the Copley-
Plaza. She was accompanied by Mr3.
John Macy, formerly Ann.e Sullivan, her
life-long companion, friend and teacher.
It is from Mrs. Macy that Miss Keller
receives every impression of the out-
side world. .It is she whose lips Miss
Keller reads with her finger tips, and
she alone knows the trick of telegraph,
ing words on the palm of her pupil'*
hand. Mrs. Macy is the one link that
connects Miss Keller with the world
beyond the ken of the deaf and blind
girl.

Miss Keller continued:

"Twenty-five years ago, when I was a
little girl, I spoke to the public for
the first time at Tremont Temple, where
I am to lecture tomorrow night. I had
to spell my massage through an inter-
preter, I remember. Tomorrow night I
shall stand alone and speak to the
people as well as I can.

Holmes Heard Her Speak.

"The first person except my teacher
ho heard me articulate was Oliver
endell Holmes. I spoke his name and
was so delighted ! He had a book
f his poems made for me in raised let- ;
ters and I read 'The Chambered Nau- ' i
tilis' to him, stumbling -over the long
words.

"Dr. Hale heard I could articulate a
little. He refused to believe it, and
came to see me, and I talked a little
for him until he was eonvinced. Then
he gave me a test in lip reading by
touching my fingers to his lips s.nd feel-
ing the vibration. To tease me he be-
gan to talk Latin and Greek as fast as
Jie could.

"Why um I a Socialist?" she re-
peated after Mrs. Macy had telegraphed
her mya question.

"Because I believe in the square deal
for the many and public trusts. I was
converted two years ago. I take Social-
ist newspapers from Germany and.
France. They are printed in raised let-
ters. Altogether I subscribe to eight!
or nine.

"Boston's motto should be 'Let the
dead past bury its dead.' I should like
to reform it and make It an ideal city
because I love it so much. I used to
call it the city of kind hearts when I
was little. Everyone was so good to
me.

"Some day I want to go abroad to
Germany and France. I know the lang-j
uages of these countries, and I could
address the people in their own tongues.j
I love to meet people. That's the only
reason I can endure the hardship of
travelling. I love new places and new'
people. I am very sociable by natm"*"-

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Helen Keller §1/

Helen Keller has overcome so many
obstacles in her career, and has ac-
complished so many wonderful achieve-
ments, that her at last having learned
to speak seems but a natural crowning
of her years of labor. So it is an
event of peculiar interest to the public
which takes place at Tremont Temple
on Monday night when Miss Keller
will give her first public lecture in
Boston, the subject being "The Heart
and the Hand; or the Right Use of
Our Senses."

Bping able1 to give voice to the
thoughts of her active brain. Helen
Keller brings a message that is full
of sunshine which she in her blindness
sees more fully than do those who have
sight. It is a message addressed to
those who, having eyes, see not, and
having ears, hear not, for no one can
hear Helen Keller's optimism and
cheerfulness without being thankful for
what are deemed to be ordinary facul-
ties of life.

The name of Helen Keller can neve
be separated from that of Mrs. Mao
(Anne M. Sullivan), the teacher and
companion of 26 years, who opened the
sates for her to the outside world.
One hardly knows whom to admire the
more, the teacher or the scholar — as
they have never been separated these
many years, so are they not separated
on the lecture platform.

Mrs. Macy will speak first, telling of
how she came to teach Helen Keller,
how she first was able to communi-
cate with the child's mind through a
natural craving for a doll; then how
other words and ideas came one by one,
and how finally, one day, the whole
system of finger spelling dawned on
Helen Keller, and the barrier to the
outside world was passed.

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HELEN KELLER IN

arvellous Blind Girl Telh
American Massachusetts Is
Treating 'Cause' Unfairly,

Helen Kelleir talked about marriage anc
plivorce. Socialism, suffrage, ownership ol
public utilities, child laibor, State sup-
port of cbilclren and other burning topic?
of the day in an interview with the Sun
day AMERICAN yesterday.

Miss Keller is in Boston with her
teacher, Mrs. John Macy, and this girl.
Who was dumb until she was ten years
oldi who cannot see and cannot hear, but
who has acquired a tremendous store ol
knowledge through sense of touch, intends
to deliver ' an address upon the platform
of Tiremont Temple Monday night. She
said:

I beMeve in uiaitrirnony, and I be-
lieve dm diivorce.

I believe in State compensation to
mothers for children, which would do
away with mothers working in fac-
tories and child labor.

I believe firmly in Socialism. I am
a radical. I believe in trusts, public
trusts operated for the public weal.

I am a Suffragist. I was horn a

Suffragist, I think. Massachusetts,

the home of American liberty and the

birthplace of woman suffrage is treat-

1 ing the woman quiesitcion very unfairly.

Quickness of Grasp Astounds.

Miss Keller discussed . the most involved
nd intricate subjects with a quickness ol
rasp that was astounding.

I was born a Suffragist, and I have
een' a Socialist for two years,'' she dec-
lared.

A young woman reporter who had theor-
ies herself, propounded this conundrum to
the girl who would seem cut off from the
outside world.

"Do you believe that the City of Boston
ought to run a car line of its own upou
the Elevated Railroad track and thus give
competition?"

Mrs. Macy spelled the question out.

"I believe the city ought to run the
railroad and prevent private competition.

"My proposition is not so' radical."

"I am a radical," said Miss Keller,
proudly.

And so it continued. A whole battery of
questioners discharged volleys of difficult
questions, and she answered them all orj
parried them deftly.

Miss Keller today is a prepossessing
young woman, who walks confidently upon!
the arm of Mrs. Macy.

Nobody who glanced at her casually
would imagine she was blind, and her man-,
ner is so easy and graceful that when she
talks it is difficult to comprehend the ex-i
tent of her afflictions.

Her Answer Always Ready.

The blind girl placed her forefinger upon
Mrs. Macy's lips and repeated each word as
•her teacher uttered it. Her answer was
always ready.

"I have been so distressed at the way
Boston is treating the suffrage question,"
said the blind philosopher. "This city is
ine birthplace of American liberty. lti
was the first home of the suffrage cause,!
and now it is going back on its tradi-
tions and permitting other places to get:
ahead in the recognition of the rights of!
womu u. "

■ "As a Socialist, what arc your ideas of
matrimony?"

"I think matrimony is a good thing, from
what I hear about it, but I have had no
personal experience," said Miss Keller, and
sbe laughed a natural, hearty laugh, while
her serious face lit up in a very attractive
man nc*.

"But, as a Socialist, how do you view
matrimony?"

"We Socialists are' stricter in our views
of matrimony than those who are not."

"Do you believe in divorce?"

"Yes, it is sometimes necessary, but it--'
should not be granted except for excellent
reasons." I

"And the care of children?"

"The State should compensate the!
mothers for the care of children. In that'
way lit would not be necessary for them
to work in the factories. The State re-
quires strong healthy children.

Let 'the State . pay for tlhem. Thus
woman labor In tihe factories and child
labor will be no longer possible."

"An eartihly Paradise will be near when
the Socialists wim'?"

"No. There will always be suffering
and misfortune buit Socialism is going to;
do away with the unnecessary suffering.";

Miss Helen Keller

to Lecture Monday

Pleads for Equal Suffrage and Ad-
vocates Government Ownership
of Public Utilities

Miss Helen Keller, the wonderful
blind deaf "mute," is grointr to make a
20-minute speech at Tremont Temple
Monday night — the first of a long
series of lectures which will end in
"S-ermany. Mrs. John Macy, her teach-
er, with whom she lives at Wrentham,
"will accompany her, describing Miss
Keller's training.

VOICE STRONGER

When Miss Keller met a group of
reporters at the Copley-Plaza yester-
day, her voice had a new resonance
and a greatly increased carrying
power.

She said she wanted to scold Bos-
ton, "because I love it and cannot
Liear to see it lag behind in the world's
;.reat march for a brighter and better
; ature.

"I have been surprised," she said,
• to see how Boston has lost the strong
Interest she once had in promoting
! b'erty. Why, Boston was the home of
i ie suffrage movement, but now look;
•he women besiege the Legislature
-•ear after year and are turned down,
i.o'( so very chivalrously either.

'Think of ajl the great fighters for
; oerty Massachusetts has produced—
t ,s ' Adamses, Hancock, Sumner,
:"Iiillips— think of such a State oppos-
ing equal suffrage. And here women
are in the' majority, too.

MISS HELEN KELLER TALKING WITH HER TEACHER, MRS. JOHNj
MACY AT THE COPLEY -PLAZA YESTERDAY.

"Let Boston take for its motto, 'Let
the dead past bury its dead, and act
in the living present.'

"If men and women are as different
as they say, surely neither can repre-
sent the other.

Born Suffragist

"I was born a suffragist and I be-
gan to believe in Socialism two years
ago, because I saw it meant fair deal-
ing and a chance for every man,
woman and child to make the b?st of
himself. I have been reading two So-
cialist magazines, printed in Berlin and
Vienna respectively, in Braille. In-
deed, I take eight magazines in Braille
altogether.

"I believe the State and the nation
should take over all public utilities
and all public institutions. (It. would
certainly improve the Boston street- car
system). And I believe in trusts, but
I believe they should be public. I be-
lieve all State industries should be
controlled by the people and for the
benefit of the people, not for the bene-
fit of any individual. Already many
cities, including Columbus and London,
have demonstrated the value of munic-
ipal ownership of street railways."

Miss Keller began her interview by
urging that people use their senses
more to appreciate the beautiful world.

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Helen Keller Tomorrow Evening

Helen Keller has overcome so many
obstacles in her career and has accom-
plished so many wonderful achieve-
ments that her having learned to speak
seems but a natural drowning of her
years of labor. It is said by dis-
tinguished aural surgeons to be the
greatest individual achievement in the
history of education.

So it is an event of peculiar interest
'which will take place iii Tremont Tem-
ple tomorrow evening when Miss Keller
will give her firot public lecture in
Boston, the subject being "The Heart
and the Hand, or the Right Use of Our
Senses." ■

Mrs Macy (Anne M. Sullivan), the
teacher and companion of Miss Keller,
wiU $BSa& firel, m& .explain tti* suc-
cessive stages by which her pupil was
educated.

At the close of Miss Keller's address
she will answer questions of the audi-
ence transmitted through her teacher.

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Miss "Helen" Keller will gr

Keller will give her first
public lecture in Boston tomorrow
evening: at Tremont Temple. The sub-
ject will be "The Heart and the Hand;
or the Right Use of Our Senses." Being
able to give voice thoughts of her active
brain, Miss Keller brings a message that
is full of sunshine, a message addressed
to thqpe who, having eyes, see not, and
having ears, hear not The name of
Helen Keller is inseparable from that of
Mrs. Macy (Anne M. Sullivan), the
teacher and companion of 26 years, who
opened the gates for her to the outside
world. Mrs. Macy Nwlll speak flrat, tell-
ing of how she catneHTEo teach Helen
Keller, how she first was able to com-
municate with the child's mind through
a natural craving for a doll ; then how
other words and ideas came one by one,
and how finally, one day, the whole sys-
tem of finger spelling dawned on Miss,
Keller. Her indomitable, will and Mrs.
Macy's patience mastered all. Every
vocal movement had to be learned and
imitated by Miss Keller. Only after 20
years is she, able to make herself heard
and understood by large audiences. Miss
Keller is then introduced, and, by her
teacher's side, delivers her message. At
its close she answers the questions of
her audience, transmitted to her teacher.

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