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HE1:EN KELIiSR

CLIPPINGS

VOLUME _ 12

1915

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HELEN jKELLER.

Those who have hearcT" Miss Keller
relate the most remarkable human
chronicles ever told realiice that there
could be no greatei example of optimism
^nd courage shown than in this triumph
of one thrice barred from the world.

"Blindness," said Miss Keller recently,
"is thought by those who don't know to
increase the po\\er of other senses. That
is not so. The habit of patience is the
only compensation. The grejjt obstacle
still retnains." One can only realize the
amount of Helen Kellers patience after
hearing her speak, and after seeing how
she has made the outside world come
to her and become a normal part of her
life.

The interest already shown in the an-
nounced engagement of Miss Keller and
her teacher, Mrs, Macy, at the Audi-
torium on the evening of Oct. 2 has
already proven this to be one of tli^
events in Nashville.

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A Living Lesson in Optimism.

Helen Keller was born deaf, blind
and d^jg/f§fgtHKKH&tffkOi.s an ambitious soul
and energetic nerves that make her
handicap all the more pitiable. She
has longings even for the commonest
things of life that never can be satis-
Iicd. She has golden dreams even of
the simplest delights that she never can
realize. A soul of sunlight and music
is imprisoned within a wall of dark-
ness and dead silence.

Yet Helen Keller, born mute, has
learned to lecture; born deaf, she has
learned to hear music, ana calls it the
voices (if angels; born deaf and dumb
and blind, she has written a wonder-
ful book, called "Optimism," telling

us of blessings which our wide-open
eyes and ears so often fail to see. and
♦hear.

All of us, no doubt, often have
troubles that seem impossible for us
to bear. The stones in our path
bruise our feet and we sit down and
whine. There are times when we can
neither see nor hear anything- sweet
in life.

Let us, then, turn to this blind girl
for guidance out of the glooms. Let
us turn to her mute lips for music.

She who is blind and deaf and dumb
can teach us much to make us cheer-
-ful.

(We take jjursefves^^^^too seriously.

■sally no disaster or sorrow can hap

n to you that has not happened to

tier people who have grinned and

tten over it. You can grin and get

er it, too, if you will.

If you don't know how, the girl

hio is deaf and dumb and blind can

ach you.

Pessimism springs from a sort of
)nceit that is easy to understand. It
3mes from the assumption that you
re so important to the welfare of the
niverse that you really should have
een given a better chance to develop
han those less consequential people,
'our neighbors.

And, since you haven't been start^
"orward on the road of life in a-
oright red wagon with a brass band
ihead, you feel that Providence has
been derelict and hasn't properly at-
tended to its business.

So you grouch and glower. You get
a hazy notion in your head that if the
world will not devote itself to mak-
ing you happy, you will devote your-
self to making the world unhappy.

Even a blind girl can tell us how
foolish and futile it all is. She
teaches us that God's sunlight is ever
shining, though it shines not for her
eyes. She teaches us that the world
is full of music, though it is not for
her ears. She teaches us how to sing
songs of gladness, though her own
lips are mute.

And above all she teaches us what
cowards we are to sit down in the
shadows and whine over our bruises.

at all, or speak, or hear, can make
herself to know and appreciate
boundless superior blessings — can
realize that she stands in the light and
in music — then what cowardly-
hearted "quitters" are we to pervert
our blessings to the service of some
whining(devil of despair?

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NOTED MUTE CAN

HEAR MUSIC NOW

Helen Keller Holds Teeth Against Vio-
''TTr^rvyFeels Vibrations.

Vibrations from a violin string, com-
municated through her teeth, which
were held against the bridge of the in-
strument, today conveyed to Miss
Helen Keller, the famous deaf, dumb
and blind girl, the first musical sound
that she has ever heard.

"It is like the voices of singing an-
gels," she told her teacher, Mrs. John
Macey, after she had caught the
strains.

Miss Keller was nearly exhausted
from the excitement incident to her
new experience. The astonishment she
showed, when the melody was carried
to her brain was most gratifying to Mrs.
Macey and to Professor Franz Kohler
of the Oberlin Conservatory, who
played for her.

Miss Keller held her teeth firmly
against the scroll while Professor
Kohler played strains of a St. Saens
composition on his violin, an instru-
ment which possesses remarkable
sweetness of tone. He used both the
high and low registers.

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Helen KellertQ^ Speak in Orange.

f'^ilftSWlffl W . i^oleman announces the
appearance in Orange on Thursday
evening, Oct. 9, of Helen Keller and her
teacher, Mrs. Macy (Annie Sullivan),
in a joint lecture entitled, "The heart
and the hand." No woman in America
is perhaps better known than Helen
Keller. Her marvelous achievement
in overcoming almost insurmountable
obstacles has extended her fame until
it has become world-wide. Deaf, dumb
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 Per-i
kins institute, where Dr. Howe had done
his great work with Loura Bridgman,
#ent to Helen Keller's home in Ala-
bama and began her education. In
six months Helen Keller had learned to
read and wTite. At the age of 10, she
learned to speak. At 16 she was pre-
paring for college. She graduated from
Radcliff 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
15 languages.

Learning to speak before public
aildiences has been her greatest task,
and has been only the result of years
of unparalleled patience and effort.
It is said by distinguished aural surgeons
that her learning to speak is the greatest
achievements in the whole history of
education. At first at several meetings
in behalf of the deaf and blind she de-
livered a spoken address. But her
voice did not carry far then and it was
necessary for someone to repeat what
she said, sentence by sentence. Dur-
ing the summer of 1912, she spoke be-
fore a convention of the deaf at Provi-
dence, R. I. This was the first time
she stood alone on a public platform.
A few months later she addressed an
audience of physicians at the Otological
congress held in Boston at the Harvard
medical school. The success of these
experiments has encouraged her to
appear before the general public, her
first appearance being at Tremont
temple, Boston, on March 25th, last,
when she addressed an audience of
3,000 people, the press announcing it to

be "the greatest miracle of the 20th
century. It seemed as if some mystical
oracle were speaking, it was so impres-
sive and almost awe-inspiring," — for
verily this was witnessing the dumb
speak. "

Many people say they do not know
whom to admire more, Helen Keller
or her teacher, Mrs. Macy. Mrs. Macy's
account of Helen Keller's education is
one of the most instructive lectures from
a human scientific point of view that the
public has ever had opportunity to hear.
Mrs. Macy will first speak on Miss Kel-
ler's life, and then Miss Keller will de-
liver the lecture. Mr. Coleman had
to make a contract early last spring and
at a high figure, to secure this lecture
here, for it is conceded to be the greatest
lecture attraction that will appear upon
the lyceum platform during the coming
season of 1913-14.

Mr. Coleman likes to bring before the
local public notable people, and we feel
sure that in this instance he could not
have brought forward one more widely
and favorably known, nor one in whom
more people feel a deeper interest be-
cause of her wonderful life and work
than Helen Keller. She ought to meet
with a hearty reception here. Early
announcement is made that people may
reserve this date. The price of tickets
are to be placed at 50 and 75 cents, with
reserved seats.

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riie Worcester county mechanics' as-
sociation has arranged its program of
entertainments for the winter. Miss
lielenK^er, who is deaf, dumb and
bflWSf'^nTl deliver ;! lecture on 'The
heart and the hand, or the right use
of the senses," in Mechanics liall, Mon-
day night, December 29. It will be Miss
Keller s first appearance before a Wor-
cester audience. November 17, a con-
cert will be given by Tool's band with
Miss Gertrude Holt, soloist. December
15, a lecture will be given by Dx*. i
Charles H. Tyndall on "Ether waves,"
January 12, a recital will be given by
Miss Margaret KStahi, assisted by Walter
Young, organist. February 9, the Ma-
quarre sextet composed of James Von
Theodorwieb, first violin; Alexander
Ribyrscli, second violin; Joseph Keller,
violincello; Alfred Giotzen, viola; Max
lO. Kinze, double bass; Andrew Ma-
quarre, flute; and Grace Bonner Wil-
'liams, soprano soloist; will give a qon-'^
cert. March 2, a social will be li'm-d

and the J.ight Infantry* "dr?lRes!rirvvT]T'
play for dancing-. March 16, a concert
vvili be given by the Boston musical
cmb composed of J. L. Ladd, first tenor
ij M. Baxter, second tenor; H 8
Ihornpson, baritone; N. B. Dewitt, bass-
Miss Veronica Ivirby, first soprano-
ivJiss \elma Hicks, second aoprano, andi
reader; Miss Maidor Hull first contral-
to and Miss Ida Gruhn, secon.i contral-

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A Living Lesson in Optimism

Helen Keller was bom deaf, and blind and dumb,
he has an ambitious soul and energetic nerves that
make her handicap all the more pitiful. She has longings
even for the commonest things of life that never can be
satisfied. She has golden dreams even of the simplest
delights that she never can realize. A soul of sunlight
and music is imprisoned within a wall of darkness and
dead silence.

: Yet Helen Keller, born mute, has learned to lec-
■ture; born deaf, she has learned to hear music, and calls
it the voices of angels; born deaf and dumb and blind,
ishe has written a wonderful book, called *' Optimism,''
ftelling us of blessings which our wdde-open eyes and ears
so often fail to see and hear.

All of us, no doubt, often have troubles that seem
impossible for us to bear. The stones in our path bruise
bur feet, and we sit down and whine. There are times
when we can neither see nor hear anything sweet in life.
^ Let, us, then, turn to this blind girl for guidance out
of the gloom. Let us turn to her mute lips for music

f ;^ She who is blind and dea^Sff^SmB^^n^feaM^'ui^
much to make us cheerful.

We take ourselves too seriously. Really, no disas-
ter or sorrow can happen to you that has not happened
to other people who have grinned and gotten over it. You
|ean grin and get over it, too, if you wall.
I If you don^t know how, the girl who is deaf and
dumb and blind can teach you.

Pessimism springs from a sort of conceit that is easy
to understand. It comes from the assumption that you
are so important to the welfare of the universe that you
really should have been given a better chance to develop
than those less consequential people, your neighbors.

And, since you haven't been started forward on the
road of life in a bright red wagon with a brass band!
ahead, you feel that Providence has been derelict and
hasn't properly attended to its business. 1

So you grouch and glower. You get a hazy notion^
in your head that if the world will not devote itself to
making you happy, you will devote yourself to making
the world unhappy.

Even a blind girl can tell us how foolish and futile
it all is. She teaches us that God's sunlight is ever shin-
ing, though it shines not for her eyes. She teaches us
that the world is full of music, though it is not for her
ears. She teaches us how to sing songs of gladness,
though her own lips are mute.

And, above all, she teaches us what cowards we are
to sit down in the shadows and whine over our bruises.

And if a girl that never could see at all, or speak, or
hear, can make herself to know and appreciate bound-,
less superior blessings — can realize that she stands in ]
the light and in music — then what cowardly-hearted j
*' quitters" are we to pervert ourWessngs to the service^,
f some whining devil of despair! I

HELEN KELLER'S VISIT

Much I nteres1:"""Wr^n jfested in Her

Approaching Appearance in

Bangor, Oct. 17.

Helen Keller in her flrst appearance
in Bangor City Hall, Oct. 17, under the
auspices of the Banjror Teacher's club,
vill show the general pnblic the senfli-
tiveuess of her hands which her friends
have been familiar with for aianj' years.

Helen Kellers finger tips are so
acutely sensitive that ishe cannot only
read character in the hanc]s of those
She meets, but seldom makss a mistake
in remembering people by the touch of
their hands. A short while ago. Miss
Keller met a few old friends and some
rew ones in her hotel parlor. Those
Of the old friends were clasped eagerly
and with quick, responsive greeting.
One of the gentlemen present she had
met but once— the-^'day bet'f>re— but as
Soon as she had felt his fingers, she
called him by name arid spoke of the
previous meeting.

"The hands of those I- touch are
dumbly eloquent to me," said Mias Kol--
ler. "The touch of some hands are an
impertinence. I have met people so
empty of joy, that v^hen I clasped their
frosty finger tips, it seemed as if I
were shaking hands with a Northeast
storm. Others there are whose hands
have sunbeams in them, so that thei':'
grasp warms the heart. It may be only
the clinging touch of a child's hand,
but there is as much potential sunshi.i3
In it for me as there is in a loving
glance from others. A real hearty
handshake gives genuine pleasure — ^iike
letters from a friend."

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FIRST APPEARANCrirWORCESTER OF

' '^ MISS HELEN KELLER, WHO WILL LECTURE

Miss Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb and
bli -d girl, considered one of the greatest
wonders of th age, wag yesterday secured
to deliver a. lecture in Mechanics hall,
Monday night, Dec. 29, in the entertain-
ment course of the Worcester county Me-
chanics association. It will be the first
public appearance of the noted woman
before a Worcester audience and consid-
ering her wonderful attainments, it is a
sufficient attraction to completely fill the
hall. The subject of her address is "The
heart and the hand, or the right use of
our senses."

The committee on lectures of the asso-
ciation, consisting of President George H.
Coates, Vice president Herbert P. Bag-
ley, Clerk and treasurer Myron F, Con-
verse, Arthur- H. Bellows, Edward M.
Dodge and George F. Ryan, in making of
the entertainment course for the coming
winter, provided for six events and an-
nounced that an additional number, not
men booked, will be added to tne pro-
gram and made public later.

The additional number is Miss Keller
and the committee considers that it will
prove one of the most interesrmg and t;n-
tertaining attractions ever offered since
the courses began. The contract ror Miss
Keller's appearance has been signed and
she will be here on the date stated, bar-
ring sickness or accident.

The price to be paid her is larger than
any individual artist has received from
the association, but the committee does
not consider it exorbitant and that the
organization will be fully repaid by the
extra seats that will be sold for the lec-
ture.

The course is now complete and an-
nounced today in The Telegram for the
first time. Like last year tnere will be
but one course, the former plan of having
two, being abandoned. Tickets for the
course will be distributed free to mem-
bers next month, due notice of which
will be mailed members.

In addition to the tickets which are good
for the entire course single tickets are
sold for individual attractions. No seats
are reserved at the events, but it is pos-
sible they may be at Miss Keller's lec-
ture on account of the expected demand
to see and hear the gifted woman.

The following is the list of dates and
attractions in the course, all of which

will take place in Mechanics hall:—
pCov. 17— Concert, Teel's band; Gertrude

Hol.t, soloist.
Dec. 15— Lecture by Dr. Charles H. TyiV;^

dall. subject. "Ether waves."
.Dec. 29— lecture, Miss Helen Keller, sub-
ject, "The heart and the" hand, or the
right use of oui- senses."

Jan. 12— Recital, Margaret Stahl, as-
sisted by Walter Young, organist.

Peb. 9— Concert, Maquarre sextet, Julius
Von Theodorowicz, first violin; Alexander
RibarbCh. second violin; Josef Keller,
violoncello; Alfred Gietzen. viola; Max
O. Kinze, double bass; Andrew Maquarre.
flute; Grace Bonner Williams, soprano
soloist.

March 3— Social, Light infantry orches-
tra.

March 16— Concert, Boston musical club,
J. It. Ladd, first tenor; F. M. Baxter,
second tenor; H. S. Thompson, baritone;
N. B. Dewitt, bass; Miss Vereonica Kir-
by, first soprano; Miss Velma Hick.«.
second soprano, reader; Miss Maidor Huff,
first contralto; Miss Ida Gruhn, second
contralto.

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Hearing Helen Keller

Helen Keller, iRfcho ^iwill speak ini
this city |n Ocl^^er 22, has been
knownl » wJie world ever since she

was 7 l#%iftr*' old, when the ^rst re-^
ports of her education |w*rel^ pub-
lished, telling how a deaf,\bl|nd\child
had learned to read and write in six
month.«^. Her life has, been an un-
broken triumph over obstacles.

Deaf and blind at*'the age of 19
months, she remained in intellectual^
darkness until she was nearlV seven.'
^hen Mrs. Macy — Miss Sullivan — ii<
jgraduate of the Perkins Institution,:
*where Dr. Howe has done his great;
"work with Laura Bridgeman, went to
Helen Keller's home in Alabama and
began her education. She was grad-
uated from Radcliffe College in 1904
with the degree of bachelor of arts.

During. her college career shewrotel
"The Story of My Life," which has;
been translated into fifteen languages.!

Only 1,000 tickets will be sold for
Miss Keller's lecture here, so those i
who plan to attend will do well to'
secure their cards at once, at 105 Lo-I
cust street. J

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HELEH-KELLSafe LECtURI

le|gs Being Advanced by (|pilege
Club Members.

fs. William H. Emerson, thA first
prisident of the Brockton cAlege
club, is chairman of the comm\;ttee
which will have charge of arrange-
ments for the coming of Miss Helen
Keller who, with her teacher, Mrs.
Anne Sullivan Macy, will be presented
in Y. M. C. A. hall the evening of
Oct. 14.

Mrs. Emerson will be assisted by
Mrs. Edmund Wright of Abington,
Miss Clara M. Keith, Mrs. William
Allen, Miss Edith M. Lovell and Miss
Ruth Cosgrove. One thousand leaf-
lets telling of Miss Keller's remark-
able lecture, "The Heart and th^
Hand," will be distributed. It is ex-
pected this appearance of the deaf
and blind woman, formerly dumb,
whose feat in learning to talk is con-
sidered one of the most wonderful at-
tainments in modern history, will rank
among the first of the various edu
tional events of the coming season
Brockton.

The funds raised from the lecture
will be used towards the scholarship
fund of the club, which is annually
used to help some worthy high school
girl to continue her studies in a high-
er institution.

Miss Stella M. McCracken, Miss
Ethel M. Wales and Miss Mildred B.
Battles have been appointed member-
ship committee for the year. The
first regular club meeting will be
'Monday, Oct. 6, at the home of the
president, Miss Bertha M. Loheed. At
that time action will be taken in re-
gard to filling the vacancies caused
'by the resignation of Mary Ethel
Greene as director and Miss Ethel M.
£erry as secretary.

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OUT OF THE DARK

HELEN K^Her has just published a
smalLir volume containing her
"^-^ss^, addresses and magazine
of recent date in which!
she has ^l^loited her views of the dut^'
.which sdliety owes to the blind. Most of
toiem are appeals of a most poignaut sort
in behalf ot the many who are blind
and who lack even the slightest sort of
surcease from the sorrow which comes
from darkness. Some are appeals for
legislative enactment Ho the end that
^here be better public provisions for
trainmg the blind, and some are jeremi-
ads hurled at an ignorant public which
permits the constant increase in blind
persons because of mothers who are in-
fected with disease through no fault of
«lheir own. It is well^nown that at
least one-third and possibly a majority
of the blind persons in this world owe
their status to carelessness. The French
and other peoples have laws which make
it impossible for this certain form of
blindness to occur, save when the law
is violated.

But interest in the work inheres not
only in the content but in the author.
This world has never had such an object
lesson in the power of civilizfation, of
humanity and of the best in human
nature to overcome the greatest possible
handicaps. As an infant Helen Keller
became MijiAmmmi»i>'4mL^^ .That she is
now a college graduate and a publicist,
that she has rare intelligence and is a
power for good in the world is due to
the fact that from Samuel Gridley Howe
down to the present there have been
those who have felt that the human
soul could not be crushed by a body
which was deficient. Helen Keller is
one of the bright spots in the world of
intelligence, although she lives in total
silence and darkness. While the Avorld's
scientists are discussing the subject of

Srvival after death it may be said that
elen Keller in herself is the greatest
argument in existence for a belief in the
immortality of the human soul. — Publish
ed by Doubleday, Page & Co. ^

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■ As the time approaches for the visit
of vMiss Helen Keller to this city imder
^he aus^MUdiufliitiie Brockton College
%lub, renewed interest is felt in the
accott^plishments of this young wom-
an, vf^o has triumphed in the face of
a three-fold handicap, blindness, deaf-
ness, dumbness.

The lecture will be given in high
school* hall the evening of Oct. 14.
Miss^*Keller will be accompanied by
her teacher and friend, Mrs. Johtl
Macy, whose patience and untiring
faith in the abilities of her pupil
wrought changes which seem almost
impossible.

Funds from the lecture will be used
toward the club scholarship, tendered
each year to some worthy pupil of the
high school. Mrs. W. H. Emerson is
chairman of the committee on ar-
rangements.

The lecture is one of the most re-
markable human chronicles ever told
and those who have heard Miss Keller
realize there could be no stronger ex-
ample of optimism and courage shown
than in this triumph of one thrice-
barred from the world.

*''Blindness," said Miss Keller, "is
thought by those who do not know, to
increase the power of other senses.
That is not so. The habit of patience
is the only compensation. The great
obstacle still remains."

Miss Keller became blind at the age
of 19 months. Although she has not
been able to use the senses of sight
and hearing since then, she has,
through the most patient and skillful
teaching of Mrs. Macy, become a high-
ly educated woman. One of the books
which she wrote during her course at
Radcliffe college, entitled, "The Story
of My Life," has been translated into
15 different languages. Miss Keller
graduated from college in 1904, re-
ceiving the degree of B. A.

The title of Miss Keller's lecture,
which she will deliver in this city, is,
"The Heart and the f'and, or, the
j Right Use of Our Senses." Mrs. Macy
'will demonstrate her method of com-
municating with Miss Keller.

Miss Keller's finger tips are so
acutely sensitive that she cannot only

read character in the hands of those
she meets, but seldom makes a mis-
take in remembering people by the
touch of their hands. A short time
ago she met a few old friends and
some new ones in her hotel parlor.
The hands of the old friends were
clasped eagerly and with a quick, re-
sponsive greeting. One of the gen-
tlemen she had met but once, the day
before, but as soon as she had felt
his fingers she called him by name
and spoke of the previous meeting.

A lecture is a new venture by the
club in raising money for the scholar-
ship fund. The principal income for
this part of the club work has come,
in the three years since the idea was
started, from dramatic entertainments

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The lecture by Miss Helen Keller
An High school assembly hdf!"B©al. 14,
\under the auspices of the College Club
of Brockton, promises to be one of
the most interesting events of the
early, fall. Miss Keller will show the
cton public the sensitiveness of
inds and finger-tips, which are
be so extremely sensitive that
ian not only read character in the
»hands of the people she meets but
rarely makes a mistake in remember-
ing people by the touch of their
hands. Miss Keller will be accom-
panied by her teacher, Mrs. Anne
Macy, who will describe the circum-
stances which led to her becoming
the instructor of Miss Keller and win
tell in detail of the methods by which
she taught the blind girl and thus
opened to her the outside world. Mrs.
Macy will demonstrate her method of
communicating with Miss Keller.

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J<eller is so familiar a figure
to'fffll' own day that perhaps the won-
der of her is not fully realized. We car
imagrine, for exam-
A Modem pie, what som(

Miracle«% «eader in a future

century might thini
of a book like "Out of the Dark'
(Doubleday) when told it was writter
by and expressed the thoughts anc
was the result of the reading of a

woman who was blind, deaf, and
dumb. A miracle, this faraway readei
might exclaim, a miracle as wonderfu
as when it was said "Maiden, arise*'
and the maiden arose.

The book contains some of Miss
Keller's speeches and letters an<?
occasional magazine articles. Par
ticularly it proclaims her socialistic
beliefs. Living in darkness herself
it explains her surprise and griel
when learning that there was a social
darkness, even more sad than her
own, in which thousands of poor souls
were groping. Most of the papers are
naturally on the subject of the blind
and their needs, of which she is so
competent to tell. One particularly
affecting letter is written to Mark
Twain, in which she tells him he ia
not a pessimist, as he would have hf,r
believe, but an optimist; else he
would not be interested in the cause
of the blind.

TTr'T iKnllrr says one of Wells's
books first turned her to socialism.
Her reading is revealed to be of the
very widest. It would be interesting
to list her literary references: Car-
lyle says in "Sartor Resartus"; says
Bacon in "Novum Organum"; Yeats
says in his poem; when Erasmus|
was translating the Greek testament;;
saith Ecclesiasticus. But she has not;j
derived her thoughts and formulated^
her philosophy from books alone. Sh^
has touched hands with the world^,,^

\mfmi MtunBttmt

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1913 ,

ABBOT ACADEMY

A Large Enrolment—Helen Keller toj
Lecture Oct. 13

Abbot Academy opened this week with
a large attendance. Miss Sherman of the
French department, and Miss McLean,
the matron in charge of Draper Hall, are
travelling in Europe, and their places for
the year are to be taken by Miss Eliza-
beth Stearns- Tyler of Amherst and Miss
Mary E. Cutting of Waltham. Miss Grace
E. Jenkins of Andover is to have charge
of the day scholars' room.

Among early events of the year of in-
terest to the general public is a lecture
to be given on Monday afternoon, Oct.
13, in Dana Hall, by Miss Helen Keller
and her teacher, Mrs. John Macy.

CttkoU, WVcLSS. , O v-a.>vScrubt

Helen Keller, the world-renowned
'ideaf, dumb and blind girl, who has ad-
d6d to her marvelous achievements the
acquisition of speech, is to lecture at
the Town Hall in Orange, Thursday
evening, October 9th. Many Athol peo-
ple will no doubt avail themselves of the
opportunity of hearing this wonderful
girl, whose achievements are unpar-
alleled in the whole history of educa-
tion. Tickets go on sale at Cheney's
drug store. Orange, Tuesday evening,
Sept. 30, at 7 o'clock. Orders for tick-
ets left with Secretary R. N. Berry, Y.
M. C. \A office, Athol, will receLv^
|)rompt atteniy^

lspe(irf^ interest attaches to the pub-
Irelmon last week of Helen Keller's
new book, since the Ut^^gitmimMimA
woman is soon \.o come to Terre Haute
to deliver an address. The condition
of women in modern society, the higher
education of women, blindim|^|^[jj|j^ it^
prevention, education*§^Tne blind and
other importat subjects are taken up
in "Out of the DarK," published by
Doubleday, Pag-e & Co, Upon these
subjects Miss Keller brings to bear
her marveiously clear ideas. She
writes with that strength and under-
standing of her time, and with that
freshness and clearness of vision
which has brought her to the position,
not considering her aflfiiction, of one
of the leading woman thinkers in the
country. Just far enough removed by
blindness from the daily grind and
glare of the street, to free her visioi
from small distractions and give he^
writings a wonderful quality of un^
hampered clearness, the title of tl
book Is particularly significant.

T^'e-^ti-ue^Ld/, WlaLSS., £c^(vO.

ffllJENKELLER LECTURE HERE.

The Upham Men's club of the Meth-
odist church has secured Helen Kel-
ler, the famous blind lecturer, to give
her lecture entitled "The Heart and
the Hand" in the Methodist church
Saturdaj' evening October 11. Miss
Keller will be accompanied by her
teacher, Mrs. Macy, and will not ap-
pear anywhere else in this vicinity this
winter. The lecture will be a most
interesting one and s'houjd be en-
joyed by a large audience.

TB-TOcK^oru , >Ka^5S., J^-yy^^

KELLER LECTURE

College Club Makes Further Plans
for Affair.

Preparations are being furthered for
the public lecture by Helen Keller, to
|be given in high schodf^semnUr hall
•Tuesday evening, Oct. 14, under the
auspices of the Brockton College club.
A meeting of the lecture committee
recently was held with the chairman,
Mrs. W. H. Emerson.

Tickets are on sale at the store of|
M. Steinert & Sons Co., 25 Mainj
street, and at the store of Edward
Baker & Co., Campello. They also!
may be purchased of club members inl
this city and surrounding towns until i
Oct. 8. The exchange tickets will be
on sale Oct. 8 and 9 at the store of M. |
Steinert & Sons Co. i

Much interest is shown in Miss Kel-'
ler's appearance in Brockton with her
teacher, Mrs. Anne Macy, and it is ex-
pected her lecture will give first-hand i
knowledge of the feat of these two 1
world-wide known women who have,
struggled with handicaps which in'
most cases would have spelled failure, i

Miss Edith M. Lovell has been ap-'
pointed head usher, and will be as-
sisted by 25 young women and mat-
rons. Patrons also will be greeted by
Mrs. W. H. Emerson as chairman of
the committee, and Miss Bertha Mj
Loheed as president of the club. - ]

— ^The Htlea Keller lecture appeals
strongly to almSSHSVerybody. And there
are but few who are not interested in
the life and work of this wonderful girl.
Numerous patrons are coming from sur-
rounding towns, an especially large
delegation being expected from Athol.

HELEN KELLER IS
TO SPEAK HERE

Engaged in Y. M. C. A. Series

for Meeting in Auditorium

November 23

MANAGEMENT IS PLEASED

Great Interest Will Be Mani-
fested in Address of This
Remarkable Woman

Helen Keller, the famous deaf,
dumb and blind womari, will give a
public allUieAiy ffPTheAuditorium on
Sunday, November 23, under the au-
spices of the Y. M. C. A. She will be
one of the speakers in the course of
Sunday afternoon lectures to be con-
ducted by the Y. M. C. A. during the
Fall and Winter.

Miss Keller undoubtedly will prove
to be a great attraction. Her success
in overcoming one of her afflictions,
that of dumbness, has been regarded
as marvelous, since she was handicap-
ped also by her inability to see or
hear. She has become highly educated
and is a public speaker of much abil-
ity.

Secretary Kenneth Robbie said to-
day that he would announce the en-
tire list of November speakers within
a few days. Some of the dates are un-
certain at present. Miss Keller being
one of the few who have definite engage-
ments for the Y. M. C. A. course. It is
expected that this will be her only
appearance in this city, as other or-
ganizations desiring her to speak have
been informed that she already has

HELEN ADAMS KELLER.

Famous Woman, Who Overcame
Dumbness, to Speak \n This City.

one engagement for this city and can-
not contract to speak here twice.

Miss Keller now is engaged on an
extensive speaking tour and is draw-
ing large audiences. The day has
passed when people go to hear her
(merely out of curiosity, for she is rec-
lized as one who has ideas worth

of ex
pressing^

^3r'o^^t^v^^, yi^auSS., ^■YxXe.'T^D-rLSe^.

HELEN KELLER COMIf^G.

Brockto1y'IJrrtt"t»r'^^ In Fa-

mous Woman's Tour.

Window cards have been placed an-
nouncing the lecture to be given by
Miss Helen Keller on "The Heart and
the Hand" under the auspices of the
College Club, for the benefit of the
scholarship fund. To speak before a
public audience is a comparatively new
achievement for Mis« Keller.

The first time that she spoke from
a public platform was in the summer
of 1&12 when she appeared before a
convention of teachers of the deaf at
Providence, R. I. A few months later
she addressed an audience of physi-
cians in Boston and this fall she be-
gins her first lecture tour, Brockton
)eing amojig the first cities to be vis-

HAMen iCelTer has been engaged to
lectuS%ef55R the Bangor Teachers'
t)lub on October 17 and something fine
Is anticipated as she is considered one
of the best women lecturers in the
country. Her heroic fight against ad-
verse conditions and her educated mind
and lovable cbanacter have won the
€idmiratlon and respect of all.

Helen Keller who lectures in Barigf^
Oct. 17, under the auspices of tl£<5
Bangor Teachers club, has overcome
do many obstacles in her career and
has accomplished so many wonderful
achievements that she at last having
learned to speak seems but a natural
crowning- of her years of labor. This
has been her greatest taslv, however,
ajid has been cnly tiie result of years
of unparallelod pa,tience and effort. It
is said by great aural surgeons to be
the greatest individual achievement in
the whole history cf education.

The name of Helen Keller can never
be separated from that of Mrs. Macy
CAnne M. Sullivan) the leacner ano
companion of 2G years who opened the
gates for her to the outside world. On!
hardly knows whom to admire the
more, the scholar or the teacher. As
they have never been separated these
many years, so they are not sparated
on the lecture platform.

When Mrs. Macy explains all of
these preliminai-y stages, an explana-
tion that is of the profound est Inter-
est, Helen Keller is- introduced, and
by her teacher's side, she delivers ho
message. At its close, she answer
the questions of her audience, trans
mitted to her by her teacher. This i-
the most interesting part of the lec-
ture for its reveals best the acutenes

nd quickness of her mind.

HELEN KEIiLER TO lyECTURE.

Interest In Mrs. Anne Macy, Her
,^ / Teacher.

Al^^announcement that Miss Helen
Keller, who has accomplished such
wonders in self-improvement and edu-
cation in spite of her blindngga|||^nd
deafness, is to come to^SfTPlBgUela ap-
pearing here in the first Y. M .C. A.
Sunday lecture in the auditorium, will
be received with interest, especially by
the school children of Springfield. And
Miss Keller's visit will be a particular
treat owing to the fact, not generally
known, that her teacher. Miss Anne
gMansfield Sullivan, now Mrs. Macy,

who always accompanies her on her
lecture tours, is a native of-.,SpringfieI9
and spent her early years in this city.

She was born in •Spring-field in 1866.
Her experiences in, ^childhood and
youth were of the 'most distressing
character and owing to her very sever',
limitations her stock of information as
a child and young girl was painfully
meager. Even before the obscuration
of her vision occasioned by an accident
her struggles for the means of exist-
ence were so constant as to preclude
the possibility of her acquiring ever
the rudiments of knowledge. Henc€
when on Oct. 7, 1880, as an almost to-
tally blind girl of 14 she entered the
Perkins' institution in Boston she was
obliged to begin her education from the
lowest and most elementary point. Bui
she evinced those same qualities of per-
severence and hope that have char-
acterized the career of Miss Keller ant
when in February, 1887, her own sighi
restored, Mrs. Macy was called to as-
sume the education of Miss Keller, she
was well fitted for the position whicl
she has filled so admirably this quar-
ter of a century. The bond betweer
teacher and pupil is a close one whicl
accounts for Miss Keller's desire tha
Mrs. Macy should accompany her a?
,she tours the country .lecturing. ^^^

HELEN KELLFP^mr rASft,.
THKUWH CHATTANOOGT

Miss Helen Keller, it is reported, will
pass through Chattanooga some time
Wednesday in corhpany with her
teacher, Mrs. Macey, formel-ly Miss Sul-
livan, en route from Knoxville to flU
an engagement Thursday at Ward-Bel-
mont, Nashville. So far as is known,
Wednesday is free, and it is thought
that a Chattanooga organization may
make plans to secure a lecture from Miss
Keller, the wonderful girl who became
deaf, dumb and blind in babyhood, but
has had her powers of speech and hear-
ing artiticially restored. Such a lecture
would doubtless draw an immense audi-
ence in this city. At the present junc-
ture, however, it is not definitely known
If the lecture can be arranged.

~P'n^'^^d^cL^ii^\^^3^- " ^> vt^^ve-^uc^v.

THE F I SI ON OF A SOUL THAT SEES ^

WHEX, in this column four months ago, we called Helen Keller a,
modern miracle, our judgment was based on whaf^li^na^cconi-'
plished tojthat tin/e.
If, however, sheMfiji^rtef ore had done anything to justify such extreme,
haracterizatioki, we should not hesitate now so to designate her, resting
our rightSmeljObn her article on ''Blind Leaders" in the current^ monthly
number of t\e Outlook.

\ . Of course, it would be absurd under any but unique conditions to
Include in the category supernatural a literary production. But as you
read our quotations from her Outlook article, her view of things as they
lire and vision of things as they are to be, keep in mind the facts in hex*
onderful trai3tsformatiou. ~— — - " "»»^

At 19 months disease changed her fromTi bright, sunny-hearted child
■^a- creature scarcely human except in form — a young animal, and less.
For young animals are aided by instinct and certain senses. She, robbed' of
sight, hearing and speech, was a prowless, rudderless little hulk, adrift on
a sea of blackness, unable to control even the primary body functions.
^ Keep in mind the reincarnation of this dead mind, the liberation, of
this imprisoned spirit, brought about by one who, so far as it may be said of
any human power, had wrought a miracle. Ii?a personal letter prefacing
the Outlook article Helen Keller answers the criticisms of an adviser, who
^ears people won't believe she wrote ^'Blind Leaders" ; that they will say,
fi'How can one deaf and blind from infancy know about life, about people,
{ibout affairs 2":

I have visited sweatshops, factories, crowded slums of New York
. and Washington. Of course, I could not see the squalor; but if I could
{ not see it, I could smell it.

j, With my own hands I could feel pinched, dwarfed children tending

f, their younger brothers and sisters, while their mothers tended machines-
• in nearby factories.

Besides the advantages of books and of Ijersonal experience, I have

the advantage of a mind trained to think.^l In most people I talk with

thought is infantile. In the well educated it is rare. In time their minds

become automatic machines.
1 People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclu-

V sions; and conclusions are not always pleasant. They are a thorn in the

spirit. But I consider it a priceless gift and a deep responsibility to think.
Thought — intelligent thought — gives new jeyes to the blind and new ■

ears to the deaf. [

And here are some of the things intelligent thought has revealed tp
this blind one who sees, the deaf one who hears:

•\\'Iin wetoolc'a^ut nt %ith seeing eyes what do we behold?

Men and Momen at onr very doors wrung with hard labor, want or
the dread of want, needing help and receiving none; toiling for less than
^ living wage! If we had penetrating vision|[ I know that we could not,
we would not, have endured what we saw-^ruelt}% ignorance, poverty, •.
disease — almost all preventable, unnecessary.^

Our blind leaders, whom we have sent away, told us that the pov-
erty and misery of mankind were divinely ordained. They taught us
that the words, "Ye have the poor always with you," mean that Christ
sanctioned poverty as necessary and irremediable. Now we read the
gospel with our own eyes, and we see that Christ meant no such thing

Much poverty is abominable, unnecessary, a disgrace to our civiliza-
tion, or, rather, a denial that we are civilized. Let us trv to understand
poverty. * * *

The OAvnership of the world by a small class is the main cause of
poverty. Strange that we could not see it before, and that when we did
see It we accepted it in mind contentment!

Our blind guides consoled us by saying that there was much charity
and that the rich were generous and gave to the poor. * * *

In light I would have every one live and see clearly tp dispel all
darkness. Ihe diagnosis of evil is the beginning of cure. * * *

We lose nothing that man has gained by the sweat of his brow or
the genius of his brain. We are every day gaining a little more love
light and knowledge. We are not becoming blind; we are widening our
vision. W e are not losing our freedom, because we never had it. Free-
dom IS an ideal. Because it is an ideal I want to make it clear that most
of us are not free. If we understand that we are not free, we can work
toward our freedom. * * *

I speak from no personal "grouch" or disappointment For me life
has been one long caress of gentle words and gentle hands.

_ I Jove all men— rich men, poor men, beggar men, thieves. Million-
aires have been among my nearest, kindest friends. Henry Rogers was
one of the noblest men that ever lived, in spite of his millions.

Kindness and consideration have followed me all the days of my life
But I have seen the exaggerated inequality in the conditions of men, and
1 have studied the cause of this inequality.

ij ^"^^-^•^ ~^'^^ °^ ^^- ^^"^^ation. I am alive to new forces in the
world. Disturbmg ideas of dynamic power have penetrated the closed
doors of my mind and awakened in me a social conscience Not the
streani which has passed, but that which is passing, turns the wheel of
the mill.

When we inquire why things are as they are, the answer is, the foun-
dation ot society is laid upon a basis of individualism, conquest and
exploitation, with a total disregard of the good of the whole.

The structure of a society built upon such wrong basic principles is
bound to retard the development of all men, even the most successful
ones, because it tends to divert man's energies into useless channels and
to degrade his character. The result is a false standard of value=: Trade
and material prosperity are held to be the main objects of pursuit and
consequently the lowest instincts in human nature— love of gain cunning
and selfishness — are fostered. '

The output of a cotton mill or a coal mine is considered ot greater
importance than the production of 'healthy, happy-hearted free human
beings. '

Crushed, stupefied by terrible poverty, the workers yet demand that
they shall have some of the beauty, some of the comfort-, some of the
luxuries which they have produced. * * * We cannot loneer «hut
our eyes to these glaring evils. * * * ^ ^ ^

The time of blind struggle is drawing to a close. The forces gov-
erning the law of the survival of the fittest will continue to operate- but •
lhe3' will be under the conscious, intelligent control of man ' jM

In air my reading I am conscious of a multitudinous discontent.
Slowly man 'is waking up. * * * (The people— the great "common
herd" — are finding out what is wrong with the social, political and eco-
nomic structure of the system of which they are a part. * * *

This is not a time of gentleness, of timid beginnings that steal into
life with soft apologies and dainty grace. It is a time of loud-voiced,
open speech and fearless thinkmg; a time of striving and conscious man-
hood, a time of all that is robust and vehement and bold; time radiant
with new ideals, new hopes of a true democracy.

I love It. for , it thrills me and gives me a feeling that I shall face
great and terrible things. I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice
that T live in such a splendidly disturbing age.

Through the centuries, in spite of hindrances, persecutions, obloquy,
"what is to be picks its way" without apology, without fear. Without
asking your leave the new order emerges from the old.

To the powerful this condition of things is too absurd for patience —
the opposition of unreasoning iconoclasts to the traditions of the fathers
and the sacred rights of private property. '

In their blindness they think that they cian stay the onward march of
that dynamic power, silence the voice of Go«l in the land. * * *

The sun of brotherhood is emerging from the eclipse. It is this light
that has waked us It is showing us what we should see in our fel-
low-men.

We are finding out that workmen are not mere machines; they are
Men and Women. Imagination, sympathy and growing knowledge com-
pel us to share in their suffering and in their desires. We are uniting
our senses, our hands and our feelings to end cruel conditions under
which millions live, work and die. * * * ^

Steadily, surely, the new light is growing;, spreading like the morning
upon all lands. -!= * * j^. shall open all blind hearts, and it shall make
evident to every human soul our close dependence upon one another in
all the changes, the joys, the" sorrows of the world.

It is a light which shall banish the cloud of ignorance and the shadow
of man-wrought death. At last the deaf, blind, dumb multitude shall find
its soul, shall find its tongue!

This is the vision of Helen Keller. And we cannot but feel that its
inspiration is the same power as that which led her dumb, silent, sightless
soul into her wonder world of light and beauty and reason. 'None who]
knows her life can doubt that she has been dtting close to the feet of the
divine. And there she has felt the currents that are passing to human
kind — the urge behind the passionate striving for the better day.

In her wondrous soul she has a vision of the coming democrac.y. We
believe it is a vision which ultimately will be realized to the race through
whatever means it may be brought to pass. It is a. vision as full of truth
as the visions of the seers Qf old; for its source is the same divine light
II lii^ iHiq'MM <1 HiM |iMi|i1ii I of the Lord.

A Joyous Gospel

From Helen Keller

From E d w i t^.^ tf f''f(1 laTrv^^*^'*'**''"^

HELEN KELLER, in many ways the
most wonderful woman of the age,
has just published a book, "Out of
the Dark," through the Doubleday-Page
Company. In spite of both deafness and
blindness, she has conquered the knowl-
edge of ■the' world, and writes like a
fervent prophetess of many of our anx-
ious problems. Here are some timely
words of wisdom for the myriads of
young people who are just returning to

their work in the schools:

"In college you will be brought face
to face with nearly all the fundamental
questions of life, and you will learn how
many men have tried to solve them.
Hitch your wagon to a happy star, and
you also shall help to solve them. The
world needs your intellect, your scholar-
ship, but most of all your hearts — hearts
that are loving, brave, hopeful, happy.

"Does all this dream of high privilege
and noble service seem far beyond the
reach of your powers of mind? Re-
member what Senator Hoar said: 'Much
of the good work of the world has been
that of dull people who have done their
t^best.'

I "Fears and regrets have no place in
the vocabulary of youth, whose spirit
sets its white and shining wings toward
the purple shores of the promised land.
Be happy, talk happiness. Happiness
calls out responsive gladness in others.
There is enough sadness in the world
without yours. Rebel against the hard-
ness and injustice of things as much as
you like. It is always well to keep your,
fighting edge keen to smite wrongs'^
wherever you meet them. But neverf
doubt the permanence and excellence o£l
what is yet to be.

"The great, enduring realities are loye^
and service. Joy is the holy fire that!
keeps our purpose warm and our intelli-i
gence aglow. Work without joy shall
be as nothing. Resolve to keep happy <
and your joy and you shall form an in3
vincible host against difficulties. I

"Learn from your books not only the
day's lesson, but the life lesson. In all
knowledge, in the classics, in science, in
history and literature, and in mathe-
matics you will see the struggle of man
to get nearer to God. Resolve, then, as
you stand on the threshold of your stu-
dent days, with an enlightened optimism
to consecrate your education to the serv-
ice of others. When your thoughts be-
come pessimistic, when it seems as if
all men were deafened "by the tumult of
trade, blinded by self-interest and greed,
turn the pages of your history of Eng-
land, and you will find that the ideas
which shaped the Anglo-Saxon race were
not mean or sordid. American history,
too, is filled with heroes and martyrs
who joyfully pushed aside ambition and
gave their lives to the common weal.

"The world needs more of this spirit
of service. There is stil^f many a desert
place where the sun of love and t
light of truth have not shone."

iritj

MJSSmEimLEfi
AT AUDITORIUM

Miss Helen Keller and her teacher,
Mrs. Macy, will appear at the Ryman
Auditorium tonight, as the opening num-
ber of the papular lyceum course. In-
dications point to a record-breaking
crowd, and as the program starts
promptly at 8:15, the management urges
that all ticket-holders be on time. No
one will be seated during the address
of either Mrs. Macy or Miss Keller. Dr.
Ira B. Landrith of Ward-Belmont, will
Introduce the speakers. A number of
prominent citizens will occupy seats on
the stage, Including Chancellor J. H.
Kirkland of Vanderbilt University, Dr.
James I. Vance and Dr. Allen G. Hall.

Seats to both the course and to the
Keller engagement alone, are on sale at
the Houck Piano sore today, and wUl
be on sale at the box office tonight.

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G ot 0 b

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en K^JJlf is Well Posted on
urreilt Events, and Interprets
Meaning Intelligently.

The charm of Helen I'Celler, who Is
to lecture in Bangor City Hall, OcL
17 under the auspices of the Bangor
Teachers' club, lies not always in
what she does but often In the manner
of doing it. When speaking in public
she seems to really look at her audi-
ence with her sightless eyes and seems
I to hear their sighs of wonder and ad-
' miration as she tells them her joyous
story of rebirth and uplift into a world
of form and color, of sight and sound.
Her words come slowly as if carefully
weighed, but not haltingly as if with
great effort. She is so thoroughly en
rapport with all that is going on in
the world about her (she keeps well
posted on the latest news) it is no
mere hackneyed speech that is given
to the listeners, but a stirirng ac-
j^ount furnished and enlivened with
the happenings of the day.

She, is so very much alive — always
so eager for news of all that Is doing
in the busy world about her — she is
never satisfied with yesterday's recital
but adds to it and makes today's its
new and as fresh as If an entirely dif-
ferent matter from that of yesterday.

In conversation she shows the same
ability to entertain. She talks as in-
telligently about the news from the
far east aa she does about the squir-
rels in the yard about her home in
Massachusetts, or the different kinds
of mushrooms that she is able to dis-
tinguish by the sense of smell and
touch. She is as keenly alive to the
affairs of moment in Washington as
she is to the building of new nests by
her favorite birds on her front porch.

Her sense of humor is as much in
evidence as that of proportion. Her
visitors are not so amazed as they are
amused and entertained; they sesra
for the moment to be conversing with
a young lady as well blessed with fac-
ulties of speech and hearing and sight
as they, and equally able to carry on
the burden of the conversation of the
moment.

/ ■ ■ ■ -

MlraiE STORY
OF HtLEIjaiiR

Tlie story of Helen Keller and her
teacHer, Miss Sullivan (now Mrs. Johii
Macy), who will lecture in, Bangor City
Fall, Oct. 17, under the auspices of the
jiiangor Teachers' Club, is one of the
'.most marvelous educational stories of
modern times. Miss Keller became
blind and deaf at the age of nineteen
m.onths and although she has not been
able to use the senses of sight and
hearing since then, she has, through
the most patient and skillfnl teaching
1 7 [Mrs. Macy, become a highly eclyjiiais*
€l woman. She was graduated trom
Radcliffe College, the female depart-
ment of Harvard, 1904, receiving the
degree of B. A., cum laude (Avlth hon-
or). It would seem incredible that a
person who practically could never see
or hear should be able to tal^e up high-
er educational studies with marked dis--
tincticn and even, as has 'been the case,
hocome the author of books. One of
her books which she wrote in college,
The Story of My Life, has 'been trans-
lated into fifteen languages.

Mrs. Macy in her lecture will de-
scribe the circumstan,ces which led'^'tet
her becoming the teacher of Miss Kel-
ler and will detail the methods 'by
which she instructed Miss Keller and
thus opened the outside world to her,
which seemed locked forever.

The siubject of Miss Keller's lecture
will be The Heart and the Hand, or
the Right Use of CK^, Senses. AU'wlio^
have had anything io do with 'i:.he'-
training of children realize how almost,
superhuman must have bten the task
of teaching Miss Keller to eopeak . for
the first time.

Mrs. Macy will demonstrate her
method of circumiStanceS with Miss
Keller. These lectures are sure to
prove exceptionally interesting to Ban-
gor people, and a heavy demand for
tickets is expected.

• The

Helen Keller to Lecture J

''he lecture to be given in Davis
hall, Monday afternoon, October 13,
by Miss Helen Keller and Mrs. John
Macy has been called the most in-
structive lecture, from a human and
scientific point of view, that the pub-
lic has ever had the opportunity to
hear. Mrs. Macy, the beloved Miss
Sullivan, will speak first and tell the
story of that wonderful achievemenf
in education by which the world was
opened to Helen Keller, an achieve-
ment in which we do not know
whether to wonder more at the
genius of the scholar or the rare
patience and devotion of the teacher.
Miss Keller's subject will be "The
Heart and the Hand — or the Right
Use of our Senses."

It has been only within the past year
that her voice has been so trained
that she can address large audiences.
It is hoped that many will avail
themselves of this chance to hear
two of the most remarkable women
of the present time.

The lecture will be at a quarter to
four on Monday afternoon, October
13, in Davis Hall. The price of ad-
mission is 50 cents.

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JOYOUS GOSPEL FROM HELEN KELLER

(y^^^ FROM EDWIN MARKHAM

^^lelen Keller, in many ways the most wonderful wom-
an oMlPSIiif^Hfcfc just published a book, "Out of the
Dark," through the Doubleday-Page Company. In spite
'of both deafness and blindness, she has conquered the
knowledge of the worft!?"*'Wll#"««'W'rites like a fervent
prophetess of many of our anxious problems. Here are
some timely words of wisdom for the myriads of young
people who are just returning to their work in the
schools:

"In college you will be brought face to face with
nearly all the fundamental questions of life, and you
will learn how many men have tried to solve them.
Hitch your wagon to a happy star, and you also shall
help to solve them. The world needs your intellect, your
scholarship, but most of all your hearts — hearts that are
loving, brave, hopeful, happy.

"Does all this dream of high privilege and noble serv-
ice seem far beyond the reach of your powers of mind?
Remember what Senator Hoar said: 'Much of the good
work of the world has been that of dull people who have
done their best.'

"Fears and regrets have no place in the vocabulary of
youth, whose spirit sets its white and shining wings to-
ward the purple shores of the promised land. Be hap-
py, talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive glad-
ness in others. There is enough sadness in the world
without yours. Rebel against the hardness and injustice
of things as much as you like. It is always well to keep
your fighting edge keen to smite wrongs wherever you
meet them. But never doubt the permanence and ex-
cellence of what is yet to be.

"The great, enduring realities are love and service.
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our
intelligence aglow. Work without joy shall be as noth-
ing. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall
form an invincible host against difficulties.

MISS KELLER'S ESSAYS

OUT OF THE DARK. By Helen Keller.
Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, Pagre Sc
Co. 11)13.

THE writings of Helen Keller, re-
gardless of subject matter, should'
continue for a long time to be of inter-
est to the public. The record of Miss
Keller's marvelous achievement in get-
ting into touch with the world about her,
set down in " The Story of My Life,"
presents the details of an educational
feat of an unusual nature, and bristles
with suggestions of much that is still to

be done for the blind by their more fort-
unate fellows. Miss Keller's latest pub-
lication, however, is more than the work
of an interesting " case," or " genius,"
as some would name her. " Out of the
Dark " is a collection of various maga-
zine articles, letters and addresses, writ-
ten by the author in the past few years,
and is expressive of the views of a sym-
pathetic, enthusiastic, and intelligent
young woman on the live questions of
the day.

Among the various topics discussed are
socialism, capital and labor, higher edu-
cation for women, woman suffrage, and
the problem of the blind. Naturally,
Miss Keller's opinions as to what should
be done for the blind will be of the
greatest interest to the reader ; her so-
cialistic and economic theories, although
well put, contain nothing new or start-
ling to those who keep up with the dis-
cussions of these subjects.
The articles on the blind and deaf,
however, give prominence to an actual
need with what may be regarded as an
authoritative statement of how to meet
it. " Our Duties to the Blind," *' What
the Blind Can Do," " Preventable Blind-
ness," " The Education of the Deaf,"
are some of the titles. Many of these
are reprints of addresses delivered by
Miss Keller before Massachusetts and
New York associations working for the
cause of the blind. Other miscellaneous
essay's, " Christmas in the Dark " and
" The Message of Swedenborg," throw
light on the personality of the author
and her courageous spirit in the face
of her misfortune. The book should

draw attention both as propaganda and
as the work of one in whom a number
of people are tremendously interested.

ANDOVER

l^N KELLER'S LECTURE.

le lecture to be given in Davis
hall, Monday afternoon, October 13, by
Miss Helen Keller _and TMrs. John

structive lecture, from a human and
scientific point of view, that the pub-
lic has ever had the opportunity to
hear. Mrs. Macy, the fceloved Miss
Sullivan, will speak first and *eli the
story of that wonderful achievement
in education by which t*he world was
opened to Helen Keller, an achieve-
ment in which we do not know
whether to wonder more at the
genius of the scholar or the rare
patience and devotion of the teacher.
Miss Keller's subject will be "The
Heart and the Hand — or the right
Use of our Senses."

The lecture will be at a quarter to
four on Monday afternoon, Octoiber 13,
in Davis hall.

Hefeo" Keller's New Book.

The condition of woman in modern
society, the higher edacation of women,
MiaiiiHriiii. and its prevention, edu-
cation of the blind and other import-
ant subjects are taken up in Helen
Keller's new book , "Out of the Dark,"
published this week by Doubleday,
Page & Co. Upon these subjects Miss
Keller brings to bear her marvelously
clear ideas. She writes with a strcns:th
and understanding of her time. Just
far enough removed by blindness from
the daily grind and glare of the street
to free her vi.sion, from small distrac-
tions and give her writings a wonderful
quality of unhampered clearness, the
title of the book is particularly signifi-
cant. I

lELEN KELLEB ENGAGED.

^vferhill Teachers' Association
Plans Series of Lectures

The program of lectures which has been
made up for the Haverhill Teachers' as-
sociation this season, is one of exception-
al interest with Miss Helen Keller, the
blind girl, as one of the lecturers.

Miss Kelleher is booked to appear here
oh December 2 and Mrs. Macy, her
teacher and companion, will accompany
her, giving her life story and the storj'
of her education. Then Miss Keller will
deliver her own lecture on "The Heart
and Hand, or "The Right Use of the
Senses" in which she describes her own
wonderful, ability.

The committee has reported its pro-,
gram for the season and the course op-
ens on Nov. 3, with Marshall Darrahi
Shakesperian lecturer in his reading o|
"A Midsummer Night's Dream." Th4J
week following, Nov. 10, he will read|
Hamlet and his third offering will b^
"The Merchant of Venice," Nov. 17. ?

Then will come Miss Keller, the great-
est attraction of the season and the as-

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ONCE DUMB, NOW SPEAKS

Miss Helen Keller and her teacher,
\Lis'S'*N^iriiiNM^MHNi^ Mrs. John Macy,
will lecture in the First Methodist
ehnrcli, next Friday evening, Octobe:* 10.

The story of Helen Keller and her
teacher, Miss Sullivan, is one of the
most marvelous educational stories o!?
modern times. Miss Keller became
blind and deaf at the age of nineteen
months and although she has not been
able to use the senses of sight and hear-
ing since then, she has, through the
most patient and skillful teaching of
Mrs. Macy become a highly educated
woman. She was graduated from Rad-
cliffe college, the female department of
Harvard, 1904, receiving the degree of
B. A. cum laude (with honor). It would
seem incredible that a person who prac-
tically could never see or hear should
be able to take up higher educational
studies with marked distinction and
even, as has been the case, become the
author of books. One of the ''looks which
she wrote in college, "The Story of My
Life," has been translated into 15 lan-
guages. .„

Mrs. Mncy in her* lecture will des-
cribe the circumstances which led to her
becoming the teacher of Miss Keller
and will detail the methods by which she
instructed Miss Keller and thus opened
the outside world to her, which seemed
locked forever.

The subject of Miss Keller's lecture
will be "The Heart and the Hand, ot
the Right Use of Our Senses." All whc
have had anything to do with the train-
ing 01 children realize how almost super-
human must have been the task oi
teaching Miss Keller to speak for thi
first time.

Mrs. Macy will demonstrate her metb
od of communicating with Miss Kellej
tIicso lectures will prove interesting t
people AAho will thus have an oppoi
'tugityvery early to hear these work

COLLEGE CLUB
AOMIIS TWELVE

Greetings Extend# by Presi-
dent, Miss Bertha Loheed. ,

MISS KELLER'S LECTURE

Will be the First Large Event of
the Season.

Events for the coming year were
discussed at the first meeting of the
season of the College Club of Brock-
ton held Monday afternoon at the
home of the president, Miss Bertha
M. Loheed, on Clifton avenue. An ad-
dress of greeting was given by the
president, who spoke of the brilliant
prospect for the coming year. The
opening event of the year will be the
lecture to be given Tuesday evening
in High school assembly hall when
Miss Helen Keller will appear with
her teacher, Mrs. Annie Sullivan Ma-
cey. Miss Keller will give a brief ad-
dress on "The Heart and the Hand,"
following an address by Mrs. Macey
who will tell of the long years of
struggle which resulted in the educa-
tion of the blind girl.
. Twelve new members were admit-
ted to the club, the following ten be-
ing received into full membership:
Genevieve Clark, Mt Holypke, 1910;
Martha Kelley, Wellesley- 1910; Elea-
nor Cox, Wellesley, 1909; Corinne
Hewins, Radcliffe, 1911; SalliQ
Morse, Wellesley, 1913; Rachel Whi^
comb, Vassar, 1913; Mary Beach, Vas-
sar, 1913; Mrs. James Madden, Univer-
sity of Vermont; Mrs. H, Guild Tuck-
er, Simmons, 1907; Ruth Gilmore, Mt

Holyoke, 19(37; associate members
elected were Marion B. Pierce, Smith
and Marjorie Hughes, Simmons.

The programme for the year is out-
lined as follows: Oct. 6, Greeting day;
Oct. 14, Helen Keller lecture; Nov.
10, lecture on "Panama and the Carib-
beans" by Harold Chessman Keith;
Dec. 8, Thimbles and Stories; Dec. 29,
undergraduate reception; Jan. 12,
guest night; Feb. 9, lecture, "Constan-
tinople in the Winter of 1912," by
Mary Hathaway, formerly teacher in
the American College for Girls at
Constantinople; March 9, club ban-
,quet at Commercial Club; April 13,

fipen date; May 11, annual meeting at
, he Commercial Club in charge of the
mew members. The date for the an-
nual dramatics has not been set.
_y Officers and directors for the year
are as fallows: President, Miss Ber-
tha M. Loheed; vice-president, Mrs.
Harold C. Keith; corresponding sec-
jtetary. Miss Edith M. Cook; recording
/secretary, Miss Grace Perry; treas-

er. Miss Bessie Kingman; director
wo years, Mrs. J. H. Averill; di-
rector for one year. Miss Margaret Ed-
pon of Whitman.

The standing committees are made
up as follows:

Membership committee — Miss Stel-
la MacCracken, Miss Ethel M. Wales
and Miss Mildred Battles.

ouse, Miss Belle Dalton, Mrs.

mes P. Keith, Miss Clara M. Keith.
J Nominating — Miss Marian Rey-
molds. Miss Sadie McGrorey, Miss
pMlldred Hall.
■^ Auditing — Mrs. Edmund Wright.

Scholarship — Mrs. R. W. Nutter,
term expires 1914; Mrs. W. H. Emer-
son, term expires 191'5; Miss Belle
-Dalton, term expires 1916; Mrs. J. H.
|Averill and Mrs. Bessie Kingman, dl-
|*ector members.

I Following the business session a so-
fcial hour was enjoyed and refresh-
pofients served under the direction of
flfkliBS Belle Dalton and Miss Clara M.
pkeith.

C^-'O ne-'T'

r.„

j — It is expected that a large number,
of Athol people will go to OraAenext.
Thursday evening to attend therreWSfSr
I by M iss H el en Kell eran^ her teacher,
: Mrs I\l!'5Cy7«W!lW"W!WHmll. It will be
an interestng and unique event. The^
story of this deaf, dumb and blind girl's ,
achievements is familiar to all our read-
[ers. She is one of the wonders of the
day, and has excited the interest and
amazement of educators, scientists and
philanthropists the world over.

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W«>lo||i Kyller a Socialist —

^fllMiili Keller appeared in Phila-
delphia recently she was asked trom
the audience if she was a real Social-
ist or only a parlor Socialist, and she
answered back quickly, "A real one."
Her teacher then asked her to cell
again what kind of Socialist she was.
and Miss Keller replied. "A sure-
enough one." This reply brought forth
applause from the audience, and Miss
Keller was asked if she could tell
when there was applause, to which
she answered "yes."

Miss Keller is a self-confessed So-
cialist, but If the following- extract
from hev Philadelphia address may be
taken as an example, she is also a
poet:

"But the starless night of V)lindness
has its wonders. The wind on my
cheek touches my imagination. There
is a divinity that can only be felt
through the imagination and thiough
courage. Liove can rend asunder the
iron gates of darkness. Devotion
breaks t.hroui^h the high walls of
pride and ignorance. The world is lulj
of love.'" —

T a^-y^lY^

, yVUao5S.^ ^-KulTe-r .J-r-LS-e^-

The most interesting woman in the
world, deaf, dumb and blind, now
speaks. Town hall, Thursday evening,
Oct. 9. Reserved seat tickets 50 cents;
200 seats at 75 cents and 100 seats at
25 cents, at Cheney's.

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Helen Keller's ISTew Book.

The con*Hk)n of woman In modern so-
ciety, the \highejr^ education of women,
bliiyto6ittB--afMl'«TOr prevention, education ofi
the blind and other Important subjects'
are taken up In Helen Keller's new book.

Out of the Dark." published this week
•by Doubleday, Page & Co. Upon these
subjects Miss Keller brings to bear her
marvelously clear Ideas. She writes with
that strength and understanding of her
tjme, and with that freshness and clear-
ness of vision which has brought her to
the position, not considering her affliction,
of one of the leadlpg women thinkers in
the country. Just far enough removed by
^^"dness from the daily grind and glare
of the street, to give her vision from small
distractions and give her writings a won-
derful quality of unhampered clearness,
the title of the book Is particularly sig-
nificant.

Des ivloL^T^eb, loWA^, Tl^g-ugte-

vT-T EEAI4 COURAGE.

A newTjook by Helen Keller called
"Out of tlie Da 1' H ' II ffS"SW**Pwi»rtli e
alwa3''s acute Interest in this unique
and delightful personality and one
reads repeatedly of the •wonderful
courage "whloh the young woman has
shown In the face of her misfortune.
This courage is Indeed a strong and
lieautiful thing, but It eeems as if
we give her only half the credit due
her when we continually emphasize
her misfortune. Miss Keller is won-
derful first of all because she has
overcome great obstacles but she is
also distinguished because she has
been willing and able to be herself
and has not tried continually to
malce herself into somebody else.

All of us have limitations, not so
apparent as Miss Keller 'a« but fro^

fail to conquer these largely because
we recognize them as individual re-
strictions and yet fall to apply in-
dividual remedies. We are continu-
ally trying to imitate somebody else
and continually failing to develop the
best within ourselves. Miss Keller
was at first unable to recognize what
the world thought about her. That
may have been one means d her
salvation.

She has come "out of -the dark"
With her own individuality Intact.
That seems one of the greatest won-
ders about her. She is not a mere
echo of somebody else. Her limita-
tions have made her unlike any
other person, perhaps, and so she
has recognized these and developed
her personality by overcoming them
in her own way. It take tf the great-
est courage imaginable, this matter
of simply being ourselves, this abiU

ity to forget ourselves and look upon
the -world from something of an Im-^
personal point of view.
' Helen Keller has had to forgret
that her senses were restricted in
Iprder to comprehend her envlron-
linent as others comprehend it. We
jQeed to forget our little cringing,
liaarrowing personalities in order to
grasp any detached, comprehensible
view of the world. It Is only thus
Jjthat we may In any real sense comA
out of the most disastrous kind of
darkness, that of having •eyes and
seeing not. It takes real fortitude
to face actualities and overcome
them. It Is so much easier to per-
suade ourselves that this Isn't neces-
sary, that we really have no serious
faults to overcome. That Helen Kel
ler has realized her restrictions, ha
overcome them while realizing them
and has had the brave cheerfulne
to face an alien world and make
her own — this seems an Inspiring e
ample for any of us.

ANDOVER

Helen Keller to Lecture.

A mowt I imiMitaliiijng and instructive
lecture is that to be grlven in Davis hall,
Abbot Academy, next Monday after-
noon. Miss Helen Keller, assisted by
Mrs. John Macy, will deliver the lect-
ure. Her tutor, formerly Miss Sulli-
van, will tell first, the story of the
wonderful achievement in education by
which the world was opened to Helen
Keller, a triumph of patience and de-
votion on the part of the teacher and
of genius in the scholar. Miss Keller
will follow and her subject will be "'The
Heart and the Hand; or the right use
of our senses." \

It has only been within the past year
that her voice has been so trained that
she can address large audiences. It is
hoped that many will avail themselves
of this chance to hear two of the most
remarkable women of the present time..

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HELEN KELLER TO LECTURE.

Sifci^*^'-

leiecture to be given in Davis hall,
Abbot academy, Monday afternoon, Oc-
tober 13th, by Miss Helen Keller and
Mrs. John Macy, has been called the
hiost instructive lecture, from a human
and scientific point cf view, that the
public has ever had the opportunity to
hear. Mrs. Macy, the beloved Miss
Sullivan, vv^ill speak nrst and tell the
story of the wonderful achievement in
education by which the world was
opened to Helen Keller, an achievement
Jn which one does not know whether
to wonder more at the genius of the
"scholar or the rare patience and devo-
tion of the teacher.

Miss Keller's subject will be "The
Heart and the Hand — or the Right Use
of our Senses."

It has been only within the past year
that her voice has been so trained that
Bhe can address large audiences. It is
hoped that many will avail themselves
of this chance to hear two of the most
remarkable women of the present time.

The lecture will be held at 3: 45 -p.m.

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HELEN KELLER TO LECTURE.

fure to be given in Davis hall
Abbot academy, Monday afternoon, Oc
tober 13th, by Miss Helen Keller an(
Mrs. John Macy, has been called th<
most instructive lecture, from a humar
and scientific point of view, that th(
public has ever had the opportunity tc
hear. Mrs. Macy, the beloved Miss
Sullivan, will speak first and tell th<
story of the wonderful achievement ir
education by which the world wajs
opened to Helen Keller, an achievement
in which one does not know whethei
to wonder more at the genius of the
.scholar or the rare patience and devo-
tion of the teacher.

Miss Keller's subject will be. "The
Heart and the Hand — or the Right Use
of our Senses."

It has been only within the past year
that her voice has been so trained that
fihe can address large audiences. It is
hoped that many will avail themselves
of thia chance to hear two of the most
remarkable women of the present tifne
^•^-Jhe lecture will be held at^3:45 p.m

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KELLER LECTURE

ne ' I'fl'WIS'Snd TIckeU Taken
i^H^ at Advanced Sale, fl^wii**''^

t Nearly 1000 tickets were exchanged
I Wednesday under the auspices of the
jBrockton College club for the Helen
I Keller lecture to be delivered Tues-
day evening in high school assembly
hall. Miss Keller and her teacher,
Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, will be
present.

The sale was conducted in the store
of M. Steinert & Sons Co., 25 Main
street, and a long line of advance
ticket purchasers was on hand at the
opening of the sale in the early fore-
noon, and business continued brisk
through the afternoon and evening.

The sale was continued today. All
who hold exchange tickets are urged
to return or exchange them immediate-
ly in order to assist the committee in
its work. Until all are returned or
exchanged the committee is unable to
tell whether those who have placed
their names on the waiting list as de-
sirous of purchasing tickets can be ac-
commodated. So many went to secure
seats without having exchange tickets
that a waiting list had to be establish-
ed by those in charge.

High' school assembly hall seats
1160, and the advance sale of tickets
assures a large audience to greet Miss
Keller. The sale Thursday was con-i
ducted under the direction of Mrs. W.I
H. Emerson, chairman of the lecture
ijammittee, Mrs. J. Howard Field and

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October nr ^ ^-

Helfcn Keller's sense of color is truly
a remarkable sense.

"Do I take interest in my clothes?"
asked Helen Keller the other day.

"I most certainly do. Every girl
does, Eve did, didn't she, and why
shouldn't we of this day who have so
many sJiades and fabrics from which
to make our choice?"

"Helen always selects her own
clothes," added Mrs. Macy, Miss Kel-
ler's teacher. "She takes the liveliest
interest in everything to wear and her
instinct in color schemes never fails.
She declares that she ifinds the colors
she desires in the sky and flowers
about her and chooses those that she
knows will harmonize with what she
is doing and saying."

This very interesting woman de-
serves to be greeted by a capacity
house when she appears for her lec-
ture in Bangor City Hall on Oct. 17,
under the auspices of the Bangor
Teachers' Club. Tickets are now sell-
ing at Miss McSkimmon's library, Mer-
rill's drug store, Brewer, and among
the club members.

People living out of town may ex-
change advance tickets by mail at the
Water Board Office. City Hall.— advt.

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The Heleii ' KelT^fTlecture Tuesday
evening iiiiiuMllilll9*ilflhiU4§|ji^st as large a
number of people as any event planned
for the next few weeks. The lecture
will be given in high school assembly
hall under the auspices of the Brockton
College club. The proceeds will be
added to the regular scholarship fund
of the club.

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[ELEJV KELLERLECTURE

'hursday evening, October 16,
Pen Keller and her teacher, Mrs.

[acy, will lecture in the Methodist
Church. It is hardly necessaiy to say
that all who can should hear this re-
markable woman as well as her teach-
er and the following remarks^ gleaned
here and there, will only emphasize
the opinion all thinking men and wo-
men have had for years.

"The two most interesting charac-
ters of the nineteenth century are
Napoleon and Ilellen Keller." — Mark
Twain.

"No invention, no disco-very appears
so wonderful as the achievements of
this mind that has vaulted, tunneled
and ci;"cuij.i vented the thri':e-barred
gates of sense." — Richard Watson
Gilder.

"No other treatise on education "will
give to a conscientious student so
much light as to the principles of ed--
ucation as the appendix of Miss Sul-
livan to the I^ife of Miss Keller.
That appendix goes quite in detail
into the methods or processes by
which Miss Sullivan was able to lead
her pupil from step to step." — Ed-
ward Everett Hale.

"It seems as if her soul was flooded^
with light and tilled with music that
has found entrar-ce to it through ave-
nues closed to other mortals. An-
thropologist, metaphysician, most of
all theologian, here is a lesson which
can teach you much that you will"
not find in your primers and cate-
chisms."— Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Helen's remarkable achievements
are as much due to the genius of her
teacher as to her own brilliant mind."
— Dr. Alexander Graham Bell.

"Miss Helen Keller has become so
much a national institution — like Ni-
agara Falls, the Bunker Hill Monu-
ment and the memory of George
Washington — that one hesitates to
proclaim any discovery concerning
her, for fear it has been made already
by some one else. What 1 have found
out is merely that Helen Keller is
that rarity of rarities, a genius." —
Joseph B. Gilder.

Remember the place and time —
Methodist church, Fairfield, Thursday
the 16th.

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GOSPEL OF HELEM KELLER

'\^ Selected by Edwin Markham

^"tKlen Keller, In many ways the
most wonderful 'woman of the age,
has just published a book, "Out
of the Dark," through Doubleday-
Page Company. In spite of both
deafness and blindness, she has
conquered the knowledge of the
world, and writes like a fervent
prophetess of many of our anx-
ous problems. Here are some
timely words of wisdom for the
myriads of young' people who are
just returning to their work in the
iichools:

"In colleg-e you will be brought
face to face with nearly all the
fundamental questions of life,
and you will learn how many inen
have tried to solve them. Hitch
your wagon to a happy star, and
you also will help to solve them.
The 'world needs your intellect,
your scholarship, but most of all
your hearts — hearts that are lov-
ing, brave, hopeful, happy.

"Does all this dream of high pri-
vileg-e and noble service seem far
beyond the reach of your powers
of mind? Remember what Senator
Hoar said: 'Much of the good
work of thfr world has been that
of dull people v/ho have done their
befct'

"Fears and regrets have no
place in the vocabulary of youth,
whose spirit sets its white and
shining wings toward the purple
shores of the promised land. Be
happy, talk happiness. Happi-
ness calls out responsive gladness
in others. There is enough sad-
ness in the world without yours.
Rebel against the hardness and in-
justice of things as much as you
Tike. It is always well to keep
your fighting edge keen to snjite
wrongs 'wherever you meet them.
But never doubt the permanence
and 'excellence of what is yet to

"The great, enduring realities
are iove and service. Joy is the
holy fire that keeps our purpose
w^arm and our intelligence aglow.
Work without joy shall be as
nothing. Resolve to keep happy.

and your joy and you shall form
an invincible host against difficul-
11 eg.

"Learn from your books not
only the day's lesson, but the life
lesson. In all knowledge, in the
classics, science, in history and
literature and in mathematics you
r.'ill see the struggle of man to
• get nearer to God. Resolve, then,
as you stand on the threshold of
your student daj's. with enlight-
ened optimism to consecrate your
education to the service of others.
When your thoughts become pes-
simistic, when it seems as if all
men were deafened by the tumult
of trade, blinded by self-interest
and greed, turn to the pages of
your history of England, and you
will find that the ideals which
shaped the Anglo-Saxon race were
not mean or sordid. American
history, too, is filled with heroes
and martyrs who joyfully pushed
apide ambition and gave their
lives to the common weal.

"The world needs more of this
ppirit o." service. There Is still
many a desert place where the sun
of love and the light of truth have
noC shone."

T^K^^^**"^*^'^ will publish in full
on sSlwdiy, October 12, the article on
**The Modern Woman" by Mis
_which was on Septeml

part of the Congressional
Record on motion of Hon. Henry
George of New York.

It is a remarkable paper, not only
because it -was written by a woman
who is both deaf and blind and was
for many y«ars also dumb, but be-
^'oLUse it most ably treats a question
of ab?^orbing present-day interest
from ar original point of view. It re-
veals that if the physical \ision of
Helen Jveller has been destroyed, her
mental vjsion is luminously clear and
Bj^ccuratr.

To every woman especially will the
-&fJticle_ajEij2^al.

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Sightless Eyes, She Sees
Vision of Poverty.

Enters a Denial That We Are a
Civilized People,

(From the Philadelphia North Ameri-

oau.)

When in tliis column four months ago,
we called Helen Keller a modern miracle
our! judgment was based on what she
had accomplished to that time.

If, hoAvever, she never before had done
anything to justify such extreme charac-
terization, we should not hesitate now so
to designate her, resting our right soTely
on her article on "Blind Leaders" in the
current monthly number of the Outlook.

Of course, it would be absurd under
any but unique conditions to include in
the category supernatural a literary pro-
duction. But as you read our quotations
from her Outlook article, her view of
things as they are and vision of things
as they are to be, keep in mind the facts
in her wonderful transformation.

At HO mouths disease changed her
from a bright, sunny-hearted child to a
creature scarcely human except in form
— a- young animal, and less. For young
animal, and less. For young animals
are aided by instinct and certain senses.
She, robbed of sight, hearing and speech,
was a prowless, rudderless little hulk,
adrift on a sea of blackness, unable to.
control even the primary body functions.

Keep in mind the reincarnation of
this dead mind, the liberation of this im-
prisoned spirit, brought about by one
Avho, so far as it may be said of any hu-
man power, had wrought a miracle. In,

a personal letter pref acinjr the Outlook
article Helen Keller answers the criti-
cisms of an adviser, who fears people
Avon't believe she Avrote"Blind Leaders ;"
that they will say, **How can one deaf
and blind from infancy know about lif^»
abont people, about affairs?"

I have visited sweatshops, factorieist
crowded clume of New York and Wash-
ington. Of course, I could not see the
squalor; but if I could not see it, I could
smell it.

With my own hands I could feel
pinched dwarfed children tending their
younger brothers and sisters, while their
mothers tended machines in nearby fac-
tories.

Besides the advantages of books and
of personal experience. I have the ad-
vantage of a mind trained to think. In
most people I talk with thought is infan-
tile. In the well educated it is rare. In
time their minds become automatic ma-
chines.

People do not like to think. If one j
thinks, one must reach conclusions; and i
conclusions are not ahvays pleasant.They
are a thorn iu the spirit. But I consider
it a priceless gift and a deep responsibil-
ity to think. .

Thought — intelligent thought— gives
new eyes to the blind and new ears to
the deaf.

And here are some of the things intel-
ligent thought has revealed to this blind
one who sees, the deaf one who hears: —
|< When we look about us with seeing
|eyes what do we behold V

Men and women at our very doors
wrung with hard labor, want or the dread
of want.ueeding help and receiving none; j
toiling for less than a living wage I If we '
had penetrating vision, I know that we
could not, we would not, have endured
what we saw— cruelty, ignorance, pover^
ty, 'disease^— almost all preventable, un-
necessary.

Our blind leaders, whom wo have sent
away, told us that the poverty and mis- ;
ery of mankind were divinely ordained.
They taught us that the words. "Ye have
the poor always with you," mean that
Christ sanctioned poverty as

necessary and irremediable. Now ^
we read the gospel with our own eyes,
and we see that Christ meant no such, i
thing.

' Much poverty is abominable, uuneces-
'^sary, a disgrace to our civilization, or
•rather, a denial that we are civilize^.
■Let uatry to understand poverty. * * *
v' The ownership of the world by a small
kfelass is the main causci of poverty.
Strange that we could not see it before,
and that when we did see it we accept-
ed it in blind contentment.
aL»0^^i-' blind guides consoled us by saying

that there was much charity and that
the rich were generous and gave to the
poor: * * *

In light I would have ever.v one live
and see clearly to dispel all darkness. The
diagnosis of evil is the beginning of
cure. * * *

We lose nothing that man has gained

j by the sweat of his brow or the genius

of his brain. We are every day gaining a

little more love,light and knowledge. We

are not becoming blind; we are wjdening

our vision. We are not losing our fre'e-

dom, because we never had it. Freedom

i« an ideal. Because it is an ideal I want

to make it clear that most of us are not

free. If we understand that we are not

free, we can work toward our freedom.
* « * ■

I speak of no personal "grouch" or
disappointment. For ine life has been
one long caress of gentle words and gen-
tle hands.

I love all men — rich men, poor men,
beggar men, thieves. Millionaires have,
been among my nearest, kindest friends.
Henry Rogers was one of the noblest
men that ever lived, in spite of his miL-

Kindness and consideration tlam.fol*
lowed me all the days of my life. .But 1
have seen the exaggerated inequality it^
the conditions of men, and I ,.hay0.'
studied the cause of this ineqality."
, ' 1 am a child of my generation. 1 am
alive to new forces in the world. -Dis-
turbing ideas of dynamic power have
penetrated the closed doors of my mind
and. awakened in me a social conscience,
not the stream which has passed, but
that which is passing, turns the wheel of
the mill.

' When we inquire why things are »8
they are, the ai^iiwer is, the foundation
of society is laid upon a basis of individ-
ualism, conquest and exploitation, with
a total disregard of the good of the
whole. ,

The structure of a society built upon
such wrong basic principles is bound to
retard the development of all men, even
the most successful ones, because it
tends to divert man's energies into use-
less channels and to- degrade his charac-
ter. The result is a false standard of
values. Trade and material prosperity
are held to be the main objects of pur-
suit, and consequently the lowest in-
stincts, in human nature — love of gaiU,
cunning and seltishness — are fostered.

The output of a cotton mill or a coal
mine is considered of greater importance
than the production of healthy, happj*--
hearted, free human beings.

Crushed, stpuetied by terrible poverty,
the Avorkers yet demand that they jjhull

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The Helen Keller lecture at the
Methodist church Saturday evening Is
undoubtedly the most important at-
traction that has come to Westfield
for years. Mark Twain says: "The
two most interesting characters of the
19th century are Napoleon and Helen
Keller." The life story of Miss Kel-
ler is not complete unless the nape
of Mrs, Macy (Anne Sullivan) is con-
nected thereto. The opportunity to
see and hear both of those wonderful
women will he welcomed 'by this com-
munity. The importance of their lec-
ture is recognized 'by the fact that Sat-
urday, Oct. 11, was the only date they
could be secured during the present
fall and winter. In order that those
who work until 9 o'clock Saturday
night may hear Miss Keller, arrange-
ments have ibeen made for Mrs. Macy
jto lecture first telling of the life his-
tory and struggle of Helen Heller.
Miss Keller will not begin her lec-
ture until a'bout ten minutes past nine.
At the conclusion of her lecture the
audience will be requested to ask her
questions which will be transmitted
to her hy her life-long teacher. Any-
one therefore who cannot reach the
church until 9.1'0' will he amply re-
paid and will hear all of Helen Kel-
ler's lecture. The doors of the
church will be opened at 7.15 p. m.
Mrs. Macy will lecture at a few min-
utes past eight and Miss Keller at a
ittle after nine. The program will
he concluded in time for all out-of-
town people to catch the 10 o'clock
cars.

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There Will Be 38 of Them a

Lecture by Miss Keller

in This City.

Miss Edith M. Lovell has been se-
lected as head usner at the lecture to
be given by Miss Helen Keller under
the auspitea ut tins BilKlLluir College
Club next Tuesday evening in the
assembly hall of the High school. Her
assistants will be Miss Belle Dalton,
Miss Clara Keith and Miss Vesta
Crocker. The ushers are to be Miss
Blanche Mills, Mrs. Ernest E. Dewyer,
Mrs. Harold C. Keith, Mrs. William
G. Allen, Mrs. Edmund Wright, Mrs.
James Buckley, Mrs. W. Percy Ar-
nold, Misses Rachel Whitcomb, Ethel
Wales, Irvina Hersey, Margaret Ed-
son, Hazel Hall, Ruth Cosgrove, Ma-
rion Reynolds, Edith Kelley, Marion
Folsora, Marjorie Stone, Mildred Bat-
tles, Marion Pierce.

Miss Bessie R. Kingman will have
charge of the ushers in the balcony,
her chief assistant to be Miss Alice
Poole. The ushers: Misses Genevieve
Claik, Marjorie Hughes, Lucy Studley,
Jessie Barber, Clara Cooke, Mary
Hays, Elizabeth Watson, Althea Rus-
sell, Alice and Eleanor Farrar, Susie
Jordan, Saidie McGrory.

Mrs. William H. Emerson will be
it the head of the stairway, second
loor, to greet and direct the guests,
issisted by Mrs. Frederick G. Elton
md Miss Marjorie Wheeler. The ticket
sellers will be Misses Edith Cook
and Ethel Caryl and the tickets will
be received by Mrs. J. Howard Field
and Miss Helen Abbott, with Misses
Grace Perry and Mildred Winslow :is

P'SSlStantS, vrmgfn'i^

The exchange of tickets began Wed-
nesday morning and at an early hour
a long line of ticket holders was
formed, and the seating capacity of
the hall was practically filled. There
are still a few holders of ticket:!
who have not exchanged, and these
are urged to do so at the earliest pos-
sible moment in order that *ie com-
mittee may know just what seats are
available.

Owing to the unexpected and un-
precedented demand for tickets it is
possible that arrangements may be
made for extra seats.

Probably no American woman 1 s
better known throughout the world
than Helen Keller. For years the
former deaf, dumb and blind girl
had been longing for the opportunity
of telling her friends of her "new
birth" but not until the summer of
1912 did she essay speaking in public.
The name of Helen Keller can never
be separated from that of Mrs. John
Macy (Miss Anne Sullivan) the
teacher and companion of 26 years
who opened the gates for her to the
outside world.

At the lecture Mrs, Macy will speak
first, telling of how she was first able
to communicate with the child's,
mind through her natural craving for
a doll; then how other words "and
ideas came one by one and how, fi-
nally, one day, the whole system of
finger spelling dawned on Helen Kel-
ler and the first barrier to the out-
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Miss Helen Keller, the noted "blind
girl, lectured to a large audience in
the Methodist church in Westfield last
night, most interested among whom
were many blind people of that city.
Miss Keller's subject was "The Heart
and the Hand", showing how the soul
is ablt to overcome almost insurmount-
able difficulties. It is understood that
Miss Keller will lecture in this city in
the near future. She is reported to be
a most interesting speaker.

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mien kellar, ''The Blind Leader''—

Some of Her Ideas of Li«

HELEN KBLi.ER AND MBS. MiACEY.

Although deiHif and blind from In-;
fancy, Helen Keller is decidedly "\ip"'
on matters which coRcern the coun-
try's welfare in gene.al and its com-
iron people in parlicular. This re-
r".-r!:able woman afford Bangor people
a eplend:d opportunity in City Hall
next Friday night to hear from her
ov.-n mouth her views on many im-
Tcrtant tovics of the day. In the Out-
Icolt of Sc::. 27, under the caption
Blind Lea 'ers, Miss Keller has an artl-
€l3 v.'h'ch 13. interesting and timely. In
th's article Mirs Keller says, in part:

"For me llT-e has been ons long
cares-s of gentle words and gentle
^'?ndS'. I love all men— rich men, poor
■n^€n, beggar m.en, thieveis. M-illionaires
toa.ve been among my nearest, kindest
iv 9ii:' -. Henry Rogers was one of the
ncblest ir.en that ev-er lived, in spite
of Ms ml 11 on 3. Kindness and consid-
eration have followed me all the diays
cf my life. But I have seen the ex-
aggerated inequality In the conditions
of m.en, and I have studied the cause
of this inequality. I am a child cf my
generation. I am alive to new forces
Itn the world. Disturhing ideas of dyn-
amic power have penetrated the closed
^oors to my mind, and awakened in me
e. social conscience. Not the stream
'whi'ch has passed, but that 'which Is
passing, turns the v/heel of the mill.

"In all my reading 1 ami conscious of
a multitudo js diiscontent. Slowly man
4s waking ui. He is rubbing his eyes
and mutl ciig to himself: 'There's
Bomethin^ wrong with the world. Con-
sidering how 'hard -I work I get mighty
little in return. I don't see that wit^
a hundred steel plows I get more bread
than my forebears who used a wooden
plow. I am no better clad, since one
machine does the work of a thousand
hands, than my ancestor* who wore
•homespun garments. There's a public
school in every city and town, but I
don't see that my childFen are the bet-
ter tauglht. We have many things that
don't count — cheap ornaments, tawdry
clothes, patent mediic*nes, anil too4
made to sell, not to eat. This is not
reasonable. I will arise and find out
iWhy things are as they are.' That Is
'■what all the 'noise' is about. The peo-
fPte — the great 'conymon herd'— are find-
ing oiit w'hat is wi-ong with the soci5!|i
|x)olitlcal, and economic structure of
the system of vvihich they are a part.
Ine workers^ — ^the producjers of all the

wealth in the world — are chafing at 1115
narrow bounds of their lives.

**The sun of brotherhood is emerging
from the eclipse. It is this light that
has waked us. It is showing us what
we should see in our fellow-men. We
are finding out that workmen are not
mere machines, they are Men and
Women. Imagination, sympathy, and
growing kncviedge com-pel us to shaire
in their su"^> ing and in their desires
We are unitng our senses, our bandj
and our feeliugs to end cruel conditioi
unr?pr whica millions live, work- an|
die." -

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Helen K*>n*»«- rj^pyi%<t. Bije Audience.

Mi.'.'y" Hflon KoHer nddrpsspd a larffe
andjpnc^ in the :\nditori\im of tliP Metho-
dist E])iscopal I'hurch last ^Vfuins: Her
'i?n'tt>C£t^j!a6^ hPKjtt nw^ the hand,"
«T ^tL^l'i^l^'^ ^ or i'lir wmjdoiiMI thin.c:s that
the>^e t|\^;d can ^ ' MUihUph ,f«^ tho v^-orld
aud,,^%^rtianity i^tT, iion thoy work to.jfether.
"Hj^t" vi<M^" of me I'resont social ordor was
not altoppthow ontimistif, bnt she cx-
prpssp<l tho \w\\of tliat thron?h a better
unrt'^rstandin.a. throuc:h a j^roatcr co-opera-
tio^n between men and women of all
classer-;. the terrif.vincr problems of our time
Avill at last bf^ solved. Miss Kelbn* ai>d her
devoted ('orapnnioii. Mrs Macy. who has
bcc!i teacher, companion and friend for !
years, assisted in the lecture, which was
;?iv-^u under the ausvnces of the- Fellow--
ship club. All the blind people of the_city
were si)eeially irjvited to atteud thel ..rc-'
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and appreciative audience at her lec-
ture here Tuesday evening under the
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Greets Miss Keller

Most Wonderful Woman in th e World Gives Demonstration

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of Her Powers— A Lecture by Her Lifelong
Companion, Mrs. Macy.

^ f&n audience of 800 in the auditorium

of the Methodist church last night listen-
ed for nearly two hours to a demonstra-
tion of the reisources and abilities of
Helen Keller.

For over*^ hour, Mrs. Macy, formerly
Miss Anne Sullivan, spoke of her 2-3
years association with Miss Keller. Mj-s.
Macy herself had graduated from the
Perkins Institute for the Blind aj^d her
own vision was imperfecti . Jajh-^'tvas just
the one to go to that Alabama home tu
train this child who was destined to leave
an indellible impress upon, her time. Miss
Sullivan had all the sympathy, all the
patience, all the devotion that were neces-
sai-y for the undertaking, and how well
she did her work all those who know
aught of Miss Keller and her services can
tell.

Mis& Keller wais but sis years old when
Miss Sullivan first met her. Helen was
a passionate, quick-tempered, rebellious
child, constantly beating against the bars
of her involuntary prison. Upon the least

f revocation she would flare up in anger,
n only a very short time after Miss Sul-
livan came, she found herself — she was
a prisoner no longer. She was obsessed
of a desire to learn more of the great
world about her — a world she could nev-
er see. Everything she learned came
through her fingers. It w^as this girl who,
in a few years, received, while she was
yet a student, several thousand dollars
from a magazine for an article dealing
with her life and written by her own
hand.

She became a sunny, patient, plodding
soul, who never learned to spell discour-
agement. Mrs. Macy said that she could
fill a book with the record of bright say-
ings, the philosophical comments, the
quaint doings of this unusual child. She
early became interested in the subject of
ithe origin of life itself. Miss Sullivan

tbWIier^ Wt Vae- many "TEmgs'wi'lK' "which ]
Mother Nature had blessed the world.
One day Helen curiously asked : — "What
does Father Nature do?" The speaker
followed carefully the career of her pu- >
pil from the Alabama days to the days
at Radcliffe. It was Helen herself who j
decided that^she wanted to go to college. !
Other girls go — why should not I? she
argued. She had her way. In going
through college Miss Sullivan obtained a'|
collegiate education too. In the days of;
preparation they labored hard, hand in
hand. Often after other members of the
household had gone to bed, these two
faithful friends studied way into the still
watches of the night in the effort to ac-
complish what to the average person:
must have seemed a herculean tksk if not
one impossible of accomplishment. Rad-
cliffe college was chosen because it is in
a sense allied with Harvard, and for
reason it offered opportunities which oth-
er institutions could not provide. Miss
Keller was given no advantages over any
other pupil. It was even decreed that
Miss Sullivan should not remain in the
room while the student was taking exami-
nations. Either the professors questitjned
the good faith of the pair or else they ha.d,
not reached that stage of development
where they could accept anything new.
Mrs. Macy places ther last construction
'upon the action of the authorities. In col-
lege the other students were good to Miss
Keller. They treated her with all con-
sideration and helped her in every way
possible and chose her vice president of
her class. Miss Keller is today a mem-
ber of the Macy household in a suburb
of Boston. She is interested in world
events — events in the far east, events in
the Balkans, events at Washington, i
When she comes down to breakfast one
of the first things she asks is : — "What i
are you talking about?"

Upon the completion of Mrs. Macy*8
talk, Miss Keller herself apnea rea. With
her secretary she had been sitting in an
ante room and the secretary gave the
word to enter the auditorium. Amidst en- !
thusiastic applause, Rev. Dr. Hamilton
led Miss Keller to the platform and Mrs. |
Macy stationed her in a place of safety
near the reading desk. Mrs. Macy had
♦rtVon great pains to tell of all the diffi
culties Miss Keller experienced in learn-
ing to talk and said that the voice the
audience was to hear was an artificial
voice, but it should be borne in mind that
•it had been acquired only with extreme
difficulty and that anvbody was able to
distinguish any words uttered by this
girl, born dumb, was a miracle. Miss
Keller paid a tribute to the devotion of
her companion and told of the time when
she found herself. She gave some of her
impressions of nature — of the eternal
firmament — of God's goodness — and of
her life of hope and cheer. She praised

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highly those who had made her education
possible.

Afterwards people in the audience
asked questions which Mrs. aMcy
repeated and which Miss Keller
read from her lips. In reply to a ques-
tion as to whether she was able to re-
member people from handclasps, she said
she was to some extent. Another question
was whether she could tell from sound or
rather vibration whether windows are
clean or dirty. Miss Keller said that she
was able to tell by touch.

Mrs. Macy exlained that Helen's sense
of smell was very acute — and it was not
an unmixed blessing for she had to take
the disagreeable with the sweet. Her
health is excellent, and her life one of
happiness. She has to be helped in innu-
merable physical ways. She can never
start out for a walk unless somebody is
ready to go with her. Asked if she were
able to detect the presence of obstacles
near her, Helen said, "Yes, and feel them
too, sometimes." Asked if she remember-
ed the last place in which she lectured
she replied correctly "Orange." In regard
.to- -applause and laughter Miss Keller said
Ishe was able to detect them through the
medium of her feet— she felt the vibra-
tion. It was impossible for a blind person
to distingiiish by touch the colors of
flowers. She can tell some flowers by
I means of the thickness or thinness of
I the petals.

j Miss Keller wore a charming evening
(gown, with a large cluster of flowers at
her corsage. She is a young woman of ex-
ceptional personal charm.

At The'Wenddl a& Eagle reptirter met
the trio — Miss Keller, Mrs. Macy and th(}
seeretarj'. Pleasure was expressed at the
warmth of the Pittsfield greeting and
with the interest manifested in the work.
From here Mi&s Keller goes to Westfield
where she speaks tonight. Her engage-
ment with the J. B. Pond lecture bureau
of New York continues until next May.
Miss Keller receives $250 for a lecture
The Fellowship of the club will clear
about $100. A gracious act on the pari';
of the club was the extention of an invi-
tation to all the blind people to attend
the lecture.

I^ELEJJLJKJELl^ TO SPEAK.

Sunday's Y. M. C. A. Meeting Is Annu-
al Ladies' Day.

In the Y. M. C. A. lecture course the
meeting- of next Sunday afternoon at
O.30 o'clock in the auditorium will be
the annual ladies' day. Miss Helen
Keller and her teacher. Mrs. John
Macey, will be the speakers. Follow-
ing the lectures there will be an oppor-
tunity for those in the audience to ask
Questions.
Features of the meeting- other than

"t+ie speeches will be selections by the
Y. M. C. A. male quartet. Music will

»^ furnished by Cox's orchestra.

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An audience of about SOU listened witii
rrcat interest Saturd-iy ni,y:lit in the
Methodi.st church to tho joint ic-tiires
Mrs Macy juid H'*>i«**-J*»"WW-. Uev Conrifd
Hooker introduced Mrs Macy, wlio in' ttij
presented her pupil, Helen Keller. Mis
Macy's story of the education of ^lif
Keller was one of absorbing interest, an
made a deep impression upon the audieacl,
Mi^s Keller spoke briefly, and these WJifc
heard her listened with iuinglod feelings
of profound sympathy and .admiration-
sympathy for her afflicrious and admira-
tion for her wonderful Avill power and in-
domitable courage in acquiring uu educa-
tion and in learning to talk. A luimber
of questions Vicre askc'd at the dose of I
the lecture, and those were answered byi
,Miss Keller.

Miss Keller's Lecture

Helen- Keller's optimism is i)ut one
of tnP*IIMilipi!tthings to marvel at in
this girl who has so many barriers be-
tween her and the pleasures of the
normal being-. Optimism will be the
keynote of her lecture in City Hall
next Friday evening as it has been the
keynote of her whole life. From a

blank, a darkness, that has always
surrounded her, she gives forth a
message that is full of a sunshine
which she in her blindness sees more
fully than do many 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 cheerful-
ness without being thankful for what
are deemed to be the ordinary facul-
ties of life. — Advertisement.

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HELEN KELLER MAY

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An opportunity to hear Helen Kel-
ler will probably be offered Earlham
Students this year. It has not been
definitely decided, but President Kelly
has started negitiations for her to
come. The idea for getting her to
lecture is primarily to raise funds to
send students to the Geneva Y. W. C.
A. conference next spring.

As Miss Keller has made arrange-
ments to give lectures at Columbus,
Oberlin and Terre Haute, Prsident
Kelly believes he will be able to get
her to come to Earlham.

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RECORD AUDIENCE

Welw Keltep and Her Teacher to Ap-

%illpiMMMMHiiiiM^ Tonight.

Helen Keller and her teacher, Mrs.
Anne Sullivan Macy, tonight at high
school hall will be greeted by a record

HELEN KELLER, on the right, and
MRS. MACY, her teacher.

audience. The Brockton College club
members have been surprised and
much pleased with the interest the
people of the city and surrounding
towns have evinced in the lecture. In
order to accommodate all patrons,
more than 100 extra seats have been
placed, making the seating capacity

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A Joyous Gospel From
/ Helen Keller

From ggnjUJ^UMk^klMCI

HELEN KELLER, in many -ways the
most wonderful -woman of the age,
has juet published a book, "Out of
;he Dark." In spite of both deafness and
jlindness, she has conquered the knowl-
edge of the world, and writes like a
fervent propbetess of many of our anx-
ious problems. Here are some timely
words of wisdom for \he myriads of
young people who are just returning to
their work in tbe schools:

"In college you will be brought face
to face with nearly all the fundamental
questions of life, and you will learn how
many men have tried to solve them.
Hitcb your wagon to a happy star, and
you also sball help to solve them. The
world needs your Intellect, your scholar-
ship, but most of all your hearts — hearts
that are loving, brave, hopeful, happy.

"Does all this dream of high privilege
and noble service seem far beyond the
reach of your powers of mind? Remem-
ber what Senator Hoar said: 'Much of
the good work of the world has been that
of dull people who have done their best.'

"Fears and regrets have no place in
the vocabulary of youth, whose spirit sets
tits white and shining wings toward the
purple shores of the promised land. Be
happy, talk happiness. Happiness calls
out responsive gladness 'in others. There
is enough sadness in the world without
yours. Rebel against the hardness and
injustice of things as much as you like.
It is always well to keep your fighting
edge keen to smite wrongs wherever you
meet them. But never doubt the per-
manence and excellence of what Is yet
to be.

"The great, enduring realities are love
and service. Joy is the holy fire that
keeps our purpose ,warm and our intelli-
gence aglow. Work without joy shall
be as nothing. Resolve to keep happy,
and your joy and you shall form an in-
vincible host against difficulties.

"Learn from your books not only the
day's lesson, but the life lesson, in all
knowledse. In the classics, in .science, in

history and literature, and In mathemat-'
ics you will see the struggle of man
to get nearer to God. Resolve, then, as
you stand on the threshold of your stu-
dent days, with an enlightened optimism
to consecrate your education to the serv-
ice of others. When your thoughts be-
come pessimistic, when it seems as It
all men were deafened by the tumult
of trade, blinded by self-interest and
greed, turn the pages of your history
of England, and you will find that the
Ideas which shaped the Anglo-Saxon race
were ■ not mean nor sordid. American
history, too, is filled with heroes and
martyrs who joyfully pushed aside ambi-
tion atid gave their lives to the common
weal.

"The world needs more of this spirit
of serylce. There Is still many a desert
place wlhere the sun of love and the light
of troth have not shown.

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HELLEN KELLER

Helen Keller ^was in Pittsfield the
Other night and this is what the Pitts-
field Eas'le says of her:

As the years go on the 8O0 or more
people who assembled in the audito-
rium of the Methodist Episcopal church
last night will think with increasing
wonder of the miracle they saw fleshed
in the person of Helen Jveller.

Here is a girl, deaf, dumb and blind
at the threshold of life, who b^y dint
of perseverance, not only acquired a
college education, but won distinction
as a thinker and writer and as a pub-
lic offi^'ial and lecturer. When she an-
r;ounced that she proposed' to learn ^o
talk, she received little encouragement.
Fhe could distinguish no sound'. Every-
thing came through impressiops. She
would place' her fingers upon the
throat and nose and tongue of her
teacher. She knew nothing of tone
quality— she had only faint concep-
tions of what speech was like. Pa-
tiently, month after month, she strug-
gled on. A professor in the New Eng-
land Conservatory of Music was (t
great assistance to her. Many others

helped, too. The \-oice she finally ac-
quired was r.n artificial voice — it was
guttural and weird and strange and
unnatural, but it was a voice. Without
it the acquirement of a college educa-
tion would have been impossible. One
of the greatest men of h'S day sa'd
that this one feat of Helen Keller's
was one of the miracles of all time.

It is a certificate to the broadness o1
the average university that Mrs. Macy
Helen's teacher, was not permitted t(
remain in the room at examinat.joT
time. The professors eithep;:^ had n(
confidence in the good faith of thes(
two plodd'ers or else they had not been
able to adapt themselves to something
new. Mrs. Macy herself places th s l^st
and more charita'ble view upon the
situation.

There were time® during that cojllege
course when the task seemed too
great. Every word, every syllable had
to be spelled into Helen's hand. 8he
was competling with girls possessed ot
every one of their faculties — with g rl3
who could consult constantly reference
books and encyclopedias, somethi f,
she could' not do. And yet she con-
quered. It is a tribute to her fello"vt
students that they were kind to her,
treated her with every consideration
and elected her vice-president of her
class.

Think of this gin— not a great genuig
but possessed of enthusiasm as bound-
less as the sea — and all she was able to
accomplish without ability to see,
without ability to hear, without ability
to speak and of tbe thousands who,
although in full control of a'l their fa-
culties improve not their opportunities
and contribute nothing whatever to the
intellectual, moral or spiritual wealth
of the world; She gives us hope for
the ultimate triumph of perseverance,
patience, good nature, love and devo-
tion and justice. Who is there who
can contemplate, unmoved, this magni-
ficent type of consecrated womanhood
—this girl destined to walk always in
darkness, but with a soul so bright and
so beautiful that it shed's a wonderful
radis-iipe in the blackest tiight?

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HELEN KELLER'S LE§^

AclvaritJ'"TT(!i'k!ets Exchangable at City

Hall Box Office on and After

Wednesday Mofhlng^.

Down in Winston-Salem, N. C,
they declare Helen Ivelier to be the
itvbst wonderful woman of her ag-e —
and, according to the Winston-Salem
Journal, they have good reason to

think so, since on Monday, Oct. 0, the
Journal says Miss Keller spoke to a
packed house of interested and sym-
pathetic isteners. In the course of a
long and tremendously enthusiastic
report of the lecture, the Journal say^'^; ,
"There was something thriUihg-
about this woman, who possesses
neither senses of seeing nor hearing".
Eier voice was not entirely natural, but
when one remembers the tremendous
obstacles overcome by her in learning

to speak, the accomplishment is noth';-
ing- short of marvelous. And as^ siie
poured out to her hearers the tend'eT
and beautiful thoughts, oftentimes
with outstretched hands and arms in
her darkness, there came witii Iveiv
flrugg-ling- words all the power atid
personality cf a powerful and hf^roic
soul.

"She was grreeted with . rapturous
applause as she finished and was
taken nder the direction of her teach-
er again. The applause, she explaint-il
later, she recognized by means of tb"i^
vibrations of the floor.'' iJ • "-■'

This is the same Helen Keller %yho
will ecture in Bangor City hall, -Fri-
day evening, under the auspices Of The
Bangor Teachers' clb. Locar ihtere.st
in hr>r coming is already keeh "■ and
widespread, and advance tickets' a4re
selling fast at Miss -MacSkimmon's
library; Merrill's Drug store, Brewev
and 'n the hands of the club membtfs.
Advance tickets are exchangeable at
City Hall boxofRce on and after
Wednesday; the I'egular ticket "sale
opens Thursday morning.— Advert ise-
.ment.

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Ir Orange town nail was nearly filled

Thursday night by people of the neigh-
borhood interested to see and hear Hel-
en Keller, the wonderful deaf, dumb and
blind girl, who was to appear under the
management of E. W. Coleman of Or-
lange. Two carloads of people wer6
present from Athol. The lecture was
one of surpassing interest to all, and the
whole audience hung eager and breath-
less on the words of the extraordinary
girl as she, in a short address, told of
her struggles to obtain knowledge and a
medium of communication with the out-
er world from which she for long years
had been shut off by an impenetrable
barrier of silence and gloom.

Previous to Miss Keller's appearance,
her teacher and companion of 26 years,
Mrs Anne M. (Sullivan) Macy, spoke
quite fully in description and narrative
of the methods adopted in conveying
intelligence and understanding to the
darkened mind of the unfortunate girl.

Mrs Macy fa riy captivated the audience
by her charming manner, her beauti-
fully modulated voice, her sympathetic
and loving account of her early efiforts
and succeeding successes with her pu-
pil, the latter's peculiarities of character
and temperament, her amazing thirst
for knowledge, and her almost unbeliev-
able triumphs, until now she stands be-
fore the world, a 'well educated woman,
well informed on current history and
the life of the times, and enjoying with
the avidity of ajcultivated mind the pur-
suit of increased knowledge in every
form. Mrs Macy is a beautiful and cul-
tivated woman, aod it was easy to see
that her whole heart and soul were in-
terested in h r subject, of whose
achievements she has a right to be
proud, since it is due almost wholly to
her patience and skill that the wonder-
ful results have been brought about.

The story of Miss Keller's life is so fa-
miliar to the public we need not dilate
upon it. Briefly, she was born in Ala-
bama since 32 years ago. At the age of
19 months she lost her siffht, hearing
and speech froim a sickness. She re
mained in intellectual darkness until 7
years of age, wh«n the then Miss Sulli-
van, a teacher in the Perkins institu-
tion for the blind in South Boston, went
to her home and began her education.
At the age of 10 Helen could talk. At
16 she was preparing to enter Radcliffe
college. She graduated there in 1904,
receiving the degree ofBachelor of Arts.
While in college she wrote ''The Story
of my Life," which has been translated
into 15 languages. Since then she has
written several books, travelled and lec-
tured much, and attracted increased at-
tention from the scientific and educa-
tional world. Her voice has been stead-
ily improved by expert training, and
she can talk so as to make herself well
understood, though her enunciation is
not perfect or entirely distinct. She is
before the audi nee some 15 or 20 min-
utes.

Following her talk, she in connection
with her teacher, had a conversation
with her audience, reading Mrs Macy's
utterances by finoer and hand manipu-
lation of tho latter's face and ca ching
her words with wonderful accuracy She
answers questions put by the audience,
and shows a thorough appreciation of
humor. Her laugh is hearty and any
comic situation seems to delight her.
Physically, she does not appear robust,
though we understand her health is
good. In entering and leaving the stage

TTer'step cToes not seemlis firm and t^VW^
fident as that of many blind people who
go about a house or street unaided.

Altogether it was an interesting expe-
rience for the audience, and al went
away with profound and sympathetic
appreciation of what science, philan-
tt ropy and education had done in this
instance, and with words of praise and
admiration for the gifted teacher,

**Who sought the slumbering sense that

lay
Close shut with bolt and bar,
And showed awakened thought the ray
Of Reason's morning star."

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HELEiN ^^T^TT^gg-
According to ftfi'l^ffliTimes, by far
the largest lecture audience Bath has
ever produced was on ihand when Hel-
en Keller lectured recently in that
city. As is custximary when Miss Kel-
ler lectures, she v/as preceded by her
tetKher, Mrs. Macy (Anne Siillivaii),
who gave a simple, candid explanation
of her relations! with Miss Keller,
treating the matter from both its se-
rious and humorous sides. When Miss
Keller ai)peared, a burst of applause
"Went up from the audience. She said,
In g, monotonous but sonorous voice.
^*l am glad to stand before you in
love and fellowship. I cannot tell
liow you look, but I feel a loving kind-
ness in you all and it makes me very
iiappy." As she wen,t on her tones
assumed warmth and color, Tilt; vast
audience sat spellbound? ^

\ hen can>e a demonstration of how
the deef girl understands. She placed
her thumb en the speaker's. throat, two
fingers on the lip.-5 and one on the
hose. In this way she gfot the gut-
tural, the labial and the nasal sounds,

"i^3U ""' y'-^J-'' ^^^^'*^ ^^^^ work," said
tUc ttcn^htr.

Intending petrous of Miss Keller's
lecture, which is to be given in Ban-
gor City Hall next Friday evening
under the auspices of the Bangor
Teachers' Club, are reminded that

tickets purchased in advance of the
regular r.ale-may be exchanged today
at City Hall box office for reserved
sea.t checks. The regular ticket sale
opens at City Hall Thursday morning
at 9 o'clock.— advt. ^' ^

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World^s Most Famous Example of Infinite Pati-
ence and Achievement Gave an Optimistic
Message and Answered Questions — Teacher
Described the Pilgrimage From Darkness to
Light.

P' I ROBABLY no stronger appeal
to human sympathy has ever
been made from the platform
I I in this city than was voiced
Tuesday evening when Miss Helen
Keller, deaf and sightless and former-
ly dumb, appeared with her teacher,
Mrs. Albert Macy, better known to
the world as Miss Anne Sullivan, un-
der the auspices of the College Club
of Brockton. No drama more vibrant
with real human emotion has been
enacted than the simple story of
Helen Keller's life, bound up as it has
been, in the life of her teacher.

Miss Keller's part in the portrayal
of her life's story was to give voca^
evidence of what has been called th0
most marvelous modern miracle, thej
gift of speech to the dumb. For 20
minutes Miss Keller gave a brief ad-
dress in tones lacking inflections and
modulations but clear, distinct and at
times even penetrating. At the close
of her address, when she replied to
questions asked by members of the
audience, she was at her best, re-
sponding in a loud and clear voice,
with evident enthusiasm. j

As for Mrs. Macy, to but
teachers is given the pleasure and
pride of seeing such tangible results
of her life work. For nearly 27 years
Mrs. Macy has been the teacher and
companion of the deaf and blind girl
and the two lives have become so
intertwined that they have become al-
most synonymous for each other. The
theme of her story was indomitable
courage, patience, charity, sweetness
and unswerving faith, and the marvel
of the story lies in the small share
of credit taken by the woman who
has made Helen Keller what she is.
It seems beyond all human nature
that a woman who has performed
what is conceded to be one of the
greatest feats of history, should be
so diffident, so self-effacing.

For more than an hour Mrs. Macy
beld the stage alone telling the out-
line of the wonderful story. Until
she was 18 years of age, Mrs. Macy
herself was totally blind. Thus, in
the later years, she could bear to her
pupil such a- wonderful understanding
and sympathy as could come from no
other source. At the time the call
came for a teacher for little Helen
Keller, then but six years old, Mrs,
Macy, then Miss Sullivan, had just
completed her course at the Perkins
Institute. An operation had been per-
formed which partially restored her
sight.

She went to the Keller home in
Tuscumbia, Ala., and began her work.
Helen Keller was born a normal
child but at the age of 19 months
was stricken by an attack of what
was called congestion of the stomach
and brain, and robbed of the three
major senses.

The Teacher's Early Work.

At the age of six years and ten
months, when Miss Sullivan was en-
gaged as her teacher, Helen was a
restless, uncontrollable little being,
pattering about the house and fol-
lowing with her fingers the actions
of the other members of the house-
hold.

Mrs. Macy's recital told of the
slow mastery of the child's character,
the gradual dawning of intellect and
finally the correlation of ideas. The
little girl could understand the sign
for "yes" and the sign for "no," "a
sign," her teacher said "to which she
paid very little attention except when

"^e ma3eT£~ fierce! I. ""'^W hen she wan !^
ed food she pointed lo her mouth.
• The first delight of the new ac-
quaintance after the receipt of the
box of candy, was the presentation of
a doll and the youngster found much
pleasure in dressing and undressing
the plaything. In teaching the name !
of the doll the teacher inadvertently
took the wrong path and a misunder-
standing of her motives resulted in a
violent display of temper, quelled with
difficulty.

At the end of 25 days the child had
learned 18 nouns and four verbs and
then suddenly dawned upon the little
learner that everything had a name
and she set to work to learn the
name of every object within her ex-
perience. In four months she was writ-
ing simple letters to her friends and
later she was engaging in childish
dramas in which she played the star
part.

She was passionately fond of her
dolls and "Nancy" was her favorite.
One day the little girl had been
naughty and her teacher reproved her
saying "Helen has been bad. I am
sorry." "Did you cry?" asked the lit-,;
tie one. "No, but I felt very badly,"]
the teacher replied. Some time later
Miss Sullivan heard strange noises
from the nursery and went to inves-
.tigate. Little Helen was holding up
I^Nancy" beating her severely and at
every stroke the little girl herself let
out a howl. Then she to her teacher,
"Nancy very bad. I am sorry."

Mrs. Macy also told of how Edward
Everett Hale was left to mind
"Nancy" and the little girl insisted
on the directions being written down
.^s "men have so many forgets."
* The origin of life was taught to
the little girl from nature, and her
childish sayings show deep thinking.
She found "many butterflies roosting
on the sweet pea vines," having mis-
taken the blossoms for butterflies.
"Patience means sit still very long, I
don't like patience," she said and
"happy means hop, skip and jump
and eat a very long banana. I like
happy."

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Reaching the Summit.

The long and painful yearsg;£,,ft6UliQ^-
tion, of . the masterful mental strug-
gle pupil and teacher went through
at Radcliffe College were told in de-
tail. The teacher spelled every page
of history, philosophy and language

[into the hand of her pupil and the fin-
al triumph was the conferring of the
degree of bachelor of arts upon the
young woman. There were moments !
of almost unendurable pathos in the
recital of the story, and there seem-
ed to be a pressure of emotion as if
the listeners felt the waves of joy and
sorrow the speaker brought with her
"word pictures.
M- — M

It is indeed a far cry from the deaf,
dumb and blind little animal of seven
ito the present exquisitely rounded per-
sonality of the woman of 33 who has
mastered so many branches of learn-
ing, speaks three and reads five lan-
guages, plays the piano and violin
jand is active along lines of social re-
form.

At the close of Mrs. Macy's address
she left the platform a moment only
to return leading her famous pupil,

an attractive girl with light hair andj
complexion; To look at her one would;
never believe her seriously afflicted.'
Her eyes give no hint of the lack of
sight, and as she advanced to the
plai form ^he moved with ease, appear-
ing quite like a society girl, with only
a slight nervousness similar to that
shown when one is dazzled by brilli-
ant light. Her sightless eyes were
lurned upon her audience and in dif-
ferent directions about the hall, and
her face was lighted up with a smile
01 wonderful sweetness. She bore a
bouquet of pink rosebuds which she
caressed lovingly and held to her I'ps.
A slight movement of her hand lo-
cated the table and the bouquet in
the centre, and after she had gained
an understanding of her surroundings
sh3 began to speak. She seemed to
look directly at her audience and to
heur the bursts of applause which sig-
nified their wonder and admiration.
Her words came slowly as if she were
weighing them carefully but were
given without great effort. She spoke
on "The Heart and the Hand" or "The
Right Use of the Senses." At times
it was impossible to catch the con-
nected sentences but the words spok-
en most audibly gave her audience
the outline of her talk. The keynote
of the address was optimism and from
the blank — ^the darkness which sur-
rounded her — she gave out her mes-
sage to those who, having eyes, see
not, and having ears, hear not. She
urged her listeners to take advantage
of the privileges of life and nature
for love and good and to live for oth-
ers, appreciating the sun, the stars
and the glory of the sunsets.

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Means of Communication.

At the close of her talk her teacher
illustrated the way Miss Keller can
understand what she says by feeling
the motions of her lips and muscles
of her throat. In this way questions
asked by members of the audience
were repeated to the blind girl and
^he answered in her natural voice
without hesitation and with much en-
thusiasm.

In response to questions she said
she felt the presence of the audience
by the warmth of human beings
around her. The applause she felt
"through her feet." When asked what
studies she liked best at college she
replied philosophy, history, literature

and economics, and her teacher said:
"Why, it seems you liked nearly
everything best."

"Yes," she replied, "I liked nearly
everything best." She said she dis-
tinguished flowers by the softness o;f
the petals and their fragrance and
stated that the rose was her favorite
flower. In response to a query if she
could do sewing or fancy work, both.
Miss Keller and her teacher laughed
heartily as if there was a joke be-
hind It, and Helen finally replied that
she could "sew on buttons and knit."
A question if she found her college
studies hard brought the reply' "Yes,
but I think it was because of my own ,
ignorance."

A beautiful bouquet of roses was
passed over the footlights for Miss
Keller and at a sign from her teacher
she advanced and received the
bouquet, saying loudly and very clear-
ly: "I thank you so much." She show-
ed delight in the flowers and caressed
the blossoms. At the close of the con-
versation she bowed gracefully and
said: "Good night."

But it is when one considers the in-
finite self-sacrifice of the teacher, the
putting aside of her own personal
freedom for each hour and day
throughout her life, to find an avenue
of escape for one so handicapped, that
one rejoices that Mrs. Macy's efforts
have met with such rich reward, and
that she has removed the insurmount-
able barriers.

An audience of nearly 1300 people
greeted Miss Keller and Mrs. Macy
and their attention was held with in-
tease interest. A brief ..address '■ of
greeting was given by Miss iiertha
M. Loheed, president of the club.

Met Deaf Graduates.

Mrs. Macy and Miss Keller were ac-
companied by Mr. Macy, Charles
White, teacher of singing at the Mas-
sachusetts Conservatory of Music,
who has done so much for Miss Kel-
ler in the improvement of her speak-
ing voice, and Mrs. White. Occupying
the front seats was a group of young
people, all deaf and graduates of the
Clark Institute of the Deaf at North-
ampton. The bouquet of roses pre-
sented to Miss Keller was the gift of
these young people. At the close of
the lecture, before Miss Keller and
her party left for the train, an in-
formal reception was tendered Miss
Keller in the office of the superintend-

ent and the young people from the
Clark Institute were given an oppor-
tunity to meet their blind friend.

Miss Keller's party was welcomed
by Miss Bertha M. Lcheed, president
of the club; Mrs. Harold C. Keith,
vice-president; Mrs. William H. Emer-
son, chairman of the committee, and
Miss Bessie Kingman, treasurer of
the club.

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OLD LETTER SHOWN

Miss L^ach Has Note Written by Miss

1^**^^ Keller 22 Years Ago.

A letter written 22 years ago by

Miss Helen Keller and a treasured

possession of Miss Lillian D, Leach,

50 South Street, was shown at the

■ii^j^eof the lecture Tuesday night to

MrsT^^llyie Sullivan Macy and through

her to Her famous deaf and blind

pupil. '« V>-p^i-*«siH»

Miss Leach visited Miss Keller 22
years ago when she was studying at
the Perkins Institute for the Blind in
South Boston. She communicated
with her through her teacher, then
Miss Anne Sullivan, and learned of her
interest in a deaf, dumb and blind
friend, Tommy Stringer, for whom she
wished similar advantages to those
she was receiving herself.

Upon her return Miss Leach inter-
ested members of a girls' club with
which she was associated and the sum
of $5 was sent to Miss Keller for Tom-
my Stringer. A letter, which Miss
Leach characterizes as "a dear littte
note," came from Miss Keller if^
acknowledgment of the gift. The let- 1
ter was written on a grooved board
with pencil.

At the time of Miss Leach's call
Miss Keller was just beginning to ar-
ticulate. The letter written so many
years ago was re-read by Mrs. Macy
Tuesday night to her pupil. Both
seemed to gain pleasure in recalling i
this incident of Miss Keller's child-
hood.

M STORY OF

Helen Keller Talks to Brock-
ton Friends.

HER TEACHER, MRS. MACY,

TELLS WONDERFUL STORY

Both Greeted by Many at Conclusion
of Their Lecture.

These contrasting statements
made by the two lecturers show
the rare spirit of unselfishness and
love which exists between teacher
and pupil:

Miss Keller: "If It was not for
my teacher I would be nothing."

Mrs. Macy: "If Helen owes her
education to me, it is equally true
that I owe mine to her."

The visit to this city Tuesday even-
ing of two world famous women, Miss
Helen Keller and her teacher, Mrs.
Anne Sullivan Macy, drew an audience
t)f nearly 1300, numbering teachers,
bupils, club women, business men, edu-
cators, lovers of education, and social-
ists, all anxious to pay homage to
these two who have grasped success
from behind the seemingly insur-
mountable barrier Of Miss Keller's
jthree-fold affliction, deafness, blind-
ness, dumbness.

I The lectures were presented in high
school assembly hall under the aus-
pices of the Brockton College club.
From the instant of ;opening, when

MiFs. Macy was Introaucea oy tne ciuD
president, Miss Bertha M. Loheed, to
the moment of closing, when Miss Kel-
ler said "Good-bye" in the voice which
she so lately learned to use, the audi-
ence was tense with interest and sym-
pathy.

Miss Keller did not appear until the
Wonderful story of her struggle for an
education had been simply but graphic-
ally told by her teacher and life-long
friend, Mrs, Macy. Applause, which
she could "feel with her feet," greeted
the woman who has conquered so
many things and under such odds that
she is hailed as a marvel, and yet
whose sightless eyes deny her even
the privilege of walking the length of
the platform without a more favored
friend to guide her faltering footsteps.

To many it came as a surprise that
Miss Keller's appearance is so youth-
ful. Gowned in a simple white dress
and carrying a bunch of pink rose-
buds. Miss Keller might well have
passed for a girl of 20. The years, de-
spite their hardships, bitter disap-
pointments and struggles, have dealt
lightly with the physical appearance
of this woman of 32. As she talked
to her Brockton audience she seemed:
but a slip of a girl, hard to associate
with the matured student and deep
thinker.

Her message to Brockton was one
of good cheer and optimism, qualities i
which form such an important part in
the character of this remarkable wo-
man. Throughout the lecture she
Stood beside the center table on the
Dlatform, seemingly as if for support!
Ili% possibly encouragement. J

ShSe talked slowly, making a percep-]
bble pause between the different parts
Df the lecture. Although some of the
sentences were hard to understand,
Dthers were given with clearness. Not
for a moment was sight lost of the
jeneral theme, and not for a moment
iid the lecture fail to win the absorb-
5d attention of the audience.

MISS KELLER'S MESSAGE .

She said in part: "I do not know]
how you look, but I feel your love and '
kindness and it makes me happy. We
are all bound together and we should
live for each other. Alone we can do
so little, but together we can do so
much. My teacher has told you how I
was and how I have learned. I was
blind, now I can see; I was deaf, now;

I can hear; I was dumb, now I can
speak. It was through the hands of
others that I found myself, my soul,
my God. If it was not for my teacher
I would be nothing. Do you wonder
I love the hand when I have felt its
wondrous power?"

She brought a message of courage
when she told of looking, listening,
feeling, thinking, through the hands.

Applause greeted the demonstration
of this almost superhuman accom-
plishment. Her voice, generally deep
and sometimes so guttural it is im-
possible for a stranger to understand,
is a priceless treasure to Miss Keller.

ISS HELEN KELLER, ON LEFT, AND HER TEACHER, MRS. ANNE

SULLIVAN MACY.

The love between teacher and pupil
was shown in the last part of the pro-
gram when the two demonstrated lip
reading, and Miss Keller answered
questions from the audience. There
seemed a perceptible change in Miss
Keller's face and expression when
Mrs. Macy came to her side.

It was during the informal after-
lecture intercourse that Miss Keller

showed to" tn'e Dest advantage. With
her fingers placed on the throat, lips
and nose of her teacher so that she
could feel the formation of the spoken
word she seemed perfectly at ease
and contented. The face of the deaf
and dumb girl brightened perceptibly
when in communication with her
teacher. She seemed to lose the nat-
ural awkwardness - of the blind, and
to figuratively step from behind a
shadowing cloud, the presence of
which had been felt up to that time.
With alert expression and a joyous
flushing of the cheeks, she quickly
grasped the meaning of the questions
through her sensitive fingers which
flashed their message to her active
brain. The answers came readily and
with a girlish enthusiasm which won
the love of the audience, and at the
same time brought forth quick sym-
pathy that the fair, flushed and eager
face was sightless.

TEACHER TELLS STORY

Mrs. Macy was of pleasing person-
ality and brought to her audience a
vivid idea of the long years of strug-
:<le through which she and her pupil
have passed to bring about the ad-
vancement of the once "prowless, rud-
derless little hulk adrift on a sea of
blackness." She told how she came
to teach Helen Keller, how she first
was able to communicate with the
child's mind through a natural craving
for a doll, then how words and ideas
Came one by one, and how finally, one
day, the whole system of finger
spelling dawned on Helen and the bar-
rier to the outside world was passed.

It was still difficult work, but Miss
Keller's indomitable will and Mrs.
Macy's patience finally mastered. The
desire to speak was the hardest of all
to teach, for every vocal movement
had to be learned and imitated by
Miss Keller.

^^ It has been said : "The name of
Helen Keller can never be separated
from that of Mrs. Macy, better known
as Anne Sullivan, the teacher and
companion of 26 years, who opened
the gates for her to the outside world.
One hardly knows whom to admire
tile more, the scholar or the teacher."

Mrs. Macy told many pleasing little
incidents of the child's life, of the
merry games in the nursery after
Helen had been able to read from
books those favorites of every child-
hood, "Red Riding Hood," "Babes in
the Wood" and other nursery tales.

I The pathetic incident, where Helen |
[Was found trying to teach her dog'
Belle the manual alphabet, was graph-
lically told. After a lesson in manners,
'she stated that "The daisies must be
polite flowers, because they bow to
me when I walk." Her description of
the effect which a persimmon, not
quite ripe, made upon her feelings was
amusing. "It pulls me together all
over," she said.

The wonderful discovery when Helen
received her first real insight into
the mysteries and meaning of the man-
ual alphabet and what it could mean to j
her in communicating with those about
her was vividly told by Mrs. Macy. |
After this discovery the child learned
in a few hours 30 words, more than
she had learned in months before that
time. As Mrs. Macy so clearly de-
scribed the process, "The prison door
was open, the little captive was free."

After that progress was so rapid that
Mrs. Macy declared herself sometimes
haunted by an idea that, because her
work was so pleasant, somehow it
must be wrong.

Mrs. Macy's description of the hard-
ships which Helen and she had toi
overcome during her college cours^
was another interesting part of hen
lecture.

In speaking of her latest accomplish-
ment, that of speech, Mrs. Macy said:
"Remember that, be it ever so imper-
Ifect, speech is as precious to the deaf
as to you."

ROSE FAVORITE FLOWER

Laughter often shook the slender
form of the deaf and blind girl during I
her intercourse with teacher and audi-
jence, which she seemed to enjoy to
Ithe utmost. The girl who delivered
the lecture and the girl who nodded,
laughed and gave answers to her
friends in the audience at its close
, seemed almost a different individual,
[while many in the large hall could
catch but a word here and there in the
lecture all could readily understand
Miss Keller in her answers afterward.

One man in the audience arose to^
ask Miss Keller's favorite flower. The
question was read from the teacher's
lips and repeated aloud by Miss Keller
before she answered it was the rose.
As the word issued from the onS
dumb mouth applause greeted the
effort.

She said she loved flowers because
she liked "to feel the soft petals and
smell their fragrance." As she lifteci

a bouquet of blossoms, presented herl
^t the close of the lecture, to her face,
k)ne could readily imagine the message
Vhich the soft petals and fragrance
brought to the afflicted girl who could
"see" them only through her wander-
ing finger tips.

A woman in the front row asked il
she would be willing to answer a ques-
tion sent by some blind children in
Boston. The request was repeated by
the teacher and its meaning readily
grasped by the pupil who answered
with a smile, "Yes," and then with a
laugh, "If I am able."

The question, "Can you do any fan-
cy work or sewing," brought forth a
laughing byplay between teacher and
pupil which clearly showed their good
'comradeship. Miss Keller had a little
difficulty feeling the word "sewing'
on her teacher's lips. Her answer
together with laughing suggestions by
her teacher, showed that Miss Heler
has no more love for the needle thar
many another modern young woix^v.^'
She replied with a merry shake of her
head that she could "sew a little," that
she could "sew on buttons and knit."
Then with another laugh, "but — I
haven't much time." i

The laugh brought forth a respon-i
sive laugh from the audience, especial-
ly when Mrs. Macy spoke on the sen-
sitive finger tips, "Ah, that is the ex-
cuse of all the advanced womeoi of the
modern day, 'they haven't much time
for sewing.' "

STUDIES SOCIALISM

When asked what studies she liked
the best, Miss Keller replied, "History,
literature, politics, languages, econom-
ics and socialism." The study of so-
cialism is one of Miss Keller's con-
stant employments and neither she or
her teacher failed in any opportunity
to make it known that they are inter-
ested in this movement. When Miss
Keller concluded giving off the list
of "the study I like best," Mrs. Macy
laughingly rejoined, "Seems to me
yuu like all your studies best."

When asked if she could feel the
presence of her audience. Miss Keller
replied, "I can feel it by the atmos-
phere." Miss Keller can tell whether
it is a large audience before which
she stands, and often answers, "Yes,
it is a large audience. I can tell by
the vibrations of many feet in motion,
and then the air is dense and warm
when there are many people in the
(room."

When asked if she could tell when
she was receiving applause she an-
swered, "Yes, by my feet." It was
another case of knowledge by vibra-
tion. She gave the answer with a
laugh and a bright, happy expression
which took away but a little of the
edge of pity which welled up In the
hearts of the audience for this young
woman shut off by so many ordinary
channels from her fellow beings.

Miss Keller understands a joke and
laughed with the rest when her teach-
er asked if lip reading was not largely
a matter of guess work, and whether
one would not have to be a pretty
good Yankee to make it a success.

Another question from the audience,
"Did you not get very much dis-
couraged during your college course,"
brought the ready answer with an em-
phatic nod of the head, "Yes," and
then, "I thought it was my ignorance."
Her teacher laughingly explained,
"My, but that was a great discovery."
At this time pupil and teacher made
their adieux to the Brockton audience
with a simple "Good-bye."

The stillness and wrapt attention of
the audience, which was noticeable
through both lectures, gave way to
enthusiastic applause. Although no
reception had been planned, many ad-
mirers thronged to meet the women
at the close of the lecture. Both had
found the Brockton audience respon- ,
sive, and, until the time came for their '
departure, seemed willing to continue
their intercourse with their Brockton
admirers. Once, in speaking of hand
clasps, Miss Keller said:

"The hands of those I touch are
dumbly eloquent to me. The touch
of some hands is an impertinence. I
have met people so empty of joy that,
when I have clasped their frosty finger
tips, it seemed as If I were shaking
hands with a northeast storm. Others
there are whose hands have sunbeams
in them, so that their grasp warms the
heart. It may be only the clinging of
a child's hand, but there is as much
potential sunshine in it for me as there
.is in a loving glance from others. A
jreal hearty handshake gives me genu-
|ine pleasure like a letter from a
friend."

BOUQUET FOR MISS KELLER
Miss Keller and Mrs, Macy were
accompanied to this city by Mr. Macy,
Icharles White of the B^tonGmigg|a|^
Itory of Music, whose eWSffF^atri Miss
}9&ffll^^lF'%ice is described by Mrs.

^acy as "a labor of love," and Mrs.
White.

Miss Keller and party were wel-
^jomed in behalf of the entertaining
club by the president, Miss Bertha M.
Loheed; the vice-president, Mrs. Har-
old C. Keith; the treasurer, Miss Bes-
sie Kingman, and the chairman of the
lecture committee, Mrs. W. H. Emer-
son.

* Seated in the front row of the audi-
ence were six young people, all deaf,
graduates of the Clark institute for the
peaf in Northampton, who were among
pLiss Keller's most enthusiastic ad-
piirers. Blessed with sight, these
jyoung people were anxious to see the
wonderful woman who has conquered
jWith a double handicap, blindness and
deafness. It was from these six young
ipeople that Miss Keller received the
ibeautiful bouquet of her favorite blos-
soms, roses, at the close of the lec-
ture. After the lecture they were
Invited by the club officers to meeti
Miss Keller and her teacher persgggjyijjjn

Miss Keller's Lecture

The lecture last Monday afternoon

^ii) Davis Hall by Miss Helen Keller

ind Mrs. Macy was one that will

long be remembered by • the many

;ople who came to hear it. Mrs.

'acy spoke first, telling the wonder-

il story of Helen Keller's education.
People listened with breathless in-
terest as she told of her first meet-
ing with the impetuous six-year-old
child who was so cut of¥ from the
world about her, and the eagerness
with which she seized upon the
means and power to express herself.
Mrs. Macy • told many charming
stories about Helen in those early
years, characteristic of her enelrgy
and love for all things. As she told
us more of Helen's eagerness for
knowledge, of her college life and
her life today, we felt as if we had
been admitted to the real lives of
two very wonderful personalities.

Helen' Keller herself talked for
only a few minutes. She spoke with
the radiant enthusiasm and childlike
simplicity which she has never lost,
and her message of faith and broth-
erhood will stay long in the hearts
of the young girls to whom she was
speaking.

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LARGE TICKET SALE

dications Point to a Large Attend-
ance at the Helen Kellei* Lecture

FridST'lffgtli*
To witness the dximb speak, to see
with one's own eyes and hear Avith one's
own ears the triomph which blind,^
'deaf and dumh Helen Keller has achiev-
ed after many long years of tutelage
under her famous teacher, Mrs. John'
jMacy (Anne SnlliTan); that is the
^unique treat which is in etore for pa-
trons of the Keller lecture, which is to
the given in City hall at 8 o'clock Fri-
day evening, under the auspices of the
Bangor Teachers' club. Mrs. Macy's
introductory remarks, in which she te-lbs
the life .storj- of Miss Keller and how
she really learned to talk, are said to
be wonderfully entertaining, -while Miss
Keller's lecture, on the topic, The Heart
and the Hand, or the Right Use of Our
Senses, promises a most amazing intel-
lectual treat, by a lecturer who has sur-
mounted physical barriers which most
people would have thought impossible.
It is not to be wondered at that ticke^ts
for this lecture have sold amazingly fast,
although a few desirable seats are yet
to be had.

Miss Keller as a lecturer will not

come to Bangor unheralded. Her lec-

j)ture successes in other cities have been

especially marked and great audiences

'have been the rule, Lewiston heard

I MiKs Keller last spring, and her triumph

in that city is indi«itive of what may

'be expected here. A personal letter

from Lewiston, touching on the lectures

by Miss Keller nnd her teacher, follows:

i '^Congi-atulations to Bangor! You

I have a great treat in store"— the two

I most wonderful women inn the world.

I had the pleasure ot awangmg for their

comin;; to Lewiston in April and tbiiy
delighted everyone. I am .crlad Bangor
and other Maine cities are to have the
privilege of their lectures.

"Very truly yours,
''Florence L. Nye,
"Secretary Maine Division International

Sunshine Society."

A nuQiber of tickets for the Keller
lecture in Bangor have been sold to out
of town parties, and this fact, with
the large local sale, should lead to a
^ff-pflf-itv house for Friday evening.

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The Helen Keller Lecture.

An accourfJMiJfSfhe lecture by Helen |
Keller and her teacher, Mrs. Macy, in
the town hall last week, Thursday even-
ing, could not be done justice to in last
week's paper because of lack of time, and
therefore a brief description will be given
of it in this week's edition. First of all
regrets must be expressed that the town
hall was not filled, for it is not every day
that such an attraction is brought to
Orange. As a means of entertaining,
such a lecture scarcely compares perhaps
with moving pictures and vaudeville,
but there are reasons from an educational
standpoint why such a lecture should
interest every thinking person. There
are reasons why the hall should have
been filled to its capacity. The impres-
sions gained from the intensely interest-
ing lecture by Mrs. Macy and Miss Keller
were such as to make one think and ad-
mire the courage and the patience of
both teacher and pupil. The simple,
yet remarkable story by Mrs. Macy of
her relations with Miss Keller, could not
fail to arouse an admiration for her.
The address by Miss Keller was as if
some mysterical oracle were speaking,
for there was something awe-inspiring
and almost weird in the thoughts she
uttered and in the curious tone in which
the words were spoken. It was not per
feet enunciation but when the difficulties
in the way of its attainment are known,
people were satisfied. But the wonder-
ful blind and deaf girl showed to the best
advantage at the close of her address
when her teacher and those in the audienc
through Mrs. Macy asked her
questions. It was then that her quick
wit and intelligence were demonstrated.
Her face during this brief period was

radiant and she trembled with delight
when some rather difficult questions
was asked her. Her laugh was hearty
and any comic situation seemed to de-
light her. Physically she did not appear
strong and on entering and leaving the
platform her step was not firm and she
seemed to lack confidence. Much credit
is due Everett W. Coleman for bringing
this fine attraction to Orange.

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rREMARKABLE
ij LEGTORE

p, i

ffas Delivered In The Methodist
Church By fflissj£l£ftMer.

|;;There was lan audience of about 800
Ipeople at the Methodist church Sat-
brday night, at the lecture given by
'Mts. Macy and Helen Keller. Mrs.
Macy was introduced iby Rev. Conrad
Hooker, and her account of the edu-
cation of Miss Keller, was listened to
with intense interest. Almost as re-
marka'ble as Miss Keller, Mrs. Macy
seemed to her audience, in her won-
derful success in teaching Helen Kel-
ler, and in opening uip to the closed
jmind an unknown world. When Miss
Keller came on the platform and be-
gan to speak, the sight at first seemed
one of pathos, ibut before the hour of
! closing came, after Mrs. Macy had
demonstrated with Miss Keller, how
the latter understands the speaking
voice iby holding her fingers on the
speaker's lips, there were conflicting
emotions, and what had hap'ppenedt
seemed almost like a miracle. Ques-
tions were asked by ipersons in the
1 audience and answered Iby Miss Kel-
ler after being repeated by Mrs. Macy.
At the close of the lecture, as Miss
Keller and Mrs. Macy were leaving
the platform, they -passed a bouquet

Ipf flowers, and Miss Keller bent over
'and tou'clied and smelled of them.
Mrs. Macy asked her what kind of
flowers they were, and quick as a
flash, 'Miss Keller correctly answered,
"'Chrysanthemums. ■' During their i
stay in town, Mrs. Macy and Miss Kel-
ler stopped at the Van Deusen on
rmirf street.

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Cliy HALL TONICm

*— —

At 8 o'clock tonight, in City Hall,
under the auspices of the Banger
Teachers' Club, Miss Helen Keller,
famed the world o\er as ihe deaf,;
dumb and blind girl, who has learned;
to speak, and whose writings and ut-
teramces are of a beautiful order, will
deliver her eagerly- awaited lecture on
The Heart and the Hand, or the Right
Use of Our Senses. Although a num-
ber O'f desirable seats are yet unsold,
the splendid tctal of tickets already
'.secured assures a line a\idience for
MisK Keller when she appears on the
lecture platform in City Hall tonight

Miss Keller's teacher, Mrs. John
Macy (Anne Sullivan), will first give
an introductory talk regarding Miss
Ktller's life and how, after inajiy lonj^
years of patient teaching, this deaf,
dumb and blind girl was led to talk. I

A wr4rt:er in the Lyceum Magazine'
tells how a $2,0100 audience packed in-
to the auditorium^ last August to hear'
HeJen Keller at her first Chautauqua
apjearance. He says in part: "In'
the three years that I have spent in
this place, no attraction has drawn a
larger cro^\•d, in no attraction was the
human "nterest so intense, and no at-
traction gave better satisfaction and
was more universally talked of. I pur-
posely took a seait farthest back from
the stage, as I had been told that Miss
'Keller could not make herself heard
lat that distance.

"Mrs. Maoy, for t)iree-quarters of an
hour, in a clain and forcible manner.

presented the story, of her connection
'with Mtss Kclltir. 1 hen Miss Keller
came ui.oii the stage and was intro-
duced. Tlie applause, which lasted
pro]- ably tivo minutes, was graciously
respond'jd to by Miss Keller, who aft-
errvards stated that she heard it all
through her feet, i Miss Keller's ad-
drt.iss dealt very iLttle with her own
.story, but was a high appeal along the
lines or" universal brotherhood. I have
never never watched an audience that
was as intense and as pliant. When-
ever Miss Rolled made a point the au-
dience w?i:ld applaud, and she would
wait until the applavse was over. I
heard almost all of Mis© Keller's ad-
dress, and for twenty minutet^ follow-
ing her address, in which she ansv/er-
ed 'luestions, I distinctly heard every
word she utt'3rei." — a.dvt.

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FAMOUS BUND GIRL

FRIDAY

^iss Helen Keller and Her Teacher, Mrs.

John Macy, Heard by Audieuce of

1500 in the City «alL

Miss Helen Keller, the deaf, dumb
ani blind giri whose development and
education have attracted world-wide
attention, "spoke" in Bangor City Hall
14st night; and 1500 persons were
there to discover for themselves what
she was like.

Her teacher, Mrs. John Macy, had
warned them not to ex'pect too much.
I'lf you understand only half her
words," said Mrs. Macy, "you will be
witnesses to a modern miracle."

It was late in the evening when the
blind girl appeart^d. and was careful-

iy led to the front of the singe. &he
wiis gowned very simply in white, and
the great bonnet of roses which she
clasv'C^ti — the gift of the Teachers'
Clnij — looked very red by contrast. She
is 7J0t exactly beautifnl, and. it would
indeed be a weak nse of v/ordis to de-
scribe her as "pretty." She has ^
fine face, anu on^ iJoaSessing far more
than physical attraotivenept — an intel-
lectual face, it secrccd tO' iis, and one
upon which sweetness, nobility and
determination of character are stamped
iudeiibly.

•''he spoke no more than five min-
utes:, and the lotiO persons strained
their ears to under.-^tand what she said.j
Probably very few (►f them did— cer-
tainly not those in the rear of the big
ball. Yet that sh-3 tslkecl at all, even
though net wholly intelligibly, was, as
her teachei had said, a niodcrn mira-
cle. The words .came in monotones, iier
vci'^e lacking all infiection, all modu-
lation; yet thtjre was no '1 ii^rshneso in
it, nothing strident; the tones them-
selves we're sAveet. She speaKes very:
slowly, and often emi.hasizes the final
syllable of her words, as do foreigners
who are striving to master the English
tongue.

oymijathetic interest radiated from
the audience, and the blind girl seemed
to h'enso it. The idea underlying her
few remarks was ihat the education
given by her beloved teacher Lad
broken ^aown the physical barriers of
dumbness and <ieainess arid blind-
ness, letting in the light of the world--
the educational blessinga For she who
had been dumb, could talk; and who
had been deaf, could hear.' She thought
that, even with her great handicaps,
she coulil do her share of good in the
woiid; and .she pointed out that those
•v^'ho lcs<3 the gift of ceJlain senses
gam in the increased efficiency of
others. The audience, as has been
Ba id, kept very still; but the restless
undercurrent bound to occur when
15Ca persons are gatliered, the creak
of footsteps ou the wooden stairs, the
clatter of hoi'ses' fe*t on the pave-
ment below,— all broke in gratingly.

Then came the .most enjoyable and
int-restiag part of the night, Miss
Keller placing her fingers on Mrs.
Macy's lips and thi^s repeating— and
answering — her words.

M1S3 KELLER (AT EFT) AND HER TEAOHIDR, MRS. MACY.

"You tell me you can FEEL wh-en
the audience applauds," said Mrs.
Macy nt one point, accusingly, "but to-
nigfiit they applauded and you kept
right on talking!"

"I kept right on talking," repeated
Helen, parrot-like; and then she added,
laughing like any clean, wholesome
American girl; "Yes, I guess I did."

Then members of the audience began
asking Miss Keller questions — ^filtering
them, of course, through Mrs. Macy.
What was Miss Keller's favorite book?
Who was her favorite novelist? What
studies did she like best at college?
Could she understand music? Who
had given her the 'boquet?

She answered the questions quite
simply and clearly. Her favorite book
was the Bible; her favorite novelist
Arnold Bennett — and she liked the
highly colored romances of H. G. Wells,
tpo; in college she had heen interested
in history, economics and philosophy;
yes, she understood music— could seem
to get its rhythm, its IqucI an4 sott
vibrations. As for the b'oq^uet— why, it
had been given to her by the members
of the Teachers' Club, and she was
very grateful to them! For ten min-
utes the little "quiz" continued, and
then Miss Keller was led from the
stage, still clasping tightly the red
roses.

Dr. D. A. Robinson presided, and the
first part of the evening was devoted
to an address .by Mrs. Macy, who, when
it was recalled that she began her
great work of education with Miss Kel-
ler more than twenty years ago, looked
surprisingly youthful. It was a pleas-
ant little address, delivered in agree-
able conversational style "and rehears-
ing facts quite familiar to readers of
the magazines. Mrs. Macy traced, step
by step, the mental development of her
pupil-protege, from the time that she
was nothing but a little animal to her
present-day standard as a cultivated,
finely educated young American wom-
an: and, surely, as fine a type of wom-
anhood as America has produced. It
was not difficult to see that Mrs. Macy
has a gift of humor, and the audience
lEound much to justify its laughter and
japplause.

MISS HELEN KELLER

TO SPEAK IN CITY

List foj Y. M. C. A. Theater
Meetings for November '
Announced.

Announcement has been made of the
speakers for the Y. M. C. A. men's
meetings to be held Sunday after-
noons in November. Tomorrow Dr. M.
A. Honline will address the meeting
in Court Square theater, the general
subject being the promotion of Bible
study. "The Bible as a Factor in
Modern Civilization," will be Dr. Hon-
line's subject. The doors of the the-
ater will be open at 3.15 o'clock.

Miost noteworthy in the November
list will be the appearance of Miss
Helen Keller, famous as '*^-^ hlinri iiS^^
mute, who under the handicap of lack

of the more important of the five-
senses, has achieved a degree of cul-
ture and education possessed by com-
paratively few women. Among her ac-
complishments is that of speech, a fac-
ulty formerly denied her. iShe will be
accompanied by her teacher, Mrs.
Macy. Miss Keller will speak here
Nov. 23, and owing to the expected
widespread interest in her appearance
that day will be designated as "ladies'
day." Women will be admitted to the
meeting, which w^ill be held in the
municipal auditorium, the better to ac-
commodate the many that will desire
to hear Miss Keller.

Nov. 2, R. P. Gleason of Scranton,
Pa., a noted traveler and lecturer, will
speak on "Modern China." The lec-
ture will be illustrated,

Nov. 9. Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, a
well-known naturalist, will give an il-
lustrated lecture.

Nov. 15. George W. Coleman, head of
the Boston Ford hall meetings, W4!l be
the speaker, and Nov. 30, Dr. J. TVes-
ley Hale of this city will speak on "In-
tijiHtria.l Peace." ^

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^^^NUMBERTF*Bostonians haT"tTre
pleasure the other day of watch-
ing Helen Kellar, the blind girl, feed
pigeons and squirrels on ^^^iil^mmon.
It was Indeed a sight to watch the ex-
pression on the blind girl's face as the
pigeons alighted on her arm and took
food from her hands. While she was
feeding the squirrels a venturesome
little fellow climbed up. on the seat
beside her, scudded out on her arm
and took a nut from her fingers

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The writings of Helen Keller, regard-
less of subject wTT|ttagyyjLi|3i|p«iifca^jaBbntinu<
for a long time to oe of interest to the
public. Tlie record of Missi Keller's mar
velous achievement in getting into touol"
with the world about her, set down ir
"The Story of My Life" presents tb<
details of an educational " feat of an un
usual nature, and bristles with sugges
tions o(f much that is still to be done foi
the blind by their more fortunate fel-
lows. Miss Keller's latest publication;
however, is more than the work of ai
interesting "case," or "genius," as som*
would name her. "Out of the Dark'
(J>oubleday, Page & Co.) is a collection
of various magazine articles, letters a.ni
addresses, written by the author m tli|
past few years, and is expressive of Llr
views of a sympathetic, enthusiastic anc
Intelligent young woman on the liv«
questions of the day. . I

Among the various topics discussed ar
socialism, capital and labor, higher odu
cation for women, woman suffrage, an<J
the problem of the blind, Naturalii
Miss Keller's opinions as to what tiiioul'
be done for the blind will be of th
greatest interest to the reader; her so^
cialistic and economic theories, alLlioug]
well put, contain nothing new or start
ling to those who keep up with the Uifl
cussions of these subjects.

The articles on the blind and deal
however, give prominence to an actus
need with what may be regarded au a"
n,uthoritative statement of how to tnmti
It. "Our Duties to the Blind " "Wha
the Blind Can Do," "Preventat)le Blind
ness," "The Education of the Deaf," ar
some of the titles. Many of these are re
prints of addresses delivered by Mis
Keller before Massachusetts and >icj
York associations working for the caua
of the blind. Other miscellaneous es
says, "Christmas in the Dark" and "Th<
Message of Swedenborg," throw Ugh
on the personaliljr ul tne author and he
courageous spirit in the face of her mis
fortune. The book should draw attention

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Helen KeUer's "USELESS'"
EAR DRUMS
to a POWERFUL

VIOLIN NOTE

w a
DfeAF Mute
'HEARD" Her

First MUSIC

HE^EN KELbER, celebrated the world over for her
strugn^*^ainst the handicap of being deaf,
blind and almost dumb since a- fever robbed her
of these faculties at the age of eighteen months, has
at last been enabled to "hear" the tone of a violin and
to appreciate the wonder of a musical harmony. Pro-
fessor Franz Kohler, of the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, and formerly the concert meister of Pittsburgh
Orchestra under Emil Pauer, after a series of experi-
ments, was able to penetrate thfe deadwall of her use-
less eardruxUS and arouse some aormant auditory power
that responded to the powerful low D he played on the
G string.

Miss Keller's utter amazement at the new sensation
of "hearing" this thing which was called music was
intense. Her whole body quivered with excitement, and
when some particular note seemed to make her feel the
most, she shook with a spasm of emotion as if she was
a very part of the violin.

> ■ Mrs. Macy, Helen's teacher, declares that it is a
"miracle," since her pupil has never had any knowledge
of musical tones, and^ that the feat of "singing the
scale" before the International Otological Congress at
Harvard Medical School in Boston last Summer, which
attracted such world-wide attention to Miss Keller, was
a purely mechanical result obtained by muscular con-
trol of the throat and vocal cords.

Professor Kohler used a Stradivarius made in 1722,

•'the golden age," when Anton Stradivarius turned out

his most perfect work. Improvising through three

octaves, he Anally ^ruck a low D on the G string, which

seemed to first arouse Miss Keller's

new faculty of "hearing,"

In order to get the most direct
communication between his instru-
ment and Miss Keller's sensitive
brain, he had her clench her teeth
tightly on the scroll of the violin.
This en^hled the vibrations to travel
infstantly up the lower maxillary
bones to the lower lobes of the brain,
where they set up a responsive vibra-
tion and established first physical
feeling and Is^ter some dormant aud-
itory power, i.

Miss Kelleri later, of her own accord, transferred the
violin's scroll' from her mouth to the cheek bone, just
above and in front of her right ear. There she pressed
it so insistently that her flesh was discolored after the
tests were finished. The vibrations of the violin,
according to Professor Kohler, are so penetrating and
insistent that they will pierce through almost any solid
substance, and if it is not too thick will set 'it vibrating
in response, fle quotes the instance of several music
halls where the violin tones have gained sufficient
vibrating intensity that the steel girders at the top
have been shaken from their rigid setting.

Professor Kohler first experimented on a deaf and
dumb girl at Oberlin College, whom
he was able to teach to differentiate
(between violin tones of two inter-
vals. He declares that "while the
ear drum is the medium by which
sound impressions are conveyed to
the human brain, it is not so in all
creatures, Many small Insects and
beetles seem to be more responsive

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to sounds of a reiterated cbaracetr
than to any which would appeal to
the human brain. In other words,
the physical feeling of v;hration
seems to have quite as sure an effect
to any creature sensitive to it as
does the symbolic sound, such as
words and familiar harmonies and |
characteristic noises to the intelli-
gence.

"There are myriads of sounds in
the universe which are never heard
'by the human ear. Its range is very
limited. And there are many sounds either too low or
too high for the human ear to catch. Yet these other
sounds have an equally important place in the world of
tone. You have seen the experiment where a flame
within a glass chimney can be almost extinguished by
the rapid vibrations of a shrill violin tone. It is the
same way with beetles and small insects which are in-
fluenced by sound and the physical feeling of vibrations.
"Now, in Miss Keller's case, there is a more sensi-
tive response of feeling to external elements than the
average human being has. Miss Keller's fingers^ will
recognize an old friend, whom she has not met for ten
years, by the hand clasp. She can feel the sound of a
great audience applauding her, because her feet 'hear*
the vibrations of the floor on which she stands. Her
mental faculties are more keenly alert to these strange
manifestations, which the senses of average folks are
■ never conscious of. So that when she first felt the
I physical sensation of the violin vibrations and attuned
herself more and more carefully to differentiate, she
was not long in arousing whatever auditory power was
left to her. And the fact that she can now oatch the
I harmony like the voices of singing angels proves that
the fever which robbed her of hearing did not take from
•her all auditory power.^'

Professor Kohler went on to state that he has found
many instances where deaf people who were robbed of
hearing by some sickness or accident, still retained a
large amount of auditory power, and that when com-
munication is properly established they are able to dis-
tinguish musical tones and catch a glimpse of real
harmony.

, The effect on her personally of this experience was
unique. When the vibration gave her the first distinct
shock of "hearing" she shook with a convulsive spasm
as if she herself were a part of the violin to which she

was clinging. And af each repetition of that 13ne sh«^

responded just as she did at the first. Kohler then
improvised simple phrases, running three octaves^^ from
I high G to low G.

I When playing in the major keys with open strings^
Ihe frequently struck notes which later she grew to
{reco?:nize more and more easily. With the strings cov-
fered and playing flat he got only a comparatively small
response from her.

When he struck the high register phases on his
E string and repeated them over and over, she de-
clared, with increasing frequency, "Oh, I can feel it.
Now I hear it. It is the music you tell about so much."
Miss Keller was so greatly moved when at the finai
tests — Professor Kohler repeated the opening phrases
from Saint-Saens "Le Cygne" — that tears started from
her eyes, and she begged him not to atop playing. And
[when the music ended she cried out, "Oh, it was like
[the voices of singing angels," and swaying from physi-
! cal exhaustion, she was led away to her room by Mrs.
Macy, her lifelong friend and teacher.

J. M. Hall, president of the Bay View Assembly, de-
clared: "It was the most touching scene I ever wit-
nessed. We were — all of us — profoundly moved to see
that girl so long deaf beginning to catch the simple
harmony of the music. She swayed like a reed at the
end of the violin. I never saw .so much emotion spring
into the human face as I saw in her's when she heard
the music."

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MII^ KELLER SELECTS BEST.

Hind 3I«te Picks lii Same Pappy

]^very Time.

en Kelleiv. the blind mute, has been
givingr a furure?'''^Bill»*ah^|i(rtdon of her
wonderful powers at the kennels of Robert
K. Armstrong', formerly kenijel manager
for the late J. Pierpont Morgan, at Barber
Junction, X. C. Mr. Armstrong leases
lai'ge quail shooting estates and conse-
quently he keeps nr^any English setters
and pointers. Miss Kellei-. visiting the
Thistle, wanted to be with the Armstrong
dogs.

First of all she got among some Eng-
lish setter puppies of about 7 weeks old.
There were nine in the litter. After Miss
Keller had fondled them all over ahe
picked out the best puppy in the lot. v The
strangest thing about it was that she
would put it down to fondle so^me big dog;
then the puppy would play around her
and she would put her hands down and
always select the same puppy. Theii Miss
Keller went over the kennels and four of
the puppies followed the party over a dis-
tance of 150 yards, the first time they
were over there.

The puppies all lay down in a bunch at
her feet and she put her hands down
again and feit the puppies, and up into
her arms she took the €same puppy she had
favored before. .Then the company went
through the kennels among the many big
■or grown dogs and Miss Keller played
with them for a while, and returning
again to the little puppies immediately
the same youngster was chosen. The
puppies are all of the same size and in
a like condition. When Armstrong was
with Mr. Morgan many dogs were sent to
iVfiss Keller as presents, and to-day she
can describe distinctly some of those Mor-
gan collies t^hich she owned fifteen years
ago.

The people at Barber Junction wei
sorry to see Helen Keller leave them. At
is essentially a bird dog and hound copn-
try, and the natives enjoyed the wt
which, their visitor sorted and pick(
their best dogs.

lelen KeUer's "USELESS"
MR DRUMS Respond to a
POWERFUL VIOUN NOTE

How a
DEAF Mute
"HEARD" Her
First MUSIC

HELEN KEbDER, celebrated_fcj|e world over for her
'^*Hitrn.agto against tne kanaicap of being deaf,
' blind and almost dumb since a fever robbed her
of thes^*TS'Kulties at the age of eighteen months, has
at last been enabled to "hear" the tone of a violin and
to appreciate the wonder of a musical harmony. Pro-
fessor Franz Kohler, of the Oberlin Conservatory of
Music, and formerly the concert meister of Pittsburgh
Orchestra under Emil Pauer, after a series of experi-
ments, was able to penetrate the dead wall of her use- '
less eardrums and arouse some dormant auditory power
that responded to the powerful low D le played on the
G string.

Miss Keller's utter amazement at the new sensation
q2 "hearing" this thing which was called music was
intense. Her whole body quivered with excitement, and ;
when some particular note seemed to make her feel the
inost,*she shook with a spasm of emotion as if she was
a very part of the violin. *

tr.

Mrs. Macy, Helen's teacher,, declares that it is a
"miracle," since her pupil has never had any knowledge
Of musical tones, and that the feat of "singing the
scale" before the International Otological Congress at
Harvard Medical School in Boston last Summer, which
attracted such world-wide attention to Miss Keller, was
a purely mechanical result obtained by muscular con-
, trol of the throat and vocal cords.

Professor Kohler used a Stradivarius made in 1722,

"the golden age," when Anton Stradivarius turned out

his most perfect work. Improvising through three

; octaves, he finally struck a low D on the G string, which

seemed to first arouse Miss Keller's

new faculty of "hearing."

In order to get the most direct
communication between his instrii
ment and Miss Keller's sensitive
brain, he had her clench her teeth
tightly on the scroll of the violin.
This ena'bled the vibrations to travel
instantly up the lower maxillary
bones to the lower lobes of the brain,
where they set up a responsive vibra
tion and established first physical
feeling and later some dormant aud-
itory power.
^ Miss Keller later, of her own accord, transferred tb^
violin's scroll from her mouth to the cheek bone, just
above and in front of her right ear. There she pressed
it so insistently that her flesh was discolored after the
tests were finished. The vibrations of the violin,
according to Professor Kohler, are so penetrating and
insistent that they will pierce through almost any solid
substance, and if it is not too thick will set it vibrating
in response. He quotes the instance of several music
halls where the violin tones have gained sufficient
vibrating intensity that the steel girders at the top^
have been shaken from their rigid setting.

» Professor Kohler first experimented on a deaf and
dumb girl at Oberlin College, whom
he was able to teach to differentiate
ibetween violin tones of two inter-
vals. He declares that "while the
ear drum is the medium by which
sound impressions are conveyed to
the human brain, it is not so in all
creatures. Many small insects and .
beetles seem to be more responsive

to sound of a reiterated characetr
than to any which would appeal to
the human brain. In other words,
the physical feeling of vibration
seem'S to have quite as sure an effect
t(» any creature sensitive to it as
does the symbolic sound, such as
words and familiar harmonies and
characteristic noises to the intellt-
gence.

"There are myriads of sounds in
the universe which are never heard
by the human ear. Its range is very
limited. And- there are many sounds either too lovr or
too high for the human ear to catch. Yet these other
sounds have an equally important place in the world oi:
tone. You have seen the experiment where a flame
within a glass chimney can be almost extinguished by
the rapid vibrations of a shrill violin tone. It is the

( same way with beetles and small insects which are in-
fluenced by sound -and the physical feeling of vibrations.
"Now, in- Miss Keller's case, tMere is a more sensi-
tive response of feeling to external elements than the

/average human being has. Miss Keller's fingers will
recognize an old friend, whom she has not met for ten
years, by the hand clasp. .«She can feel the sound of a
great audience applauding her, because her feet 'hear'
the vibrations of the floor on which she stands. Her
mental faculties are more keenly alert to these strange

; manifestations, which the senses of average folks are
never conscious of. So that when she first felt the

f physical sensation of the violin vibrations and attuned
herself more and more carefully to differentiate, she

r was not long In arousing whatever auditory power was

rleTf to her. And the fact that she can now' catch the

■

^harmony like the voices of singing angels proves that
the fever which robbed her of hearing did not take from
her all auditory power.".

Professor Kohler went on to state that he has found
many instances where deaf people who were robbed of
hearing by some sickness or accident, still retained a
; large amount of auditory power, and that when com-
' munication is properly established they are able to dis-
1: tinguish mu^al tones and catch a glimpse of real
j harmony.

The effect on her personally of this experience was
; unique. When the vibration gave her the first distinct
i shock of "hearing" she shook with a convulsive spasm
! as if she herself were a part of the violin to which she

was clinging. And at each repetition of that ..me she

responded just as slie did at the first. Kohler thenj
Improvised simple phrases, running three octaves, from
high G to low G

When playing in the major keys with open string^i]
he frequently struck notes which later she grew to
recognize more and more easily. With the strings cov-
ered and playing flat he got only a comparatively small
response from her.

When he struck the high register lihases on his
E string and repeated them over and over, she de-
clared,', with increasing frequency, "Oh, I can feel it.
Now I hear it. It is the music you tell about so much."
Miss Keller was so greatly moved when at the final
tests — Professor Kohler repeated the opening phrases
from Saint-Saens "Le Cygne" — that tears started from
her eyes, and she begged hiim not to stop playing. And
when the music ended she cried out, "Oh, it was like
the voices of singing angels," and swaying from physi-
cal exhaustion, she was led away to her room by Mrs,
Macy, her lifelong friend and teacher.

J. M. Hall, president of the Bay View Assembly, de-
clared: "It was the most touching scene I ever wit-
nessed. We were — all of us — profoundly moved to see
that girl so long deaf beginning to catch the simple
harmony of the music. She swayed like a reed at the
end of the violin. I -never saw so much emotion spring
into the human face as I saw in her's when she heard
the music."

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■aen KeDer's 'OISELESS"
EAR DRUMS Respond to a
POWERFUL VIOLIN NOTE

ow a
AF Mute
ARD" Her

First MUSIC

HBILBN KXIAMK, oelebrmted Ut« world orw for her
Btmssle against the handloap of being deat
blind and almost dnmb ilnoe a ferer robbed her
of thefVfVSVlites at the age of eighteen months, has
at last been enabled to "hear" the tone of a rloUn and
to appreciate the wonder of a musical harmony. Pro-
fessor Franz Kohler, of the Oberlln Conservatory of
Music, and formerly the concert melster of Pittsburgh
Orchestra under Elmll P&uer, after a series of experi-
ments, was able to penetrate the deadwall of her use-
lefis e&rdnxjM and arouse some aormant auditory power
that responded to the powerful low D he played on the
Q string.

Miss Kftttor*! utter Amaaemmt at the new sensation
of "hearing^ t2Us thing whloh wms o&Ued music was
intenee. Her whole body onlrered with ezoitement, and
when some partloolar note eeemed to make her feel the
most, she shook with a q^asm of emotion as !f she was
ft very part of Osee tIoUil

Mrs. Mao7» Helen's teaoher, declares that It is a
'"miracle,** sinoe her pupil has nerer had any knowledge
~^ '^tiaical tonee, and that the feat of •^singing the

gcale** before the International Otological Congress at
Harvard Medical School In Boston last Summer, which
attraoted such world-wide attention to Miss Keller, was
a purely mechanical result obtained bj muscular con-
trol of the throat and vocal cords.

Professor Kohler used a fe-tradlvarlus made In 1722,
"the golden age," when Anton Stradivarlus turned out
his most perfect work. Improvising through three
octaves, he finally struck a low D on the O string, which
seemed to first arouse Miss KeUor*!
new fktoolty of ''hearing.'*

In order to 8«t the nioat direct
communication between his in^tni'
mexkt and Miss Keller's sensitive
brain, be had her dench her teeth
tightly on the scroll of the violin.
This enaibled the vibrations to travel
Inrstantly up the lower maxillary
bones to the lower lobes of the brain,
where they Bet up a responsive vibra-
tion and established first physical
feeling and later some dormant aud-
itory power. H

Miss Keller later, of her own accord, transferred %Sm
violin's scroll from her mouth to the cheek bone, just
above and In front of her right ear. There she pressed
it so insistently that her flesh was discolored after the
tests were finished. The vibrations of the violin,
according to Professor Kohler, are so penetrating and
insistent that they will pierce through almost any solid
substan-ce, and if it is not too thick will sot it vibrating
in response. He quotes the instance of several music
halls where the violin tones have gained sufficient
vibrating intensity that the steel girders at the to©
have been shaken from their rigid setting.

Professor Kohler first experimented on a deaf and
dumb girl at Oberlln College, whom
he was able to teach to differcntlAte
{between violin tones of two Inter-
vals. He declares that **whlle the
car drum is the medium by whldl
sound impressions are oonveyod to
the human brain. It is not so in all
creatures. Many smaU insects and
beetles seem to be more responsive
to sound <^ a reiterated characetr
than to any which would appeal to
the human brain. In other words,
the physical feeling of vibration

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seenrs to har* quite as sure an effect
to any creature sensitive to It aB
does the aymbollc eonnd, mich ai
:w^onls and familiar harmonies and
characteristic noises to the intelli-
^nce.

**There ar© myriads of flonnda In!'
the universe which are never heard
3>y the human ear. Its ran^o is very
limited. And there are many aonnda either too low or
too high for the human ear to oatch. Yet these other
0omids hav« an equally important place In the world of
tone. You have seen the experiment where a flame
within a fflass chimney can be almost extinguished by
the rapid vibrations of a shrill violin tone. It Is the •
same way with beetles and small Insects which are in- ^^
fluenced by Bound and the physical feeling of vibrations.
•^Now, in Miaa KoUer'a case, there is a more sensi- .
ttre response of feeling to external elements than the
average human being has. Miss Keller's fingers will
recognize an old frlend» whom she has not met for ten
years, by the hand clasp. She can feel the sound of a
great audience applauding her, because her feet 'hear*
the vibrations of the floor on which she stands. Her
mental faculties are more keefily alert to these strange
manifestations, which the senses of average folks are
never conscious of. So that when she first felt the
physical sensation of the violin vibrations and attuned
herself more and more carefully to differentiate, sfee
was not long In arousing whatever auditory power wai
left to her. And the fact that she can now oatch the
harmony like the voices ot 0lnging angels proYea that
the fever which robbed her o.t hearing did not take trotf
her all auditory power.'*

Professor Kohler went on to state that ho has foun4
many instances where deaf people who were robbed ol
hearing by some sickness or accident, still retained a
large amount of auditory power, and that when com*
munication Ls properly established they |.re able to dia-
tingulsh musical tonos and catch a glimpse of real
harmony.

The effect on her personally of this cxperietnoe was
unique. When the vibration gave her the first distinct
shock of *TieajlBg^ she shook with a convubdTe spasm
as If she herself were a part of the violin to which sho
W0J5 clinging. And at each repetition of that vjne she
responded Just as she did at the first. Kohler thea
improvised simple phrases, running three octaves, fromi
high G to low a.

When playing in the major keys with open strings
he frequently struck notes which later she grew to

recognize more and more easily. With the strings cot^''
ered and playing flat he got only a comparatively small
response from her.

"When he struck the high register phases on his
E string and repeated them over and over, she de-
clared, with ln<jr6asing frequency, "Oh, I can feel it.
Now I he^r it. It is the music you tell abont so much."
Miss Kel>«r was so greatly moved when at the final
tests — Professor Kohler repeated the opening phrases
from SaJnt-Saens "Le Cygne" — that tears started Irom
her eye&, and she begged him not to stop playing. And
when the mualc ended she cried out, "Oh, it was like
the voices of singing angels,** and swaying from f*bysi-
cal exhaustion, ahe was led away to her room by ^rs.
Macy, her lifelong friend and teacher.

J. M. Hall, president of the Bay View Assembly, d^
clared: "It was the most touching scene I ever wit-
nessed. We were— -all of us— profoundly moved to isee
that girl bo long deaf beginning to catch the simple
harmony of the music. She swayed like a reed at the
end of the violin. 1 never saw so much emotion spring
into the human. fAce as I saw in her's when she heard
the ftiUBk5.'*

QTooK.'irQTv. "VVla.S5>>> '^L-Yvx^-e^s

HELEN KELLER'S

OF I

Rev. Paul Sperry Referred to

l| in His Sermon.
a/ —

The subject of the sermon by Rev.
Paul Sperry at the Church of the New
Jerusalem on Sunday morning was
"The Restoration of Sight and Hear-
ing." Examination was made of the
various prophecies of the Old Testa-
^ment relative to the opening of the
eyes of theJilJUut and the unstopping
of the ears of the deaf, when the
Lord's coming should be effected.
I He pointed out that the understand-
'ing is the eye of the soul and percep-
ftion its ear, whereby truth is learned;
Land felt and the impulse to obey is i
fderived. I

i Mr. Sperry referred to the remark-
1 able achievement of Miss Helen
• Keller in learning to speak after a
lifetime of silence. It was shown
that her mental development, the j
opening of her sight to see the eter- ,
nal truths and her hearing to sense
the verity of revealed teachings, were '
far more wonderful than her achieve-
ment of vocal power.

Reference was made to Miss
Keller's careful and earnest study of
the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg,
and her writing of an introduction
about two years ago for a two-volume
collection for the blind of extracts
from his writings. Mr. Sperry read
portions of that introduction as fol-
lows:

"We who are blind are often glad
that another's eyes find a road for
us in a wide, perplexing darkness.
How much more should we rejoice
when a man of vision discovers a way
to the radiant other lands of the
spirit. To our conception of God,
the word and the hereafter which we
have received on trust from ages of
unproven faith, Swedenborg gives a
new actuality, which is as startling,
as thrilling as the angel-sung tidings
of the Lord's birth.

"He brings fresh testimony to sup-
port our hope that the veil shall be
drawn from unseeing eyes, that the
dull ear shall be quickened and dumb
lips gladdened with speech."

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^-f %S .. ^ '^. IB .

HEARD mm KELLER

MOST REMARKABLE LECTURE BEFO
1,500 PEOPLE FRIDAY. '«-

Perhaps the most remarkable lecture
ever given in Bangor's City hall was
delivered by Miss Helen Adams Keller,
Friday evening, bafore an audience
that occupied every seat in the hall. It
was a^i audience representative of the
best of the culture and refinement of
the Queen City and surrounding towns.

Many of the University of Maine pro-
fetiso;tJ ^nd teachers from other schools
in thifi vicinity were present to hear
this wonderful young lady, who became
deaf, dumb and blind atthe age of 19
mpnths, and wmHUPWimictii n to the
point of learning to write and speak
has been described by an eminent educa-
tor as the greatest single educational
achievement in history.

Aft^r an introductory lecture by Mrs
John A. Macy, telling of the education
of Helen Keller, from the time she first
met her up to the present, from her
teacher's viewpoint, Miss Keller came
upon the stage. She spoke for only a
few moments. Mrs. Macy had told the
audience not to expect too much of bev
speech' that it was artificial and some
what monotonous, and when first heard,
was difHcult to understand. When she
started speaking, this was very notice-
able, but as Miss Kellar.proceeded; it be-
came easier to understand her, and at
the la.st, when in conversation with her
teacher, every word she spoke could be
clearly heard and understood.

The subject of her lecture was, The
Heart and the Hand, or The Right Use
of Our Senses. In opening, she re-
ferred to the kindness of the people as-
sembled in coming to listen to her, and
said that it made her happy to be before
them to speak. It had been an ardu
ous task that she had taken upon her-
self, hut she rejoiced that she had over-
come the darkness of her mind, letting
in the sunshine of life.

Heartfelt appreciation -of her teacher,
Mrs, Mai;y, was expressed in a few
words, saying that it was through her
that she "found" her father an J moth-
er. and all the wonderful outside world,

"Vi^ only life worth living is tJiat
lite which is for others.'*

' All that I have learned has come to
me through my hand. I put my trust
in God's love at all times. I reach out
my hands to Him, not in dumb resigna-
tion, but in loving trust. :

''It is difficult to teach the blind man,
the splendor of the sunset, but the sky
of blindness. has its wonders, too.**

Then followed a conversation between
Mrs. Macy and her pupil, showing how
Helen understands by lip reading with
her hand. Mrs. Macy told her first
thnt they had caught her napping dur-
ing her address.

Vilii^lll^ways say that you can hear
the audience applaud, but tonight when
they applauded, you kept right on talk-
ing."

"0, I was not listening," and an ex
pression at once indicating apology and
pleasure at having been appreciated
was noted on her face.

"How do you listen?"

•'With my feet!" and a smile that
she began was communicated to the
au iience. The people were glad to see
that Miss Keller had a sense of humor.

"What studies did you like best in
college?"

"Philosophy, literature, history and
economics."
I "Did you not find economics dull?",

"No, indeed. In a sense it i» a study
of humanity."

"What is yoar favorite book?"

"The Bible."

Mrs. Macy then told the audience
that any question desired could be ask-
ed. The first question from a man wa:>:
, "What is your fiavorite novel?"

"That would be hard to say, I read.
so few. 1 like Arnold Bennett very
much. H. G. Wells is also fine, but I
think most of his "New Wcrlds foi^
Old' ' ; I have not read his novels. * ' ^

"Do you like poetry?" ^

"Oh, I love it," and an expression of
great pleasure was evident. !*

"Who is your favorite poet?" I

"Whitman." j

"I suppose you are a buffragette?" ^

**Yes," in a decided manner.

When asked by someone in the audi
ence what impression she obtained of
music, she answered that she could

feel it, could distinguish between high
and low, between slow and fast music,''
Sweet strains ga/e her pleasure, but
discords caused her pain. Her favorite
musical instruments are the orgah and
violin.

•'Who gave you those roses?"

' Oh, it was the ('lub," in a happy
and grateful voice, burying her face in
the beautiful bouquet of roses she car-
ried in her hands. The Bangor Teach
ers' club, under whose auspices the Isc
ture was given, had sent the roses in
the afternoon.

''I want to thank them for these
lovely flowers,'*'" were her last words,
and she bowed dff the stage amid the
applause of the audience, Miss Sullivan
assisting her.

An extremely interesting exposition
of the manner in which Helen was
taught was given by her teacher, Mrs..
John Macy, before the address by Miss
Keller, Mrs. Macy, then Miss Anne M.
Sullivan, was at 18 years cured of total
blindness at the Perkins Institute tor
the Blind in Boston, where she! had
been taking a course for the blind, and
from which she graduated, Helen
Adams Keller, a six year old girl in
Tuscumbia, Alabama, had been blind,
deaf and dumb since her 19th month,
and Miss Sullivan had been selected as
her teacher.

*'When I first met Helen, she was a
well grown, healthy child, passionate,
wilful, constantly striving against the
barriers that bound her. Her fingers
lelt every object

How she taught Helen ths first word
in the manual alphabet, d*o-l-l, was
told in detail. She repeated the four
letters of this until Helen learned them
perfectly. In a month, a new world
was opened to the child, and she learn-
ed wonderfully. She was eager to find
out the name of everything. Before
long she was wandering into the realm
of abstract ideas. While admmister-
ing punishment to her doll, Nancy, at^

one time; Miss Sullivan asked her if
she talked to Nancy before doing this.
"No, because Nancy has no think."
By pointing to her forehead, the teach-
er made Helen understand instantly the
meaning of the word ''think" and in
this way, she learned all abstract
words.

Soon after learning the manual alpha*
bet, Helen tried to teach it to her little
puppy dog, and it was some time before
she became resigned to the fact that he
wouldnH learn. But when she would
happen to step on the doggy, by acci-
dent, she would instantly bend down,
and spell out on his paw, "Please ex
RUse me."

The years spoilt at Radcliife college
were not pleasant years for Helen and
her teacher. They had to work inces-
santly, thus missing one of the best
things about college, the college life.

The barriers that Helen has partially
overcome are still barriers. She is
totally dependent upon othersu She
uses the typewriter, but cannot start to
work unless someone adjusts it proper-
ly for her. Mrs. Macy has known of
Helen writing for hours on a typewriter
after the ribbon has slipped off, and
having only as the result of her toil,
nothing but blank sheets of copy paper
With that wonderful patience and will
power that has characterized her whole
life, she began again her task of writ-
ing.

"It took Helen Keller 20 years to
learn to speak in public before you to-
night If it -were not for her patience
aiid will power you would never have
heard of her and you would not be here
tonight to listen to her."

Dr. D. A. Robinson introduced M
Macy, referring to Miss Kellef's
achievement as miraculous. L

FROM BOX

IN THEATRE

HELEN KELLER

ktMH^MMMMHH

fc i

" AND ^^SEES"
DAVID WARP I ELD

HEtB!^ KELLER
LISTENS" AND ''WATCHES"
DAVID WARFIELD

IHE most wonderful girl in -the
world sgjt^'lh a box at the
^el^ujCtfTheaire and witnessed
the performance of her favorite
actor, David Warfield. in "The Auc-
tioneer."

At first glance she did not look dif-
ferent from the other well bred, mod-
ishly gowned young women whom, con-
veniently chaperoned, one may count
by the score in the fashionable metro-
politan theatre audience. To look ati
her as she sat there in the box, now
laughing heartily at the Warfieldian
humor, now pushing away a tear at
some particular bit of pathos, now rap-
turously applauding as the curtain fell
on each successive act — watching her
thus who could divine that she was the
wondrous girl the mystery of whose
genius scientists and poets alike agree
has but one parallel in all time and in
all history? Who, 'not knowing her
identity, could dream that the name of
this wholesome, up to date and al-
together charming young woman is
linked reverently by great men of the
earth with that of Joan of Arc?

And apparently no one in all that big
audience did recognize her or realized
that she who responded so readily both

Helen Keller and David, Warfield "talking"
about "The Return ol Pe er Grimm."

, ,.,i».f!X».tiic;^:-;iVf.

to the comedy and to the pathos of
David Warfield's art saw and heard it
all not through the avenue of normal
sense, of physical sight and sound, but
by those spiritual antennse the develop-
ment of which has made Helen Keller,
deaf, dumb and blind, the marvel of
the age.

Accompani-ed by her long since fa-
mous teacher and companion of twenty-
six years, Mrs. Macy, together with her
young girl friend Miss Moore, Miss
Keller had arrived in New York after
a long lecture tour through the South-
ern States. Her itinerary permitted
but one night's stop in New York, and
this Gi\e night Miss Keller had, as she
herself put it, "consecrated to seeing
David Warfield."

"I have seen him in everything else,"
she wired her manager of the J. B.
Pond Lyceum Bureau, "so please have
seats reserved for me for 'The Auc-
tioneer.' It doesn't matter where they
are — I'll be able to hear and see any-
where in case you cannot get good
seats."

An amazing message when one re-
members that Helen Keller's eyes and
ears are dead, that sound and light are
properties of matter with which she
has only an academic acquaintance,
that all the days of her life have been
passed in the appalling darkness which
is' the inexorable fate of the deaf-blind-
mute.

Even more amazing, though, were Miss
Keller's remarks when her party, of
which the writer was a member, arrived
at the theatre. It wanted fifteen min-
utes before the curtain went up and this
interim the blind girl declared she would
like to spend in the foyer "watching
the people come in."

"It has been so long since I have been
to the theatre in New York," she ex-
plained, "and I do take such pleasure,
on these rare occasions, in catching a
glimpse of the gay and frivolous life of
you New Yorkers which we read so much
about in the newspapers." Here Miss
Keller settled herself comfortably on
one of the silken divans and her right
hand resting lightly in Mrs. Macy's, her
left touching Miss Moore's, she proceeded
to view the nightly panorama that is
enacted there in that brief quarter of an
hour before the lowering of the lights.

Just like any other girl to whom the

crowd is not an every day occurrence,
Helen Keller was on the qui vive with
wholesome and charming curiosity about
innumerable things.

Did any one happen to know who that
beautifully gowned woman was? Who
was that very distinguished looking
man? This party of young debutantes —
six, eight, nine, ten, of them, all so shy
and fresh and exquisite in the studied
simplicity of their gowning — so "jeune
fille," as Miss Keller happily put it — ,
were they perhaps some of the "smart j
set" of society column lore?

These and kindred questions Miss i
Keller asked as casually as any ordinary
girl, and as the answers came quickly,
now from Mrs. Macy's finger tips, now
from Miss Moore's, her face became the
mirror of a thousand fleeting expres-
sions. Indeed, it might be said here that !
Miss Keller's face gives the impression 1
of being as highly sensitized as a photo- '
graphic dry plate. On it there are reg-
istered shades of expression, fine shades
of feeling, which the face of the normal
human being is incapable of reflecting.

From a discussion of the passing crowd
the conversation drifted to an apprecia-
tion on Miss Keller's part of the artistic
beauty of the Belasco Theatre, the de-
tails of which Mrs. Macy's deft fingers
made familiar to her, and then to the
topic of "first nights."

"I wish so much," said Miss Keller in
a voice so clear and distinct that a
passing party of men and women hear-
ing the wish smiled — "I wish so much
that I might some time co-me " to a
Belasco first night and see 'the death
watch,' Diamond Jim Brady and all
the celebrities I -have read so much
about." .

Here the deep voiced gong called
the party to their box and a few mo-
ments later Helen Keller, in company
with the rest of the audience, was ap-
plauding the entrance of Simon Levi
as he stood there in his Hester street
shop, a potted Easter lily in one arm,
a bunch of cotton umbrellas in the
other. When at last the house was
quiet enough for Warfield to deliver
his first line the deaf-blind girl leaned
forward, tense with suppressed excite-
ment, her companions' hands poised
ready to communicate the expected
words the moment they fell from the
actor's lips.

"Here, Moe, mix these cotton um-
brelles mit the silk." The words were

scarcely uttered before Helen Keller
was laughing just as heartily as any
other person in the theatre. The en-
trance of Miss Marie Bates was signal
for another burst of applause, during
which Miss Keller leaned over and
whispered to the writer: "I feel as
though I were, greeting an old friend —
I saw her last in 'The Return of Peter
Grimm.' "

The process by which Mrs^. Macy and
Miss Moore communicated the details
of what was going on on the stage was
as complicated as it was interesting.
The major portion of the labor fell, of
course, upon Mrs. Macy. She it was
who deftly and swiftly communicated
all the passing dialogue, together with
the attendant "business," provided the
latter did not become too much in-
volved. In which case Miss Moore
came to the. rescue as a sort of auxil-
iary. As, for instance, in the latter
part of the first act during the hubbub
of the auction room scene, or in the
Twenty-third street scene of the third
act. In both these portions of the play
there was an infinitude of detail which
it was imperative should be co-mmuni-
cated, and' with lightning rapidity. For
unless one were put in complete reali-
zation of all the shifting multiplicity of
color, sight, sound and movement of
which these scenes are the concrete
representation witnessing "The Auc-
tioneer" or any other play were an
empty and meaningless function.

To this end, then, at these crises
there was enacted in that darkened box
a drama such as would stagger the
genius of Shakespeare himself even to
dream of and in which, as David War-
field said later, ho actress in all the
world, however gifted she might be,
would be Irreverent enough to dare
essay the role of the heroine. Had any
of the surrounding audience been able
through the shadowed dimness to descry
what was going on they would
have now for fhe first time learned
that the girl with the big, wide open
blue eyes wa's deaf and blind. For
while the motley throng of East Siders
poured into Simon Levi's shop on the
etage the faitlbful women who are
Helen Keller's eye^ and ears were
laboring as few women are ever
privileged to labor. There was now, if
one may so express it, a certain silent
confusion in that particular box. There
were quick passages of delicate hands,
esoteric lightninglike movements of
finger tips and of lips. From one to

another of her companions the girl
with the big-, wide open blue eyes
turned, her face at times seemingly
anguished lest something escape the
eager consciousness of her very soul.

Here the whole East Side is pouring
into Simon Levi's little shop. Here's
Meyer Cohen, w'ho always gets mad
when he plays pinochle, and here's
Mrs. Meyer Cohen. The audience is
laughing, and Helen Keller would like
to laugh but she hardly dares for fear
of losing something that is transpiring
on the stage, now teeming' with such
a funny lot of men and women that
finally she laughs"" in spite of herself and
almost misses "seeing" her beloved
Marie Bates come bustling in. Then,
joy of joys, the little German band that
Simon Levi 'has hired to draw his crowd
starts up a jolly tune, and forgetting
all else Helen Keller pulls her hands
away and begins to beat time to t\je
music. The latter she hears, as she ex-
plains to the writer, by means of the
vibrations that she feels in the air. But
she can only afford a moment to this
delightj. Back she must slip her hands
into the palms of her companions and
once more get en rapport with the play.

Now David Warfield is beating upon
his desk in a vain effort to get that
band to stop; Mrs. Eagan is seated and
taking a comfortable "forty winks"
under the auctioneer's block; the cus-
tomers are examining the merit3 of the
wares soon to go under the hammer.

Here is fast work for the hands and
lips and heart and brain of Mrs. Macy
and Miss Moore. Quickly their fingers
work as they play upon the hands, the
wrists and arms of the girl at their
side. But not more quickly than their
lips, which Miss Keller touches lightly
with her finger tips, sometimes caress-
ing the throat, the eyelids, cheek and
forehead of Mrs. Macy — these latter
movements being made always when
there is much complication of "business"
or extraordinary emotional crisis going
on in the scene on the stage.

That- Helen Keller should respond to
the moving pathos of David Warfield's
acting is not so remarkable in view of
the fact that she has of necessity a
highly spiritualized equipment for the
sensing of emotion and that Warfield
is preeminently a master in the art of
transmuting the spiritual into tangible
terms of drama. What is more remark-
able is the fact that deaf and blind this

to all the delicate inflections of David
Warfield's comedy. Of that hig-hly spe-
cialized type of comedy, which he has
made so specially his own and with
which his interpretation of the charac-
ter of Simon Levi is so richly overlaid
nothing was lost to Helen Keller, who
responded to every nuance thereof with
a promptness that was positively un-
canny.

It was during the second act, in the
scene of Simon Levi's gorgeously deco-
rated house in Lexington avenue, that
Miss Keller had her heartiest laughs.
This is the ecene where Mrs. Ea^an and
Simon congratulate each other upon,
the engagement of Helga and young
Dick Eagan, in whose honor the party
of the evening has been given. Alone
in the garish drawing room the homely
couple discuss the affairs, and when
Simon calls his new butler and orders
him to bring a bottle of "Mum's Ex-
tract" the writer is safe in wagering
that no man or woman in the
Belasco Theatre that night laughed
so quickly as nor more heartily
than did Miss Keller at this
naive addition of the two letters "ct."
And when, later in the same scene, Mrs.
Eagan. has imbibed a litil£_ too freely
and begins to cry over the possible fate
«f her possible granddaughter and
Simon inquires innocently, "What's the
matter, are you sitting on something?"
Miss Keller threw back her head and
laughed ov ^ of those deliciously infec-
tious laughs that sends a ripple of mer-
riment over an entire audience.

It wais in the Belasco green room,
after the play, however, that Miss
Keller displayed her greatest virtuosity.
She had long wanted to meet 'fier favor-
ite actor, she said, and when at last he
stood bowing before her she grasped
his outstretched hand and in her clear,
treble voice said very distinctly:

•'Oh, Mr. Warfield, this is certainly
s'haking hands with a ghost. Ah, how
I did love you in 'The Return of Peter
Grimm.' I wish that I might see you
in that play once again. You don't
know, you cannot know, 'what Peter
Orimm meant to me, who have all my
life striven to hear and to be heard out
of the darkness just as your «='oirit did
iwhen it came back to earth. Ah, I can
h«ar you yet crying 'Hear me! Hear
me! Hear me!' How often I have cried

that same cry, through how many
weary years, and then God did hear
me at last, and now, as you see, I can
speak. I can speak b?fore a great audi-
ence, and they can hear me speak. That
seems to me the most marvellous thing
in the world — that I can frame a
thought into words, utter these words
and have another human being hear
them. You as Peter Grimm broke t^.e
very bonds of death, or that thing
which mortal man calls death, in or-
der that those you loved might hear,
you. I have broken the bonds of some-
thing quite as inexorable as death in
order that I might speak to those I
love. So when I sat watching that
great play, watching and praying that
you might at last be heard, it was with
a sympathy which I believe I was able
to give you as no one else could. And
when finally you did make yourself
heard, ar you knew it, I more than
any one else could feel the happiness
of your triumph. How well I remem-
ber the first word I ever was able to
speak."

"What was that?" Mr. Warfield in-
quired.

Here Miss Keller spelled slowly:
" 'W-a-t-e-r.' That was the first word
I ever sounded, but 'D-o-l-l' was the
first word I ever became conscious of.

" 'Water!' Isn't it a beautiful word?"
she asked wistfully, as she placed the
tips of her fingers upon the actor's lips
for his answer.

But David Warfield was now inarticu-
late. His eyes were now misty with
tears as he looked at the happy, radiant
face beside him.

And the marvel was that the blind
and deaf girl saw and felt these
tears and quickly changed the subject
by asking another question which sent
Warfield into a fit, first of consterna-
tion, then laughter.

"Oh, Mr. Warfield, won't you please
say it again, that 'What's the matter
mit you? Are you sitting on some-
thing?' I want to laugh all over again.
It was so funny." And once more the
fingertips were lifted to Warfield's lips.

After a good laugh over fhis, in which
Warfield joined, Miss Keller then de-
manded more encores, especially a^ing
for a repetition of certain of the lines
spoken in the Twenty-third street scene.

"Please say : 'And nothing happened,' "
she pleaded like a child asking for
another story, and when she had "heard"

"t^Iose^"flTree' Tunny woras ovek- again
she clapped her hands for sheer joy and
declared that there was nothing in the
world quite so funny as David War-
field's use of the Yiddish dialect.

Thus the time went until the little
clock in the green room sounded the
half hour after midnight. Mrs. Macy's
hand was passed over to Miss Keller's,
now imprisoned in the actor's own.

"Oh, T am so sorry; it is terribly latei,
and you must be so tired," rising, her
sensitive face full of gentle concern for
Mr. Warfield. "We must go now," and
in a nioment more the party had passed
through the green room and out into
the court.

"Oh, Mr, Warfield, I forgot some-
thing," Miss Keller's voice cried out,
as her tall, splendid figure, wrapped in
a beautiful evening cloak of pale blue,
turned and stood in the stage door.
"You will do 'The Return of Peter
Grimm' again, won't you? For my
sake, if nothing else."

Warfield's assurance that Miss Kel-
ler's request was a command was re-
ceived with a happy laugh, and once
more the party started on its way.

"Oh, Miss Keller," cried Warfield, as
he put his head outside the door, "I
forgot to ask you something." War-
field stepped into the court, and Helen
Keller touched his moving lips.

"Have you a beau?"

"A beau! A sweetheart!" came the
happy, quick retort. "Why, I have
hundreds of them." The whole empty
court echoed with laughter.

"Mark Twain said that girl and Na-
poleon were the most interesting char-
acters of the nineteenth century," War-
field mused reflectively as he returned
to his empty dressing room. "Humpl^
pd^e is greater than Napoleon." ^^^^ir

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TO CITY

( Helen Keller will come to Port-
land the first of December and ar- j
rangements are being made for a re-
ception, at which the City Govern-
ment, the Board of Trade, and other
prominent Portland residents will be
present. It will be remembered that
when Helen Keller appeared in this
City a few years ag^o, for the Maine
Institution of the Blind the committee
was oblig-ed to stop the sale of tickets
as before they recognized the fact
they had oversold the hall. The not-
ed woman will appear in the New
City Hall. Her apearance before was
in charge of Mrs. Clark H. Barker,
chairman, Mrs. Elinor Maxwell
Knight, and Mrs. A. A. Kendall.

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Helen Keller's Essays.^

The writings of Helen Keller are al-
ways sure of an interested and sympa-
thetic audience. Her marvelous achive-
ments in overcoming her difficulties
and getting in touch with the world
around her, have aroused the admiration
of the public. Her new book, "Out of
the Dark" (Doubleday, Page & Co. . is
not, however, to be regarded merely as
the work of a woman who has overcome
great and unusual handicaps. It is a
collection of magazine articles, ad-
' dresses and letters of the last fev»'
.years, and they show unusual intelli-
gence and enthusism. The essays cover
a large variety of subjects. Socialism,
capital and labor, suffrage and the
higher education for women. Naturally
the mosr Interesting are those In which
she discusses the question of what
shall be done for the blind and the
deaf. Some of these are reprints of
addresses delivered before associations
i-which were working for liie relief of
the blind and the deaf. There are
other essays which reveal her personal-
ity even more strongly, as "Christmas

In the Dark," and the "Message of
Swedenborg." Her views upon the dif-
ferent subjects are interesting. One of
the best cf the essays is that entitled
"How I Became a Socialist." and the'
reader realizes that if the fates have
made reading a more difficult process
for Miss Keller than for most people,
the limitation has its advantages since
it gives her raor^ time to think.

D. D. M.

SS KELLER TALKS
TO 1,000 BLIND

"World Is Full of Miracles and Sun-
shine," She Says in Lecture
Transmitted by Fingers.

Miss Helen Keller, who is said to be the
mly deaf and blind person who hyas been
aught to talk, lectured to one thousand
>lind men and women yesterday afternoon
n the Harris Theatre, the use of which

vas donated by William Ziegler,, Jr. In
he audience were three deaf and blind
firls, whose friends translated t-h« lecture
hrough their fingers as Miss Keller pro-
eeded. Tickets to the lecture were dis-
ributed free of charge by the Matilda
jiegler Magazine for the Blind.
"My teacher has told you how I was
aught," said Miss Keller. "You have seen
low a little word dropped from the hand
if another, a ray of light from another
oul, touched the darkness of my mind,
nd I awoke to the sunshine of life. I was
'lind, now I see ; I. was deaf, now I hear ;
was dumb, now I speak. It was through
he hands of others that I found myself,
ound my mother and father, found my
oul and love and God. Without my
eacher I should be nothing.
"I am proud to be with my blind fellows,
jroud to add my little word to the brave
■nessage that so many of you are spread-
ing far and wide. Your defiance to the
conditions that you cannot change is an
inspiration. The world is full of miracles.
Look for them and you will find them."

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Mifeg ^^ Tf«iHiiiftwwni lecture under
the auspices of the Taunton Woman's
Club on the evening of Nov. 25th. in
Hayman's hall.

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HELEN KELLER,

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Blind Genius, Visits Cincinnati, After
^-'SO*Years, To Deliver ''Heart-
and-Hand" Lecture.

Helen Keller, the blind and d
^young woman, who is to lecture to-night

at the Lyric Theater, on "Heart and
Hand," arrived in the city yesterday. In
company with her teacher, Mrs. John
Macy, who first became known as Miss
Anne Sullivan, and Miss Ruth Moore, her
secretary.

Miss Keller and her party came from
Youngstown. This Is her first visit since
she was brought to Cincinnati as a little
child, to a convention of doctors to see
what could be done for her, 26 years ago.

"I know that Cincinnati Is a beautiful
city, artd that it has a fine Mayor," she
said. "I have been much interested in
reading about Mr. Hunt and the good
work he has done. But It is also a city
enveloped in smoke. Manufacturers
should be taught to consume this smoke-
What are the lawmakers doing that they
permit such a menace to the public
health? Cincinnati has been called the
'QuePen City of the West,' but I think
she is an Ethiopian Queen."

Miss Keller speaks distinctly, but Mrs.
Macy explained that smoky atmosphere
affects her throat.

"Usually I can tell the difference be-
tween a sunny and a cloudy day, but it
is difficult here," said the famous blind
girl, laughing.

She declared that she was most inter-
;ested in the uplift of the forkers, and
that her favorite study is economics, as
dealing with the problems of to-day.

"Every man and woman should be
given eqiial opportuhity to- enjoy the
fruits of their labor and should be able
to live as human bei^igs, not as ma-
chines," she jsaid. ';i-,a'm also interested
In the education of little children, in hav-
ing them taken out of mills and factories
and given the training to which they are
entitled.

"Is it not wonderful, that my teacher,
in dealing with a deaf and blind child
here, should have found sonie of the
same methods that were discovered by
Dr. Montresori over in Italy, in teaching
normal children?"

Mrs. Macy, with whom Miss , Keller
makes her home in Boston, said that she
has been with her 26 years, and, that the
latter is a Socialist as well as a suffra-
gist. They will probably attend the
meeting at the Grand Opera^ HpUse this
afternoon, when Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman will speak on suffrage. Miss
Keller was intjerested to" kftrp^if that she

was in town, as sli^ had read her tv^ritings
on the child labor question.

Although Mrs. ' Macy said that Miss
Keller had read everything in raised
type, the latter denied it, declaring she
had been too busy to' read everything.
She reads the lips by placinig-^/her flngersi
on them when the person is talking, ant*
can read the motions of the hand whicl
Mrs. Macy uses in conversing with hei
pronouncing ' the words, so that othei
can understand what is being said.

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Helen Keller as Lecturer

Helen Keller, who was at one time deaf, dum^
and blind, but who, through the wonderful
teachif^of Mrs. Macy has learned to speak,
lectui^tf*|it the Lyric Theater Sunday night on
"Th^ iteajFand the Hand." Her voice is re-
ma rlabla^ considering the fact that she was
born\|i^chless. Her lecture was full of optim-
ism. After the address she held a reception on
the stage.

R5!hMrfkable Woman's Devel-
oped Voice Grew Hoarse.

According to Helen Keller, who lec-
tured at the Lyiic Theater Sunday
night, fche wideij 'Meralded MonteH
serri methods applied to teaching the
deaf and blind are almost identical
with the methods pursued by her own
teacher. Because of this teaching,
blliuli*»Wki*Jias not prevented Miss
T4l^er froii^' enjoying pretty clothes.
No one could have selected a more
tasteful and becoming chifl'on blouse
or hat could have arranged a more

charming coiffure. AlthoLLgli Miss
Keller's voice has been so carefully
trained that she speaks very clearly,
she became somewhat hoarse afterj
several hours' stay in Cincinnati. "II
is the smoke," she said. "Your cit]
is buried in smoke to-day. I can noj
see it, but I can feel it-here in in/
throat."

^The Senses and the Intellect

Mark Twain once said that the two most wondcfrful
personalities the world has known since the beginning of
the nineteeptti c^tury were Napoleon and Helen Keller.

In general, the story of the Corsican is well known.
Few of us can conquer even one country, and we do not
try. But the genius of the deaf and blind girl shows us
that some of us do not conquer even ourselves and the
little world in which we live. And again the reason is,
we do not try. ^

Helen Keller is interested in all afEairs of the life of
today; she thinks and writes about them, and speaks in
public, although she was born dumb. In a recent issue of
the Outlook, she gives us an idea as to how she has risen
above the hardship of being unable to hear or to see.

"I must plead guilty," she says, "to the charge that I
am deaf and ^IjflA although I forget this fact most of the
time. My blindness does not shut me out from a knowl-
edge of what is happening about me."

"I did not witness the recent dreadful wreck at Stam-
ford, neither did most people in the United States." (We

know a great deal about many things that we have never
come in contact with through the senses.)

"To be sure, I cannot hear my neighbors discuss the
events and questions of the day; but, judging from what
is repeated to me of those discussions, I feel that I do not
miss much."

Miss Keller is an incessant reader of the best books,
having a wide acquaintance with them (gained entirely
without the use of the eyes). "If books are not life," she
says, "I do not know what they are. In the writings of
poets, sages, prophets is recorded all that men have seen,
heard and felt. Having all this IN THE GRASP OF MY
TWO HANDS, my means of observing what is going on
in the world is not so very limited, after all. I have all the
keys to the doors of knowledge." i.

When we think of how we use our senses and inteip
lect, we find that WE WASTE SENSE POWER. And
we waste thought power. There is a^ whole lot of com-
mon life about us. We drop down into it and miss finding
the keys that open the doors of knowledge.

We let common things get hold of us, and, like bar-
nacles on a ship, they cut down our speed. There are
barnacles of laz^^iess, of self-indulgence, of idle curiosity.
They are all bad for the speed of your craft.

Not being able to see the garbage pail of life, Helen
Keller has used her mind to think of other things. She
works in the interest of the blind and has spoken before
Legisilatures in their behalf. She is a student of socialism*
"r have," she says, "visited sweat-shops, factories,
crowded slums. Of course, I could not see squalor; but if
could not see it, I could smell it. With my own hands I
could feel pinched, dwarfed children, tending theij

younger brothers and sisters, while their mothers tended
machines in nearby factories."

"Thought, intelligent thought, gives new eyes to the
blind and new ears to the deaf."

And it may be added that a little intelligent thought
will make even us, gifted as we are with eyes and ears,
a little less blind and deaf than we are. ^

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• Helen Keller, Nov. 28, City Hall.

\ Hererr"K^fWr f.nd her teacher, ?.ILs.s
bulhvari, now Mrs. John iViacy, will
(lecture in City hall, Fricln ?' evening,
|Ko\-. 28.

The story cf Helen Keller and her
teacher, Mrs. Macy, is one of the most
I remarkable of modern times. Mj.^^s Kel-
ler hecame blind and deaf at the age
of If) nionth.s, and allhoush .'die 'feiis
\\i\i been able to use tlu^ senses of sir;ht
and hearing- sinee tii(;n, she has,
thrMUsii the most patient and skillful
toaclting- by Mrs. Macy, become a high-
ly educated woman. She was graduat-
ed from Radcliffe College, in 1904. re-
ceivinar the decree of A- B. cum laude
(p.nth honor). It v/ould seem incredi-
ble that a person who could iieiLher
see n'or hear should be able to take
UD higher educational studies with
marked distinction and even,- as has
been the case, become an author. One
of her book's, written while in college,
'entitled "The St(^ry of My l^iCe/' has
!~bcen transl;^. ti-d into 1."^ different Inn-
g-uajjes.

Mrs. Macy in lu r lecture, will de-
scribe the circumstances which led tO'
her becoming" the teacher of Mi.ss Kel-
ler and will detail the methods of in-
struction whereby she opened to her
g'ifted pupil the outside world, which
had seemed locked forever.

The subject 'of Miss Keller's lecture
will be "The Heart and the Hand, or;
the Right Use of Our Senses." All who
have had anything to do with the-
training of children realize how almost
S'.iper-liuman must have been the task',
of teaching Miss Keller to speak. i

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will lecture her©
under the auspices of the Taunton
Woman's Club, on Tuesday evening,
Nov. 25, has been known to the world
ever since she was seven years qld.
Just previous to that time, Mrs. Ma-
cy (then Miss Annie M. Sullivan)
had gone to Helen Kellar's home in
Alabama and begun her education
and for over 26 years she has been
her constant companion. Preceding
'the lecture by Helen Kellar, Mrs. Ma-
cy will speak, telling how she taught
her pupil and opened the gates of the
outer world for her. After Mies Kel-
lar's lecture the audience will be giv-
en an opportunity to ask her ques-
tions. These will be transmitted to
her by Mrs. Macy. This is a very In-
teresting feature, revealing as it does
the acuteness and quickness of her
mind.

' 71 -

jEr to speak.

Helen Keller's first Springfield ap-'
pearance is announced for Sunday,
Nov. 23, at the auditorium under the
auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Miss Keller
will be • acconipanied by her life-long
friend and teacher, Mrs. Macey, CMiss
Anne M. Sullivan), who will prelude
Miss Keller's remarks with an account
' of her remarkable life developments—
I she has been with Miss Keller ever
I since Helen was 7 years old — telling"
I of her acquisition of speech, her prep-
: aration for and graduation from col-
lege, and her conquest over seeming-
; ly unconquerable physical difficv.lt io,<^
and possibilities. Helen Keller's own
story of her li^e has never b^en toTd
from a public platform in this city as
she will tell it on this occasion. Any
one desiring tickets of admission may
write the Y. M. C. A. for them.

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SniH liyi«f""»fi'Wf!lfll'»P«»«lHi^ess Here
tlie 33d.

The annual •'woman's Sunday." in the
series of the Younjj Men's Chi^istian asso-
ciation Sunday addresses, Avill be observed
the 23d, ■uhen 'Slj^a Helen I-iwftiWF-. will
make Iier first Springfield appearance as
'a lecturer. Mark Twain has bracketed
Miss Keller with Napoleon as "the other
most interesting character of the 19th
century," while many others have ac-
I claimed her vvonderful accomplishments.
Her success as a lecturer has been so
great that demand for tickets has every-
where been lafge and return enj^agements
asked for. Those who wish to have the
pleasure of hearing Miss Keller on {.he
;2od should write for tickets at once to
^ung Men\s Ghristian association.

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Prize Given for Essay on Helen
Keller. "^

Hel^n Keller's cofflSg to Pittsfield
has opened a siileodid opportunity for
the pnblic school children of the
town The Pittsfield Advertiser offers
a prize of five dollars to the child
writing the bewt original essay, not
over. 700 words, on "Helen Keller."
These essa3^s are tn be handed to the
teachers the first Friday night of the
winter term, witlioot the name of the
writer. They will then be judged by
three competent judges and the win-
ning essay will he printed in the
Advertiser the following week to-
gether with the pupil's picture.

Bu:dIoyu >Ka,bb. Tost

TLovevu^b^^^-r ]5 - H13.

Is Huge Success

MISS RUTH FARRINGTON OF PEABODY WITH A DOLL CARRIAGE
OWNED BY MRS. WALTER J. GRAVES OF DORCHESTER. THE

CARRIAGE, WHICH IS VERY OLD, ATTRACTED MUCH ATTENTION
AT THE B. U. BAZAAR AT THE COPLEY-PLAZA YESTERDAY.

Childhood days were brought hacfl
to those present when the Mother
Goose pageant of the bazaar and fete
of the Alumni Association of the
Boston University School of Medi-
cine started on its course about the
ballroom of the Copley-Plaza last
night.

FAMILIAR CHARACTERS THERE

In the long line were all the familiar
characters of this book of all child-
hood books. There was the ever dear
Mother Goose, Humpty-Dumpty, Little
Boy Blue, Jack Spratt and many
others. They walked into the lime
light just as though they had strolled
from the pages of the book. And as
one after the other appeared the ap-
plause and enthusiasm grew apace.

The Mother Goose pageant and the
ball that followed came as a climax
to the "Brookline Da>" of the bazaar.
It is said that the origin of the pageant
was from an idea brought from the ball
given by Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish at New-
port in August.

On this occasion there was a huge
Mother Goose book, just as in the Bos-
ton performance and when the guests
were assembled the lights were turned
out and a spot light was thrown upon
the story book.

Mother Goose There

Mother Goose stood alongside to care
for the turning of the pages of the
book, out of which walked the char-
acters one by one.
*^Last night's performance of the page-
ant was one of brilliancy and was at-
tended by many people of social promi-
nence. The ball that followed was
notable for the beauty of the costumes
seen on the floor.

This morning the apron, which was
donated by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, will
be auctioned off. Already" the women
in charge of the affair are looking for
a skilled auctioneer, for it is hoped
that the apron will bring a goodly sum
to add to the proceeds of the baisaar. ,

The programme for today at the
bazaar has been carefully prepared to
suit the tastes of many people not ap-
pealed to by the daj'^s which have gone.
Today will be officially known as "Cam-
bridge Day."

Helen Keller to Attend

In the a;mmfi!l&i^ Sifter the luncheon
held in the ball-room between 11:30
o'clock and 2, comes the musical at
2:30. This will give the opportunity to
introduce Helen Keller, recently re-
turned from study in Berlin, Miss

"'Esther iSJewnaus, a" uerman-tiungariaiS!

pianist; Madam Wllhelmina Calvert,j
soloist this season with the Handel and
Haydn Society. The King's Chapel,
quartette will sing a short cantata,".)
"The Rose Garden." ^

There will be a cafe chantant to go
with a table d'hote dinner beginning
at 6:30.

Today the country store will be run-
ning full blast, as well as the children's
room, oriental room and the many
booths of the Bazaar proper. ^

It Is expected that articles which ar^
not sold from the booths in the regula"
manner will be auctioned off during tht
late afternoon.

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Wf'^r^ftd Harry, a brilliant French
"v^ter^, hJis mad« an intimate study of
thfe woonerful careers of the four fa-
moiWaeaf mutes— Helen ifceller, Laura
Bridgeman, Marie and Marttia'Heurtin.
In his book, "Man's Miracle," he dis-
cusses these human miracles, and then
treaty of human perfectibility. Mr.
Harry suggests that Helen Keller's
magical story could best be told after
the manner of Perrault in the famous
fairy tales:

"There was once upon a time a little
girl enclosed in profound darkness,
more isolated from the world than the
smallest insect, for she could neither
hear, nor speak, nor see, and by some
miracle she came to see, to hear, and
to speak, to understand, to feel, to
think as well as the most perfectly edu-
cated people in the world." ^

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PORTRAIT OF HELEN KELLER

Being Made by Danish Woman,
Who Is Here to See Subject.

With the approach of the date for the
visit of Helen Keller to Rochester comes
annoimcemeut that Mw;. Josepba North,
a Danish sculptress, who is visiting the
citj, has begun a portrait in high relief
of the famous blln^. g'rl. ifrs. North has
never eeeu MIss^^Keller, but ex'pects to
rectify and complete the i>ortrait after
having had an audience with her.

The sculptress has been around the
world and has seen many people, buf
eays that ehe regaitls Helen Keller Ejs
"the most remarkable woman of them
all." As Miss Keller is a great admirer
of sculpture, feeling its beauties and sig-
nificance with her lingers, it will doBCt-
less be of interwRt to her to feel and
criticize the modex Tvhfch Mrs. North has
— ■»>»«^^t her

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A translation of "Man's Miracle," by
Gerard Harry, a Belgian writer, has
been published by Doubleday, Page &
Co. The book is a sympathetic study of
Helen Keller, Laura Bridgman and two
French «U<!ll'«"IWW4id girls, Marie and Mar-
tha Heurtin. It contains a charming
preface by Mme. Georgette Leblanc-
Maeterlinck. On the whole the work is
intelligent, but it is not free from in-
accuracies which a little Investigation
on the part of translator or publis^ier
might have prevented. For instance,
the astonishing statement is made that
Miss Keller's house in Wrentham was
presented to her by "the town of Bos-
ton." This will be news to the Hon.
John F, Fitzff eraldj

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Much of the Blindness In the World
Can and Should Be Ended Forever

By Hgj^N KELLER, Remarkable Blind and Deaf Mute

1 WAS blind; now I see. I was deaf; now I hear. I was dumb; now I
speak. The hands of others wrought this miracle in me.

I am glad to think of what the blind can do, because isheir brave
accomplishments prove^ absolutely prove, what people with five senses
can do.

They show what good servants the brain and the senses can be when
they WORK TOGETHER. You who see raise your eyes and behold
the sun and moon, the earth, the ocean and the faces of men.

We who are blind stretch out our hands and know all the softness of
growing things, all the sweet ways of children, all the endearments of
human affection. But the senses alone are not enough. It is onlv when
they are united with IMAGINATION AND THOUGHT and feeling
that they acquire their full value.

THOSE WHO ARE BLIND KNOW HOW TO BE BLIND. THEY
MUST ALSO LEARN HOW TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE SEE-
ING SO THAT EVERY BLIND CHILD MAY BE TAUGHT, EVERYf
BLIND MAN AND WOMAN HELPED. WE CAN. WE MUST UNITE
SO THAT MUCH OF THE BLINDNESS IN THE WORLD SHALL BE
eNDED FOREVER.

Vlucn of the Blindness In the World
Can and Should Be Ended Forever

By HELEN KELLER. Remarkable Blind anc

WAS blind; now I see. I was deaf; now I hear. I was dumb; now I
speak. The hands of others wrought this miracle in me.

I am glad to think of what the blind can do, because their brave
3complishment8 prove, absolutely prove, what people with five senses
m do.

They show what good servants the brain and the senses can be when
ley WORK TOGETHER. You who see raise your eyes and behold
le sun and moon, the earth, the ocean and the faces of men.

We who are blind stretch out our hands and know all the softness of
owing things, all the sweet ways of children, all the endearments of

Fiman affection. But the senses alone are not enough. It is only when
ey are united with IMAGINATION AND THOUGHT and feeling
^at they acquire their full value.

I THOSE WHO ARE BLIND KNOW HOW TO BE BLIND. THEY
juST ALSO LEARN HOW TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE SEE-
4G SO THAT EVERY BLIND CHILD MAY BE TAUGHT, EVERY
LIND MAN AND WOMAN HELPED. WE CAN. WE MUST UNITE
D THAT MUCH OF THE BLINDNESS IN THE WORLD SHALL BE
JNDED FOREVER.

Phul^tJelJgl^u^L^, P^. 'ju

wL-e^S

"Out|^f the Dark," the new book by
Helen Oell^, just published by Dou-
bleday, iWge^ & Co., Garden City, New
York, is written with that strength
and understanding of iier time, and
with that freshness and clearness ot
vision which has brought her to the
position, not considering her affliction,
of one of the leading \voman thinkers
in the country.

Just far enough removed by blind-
ness from the daily grind and ^lare
or the street, to free ner vision- roijv^

MISS HELEN KELLER

"'tfTg!Tii|timri^ 'Aha' give tmi- writ-

ingii a woiuieriul quaiicy of unuam-
pered clearness, the title of the book
is particularly significant.

Soflal Problems

7h-- ;)03k treat.!- oT the c^sn'fiitioa .,f
.#(onian in modern sSoeiety, of the high-
er educawGu .^i' \v'o.iie.ii, <... o. ii.iixj-->i>
and its prevention, c t*'e eGuCii n of
the^^iljind and a score i^£ kindred sub-
jects or^^lHBWliftporta nee.

Miss Kei.er ai s a.* meve •i'uniimon- •
ing up of conditions, but a clear log-'ic.il '
exposition of woman's rightful piac
"Woman's sphere i.s the home," t* ■
Tvritee, "and the homei too, is tot
gphei'e of man. The home embra'jes
\everythin2: we st'-f^'e for n hs wo M.
To get and maintain a decent liome is
the object of" ail our bCfc endeavv..;-.i.
But where is the home? • What are its
boundaries'.' Wh-at does it contain?
What mueit wa do. to secure and pro-
tect it?

"Our abiding place will be home in-
deed when the world outside is a peace-
|ul. bright home for mankind. Wom-
an's happiness depend.^ upon her knowl-
edge of the fa<;ts of life as much as
upon her lovely thoughts and sweet
speech and her faithfulness to small
duties. lai woman is wrapped the hope
of the futurjD. The new ch'ld, the new
civilization, "all the poss'bilities th^-t
sleep in njankind are enfolded in her.
Tr her ir^'vail is the resurrection of the.
hjuman-r'ace. All th\s glorious promise-
can be/broueht to naught by '"gnorance
of the world in which it is to be ful-
filled. To plead with woman, to urge
her to open her eyes ft) 'the great af-
fairs of life, is merely to bid her to
make ready her house for the child
that is to be born."

The book is big and a vital one
lor every man and .woman to read and
to ponder over, for it preaches the
sound doctrine sorely needed in these
days of transition and adjustment
that woman — the new woman — is to
be not merely man's lofty inspiration
in the struggle, but his warm and
close companion and "happy warrior"
with hini; and the world ^ill never
move far toward good unti* woman'?;
hand joins man's at the lo^ of life.
i"What lends particular interest to the
b6ok just now is that Miss Keller is
going to speak '"n this city December
10, and a perusal of the book is tli
best introduction one could have t(
this marvelous woman.

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ELEM£U£R'S TOUR

That of Remarkable Woman
Will Consume Winter.

It is known that Helen Keller is to
speak at 'Convention Hall on Thurs-
day evening of this week, but the pub-
lic does not realize what an extensive
trip the famous blind girl and her
teacher are making.

Miiss Keller and Mrs. Macy started
on the last day of September to un-
dertake their long tour. They then
spoke at Knoxville, Tenn. After a few
engagements in the South they went
north to Massachusetts, and to other
points in New England. From there
they went westward to iill dates in
ludiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania. They
will speak at Oberlin, Ohio, tonight,
after which they will come to R<?ch-
ester.

From this city they will ^o to
WilkesJBarre, Pa,, and thea return
to iNew England. January will find
them in Michigan and Wisconsin,
while February will see them in Illi-
nois, Iowa, Missouri aiM Colorado.
March they will spen<4 in making ad-
dresses in many plao^ in Utah, Cali-
fornia, Oregon and Washington. In '
April they will p9^5 over the border'
into British ColVjnlibia, after which
they will returo to Washington for a <
number of dat«r. Then turning east-'
ward through Montana and the Da-
kota© they ^'ill finish their long
transcontinental speaking tour at]
Chicago on May 1.

This long tour will have consumed
seven months, during which they will ;
have made 120 addresses in 113'|
places in 25 different states, including
Ontario, Manitoba and British Colum- ,
bia, Canada. ]

Miss Keller was once on a visit to '
Rochester, and was given a reception
at the Institute for the Deaf on St.
Paul Street, but the lecture of Thurs-,
day evening at Convention Hall will
be the ;first public lecture ever gi' sn

■by Helen Keller and Mrs. Macy in this
city.

The subject of their combination
lecture throughout the whole trip is

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01 the Right Use o£ the Senses." ^

telen Keller, Who Speaks at City Hall
Sunday, Has ' Reanarkabife Sense of
Feeling i.'i Fingers.

Sprinsrfield -u'ill: have the -opportunity
o Jjreet Heleu Keller -an Sunday at 3.30
)>lock at ^nwSM^ttpiilial]. .>Iiss Keller, ,
»yho has become famous . by getting an
aducatioii in spite of the fact that she is
deaf and blind, and then doing great good
With her education, especially in social
service, has been secured by the Young
Men's Christian association to deliver a
lecture and ^^he will tell of her own ex-
periences.

Because of her lack of sight and hear-
ing Miss Keller's sense of touch has been
developed to an unprecedented degree.
Her finger tips are so acutely sensitive

that she not only cian read character in
the hands of those she meets but she
seldom makes a mistake in remembering
peiDple by the touch of their hands. An
illustration of this faculty was given re-
cently when Miss Keller met a few
old friends and some new ones in her hotel
])arlor. One of ahe gentlemen present she
had met but once— the day before^— but
as soon as she felt his fingers she called
him by name and spoke of the previous
meeting. . . . ,:

The hands of those I touch are dumbly
eloquent to me, she says. The touch of
some hands are an impertinence. I h§Lve«
met people so empty 9f joy that when t
clasped their frosty finger tips it seemed
as if I were shaking hands with a north- ^
cast storm. Others there are M'hose hands
have sunbeams in them, so that their
grasp warms the heart. It may be only
the clinging touch of a child^s hand, but
there is as much potential sunshine in
it for me as there is in a loving glance
from others. , A real hearty handshake
gives me genuine pleasure— like a letter
from a friend.

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HEUEAUKfLLER COMING
TO ATLANTA TO LECTURE

iielejPmeller, the wonderful Dlind
Momai» will come to •Atlanta December
20, ur^gjujpche auspices of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, to de-
liver a lecture on "Heart and Hand." w'

Mark Twain once said the two most
interesting characters of the nineteentJi
contury were Helen Keller and Napo-
leon.

Miss Keller has joined the ranks of
the Socialists' and is lending her every
effort to Socialistic work. Naturally she
is most interested in the blind and the
difficulties they have to overcome, but
infirmities of all kinds enlist her sym-
pathy and help.

Helen Kellef.

Helen Keller, who has all her life
cnjoyod being entertained by the
greatest of our actors, will reverse
the usual order of such events and
|become the entertainer oji Friday,
'Nov. 28, when she gives her lecture
at Augusta City hall. She likes
things theatrical as much as most
people — perhaps she brings to the
theatre a keener appreciation of what
is being said and done upon the stage
than the averag^e theatregoer. From
her first view of the theatric stage,
when she "Saw" Elsie Leslie in "The
Prince and the Pauper," up to her
latest glimpse of "The Poor Little
Rich Girl," Miss Keller h^^ taken the
liveliest interest in anybody and
everybody of moment who really
"does something" as she expresses it
from behind the footlights. Ellen
Terry and Henry Irving, J^oseph Jef-
ferson and other great stage person-
ages are among her dearest remem-
isitances. — Adv.

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Noted Blind Girl Will Be Heard in
Lecture at Port Chester

Miss Helen Keller and her teacher,
Miss Sullivan, and Mrs. John Macy, will

■lecture in Port Chester, F'riday evening,
December 5 at 8 o'clock in St. Mary's
Hall.. ''' " ■''""^"

The story of Helen Keller and her

Ikeacher Miss Sullivan, is one of the mogt

"marvelous educational stories of modern
times. Miss Keller became blind and
deaf at the age of nineteen months, and
altho she has not been able to use the
senses of sight and hearing since then,
she has, thru the most patient and skilful
teaching by Mrs. Macy, become a highly
educated woman. She was graduated
from Radcliffc College, the female depart-
ment of Harvard, 1904, receiving the
degree of B. A. with honor.

It would seem incredible that a person
who practically could never see or hear
should be able to take up higher educa-
tional -studies with marked distinction
and even, as las been the case, become
the author of books. One of her books

f which she wrote in college, "The Story of
My Life" has been translated into fifteen
languages.

; Mrs. Macy in her lecture will describe
the circumstances which led to her be-
coming the teacher of Miss Keller, and

; will detail the methods by which she in-
structed Miss Keller and thus opened the
outside world to her which seemed locked
forever.

The subject of Miss Keller's lecture
will be "The Heart and the Hand, or the
Right Use of Our Senses." All who have
had anything to do with the training of
children realize how almost superhuman
must have been the task of teaching Miss
Keller to speak for the first time. j^

Mrs. Macy will demonstrate her method
of communication with Miss Keller.
This lecture will prove interesting to
people who will thus have an opportunity
very early, to hear these world-renowned
people.

The lecture is one of the most remark-
able human chronicles ever told, and
those who have heard Miss Keller realize
that there could be no stronger example
of optimism and courage shone than in

[ this triumph of one thrice-barred from the
world.

[ One can only realize the amount of
Helen Keller's patience after hearing her
speak, and after seeing how she has made

; the outside world come to her and become

I a normal part of her life.

The tickets for this lecture, which are
seventy-five cents each are now . on sale
at Finch's Drug store, the Greenwich
Drug store and Mead's Stationery store.

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^^/0n• of Mi«» Keller's Gifts.

^iSiiy persons in an assemblage re-
cently addressed by Miss Helen Keller
marveled that this distinguished deaf
and blind womai:| halted in ber re-
mams ana acknowledged applause at
the proper moment just as if she had
been in full possession of her hearing.
Miss Macy/ tlie devoted instructor of
Miss Keller, was approached by sever-
al after the meeting had adjourned,
ind she was requested to explain the
'mystery.'* "Very simple/* she laugh-
id. "Notice of the applause was car-
ried to Miss Keller by the vibrations
that she felt through her soft soled
;hoes while standing on the platform."
-Boston Post.

HELEN KELLER AND MRS MAC'S

The Blind and Deaf Girl and th
^'oman IVho Tani^rht Her — Both Ap
pear In City Hall at Y. M. C. A
fleeting: To-niorro-w.

Helen Keller, who speaks at the Citj
hall to-morrow under the auspices of th<
Young Men's Christian association, 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 triumph«
over obstacles. Deaf and blind at the age
of 19 months, she remained in intellectual
darkness until she was nearly seven. Ther
^frs Macy (Miss Sullivan), a graduate oi
th*"' Perkins institution, where Dr How*
had done his groat work with Laur^
Bridgman. went to Helen Keller's home \i
Alabama and began her ediR-ation. At th<
age of 10 Helen Keller learned to speak
At 16 she was preparing for college. Sh
graduated from Radcliffe college in 190:1
receiving the degi'ee of bachelor of arts
cum laude (with distinction). While sh
was in college she wrote '*The Story of ^I
Life," which has been translated into 1
languages.

Since liien she has written three book
and has devote'/ herself to work for th
blind and deai*. At several meetings i:
their behalf, she has delivered a spoke:
address^. But her voice did not carry fa
then, and it was always necessary fo
someone to repeat Avhai she said, senteuc
by sentence. During the past year sli
has taken another step forward in he
remarkable career. Uniler the instructio
of Charles White, a teacher of singing
at the New England conservatory of nni-
sic, she has greatly improved her speak-
ing 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 a audience of physicians at the
otologicnl congress held in Boston at the
Harvard medical school. The success of
these experiments has encouraged her to
appeal- before the general public.

Many ])eop]e say they do not know whom
they admire more, Helen Keller or her
teacer, Mrs Macy. Mrs Macy's account
of Helen Keller's education is one of the
most instructive lectures, from a human
apd scientific point of view, that the inib-
liKi^has ever had o\

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HELEN KELLER'

Will Be Given at First Universal-

ist Church Under Auspices of

Middlesex Women's Club.

H^igjjJjiiiiAto»i«»and her teacher, Mrs.
John Macy, will give a lecture at the
First Universalist church, Monday
evening, under the auspices of the
Middlesex Women's club. The subject
announced is "The Heart and the
Hand, or the Right Use of Our Senses."
The lecture is open to the public and
tickets are for sale at Kittredge's sta-
tionery story, 15 Central street, and
may be had at the door on the night
of the lecture. The Boston Globe,
speaking of the recent appearance of
Miss Keller in that city, says:

The great miracle of the 20th cen-
tury was revealed to the 3000 people in
Tremont temple last evening who
heard Helen Keller speak — for verily
this was witnessing the dumb speak.

It was the wonderful young woman's
first appearance on the lecture
platform, and she responded to the ap-
plause she felt but could not hear in
a way that delighted everi^'body pres-:
ent.

Her face was radiant. She trembled
with delight — with the joy of the emo-
tion she felt when that vast audience
applauded her simple speech which
was the crowning glory of a life that
has struggled against such handicaps
and obstacles, as no other human be-
ing in the world's history, for the light
'of knowledge.

It was not perfect enunciation, but
when the difficulties in the way of its
attainment were explained by Mrs.
Macy, it* satisfied everybody. For it
must be borne in mind that Helen Kel-
ler is deaf, dumb and blind.

It was as if some mystical oracle had
spoken, for there was something im-
ipressive and almost awe-inspiring in
the thoughts she uttered and in the
curious sonorous tones in which the'
words were spoken. One gets a new
Ifeeling in regard to "The Voice" and

the power of the spoken word after j
hearing Helen Keller.

But fully as impressive was the ap-
pearance of the faithful woman, Mrs,'
Macy, through whose love, sympathy, |
patience and intelligence this miracle j
has been wrought. Her simple, candid'
explanation of her relations with Helen |
Keller as teacher, guide and compan- 1
ion made fully as profound an impres-
sion on the audience as the words and'
appearance of J^elen Keller herself. ,
There were few in the audience who,
did not feel that Mrs. Macy, in her
simple explanation of her own work,
as teacher, had revealed the solution
of the entire problem of education
which has been tantalizing the world
for centuries. That, too, is a wonder-
ful story which this patient, sympa-,
hetic woman tells.

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Form No Bar to Helen Kellet

Whei/fl[el^n Keller stands before an
Atlanta\ng|#Tence on December 20, at
the Auditorium, she will "look" with
sightless eyes into the faces of the
people who are before her, and she
will "hear" with soundless ears their
applause at her words.

This remarkable woman, when
speaking in public, seems really to
look at her audience and seems really
to hear their signs of wonder and ad-
miration as she tells them her Joyous
story of rebirth and uplift into a
world of form and color, of sight and
sound. Her words come slowly, as if
carefully weighed, but not haltingly, as
If with great effort. She is so thor-
oughly posted with all that is going
on in the busy world about her, she
keeps so well posited on the latest
news, that it is no mere recital of a
hackneyed speech that is given to
the listeners, but a stirring account,
furnished and enlivened with the hap-
penings of the day.

In conversation, Helen Keller shows
the same ability to entertain. She is
as much at home with the news from
the Balkans, and talks as intelligently
about the cases that led up to the as-
sassination of the late King George
of Greece as she does about the squii-
rels in the yards about her home in
Massachusetts, or the different kinds
of mushrooms she is able to distin-
guish bv the sense of touch and smell.
She is as keenly alive to the affairs
of moment in Washington as she is
to the building of new nests by he^^

favorite birds on her front porch. Hep|
sense of humor is as much in evidenc^
as that of proportion — her visitors are
not so amazed as they are amused and
entertained.

Helen Keller's optimism is but one
of the many things to marvel at in
this woman, who has had so many
b&,rriers between her and the pleasures
of the normal being. Optimism will
be the keynote of her lecture at the
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MISS HELEN KELtLDR.

the keynote of her whole life. It will
be an address of rare appeal to every-
body, for no one can hear Helen
Keller's optimism and cheerfulness
without being thankful for what are
deemed to be the ordinary faculties of
life.

CAREER OF HF1£N KPyiER

Nb GIEL IN CITY HALL

GREAT DIFFICl^LTIES OVERCOME

Famous Woman, Who Triumphed
Over Defects, and Her Teacher,

/\^^eak Before Y. M. C. A.

"The TTorld is full of miracles, se<^k and
you will find tliem," said Helen Keller,
addressing an audience of more than 4500
in the City hall yesterday v:fternoon, and
her hearers saw afid heard in her the
result of such a miracle, a miracle in edu-
cation. Ilcr words were few and simple
and her voice was mechanical, labored and

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by no means pleasant, but to her audience
that had just heard from Mrs John Macy,
Miss Keller's teacher, the story of 25-
years' struggle of the teacher and pupil
to overcosie seemingly insuperable ob-
stacles, the mere fact of her having a
voice was wonderful-

The lecture, given under the f.uspices
of the local Young Men's Christian as-
sociation,,, vv^as attended by the largest
throng that has ev^r gathered in the new
City hall.- Every seat'i'rom the first row
on the floor to the topmost range of the
gallery was filled before the doors had
been opened 10 minutes, and more than
2000 people were turned away, the police
who were stationed at the doors said.

Kenneth Kobbie, secretary of the local
association, presided at the meeting and
introduced the speakers. Rev Dr B. D.
Hahu,' pastor of the »State-street Baptist
church, read a scripture selection and of-
fered... prayer. Cox'i^!* orchestra r.nd the
Young Men's Christian association male
quartet gave the musical program.

Miss Keller's talk of not more than
500 words was preceded by an explana-
tion by' Mrs John Macy, who told in de-
tail of ttie educatroii Of her; pupil. Mrs

Macy took Miss I'yfU.er in enlarge when the
latter was but six >^ears old, and has
lived- with h^ev^j:.^ia|;e. f^ a '-^

Twenty-six years , ago,,, said Mrs ^Jacy,^
I Went to 'Gfuscumma," Aia., to teach a
deaf, dumb and blirilfl" child, ''Helen Adams
Keller. ^1 had just'been graduated from
the -Perkins institute in Boston for the
education of the deaf and blind and was
selected for this task Decause I was the
only available graduate who could see
sufficiently well to take so long a jour-
ney.

Bdncation Besan at Age of Six.

Helen was six years old when I first
saw her. She was strong and active and
was steadily striving against her handi-
caps. She had been deaf, dumb -and blind
since she was 19 months old, when an ill-
ness, the exact naturfe of which. lias never
been determined, des.troyed her sight,
speech and hearing completely.

She had divined in some w*ay the fact
that I was coming to her and when I ar-
rived at the house she rushed out to me
so suddenly as almost to upset me. She
examined me closely, feeling my face with
her hands, and she showed an espesial in-
terest in my bag, in the vident hope that
it contained candy. When she found that
my trunk had come she was delighted that
this interesting newcomer was to become
an inmate of her home.

When my work with Helen began she
was in the habit of expressing her wants
by means of a few simple signs, such as
shaking her head and pointing. She

imitated the motions of everybody about
her so far as she was able to determine
those motions. She was wilful, passionate
and always active. Her mind, imprisoned
il)y her three-fold handicap, was forever
trying to express itself.

One of the articles that her active
fingers found in my trunk was a doll that
had been dressed for her by the children
Qt the school in Boston. Her education be-
fcan with that doll. When I gave it to her
I spelled out by manual language, the word
'Moll" after several repetitions of the
process she learned that if she wanted
the doll she must spell out that word
in the manual language which she picked
uv) from my hands with a fair degree of
rfiadiness.'

1 Slo^v Process of liearnigr.

I/The deaf-blind child, like the normal
ehild, has certain likes, dislikes, desires
and thoughts. The deaf-blind child in
learning the manual language is taught
that if he spells the words that represent
the article he wants, he secures the article.
Everv' normal child hears a word hundreds,
probably thousands of times before he at-
tempts to utter it to express his desire for
that article. He is led naturally to articu-
lation because every one about him is sure
to name an article that is given to him.
Thus the languSige is learned by repeated
association. With the normtil child this is
a pleasant and easy task. With the
deaf-blind child this task is increased 100
fold, for ev.ery scrap of knowledge must
come to his mind through his hands.

Helen learned to use the words "doll"
and "cake" manually spelled, almost imme-
diately, especially after one tempestuous
struggle with me, she found that she could
not obtain those much desired prizes un-
less she spelled those words. She learned
18 nouns and • thuee verbs in the first
m,onth. At first she thought of words m
the sensations that they produced upon i
her. Thus for many days she confused
"mug," "milk" and "drink.' At last it
occurred to herthat there was a name for
everything, and her finger vocabulary in-
creased rapidly. She was transformed
from a baffled little animal to a radient
child. I began to spell complete sentences
to her. By the end of four months she
was writing letters in pencil and when we
had studied together for six montlis she
was reading stories printed in raised' type."

Mrs Macy told of manj amusing hap-
l>enings in Helen'* education. When she*
met Dr Edward Everett Hale in Boston
when {^he was eight years old the first
words she speJled to him were: "Hush with
your feet" Naiicy' (her doll), is vei*y sick."
She was possj&ssed of a t.er.y^iJively imagin-
ation that now for the first time had found
an outlet in her life. Some of her defini-
tions are delightfully expressive: An un-
ripe persimmon, she said, "pulls me to-
gether all over."

Determines to Speak.

When Helen discovered that the people
about her were not talking in manual lau-

guage, she at once determined to learn .to
speak. Mrs Macy at first discouraged the
proposal, but her pupil was so determined
to learn that she finally consented to try-
the experiment. Mrs Sarah Fuller of the
Horace Mann school for the deaf taught
her the principles of articulation in a few
lessons. While it was many years before
she could carry on a connected conversa-
tion with her new and strange voice, artic-
ulating words that it was impossible for
her to hear, her knowledge of speech was
of great value in her studies. Her present
development of her voice so that she can
speak in public has been brought about
within the last two years through the help
of. Chester White of the New England
conservatory of music.

Another idea of Miss Keller's that her
teacher did not approve of at first was
her plan to go to college. She won her
teacher over and entered Radclifife college
in 1900. Her work was unbelievably dif-
ficult. Pew, if any, of her text-books
could be obtained in the raised-letter sys-
tem so that it was necessary for her to
have Mrs Macy read all her texts to her
by manual language. A similar plan had
to be used when she ''listened" to a lec-
ture.

Knerllsli IVork at College.

From an educational standpoint, said
Mrs Macy, the course at Radcliffe was a
■vNiiste of time. Miss Keller's work in En-
glish, however, was of great value to her
and she wrote the story of her life, later
published in book form, as sophomore
themes. They are the only sophomore
themes in the history of education that
have been sold to a magazine for $3000,
said Mrs Macy, Untiring patience, the
assistance of many devoted friends, a clear
mind and persistent industry have brought
Miss Keller her educational attainments.
Mrs Macy said in conclusion, but her lack
of two of the senses and her imperfect at-
tainment of a third handicap her greatly
in the ordinary concerns of life. At the
conclusion of her address, Mrs Macy led
Miss Keller to the platform. Miss Keller's
words follow: —

Dear friends, I am glad to stand before
you and hold out my hands in love and
fellowship. I cannot hear your voices,
but I can feel your loving kindness. It
surrounds and upholds me and makes me
happy. What I have to say to you is
•very plain. We are bound together with
each other and the life for each other is
!the only life worth living. Everyone owes
it to himself and others to make the most
of whatever faculties and abilities God
has betsowed upon him. People tell me
that what I have accomplished gives
them confidence in their own abilities.

My teacher has told you how I was
taug'ht. The rays of light from another
soul have touched the darkness of mine;
and it is through her that I have been
brought to the sunshine of life. I was

jblind ; now I see. I was deaf; now
I hear. I was dumb ; now I speak. It ,
is through the hands of others that li
^ound myself, found my mother and found
my father, found the world and found
fcny soul, found love and God. Without
|ny teacher I should be nothing. Without

rou I should be nothing. The hands of
thers wrought this miracle in me.
\ LlvinK by and for Bach Other.

We live by each other and the life for
each other is the only one worth living.
Alone we can do so little: but together
We can do so much. Do you wonder that
I love the hand that has taught me, the
kand that is noble and generous and
creative? Do you wonder that I love the
AVorld and want to do all that is noble.
I love to open my hands to you and give
back to you the hands of knowledge,
friendship and all that hare given power
into them. I believe that good men and
women have laid their very hearts in
my hand, and that is why I find my life
so interesting and so inspiring. That is
why I know joy and contentment, even
though the sunlight of the world is barred
against me. I put by trust in the Lord,
knowing that he at all times is right
and that he will uphold me.

Another thing that I want to say to
you is this: God has taught us to believe
in our powers. Most of us do not begin to
use the wonderful ftePses that God has
given us. It is more difficult to teach the
ignorant to think for themselves than to
teach the blind man to see the splendors
of the sunset. I have never beheld those
wonderful fires in the sky; but those
that have eyes and ears do not see nor
hear the wonders that go on about them.
Devotion and loyalty break through the
high walls of blindness. I had to learn
this through the hands. Think of the pow-
er of thought that comes to me through
them. The world is full of miracles ; seek
and you will find them.

Miss Keller a Socialist.

Miss Keller answered a number of ques-
tions, put to her through Mrs Mac.v. whose
lips Miss Keller read. She said she is a
suffragist, that she was led to a stiid.v of
socialism, the doctrines of which she has
accepted, because she found that the prob-
lem of the blind was closely related to
the problem of poverty. She can deter-
mine ph.ysical differences that the normal
person judges by sight and sound b.y means
of her unusually developed senses of smell
and touch. Thus she can distinguish be-
tween night and day by the weight of the
atmosphere. She could tell when her
audience applauds b.y "her feet,'* as she
expressed it.

Illl>^^<-Lel^, y.la.3S., l^-yvuow>

Message of Love and Fellow-
ship in Speech All but
Miraculous.

AUDITORIUM IS FILLED

Mrs. Macy Tells Wonderful

Task of Teaching Blind

Deaf Mute.

Whether it wa© to see the person
Who performed the miracle of learning
to speak, though dumb-, blind and deaf
Bince 19 months old, whether it was
DUt of sympathy for the person who
had to contend with s>ractically insur-
mountable obstacles, or whether it was
simply to gratify a desire to see an
unfortunate young woman whose name
has appeared in the publications of
nearly every civilized country is diffi-
cult to say, but 5000 persons, undoubt-
edly the largest number of men and
women ever assembled under one roof
iu this city, crowded the municipal

auditorium yesterday afternoon to hear
Helen Keller give her short message
of optimism and love and her teacher,
Mrs. John Macy, tell of the brave
struggle of the girl, who despite
her handicaps, graduated from Rad-
cliffe college. More than 2000 others
bailed to gain admission- to the auditor-
ium.

Mrs. Macy's description of her work
with Miss Keller, showed the strength
of mind, the unusual intellect and the
iron will power amounting almost to
1 stubborness which her pupil possessed,
Land now J. to a greaj; extent, still poe-_

sesses. The history of the struggle for
light and love which- Miss Keller made,
from the time Mrs. Macy arrived at
her Tuscumbia (Ala.) home, when Hel-
en was a wilful, spirited girl of 6 years,
until the present, when she is appear-
ing in public as a speaker, was graph-
ically related with all the feeling that
26 years of association has aroused
in the heart of the teacher. Miss
Keller in her address told of the joy
and light that is in her soul as the
result of obtaining speech, and her
close relation with friends. She plead-
ed with h£r hearers to open their eyes
and look about them* and see the mir-
acles that surround them. Together,
she said, people can accomplish every-
thing, while alone little can be done.

Miss Keller made an impressive pic-
ture as she came on the stage, leaning
upon Mrs. Macy's arm. There was
not the slightest idea of hesitancy in
her step, years of experience teach-
ing her that she can rely upon Mrs.
Macy. Miss Keller learned to speak
by placing her thumb upon her in-
structor's throat, her first finger upon
the lips and the second finger on the
teacher's nose. In this way she learned
the gutteral, the labial and the nasal
sounds, with the process of their forma-
tion. Out of these she constructed the
English language for her own use. Her
highly intellectual mind makes it a
natural thing for Miss Keller to place
the proper inflections upon her sen-
tences, emphasizing the important
words in each sentence and working
up to more or less of a climax. Be-
cause she cannot hear her voice, she
sometimes lets her voice rise to too
high a pitch, while not infrequently her
low tones are too far back in the head
to be quite distinguisliable. The "r"
is usually pronounced with too flat a
tongue, but in labials there is little dif-
ference between her pronunciation and
that of a normal being. The usual
■sepulchral tone found in the speech of
deaf people is not nearly as pronounced
in Miss Keller as in most cases. With
the exception of a labored arrangement
of the organs of speech. Miss Keller
speaks as fluently as one finds in nor-
mal people. " Following is what Miss
Keller said:

3Iiss Keller's Message.

"Dear friends: I am glad to stand
before you and hold out my hands in
love and lellowship. I cannot hear
your voices, but I can feel your lov-
ing kindness. It surrounds and up-
holds me and makes me happy. What
I have to say to you is very plain, "VV'e
are bound together with each other
ana the life for each other is the only
life worth living,. Kveryono owes it to
himself and to others to make the most
of whatever faculties and abilities God
has bestowed upon him. People tell me
that what I have accomplished gives
them confiden'cc- in their own abilities.

"My MC(?figFT5as told you how I was i
taught. The rays of lig4t from another I
soul have touched the darkness of
mine, and it is through her that I have
been brought to the sunshine of life. |
I was blind; now I see. I was deaf;
now I hear. I was dumb; now I speak.
It is through the hands of others that
I found myself, found my mother and
found my father, found the world and
found my soul, found love and God.
Without my teacher I should be noth-
ing. Without you I should be nothing,
^he Qiands of others ' wrought this
miracle in me.

"We live by each other, and the life
for each other is the only life worth
livingr. Alone we can do so little; but
togrether we can do so much. Do you
wonder thatIjyjy|j|||^|i)MMri^ lias

generous and creative? Do you won-
der that I love the world and want
to do all that is noble. I love to open
my hands to you and give back to you
the hands of knowledge, friendship and
a!l that have given power into them.
I believe that good men and women
have laid their very hearts in my hand,
and that is why I find my life so in-
teresting and so inspiring. That is
why I know joy and contentment, even
though the sunlight of the world is
barred against me. I put trust in the
Lord, knowing that He at all times is
right and that He will uphold me.

'Another thing that I want to say
to you is this: God has taught us to
believe more in our powers. Most of
us do not begin to use the wonder-
ful senses that God has given us. It
is more difficult to teach the ignorant
to think for themselves than to teach
the blind man to see the splendors of
the sunset. I have never beheld those
wonderful fires in the sky; but those
that have eyes and ears do not see nor
hear the wonders that go on about
them. Devotion and loyalty break
through the high walls of blindness. I
had to learn this through the hands.
Think of the power of thought that
comes to you through the eyes and
ears! The world is full of miracles;
seek, and you will find them.' '

Feels Applause ^vlth Feet.

Miss Keller answered several ques-
tions after her talk, which could be
heard in all parts of the auditorium.
Several in the audience put questions
to Mrs. Macy, who then repeated
them to her pupil. Miss Keller placing
her fingers on the teacher's lips and
her thumb on the throat. The first
thing Miss Keller was asked was to
say something all were familiar with.
She repeated the Lord's prayer. Then,
in ^nswer to the question, "Can ^^ou
tell that there is a large audience
about you," she said:

"Yes. The air all about me is warm
and throbbing with life. I feel the
applause with my feet."

That she cannot experience colorad
as separate sensations was Mis^
Keller's response to another question.;
She said she feels colors as a blend-
ing of poetic emotions and not as
distinct sensations. Later she said
she could not feel the vibrations of
a telephone. Miss Keller likens her
sense of smell to a fallen angel. It
serves her in many ways and in sev-
eral cases takes the place of sight and
hearing. She said she can tell when
she is near the shore by the smell.
That she can distinguish between day,
and night, even when the day is^
cloudy and there is little difference in
the light, was another Interesting an-
swer of Miss Keller. She said in the
daytime the air is lighter, that is, less,
oppressive and warmer, and the smells
are different from at night. Another
questioner asked Miss Keller if she'
thinks in any system of symbols, to]
which she replied that she thinks in|
spoken words. Before she had learned
to speak she thought in words asi
spelled by the manual system. After
saying "Of course" to the question,
"Are you a suffragist?" someone asked
Miss Keller how she came to study
and to believe in Socialism, to which
she replied:

Why She Is SoclaUst.

I "I was studying blindness and its
I causes, and I found that the problem
of blindness is but a part of the
greater problem of poverty."

"At the request of another in the
audience Miss Keller took her last
question from the lips of Kenneth
Robbie, secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
She had little diffi^^ulty in interpreting
Mr. Robbie. rAsSS Keller and Mrs.
Macy left on the 5.55 o'clock train
for Lowell.

Mrs. Macy, who at the time she
went to Tuscuifibia was Miss Annie
Sullivan, said, in telling of the history
of Miss Keller's plucky fight, that last
March was 26 years since she has
been with her pupil. Lieut. Keller
wrote to the Perkins Institution for
the Blind in Boston, asking if it were
possible to get a teacher for Helen.
Mrs. Keller had read in Dickens'
"American Notes" of Laura Bridgman,
the blind girl who had learned to read.
Helen was taken to Dr. Chisholm, in
Baltimore, Md., where the parents
were told that she would always be
blind and deaf, but might be edu-
cated. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell
was next called upon and he referred
Lieut. Keller to the Perkins institute.
Mrs. Macy was the only graduate of
the school then available and had
never given teaching any thought. At
the age of 18 she had scarcely re-
covered her sight.

When Mrs. Macy arrived Helen was
6 years and 8 months old, well grown,
passionate, wilful and courageously
striving against her defects. She went

about the "house freely and withoift
hesitation. She would always run down
the stairs or rather fall down, like a
puppy, taut would never nurt herselt.
Helen was extremely inquisitive and
tried to imitate everything she felt oth-
ers doing. She had been deaf, dumb
and blind since 19 months old, the re-
sult of illness, the cause of which was
unknown, but which the family physi-
cian said was acute congestion of the
stomach.

IVJQnd Always Active.
Mrs. Macy said she first saw Helen
standing in the doorway of the house,
where she had stood all day. Her
mother had ?^one to meet Mrs. Macy
and Helen had intuitively guessed that
someone was coming. When the new
teacher arrived Helen rushed headlong
at her with such force that Mrs. Macy
was almost thrown down. Helen im-
mediately began to become inquisitive,
especially in Mrs. Macy's bag. She '
soon learned that it was locked and
signaled for the key, but was told that
there was nothing to eat in the bag,
after which she transferred her atten-
tions to helpmg her teacher unpack.
Mrs. Macy said it was amusing and
pathetic at the same time to see Helen
try to put on her hat, posing and look-
ing ih the mirror as if she could see.
When her teacher arrived she found
that Helen, without any Instruction,
had develoi)ed several primitive signs.
Helen's mind was visibly at work,
learning new things all the time. Her
most violent outbursts of temper fol-
lowed failures to be understood. In all
her actions she was exactly like nor-
mal children. Her favorite pastime
was to dress and unjdress herself sev-
I eral times a day and in all things she
was very apt. The first word she
learned was "doll,'' which Mrs. Macy
I gave her to understand by means of
■ the manual alphabet, a new thing to
Helen.

The materials Mrs. Macy had to worTc
with were the same as one would find
with a normal child. Helen had ap-
petite, desires, likes and dislikes, but
the mechanical means of conveying and
gratifying these desires werfe different.
The child does not care what language
or sign is, but that it will get him
what he wants is all that is necessary
for «. word or symbol to become con-
stantly employed to designate a cer-
Itain thing or desire. Association is
Iformed in the brain and language is
[learned by repeated associations. The
lonly difference is that the child with
!all his senses finds the learning of a
perfected language easy, while for an
impaired child the task is a thousand
times more difficult.

Kapid Progress.
! Helen learned "doll" and "cake" the
! first day Mrs. Macy arrived, and in the

MISS HELEN KELLER.

Speaker in"Y. M. C. A. Course at Municipal
Auditorium.

first 25 days learned 18 nouns and three;
verbs. Some Qf the nouns she asked i
for herself. But before the first month
was over, by a peculiar incident, the'
rushing" of water over her hands,.
Helen learned that everything- had a
name, and in the next few hours learned
30 new words. In the words of Mrs. Macy,
"she was transformed from an animal,
into a talking child." Before long Helen
was using idiomatic sentences. So apt I
was the child that Mrs. Maoy's task*
was to direct the senses of her pupil. '
In four months Helen was writing
amusing little let'crs to her friends,
and in six months was reading from
raised letters fairy tales and Greek
myths, acting them out with great
elaborateness, much as any child does.
When still qfuite young Helen became
extremely ■ interested in the origin of
life, and before long had everything}
in its proper category. She loved every-
thing she touched, and always wanted
to touch everything in order that she
.might love them better. Not long after
she had learned the manual alphabet
she tried to teach her dog the same
language. Helen always played she
was something with wings, and in this
way learned many things. Mrs. Macy
said her debt to Helen is that she was;
forced to learn new things in order
to keep pace with her pupil.

I The first three years' conversation
was carried on by means of the man-
ual alphabet, but when less than 10
years old, Helen insisted apon learning
speech. She would listen to no objec-
tions, and although Mrs. Macy doubted
the practicability of the experiment
she assented. She and Helen went to
Miss Sarah Puller of the Horace Mann
school, Boston, and in 11 lessons both
were taught articulation. In seven les-
sons while on their way home Helen
said triumphantly to Mrs. Macy, "I
am not dumb now!"

Knows Hfo Defeat.

The process of learning was extreme-
ly difficult and the result, from certain
standpoints, not so very successful. It
has taken Miss Keller 20 years to learn
to speak well enough for public use. In
the last two years Charles White of,
the New England Conservatory of Mu'-
sic has taken an interest in Miss Kel-
ler and with gratifying results has
worked upon resonance «and vibrations
with the girl's voice. After learning
to speak, with the same stubborn way
Miss Keller insisted upon going td col-
lege, answering all objections with:
"Other girls go to college. Why can't
I?" The entrance board at Harvard
at first was reluctant to give Miss Kel-
ler permission to take the examina-
tions, attempting to discourage her by
pointing out the difficulties of such a
course, to all of which she wrote back:

"Kind Sirs: A brave soldier never
asknowledges defeat until the battle
is over."

Miss Keller easily pas^sed her ea-
trance examinations at Radcliffe, w'rit-
ing upon the typewriter in the dean's
office. Mrs. Macy was not then, nor
at any subsequent exahiinations, in the
room with her, but an assistnnt from
Boston interpreted the questions to
Mies Keller. She took up Greek, Latin,
French, German, English, economics his-
tory and sociology. There were so very
few books in these subjects written in
raised letters that the task before Mrs.
Macy and Miss Keller was colossal.
Every word in every book had to be,
spelled out for Miss Keller, and in the^
classrooms Mrs. Macy. sat beside ner
pupil and spelled into her hands the
lectures, questions and answers. The
only real educational value of the col-
lege Course, according to Mrs. Macy,
was derived from Charles T. Copeland,
Miss Keller's English instructor,, wjio
helped her to self-expression.

Speakers to Come.

Now, in her home with Mrs. Macy,
Miss Keller has a large library - con-
taining books in all languages, and
magazines and papers from several

countries. She has been very fortu-
nate in friends, many of whom have
learned the manual alphabet, and who,
when away, correspond with her. 'Mrs.
Macy and others continually read -o
Miss Keller new books that have n jt
been rewritten into raised characters.
In summing up her characteristics, Mrs.
Macy said that Miss Keller is eager
to discuss and argue, sympathetic,
with sound and direct moral processes.
She is very independent, the only
dependence that remains is in me-
chnnical details. Her mind v.orks
right, she is patient and good natured.
At times, if her typewriter ribbon
should slip, and without knowing it,
Miss Keller should have written with-
out the ribbon, pages of manuscript,
the pa'ience and good nature with
which she goes over hours of work
have continued to impress Mrs. Macy
^or over" 2B years.

HELEN KELLER WRITES

OF CHRISTMAS IN THE DARK

A book''l95^.aeLea. Keller, entitled "Out
of the Dark," is one of the recent pub-
lications by Doubleday, Page & Co. and
one of tlu^ fi "says, "Christmas in the
Dark," contj. .ns a genuine message for
this season of the year. Miss Keller
writes:

"Had you been our guest you would
have received a gift from the sightless,
for they have one precious gift for the
world. In their misfortune they are often
happy, and in that they give an inspir-j
ing challenge to those who see. Sliall any!
seeing man dare to be sad at Christmas
or permit a little child to be other than
merry and light-hearted? What can ex-
cuse the seeing from the duty and privi-
lege of happiness while the blind child
joins so merrily in the jubJW!P*W«ww«i',,.

"Tiny Tim was glad to be at church on
Christmas because he thought the sight
of him might remind folk who it was
that gave the lame power to walk. Even
so the blind may remind their seeing
brethren who it was that opened the
blinded eyes, unstopped the deaf ears,
gave health to the sick, and knowledge to
the ignorant, and declared that mightier
things even than these shall be fulfilled.
..'V.ll the afflicted who keep the blesi^ed day
compel the affectionate thought that He
•abides with us yet."

;Ti lilMlTillDth

'God moves m a mysterious wal
His wonders to perform,"

Those words of the poet Co%vper come
to mind whenever Helen Keller comes
jClose to us. Yesterday in Springfield
'4500 people gathered in the great auditor-
ium to see and hear, and to hear all
I about this most wonderful of living hu-
man brings. What she has done without
the power of hearing or seeing is more
wonderful than the digging of canals or
the tearing down of mountains by people
gifted with all their senses. Moreover
out. of the darkness that was her birth-
fright has come a light of such shining
radiance that it holds the world and
blesses men wherever the light comes
rnear enough to i-each him personally.
Springfield talk yesterday:
Springfield tal kyesterday:

, "What I have to say to you is very
plain. We are bound together with each
,other and the life for each other is the
iOnly life living. Everyone owes It to
ilumself and others to make the most of
whatever faculties and abilitlfs God haa
.|bestowed upon him. People tell me that
Iwhat I have accomplished gives them
confidence in their own abilities.
', "My teacher has told you how I waa
Itaught. The rays of light from another,
soul have touched the darkness of mine;
and it Is through h-er that I have been
brought to the sunshine of life. I waa
blind; now I see. I waa deaf, now T
hear. I was dumb; now I speak. It
is through the hands of other.s that 1
;found myself, found my mother and
found my father, found the world and
found my soul, found love and God. With-
out my teacher I should be nothing. With-
out you j[ should be nothing. The hands
of Others wrought this miracle in me.

"We live by each other and the life for
each other is the only one worth living.
Alone wt! can do so little; but together
we can do so much. Do you wonder
.that I love the hand that has taught me,
'the hand that is noble and generous and
icreative? Do you wonder that I love.
[the woild and want to do all that is no^.
jble. I love to open my hands to you and
give back to you the hands of knowledge,
Ifriendship and all that have given powei*

■n^^ii^iii|^iiiMjHij^wi|i|i^«l^ia^ nien and

women have laid their very hearts in my
hand, and that is why I find my life so
interesting and so inspiring. That la
why I Icnow Joy and contentment, even
though the sunlight of the world, is 'bar-
red against me, I put by trust in th«
I^ord, knowing that he at all times is
right and that he will uphold me.

"Another thing that I want to say to
you is this: God has taught us to be-
lieve in our powers. Most of us do not
begin to use the wonderful senses that
God has given us. It is more dlflicult to
teach the ignorant to think for themsel-
ves than to teach the blind man to see
the splendors of the sunset. I have nev-
er beheld those wonderful fires in the
sky; but those that have ej'es aaid ears
do not see nor hear the wonders that go
on about them. Devotion and loyalty
break through the high waJls of blindnesa.
I had to learn this tlirough the hands.
Think of the power of thought that comes
to me through them. The world is full

' I III

i\ o a) ^^^vub^e-'

Hg]J££U^£UbeirWILL
LECmRE IN LOWELL TODAY

Miss Helen Keller and her teacher,
Miss Sullivan, now Mrs. John Macy,
will lecture in the First Universalist
church this evening. Tickets at Kit-
tredge's or at the door.

The story of Helen Keller and her
teacher, Miss Sullivan, is one of the
most marvelous educational stories of
modern times. Miss Keller became
blind and deaf at the age of 19 months
and although she has not been able to
use the senses of sight and hearing
since then, she has, through the most
patient and skilful teaching by Mrs.
Macy, become a highly educated wo-
man. She was graduated from Rad-
clifCe college, the female department
of Harvard, 1904, receiving the degree
of B. A., cum laude (with honor.) It
would seem incredible that a person
who practically could never see or hear
should be able to take up higher edu-
cational studies with marked distinc-
tion and even, as has been the case,

become the author of books. One of
her books which she wrote in college,
"The Story of My Life," has been
translated into 15 languages.

Mrs. Macy in her lecture will de-
scribe the circumstances which led to
her becoming the teacher of Miss Kel-
ler and will detail the methods by
which she instructed Miss Keller and
thus opened the outside world to her,
which seemed locked forever.

The subject of Miss Keller's lecture
will be "The Heart and the Hand, or
the Right Use of Our Senses." All
who have had anything to do with the
training of children realize how almost
superhuman must have been the task
of teaching Miss Keller to speak for
the first time.

Mrs. Macy will demonstrate her
method of communication with Miss
Keller.

^JLU^Tutc? VT^ , "^lla^p::?., V^ DJT^ e^t^tTg^ ,

The Helen Keller lecture on Tues-

regular meeting for the year of the
Taunton Woman's Club. It was de-
cided by the board to hold this
meeting of an evening in order that
the public might have a chance to
see and hear Miss Keller and her
teacher, Mrs. Macy. There has been
a great demand for tickets and a
large audience is assured. Members
please bring their tickets to be
punched at the door for admission.
Mothers' Department.

The program committee met on
j,Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Lin-
coln B. Goodrich and a very interest-
ing program was arranged for the
coming meeting. Good speakers are
assured; discussions will be -held,
and the department plans to end the
year with a children's party. Any
one wishing to register with this de-
partment please notify Mrs. E. M. S.
Chandler or Mrs. George D. Guthrie.
Dramatic Department.

A number from the local club at-
tended the play "A Scrap of Paper,"
given by the sister club in Bridge-
water and brought home a very flat-
tering account of the manner in
which it was presented.

The president wishes to again re-
mind the members of the club that
they will find club news in th(
papers. ""'^

HELEN KELLER TALKS TO
AN AUDIENCE OF 4500

Deaf and Blind Girl, Who Leai-n-
ed Art of Speech, Gives Re-
markable Demonstration

\ Springfield people paid a remarka*
i)le tribute to Miss Helen Keller yes-
terday afternoon when they besieged
the Auditorium in such numbers that
fully 2000 people had to be turned
away. About 4500 found seats and
standing room in the hall to see and
hear this young woman who can neith-
er see nor hear and who has succeed-
ed in overcoming one of her defects,
that of dumbness. Many in the au-
dience may have attended out of cu-
riosity, but all must have left impress-
ed with the wonderful abilities of the
woman who has accomplished so much
in the face of apparently insurmounta-
ble obstacles. i

The lecture was held under the au- ;
spices of the Y. M. C. A, and Secretary
Kenneth Robbie presided. Rev, Dr. B. j
D. Hahn read a selection from the!
scriptures and offered prayer. Cox's
orchestra and the Y. M. C. A, male
quartet furnished music. Miss Keller's,
short talk was preceded by an address
by her teacher, Mrs. John Macy, who,
has taught Miss Keller since the latter
was six years old, a period of 26 years.

Mrs. Macy told of going to the
Keller home in Tuscumbia, Ala., and
gave a brief sketch of the girl's life,
telling of her earnest ambition to learn
and to be like other people as far as
possible. Naturally bright and Intelli-
gent, she was quick to grasp things
and developed so rapidly that her
progress brought her considerable re-
nown. Her acquisition of the power
of speech, her greatest accomplish-
ment, has come within the past two
years. At the end of her address Mrs.
Macy led Miss Keller to the platform.

■Miss KeUer's shorl- speecb was afi fol*^

lows:-— _

Miss KelleKs Address.
"Dear friends, I am glad to stand be-
fore you and hold out my hands in
love and fellowship. I cannot hear
your voices, but I can feel your loving
kindness. It surrounds and upholds
me and makes me happy. What I have
to say to you is very plain. We are
bound tog-ether with each other and
the life for each other is the only life
worth living. Everyone owes it to him-
self and others to make the most of
whatever faculties and abilities God
has bestowed upon him. People tell
me that what I have accomplished
gives them confidence in their own
abilities.

"My teacher has told you how I was
taught. -The rays of light from another
soul have touched the darkness of
mine and it is through her that I have
been brought to the sunshine of life.
I was blind; now I see. I was deaf;
now I hear. I was dumb; now I speak.
It is through the hands of others that
I found myself, found my mother and
found my father, found the world and
found my soul, found love and God.
Without my teacher I should be noth-
ing. Without you I should be nothing.
The hands of others wrought this
miracle in me.

"We live by each other and the life
for each other is the only one worth
living. Alone we can do so little; but
together we can do so much. Do you
wonder that I love the hand that has
J taught me, the h£i,nd that is noble and
generous and creative? Do you wonder
that I love the world and want to do all
that is noble? I love to open my hands
to you and give bsick to you the hands
of knowledge, friendship and all that
have given power into them. I believe
that good men and women have laid
j their very hearts in my hand, and that
I is why I find my life so Interesting and
jso Inspiring. That is why I know joy
'•and contentment, even though the sun-
light of the world is barred against
me. I put my trust in the Lord, know-
ing that he at all times is right and
that he will uphold me.

"Another thing that I want to say to
you is this: God has taught us to be-
lieve in our powers. Most of us do not
begin to use the wonderful senses that
JGod has given us. It is more dimcult
to teach the ignorant to think for
themselves than to teach the blind man

to see the splendors of the sunset. I
(lave never beheld those wonderful fires
m the sky; but those that have eyes
a;nd ears do not see nor hear the won-
ders that go on about them. Devotion
atid loyalty break through the high
•w^alls of blindness. I had to learn this
tHirough the hands. Think of the pow-
er: of thought that comes to me
tliirough them. The world is full of
miracles; seek and you will find them."
At the close of her talk she offered
to answer questions, and several were
pvit to her by people in the audience,
and were interpreted to her by Mrs.
Macy. She told the audience that she
was a suffragist, and that she had be-
come a Socialist because she thought
the problems of the blind were so close-
ly allied with the problems of poverty.
She said that slie knew when the au-
dience applauded by her "feet," mean-
ing that the vibration caused by the
applause was communicated to her
through her feet.

It was announced that the speaker
next Sunday afternoon will be Dr. J.
Wesley Hill of New York City, who
will speak on "Industrial Peace." Other
speakers to come later are Lincoln
Steffens, Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth
and Speaker Champ Clark.

FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE
HEAR lEEUEliER

The Largest Audience Ever As-
sembled in a Building in Spring-
field Throngs the Auditor-i|
ium to See and Hear
Miss Keller and Her
Teacher Miss
Sullivan

2500 PEOPLE ARE TURNED AWAY

Miss Keller's Remarks Greeted
With Impressive Silence —
Wonderful Story of the
Teacher, Graphical-
ly Told

The largest audience ever present
In the Auditorium thronged that
structure yesterday afternoon when
fully 5 000 persons were present to
hear and see Miss Helen Keller and
her teacher, Mrs. John Macy, form-
erly Miss Sullivan. Never before since
the Auditorium has been in use and
perhaps never before in the history
of the city, has such a vast audience
assembled within a building and been
eo deeply impressed as on yesterday
afternoon. Men and women of all
classes were there and they were all
intensely interested as Mrs. Macy
explained the slow tedious process
by which the mind of Miss Keller had
been brought into contact with the

outeide world. If they were impress-
ed with this intensely interesting re-
cital, it was almost as nothing when
compared to the feeling everywhere
manifested when Miss Keller herslf
walked to the front of the platform
and delivered her message of op-
tiimism and hope.

In a clear, determined, but at timee
scarcely distinct voice, Miss Keller,
an attractive young woman of about
30 years, delivered her message of
hope and inspiration. Her voice at
all times well modulated and ap-
parently un(3Lfer .the greatest control,
at tiimes lost some of ite distinctive-
ness; the words were not clearly ar-
ticulated in some instances and it is
doubtful if persons in the rear of the
great structure could understand the
message. All could hear, however,
and even though they could not un-
derstand what was being said, the
mere fact that they beheld Miss Kel-
ler talking served to impress them
deeply and made the gathering one
of the most remarkable, in many re-
spects of any that have ever been held
in this city.

The meeting was held under th©
direction of the Y. M. C. A. Long be-
fore the doors opened at 3:30 o'clock,
crowds had taken their places. Some
were lined up on the steps outside
long after the doors had been
closed, hoping for • a chance seat.
Many of the most prominent people
in the city were among those wno !
turned out\to pay tribute to these
wonderful wo^men. Miss Keller and
her teacher. A large number of per-
sons were forced to stand up in the
aisles and every place within the
building that could be pressed into
service was eagerly sought. Fully
2500 persons were turned away for
lac^k of accommodations and it is(
certain that if this city had a build-
ing of twice the capacity of th^
A^uditoriufm, it would have been none
too large.

The meeting was opened with se-
lections by Cox's orcnes(tra, after
which the entire audience sang a,
hymn. This was followed by singingl
by the y. M. C. A. male quartette.'
Rev. D. B. Hahn read the scripture
and ofCered prayer, after which Sec-
retary Kenneth Rcbbie of the Y. M.
C. A., after making several an-
nouncements introduced Mrs. Macy,
(nee Miss Sullivan) Helen Keller's
teacher.

In her address, the teacher of Hel-
en Keller outlined the course which
she followed. She told of her firet vis-
it to Miss Keller, of the slow tedious!
process of work by means of which
the dark mind of the six year old

child was opened up to the surround-
ing world and made into one of in-
telligence. Prom here the teacher told
of the struggle by her pupil to obtain
ian education, of her work, trials and
I triumphs at Radcliffe, and of her
work since leaving that institution.
jiShe told of the development of her
power of articulation, characterizing
the whole as a 'modern miracle.' She
then retired to the side of the stage
to lead ouit Miss Keller.

When the noted woman approached
a perceptible stillness settled over
the entire audience. Miss Keller, a
slightly built young woman, ap-
proached on the arm of Mrs. Macy.
She was gowned attractively and ap-
proached to the center of the stage
smilingly. Her first words were utter-
ed in a low tone. Each word was
spoken clearly and distinctly but all
evinced great exertion on the part
of Miss Keller. The tone had a pecu-
liar and at times almost wierd effect.
It was somehow unlike any human
voice and at other times hardly dis-
tinguishable. There was always ap-
parent a supreme deterimination on
the part of the speaker to regulatf>
and control it, to enunciate every
word clearly and distinctly even at
the cost of inflection. This latter qual-
ity, however, was not lacking, for it
was evident that Mise Keller had re-
ceived valuable training in this line!
and the address was surprisingly well
rendered.

The great interest felt by the au-
dience was manifested when, at the
close of her address, she consented
to answer questions. This was done
through reading the , lips of Mrs.
Macy, who repeated thfe questions to
Miss Keller. The 6pea«er answered a
variety of questions ^d appeared to
take great delight in her ability ' to
understand the people in the au-
dience and to reply to them. In reply
tc a question as to how she came to
study Socialism, of which she is a
follower, she replied, "I wae studying
, the causes of blindness, and found
' that they were the same as the great-
er causes of Socialism." Miss Keller
spoke as follows:

Dear friends:
I :I am glad to stand before you and
|h<ild out my hands in love and fel-
lowship. I cannot hear your voices,
but I can feel your loving kindness.
It surrounds and upholds me and
makes me happy. Wihat I have to say
to you is very plain. We are bound
Itc^ether with each other, and the life
for each other is the only life worth
living. Everyone owes it to himself

and '"to others to make the most of
whatever faculties God has bestowed
upon him. People tell me that whai
I have accomplished gives them con-
fidence in their own abilities. My
teacher has told you how I was
taug-ht. The rays of light from an-
other soul have touched the darkness
of mine, and it is through these that
I have been brought to the sunshine
of life. I was blind; now I see. I was
deaf; now I hear. I was dumb; but
now I speak. It Is through the hands
of others that I have found myself,
found my mother, found my father,
found the world, found my soul,
found love and God. Without my
teacher I should be nothing. Without
you I should be nothing. The hands
of others wrought this miracle in
me

We live by each other and the life i
for each other is the only life worth ,
living. Alone we can do so little, but
together we can do so much. Do you
wonder that I love the hand that has
taught me, the hand that is noble and
generous and creative? Do you won-
der that I love the world and want
to do all that ie noble. I love to open
my hands to you and give back to
you the hands of knowledge, friend-
ship and all that have given pow-
er into them, I believe that good men
and women have laid their very
hearts in my hand and that is why 1 1
find my life so interesting and so i
inspiring. That is why I know joy I
and contentment even though the
sunlight of the world is barred
against me. I have put my trust, in
the Lord, knowing that he at all
times is right and that he will up-
hold zue.

Another iuiu.g u^iat i want to say
to you is thiis; God has taught me
me to believe more in our powers.
Most of us do not begin to use most)
of the senses God has given us. It]
ii:- more difficult to teach the ignorant |
to think for themselveis, than to teach'
the blind man to see the splendors of i
the sunset. I have never beheld those j
wonderful fires in the sky; but those
who have eyes and ears do not see
the wonderis that go on about them.
Devotion and loyalty break through
the high walls of blindness. I had to j
learn of this through the hands, j
ffhink of the power of thought that I
comes to you through eyes and ears.
The world is full of miracles. Seek
and you will find them. j^..^,

Mrs. John Macy (nee SuUivan) Tell«|
' How Helen Keller Was Educated J

t "When people first hear of Miiss Hel-I

en Keller and her accomplishments,
: they naturally ask the question, 'How
j wae it possi<ble to reach the mind of
I a child who was deaf, d'Utnb and
! blind ' Such a child seems to be en-?,,
[ tirely isolated from our world; to^l

'be entirely shut out from all 60urce€||
i oif sensations w^hich woiuld serve t(^
I (bring" the mind into an intelligent con-'
isciousness of the world. A child thuslf

afflicted appears to be surrounded by^)
j an impenetrataMe darkness and vast'i
I gulf over which it is impossible toi]

reach. 'j

I "Yet this has been done in'the case?.'
j of Helen Keller. It has been broug-ht
jaJbout through the exercise O'f great
patience arid a thorough study of
; the child and the methods by which
her mind might ibe reached. It is
difficult for us, possessing our full fac-
ulties, to realize the almost hopeless
•condition in which Miss Keller was
at that time and the very limited i
sources to her consciousness. In des- '
icri'bing how we have succeeded in
I reaching the mind of Miss Keller and'
{transforming it into one of intelli-
gence and quick perception, I wish to
impress on you the necessity of 'bear-.'
ing in mind the fact that our work,
covered a long, long period.
I "It is 26 years since that I was,
j asked to go to Alabama to teach a'
I young child. The parents had sent
jto Boston to get the services of a
specialist. This was done upon the
recommendation o'f Profi. A. Graham
Bell. Previously the parents of this;
€hi'ld had ■consulted specialists in Bal-
timore. They had referred them to
Prof. Bell and he in turn sent them
to Boston with a ray of hope, saying
that there was an institution in that
[City where teachers were trained for
just siuch work.

"These people were the parents of
Helen Keller. At that time I was a
'Pupil in the Perkins institute in Bos- ,
ton, I had been blind until I was 18
years old and during that time had
learned the raised letter alpha^bet.
When the parents of Miss Keller
came to our institution, I had just
been graduated. I was the only one
strong enotugh and far enough ad-
vanced to 'be prepared to take the
ilong journey to Alabama. I knew the
manual alphabet aiid had read thci
reports of Dr. Laura Bridg.man on
similar cases to the one I was going
i to handle.

I "At that time Helen Keller was
I a child six years old. She was active

energetic and paesionate. This un-
fortunate c*hild went about the house
fearlessly. Her nervous, inquisitive
fingers were never idle. They felt
every oibject with which they came
In contact, analyzing,, coimparing and
endeavoring to convey to that darken-
■©d intellect some semblance of their
form, and contour. Helen had been
deaf, dumlb and blind since she was
nineteen months old. Although doc-
tors have never been able to deter-
mine the exact nature of the cause, it
is attributed to illness. Just what kind
of illness is not known. It is believed
by some that her 'condition was due
probably to an acute congestion of
the stomach. Since that time doctors
■have endeavored tisme and again to
determine the nature of this illness. '
(but diagnosis made so long after the
si'ckness are seldoim successful.

"Wihen I went to the home of t'he ]
Kellers in Alabama, Helen was stand-
ing in the doorway. "There she is,"
said her father as we approached the
house. The child immediately and im-
pulsibly rushed forward. Sthe felt of
my face and hands in a frantic en-
deavor to learn something of the ap-
pearance of the newcomer. I remem-
ber that she grasped my handbag. She
endeavored to open It, but could not.
The young child then, placing her
finger over the keyhole, made mo-
tions as if turning a key. At this
point her mother made her understand
that she was not to toudh it. The
child was cast down by her failure
to grasp the meaning despite her
frantic efforts. I immediately offered
her my watch and from that moment
the dhild showed a greater interest
and friendliness to me.

"We went upstairs and there I gave
her my bag. I also showed her the
trunk 'and made her place her hand
on it and then on me, ther&by hoping
to convey to her mind the thought
that it was mine. The child immediat-
ly placed her hand on the trunk again
and then to her mouth. I understood
this to ask if there was not some
•candy in it for her. She then ran or
rather tumlbled down stairs — for at
that time she rolled along almost ae
much as she walked to tell her mother
of the trunk and its contents. She
manifested a great interest in every-
thing I had in Vhe trunk, feeling them
all over and smelling of the various
objects. I rememiber that she tried on
my hat. Standing before the looking
glass with the hat on, her actions
were both amusing and pathetic.

"I dwell on this first meeting with
Helen Keller to show how much ^he
had learned before that time. To her

ja nod meant yes, a shake of the head
I no and she had other eimp'le signs.
iTo indicate that ehe was hungry, she
would put her hand in her mouth. Her
■mind was visaibly at work. She was
constantly endeavoring to get in toiuch :
with the other persons about her but
they did not understand her and had
no means of reaching her mind. Her
mo©t terrible outbursts of temper fol- j
lovy0d her failure to make herself
understood.

j "The second day after my arrival
she helped me to unpack. She had
not forgotten her request for candy
land frequently pointed to the trunk
and to herself. I gave her a box of
cand5^j but for some reason she did '
not attempt to open it, but merely
put it to one side, proibably wishing
to see what else the trunk contained.
jOne o'f the articles was a doll. This
Helen made* much of. Her chief di-
iversiion was to dress and undress it
anji to coimpare its clothing with her
own. S'he used to take great interest
in dressing herself and wo'uld dress
and undress several times a day.

'tit was through this doll which I
igave her that she learned to spell
her first word. Shortly after she had
become familiar with the doll, I took
it away from her and then placing
her hand on it, gave her the word
'doll' in raised letters. This I did sev-
eral times, and after some trials, the
child would spell out the word with
letters when she wished her doll. She
finally rebeiled and then there was
one of her terrible outbursts. I then
had to resort to a new word and took
the word 'cake'. She was obstinate
but when she found that'^the only way
to get the cake was by spelling it, she
finally adopted this method.

"Haw is the mind of a deaf, dumb
and blind child reached? It is reached
in exactly the same maner as we
reach the minds of normal children, in
precisely the same way as you reach
the mind of your child. This is done
by appealing to itts likes, dislikes,
desires and appetite. In the case of the
deaf, dumb and blind child, however,
the ordinary methods have to be sup-
plemented iby mechanical means.
When Helen learned that by spelling
doll, some'body gave her a doll, she
realized that this was a way of making
her wants known and the natural se-
quence is that she would adopt it.
With your child the case is similar.
When he learns that by sounding the
word doll instead of writing it as witih
Helen Keller, somebody gives him a
•doll, he will employ that word. The as-
sociation is formed in the mind and
the child remennbers it. Language is
learned by repeated association. _^

"In 25 days after my arrival Helen
had learned 18 noiuns and 2 5 verbs.
Words covering- similar actions were
easily confused and for this reason
her progress was slow and hound to
t)e difficult. 'For instance, the words
m'Ug, water and milk were always
ibeing confused. When Helen wished
to suggest a miug she wo'Uld place her
hand to her mouth. The same action
would be used for watcv and also
for milk. Naturally we were at a loss
to distingiuish between them and at
these times the child would become
violently impatient.

"One day I conceived the idea that
this difficulty might be eliminated and
in order to carry out the plan, I
brought Helen out to the ibarn where
there was a pump. I placed one of
the child's hands on the pump handle
the other under the nozzle. When the
water began to flow, I handed her the
letters spelling water the effect was
astounding. Helen at once dropped to
^the ground and cLutched my hand. I
realized at once that she was as'king
for the word that meant grO'Und and
gave it to her. She comprehended at
once. She then ran to the various
other oibjects and had me supply her ,
nth the proper terms. ''

"This was the first time that Helen
Keller, realized that everything had a
name. It marked the passing of her
old condition and o'pened up to her
the world as we know it. In a few
hours she had learned 30 words
"where formerly only albout 25 were
learned in as many days. She was
transformed at that moment into an
intelligent huamn 'being. Not long af-
ter she was learning idiomatic sen-
tences and had learned to call me
teacher. By the fourth month after
she was reading stories and writin<g
letters, using the Braille method of
raised letters. Six months later she
was reading plays and acting them
In her own way. She was especially in-
terested in Greeik mythology.

"On her eig'hth birthday she went
to Boston, where Dr. Edward Everett
tHale paid her a visit. Like rniost chil-
dren, she was interested in the orig-
in of life. She was outdoors most of
the time and came in contact with
•growing thing's. She loved everything
she touched. We used to tell her in
the beginning that everything not
obviously made by man, ha,d been
created iby Nature and this led to some
Interesting questiona on her part. #
!■ "Helen at all timejg learned ve'ry
rapidly. The first step was to teasDh
her by manual. Next sh'e ifisieted that
she should learn to speak. To Mrs.
Sarah Puller, teacher of articulation
in Boston, is due largely Miss Keller's,

ability to spea,k. After seven lessons,
wmie we were walking home from the
school one day Helen Keller said. "I
am no longer dumb,' and from that
time she could articulate. It took her
more than 20 years to learn to make
that simple statement and to ask yo^u
to come and hear her talk. The man-
ual alphabet made it 'possiJble for her
to think and to co-me in mental con-
tact with her surroundings, but words
gave wings to her thoughts. They also
tmade it possible for her to go to
college. Charles W. White of the New
England Conservatory of music also
assisted greatly in making it possible
for her to talk. Before he met her
she woiuild talk in a monotone, which
was not only difficult to hear but
monotonous and disagreeable He
taught her the value of emphasis
fi^Ji^ection.

V e,y ^ ^^T' ^5- 1^1^.

H^EN KELLER.

When it wa.s (iec aea that Miss Helen
Keller % ould include Portland among
ICie cities in which she was to lecture
this season, an effort was made by
.t^ose having the affar in charge to
jpiavo as a committee to greet her many
of the men and women who represent-
ed the .societies,' organizations, institu-
tlc)is, professions and the different cir-
cles of the commiunity as possible for
M ss Keller's strength precludes any
laige social functions while she is
working and travel ng.

Certainly the responses to thesi in-
""itafons s'how that Portland's citizens
are glad to have the privilege of ex-
pressing apprecatlon of Miss Keller,
Mrs. Macy and what they have
achieved along the liae of educatior,
So rare have been the refusals that
the absence Df the names in the list
become prominent in themselves.

There is a very long list of those in-
vited in the patriotic societies, Bos-
worth Relef corps, Thatcher post, Sons
and Daughters of Veterans, the chief
officers of the Elks, Mason, Knights of
Pjthas, Odd Fellows and kladred or-
ganizations as well as a very large cir-
cle of individuals from whom there has
not been time to hear, so the full list
will be given later.

Compl mentary tickets will be giv-
en to the scholars at the Maine School
for the Deaf, as well as to those in the
Industrial School for the Blhid. — Ad-
vertsement.

l_Lou)^ll, 'WIa.s.s,, Cowr-ue-r-C'LlrV

xe-vv- -

yiov^y^b^y- %S. I^I3>

HEieUOiE

LOWELL AU

Recites 23rd Psalm and Tells How
She Feels Her Audience and Can
Tell Day From Night Even in
Cloudy Weather.

MRS. MACY TELLS

STORY OF HER LIFE

Explains How Miss Keller's Edu-
cation Began and How She
Herself Tried to Become Edu-
cated, in Order to Keep Up
With Girls' Intellect.

The Middlesex Women's club did
well, last night, in throwing open to the
public generally, the lecture under club
auspices, given by Miss Helen Keller
and her teacher, Mrs. Annie Sullivan
Macy. With her radiant face, her
marvelous acuteness of perception and
her marvelous, childlike faith in the
greatness, the beauty and the goodness
of the world and its people, the mes-
sage that Helen Keller brings inspires
her audience with something that is
iLkift to adoration. She is beautiful to
look upon, with a beauty that literally
shines from within; the beauty that is
possible only where there is nobility
of mind and of heart. There is some-
thing exquisite, too, in the delicately
moulded features and the blue eyes,,

so full of expressiveness, conveyingr un-
mistakably, the heart's tender mes-
sage of thankfulness and of love.

Mrs. Macy was first introduced by
Miss Ward, president of the club, and
told her interestingr story of the first
steps in the education of Helen Keller,
the little girl, not quite seven years of
age, who w^s blind, deaf and dumb
from the age of 19 months.

"Last March," said Mrs. Macy, "it
was 26 years since I began to teach a
deaf, dumb and blind child. Her fath-
er ..had written to the institution for the
blijid at Boston, for a teacher, her
mother having read, in Dickens's Amer-
ican Notes, his thrilling account of
Laura Bridgman, whom Dr. Howe had
taught 40 years before Helen was
born. I was almost totally blind my-
self until I was 18, when an operation
restored to me such imperfect vision
as I have. I was the only pupil in the
institution, who could see well enough
to go on a long journey alone. I had
no special preparation for teaching,
but had learned the language of the
deaf blind, and had lived in the house
with Laura Bridgman."

Mrs. Macy's account of her first
meeting with Helen was most inter-
esting- Helen at that time — she was
then under seven years of age —
had a number of primitive signs by
means of which she made her wants
known. Pointing at a thing, meant
that she wanted it. When she wanted
ice cream, she made the motion of
turning the ice cream freezer. Mrs.
Macy had brought her a doll, and it
was through her desire to possess the
doll, that the teacher gave Helen her
first lesson, teaching her to spell with
her fingers, the word "doll." From this
point, her progress was remarkable. In
25 days she had learned 18 nouns and
three verbs; but her consciousness was
not awakened, until one day at the
pump, the teacher made the water gush
over her hand, and then spelled for
her the word "water." It dawned up-
on her mind, in that moment, that
everything had a name, and she was
transformed from a baffled little ani-
Imal into a radiant child. Immediately,
she began touching everything about
her, and wanting to know the names
of things. Her progress was then very
rapid. On her eighth birthday. Dr. Ed-
ward Everett Hale called upon her, and
she met him with the warning, "Hush
with your feet. Nancy (her doll) is
very sick."

She had a quaint fashion, all her own.
of expressing her thoughts. Of a per-
simmon, not quite ripe, she said, "It
pulls me together all over."

"She learned; so fast," said Mrs.
Macy, "that it "vyas a questyjin whether

the teacher led the pupil, or the pupil
drove the * teacher." The method
adopted by Mrs. Macy, and which
proved to be so successful, was to fol-j
low the child's initiative; and all fhe'
time, she said, she was haunted by|
the fear that because the work was so j
pleasant, there must be something^
wrong about it. "If it is true thati
Helen owes her education to me, it isj
equally true that I owe my education
to her. I had to educate myself in or-
der to keep up with her."

For the first three years, Helen
spelled on her fingers. Then she in-
sisted on learning to speak. She had i
found that when they conversed to- J
gether, the friends moved their lips; and
she was determined to learn to talk
with her mouth. She learned to read
the lips through the sense of touch,
and finally could speak fairly intelli-
gibly to those who knew her. Two
years ago, Mr. Charles White, a teach-
er of singing in the New England Con-
servatory of Music, became Interested
in her, and developed her speech so
that she is now able to make herself
understood by a large audience.

It was also Helen herself who in-
sisted on going to college, and she
passed her entrance examinations
without conditions. It is a triumph
that she won her degree, but from an
educational point of view, Mrs. Macy
considers the four years spent at Rad-
cliffe practically wasted, except for the
help given her by Professor Charles
T. Cop'eland. The work was so ardu- i
ous, and took so much of her time that'
she missed the college life, which is
the thing that makes college worth
while.

Miss Keller has many friends among
the most worth-while people of the
world. As her teacher says, "Her un- {
usual intelligence and her quick re- 1
sponsive sympathy, appeal to many!
different kinds of people and call from
them their very best. The only bur'den
that remains, is dependence upon oth-!
er people in practical things. Her]
mind can usually be depended upon to'
work right; but if the ribbon in her
typewriter slips, she may work for
Jiours without accomplishing any re-
«ult."

When Miss Keller was guided upon
'the platform, the audience clapped,
%jid the blind R-irl's face beamed with
(Quick, responsive pleasure. Standing
[behind the reading desk, she sp/ke to
the audience her sweet, tender mes-
sage of sympathy and love. "Dear
friends," she said, "I am glad to stand
before you and hold out my hands to
you in love and fellowship. I do not,
know how you look, and the sound of
your voices-is shut from me; but I feel I
vyour love and kindness. It surrounds
und upholds me and makes rae happy.

oivell Audience Hears Story

Of Helen Keller* s Wonderful Life

HELEN KELLER AND MRS. JOHN A. MACY.

Wha,t I have to say to you is very sim-
plOv very plain. We are all bound to-
gether; we live for each other and by
each other. Our success in life de-
pends upon mutual helpfulness. Peo-
ple tell me that vi^hat my teacher and
I have done gives them confidence in
their abilities, and makes them wish
to use their minds more fully. If oth-
ers are helped, we are glad, we re-
joice in the obstacles that we have
overcome. I was blind, now I see; I
was deaf, now I hear; I was dumb,
now I speak. It was through the hand
of others that I found myself, found

my mother and father, found the
world, found my soul, and love, land
God. Without my teacher I should
be nothing; without you I should be
nothing. We live by each other;
life for each other is the only life
worth living". Alone we can do so lit-
tle; with others we can do so much. I
long- to extend my hands to you, and to
give back a hundred fold, all of the
happiness and the love that have been
poured into them.

"Most of us have not begun to use
the wonderful senses that God has
given to us. We need to believe more
in our powers.

"The world is full of miracles. Lrook
for them, and you will find them."

. Then followed the most interesting
part of the lecture, when, reading Mrs.
Macy's lips with her fingers, Miss Kel-
ler conversed with her, showing to the
audience how it was possible for her to
learn to speak.

"Lip reading," said Mrs. Macy, "is
largely guess-work."

"Yes," said Helen, brightly, "it is."

"One has to be a pretty good Yankee,
to learn to read the lips."

"Yes," said Helen.

"Can you feel the presence of your
audience?"

"Yes; the air about me is warm and
throbbing with life."

"Can you feel the applause?"

"Yes."

"How do you feel it?"

"With my feet."

"Can you tell day from night?"

"Yes, even when the day is cloudy;
because the air is lighter and warmer,
and the smells of the day are different
from the smells of the night."

"When you read," asked a gentleman
in the audience, '^do you translate what
you read into the finger language?"

The question was repeated to Miss
Keller by her teacher, and she an-
swered: "No; I think in spoken words;
but that is only since I have learned
to speak."

She was asked to recite something so
familiar that the people away back in
the rear of the room, could understand
it, and she chose the 23rd psalm, re-
peating it with such exquisite rever-
ence in expression of voice and counte-
nance, that there were few eyes that
were not moist.

It will be long before Lowell people
forget the beautiful message of the
deaf, blind girl, and her indomitable
spirit. > I

£TiL!ikk>_Jl1a'5S., S

i-c-n^

y\-ove,^^'oe.-r- %5., ;^I3

Mrs. Macy and Her Marvelous
Pupil Heard by Large Audience
UnderAuspices of Women's Club

Miss Helen Keller,, the deaf ^

nbliiiiii)

girl, whose fame is nation-wi^e, and'

JVIrs. Annie Sullivan Macy, her teach-r

er, lectured at the First Universalist

fchurch last evening, the event being^

arranged under the auspices of the

t^liddlesex Women's club. The affair

;was open to the public and the atten.-:

dance was very large. Miss Keller's

f'life has been a wonderful one, esper

cially in her education and trainingii

since she has, with the aid of her

teacher and others, accomplished feats

of intellect and learning that havei

I heretofore appeared impossible to one

l^without the use of sight and hearing.

;. ' Mrs. Macy was first introduced by

iMiss Ward, president of the club, and

'she gave a highly interesting account

I of the education of Miss Keller, who

f was utterly blind and deaf from the

[age of 19 months. Her father had writ-.

' ten to the Boston Institution for the

I Blind to secure a teacher for his daugh-

1 ter, having heard of the w^onderful

progress of Laura Bridgman, whom Dr.

^Howe had taught 40 years before the

birth of Miss Keller. Mrs. Macy said

that she herself had been almost total-

tly blind until she was 18 years of age

when an operation restored her sight,

though in an imperfect manner. Mrs,

iMacy said that she understood the lan-|

guage of the deaf and blind, and had

lived in the house with Laura- Bridg-

jnan. Consequently she became Misst

^Keller's teacher.

L jyVhen she first met the girl, the lat-
uttsr had a number of signals by which
she convesjed her wants. M-rs. Macy

beg^ii hy leaching her to spell a fe^
words on her fing'ers, beginning with
"doll." buU finding that -she had c6n-
fused mug'^ith water/ the"tea<jh€r on©
day allowed watei' to flow over the
blind girl's hands and then spelling-
out the word "water" for hei-, she
showed the pupil that everything had a
name. Helen had an odd manner of
expression, due perhaps, to the man-
ner in which she learned, her words.
After a great many anecdotes of Hel-
en's early steps toward education, Mrs.
Macy said that Miss Keller -learned so
rapidly that it was a question whether
the teacher led the pupil or the pupil
drove the teacher, and that she had
to educate herself in order to keep up
with her. For the first three years,
Miss Keller spelled on her fingers, and
then insisted upon learning to' speak,
having- found that others moved their'
lips when in conversation with her.
By learning to read the lips, through
the sense of touch, the blind girl fi-
nally became able to speak to her
friends. This is one of the most mar-
velous accomplishments of any age.
Mr. Charles White, a teacher in the
New England Conservatory of Musft,
became interested in her and developec^
her voice so that she could^ speak to 'a;
large nuinber of people.

Miss Keller insisted on going to col-
lege and although her course was most
satisfactory in every way, nevertheless,
Mrs. Macy said that she missed'.the real
factor, the college life. It was Radcliffe
college that Miss Keller attended and
her studies were made by the teacher
communicating to her by the touch
method and by writing. Miss Keller
used a typewriter, but occasionally
when the ribbon slips or the letters do
not show up, she has to do the -vi'ork
of hours all over again, but this she
does patiently.

Mrs. Macy proved a very interesting
speaker and in the course of her talk
she voiced some of the great princi-
ples of education- -as being illustrated
In the marvelous development of this
girl's rriind under such great difficul-
ties. ♦ ' ^ ,"

Miss Keller was loudly, applauded as
she was led before the. audience, and
as the expression of her face undeni-
ably indicated she felt the ap-
plause. She spoke briefly and simply
as follows; :

"Dear friends." she said, "I am gla-:i
to stand before you and hold out my
hands to you in love and fellowship I
do not know how you look, and the
sound of your voices is shut from me;
byt I f^o.l your love and kindness. ' It
s^irrounds and upholds me and makes
me happy. What I have to say to you
is very simple, very plain. We are all
bound together; we live for each other
and by each other. Our success in life i

■^.f^

■■■V f,f^

>;*/

MISS HELEN KELLER

depends upon mutual helpfulness. Peo-
ple tell me that what my teacher and
I have done gives them confidence in
their abilities, and makes them wish
to use their minds more fully/ If oth-
ers kre helped, we are glad, we re-
joice in the obstacles that we hav€>
I overcome. I was blind, now I see; j
was deaf, now I hear; I was dumb, no-yj^
I. speak. It was through the hand of
others that I found myself, found mj?'
: iDother and father, found the worldi,^
^found my soul, and love, and God^
Without my teacher I should be noth-
ing; without you I should be nothing.'

live by each other; life for each
oiher is the only life worth living
Alone we can do so little; with others
we (;ian do so much. I long to extend
my jhands to you, and to give back a
hundred fold, all of the happiness and
the love that have been poured into
them."

Of course it was not to be expected
that Miss Keller's voice would sound
natural. Those close to her understood
mors of her words than those at the ,
back of the hall, yet the latter un-
derstood many of her words. After
hearing her for a fev/ times, a person
might understand her very well. Her
voice has a guttural sound and the
articulation is rather vague, but in
spite of these drawbacks she talks, and
what she says is good.

Then Mrs. Macy demonstrated her
method of conversation with "Miss Kel-
ler, the latter reading her teacher's
lips with her fingers, and respondiuM-
to the questions which she asked. A
person in the audience inquired wheth-
er or not Miss Keller translated \\dtiat
she read into the finer language. She
replied that she thinks in spoken
words, but that is only since she has
learned to speak.

On being asked to recite some fa-
miliar piece, she chose the 23rd psalm .
and recited it with a reverence and ex-
press-ion that was wonderful.

Her lecture was a thorough success
in every way and highly interesting
and' instructive to the large audienca
which listened to Miss Keller and Mrs.
Macy, her talented and equally famous
teacher.

J^^-'^^-u'Co w , "l^^a^SS . ,^^^^'^'^^

IVo'J^'^v^he.-r %b <^ \'^\^

HELENJiiER

Mrdbefore
woman's club

FAMOUS WOMAN AND HER
TEACHER, MRS MACY, ENTER-
TAIN AN AUDIENCE OF THOU-
SAND OR MORE IN HAYMAN'S
HALL.

TALE OF WONDERFUL

WORK IS RELATED

HOW PATIENCE AND INDOMITA-
BLE ^\^LL ACCOMPLISHED A
SEEMING MARVEL — ^INFORMAL
RECEPTION HELD AFTER THE
LECTURE.

An audience of a thousand or more
gathered ?n Hayman'e hall, Broadr
way, last evening to see and hear
Helen Keller and her teacher Mrs.
Macy (Anne M. Sullivan), w^o gave
their lecture "The Heart and the
Hand." under the auspices of the
Taunton Woman's Club.

Shortly after S o'clock, Mrp. Joseph
B. Sayles, president of the club, in-
troduced Mr??. Macy, the faithful, lov-
ing friend and teacher of Helen Kel-
ler for over twenty-six years.

Mrs*. Macv i« ?. charmin'^ly bea.uti-
ful 'voman and posscr~ed of a rare
personality. She told the story of
iHelen Keller's entrance into the
world of knowledg:e and Avith her tho

aucfienceTolTowecl Helen Keller from'
the time she learned to spell "doll"
with her finrers. until the present
time. Her story showed what ^cve
and patience coupled with an indom-
itable v/ill can accomplish.

Mrs. Macy then introdured her pu-
pil and Helen Keller then told her
own gtory. Miss Keller is swest
and charmins: and very ,?irli£h in her
manner and it was hard to realize
when looking at her and seeing a
countenance so full of joy and sun-
shine, that she not only could not
hear but \>'as sightless. She gave
one the impression that she was look-
ing at them. >Ielen Keller left with
her hearers a message full of cheer
and helpfulness. She speaks quite
easily and there was little difhculty
in understanding her.

These two women, Helen Keller
and Mrs. Macy, are the complement,
one of the other. One can hardly
imagine one without the other and
Mrs. Macy should be given her full
share of credit in th6 wonderful
achievements of Helen Keller.

Very interesting was the demon-
stration of lip reading between pu-
pil and teacher, also the asking and
ansv/ering of questions. These show-
ed the remarkable quickness with
which Helen Keller thinks. Some of
her answers were very ^vitty. She
thought the men had enough to do
and might leave the vote to women.
Asked where she got her first con-
ception of God she said: "In the same
way I got the idea I loved my motli-
er and God is love." "I am happy,"
she said, "for I can face the bitter
facts of life and still believe in the
future." Applause, Miss Keller says,
she feels with her feet, and a crowd
of people make the air throb.

Following the lecture an informal!
reception was held and all who could !
availed themselves of the opportunity
to grasp the hand of this wonderful
little woman who seemed so bubbling
over with happiness and love.

"The m.ost wonderful girl in the
world" as Mif^s Keller is affectionate-
ly called, at first glance does not im-
press one as any different from any
other well bred, modishly gowned
youne: woman who may be seen by
the score at any fashionable s-ather-
ing. Who, not knowing her identity
could dream that she sees and hears

feeiise, of physical sight and sound,
but by those spiritual antennae, the
development of which has made Hel-
en Keller, deaf, dumb and blind, the
marvel of the age?

Miss Keller's famous teacher and
companion of twenty-six years, Mrs.
Macy, PDoke as follows:

"Ladies and Gentlemen: When
people first meet Helen Keller their
minds are full of questions; how was
©he taught? How does one teach a
deaf, dumb and blind child; How
did she learn to speak? Is it true that
iBhe took a full course at Radcliffe?
I How was she tausrht the world of
I Ideals and facts? These questions filll
[the minds of her audience. I will
jtry to answer them, but try to re-
I member that these answers cover a
long period of time and are incom-
plete and fragmentary.

It was twenty-six years ago last
March that I went to Tuscoimbia.
Ala., to teach a deaf, dumb and blind
child. Her father had written to the
Perkins Institute to ask If It were
possible for him to get a teacher for
his child. He had read in Charles
[Dickens' 'American Notes' his thrill-
ling account of Lraura Bridgman,
wTiom Dr. Howe had taught forty
years before. This was all he knew
of the possibilities of having Helen
1 educated.

■ They had first taken her to Balti-
Imore, there to consult a famous ocu-
list. They still clung to the hope
that something could be done for her
eyes or ears. But Dr. Chisfholm told
them nothing could be done, but that
jhe did think that she could be edu-
cated, and he told them to consult
Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who re-
ferred them to the Institute.

I had been a pupil there, for I was
almost totally blind myself, when an
operation at the age of eighteen gave
me back such sight as I now have.
When Helen's father sent for a
teacher I was the only one who could
see well enough to go such a distance.
I had had no special p-reparatlon for
a teacher; I had not thought of be-
coming a teacher, but I had lived in
the house with Laura Bridgman. I
had learned the alphabet so that I
could talk with her and I had heard
of Dr. Howe's work in teaching Lau-
ra. I had read Dr. Howe's reports,*

TfT^WSTTecorSfea experimeutB in the"
education of the deaf, dumb and
blind.

Helen Keller was six years and
eight months old at this time — active
as an animal — passionate, loving,
struggling and striving. She went
about fearlessly, upstairs and down
stairs, wherever she wanted to go.
She tried to imitate everything she
felt of, and whatever other people
were doing. She had been deaf,
dumb and blind since her eighteenth
month as a result of an ailment
which was never correctly diagnosed.
It was thought to be a complication —
acute congestion of the stomach and
brain. It left no ill effect other than
the destroying of her hearing and
eyesight. Many physicians have
since tried to find out what it was,
but a diagnosis after so many years
is about worthless.

I saw her first standing in the
doorway of her home. She had stood
in the doorway all day and seemed
to have known that someone was
coming. She rushed at me with such
force that she almost threw me over
backward. She felt all over me, my
face, my hands, and my dress. I had
been carrying a bag which she at
once took from me. She felt all over
it, its shape, its size, and finally dis-
covering a keyhole, tried to make the
signs of turning a key. Her mother
tried to tell her not to touch, but she
went upstairs with me and again
tried to open the bag, being very
confident there was candy in it for
her.

I led her to a trunk, pointed to it,
and nodded my head; I let her feel
me nod. She understood at once. And
in her eagerness tumbled downstairs
— for, in those days, she more often
tumbled down than ran — to tell her
mother, by means of signs, that the
person upstairs had a trunk and there
was candy in it for her.

It was both amusing and pathetic
to watch her antics as she went
through my belongings; to see her
cock her head on one side and then
the other, looking in ehe mirror just
as if ©he could see.

I am telling you all this so that
you may know how much she knew
before I began to teach her. She
talked wholly by signs; a nod meant
y^s; a shake of the head meant no — a
sign that meant to her-^except when

she made it herself! When she want-
ed bread and butter she made the
motion of cutting the bread and
spreading the butter; ice cream imi-
tated the motion of turning the freez-
er.

A mentally sound child is compell-
ed to invent signs in order to express
what he feels. The mind goes on
working. Helen's mind was visibly
at work. She was imitating what
she had always known. But we shall
never know what was going on in the
little mind during those dark, silent
years.

Next day she helped me to unpack.
She had not forgotten the candy. The
day previous she had put away the
bag for the delights of the trunk, ev-
idently believing that the candy
would keep. She felt of every box,
smelt of every package. When she
found it Bhe was greatly pleased, but
she did not at once eat it. She put it
down, evidently thinking that there
was something to follow that might
be more interesting.

She found a little doll and was de-
lighted to find that its clothes could
be taken off. It had been one of her
chief diversions to dress and undress
herself, so she at once began this on
her doll. When she had finished this
and began again to look in the trunk
I took her hand and made the signs
for "d-o-1-1." She finally spelled the
word and gleefully nodded her head.
Then T took the doll away from her,
thinking that I would make her spell
the word "doll" before she could have
it again. She misunderstood and be-
gan to kick and scratch. Then and
there, we had our first struggle.

Helen was very fond of cake.
When she wanted a piece, I spelled
"c-a-k-e" into her hands. She was
the picture of obstinacy but she tried
to ©pell "cake." I spelled the word
for her, she snatched it, and ran
down stairs and could not be induced
to return that day.

You have a language capable of ex-
pressing those desires and appetites
and a mechanical means for express-
ing your desires.

' Look at the sign -for "doll." Why
does that sound, or that row of let-
ters, or those motions of the fingers,
mean "doll"? Because all our lives
they have been associated with the
word "doll." Why does the deaf
child at once use these signs? Be-,

cause he wants the doll and he knows
that when he makes certain signs
somebody gets the "doll" for him.

Helen had always confused the
words for milk and drink. Water
was easier; she used water to bathe
'^n' 3^ 'U'eU as to drink. One morning
ehe splashed the Avater with both
hands and made th.e sign for "large'*
— a peculiar symbol made by spread-
ing the fingers which she herself had
invented. I spelkd "water" and
thought no more about it until after
breakfast. Then it occurred to me
that 1 might straighten out this mei;-
tal confusion,

T told her to bring along her mug
andu we went out. to the pump house.
I made her hold her mug while T
pumped. The water gushed forth. T
spelled "w-a-t-e-r," She dropped her
mug and all at once her face was
aglow with intelligence. She point-
ed to the mug, to the trellis, to the
vine Just then the nurse brought
in her baby sister. T spelled "nurse"
and "baby." Suddenly she turned
■and pointed to me. I spelled "teach-
.^r" and! "teacher" I have been ever
since.

She wad i^eatly excited and learn-
ed thirty words in a few hours. In
that moment it suddenly dawned up-
on her that everything had a name.
The prison was open, the captive was
free at last. She was transformed
from a baffled little animal to a. ra-
diant child.

.Then I began to spell sentences
whether she understood them or not,
for language grows with our expand-
ing faculties. Before long she her-
self was using idiomatic English. The
mind itself is developing; all that the
teacher has to do is to guide the child
to self expression. In six months
from the day I first saw her she was
reading the Braille books. She liked
particularly mythological stories;
e^ii-lAABuraate objtects v/ere things of
joy. In her games she was as re-
|ipurceful as Ulysses himself. Like all
a^ttive children; all li'i^r games were
staged so that she took the star part
herself. Almost every day she made
a jungle of our bedroom. .The king
of the forest was a three-legged
wooden cow; a dila;pldated looking
rabbit became a bear. I was either
the hunter or the hunted, as suited
Plelen's whim.

Red Riding Hood was enacted, witn

wonderful realism. I was the

grandmother and when I would
pounce out of the bed upon her in thet
guise of the old wolf 1 am sure she
was a bit fearful. Her play with her
dolls was an amusing imitation of her
mother's and her nurse's treatment of
the children. Once I found her pun-
ishing her doll and she said to me:
"Nancy is bad! Nancy has no
•think'."

We had been stringing beads on a
wire frame. The sequence bothered
her. I tapped her forehead and
spelled "t-h-i-n-k." She understood
instantly. A few minutes later she
said: " 'Think' is bad to skip two
rows of beads."

•'l>he i.s :\lways dependent ui>on oth-
ers. Hhe cannot <x)me hero until some-
body brings her; she cannot I'ead until
somebody finds time to r^ad to her;
she cannot take part iu a coiiversatioii
uutik.e»)mebody spells it into her band.
but|i|p;':^S11)enfee is? wond0i"ful; ;; Ev^ii
now hfter yehrs of dissociation With h^r
I am constantly impressed with lier
patience. The way in Avhich she does
tilings over and over again impresses
nie yet. ^onietimes Avhen she is' ■writ-
ing on her typewriter the ribbon will
slip and* she will find tliat she has only
blank pages as a reward for hours of
IIqII. But she always cheerfully be-
|gii*S:.h^i^lm:. If slite h;\d uot-tlws .i;est-^
i le.*^ v^iiiit tbiffe' ?«fiilliigness to-do over
I anSil bver again she would not be here
|,t<)niglit. She has eyes that see not.
lea.rs that hear not. She comes to you
; tonight with a message of brotherhood
and love.

Mlsl Keller spoke as follows:
THE RIGHT USE OF OUR SENSES.
I am glad to be before you and
hold out my hand to you in love and
feHow|Mp tonight. I do not know
how you look and the sound of your
voices is shut away from me, but I
feel your kindness. It surrounds and
upholds me and makes me happy.
But what I am to say is very simple.
I We live by and for each other. EV'
jery human being is dependent upon
another. Every one of us owes it to
ourselves and others to make the
most Qf those capabilities that God
has bestowed upon us. People tell
me that what I have done gives them
confidence in their abilities and
makes them more willing to over-
come difficulties. If others are helped

Ave are glad. But for others I shoiikl
be nothing. My teacher has told you
how I was taught. ,

I learned from the hand of anoth-
er. I received the rays of light from
another soul; the darkness of my
mind was lifted. I awoke to the sun-
Bhlne of life. I was blind, now I see;
I was deaf, now I hear; I was dumb,
now I speak. The hands of others
wrought this miracle in me. It was
through the bauds of others that I|
found my father and moWer, "found'
my soul and my knowledge of God.

The life for each other is the only
life to live. Alone we can do so lit-
tle, but together we can do so much.
We can overlook the misfortunes of
others. Do you wonder that I love
the hand that taught me to do the
work of the world? All that is noble
and worthy in the human race has
come to me through her hand, and I
should like to open my hands to you
and give to you all the love and hap-
piness that she has poured into them.

Another thing I wish to say to you
is this: Most of us are not given to
using the wonderful minds that God
has given us. If we believed more in
our powers we should be able to ac-
complish more. But believing is
not enough; it is only with the idea
of imagination and thought and feel-
ing that we know its full value. I
have felt God's glorious power and
that is why I find life so Interesting,
BO inspiring, that is why I know joy,
I have not the wide world of sunlight
and color, song and laughter is bar-
red against me. My life has broad-
ened me, it has taught me to sing
the words of the psalmist:

"I put my trust in the Lord at all
times and His right hand shall up-
hold me and I shall abide there In
safety."

^ I do not believe in resignation to
conditions, but in triumphing over
them.

' To teach one to think, to awake his
sensibilities, and to let him feel the
wonders of the world about him, is
a miracle. To teach the blind man
to see the splendor of a sunset, or to I
direct his eyes up to the stars — ^those |
wonderful fires in the sky, which,
though I cannot see, shine in my
thoughts just the same. (Applause)

Blindness has its wonders too.
Imagination, devotion and loyalty
penetrate through the walls of dark-
ness. Look, listen feel through your

hands. Put thought into your senses
and every day will be a revelation to
you and you will wonder at the beauty
and richness and power which comes
through your eyes and through your
ears.

The world is full of miracles; look
for them and you will find them.

HELEItmLEfi WILL
LECTURE HERE DEC 2

O- — —

Helen Keller, the wonderful blind gfirU
is coming" to Haverhill to lecture on Dec-
ember second next. Miss Keller Is prob-
ably the most remarkable girl of the age
in many respects, and her first appear-
ance here is certain to attract a host of
people fro mamong those who have read
about her.

M. Gerard Harry, a brilliant French
whiter, has made an intimate study of
the wonderful careers of the four famous
deaf-mutes — Helen Keller, Laura Bridgie-
man, Marie and Martha Heurtin. In his
book, "Man's Miracle" (published Octo-
ber 30th by Doubleday, Page & Companj")
he discusses these human miracles, and
then treats of human perfectibility. Mr.
Harry suggests that Helen Keller's magi-
cal story could best be told after the
manner of Perrault in the famous fairy-
tales—

"There was once upon a time a little
girl enclosed in profound darkness, more
isolated from the world than the smallest
insect, for she could neither hear, nor
speak, nor see, and by some miracle she
came to see, to hear, and to speak, to
understand, to feel, to think as well as
the most perfectly educated people in the
world."

Helen Keller's lecturing tour is causin'g
a great deal of interest in her latest book,
"Out of .-the Dark," recently published
by Doubleday, Page & Company. Of all
the remarks ever made about Miss Keller,
probably the most succinct was that of
the late William James. Wearying of the
psychology and pseudo-pyschology talked
about her, he wrote in his bluff way-^
"The sum of it is that you're a blessing,
and I'll kill anyone that says you're not"'

lElEN KELUR'S LIFE

CLE

M. Gerard Harry, a Frenchman,

So Describes Life of Blind,

Deaf and Dumb Girl.

'OUT OF THE DARK'^

Whenever men are downcast and dis-
heartened, wlien life seems gray and
strugg-le of small avail, let them ponder
the fairy-tale of Helen Keller.

For it is indeed a fairy-tale, and might
best be told after the manner of "Puss in
the Boots" or "Bluebeard," as M, Gerard
Harry suggests in his little book. "Man's
Miz-^acle," recently published in Engrlisli
by Doubleday, Page & Co.

"There was once upon a time a little
girl enclosed in profound darkness, more
isolated from the world than the smallest
insect, for she coul.d neither hear, nor
speak, nor see; and by some miracle she
came to see, to hear and to speak, to un-
derstand, to feel, to think, as well as the
piost perfectly educated people in the
world."

; In brief, that is the fairy-tale. For the
little girl that was born in June. 18S0, at
Tuscumbia, Alabama, and was attacked
at the age of 19 months by a mysterious
Illness that left her without sight, speech
or hearing— more helpless than a kitten,
Inferior *to the lowest animal— is now ai
woman of 33, who graduated wjth honors
from RadclifC College in 1&04; has served
on a Massachusetts State Commission;
has written several books; has mastered
the difficult art of speech; and is now on
a lecturing tour, which will take her toi
pities all over.,,the United States, lasting
from October to Ap'rll. Her latest book,
with the appealing title, "Out of the
park," ha« recently been published by.
Pou'bleday, Page & Co.
• A very remarkable book is "Man's
jMiracle,'"' in which Mr. Harry tells the
etory of Helen Keller, comparing it with
(that of Laura Bridgman and the HeurtinJ

fit** ^'t ^T*^ I

i The wonderful history of Helen Kelleri
«i^peals to Mr. Harry not so much as a'
unique and marvelous phenomenon, but

Miss Helen Keller

The ri^af Hiij^i^ pT^pj >,Hnri,-ffi;ritjpa;„?.T|^,ifto.tnrf^. who Will speak in this city on
December 10. She is the author of "Out of the Dark," published by Double-
day. Page & Co.. New York.

as an indication of what is possible to all
mankind, and what may be expected -^in
the future in the way of man's perfectibil-
ity. It is the most touching, the mo«t
significant illustration of the indomitable
and outreaohing spirit of life— -what Berg-
son calls the "elan vitale,"

And th,at is, after all. the most im-
pressive thing in life. Come what may
earthquake, iceberg, fire, pestilence, man
is unconquerable, man will not be downed.
Helen Keller is "a very Joan of Arc of the
spirit; she and her teacher, Mrs. Macy,
have given the world radiant illustration
of the incessant spark which burns in
every human heart— th'kt mysterious un-
known essence that we call "life," And
are we to say that animals do not have
it, too?

Mark Twain, who, amid his merriment,
said many things tender and true, once
said: "T>he nineteenth century has pro-
duced two exceptional IndividuaFs — Napo-
leon and Helen Keller." But while
Napoleon taught the world how the mad
passion for glory may strew a continent
with the bodies of men. Helen Keller has
taught us a far deeper message— that
"nursing the unconquerable hope" man
may do all thinge. Close your eyes, stop
your ears, gag your mouth— and try to put
yourself in the place of Helen Keller as a
child— deaf, dum'b, blind— surrounded by a'
black world of terror and surprise. Think
of the deep pit whence she has climbed.
Think of the tenderness of her teachers-^
so gentle that in her childish efforts to^
understand what "love" could be Helen*
Keller defined it thus— "Love is that which
we all feel for others!"

Mr. Harry's book takes up with
prophetic insight the deeper implications
of the case of Helen Keller— 'what It means
for humanity, also discussing Laura
Bridgman and the French Heurtin sisters,
whose cases are parallel to Helen Keller's.
Some conception of the difficulties con-
fronting the teachers of these children
may be gathered from an anecdote M.
Harry tells of Marie Heurtin:—

When she was asked who had made the
sun, she replied, without hesitation, "The
baker." ,^he answer resulted from very
simple logic. She had been taken to a
bakery and had been taught the manner
of making bread. She had felt the heat
of the oven and very naturally the blind
gli'l, W'ho was only aware of the existence
of the sun by its heat, pictured to herself,
the sun as a movable oven, made by hu-!
man hands. If her teacher had confirmed
this belief, the child would have thought
to 'this day that the sun, whioh lights and
warms us. was the work of a man who
makes hot rolls.

A wonderful book is this by M. Harry,
and perhaps it causes a twinge that it
should have been left to a foreigner to
understand and put into words the deepest
significance of our human miracle, Helen
Keller. No one can read "Man's Miracle"

I without turning: trom it to the new book
by Helen Keller herself, with its touching

title. "Out of the Dark." Helen Keller's
"darkness"' has the cool revealing- quali-
ties that the beloved darkness of night has
to human beings. In her darkness there
sihine some of the etars of the spirit that
are not revealed to the more noisy and
.brightly lighted lives of seeing men. Her
etssay, "Christmas in the Dark," has a
[genuine message at this time of year.

"Had you been our guest you would
have received a gift from the sightless,
for they have one precious gift for the
world. In their misfortune they are often
happ3% and in that they give an inspiring
challenge to those who see. Shall any see-
ing man dare to be sad at Christmas or
permit a little child to be other than
inerry and light-hearted? What can ex-
cuse the seeing from the duty and priv-
ilege of happiness while the blind child
joins so merrily in the jubilee? •
" 'Tiny Tim' was glad to he at church
n Christmas because he» thought the sight
of him might remind folk who It was that
gave the lame power to walk. Even so
[the blind may remind their seeing brethren
who it was that opened the blinded eyes,
unstopped the deaf ears, gave health to
the sick and knowledge to the ignorant,
and declared that mightier things even
than t!hese shall be fulfilled. All the af-
flicted who keep the blessed day compel
the affectionate thought that He abides
with us yet."

Puttsl-lel^, ")na.'i,vi^, Clolv'^-rtL.Se--r.

TUooTe-vvvb^-.- 2-7k )^/S-

HELEN KELLER EN-
^^UBEhENT CANCELLED

It is with mncli regret that owing
bo the sadden serious illness of Merle
McAllister who had in charge the
Pittstield engagement of Helen Keller,
who is travelling under the manage-
ment of the Pond Lycenm Bnrean,
the lecture which was to have been
given in Union Hall Saturday evening
of this week by Miss Keller and her
teacher, Mrs. Macy, has been can-
celled.

J^tiJiirilwiiailis- who will speak in City]
Hall auditorium December first, has
^recently publislied a boolc of essays,
jntitled Out of tlie Dark. One of the
^ssays, Christmas in the Darlc, con-j
kins an appropriate message for this
lason of the year. Mis.3 Kellar says:
J'Had you been our guest you would
have received a gi€t from the sight-:
less, for they have one precious gift
for the world. In their misfortune
they are often happy, and In that they'
give an inspiring challenge to those
who see. Shall any seeing man dare
to be sad at Christmas or permit ai
little child to be other than merry andj
light-hearted? What can excuse the
seeing from the duty and privilege of
happiness while the blind child j^ins
so merrily in the jubilee?

"Tiny Tim was glad to be at church
on Christmas because he thought the
sight of him might remind folk who it
was that gave the lame power to
walk. Even as the blind may remind
their seeing brethren who it was that
opened the blinded eyes, unstopped
the deaf ears, gave health to the
sick, and knowledge to the ignorant,
and declared that mightier thing.3
even than these shall be fulfilled. All
the afflicted who keep the blessed
day compel the affectionate thought
that He abides with us yet."

FEELS APPUU

Miss 'Helen Keller Knows
When Audience is Ap-
preciating Her

Uotmi 'Ktlllei, yyho is perhaps the
mosti talked of .woman _ in America

today, comes to Haverhill Tuesday-
night to give her lecture entitled
"The Heart and the Hand, or the
Right Use of Our Senses," in the
High School hall.

After one of her lectures some one
asked Miss Keller if she could tell
whether her audience were large or
not, and in her answer showed what
a remarkable use she makes of her
own senses. "Yes, it was a large
audience," she said, "I can tell by
the vibrations of many feet in mo-
tion and then the air is dense and
warm when there are many people in
the room."

"Can you tell if people are ap-
plauding you?" she was asked.

"Yes," she replied, "by the vibra-
tion of the air."

Her listeners wanted to applaud
but were interrupted by another
question,

"Can you tell if your audience is
interested."

"Oh, yes, they always are.

And one wonders how anyone could
help being inteiested by this
genius, a genius all the more strongly
after one has listened to the story of
her life as told in the lecture.

Only after twenty years is she able
to make herself heard and understood
by large audiences, but she can speak
and she uses her new power to spread
cheer and happiness.

When Mrs. John Macy, her teacher,
explains all of these preliminary
stages, an explanation that is of the
profoundest interest, Helen Keller
is introduced, and, by her teacher's
side, she delivers her message. At
its close, she answers the questions
of her audience, transmitted to her
by her teacher. This is the most
interesting part of the lecture, for it
reveals best the acuteness and quick-
ness^ of her mind.

Monday's Union opens the account
of Migg^ Helen Keller's visit to this
city Sim3aT""9Ht^'rnoon with a long
sentence as follows: "Whether it
was to see the person who performed
the miracle of learning to speak,

though dumb, blind and deaf sinl^
19 months old, whether it was out
of sympathy for the person who had
to contend with practically insur-
mountable obstacles, or whether it
was simply to gratify a desire to see
an unfortunate young woman whose
name has appeared in the publica-
tions of nearly every civilized coun-
try is difficult to say, but 5000 per-
sons, undoubtedly the largest number
of men and women ever assembled
under one roof in this city, crowded
the municipal auditorium yesterday
afternoon to hear Helen Keller give
her short message of optimism and
love and her teacher, Mrs John Macy,
tell of the brave struggle which the
girl, who despite her handicaps, grad-
uated from Radcliffe college, went
through."

■KWell Middlesex Womeh's Club ""X^ ■

Miss Helen , ^eller^^_ft&a£ and blind, but
no longer dumb, accompanied by her de--
voted teacher, held a large audience spell-
bound in the First Universalist Church,
Monday evening. Mrs. Annie Sullivan
Macy was Introduced by Miss Grace Ward,
president of the club, and she gave an ac-
count of the education of the girl whose
fame is now world-wide. There was-Ei
hush over the assembly when Helen spoke,!
as follows: "Dear friends, I am glad to'l
stand before you and hold out my hands to '
you in love and fellowship. I do not know
how you look, and the sound of your voices
is shut from me; but I feel your love and
kindness. It surrounds and upholds me i
and makes me happy. What I have to say
to you is very simple, very plain. Wo are i
all bound together; we live for each other l
and by each other. Our success in life
depends upon mutual helpfulness. People
tell me that what ray teacher and I have
don© gives them confidence in their abili^
ties, and makes them wish to use their
minds more fully. If others are helped, Mire
are glad, we rejoice in the obstacles that
we have overcome. I was blind, now I see;

I was deaf, now I hear; I was dumb, nowi
I speak. It was through the hand of others!
that I found myself, found my mother andi
father, found the world, found my soul, and
love, and God. TVithout my teacher I should
be nothing-; without you I should be noth-
ing. We live by each other; live for each^
other is the only life worth living. Albnel
we can do so little; with others we can do'
so much. I long to extend my hands to
you, and to give back a hundred fold all
of the happiness and the love that bave'l
been poured into them.." Then Mrs. Macy|
demonstrated her method of conversation^
with Miss Keller, who later recited.

e the Growth of a Rose

Seems Helen Keller's Life.

Never perhaps have human ears
been more impressed by the familiap
but ever beautiful song of David's
confidence in God's grace, the twenty-
third Psalm, "The Lord i.'S my shep-
herd, I shall not want" than it was
as recited by Miss Helen :^ener, Fri-
day evening-, in City hall, which was
three-fourths filled with a representa-
tive assemblage of Augusta people.

There was stillness as though no
person was in the hall as the deaf
and blind but magnetic and intellec-
tual girl, dumb no longer as by a
miracle her speech restored,, con-
tinued. "He maketh me to lie down
in the green pastures; He leadeth mo
beside the still waters."

And there shone from Miss Keller's
countenance such gratitude and joy as
4t may be questioned whether .David
himself felt when he ^vroto the song.

For the Lord indeed has been the
blind girl's Shepherd, bringing her out
of the darkness of night into the sun-
light of a high education and the
helpfulness and brightness of a whole
world's esteem and sympathy and
love.

Previous to Miss Keller's appear-
ance on the banner hung stage her
gifted and patient teacher, Mrs. John
Macy, told the story of her pupil's

life. tToxT^^'^^^P^fs^wn 4;hreaten-*|
ed blindness had l:een cured at the!
Perkins Institute, how she had ])een
sent to Captain Keller's home in Ala-
bama to try and educate his six-year-
old child. This was 26 years ago.
Helen's blindness and deafness came
after a severe illness when the child
wias but 19 months of age. On Mrs.'
Macy's arriviil at the Keller's south-'
crn home the little girl, as ^ full cf
activity as a young puppy, was not
able to speak, making her wants
known by simple signs.

Teacher and child, however, wen
soon fast friends. Presents of candj
and a doll established a speedey un-
derstanding and^ in the manual sigrl
language, Helen learned from spelling
"doll", many simple words within a
month from Mrs. Macy's arrival.
Then came the arrangement of the
sign words into sentences and the
progress became amazingly rapid.

Throughout the delightful preface tc
tlie blind girl's lecture Mrs. Macy, per-
haps unintentionally, suggested to the
bearers .some of the charms of Souths
orn home life; — the pump room, sur-
rounded by the vine-covered trellis on
the Keller ground.s, the roses that
were blooming in the garden, suggest-
ing to Miss Keller that Mother Nature
did "ftiuch work and her curiosity as to
what Father Nature did;" the daisies
that bowed to her in the fields; the
iold horse on which back Captain K'^l-
l(^r gave his little daughter rides. A 'id
it was in the pump room that a firr'"it
awakening of the child's i-ito^lpnt
came m lea'rnir^g what water was as;
diptingnished from the combination ct|
^vater and the mug.

The taking of the child Helen to Bos-
ton, the call of 'Di". Edward Everett
Hale, v/hom she told, upon his in-
stance, to "brush with his feet as her
dollie was very ih," her continued ed-
ucation by dose comnanionship with
Mrr. Macy, were vividly portraved a.s
was Helen's entrance to Radcliffe. her
entrance examination beine: written by
the blind girl on a typewritter and her
passing the ordeal in the abconee of
"MvF. Macy without a condition.

Tn fd-ir years the young ladv rr-A'^-
uated vitli honor, receivinsr the Had-
clifCe -nd Harvard B. A. AH^the study
and' tremendous fhental work in acquiv-
h^<r Creek. Latin, German. French

^:)^mg" PCfomplisbecT bv ISTrs. Macv's
impartinj:^ tlie matter of Vre textbooks
to her pupil by her fin.j^er tlr>p. Tt was
miraculous labor, crowned will' a mir-
acle of success.

"Sometimes, ol'ten," exply.ineil tlie
teacher, "the labors necessary seemed
impossible to perform, but Mrs. Macy's
woman's patience combined with tbe
alei'tness and rare qualities of her pu-
pils' courage and mind, conquered all
[things.

t Their life at Radcliffe was not the
happiest period of their lives. Incessant
labors and Helen's blindness and deaf-
|ness prevented the fwll Enjoyment of col-
lege life, after all the greatest charm of
an edVicational course. The girls were
kind; thej^ made Helen vice president of
the class and did their utmost to aid.

Miss Keller was led in for her lecture
amid a hush followed by enthusiastic -ap-
plause. The girl's slender form and ra-
diant coral pink, joyous countenance
suggest such a miracle! The girl's mind
blooming, out of darkness and ignorance
into heights of intellectual brightness
and wisdom, suggested something even
greater than the bursting of tbe blush
rose on its bush from the mysteries of
the earth.

Miss Keller spoke for 20 minutes upon
"The Heart and the Hand, or the Ilight
Use of Our Senses." It was full of
depth of thought and flashes of wit. It
was punctuated by applause.

Later Mrs. Ma'cy and Miss Keller il-
lustrated their method of conversing.
Helen's fmgers rested lightly upon the
older lady's throat, l-ips and face. Miss
Keller replied with her voice. She ex-
plained how she realized that the hall
was not entirely full, by the lack of
warmth of the air. How she "heard"
are applause through her feet!

After this year Mrs. Macy and Miss
Keller will retire "from the stage into
private life. The lectures are proving too
exhaustive and happily there is no longer
need f6r them to appear in public as
they have. Miss Keller will devote more
time to hterary work.

of the Dark," is one of the recent publi- |
cations by Doubleday, Pag^e & Co. and
one of the essays, "Christmas in the
Dark," contains -a genuine message for
this season of the year. Miss Keller
writes: "Had you been our goiest you J
would have received a gift from the sight ]
less, for they have one precious gift for
the world. In th.eir misfortune they are
often happy, and in that they give an in-
spiring challenge to those who see. ShaM'
any seeing man da^e to be sad at Christ-
mas or permit a little child to be other
than merry and light-hearted? What can
can excuse the seeing from the duty and
privilege of happiness while the blind
child Joins so merrily in th.e jubilee?
IMny Tim was glad to be at church on!
Christmas because he thought the sight^
of him might remind fol^ who it was '
that game the lame power to walk. Even/|
so the blind may remind their seeingj
brethren who it was that opened th»i
blinded eyes, unstopped the deaf ears,
gave health to the sick, and knowledge
to the ignorant, and declared that might-
ier things even than these shall be ful-
filled. All the afflicted who keep the bless
ed day compel the affectionate thought;
""^'i^ V"'- abides with us jgLH— — wm— * j

\tJ!T.T!N -KELLER.

The coming of Helen iteHTer to Port-
land with Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy,
ber teacher, with the lecture on The
Heart and Hand, or a proper use of
5 senses, at City Hall, Monday even-i
X, at 8 o'clock, will have much in-
pest for a great many different
^Jcles of people, for she Is said by a
g^t many of the leading thinkers of,
the worHd to be one of the greatest
living Americans. Edison, Burbank
and others have brought the results of:
their genius to the great human fam-
ily and Helen Keller with the assist-
ance of Mrs. Macy has proven the:
existence of the Divine in every hu-

iman being. With her sense locked
fehe has revealed the soul within and
proved that she knew Grod even before
Lshe had been told a word of the Chris-
[:tian philosophies of the world.
I When asked as to her description
of whJit she saw from the statue of
i Liberty Enlig-htening the World she
said, "I see it all with the eyes of my
soul."

She has that wonderful optimism
which has under all circumstances
kept her face to the light and so she
has been broug'ht from the shadows
and now it is not enough that she has
seen the far distances but she is
bringing- to others her message which
must stimulate and aid in the world's
'work.

Am.ong those who are on the com-
mittee are: Silas, Adams of the Board
,of Trade, Rev. Charles Woodman of
[the Church Federation, Mrs. John F.
{^Thompson of the Y. W. C. A., A. Ed-,
"gar Payson of the Y. M. C. A., Mrs.
[Wilbur M. Rhodes of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, Mrs. L.
M. Leighton of the U. S. Daughters of
1S12, Mrs. F. O. Bailey of the Samari-
tan Ass<5ciation, Mrs. John C. Brown
of the Martha Washington Society,
Robert E. Wallace of the Elks, Bishop
Codman, Rev. James P. Albion, Rev.
Jesse Hill, D. D., Rev. Joseph Twomey,
Dr. Alfred King, Ho^. Charles H.
Randall, Hon. Morrill N. Drew, Hon.
F. E. and Mrs. Bootliby, Mrs. Clark
H. Barker, Mrs. Elinor Maxwell
Knight, J. Putnam Stevens, Esq., Hon.
William H. and Mrs. Dooney, Hon. and
Mrs. Richard Webb. Dr. and Mrs. W
L. Cousins, Dr. E. E. Holt, Mrs. Wil-
liam H. Coffin, Mrs. Simon Hamlin
Mrs. E. A. DeGarmo, DeForest Per-
kins, Frederick and Edward Vaill and
many others from the patriotic so-
cieties as well as the educational
bodies.

CttLavulTA^, ^SU, CD^S'CVtwtu

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"VLoV^YVube-r 3 C , 1 q ] 3

Teacher of IjLJon Kdlci

Comes With Her to Atlanta

When Helen Keller comes to At-
lanta on December 20 for her first ap-
pearance on the lecture platform, she
will be accompanied by her life-long
friend and teacher, Mrs. John Macy,
who has been with Miss Keller ever
since Helen was 7 years old.

Mrs. Macy will make a talk before
Miss Keller's lecture, telling of the long
struggles for education made by the

blind and deaf girl, telling of her ac-
quisition of speech, her preparation
for and graduation from college, and
her conquest over seemingly uncon-
querable physical difficulties and im-
possibilities. Miss Keller will then
follow with her own address, proba-
bly one of the most remarkable ever
given from the lecture platform of
America.

ro-rtl^-y^^JL. ^yia^^^-Q^ . TVess .

HELEN KELLER COMING.

Will Lecture at Crty Hal! This Even-
ing.

Helen Keller, who comes with heri
teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, to|
City hall Monday evening had a
crowded house in Augusta where she,
appeared Friday evening and she
com£s here Monday from Pittsfielct
where she made her first appearance
Saturday evening.

This is a return visit to Portland al-
though it has been eight years e nee
Ehe was here and she has accomplished
the most wonderful of all her attain-
ments during the past year, that of
speaking audibly so she can be heard
distinctly in large auditoriums. ^^

In Tremont temple, Boston, where
she lectured on the same subject which
she gives here, "The Heart and the
Hand or the Proper Use of the

Senses," she was . heard without the
least difficulty, and for nearly an liour
after the lecture she answered the
questions which were put by people
in the audience. This was one of the
best parts of the entire evening as her
view of things is distinctly original
and certainly of great value for her
type of mind and her individual way
of tbinking give qu.te a new guise Lo
affairs.

Only a few seats have been reserved
and may be secured at Steinert's as
v,-ell as the student's tickets and the
regular admissions.

Miss Keller has had many invitations
for dinners and socal events but she
is compelled to keep strictly to a sim^
pie regime in order to meet the straio
on, her in giving her lectures. — Ad-

lent

Po-rtL^>voL, "lUa.'urLe; "^-

ir-e-ss

'De.ocv^^be-r- 2^.. l^ i3

HELEN KELLER HERE.

Greeted By Large Gathering in
City Hall.

Last evening a large number gath-
lered in the auditorium of the city hall
Kg see Helen Keller, the ulinj und
lleaf mute who has made such a mar-
velous record for herself in the field
of education. Mrs. Macy, her teacher,
gfive the audience a very interesting
address relative to the train •>g of
Miss Keller. The subject of Mrs.
Macy's lecture was "Hand and Heart."
She told the life history of Miss Keiler
apd her great desire to obtain knowl-
edge and to do as other people do in
the tialm of social service and educa-
tion. She told of the keen interest
shown by Miss Keller from a very
small girl in the realm of nature and
of her great ambition to acquire knowl
edge, and to improve her mind and
qualities of heart. Reference r^^^as
rhade to her genial, happy disposition
and of her achievements against heavy
o'dds by the possession <.>f the quality
* — itience

H^-^e^T'U.ilLj yy)cL55,. Ga^:z.€^'C''C(

Dete,->-^be-r 3n I^IB

HELEN KELLER TALKS
AT HIGH SCHOOL HALL

Prodigy of 20th Century Amazes Audi-
ence By Accomplishments

Noted Blind Girl in Interview Declares for Women
Suffrage and Against Intervenfion in Mexico
By Uncle Sam.

After seeing Mies Helen Keller read,
with her fir.crers, the spoken words of her!
teacher, Mrs. Annie Sullivan Macy, and!
hearing her speak, more than 1200 people
left the High school hall last evening sat-
isfied that they had witnessed one of
the greatest miracles of the 20th cen-
tury.

Every seat in the hall was taken and
nany stood throughaut the evenir.g-, while
seats for others were provided on the
stage. " Miss Keller made her appearance
under the auspices of the Public School
Teachers' association and 500 more tick-
ets might easily have been sold to those
anxious to see and hear the deaf, dumb
and blind girl on her firsit visit to Ha-
verhill.

Principal Walter D. Head of the High
school first introduced Mrs. Macy, who
told the story of Miss Keller's life and
how she had been, educated. Then Miss
Keller herself was escorted upon the stage
and received with prolonged applause,
which she said she felt with her feet.

Miss Keller spoke for fully 20 minutes,
with everyone listening intently to hear
every word that fell from her lips,, ind
able ito understand nearly every one.
After she had concluded her regular ad-
dress question swere asked her and Mrs.
Macy demonstrated her ability to read
the lips with her fingers.

In closing her address she said: "The
world is full of miracles. Look for them
and you will find them." When she had
finished she was presented with a bou-
quet of roses, for which she seemed to
have a passionate love, pressing them to
her bosom and burying her face In them
that she might enjoy their fragrar,ce to
the, fullest.

"•Miss Keller Believes in Suffrage.

was asked if she was a suffragist
and replied that she was. She believed in
prohibition to a certain degree .but did
not believe that certain people should
impose their will upon others in the form
of laws. She did not believe in interven-
tion in Mexico and said the United States
should mir,d its own business.
I Mrs. Macy told an interesting story of
how the great victory over almost in-
burmountable difl^culties had been won.
In introducing the pupil and teacher,
[Principal Head said: "It is with great
pleasure that I present Miss Keller and
her teacher to 1000 of their friends."

Mrs. Macy said that when people first
meet Miss Keller their minds are full of
inr,umerable questions. Twill endeavor
to answer some of them. Last March it
was 26 years since I went to Alabama to
teach her. Before engaging a teacher to
educate their child, the parents of Miss
Keller went to Baltimore to see a doctor,
who told them she would never see or
hear, and who referred them to Alexan-
der Graham Bell, the inventor of the tele-
phone, in Washingtor;.

"I was almost blind myself until I un-
derwent an operation at 18, which prac-
tically restored my sight. I had just grad-
uated from the school in Boston when
Capt. Keller came to Boston. Helen was
six years and eight months old when I
went to her. She was er.ergetic and went
about the house and out into the yard

fearlessly. She tried to imitate others, al-'
though she had been deaf, dumb and blind,
since she was 19 months old, when she'
suffered an illness which is thought toi
have been acute congestion of the stom-
ach and brain. It did not impair her
health, but it destroyed her sight and
IWSirir^ completely.

"I saw her first standing in the door-
way of her home where she had been
standing all day long as she gained from
the movements of others that someone
was expected. She took my bag and tried
to open it. Her mother tried to tell her
.fehe shouldn't touch it and she flew into
a passion. She was looking for candy and
pointed to her mouth. She followed mei
to my room and then tumbled down stairs
for she rolled about like a puppy, not
hurting herself in the least. She returned
and help me pick up my things. It was
pathetic to see her try on my hat and
wag her head from side to side as she
stood before the mirror.

"I want you to know how much she
knew before she was taught. She made
signs and it was evident that no matter
what happens to the body the mind goes
on. The next day my trunk came and she
went through it for candy, but when she [
had examined the box and smelled of it
sheset it aside without opening it. She j
was looking for something more interest-
ing and I found a doll I had brought
from the institution. She quickly un-
dressed it and took great enjoyment in
undressing and dressing herself many I
times a day. I

Quickly Learned to Spell "Doll."

"She quickly learned to spell doll. I got
her some cake and she spelled cake. She
spelled obstinately at first. A child's
language begins when it is born. He as-
sociates words with things in his brain.
For a deaf child the task is increased 1000
fold and for a deaf-blind child the task is
tremendously greater. The blind learn
by constantly listening and the deaf-
blind by the touch of the fingers. Helen
learned one word at a time. I had been
with her a month when one day she came
to realize that everything had a name
and she learned 30 words in an hour,
more than in the month preceding. j

"When this dawned upon her she was|
transferred from a little animal to a child
and that night she stole into my arms
and kissed me of her own accord for the
first time. After this she learned sen-
tences and in six months she was reading
■Btories and acting them out and writing
'^letters with a pencil to her friends.

"There was life in everything for hef.
She dressed her dolls, cribbed tiiem, dosed
them for every 111 and did not spare the
rod when they were naughty. We went
to Boston and on her eighth birthday Rev.
K^dward Everett Hale came to pay his re-

spects and she told him to be quiet with
his feet or he would wake Nancy, her doll,
who was verj' ill.

"She tried to teach Bell, her dogr the
deaf and dumb language and when she
bumtped into her she always spelled,
please excuse me, on her paw. She
planted her dolls as her mother did rose'
bushes, believing they would grow and:
watering them abundantly.

"She learn.ed so fast that it was a ques- ,
tion whether teacher led pupil or the.
pupil pushed the teacher. The strain of
regular studies benumbed the mind of my
pupil so I miade it a rule to change a sub-
ject as soon as I noticed Helen losing
interest in It and following her initiative.
All day she was happy and her delight
kept up our enthusiasm,

"There is but one education, self edu-
cation and one discipline, self discipline
and all the parents can do is to surround
the child with the proper influences. If
it is true that Helen owes her education
to me, I owe my education to her. She
knows more than I do of Latin, Greek,
philosophy and the higher arts and
■sciences.

^ "They were learned by associatlopi.
T'he deaf blind child comes over the same
road as all children travel providing some
one is by her side to give a name to
everything.

"After three years Helen wanted to
talk with her mouth and I finally took
her to Miss Helen Fuller at the Horace
Mann school and after her seventh lesson
in articulation she told me on the way
home, 'I lam not dumb now.'

"Speech is as previous to a dumb child
as it is to you and it has taken Helen 20
years to speak plainly enough to ask you
to come to listen to her. Without speech
she could not have gone through Rad- i
cliffe. I

"The teaching of a deaf-blind person to
speak is as wonderful as the flying of the
Wright Brothers. Charles White of the
New England Conservatory of Music
taught Helen resonances and completed
her speech. If you understand her in
part you have witnessed a wonderful
mijracle and the greatest achievement In
the history Of education.

'jit was also Helen herself who insisted
on! going to college. Her will prevailed
and carried her through. She passed^ her
entrance exams without conditions, writ-
ing' the answers on her typewriter. I was
not there with her. The college authorl-
; ties seemed to doubt our good faith. She
had the satisfaction of doing her part
under the hardest conditlor,s possible.

"feither the instructors were too busy

or indifferent, for most of the books in the

several courses reached us after the

course had been finished. I spelled them

^<iut to her word by word. It is indeed an

achievement for H(^Ten to n«v«- xvon her]
degree of bachelor of arts. But for the
English instruction of Charles T. Cope-
land, I think her four years at Radcliffe
would have been wasted. The girls made
Helen vice-president of her class and did
all they could to make her life pleasant.
Reads Magazines for the Blind.

"It will be sometime before another girl
such as she attains a B. A. degree She
reads magazines for the blind, which Keep
her in touch with all the current events
of the day. She has many friends of Im-
portance in every field of endeavor, who
all write her and have learned the deaf
and dumb alphabet and talk to her. She
is always keenly interested In everything
that happens.

"She must depend on others, although
her mind is direct and her heart is right.
She has patience, courage and a strong
Will.

"Out of th6 land of silence and dark-
r.ess she comes to you who dwell In the
light with a message of brotherhood."
In opening, Miss Keller said: "I am glad
to stand . here before you in love and
fellowship."

"Bostbn^ , "yVla^S^jj^ Q^iohe^,

Miss Jrieien Keller gave the fourth in
the series of IgotwwwiwiMifWiged for the
Fall and Winter seasons by the Haver- '
hill Federation of Teachers, in the
'»^'«»i'>«*h*U^ High School Hall last eve-
ning, whfen she spoke on "The Heart
and the Hand, or The Right Use of the j
Senses" to an audience of 900 peoole. [

Louis .yelli^'^a^i'krrealed yemerday '
afternoop by ©dtWoiman tf orcesty oA a
warrffcn^ charging larcen^ Velliijbefrg
wanteyf y-i '
came
town.

^IBifliil ^

lat sffeTs

Kellar is quoted as saying
^a't~SlT5Hg a militant suffragette. If
(t(fere had been any lingering doubt as'

to Miss Kellar's blindness, this an-

louncement would dispel it.

"UHE LIBRARIAN

AND BOOK WORLD.

THE INDEPENDENT PROFESSIONAL JOURNAL.

Published for the Proprietor hy EDITORIAL ADDRESS :

rANLEY PAUL & Co.,

31. ESSEX STREET. 3, DARNLEY TERRACE,

STRAND, W.C.
Agents for the United States : 0 VEKtLlr T E,

G. E. STECHERT & CO., fP AA^TrQPATT^

EST 25TH STREET. NEW YORK. liKA VliOlSJXLF.

'oL. IV. No. 5. December, 1913

I.I

)UT OF THE Dark. By Helen Keller. Hodder 5/-. 1913. Crown 8vo.
P. X., p. 284. Binding : red cloth, not fast colour, two tapes. Paper :
white, somewhat soft.

Miss Helen Keller, it will be remembered by our readers, in included,

nfortunately, in that somewhat large section, the blind. The problem of

le bhnd is a difficult one, and one of the knottiest points in it is being

ickled by librarians and curators in this country with considerable hope.

'iss Keller, one might say, has solved the problem for herself. This would

3 something noteworthy, if that were all, but Miss Keller is deaf and

amb as well. When this is taken into consideration, her work becomes

ttle less than marvellous. We do not know if it has been, or is proposed

be, pubhshed in Braille, but we think it would be of very great interest

others who are bhnd, to learn what one of their number has done. This

)ok, although to some extent personal, deals in a large spirit with questions

the day. " How I became a Socialist " opens the book : the subjects

aversed include the " modern woman," Suffragism, etc., but a little less

:an half way through the book the questions of paramount importance

the WTiter appear, such as the "Conservation of Eyesight," "Training

a Blind Child," " Education of the Deaf," and " The Gift of Speech,"

subjects on which the author can write with more than passing knowledge

id feeling.

TU^n^ Vo-m. H.. t{,, Qlob^.

I ^Xomrade'^ Helen Keller.

* ;^tor of The Globe, Sir-!We are all
pr^ulo^ Comrade Helen Keller.
J5"h<<Ts a wonderful girl and a rare

'The struggle she Has made since
childhood to come into possession of
herself, under the most trying conceiv-
able circumstances, and in the face of
obstacles that would have thwarted
and dishearteiied any one else, is al-
most miraculous. Steadily, in spite of
all she had to overcome, she has been
struggling toward the light, and that
she is now in the Socialist movement
and an active and enthusiastic support-
er of Its principles is not difficult to
understand when the character and rare
virtues of this magnificent young wom-
an are taken into account.

Helen Keller was attracted to Social-
ism just as the tendrils of a plant, in
darkness are attracted to the sunlight. ' -
TfF*TTie hour of her triumph, when sd
many acclaim her in the mcst flattering
terms, she is as siniple and unpreten-
tious as a child.

She sympathizes with all who sit in
darknes.s. but she has no notion of al-
lowing herself to be patronfzed or to be
[lifted above the struggle of her fellowr.
'beings to a life of selfish ease.

Only recently Andrew C^arnegie pro-
posed to provide Miss Keller with an
income of $5, <)(!() a year for life.

The offer was respectfully declined.
The reasons given by our good com-
rade for declining the rich man's pen-
sion are even more to be commended
than the ace itself.

Ijiston: "i feel that T am able now

to provide for myself and T want to

make my own little nlaoe in the world.

I do not want to feel depo/ident on any

one. I want to give baclg; to the world

ante service for all that it has don© for

le, and to feel that it is my own eojxtpi-

ution."

The character of Helen Keller is here
evealed by hei'self as it could not be
1 any possible pen picture that might
e drawn of her.

MAX WOLFELD.
, Brooklyn, Dec. 1.

birc J K^li/Tv. VU, M'? C>'^u7L€^-A^

jU eo^->'>^ i^ ■e--^ I'm 1^13'

Will Address Institute at
Academy of Music.

"USE GF GUR SENSES" iS

SUBJECT OF D1'=C0URSE

Famous Woman, Mnte for Years,
Will Tcli of Her Rebirth Into

World of Color, Sight and Sound.

Helen Keller and her teacher, Mrs.
John Ma -y, ere "^to appear , again in
Brooklyn in an evening of joint atl-
dl'e.ssesr The subject will be "The
Heart and the Hand, or the Right Use
Oi Our Senses." They will speak on
Saturday cf this^ v/eek, in the music
h*ll, Academy cf Music, at 3 p. m. and
at' 8 : 15 in the evening, under the aus-
pices of the Brooklyn institifce.

The charm of Helen Kell^- lies not
so much in what she doe.s as in the,
manner of doing it. When speaking in!
public she seems to look at her audi-j
efice with her sightless eyes and to
heard their sighs ol wonder and ad-
miration as she tells them her story of
rebirth into a world of form and color,
of sight and sound..

Her words come slowly as if care-
fully weighed, but hot haltingly as if
with great effort. She is so thoroughly
en rapport with all that is going on in
the world about her, she kesps so well;
posted on the latest news, that it is noi
mere hackneyed speech that is given to]
the listeners,, but a stirring account fur-
nished and enlivened with the happen-
ings of the day. Miss Keller Ja«aaj

very much alive — always so eager for^
news of all that is doing in the busy
•world about her, she is never satisfied
with yesterday's recital, but adds to
it and makes to-day's as new and fresh
as if it was an entirely different matter
from that of yesterday. ,.

In conversation she shows the same
ability to entertain. She, is so much at
home with the news from the Balkans
and talks as intelligently about the
cause that led m^ to the assassination
of the late King George of Greece, as
she dees about the squirrels in the
I yards about her home in Massachusetts,
or the different kinds of mushroom.s
that she is able to distinguish by the
sense of smell and touch.

Her sense of humor is as much in

evidence as that of p;:oportion — her

visitors are not so amazed as they are

amused and entertained. They seem

for the moment ^to be conversing with

a young woman as well blessed with

'acuities of speech, hearing and sight

is themselves, and equally able tci

arry on the burden of the conversaf

ion. .Jr

GIBiS HEAR HELEN KELLER,

A^^ut 750 girls, between six and six-
teen, heard Miss Helen Keller tell of
some of her struggles in learning to read,
write and speak, yesterday afternoon m
the auditorium of Public School No. 177,
at Market and Moni^ie streets.

Several of the girls" told Miss Keller
something of their lives. TTiey would
speak very slowly, and she would keep
her fingers on their lips and repeat
everything after them.

Little Marion Binion of Class E6B
presented both Miss Keller and Mrs
Anna Macy, her teacher, with large
bouquets of American Beauty roses.

Miss Keller yeeterday visited Dr. Maria
Montessori, the Italian teacher of chil-
dren, at the Hollanci House. Dr. Mon-
tessori embraced Miss Keller and kissed
ker twice on meeting her.

Ecs-U^x^, i^Uss., kp.-v^Ai..i.

Jjec€.vy^be.v f D .. 1^12).

MONTESSORI AND

HELEHMELU»

Meeting Between Italian Discoverer of
Educational Principles and Product of I
Similar Ideas Applied by an American
Teacher.

(By The Herald's .Special Correspondent.)

NEW YORK. Dec. 9— Dr. Maria
Montessori met for the first time today
Miss Helen Keller and her teacher, Mrs.
John Macy (Anne Sullivan). The meet-
ing is significant in the history of educa-
tion, for as tne foUojving summary of
their conversation makes evident, their
work is closely akin. They feared at
first that owing to their lecture engage-
ments they might miss seeing each other,
ybut their paths crossed in New York
this morning and an.^hour was arranged
for at the Holland House. Mi§s Anne E.
George, translator of "The Montessori
Method" and head of the Montessori
school in Washington, was present and
acted as interpreter. Dr. Montessori' s
words required a double interpretation.
Aiiss George translated them into spoken
English and Mrs. Macy spelled them in
the manual alphabet into Miss Keller's
hand.

Dr. Montessori embraced Mrs. Macy
and Miss Keller and there was a con-
fused greeting in Italian and English.

"Say to 'Tier," said the Dottoressa, to
^iss George, "that I am too much move 1
to express what I feel." i

Miss Keller stood with b^r hands c
Dr. Montessori*s shoulders. Then sb
said distinctly : "Blessed ai'e the feet o .
her who conges across the sea with a
message of liberty to the children of
AiTierica."

\ "How clearly she speaks, and her face
is lighted with her soul."

"I am glad," said Miss Keller, "that :
your lecture last night was so success-
ful; they say the hall was crowded."

"Not all the thousands," replied Dr.
Montessori, "mean one-tenth as much
to me as this meeting"."

"I myself am a product of the Mon-
jtessori method," and her hand sought
the lips of Mrs. Macy who smiled and
! nodded emphatically.

"Does she know," asked Dr. Montes-
sori, "that I have -N/ritten a dedication
Ito her for my new book?"
! "She knows that you have dedicated
Ithe book to her, but she does not know
[What you have written."
I "I have said that I have learned from
you as pupil learns from master."

"But," replied Miss Keller quickly,
turning to Mrs. Macy, "you should have
said that of her."

"Of both, for you are one. She ia
the creator of a soul, but j'^ou had the
soul to be created." Then she mur-
mured to Miss George and Miss George
translated: "She is using an Italian
word which cannot be rendered in Eng-
lish. It is a combination of precious
and tender."

"I have followed your career for
years. Professor Ferreri told me much
about you. Do you remember him?"
Iprofessor Ferreri is an Italian teacher
of the deaf who some years ago read
a few stanzas of Dante with Miss Kel-
ler.

Miss Keller's face lighted. "Oh, yes, I
remember him."

"Can you remember any of |he Italian
words he taught you?" Miss Keller
threw her head back and her face took
on its curious perplexed and searching
look. Then she shook her head.

"No. What is the word for 'you'?"

"Lei."

"Well, then—Lei amo."

"Dottoressa," asked Miss George,
"don't you want to tell her something
about the children in the house of child-
hood?"

"Tell her this," answered Dr. Mon-
tessori, "that my children understand
her, they know the triumph of the soul
•over difficulties. But the children of
Ithe future, the men of the future, will
[understand her even better than men
do now, for they will be liberated and

will know how the spirit can prevail
over the senses."

'Ifou," said Miss Keller, "are fighting
for the freedom of children. We are
lighting for the freedom of the parents,
for the industrial revolution."

"But it is all one," said the Dot-
ftoressa. "The complete revolution is
^external and internal, too."
I "How wide and far-reaching and
inany sided," exclaimed Miss Keller, "is
ithe Montessorl system!"
\f "I began," explained Dr. Montesorri,
"as a sympathizer with political revolu-
tionists of all kinds. Then I came to
feel that it is the liberation of this,
jv^hat we have in our hearts, that is the
Ijeginning and end of revolution."
I "But, surely," said Miss Keller, "we
bever can have the Montessorl system
©r any other good system of education so
pit>ng as the conditions of the home, of
the parents, of the workers, are so in-
tolerable."

'. "Certainly, certainly,, that is true.
jBut we must educate children so that
|biey will know how to free themselves
knd others from bondage. And the first
khing is to bring our chil(TJ-en under the
care of worthy teachers. You and Mrs.
Macy symbolize such education, the ed-
ucation of the future, the development
of a soul by the union of an inspiring
teacher and the child whose soul has
grown freely with such stimuli as it
needs and without the stimuli that de-
base and hinder growth."

"When you think of the appalling con-
ditions," said Miss Keller, "under which
people live, it sometimes seems a
miracle that the children grow up at
all to intelligence and decency."

There was a moment's pause, during
which every one seemed to be thinking
of the enormous mountains to be moved.
Then Montessorl said; "The Queen Mar-
gherita is much interested in you."
^ "I have heard that she is a sweet and
tioble woman."

"Indeed she is."

"And they tell me the King, too, is a
good man. All the same we must get
rid of all kings."

The Dottoressa nodded, and Mrs.
Macy laughed. "You see,'* she said.

"Helen is an uncompromising revolution-
ist. She won't allow even a good king,
though I suppose we should be grateful
for a good one once In a ■rt'hile."

"Because of you the world has a
greater sense than ever of the pos-_
slt)ilities of the soul."

Miss Keller pressed the Italian wom-
an's hand, and said simply: "Blindness
and deafness have their compensations
if there is some one to help. I cannot
begin to tell you what my teacher's com-
ing meant to me. She was almost blind
herself. She came to tea^ch me amid
strange surroundings. Her eyes did not
permit her to read. She knew almost
nothing of educational theory and psy-
fchology, but taught me, as we say, out
of her own head."

Dr. Montessori was studying Miss Kel-
ler's face. "In spite of all you say, Mrs.
Macj% all your explanations of how she
was taught, I do not see how her spirit
has such vision. She seems like a spe-«
cial revelation of Godt" i

"Every child," said Miss Keller, "can-
be a special revelation of God, if he is
taught properly and is allowed to live
under right conditions."

"Helen," said Mrs. Macy, "was a rev-
olutionist before I was. Two or three
years before I cared for them, she had
all these ideas. You see, I could have
moulded her in my own likeness, I
could have made her a copy of myself.
But I left her free to think."

"That is it. Liberty to think."

"Did it ever occur to you. Dr. Montes-
isori," asked Mrs. Macy, "that the same
'ideas spring up in many parts of the
world at about the same time? I did not
Iknow of your work nor you of mine.
What is it? Is it the spirit of the age
manifest here and there in one and an-
other individual?"

"It is all in what we want," said Miss
Keller, "We ought to want more, for
w'hat we want we get, if we want it
hard enough. For example, women want
the vote, men want better conditions of
labor and children want more freedom.
And remember, what we really want we
get."

1 "You will come to see our schools in
JRome some time?"

"Oui. je ferai cela avec grand plaisir,'%

replied Miss Keller.

"Oh, she is speaking French."
"Yes, I speak it a little, not very well."
"But you are tired," said Mrs. Macy.
"No, no, only too much moved to say
all I would. I have known of you for
years. This summer, when >I came closer
to you through Mr. Macy, I felt it a
great privilege, and when you sent me
your picture it was one of the happiest
moments of my life. And now I meet
you. I am sorry that you had to come
to this hotel to see me. When I first
came to America I felt that I must rush
to you to render homage."

"I hope," said Miss Keller, "that the
next time I see you I shall be able to
speak with you in Italian— at Rome."

Lu^vuvi^, iTjjLSS., VteuJS-

FhELEN KELLER, Remarkable BHmi and Deaf Mute

)Wl\

I WAS blind; now I see. I was deaf; now I hear. I was dumb; now
speak. The hands of others wrought this miracle in me.

I am glad to think of what the blind can do, because their brave
accomplishments prove, absolutely prove, what people with five senses,
can do.

They show what good servants the brain and the senses can be when
they WORK TOGETHEE. You who see raise your eyes and behold
the sun and moon, the earth, the ocean and the faces of men. j

We who are blind stretch out our hands and know all the softness ofj
growing things, all the sweet ways of children, all the endearments ofj
human affection. But the senses alone are not enough. It is only when^
they are united with IMAGINATION AND THOUGHT and feeling
that they acquire their full value.

THOSE WHO ARE BLIND KNOW HOW TO BE BLIND. THEY
MUST ALSO LEARN HOW TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE SEE-
ING SO THAT EVERY BLIND CHILD MAY BE TAUGHT, EVERY
BLIND MAN AND WOMAN HELPED. WE CAN. WE MUST UNITE
SO THAT MUCH OF THE BLINDNESS ii^JTH^S^WiUlLa^aaALJL AB*
ENDED FOREVER,,^

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FOUR TALKED FOR TWO

Heldtai Keller and Signora Mon-
^ t€(Ssori Needed Help.

It iNwiiiired four- persons to carry on a
conversation between Signora Montessori
and Helerj^JECeller yesterday afternoon.
The Italian educator speaks no English,
and Miss Keller, of course, is absolutely
dependent upon the ears of Mrs. John
Macy, her teacher.

The process of conversation was as fol-
lows: Mme. Montessori spoke in Italian.
Miss Annie E. George interpreted her
words into English for Mrs. Macy, who
in her turn, passed them on to Miss
Keller by means of the sign language.

The meeting took place at the Hotel
Holland. Signora Montessori took the
blind girl in her arms and gave her a
motherly hug. Then she took her toy the
hand and led her to a seat in the parlor,
where she sat by her side for an hour.

"Miss Keller," she said, through Miss
George and Mrs. Macy, "I regard you
and your advancement as a living symbol
of the fact that the soul of man, if set
free, can reach unbelievable heights.
Taken with Mrs. Macy, you embody the
most perfect ' example of what such
methods as those by which you were
taught, may accomplish."

The blind girl replied that she knew a
gredt deal of Dr. Montessori's method,
and said that she herself was on the
revolutionary side in the field of educa-
tion, that the spontaneity of the child and
the giving of liberty to the child in the
formative years of its schooling must be-
come fundamental principles of educa-
tion. Miss Keller said she realized that
she herself was taught by methods sim-
ilar to those which Dr. Montessori ap-
plies. ^

HELEN KELLER TO SPEAK 1

AT AUDITORIUM SOOW!

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kWoiW^rful Young Woman,,
^Born Deaf, Ddnnbjand Blia^i
to Deliver Address

Atlanta's first and only opportunity to
hear Helen Keller is to be given on the
evening o:^, D/ecember 2,0 in the main
hall of the auditorium-armory, when she
will lecture here under the auspices of
the Atlanta chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy.

Miss Keller will soon retire from the!
lecture platform and public life to de- 1
A'Qte her talents to literary production.
This is the line of endeavor appealing
tQ her most, as she has a certain
amount of shrinking from public ap-
pearance.

Jt was a fortunate circumstance which
bi'ought Miss Keller to Atlanta, her
first appearance in Georgia; She was
prevailed on only after earnest solicita-
tion on the part of Mrs. C. Helen Paine,
founder of the Atlanta chapter, U. D. C,
and Mrs. Williams McCarthy, now pres-
ident of the organization.

Only those who have had the rare
privilege of hearing the story of Helen
Keller's life from her own lips can ap-
preciate just what a remarkable achieve-
ment it has been. Born deaf, dumb and
blind, through the patient and devoted
work of her teacher this veil of dark-
ness has been lifted until Miss Keller
Is Without d.oubt one of the most intiel-
lectual personalities in the world today, |

Tlevo ^o-r^, ri.V{., H^'r^i.l(L■

( U Renowned Women Meet.

Tf^en Keller called on Dr. Maria Mon-
tessorl, Italian educator, -at tbe Holland
House yesterday: Dr. Montessori met
Miss Keller and her teacher, Mrs. John

pS.a,cy, at the elevator, and affectionately
embraced and killed Miss Keller. She
then led her to the parlor, where they con-'

'versed for more than an liour. When Dr. j
Montessori talked Miss Anne E. GeorgeJ
interpreted the Italian sentences and Mrs.j
Macy conveyed them by means of the sig-

.nal language to Miss Keller,

ntLLN MLLtK blVtii

BIE IIODIEMCE THUILL

Blind^ Xlcaf nn4 ' Dtimb Woman
Convulses Hearers with Unex-
^cted Humor.

MAY COME AGAIN SOON

So successful was the lecture of Helen
Keller, the deaf, blind and erstwhile dumb
girl, who spoke last night in Witlierapooxi
Hall 'before an audience which taxed the
capacity of that spacious auditorium, that
the University Extension Society, under
whose auspices Miss Keller appeared, will
endeavor to have her lecture here again in
the near future.

Despite her physical handicaps Miss
Keller is a thorough humorist. At the con-
clusion of her lecture, a woman asked if
she played any musical instruments. The
question was translated to Miss Keller
with the lip motion by her preceptor, Mrs.
Albert Macy, and the audience grasped
when the speaker- replied "Yes," but
roared with laughter when she added: "I
can play the hand organ."

While Miss Keller spoke apparently with
some effort, yet she disclaimed any feeling
of weariness. "You know a woman is
never tired of talking," she said in reply
to a question.

After teacher and pupil had told their
stories, Mrs, Macy requested the audi-
ence to ask Miss Keller some questions.
Someone wanted to know if she under-
stood that her speech had been applauded.
Mrs. Macy placed her pupil's fingers on
her lips and transmitted the question.

"Oh, yes, and I am glad," Miss Keller
answered.

"How do you feel the applause?" Mrs.
Macy continued. "With my feet," said
Miss Keller.

Another questioner wanted to know if
she enjoyed any athletics while in col-
lege. "Yes, swimming and riding on a
tandem," said Miss Keller. "And I enjoy
football, too."

"Can vou speak any foreign language?"
asked another. "Yes, I can speak Ger-
man," she replied, "Yes, and French,
too," Mrs. Macy reminded her. "Oh, but
m- French is abominable," the girl re-
plied.

Mathematics, she said, was "a system
of pitfalls." She said she couldn't dis-
tinguish colors, 'but I can feel blue " she.
added, "all the shades from baby blue^
indiero." "'"'^^

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HELEN KELLER, UPS
HNSEALED, CHARMS

Wonder-Woman Stirs All with

Quick Wit and Story of
W Her Life.

^^^^"^ t^ellen M>i\'j^morist, philosopher,
SociaTi'S'i',' suT?ragist — Helen Keller, the
marvel of the age— spoke last night at
Witherspoon Hall. Every seat was oc-
cupied "and half a hundred , chairs cov-
ered all the space on the stage, except
that needed for the speaker and her
teacher, Mrs. Macj', for the purposes
of the lecture. Several hundred per-
sons were turned away. Sixty or more
men and women haunted the Walnut]
Street box office until 8.40 o'clock, hoping
that some unused tickets would be
placed on sale. When the house was
canvassed at that time, only two tick-
ets for unoccupied seats could be found.]

Hundreds in the packed house had'
heard Helen Keller speak before. To
them, however, the living miracle, who
lectured before them on "The Heart
and the Hand, or the Right Use of Our
Senses," appeared no less one of won-
ders of the world than she did to tliope
who, for the first lime, heard wor^""^
coming from the unsealed lips of tl
deaf and blilid woman who once hi
been dumb. !

Woman Never Tires of Speech.

Humorist she is.

"Does it tire you to speak?' asked
woman in the audience. The seemiii
struggle which the wonder woman mad
to form the words which . rang ot
metallically— weirdly, almost gruesome
ly — had prompted the question. It wal
repeated by Mrs. Macy, while Miss Kel
ler held her ungloved left hand ove
her teacher's mouth.

"No, it does not tire me," she said.
Then her audience forgot for a mo'
ment the Instinctive pity which Alls
the breasts of those whose good for
tune it is to witness her public up

' pearances, as Misy Keller shook witl
laughter, almost uncontrollable. "Don'i
you know,", she said between he'
struggles for control, "that a womai
never tires of talking?"

Again she allowed her penchant foi
the humorous to take command. .^

"Can you play any musical instrU'
ment?" asked a man.

"Yes," said Miss Keller, as the audi
ence gasped in wonder at a hithert
unknown accomplishment of the blin
and deaf girl. "I can play the han
organ." The roar of laughter whic
followed this had no more hearty par
ticipant than the perpetrator of th
joke herself.

"Do you ever become angry?" aske
a woman.

"Angry?" repeated the blind worn
an. "Indeed 1 do. Sometimes I becom
as mad as a March hare."

A Lover of Athletics.

"Are you able to indulge in atl
letics?" queried another.

"Yes, indeed," she replied, "I lo^
to swim and to ride a tandem bicycle.
After a pause, her face broke into
broad smile, and she added, "and
like to play football, too."

That she to whom the sense of lieai
ing and sight have been denied an
to wliom the gift of speech— strainet
slow, at times almost unintelligible-
had come only after a twenty-year ba
tie against hopeless odds, has a sens
of humor is enough to label her philos
ophy as solid. "Though my misfoi
tunes are great," she said last nighi
"I find so much in life that is beauti
ful— so much that is good — that I coult
not be otherwise than happy."

Mrs. Macy, in reciting the history o
the long hegira from darkness to light
on which she had led the mind of he
pupil, had characterized the four yearj
at Radcliffe, where Miss Keller o^
tained her degree of bachelor of arts
as the least happy of her pupil's lif^
She also )iad characterized them as th<
least advantageous to her education
but said that they were worth whili
because of the demonstration to th«
world of the possibilities of the humai
mind, bereft of the aid of all the sense
except that of touch.

Truth Above All.

"Was your life at Radcliffe happy?',
asked a^ member of the audience, ex-
pecting a repetition of the teacher'!
views. i

"Yes," said Miss Keller— and theij
with a wistful smile illumining h^
features she said— "in some ways.|
There was a v^'orld of meaning in thi
pause, her two hands clasped looselj
'in front of her, in the smile. It al
revealed a heart that shuddered at th.
[thought of offending, yet which place*
Itruth above all else.

Thoiigli her lecture held her audiend
in rapt attention for a quarter ol; aj
hovir, it was her quick replies i
the questions that proved of greatea
interest. The pain which .tugged at th!
heart strings of her listeners as she da
livered her set "address vanished whel
the volley of questions Avhicli follov^rej
were answered by salvos of wit am
sunny philosophy.

The seeming inability of Miss Keller ti
find in her articulation a vocal per:o(
""was forgotten a^ the audience joine<
'in her girlish merriment at her owi
jolijss. The seeming strain v/hich mark
• ed lier speech v.-as lost sight oi in th
flash of intelligence which illumined he
countenance as she caught, through ho
fingers, the repetitions of her teacher o
tlie questions of her audience.

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HELEN KELLER TELE
OF IDEAL SOCIALISM

Five Hundred Persons Unable

to Gain Admission to

Lecture Hall.

DESCRIBES HER HAPPINESS

Socialism, so idealized, so refined, that
only one word and that one word "Chris-
tianity," can express it, was Helen
Keller's message last night to an audi-
ence that crowded into Witherspoon Hall.
What Philadelphia's interest is in the
woman whose life "is the greatest indi-
vidual achievement in the history of
education" was demonstrated by the
turning: away of more than 500 persons
from her University Extension lecture.

Helen Keller, in no one of her public
"rr^'^inciiMi I V" ^-^"''--"^ more interest-
ing than she did last night. Her face
seemed to possess a new vivacity. And
to many, who have heard her many
times, it seemed that her voice bad lost

much of its one-time monotony and arti
flciality.

She stretched forth her gloved arms to
her audience. From those hands, as she
herself said, she poured out love and
fellowship. She was happy, very happy,
she said, and her happiness was because
"we live by and for each other."

"As I was blind, now I see!" she ex-
Icaaimed, "As I was deaf, now I hear.
As I was dumb, I speak. It was through
others — my parents — that I found my wa
Into life; it was through others that
found my mind, my soul, God! Life
glorious. Do you wonder I know it?"

All the happiness that was her's,
said, was her's only that she might p
it out to others. She spoke of devot
and loyalty. She told of the glories \f
sunlight and starlight, of the splendor ot
dawns and sunsets, of things in Nature
that she could not see or hear, and yet
sensed so completely.

"The world," she said, "is full of
miracles. Look for them and you will
find them."

Probably at no time since she has been
upon the lecture platform has so thorough
a test been made of Helen Keller's pow-
ers as was made in the questions of the
audience and conveyed to her by her
fingertips placed upon the lips of her
[ teacher, Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy.
! "Can you feel the applause?" she was
asked. "Yes," was her answer. "AnA
how?" "By my feet." .

I Was she interested in athletics? She
was, indeed. She was interested tre-
mendously in swimming and in "riding
tandem." Could she speak any foreign
language. Yes, German. French? She
shook her head in the negative and
I smiled.

"I am very young yet," she said. She
spoke a few words in German.

"Have you any perception of color?"
she was asked. Quick as a flash came
back an answer, carrying with it a sharp
distinction.

"I have no perception," she said. "I
have some idea. I gather that idea from
the poets. I can feel, for example, all
shades of blue, from baby blue to in-
[digo."

Music, in reply to a question, she said,
"I feel with my whole body, sensing the
vibrations."

i Did she like mathematics? Decidedly
not. It was a "system of pit^^ls."

Economics, she said, made ^4, suffragist

of her, and a Socialist, too. She became

a Socialist, she explained, "by thinking,"

Some one asked her if it was tiresome

[for her to speak.

"No," she smiled. "A woman's never
tired talking!" Her audience was con-
vulsed with laughter.

Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy spoke at'
length about her pupil before Helen Kel-
ler ap^peared. She sketched, vividly, but
rapidly, her experiences with Helen Kel-
ler since the day, 27 years ago this com-
ing March, when she first saw her in her
Alabama home. There were many anec-
dotes, one of them Helen's telling Dr.
Edward Everett Hale, "Hush with your
feet. Nancy (her doU) is very sick"; and
"Man has so many forgets."

Mrs. Macy told- of Helen's apologizing
to a setter dog for stepping on its tail
by spelling her apologies upon its paws.

"There is only one effective education,
self-education," she said; "only one effec-
tive discipline, self-discipline."

She introduced Heien Keller as "a wo-
man who cannot see, yet sees deep into
things; who cannot hear, but barkens to
the deepest melodies; who comes, out of
darkness and silence, with a message of
brotherhood."

TkVleugle^ljjk'icu , Pa.., Bi^ll^tl

HELEN KELLAl! A SUFFRAGIST

Also an Adyocate of Christian Social,
isjn, Jfehe Says in Address

Helen ^Kojpar, the American " girl whom
patient education has turned into a poet
and philosopher, though ' she is de^
blind and normally dumb, addresse
big au'(l'lenlc'e ftr''''-W'H?ii«iwp«oi* '-JfeTT" T^st
night, and said she was a Socialist and
a suffragist. Miss Kellar's enunciation
is artificial but easily intelligible.

At the close of her address, Miss Kel-
lar said "thinking" had made her an
advocate of Christian Socialism and of
equal suffrage. A woman in the gallery
asked if her talk had made her tired.

"A woman is never tired of talking,"^
replied Ihe blind girl with a quick smi
while the house applauded.

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issert a

lejy

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"O^ci

HAVE HKLKX KKLJjAR.

l^'omjMi'M Club Voted Down Pi'oposii-
tfciy^f Cettins Her to Talk.

At a business ineeting- of the New
Bedford Woman's club, held yester-
day afternoon, a proposition from INlrs.
Ada W. Tillinghast, that Miss Helen
Keller be secured to give a talk un-
der the club's r.uspices, the proceeds.
to be devoted to the clubhouse fund,
Avas considered.

After some discussion, in which the
fact that Miss Keller charges $2 50,
and tiiere might be difficulty in secur-
ing- a Iiall sufficiently large to make
the undertaking profitable, was con-
sidered ; and it was also recalled that
on a previous occasion. Miss Keller
failed to appear when scheduled, the
j^roposition was voted down

Mrs. Whif^" reported for ihe club-
house committee that $2 7 had been
jealize*"! on one bridge luncheon, and
pbout $50 on a ^Sile. Slie stated also
that a member of the club who is
< ver iO years of age, had earned
Ji>10 for the fund by making inince-
meat and aprons, which . the chair-
man ihought should be -an inspira-
tion to other members to do some-
thing in behalf .( f the fund. The presi-
dent. Miss Potter, also urged the
members to give their efforts toward
X)xe securing of a clubhouse.

Mrs. Edwin H. King, chairman of
the committee en work for the blind,
jeported that there had been some
trouble in obtaining guides for the |
blind people who desire to attend the j
Wednesday afternoon readings in the
library, and said that if any mem- j
bers act in that capacity or donate
an automobile for an hour or two,
she hoped they would send their
jiames to the committee. An appro-
jriation of $5 0 was voted to the com-
mittee.

Mrs. King aloo expressed the hope
that additional gifts of tickets for
good concerts would be made, for the
benefit of the blind people.

The report of the conservation com-
mittee stated that the effect of the
setting apart of Sconticut Neck as a
game preserve is already becoming
noticeable in the tameness of the quail
,.who show no fear of man.

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WOMAN'S CLUBHOUSE
FUND DISrT

iTO a

The New Bedford Wonmn's clilC at
a business meeting held '^westerday
afternoon, heard and consiBered a
proposition from Mrs. Ada W. Til-
linghast, that Miss Helen Keller be
secured to give a talk under the club's
auspices, the proceeds to be devoted
to the clubhouse fund.

After some discussion, in which the
fact that Miss Keller charges $250,
and there might be difficulty in secur-
ing a hall sufficiently large to make
the undertaking profitable, was con-
sidered; and it wag also recalled that
on a previous occasion, Miss Keller
failed to appear when scheduled, the
proposition was voted down.

Mrs. White reported for the club-
house committee that $27 had been
realized on one bridge luncheon, and
about $50 on a sale. She stated also
that a member of the club who is
over 70 years of age, had earned
$10 for the fund by making mince-
meat and api'ons, which the chair-
man thought should be an inspira-
tion to other members to do some-
thing in behalf of the fund. The
president, Miss Potter, also urged the
members to give their efforts toward
the securing of a clubhouse.

Mrs. Edwin R. King, chairman of
the committee on work for the blind,
reported that there had been some
trouble in obtaining guides for the
blind people who desire to attend the
Wednesday afternoon readings in the
library, and said that if any mem-
bers act in the capacity or donate
an automobile for an hour or two,
she hoped they would send their
names to the committee. An appro-
priation of $50 was voted to the com-
mittee.

Mrs. King also expressed the hope
that addition gifts of tickets^^or
good concerts would be made, tdTihe
benefit of the .blind people.

The repori or Ihe conservation com-
mittee stated that the effect of the
setting apart of Sconticut Neck as a
game preserve is already becoming
noticeable in the tameness of the i
quail which show no fear of man. i

TO TNVTTK HKT.EN KEt

Blind Girr Will Fi(>l>ably Come to
TliU City ill May.

Helen K«rl)er, the lllind, deal', and
until a fev;' nionth.9 ag'o, dumb girl-,
will probably com.-; to New Bedford,,
notwithstanding the fact that the Ne'V

]3edford Woman's club Wednesday
afternoon voted d«:'Wn a proposition to:
bring her here f(,'r a lecture.

A special coinmiltee from the North
Congregaticnal church Sunday school
has considered the matter of. bringin.g:.
Helen Keller and her teacher, Mr;
Macy, to New Bediord. to speak in th
auditorium of the North Christia
chnarch, and although a definite dat
has not yet been decided upon, it i
probable triat Miss Keller will come
during the second week in May.

The proposition of bringing Hele
Keller to New Bedford has been con
sidered not only by the Woman's club,
but also by an organization at th
Trinitarian church, and in both caspsij
it was givon up because no hall waaj
at th'te disposal i^f those interest?
which would hold the large audience
\A'hich will undotTbtedly wish to see
Miss Keller. The auditorium of the
Whi,te church, no\vever, seating 1500
people, wiil be an ideal room for th?
talk, and although the total cost o
the undertaking wculd be over $25
there, will be little risk in bringing
Miss Keller here, l-ecause of the gen-
eral intere.^'t in her unique charac-jil
ter. 1

Jf there rre any profits from Miss
Keller's apviearan-e at the White
church, Ihf^'y will be put into the treas-
ury of the Sunday school orchestra.
The admiss-on will probably be *set at
the low price of 50 cents; however,
that the appearance of Miss Keller
may be an edura'Jpnal event for the
city and net a remunerative scheme.

The committee which will have
Helen Keller's lecture in charge con-«
sists of M".*:.? Lydia M. Chace, Mi-iJ
Gertrude Perkins. Miss Maud Staff or :l|
Ku5-'sell Hivpl and Rulpb Pp>tp.rs . ^^

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TlEl,£JDLX£LiER SURE TO DRAW Tf
LARGE AUDIENCE TO LECTURE

Advance Sale of Tickets
Shows Many Atlantians Are
Anxious to Hear Rennark-;
able Wonnan

As the time approaches foi' the ap-
pearance of Miss Helen Keller, in At-
lanta, public interest is perceptibly in-
(creasing. Many Atlantians have heard
lathis remarkable woman at other points
^and they are her most gracious ad-
mirers, for all agree that to miss such
mn event is to miss the most impres-,
sive affair one could attend.

The advance sale of tickets at Cable'
hall indicate a crowded hall at the au-'
ditorium-armory on the evening of De-
cember 20. It should be remembered
that this is not only the first appear-
ance of Miss Keller in Atlanta or Geor-
gia, but it will probably prove the last
opportunity to hear her, since she is
shortly to retire from the lecture plat-
form to devote her entire time to writ-
ing, at which she has won fame.

Not only society people of Atlanta,
but those generally interested in re-
markable human achievement under al-
most incredible handicap and difficul-
ties, will attend. ;

It is said that when she is speakingj
the observer would hardly know that
Miss Keller was totally blind and deaf,
Bo expressive, so eager, so interested!
and Interesting she appears. Only a
certain sweet wistfulness, as if she is
searching for the best words and lan-
guage in which to clothe the thoughts
she wishes to convey, reveals her phys-
cial infirmities.

Wherever she has appeared, and she
has lectured in all the gerat cities of the
country. Miss Keller has been greeted
by large audiences, keenly sympathetic
and deeply interested. Her Atlanta visit
iShould be made memorable by the large
audience greeting her. i

T)^c€.-y-v^be-r- '3. i '^ I 3

MISS HELEN KELJ^ER
The wonderful Wind^ d^f and ^loi-
merly mute igiiJi|*'>"il»WSSp<^^ here

last week astonished all those who
heard her.

ULJ: L a^ vutTgU , C^A-^. G^g^QiT'g ua>--v%^ .

"'if'^i^ ' appearance of «,Heleir Keller

I next Saturday iimT^* rtiililiti^

■ ' under the auspices of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy will be at-
tended with many interesting features.
It has been planned that every Daugh-
ter of the Confederacy be present to
meet Miss Keller at a reception, to be
held in the parlors of the Ansley Hotel,
provided Miss Keller arrives in the city
in time tp permit.

Miss Ketlei;»wiil make this, her first
and last pu^^ appearance on the lec-
ture platfort^pn Atlanta, havmg de-
cided to retire after her final engage-
ment in May. . ^. , ^
Another pleasmg mnovation planned
for the occasion will be the crowning
of Miss Keller as "The Daughter of
the South," which 'idea originated with
Mrs Helen Planev who is 're sponsible
for the appearance of Miss Keller in
Atlanta. Mrs. Plane proposes to have

Miss Keller croifned' with: Southern
flowers, and has invited Miss Mildred
Rutherford, historian of the Georgia
I^ivision of the Daughters of- the Con-
federacy, to make the speech appro-
priSite for the occasion.

It will be remembered that Helen
Keller is a Southern woman, having
been born In Alaban^a, , where she is
going to spend her Christmas holidays.

In a recent report from Knoxville,
where Helen Keller an/i her teacher,
Mrs. Macey, appealed. It is stated that
so great was the rush for seats to hear
this wonderful woman that two enter-
tainments had to be given that day,
instead of one, and at each performance
there was scarcely standing room.

Already a number of boxes have been
engaged at the Auditorium for the per- '
formance, Mrs. Williams McCarthy '
president of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, and Forrest Adair be-
ing among those planning parties. Gov-
ernor J. M. Slaton has been asked to
present Mrs. Macey and Miss Keller on
the evening of her appearance here.

How HpIpti fypHpr ''Saw^'^W at field ~1
In His Play, ''The Auctioneer'

Au absoiibing story appeared In The
New York Sun recently, telling how
Miss Helen Keller, who is to appear
here at tlie Auditorium-Armory on the
evening of December 20, under the
auspices and for the benetit of the At-
lanta chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, "saw" David Warfleld in
a performance of "The Auctioneer."

Anyone inclined to believe that this}
blind and deaf girl did not adtually
see and enjoy the performance would
be thoroughly convinced after reading
the story in The Sun. Of course, it was
possible only through the intercession
and remarkable, ability to' convey iin-
pressions of Miss Keller's teacher and
companion for twenty-six years, Mrs.
Macy.

The writer tells first how Miss Keller
sat in the foyer with Mrs. Macy and
a friend, Miss Moore, and enjoyed the
ajrrival of fashionable folk. She chatted

"in a lively manner over each .group of
arrivals, and seemed to know many
of the celebrities. Few noted the fact
that the handsomely gowned, sweet-
faced woman, apparently watching- the
scene with such vivacity, was afflicted

-in . aji-v_ jsr^av^ .

..Nothing- can reveal how Miss Keller
sav/ ' the performance better than to
quote from the article.

How Slie '<Saw" Them.

''"J-'^ie process by which Mrs. Macy
and Miss Moore communicated the de-
tails of what was going- on on the
stag-e was as •complicated as it was in-
terestinLsr. The m^ajor portion of the
laJbor, of course, fell upon Mrs. Macy.
She it was who deftly and swiftly com-
municated all the dialogue, tog-ether
with the attendant 'business,' provided
the latter did not become too much
involved. In wihich case. Miss Moore
icama to the rescue as a sort of aux-
iliary. In the latter part of the second
act, during- the hnlybub in the auction
room scene, there was an infinitude of
detail whidh it was imperative should
be -communicated with lightning- rapid-
ity.

"To this end, then, at these crises
there was enacted in that darkened
, 'box a drama such as would stagger
; the genius of Shakespeare himself even
to dream of. and in which David AVar-
field said later, no actress in the world,
however gifted she might be, would be
irreveren;. enough to dare to essay the
role of the heroine. There was now, if
one may so express it, a certain s'lent
conufsion in that particular box. There
were quick passages of delicate hands,
esetoric lightning--like movements of
fingrer tips and lips. From one to an-
other of her companions the girl with
the big- w^ide-open. blue eyes turned,
her face at times seemingly anguished
lest something- escape the eager con-
.scipusness of her very soul.

"That Helen Keller should respond
to the mc"/ing pathos of David War-
field's acting- is not so remarkable in
view of the fact she has of necessity a
highly ' spiritualized equipment for the
sensing of emotion, and that Warfield
is -pre-eminently a master in the artfj;
of transmuting- the spiritual into tan-
gible terms of drama. What is more
remarkable is the fact that deaf and
blind this girl should respond so in-
stantaneously to all the delicate in-
flections of Davir Warfield's comedy.

"Was Positively Uncanny.

"Of that highly specialized type of
comedy, -which he has made so specially
his own and with which his interpreta-
tion of Simon Levi is so richly over-
laid nothing was lost to Helen Keller,
who responded to every nuance thereof
with a promptness that was positively
•uncanny.

"It was in the Belasco green room,
after the play, however, that Miss
Keller displayed her greatest virtu-
osity. She had long wanted to meet
her favorite actor, she said, and when
at last he stood bov,''ing before her she
grasped his outstretched hand and in
her clear treble vo'ice said very dis-
tinctly:

" 'Oh, Mr. Wartield, this is certainly
shaking hands with a ghost. Ah, how
I did love you in "The Return of Peter
Grimm." 1 wish that I might see you
in that play once again. You don't
know, you cannot know, what Peter
Grimm meant to me, who have striven
all my life to hear and be heard out of.

Jthe darkness jvist as your spirit did
fwlien It came baelc to ea.rth.' "
i It is recited that during- their long
ttalk Mr. Warfield choiced with emotion

flora t^han once. -

^s Aiiss iveller left him, the grreat
ctor said: "She is greater . than Na-
poleon." ' ' •

Hnii

A NEW CHIME.

Lllngr to tbe Cbrlstmas of Mankind

[Hele^Jgjgilifcin the Metropolitan Magazine.]

Hear, oh, hear! The Christmas bejls
are ringing peal upon peal, chime upon
chime! Full and clear they rin;r, and the
air quivers with joy. What is llie 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
^re 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 ringing, and shall not cease
with the brief hours of one glad day.
Erery day, every year these men and
women plan, work and dream, and their
works are the heavenly message of the
sweet- to ngued bells!

Hear, or, hear the bells! For ages our
Christmas bells have rung their message
of peace upon earth and good 'vill 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 soundr
ed in ears sealed with ignorance. Too
often has their glad news passed unheed-
ed: "O children of men, your happiness
lies but your will away from you. Unite,
love, serve all, and ye sIiaQ grasp it."

Now, here and now, the bells and I will
be heard! Not once a year, but from
morning to morning v\'e will be heard sing-
ing exultant, sure of our message. Let the
sun pour its flood of light upon the land,
or let the whole skj^ be dark, we will send
our song up and down and all around^ ouiL
song of the great change. Too long have
men turned their faces from their task^
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 bring-
ing that life into their earthly days. Thq
great change ushers a true rehgion inW
the world, now and here — service for all
men equally, devotion of each to the good
of all alike.

Hear! To-day the bells and I call yea
to the Christmas of mankind. P'or it h&tt

begun, and we shall not falter nor turn
back until every nian and woman and.
child in this land and m every land has _aJ
chance to live happily and t^ develop his
mind and do the best of which he is capa-
ble. Generation after generation ha^
learned from its mothers' lips the story of
the birth of Christ, and slowly the wordsi
have borne flowers — and the fruit is the
great change. The great change Is th6
new faith, the new effort to secure for
every man his full share of the means, tlio
comforts, 'the health and knowledge, the
C^rtue. which humanize lifg _

HirooKl

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b-X^€^Y>.^

D^ce>^be.-r- )H-.. 1^13

Blijijl^irl Touciies Her
Audience's Heart. ^

SHE AMSWERS QUESTIONS

!M WONDERFUL MANNER

story of Her Life Told by Her
Teaclier— Tlicit She Delivers Mes-
sage of Clicer to All Who Are
AfHicted Like Herself.

Miss Helen Kellor :in(l her teacher,
Mi-s. John :Macy (Miss Anne Sullivan)
caino to Brooklyn yesterday, iT^ppearing in
tho music hall. Academy of Music, both
afternoon and evening, smd as before,
touched and delighted all who hoard
■them.

They .t;avc two addresses, Mrs. Macy
first telliiis the wonderful story of^ how
she taught the little blind deaf mute, a
Btory whose marvels are known all over
the world, yet seem ever ncAV when one
hears them, and then .Miss Keller gave
her lecture on "The Heart and , the
Hand or the Right I'se of Our Senses,"

love the hniidV''
As is usual, at
Miss Keller
wliicli wei(^
Mac.v, Miss
gh her liaixl,
beiuju^ placed

dress,
lions.
Mrs.
thror,

Lei-K

o>:prif>Ksing her ffi*atifude~for the riinch
lliat is good which .Jias come into ber
life and hei* desire to help others. She
showed that self-educatibu and self-dis-
cipline are most iniportanl. and that en-|
ihusiasni goes far to make the effort for
hclf-trainin::; successful. "It was through
llie hands of others, however, that I
found myself. Without my teacher 1
Would be nothing. Do you wonder that'
she asked.

the close of her ad-
Avas asked many (jues-
transmitted to her by
Keller receiving tlicm
either through the tin-
on Mrs. Macy's face,
tonching tlie nostril, lips and chin, or
from having the Avords spelled out into
her hand b.\- Mrs. Macy's tiugers. ^1>50
th(,' usual (|uewtions were asked: "Has
Miss Keller any sense of hearing?" ^The
answer to this was, "None whatevt^r."
"Then how doi^s she know when the au-
'dience applauds?*' This Miss Keller an-
swered laughijigly, saying, "I feel the vi-
brations >vith my feet."
/. (.->uesti<rnp(l as to M'hether she had aiiy
^hiense of color values, the answer 'was.
^{igain." "Xon<:' wliatfiv^,.'' the information
boinu: given that it is impossible for the
blind to distinguish color by the sense
of touch. But colors have pwetic value
to the blind. For instance, green means
the exuberance of sjjring, and ■white sig-
nifies loftiness. ^

Asked if she had an.v appreciation of
music. ISliss Keller answered cheerfully,
"Yes indeed, h'rom the vibrations I can
discern a distinct swing and rhythm."
which she illustrated by sA\inging her
hands and arms l)ackward and forward
Avith great vivacit.v. To the question if
she likes tn dnnce there came another |
emphatic "Yi^s indeed," Mrs. Macy sup- j
plementing "She likes to "turke.v-trot." — j
a reply which causcMl much laughter in j
the audience.

Other, (juestions elicited the facts that
she does ])lay a musical instrument, "just I
for fun. the pianola;" that she does not '
have much trouble in getting the Ger- j
man gutterals, but that she can heartily
sympathize with foreigners in learning '
to speak English. Asked to repeat in
English something with which she was
familial', she thought a second,, then said
it Avould have to be nonsense, and, as ap-
l)ropriate to the i)resent high price of
eggs, repeated "Humpt.YjP"nipty." Then,
as u (xerman s^AX'tioiF she gave, and
gave it beautifully, "Du bist Avie cine
bbune."

After that one in the audience recalled
an incident in her childhood Avhen she
named a lemon-scpieezer and a number of
other children failed to do so. She re-
called it. laughed gleefully, and said "f
Sfuessed it. and it happened to be right."

But sometliins- more personnl still was
taken for a quostion. Miss Keller w^s
asked "Did you select your frown V"

quickly, "I am jrlad you like it." \

OUT OF THE DARK: Essays, Letters
and Addresses on Physical aind So-
cial Vision by tj^t^^ Tr/^j|i^^y|^-^^,.gio.i./^.-.»%
City, New York;" BUffl'fflecIay, Page &
Company; price $1.00 net.
One of the four great books of the
last five years, bearing on personal ex-
periences, is Helen Keller's "Story of
My Life,' hence anything from her pen
telling us more of her thoughts and,
accomplishments is worthy of a
hearty reception from an appreciative
public. The small volume, entitled as
above, and numbering less than 300
pages, i3 made up of 26 papers and
letters along with a prefac?e, as well
as an introduction to a volume of
Swedenborg, these articles ranging in
dats from 1904 to 1913, not arranged
chronologically, nor yet according to
subjects. Seemingly they are asso-
ciated with no effort at symmetry in
thought or purpose, originaly appear-
ing in such publications as Youths
Companion, New York Call, Appeal to
Reason; American, McClure's and the
Metropolitan (5) Magazines; Ladies'
Home Journal (4) and World's Work;
there are letters to several associations
for the advancement of the interests of
the Blind and one to Mark Twain,
read by him before the New York As-
sociation for the BUnd, and several
others to people of less note. In all
of these articles there is a frankness of
idea and expression that we might
well ask of all those who, having
opinions, profess to express them.
Helen Keller is a believer in woman's
suffrage, and is a socialist, and if we
may believe her sentiments, as given
In her introduction to a volume of
"Selections in Braille from Sweden-
bor*^" at least in sympathy with the
teachings of him whom Emerson
called the Mystic, and whom the late
John Bigelow considered the illumin-
ator of the Bible. In every case. Miss
Keller writes as one having limita-
tions in horizon, yet with her advan-
t«ie«? or lack ot them, her reach is
^Ixwelous. "The Hand„gLth_e_World^

"written in 1912, is one of her maturer
papers, in a fig-urative manner, dis-
cussing the agencies tliat have cared
for her and provided her with the,
necessities and comforts by which she
is surrounded, t

She tells us plainly how she be-
came a Socialist and her adherence
to the principles of that ism she re-
peatedly confesses, even sending a
check as well a letter to tlie strik-
ers of Little Falls, N. Y., in Novem-
ber, one year ago. Very likely no
more valuable papers appear in the
compilation than the three which are
grouped as "The Modern Woman,"
they are headed respectively: "The
Educated Woman," "My L.ady" and
"Woman and Her Home;" how one
totally blind and deaf can write, thus
helpfully to those possessed of all
their senses is one of the wonders of
the age. Were the wise men of th<^
present grouped in a pent-up "seven,"
some one of them would have to give
WAV to this blind woman, originally
from the wilds of Alabama, or rather
would she be ranged along with the
Seven Wonders of the World? To
those whose interest in the condition
of the blind, for whatever reason, is
strong, every utterance of this high
priestess of her class must be ab-
sorbingly important. It is, doubtles.s,
for such cause that she Is often re-

♦ ^ ♦

ing or for some feature of the many
gatherings devoted to the improve-
ment of her afflicted sisters and
brothers. She tells us what is the 1
heaviest burden of the blind; "What
to Do for the Blind," the "Training
of a Blind Child" and then, at the |
very end of the' book, she writes of |
"Christmas in the Dark" and a "New
Chime for the Christmas bells." Those
who posses the story of Helen Keller's
life will need this book to teach them
how far she has progressed along the
way that was opening" before her
when she told her thrilling experi-
ence in a volume which always will be
one of the convincing proofs that truth
is stranger than fiction. In the light of
the fact that Helen Keller is shortly
to lecture in Mechanics hall, it will
be well for our citizens to look up
her aims and attainments that they
may the better enjoy her recital.

CC"uL^w'C£U7 \3ci^.^ (bp€yO-r'c£L

L-d^M-

"DeO"e.>^b€,-^ iM-ui^iS.

^jaj^ue of "The Auctioneer" is

Communicate! to Finger Tips,

^She Ser.ses Evsry Emotion.

An absorbinji stoiy was published,
telling how Miss Helen Keller, who is
to appear here. at the Audit oriuni-
Armory on the evening of D?oember
20, under the auspices and for ;he
benefit of the Atlanta Chapter of the
Daughters of the Confederacy, "saw"
David Warfield in a performance of
"The Auctioneer."

Anyone inclined to believe that this
„blind" and deaf girl did not actij_9.U]^

see and enjoy th^ performance would,
be thoroug-hly convliiceu after read-'
ing- the story. Of coarse, It was pos- ;
sible only thr'-igii the intercession
and remarkabli ibility to convey im-i
pressions of Mi.-< Keller's teacher andj
companion for 26 years, Mrs. Macy. '
The writer tell. s first how Miss Kel-
ler sat in the ioy^-r with Mrs. Macy
and a friend, Mi?K Moore, and. en- 1
joyed the arrival of fashionr-ble folks.
She charted in a lively manner over
each group of an-ivals, arfd-seenied to-
know many of the celebrities. ^

Nothing can reveal how Miss Kellei I
"saw" the performance better than to i
quote from the article. i

"The process b3' which Mrs. Macy ;
and Miss Moore communicated the
details of what was going on on the
stage was as complicated as it was
interetsing. The major portion of
the labor, of course, fell upon Mrs. j
Macy. She it was who deftly ano j
swiftly communicated all the dia-
logue, together with the attendan-
"business," provided the latter did no.
become too much involved, in which
case Miss Moore came to the rescue
as a sort of auxiliary.

"That Helen Keller should respond
^o the moving pathos of David War- i
field's acting is not so remarkable, in
view of the fact that she has, of ne-
cessity, a highly spiritualized equip-
ment for the sensing of emotion, and
tliat Warfield is pre-eminently a mas-
ter in the art of transmuting the
spiritual into tangible terms of drama.
What is more remarkable is the fact
that, deaf and blind, this girl should
respond so instantaneously to all the
delicate inflections of David War-
field's comedy. She responded to everj^
nuance thereof with a promptness
that was positively uncanny.

"It was in the Belasco green room,
after the play, however, that Miss
Keller displayed her greatest virtu-
osity. She had long v/nnted to meet
her favorite actor, she .said, and when
at last he stood >>owing befoi'e her,
she grasped his outstretched hand
and. in her clear treble voice, said,
very distinctly:

" 'Oh. Mr. Warfield, this is certain-
ly shaking hands with a ghost. Ah,
how I did love you in "The Return
of Peter Grimm." I wish that I might
see you in that play once again. You
don't know^, you can not know, what:
Peter Grimm jneant to me, who have
striven all my life to hear and be
heard out of the darkne.ss, just as
your spirit did when It came back to
■earth.' "

As Miss Keller left him the great
a<?tor said: "She is greater than Na-
poleon."

Rocky Mountain Leader

Ejitered at the post office at Boulder, Movt. a.s
second class matter, January 13, 1902.

December 15, 1913

Ifckn Kcilcf $ /Iddress to the Blind

As onr readers perhaps know. Helen
Keller and her teacher, Mrs. Macy,
have been lecturing- thru the East
all fall under the direction of the
Pond Lyceum Bureau. We learn
from press reports that they have
been very successful and have drawn
large audiences.

On Oct. 24th, they addressed a large
house of blind and their guides at
the Harris theatre, New York City.
In the audience, were three deaf-
blind girls, two of whom are em-
ployed in the office of the Ziegier
Publishing Co. That mag'azine says,
that none in the audience were more
interested than these girls who had
seeing friends with them whorai)idl\-
told them by means of the deaf man-
ual langaiage just what the s])eakers
were saying.

Mrs. Macy first spoke nearly an
hour, telling- how she took little Helen
at the age of eight, and by jKitient,
])ersistent work had g-iven to the
world one of its foremost minds.
yVfter she had concluded, Edwin
Markham, author of "The Man with
the Hoe," who for years has been
one of Miss Keller's most ardent ad-
mirers, introduced her. Eol lowing,
are her rem.arks in full:

Dear Friends: It is inspiring to
stand before this great audience of
the blind and their friends. I feel
at home among my own people. Is
this not an occasion for ccmgratula-
tions and hope— congratulations for
what the blind have already accom-
plished, and hope for braver, more

united effort in the future? I know
that the avenues of usefullness open
to us are few and strai^'ht. But who
shall limit the aspirations of the soul
or say to us who most need li.i^ht:
"vSo far shalt thou go and no farth-
er?" I have a thinking- mind and
two gfood hands with which I have
groped my way to the frontiers of
knowledg-e. Beyond the frontiers,
there may be starless night. But if
ycju must g"o thru darkness to a new
day, gfo forth bravely, and the hard
journey shall give strength to your
feet. We may have many difficuliies

and unpleasant tasks. vSomu of us
may only stand and wait. But all of
us can help ourselves and each other.
I am giad to celebrate what the blind
can do because their brave accom-
plishments prove, absolutely j^rove,
what people with five senses can do.
They show what g'ood servants the
brain and senses can be when they
work tog'ether. You who see raise
your eyes and behold the sun and
moon, the earthi, llie ocean and the
faces of nicn. Vou who hear have
but to open \ our cars, and they are
filled with melodx' and the voices of
loved ones. We who are blind stretch
out our liauds and know all the soft-
ness of tr,e growing' things, all the
sweet wa\s of cliil(h'en, all endccir-
ments of human affection, l^ut the
senses alone are not enong'h. It is
onl\' when they are united with im-
agination and thoug'ht and feeling-
that the\' acciuire their full value.
You can use \'onr e\-es and \-onr ears
mfinitely rnore than \-ou iiave done.
You can use them to re])air the great
disaster of blindness, and indeed, all
the g-reat misfoi-tnnes of mankind.
M\' teacher has told x'on liow 1 was
taught. You liave seen how a little
word droi)pe(l from the liand of an-
other, a ray of light from another
soul, touched the darkness of m\-

mind, and T awoke to the siinshiiie
of life. I was blind, now I see; I
was deaf, now I liear; I was dnnb,
now I s])eak. The hands of others
wrou.t^ht this miraele in me. It was
thru the hands of others that I found
myself, found my mother and father,
found the w(ndd, found m\- soul atid
love and (xod. Without my teaeher,
I should be nothinj^. Without \'ou,
we who are blind should he nothin.ii'.
None of us are indei)endent. We all
li\'e V)y each other and for eaeh other,
and our success in life depends u])on
mutual hel]:). ()nl\ the hel]) and de-
votion of others can break thru the
hi.i^h walls of blindness. It is the
same hel]) and devotion thcit i)eoi)le
with five senses should .i^ive eaeh
other. That means o])i)ortunit\- for
education and pleasure and work that
is worth while. Brave and good men
and women have laid their very
hearts in :iiy hands. That is why I
find life varied, interestin.^', inspirin<>'.
That is why I can know joy and ecu
tentment, even tho the wide world of
sunlig'ht and color and soni^- and
laughter is barred against me. I am
glad to be with my blind fellows. T
am proud to add my little word to the
brave message that so many of you
are spreading far and wide. Your
defiance of conditions that vou can
not change is an inspiration. Every-
one of you who makes the most of
your capabilities and faculties is a
light to our darkness. Keep on,
kee]) on trying to accomplish all that
\-ou can N'ourselves. People tell me
that what my teacher and I have
done gives them confidence in their
abilit\- and makes them wish to use
their senses better and their minds
nicre more honestly. If others are
helped, we are glad. We rejoice in
the obstacles that we have overcome;
But let us remember always tnat wr,
blind and seeing, need each other to
overcome these obstacles. There is

a self-reliance that we can not be-
lieve in. Isolated, selfish culture is
of no value. Confidence in our pow-
ers, united with a will to .i^ive help
and receive help, is the only sure
wav out of the dark. We know how
to be blind. We must also learn how
to work toi^ether with the seeing" so
that every blind child may betauhgt,
every blind man and woman helped.
We can, we must unite so that much
of the blindness in the v/orld shall be
ended forever. Then, and not till j
then, shall we tear down the barriers
that close the way to the desired
land. Do \'()U wonder that I love
the hand? 1 have felt its glorious
power to love and to redeem, to do
the work of the world. All that is
noble and generous and creative in
the human race has come to me thru
the hand. I long to oi^en m>' hand
to you and giv^e back a hundredfold
all the knowledge and happiness that
have been poured into them. Think
thru your hands, listen, feel, make
the most of C/ther ])e()ple, and every
day you will conquer new difficulties
and live a richer, fuller life. The
world is full of miracles. Look for
them and you will find them.

32-* Washinqton Stbekt, Boston, Mas*

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913
HELEN KELLER AND EDISON MEEX

Inventor Expresses Belief That He
Can Give Her Actual Sound Percep-
tions

A meeting- which had been much desired
by both for years was arranged between
Hellen Keller and Thomas A. Edison at
the Edison liome in Llewellyn Park, Sun-
day afternoon, just before Miss Keller and
her teacher, Mrs. Macy, started West to
continue Miss Keller's lecture engagements.

Miss Keller was intelligently interested
in all that Mr. Edison told her of recent
experiments and inventions. "Tell me
more about your wonderful inventions,"
she said over and over again. Mr. Edison
showed deep interest m Miss Keller's keen-
ness and delicacy of touch perception, and
after testing it in various ways, declared
his belief that he could translate sound
waves into electrical vibrations which
would give Helen Keller actual sound per-
ceptions.

Miss Keller and Mrs. Macy will spend
a day with Mr. Edison in his laboratories
on their return from the West, for the
purpose of assisting in experiments to this
end.

MAY INSPIRE EDISON.

Inventor Meets Helen Keller, and
; Will Attempt to Produce Lippres-

slons of Sound for Her. v W jk
' NEW YORK, Dec 16-A '^^M\-Jt
which had been much desired by b«h
for many years, was arranged between
Helen Keller and Thomas A. Edison at
the Edison home in Llewellyn park
Sunday afternoon, just before Miss Kel-
ler and her teacher. Mrs Macy, started
West, to continue her lecture tour.
Miss Keller was much interested in
all that Mr , Edison communicated to
, her of recent experiments and inven-
tions.

"Tell me more about your wonderful
inventions," she said over and over
again. , , , • ^ ^ .

I Mr Edison shov/ed deep mterest m
'Miss Keller's keenness and delicacy of

touch perception. After testin,Hr it ITT
various ways he declared his coafldence
that he could translate sound waves
into electrical vibrations, which would
give Helen Keller actual sound percep-
tions.

Miss Keller and Mr§ Macy wilL spend
a day with Mr Edison in his laborato-
ries on their return from the West, for
the purpose of assisting in experiments
to -this end.

Boston ,Y\^^^S^.. He^-^TB^lcL.

Men KELLER PAYSl

josmro EDisQi^

Electrical Wizard Says He Can

Transform Sound Waves

to Aid Her.

[Special Dlspatf;h to The Herald,] '

NEW YORK, Dec. 15— A meeting
which has been much desired by both
for many years was arranged between
Helen Keller and Thomas A. Edison at,
the Edison home in Llewellyn Parle'
yesterday afternoon, lust before Miss
Keller and her teacher, Mrs. Macy,
started west to continue a lecture tour.
Miss Keller was much interested in all
that Mr. Edison told nor of recent ex-
periments and Inventions.

"Tell me more about your wonderful
inventions," she said over and over
again.

Mr. Edison showed deep Interest in
Miss Keller's keenness and delicacy of
touch. After testing it In various ways
he declared his confiderice that he could
translate sound wa^'es into electrinal
vibrations, which wouki give Helen Kel-
ler actual sound perceptions.

Miss Keller and Mrs. Macy will spend
a day with Mr. Edison in his labora-
tories on their return from the West for
the purpose of assisting in experiments
tr this end.

EDISON MEOET

A meeting- which had ibeen much
desired 'by both for years was ar-
ranged between Helen Keller and
Thomas A. Edison at the EdJison home
in Llewellyn iPark, Sunday afternoon,
just 'before Miss Keller and her
teacher, Mrs. Macy, started West to
continue iMiss Keller's lecture eng'age-
ments.

Miise Keller was intellig-entily inter-
ested in all 'tihat Mr. Edison told her
of recent ex'periments and inventions,
"Tell me more aibout your wonder-
ful inventions," she said over and
over again. Mr. Edison showed deep
Interest in iMles Keller's keenness and
delicacy of touch perception, and after
testin/g it in various ways, declared
this belief that he could tiransliate
sound warv'es into electrical vibrations
which would g'ive Helen Keller actual

I soi}.n cK .ri^rtCLArktinna,

T>.

P|ELEN KELLER

^**^And edibon meet

Helen Keller who recently addressed
an audience in Portland met Thomas
A. Edison at the Edison home in
Llewellyn Park last Sunday afternoon,
just before Miss Keller and her teach-
er, Mrs. Macy, started West on a lec-
ture tour. The meeting- had been much
desired by both Helen Keller and the
inventor for many years and accord-
ing to an exchange the result may not
be without sig-nificance.

Mr. Edison showed great interest in
Mtss Keller's keenness and delicacy of
touch perception and after testing it
in various ways declared his confi-
dence in his ability to translate sound
waves into electrical vibrations, which
would give Helen Keller actual sound
perceptions.

Miss Keller and Mrs. Macy will
spend a day with Mr. Edison in his la-
bf.ratories on their, return from the
West for the purpose of assisting in
experiments to this end. . . _

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"PeC'e^-K^b-e- -f~ I (:? ., 1^13.

"Wizard'^ Who Is
Trying To Make
Noted Girl Hear

Thomas A. Edison.

!AY

HELEN KELLAR HEAR

Famous Wizard May Suc-
ceed in Task That Will
' Astonish World.

New York; Dec. 16.— A meeting
which has been much desired by both
for many vpara xvs^ y,yranged between

Helen Keller an<3 Thomas A. Edison at
the Edison home in Llewellyn park
yesterday, just before Miss Keller and
her teacher, Mrs. Macy, started west
Ro continue a lecture tour.

Miss Keller ,was much interested in
all that Mr. Edison told her of recent
experiments and inventions.

Mr. Edison showed deep interest in
Miss Keller's keenness and delicacy of
touch. After testing it in various
waj^s he declared his confidence that
he "could translate sound ' waves into

ftctrical vil^rations, which would give

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)NTESSOBI ANB MACEY.

The apixsarance of Miss Hel^Li^I^llcr
and her teacher, Mr§
Brooklyn on Saturday, just when Dr.
Maria Montessori was occupying the fo-
cal point of interest in local educational
circles, was most opportune, for jt gavae
Brooklyn pedagogues an opportunity to
compare the methods of the twocele-
llarated authorities. The pity was that
ISO few were wise enough to avail them-
selves of the opportimity.
I Mi^. Macey, whose brain and hand
i wrought the marvelous mental develop-
ment of Miss Keller, told how she be>
gau twenty years ago, on her owa in-
itiative, a course of education which is
strikingly similar to that followed by
the Italian authority. The fundamental
principle of Mrs. Maoey's system, just
as in the Montessori method, is to al-
low a child to educate itself, the teach-
er simply supplying the incentive to
thought and action.

' Miss Keller's teacher is not less wor-
thy of fame because she devoted herself
to a single pupil, for that pupil, who
was deaf,' dumb and blind, is to-day one
[of the most profound thinkers in the
world and represents one of the great-
est educational achievements in history.
This is not written to disparage the
work of Madame Montessori, but mere-
llyto call attention to the fact that the
lAmerican teacher is not a negligible fac-
tor in the educational problem of the
^svorld.

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^'. ,^ i3

MISS Hl^lEJUaaAER, WHO IS COMING HERE
TO SPEAK AT THE WHITE CHURCH IN MAY,
FRIEND OF EDISON, WHO IS TO MAKE HER HEAR.

I'hoto by Amtiican l-'ress -A^isucialion.
1_M1SS HI.1.KN KELI.KK. 2— ITIOMAS A. EDlfeON.

Miss Helen Keller, the deaf and
[blind girl and until within a few years
also dumb, is coming- to New Bedford
to speak at the White (North Chris-
tian) church, under the auspices of
that society. It is planned that Miss
Keller will come here in May, though
■the date of her coming is indefinite.
Miss Keller Avas a recent guest of the
inventor, Thomas A. Edison. Miss
feellef had a pleasant interview with
Mr. .Edison, and he expressed great in-
iterest in her. He said he consideifed
|her one of the marvels of the age,
[greater in a human way than his own
inventions. Mr. Edison is intei-ested
[in providing an apparatus by the use
[of which she hopes to remedy the
.deafness of Miss Keller so that she
may hear.

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I I II II ^1 |i m '

Having made some experiments with

Miss Helen Keller, Mr Edison is con-
fident that he can translate sound
waves into electrical vibrations which
will give the blind, deaf and dumb girl
actual sound perceptions. That ought
to have a world of meaning for others
suffering from similar misfortune.

(Jt'tUcU^V^'CoL^ , C^cU., Jo-1/^Vyu.cuU .

HELEN KELCIS^O ARRIVE
OM SATURDAY MORNING

Helen Keller and her teacher.
M ri^\J^Jjli0)^ will arrive Saturday in
readiness for the lecture in the audi-

i tcrium-armory Saturday evening.

'. They will stop at the Ansley, where
they will rest until evening. The pub-
lic' appearances are somewhat of a
■Strain on the highly sensitive nature
of the blind and deaf prodigy, and rest
piior to her lectures is necessary.

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De.c^^y^h^-r 1 ^ „ 1 cf , 3

Edison and Helen Keller Firm Friends

p**ti.pmas A. Edison, Ihe great inventor,^
I believes he can providC an apparatus that
[will remedy the deafness of Mlss^JiiWi
Keller, the deaf and blindgj^l' sne re-
I cently visited him at mil'*iai)uratory for
the first tune. Miss Keller, who has
; learned to talk, had a pleasant interview
with Mr. Edison, and he expressed great
interest in her. He said he considered her
ipne of the marvels of the age, greater in
a human way than hiis own Inventions.
She left on a lecturing tour of the West,
and on her return East will visit Mr. Edi-
son again. .

Bimd Helen Keller
Brings Message

Of Hope for Those

Who Have Been

^Doomed to Live Always

in Darknes

^Marvelous Woman Here to Tell
Atlantians Story of Her Life
at Auditorium Saturday
Night

In her room at the Hotel Ansley Sat-
urday afternoon Helen Keller lay asleep.
Testing the weak voice that, save her
hands, is her only link with the outside
world, resting the voice that will tell
the story of her life to Atlanta people
at the auditorium Saturday night.

Tells of Edison's Work on In-
vention That May Enable
Those Without Sight to Read
Printed Page

MEETING WITH MOTHER
MOST AFFECTING SCENEI

A knock at the door, a swish of skirts,
and the eager voice of a woman herald-
ed the arrival of the mother that Helen
Keller had not "seen" since last October
until they were in each other's arms In'
the little room of an Atlanta hotel.

Whether it was intuition or a natural,
awaking, we do not know, but with thej
first entry of her mother into the roqm,
Miss Keller's sleep was ended.

She was half-risen in bed when her
naother's arms were around her and. her
mother's lips kissed her blind eyes again
and again. And Miss Keller's hands
raced across her mother's face, her
mother's hair, her clothes, with a wild
i'estless touch as If they would never
feel enough. And Miss Keller's voice^
sounded low, soft notes In her tnorat.'j
and her white face pressed itself pas-
sionately against her mothers breast.
i It seemed almost a profanation to
"Witness the meeting between mother and
daughter, but there stood Miss%Celler*ai
teacher with tears in her eyes, and threci
Atlanta ladies and three reporters who
stepped very softly as they 'left the
room.

The reporters wondered which was
the best story, mother and daug-hter
met after two months — an eternity of
parting to the blind girl — or the fact
that Miss Keller brings to Atlanta with
her the message that Thomas A. Edison
is at work on an Invention that may
enable the bMnd to read a printed page.
tfom an orafnary printed book.
TO TEST INVENTION.
For Miss Keller comes to Atlanta
straight from an interview with the
noted Inventor, in which they talked
over the new plan and decided that
tests will be made with Miss Keller as
the subject some time next May.

Miss Keller and Mrs. John A. Macey,
Aer teacher from the time she was
seven years old to her present age of

MXSS EEI^EIT XBZiI^ES.

thirty-three, arrived in Atlanta Friday
night at li o'clock, twelve hours soon-
er than they were expected.

The committee that was to have met
them at the train was disappointed,
but three members of it welcomed
tea,cher and pupil at the Ansley hotel
.'at noon Saturday. They wore Mrs. C
Helen Plane, honorary president of the
, United Daug'hters, uder whose auspices
Mis<*--s Keller will lecture here; Mrs.
Williams McCarthy, president of the
Organization, and Miss Mildred, Ruther-
ford, historian general.

When these three ladies and the
three reporters entered the Keller suite
Mrs. Macey welcomed them with the
|iews that Miss Keller was asleep in
the next room.

A glance through the door showed
the dark hair spread over the white
pillow; the hands lying listlessly on
the coverlets, the white nervous hands,
"that are to me," says Miss Keller,
"what your hearing and sight are to
you. All my comings and goings turn
on the hand as a pivot. Tt Is the hand
that binds me to the world of men and,
women." -|

Mr?. Macey told of Miss Keller's in-
terview with Edison.

"It was the first time they had ever
met," she said, "althougli both have
longed to for many years. Helen and'
T went* to Mr. Edison's home at East
Orange, N. J., and there they experl-j
mented with a phonograph and talkedll
of Mr. Edison's new plan that will be
the greatest boon the blind have ever
known.

"A WONDpmFUT> SIGHT." |

"It was a wonderful sight to see theiri
two heads close together over the honii
of the phonograph, the white head of
Mr. Edison and Helen's dark curls. Ofi
course. Helen could not hear the music
but she could feel the vibration of it
corning from the horn, and almost un-
derstand its language."

"Of course," she continued, "T don't
know exactly how Mr. Kdfson will work
out his plan, but he intends to use
electricity to project the printed let-
ters in an ordinary book so that a blind
person may read them with 'the touch
of the fing'^rs.

"Next Myy Helen will go to his
place in East Orange and these they
intend to work for weeks until the in-
vention is accomplished. It will be a
bessing for those wlio cannot see. and
Mr. Edison is enthusiastic. >s for Helen,
she would rather do this for, her fel-
low-sufferers than anything in the
world."

In the pause that followed came a
knock at the door. The W^ndle turned,
and in walked the gray-haired lady, Mrs.
Kate .■^dams Keller. She , had not seen

Helen since last October, when she vis-
ited her in Wrentham, Mass. Saturday
morning she arrived from Tuscumbia,
Ala., the old Keller home, where Helen
|was born.

i It was hardly an instant before the
mother had crossed the room to her
daughter's siAe and they were in each
other's arms; but in that short span
Miss Keller had recognized her" mother,
and given a little cry that spoke a
great love in the fraction of a tone.

Blind and deaf as she is, it passes
reason that this woman could tell who
her visitor was, but that she did before
her hands ever touched the face that
bent over her. It might have been
intuition, it might have been so"^^
thing greater. >

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lELENmLlRllI
f VISIT MINNEAPOUS

Woman's Club to Present Prod-
uct of Epoch-Making Educa-
tional Feat.

Helen Keller who comes to Minne-
apolis Jan. 27, under the auspices of tho
Woman's Club of Minneapolis, wiU be
accompanied by her life long compan-
ion and teacher, Mrs. John Albert
Macy. In a recent interview Mrs.
Macy told of her epoch-making edu-
cational feat, the training of a deaf,
dumb and b^j^nd person, enabling her
to aecomplisn*^iil4j|^||,||_the last few
years a modern miracle.

Mrs. Macy said that in the training
of Helen Keller she used meth.ods of
training which were unknown 20
years ago and which with her* were
simply instinctive experiments of an
untrained but intelligent teacher. Un-
wittingly Mrs. Macy started Miss
Keller's education on the theories re-
cently propounded bv Mme. Montes-
sori, claiming that freedom in educa-
tion was essential and that the child
Ishould not be domina'ted but that the

Teac]ieT^'''i!imcFron''"was"to follow its'
lead intelligeutly.

Miss Keller, wlio is 33 years old, has
mastered all branches of learning,
speaks three and reads five languages,
plays both the piano and the violin
and has read more widely than the
average college woman; she is the
author of two successful books and the
possessor of a degree of bachelor of
arts from Badcliffe college. Teachers
and parents all over the country real-
ize the wonderful training which has
worked these miracles.

''Miss Keller is the answer to all
those who are so blind that they can-
not realize why they should take a
civic interest in the deficient, the
dwarfed and the deprived whether
through physical or social ailments, ' '
Mrs. T. G. Winter, president of the
Woman's club said recently. "The I
story of her life — its indomitable cour-
age, patience, charity and unswerving!
faith has a direct civic as well as a |
personal appeal for every man, wom-
an and child in Minneapolis. ' '

Mrs. Edmund Brooks of the Wom-
an's club has charge of the commit-
tee making the arrangements for Hel-
en Keller's visit. _ She will be assisl-
ed by representatives from the Mini«-
apolis Society for the Blind andMy
mem.bers of the several teachers' ojifan-
iza>tions in the citv. • jF^

Helen ^K#ltei*ir lecturing tour is
causiag-^newed interest in her latest
bock, "Out of the Dark," rec€.ntly
published bv Doubleda,y, Page & Com-
pany. Of all the renriarks ever made
about Miss Keller, probatoly the most
succinct was that of the late V/illiam
James. V^earying of the psycholosy
and pseudo-psychology- talked abovu
her he wrote in his bluff way — ine
sum of it is that you're a blossm?,
and I'll kill anyone that says you re

Tiotr'

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Helen Keller.

newspaper man who interviewed
Helen Keller recently tells an inter-
esting' story of her breadth of mind.
She was informed, throug*h her teach-
er. IMTB Macy, that the interviewer
was about to publish a review of her
latest hook, "Out of the QDark."

"Good," she exclaimed, "But I
hope you- haven't said anything
about it that you didn't mean!" she
added.

The reviewer assured her that
the criticism was honest and that
parts were rather far from flatter-
ing.

"I am so glad," she said. "I
shall read efvery word of it, and
especially the parts that don't
flatter me. That helps me to see
myself as others eee me."

INSPIRED BY HELEN KELLER.

Maimed Coal Miner Regains Courage —
Her Note and Gift to Him.

Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 22. — Stallard
Edwards, a coal miner with a leg just
amputated, was wishing he would die,
when he was told the story of Helen
Keller, who was then in the city. He
said: "Well, If that deaf, dumb and
blind girl can do so much for herself
and others, you bet I'll find a way to
get along."

. Miss Keller, when told of the inci-
dent, wrote on the typewriter: To the
man in the hospital, who must begin life
over again heavily .handicapped; your
friend, Helen Keller." She inclosed a
$20 bill.

Miss Keller has gone to spend Christ-
mas with her mother in Alabamp*
Some suitable employment is to be
found for Edwards when he recovers.

llELEN

^LER LEAVES
HER ALABAMA HOME

op^jd^ Sunday in Atlanta,

bui Denies Herself to All

Visitors

Accompanied by her. teacher, Mrs.
John A. Macey, and her mother, Mrs.
Kate Adams Keller, Miss Helen Keller
left Atlanta Sunday afternoon for Mont-
g^omery, Ala., whence she will go to
Tuscumbla, Ala., her birthplace, for a
brief visit.

Miss Keller's Sunday was spent quiet-
ly in her room at the Hotel Ansley. De-
spite several invitations she received to
visit church and Sunday school classes,
notably the deaf and dumb class of the
Mark Methodist church, she wished to
spend her morning with her mother, and
received no visitors.

Hundreds of telephone calls came dur--
Jng the day Sunday, but all were de-
nied, as Miss Keller wished to make
good use of the opportunity to converse
with her mother, whom she had not seen
since last October until their meeting
here Saturday. Miss Keller resumes her
lectures early in January, appearing in
Washington and ending her season's en- i
gagement at Worcester, Mass. |

Following this lecture Miss Keller
will go to the home of Thomas A. Edi-
son at East Orange, N. J., where she
and the noted inventor will meet daily
in an effort to perfect an invention that
will enable the blind to read a printed
page.

Owing to the holidays, the regUjar
fortnightly meeting of the Lexington
Outlook Club has been postponed for a
week, and it will be held on the afternoon
of Dec. 30. Miss Helen Keller is to be
guest of the club, tog8iliiiiiHiiwii*ihiiiil>ti s. John
Macy. Miss Keller's subject will be "The
Heart and the Hand, or the Right Use
of Our Senses."

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^elen Keller Gives $20

Maimed for Life

Oopyrigh^t by American^ Press Asrsoclatioa.

HELEN KELLER.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec, 21. — ,,
Stallard Edwards, a coal miner, with a i
leg amputated and other injuries re- i
ceived in an accident and lying on a
fiospital bed, was bemoaning his luck j
and wishing he would die when a hos- j
pital visitor told him the story of Helen,
Keller, who was in the city to lecture.

Whereupon the miner said:

"Well, if that deaf, dumb and bl^gp|
girl can do so fnu(Mi for herself Ima |
others. yoTt b<^ nd a way to get I

along." !

Miss Keller was told of the incident.
"1 wish I could do something for that ;
man." she said as she waited for the j
train which was to take her to Alabama
lo spend Christmas with her mother.

She went into an oflice, where she
ti^rote this on a typewriter:

"To the man i1i the hospital who must
begin life over again heavily han
• capped. Your friend, Helen Keller," §^d
enclosed a ?20 bill.

Iges uitt ol Baage
From Commissioner Johnson.,

Miss Helen Keller, blind, has become
an honorary member of' 'ffib" Fire De-
partment of New York city and has re-
ceived from Fire Commissioner Johnson
a gold badge with her name .insscribed
on it, which will permit her to enter
within the fire lines should she desire
to do so.

It is not at all likely that she will
desire to take advantage of the privi-
lege on any of her visits to this city.
But the possession of the badge puts
her in the small company of women
holding a. like emblem of oflicial recog-
nition. They are Mrs. Shepard (Helen

Gould), Mrs. Russell Sage, Miss Anne
Morgan and Mrs. R. H. Mainzer.

IVIiss Keller was born in Tuscumbia, I
Ala.; and Commissioner Johnson knew I
her family there. She typewrote the '
following: letter to him in acknowledg-
ment:

"I shall never be able to tell you how
happy you have made me. If I could,
you would indeed be glad of the trouble
you took." You would be glad, too, if
you could have witnessed my teacher's
surprise and delight when she read
your letter to me this morning. The
badge is fine and beautiful certainly
and makes me feel as the victor when
the laurel wreath is placed upon his
brow and his fellows shout and march
by.

•'I am not sure that I should know
how to behave within your 'fire lines.'
I was born and raised a girl and I have
lived all my life as one, according to
the usages and customs of my genera-
tion, and you know girls are not sup-
posed to follow the fire engine or climb
the fire ladder. 1 am ashamed to con-
fess that the smallest boy of my ac-
quaintance knows more than I about
Lhe etiquette of the fire line. So for
you to offer me the freedom of your
fire lines and present me with the badge
of your honored department is some-
what in the nature of an innovation.
I should be proud of this consideration
if I were a man. Being a girl, I am
still more proud, because it has removed
one of the drawbacks of being only a
girl. From this day I belong to thp fel-r
lowship of firemen — the bravest ani
most self-forgetting body of men in oi
public service. It is with genuine pri^
that I sign myself Your Comi

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/heu^^ ^^BUFF."

Only Blind Woman With a Fireman's

i00'9Sa!agein New York.

Hele,n Keller has joined the ranks of
»the fire "bu|f»if' She has received a badge
from Fire liCommissioner Johnson en-
titling her t^Niibi^, courtesies of the fire
line. In a letter which she, has written
in reply to the Fire Commissioner's an-
nouncement. Miss Keller says: "From

I this day I belong to the fellowship of
I firemen — the bravest and most self-for-
I getful body of meji of any in our public
! service."

The letter was written by Miss Keller,
jjwhose family Fire Commissioner Johnson
[know when he lived in Tuscumbria, Ala.,
.some years ago.

This is the only Instance of a blind
woman be.ing the possessor of afire badge.
Among the other women who hold fire
badges in this city are Miss Anne Mor-
gan, Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs. Finley
ksheppard (nee. Helen Gould), and Mrs.
^Robert H. Malnzer.

KELEN KE
NOW EN
PASS FIRE LINES

Commissioner Gives Badge to
Famous Blind and Deaf

i% Young Woman.

L ^1^^ — ^

"PROUD TO BE YOUR COM'-|
RADE/' SHE WRITES.

Miss Helen Keller has to-day enrolled
herself among the "buffs" of New Tork,
and has a fire badge of her own to taUej
her within the fire lines. There are few
other women in the city possessing such a.
badge. Among those who do hold them
are JNIiss Anne Morgan, Mrs.. Robert H
Mainzer. Mi's. Finley J. Shepard and Mrs.
Russell Sage.

Miss Keller's letter of thanks to Fire,
Commissioner Johnson for her fire loadgel
calls the firemen the "bravest and most
self- forgetful body of men of any in <5ur
public .service.'" Mi". Johnson knew Miss
Keller when .she was a child, unable to
heai' o. see. and. at that time, to spe-ik

[Recently "Miss Keller and Mr. Johnson met
there, and the prese^itatlon of the fire
(badge followed. She is probably the only
blliid woman in the world entitled to pass
the fire lines.

"I am not .sure," Miss Keller wrote to
tibe 7 Fire Commissioner, "that I:, should
know how to beha\e within youi- 'fire
lines.' I w'as born and raised a girl, and -T
have lived all my life as one, according
to the usages and customs of my genera ,
tion, and you Itnow girls are not supposed?
to follovv' the fire engine or climb the fire
ladder. I am ashamed to confess that the
smallest boy of my acquaintance knows
more tiian 1 do about the etiquette of thej
fire lines. !

I So, for you to offer me the freedom of
joui- honored department is somewhat in
[the nature of an innovation. J sliould b:,:
■^rotid of this consideration If 1 were .^
man. Being a girl, 1 am still more proud
because, it has removed one of the drav; .'/
ibacks of being- only a girl. From this day'
I belong to tlie fellowship of firemen— rlu
bravest and most self-forgetful body of men
in^ our public service. It is with genuine
pi-ide that I sign m>'seif,

"Your comrade,
•HELEN KELL.ER."

Miss Kellei's leiter jto the Fire Commis-
sioner vvas i:\pewritten by heii^elf. Wi-jy
vvithout an erroWpf ;iny .--ort, \i^^00^v
ance would be a ci%ii|^^i^,^i^y^|giK^v^-ional
typ'si

BelejiKeller's Gift '
Cheers MaimeH Miner

•Km^

Haute, Ind.„ Dec. 21. — Miss

Helen Keller sent $20 to cheer Stal-

l lard Edwards, a miner here, who lost

! a leg and said he wanted to die. When

j he heard the story of her life he said:

"You bet 1 can manage to get

along."

In sending the Christmas present
Miss Keller wrote:

"To the man in the hospital who
must begin life over again heavily^
handicapped. Your friend,

"HELEN KELLER

)

HelerP^fffner has joined the ranks
of the Are "Buffs." She has received
a badge from Fire Commissioner
Johnson entitling- her to the courte-
sies of the fire line. The following is
the letter written by Miss Keller in
reply to the presentation to her ofl
the fire badge; '

"Dear Mr. Johnson
"I shall never be able to tell you
how happy j'^ou have made me. If
I could, you would indeed be glad
t>f the trouble you took. You would
be glad, too, if you could have wit-
nessed my teacher's surprise and
delight when she read your letter
to me this morning. The badge is
fine and beautiful, certainly, and
makefc* me feel as the victor when
the laurel wreath is placed on his
)row, and his fellows shout and
narch by.

HOW VVOLI.D I BEHAVE?"

"I am not sure that I should know
liow to beiiave within your 'fire
lines.' I was born and raised a girl,
and 1 hav^ lived all my life as one,
according to the usages and cvife'-

Coms of my generation, and you
enow girls are not supposed to fol-
ow the fire-engine or climb the
ire-ladder.

"I am arham-ed'to confess that the
smallest boy of )ny acquaintanco
s;nows*more thai i about the eti-
luelte of the fire-line. So for you
o offer me the freedom of your flre-
lines and present me with the badge
of your honored department is
somewhat in the nature of an in-
novation. I should be proud of this
consideratioTi if I

were a man.

[Being a girl. I am still more proud
'because it lias removed dne of the
drawbacks of being- only a girl.
(From this day I belong to the fel-
lowship of firemen — the bravest and
most self-forgetful body of men in
jour public service. It is with genu-
;ine pride that I sign myself
"Your conwade,

"HELEN itfeLL.EK

ri.Y BL.IAD BADGFi HOIiDER. '^,

I 1 1 li(lllWl'1llfr''*i°ffiT" ' instance of a blind
woman who is the possessor of a fire
bade. Among the other women who
ihold fire badges in this city are. Miss
Anne Morgan, Mrs. Russell Sage, Mrs.
Finley J. Shephard, nee Helen Gould,
and Mrs. Robert H. Mainzer.

TLe-uj ^o-rK, yy.^, ,yVL3u\.\^

Helen Keller Sends

fnjured Miner

Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 22. — Miss
Keller sent $20 to cheer Stai-
lard Edwards, a miner here, who lost
a leg and said he wanted to die.
When he heard the story of her life
he said:

"You bet I can manage to get
along."

I In sending the Christmas present
Miss Keller wrote:

"To the man in the hospital who
must begin life over again heavily
handicapped. Your friend,

"HELEN KELLER."

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XX^ l^io,.

ThSOJ^s A. edisonTv

HOPES TO INVEMT

AID TO THE DEAF

Since his recent interview with:
Helen Keller, the i:oted deaf, dumb
and blindfiirl, Thomas A. Edison has
becofPTe" oosessed with the idea that
he can aid this wonderful girl. He'
plans to invent a device for changing
sound waves into electrical vibrations,

so as to give Miss Keller actual sound
perceptions. Mr. Edison was deeply-
interested in the girl's 'senses and|
delicacy of touch and, after testing
it in various ways, he feels confident}
that he can call upon his inventive i
genius to help the girl co.nfinilliiiherl
afflictions.

girl con0jp||ia^(

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vje-o^^

Ann

«ELEN KELLER CAN
NOW PASS POLICE

LINES AT FIRES.

Helen Keller.

New York, Dec. 23. — Miss Helen
Kellerhas become a fire "bufC.'' She
has received from Fire Commissioner

Johnson a badge entitling her to pass
police lines at fires. In a letter writ-
ten in reply to the fire commissioner,
Miss Keller says: "From this day I
belong to the fellowship of firemen—^
the bravest and most self-forgetful
body of men of any in our public ser-
vice."

Other women who have fire badges
are Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. Russell
Sage, Mrs. Finley T. Shepherd and
Mrs. Robert H. Mainzer.

IBoS'To^i- > ">'H.a,ss., Ct-J-xhC-rti.se->-,

6- C--e ->a^ b e tt

3.^ :^13.

Poor blind Helen Keller has announced

is not probable that any shopkeeper will
bar his windows on her account.

IB s S'Tow. 'V>1<3^S3.;> Vje-ra^lcL

IDece^^b-c.^ X3- 1^13

^TO HELEN KELLER

\«,(f Special Dispatch to The HeJt'iLlll'.l^ j
NEW YORK, Dec. 22— Helen Keller
has received a bade from Fire Com
missioner Johnson permitting her to
pass the fire lines. It came as a com-
plete surprise to Miss Keller and she
wrote a letter today thanking him. In
ii she said:

"Fiom this day I belong to the fellow-
ship of firemen— the bravest and most
self -forgetful body of men in our public
service."

Other women who have these badges
are Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. Russell
Sage and Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard.

IWIl-e Badafe for H^i^JMiiBr.

Hai|ien Keller has joined the 'ranks of
thr^ fire "buffs." She has received a
bac>g« from Commissioner Johnson, enti-
tling her to the privileges of the fire lines.
Jn a letter acknowledging the courtesy
Miss Keller wrote: "Promt this da> i
belong to the fellowship of firemen, the
bravest and most self -forgetful body ot
men of any in our public- sei-vice."*

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C'(^e.->n^b-e.-r <2^0-. |Cfj3.

A^ IN-gp7^fl6N' FRdM H'fiCg[r
KELLER. ^"^^

A Terre H<8rGTe, Ind., miner, with
I an amputated leg was in despair. His
[Occupation was gone. The outlook ap-
peared dark and gloomy. He was
ready to give up and call his earthly
career at an end when his attention
I was called to Helen Keller of Wren-
tham,who was then in the city, and
the wonders that she had accomplish-
ed without sight, hearing or speech.
"If she can do so much for herself
I can get along," he said, and he is
now resolutely facing the future with
new courage and determination. And
if he keeps it up he is bound to win
out. He may not climb the heights
to which the brave Wrentham girl
has ascended but he can win an hon-
est living and he can make the world
the better for his having lived in it.

There is a lesson in the career of
Helen Keller for many others who
are in despair because they are out
of work, have met with misfortune
I or have not progressed quite so well
as they would like. These people
should recall, as did the Terre Haute
miner, the Wrentham girl's victory
in the face of obstacles that would
seem unconquerable and then with
renewed courage go back into the
ifray and fight to the bitter end. Keep
up a stout heart and fight with a
grim, resolute determination that
cwmot be denied and victory is sure
|to come in the end.

HELEN KELLER

. It is popularly claimed that there are
about one and a half billion of people
living upon tWe earth todayv Th^y rep-
resent all classes and Conditions of
men: Bond and free, rich and poor,
cultured and exalted, debased and ig-
norant, a few known to fame; the
great majority simply existing as other
billions have lived before them. A
comparatively small number have risen
above their fellows for a great variety
of reasons, butj no one of them is en-
titled to greater f^'fine than the.yoang
uoman, who, next Monday night is
to appear in Mechanics Hall to tell of
the Heart and the Hand in acquiring
knowledge. This woman, who from
childhood has been deprived of the
power of seeing and hearing, is to ac-
tually speak to a Worcester audience.
Were the advertisement to state that
a legless man would run a race or
that an armless individual would en-
gage in fisticuffs, seemingly the an-,
nouncement woulJ not be stranger than
this which is heralded for the evening
of December 29. For untold ages, the
unhappy persons, afflicted with total
deafness have been known as deaf and
dumb, but long ago, the educational
world gave up the expression absolute-
ly and vLsible speech became the medi-
um of communication between the deaf
and those who can hear.

»ut to be blind also! Not a ray of
light ever to penetrate the eye and tg
thus transmit impressions to the bruin!

No visible speecli nor any other means
of entrance save that of touch! What

a condition for one of God's children!

Charles Dickens never reached a high-

er pitch of eloquence than when, in '
his American Notes, he described the ;
wonderful results of the labors of Dr '
S. G. Howe in his efforts to impart !
knowledge to the helpless, blind and
deaf Laura Bridgeman. Very likely
she was not the first poor mortal thus
afflicted, but she was the first known
to fame and on his success in this re-
markable case, subsequent Victories
have been founded. In the last twenty
years we have had Edith Thomas, '
Elizabeth Robbins and Tommy String-
er, possibly others; all have been
raised, as it were, from the all but
dead, but of the entire list no one has
reached the pinnacle attained by Helen
Keller who, in ^er childhood, coming
ip the Perkins Institute for the Blind
in Boston, under the care and direction
of the late Dr Anagnos, a son-in-law
of Dr Howe, v/as transformed into the
cultured being whom it will be Wor-
cester's privilege to see and hear next
Monday night.

Not only is Miss Keller a wonder in
herself, she is, at the same time, one
of the crowning tributes to the Christ-
ian altruism of the age and nation in
which her lot «is cast. Of parentage,
unable, to ''asstii^ the co^t of her de-
velopment and, progress, men of wealth
aii(4 appi^eciaytiori came forward to pay
the outlay that her education cost.
She represents not alone the Helen
Keller whom the State of Alabama,
I gave to prove the possibilities of sci-
ence, but also the time and talent of
jher constant companion, teacher and
attendant who will appear with her in
her evening's entertainment here. Miss
Sullivan, now Mrs Macy, has been the
efficient medium through whom her
capable charge has been able to re-
ceive communication from the outer
i world and to impart to others her own

thoughts and hupressions and to be
graduated ffom Radcliffe College.
Greatest of all she has been taught to
articulate and, actually to speak as
those who attend her lecture may per-
ceive for themselves. The grand old
hall has presented many wonders in
it's almost sixty years of existence, but!
never anything- equal to that vrhich is|
promised when Helen Keller speakSvJ

^ece-^^^be-r- O-l,, 1^13.

EDISON IS HELEN
KELLER'S HOPE

INVENTOR Told of Plans for Friction Printing
— Blind Woman Showed Interest in Talking
Pictures — How She Described the *'Hand of a
Creator " — Her Remarkable Interview at Llewel-
lyn Park, New Jersey, Had Inspiring Effect

By BERTHA E. TOMLINSON

THERE is, perhaps, no woman living
to-day— and comparatively few men,
and those active in public life— who
lias more friends, or who meets a larger
number of persons of all ages and condi-
tions than Helen Keller. And yet, curious-
ly enough, to many she is even now a
myth. It is said by those best in the posi-
tion to know that the belief is rather wide-
spread abroad that there is no such per-
son as Helen Keller. And constantly those
around her find that simple-minded folk

n;ry timidly to touch her, as one set apart,
and some mystic power in lier touch.

The writer had the pleasure and privi-
lege of meeting Mies Keller on her latest
stay in New York, under conditions of un-
usual interest and friendly intimacy for a
first meeting, and saw, over and over
again, young and old, of all degree, press
to shake her hand, and receive her un-
failing word of tactful, sympathetic greet-
ing, as if the touch of the hand were holy
and the spoken word a blessing from a
saint.

There will dwell always, in the mem-
ories of the few privileged to be present,
the meeting between Thomafe Edison and
Helen Keller — a meeting which both had
long desired — which took place Sunday, De-
cember 14, at the Edison home, in Llew^el-
lyn Park, Orange, just before Miss Keller
and Mrs. Macy started on to the West, to ,
continue the arduous lecture tour, which
means almost constant speaking and travel-
ling until. May 1.

HER MEETING WITH EDISON.

To the others in the room that beautiful
Sunday afternoon, there were only the great
inventor, his face alive with interest, and
Helen Keller, fairly radiant with happiness,
though any interview would have been im-
possible without Mrs. Macy, the wonderful
friend and teacher, through whom, with oc-
casional assistance from Mrs. Edison, all
the talk on both sides passed.

Her own hearty interest in the people
around her, the joy of living, which make
Helen Keller so delightful a comrade, were
at high tide that afternoon. The eager
words of greeting, of question, of discern-
ing comment, fairly stumbled over each
other on her lips. From the talk and some
simple tests of that happy afternoon, Helen
Keller carries to-day the hope of three
seeming miracles in the not far distant
future:

Greatly increased ease and ability in
her speech, and that of others similarly
limited.

Printed books for the blind. An invention,
of which Mr. Edison speaks confidently,
which will transmit sound waves into elec-
trical vibrations, these electrical vibrations
carrying actual perceptions of sound to
Miss Keller through her acutely sensitive
fingers.

It must be remembered that Helen Kel-
ler can have no memory of ever having'
heard her own speech as she was stricken
when a baby less than two years old. She
must rely on Mrs. Macy or some other help-
ful friend, to explain to her, via finger in-
terpretation, whether her words and enun-
ciation are understood by those she is ad-
dressing, be it single individual or large
audience. To her great disappointment, Mr.
Edison could not understand her, while he
heard easily enough the voice of Mrs. Edi-
son or Mrs. Macy. But he explained to her
why and how her handling of consonants,
especially the "s," "d," and "t" sounds,
made her speech difficult to understand by a
deaf person or by those some distance
away ; and showed her how to handle better
these bothersome consonants.

There was much merry talk about the
new talking-pictures, the invention which
promises to make grand opera as easily ob-
tainable in any home as parlor organs,

"But what of the scenery, and the
dances?" demanded the girl who has never
seen or heard an opera, as the great in-
ventor described this recent child of his
genius. And those who listened and watch-
ed— for one does, literally, watch a conver-
sation in which Helen Keller takes part —
could only marvel at the reality and vivid-!
ness of her mental picture of great oper-'
atic productions.

"But this," said Helen Keller, at last, "is
for those who already have many pleasures.
Will you not make printed books which the
blind can read? Books for the blind now
cost so much."

It w^as one of the very rare references to
the limitations life had laid upon her which
ever escaped her lips; and this seemed far
more a plea for others less fortunate than
for herself.

BOOKS FOR THE BLIND.

Printed books for the blind, Mr. Edison
assured her, are one of the likeliest of prob-
abilities. A very smooth paper, a "friction"
ink, a type larger than the ordinary book
type — and the thing is done. Highly sen-
sitive finger-tips will read these books al-
most as easily and swiftly as normal eyes
read the ordinary printed page.

Helen Keller feels deeply apd intensely;
and expresses her feelings with the abandor
jind freedom of a child. She was deeply

stirred by the realization that she was in-
deed face to face with the man whom she
had so long desired to meet, and her intense
feeling moved every one in the room.
j "My hand is to me what your hearing
I and sight together are to you,' she says is
"The World I Live In." that rare book of
revelation. "It is the hand that binds me to
the world of men and women." -

And this hand, delicate, sensitive, re-
sponsive to every contact with the world
around her, caught and held the hand of
Edison, striving to secure the impressions
of personality which come to others through
undimmed eyes and freedom of speech.

"It is the God-hand," she said once, the
fingers fluttering on Edison's hand. "It Is
the hand of the creator."

And Edison on his side was impressed
and stirred by the blind girl's marvellous
keenness and delicacy of touch perception,
and the poss'ibilities it held. He explained
to her and to the others who listened, that
science would make possible in th6 near
future the translation of sound waves into
electrical vibrations, and that these elec-
trical vibrations, carried through those
sensitive fingers to that highly developed
brain, would register there the actual per-
ceptions of sound which come to those of
normal hearing through the ears.

Just how? That is the miracle which is
1 to be worked out in Edison's brain and
I laboratory.

Tv'o further incidents of that afternoon
will linger always as fragrant memories.

One, when Helen Keller went into the
spacious hall, where the maids of the house-
hold were gathered, greeting and shaking
hands with each, with the cordial and gra-
cious manner that wins all from the first
moment. The other, the hour when Mr.
Edison played record after record on a
beautiful Victrola, watching with the pleas-
ure pf the host and the interest of the man
of science Helen Keller's delight as she
"listened," her hand against one side of
the large horn. WTiat did she get? Who can
tell for a certainty? Intense enjoyment—
that was beyond all question. To any spir-
ited music, her free hand kept perfect^
time. A beautiful voice and violin selec-
tion brought quick expression Ift words of
swift and sympathetic appreciation. (Re-
member, she was never told unless she;

asked what the selections were.) And once
when a beautiful bird song was being gix^enJ
she said : .. |

"Now I begin to know how it sounds I
when a bird sings. I heard a rooster crow
once; I held him in my hands so long lie
had to crow. But I never could make a
bird sing in my hands."

The rich, happy, hopeful afternoon cani«
to an end all too soon — Miss Keller and
Mrs. Macy were due to catch the express
for the West at its first stop outside New
York.

"What do you think of Mr. Edison?"
asked a friend, as the little party waited
a moment for the train.

"What everyone else thinks of him," came
he quick response."

"And that?"

"That he is the greatest man in the
;\H'orld."

% Mrs. Macy, the friend and teacher whose
patience and love have wrought the miracle
of Helen Keller's education, heard and
smiled.

"And she is the greatest woman in the
world," she said.

"The calamity of the blind is immense,
irreparable" — the quotation again Is from
if'The World I Live In." "But it does not
make away our share of the things that
count — service, friendship, humor, imagin-
ation, wisdom."

_i,^^^'*^ew«jyork by Helen Keller i

The Cifcoftion of woman in modern j
society, tfli^,Jiigher education of women, !
blindness ancTltsprevention, education of
the Wilidw**«w*'"'other important subjects
are taken up in Helen Keller's new book,
published by Doubleday, Page & Co.
Upon these subjects Miss Keller brings
to bear her marvelously clear ideas. She
writes with that strength and under-
standing of her time and with that fresh-
ness and clearness of vision which has
brought her to the position, not consider-
ing her affliction, of one of the leadin'
woman thinkers in the country.

jyiISS HELEN_ KELLER
MEETS FAMOUS
DR. MONTESSORI

HAIL EACH OTHER

A noteworthy interview took place
in New York recently. Dr. Maria
Wontessori met for the first time
Helen Keller and her teacher, Mrs.
Tohn Macy (Anne Sullivan). They
had heard of each other for years,
and both the Italian educator and the
deaf, dumb and blind American girl
were much moved when they first
came face to face. The Boston Her-
ald says:

Miss Keller stood with her hands
Ion Dr. Montessori's shoulders. Then
she said distinctly: "Blessed are the
feet of her who comes across the sea
with a message of liberty to the chil-
dren of America."

"Tell her," said Dr. Montessori,
"that my children understand her,
they know the triumph of the soul
over difficulties. But the children of
the future, the men of the future, will
understand her even better than men
do now, for they will be liberated,
and will know how the spirit can pre-
vail over the senses."

"You are fighting for the freedom
of children," said Miss Keller. "We
are fighting for the freedom of the
parents, for the industrial revolu-
tion." ■

"Blessed are the feet
of her who comes
across the sea with a
message of liberty to
the children of Ameri-
ca," said H|ig|^J^Ier
when she met the great
educator. Miss Keller
is at the right and Dr.
IViOntessori at the left.

f "But it is all one," said the Dot-
toressa. "The complete revolution is
external and internal, too. I began
as a sympathizer with political revo-
lutionists of all kinds. Then I came
to feel that it is the liberation of
what we have in our hearts that is
the beginning and end of revolution."
"But, surely," said Miss Keller, "we

never can have the Montessori sys-
tem or any other good system of edu-
cation so long as .the conditions of
the home, of the parents, of the work-
ers, are so intolerable."

"Certainly, that is true. But we
must educate children so that they
will know how to free themselves
and others from bondage. And the
first thing is to bring our children
under the care of worthy teachers.
You and Mrs. Macy symbolize such
education, the education of the fu-
ture, the development of a soul by
the union of an inspiring teacher and
the child whose soul has grown free-
ly with such stimuli as it needs, and
without the stimuli that debase and
hinder growth."

"When you think of the appalling
conditions under which people live,"
said Miss Keller, "it sometimes
seems a miracle that the children
grow up at all to intelligence and de-
cency."

There was a moment's pause, dur-
ing which every one seemed to be
thinking of the . mountains to be
moved. Then Montessori said:

"Queen Margherita is much interest-
ed in you."

"I have heard that she is a sweet
and noble woman."

"Indeed she is."

"And they tell me the king, too, is
a good man. All the same, we must
get rid of all idngs."

The Dottoressa nodded, and Mr8|
:Macy laughed. "You see," she said J
"Helen is an uncompromising revolu-,
tionis*. She won't allow even a good;
king, though I suppose we should bej
grateful for" a good one, once in a'
while." . ;

D^. Montessori was studying Misa^
Keller's face. "In spite of all you^
say, Mrs. Macy, all your explanations
of how she was taught, I do not see-j
how her spirit has such vision. She
seems like a special revelation of
God." 4

"Every child," said Miss Keller,
"can be a special revelation of God,
if he is taught properly, and is al
lowed to live under right conditions."

"Helen was a revolutionist befori
I was," said Mrs. Macy. "Two oi
three years before I cared for them
she had all these ideas. You see, If
could have moulded her in my ownj
likeness, I could have made her a
copy of myself. But I left her free
to think."

"That is it. Liberty to think."
"Did it ever occur to you. Dr.
Montessori," asked Mrs. Macy, "that
the same ideas spring up in many^
parts of the world at about the samer
time? I did not know of your work,
nor you of mine. What is it? Is it
the spirit of the age manifest here
^nd there in one and another indi-,
vidua!?"

"It is all in what we want," sal
Miss Keller. "We ought to want
more, for what we want we get, if
we want it hard enough. For ex^
ample, women want the vote, men
want better conditions o2 labor and
children want more freedom. And'
remember, what we really want wo
get" J

TX 0 -r c €. s Ce-r , IfY,^ a^ S s . , "Pc? s t

HELEN KELLER COMING

Miss IJ^'^W'-g^il^r^ young woman
born deaf, dumb and blind, will be
presented in a lecture in Mechanics
hail next Monday night by Worcester
county mechanics' association. M'iss
Keller is considered one of the great-
est wonders of the age and her lec-
ture promises to be one of the most
interesting and remarkable ever given
in Worcester.

Miss Keller's subject will be "The
heart and hand or the right use of
our senses," and she will tell those
blessed with the power to see, hear
and talk how she learned to enjoy life
and keep apace with the big move-
ments in the world today through the
use of her senses.

Mrs Anne M. (Sullivan) Macy, her
teacher, will accompany Miss Keller.
Miss Keller has attracted large audit*
ences in every city in which she ha^
appeared in, her lecture tour and It is
expected that a crowded house will
5:reet her Monday night. The lecture
l^ill begin at 8 o'clock.

HELEN KELLER HONORED.

*^iiss Hul«wi lC<!!M»FTPJg" j'OlTrpd the siaaii ,
^l^pany of women who hold fire badcfos
^hit will admit them within the police [
V^^;s at fires in this city, says the New
YTTNij^un.

The '^^'^HMa^" holding the badges riave i
never beenTt^Q,v\n xo use them, so far as 1
the firemen are aware. These holders ^.ro
Mrs. Shephard (Helen Gould), Mi.ss Anno
Morgan^ Mrs. Russell Sage and Mrs. rl.
H. Mainzer. The emblems are of gold,
with the holder's name inscribed on eacli
one. .

Fire Commissioner Johnson received this
acknowledgment from Miss Keller:

"Dear Mr. Johnson—I shall never b3 ab.a

to tell you how happy you have made me.

If I could vou would indeed be giad of

the trouble you took. You wouid be glad

too if you could have witnessed my te-aoli-

er's surprise and delight when she rcaii

•vour letter to me this morning. Ihe badge

isv-fine and beautiful, certainly, and inaives

me fe^l as the vlctOJ' whcm t.m laurel

^wnvath is placed uppn Ins brow, and his

fellows shout and march bj'. . ,,

"J am not sure- ttet T should know no;.;

to behave within your 'fire i"5''^- ,. 7. '\;;^.
fire rngine or climb the fire laddei. i ami

ashamed to confess that the smallest boy:
of my acquaintance knows more than. ..
about the etiquette of the fire line. So for
vou to offer me the freedom of your tu'e
lines and present me with biie badge of'
your honored department is somewhat ii:
the nature of an innovation. I should be.
proud of this consideration if T were a.
man. Being a girl. T am still more prv)ua
because it has remove<1 one of the draw-
backs of being- only a girl. From this day
T belong to the followship of firemen, th*^
bravest and most self-forgelful body of
Unen in our public service." ^

#ED!SON SEES HELEN KELLER

.^Thomas A. Edison an^ • H^Jeak*MI4§r
met the other day, and it said the
$CfrmeT showed much interest in the
:J:eenness and delicacy of the latter's
ftonch perception. As a result, Mr. Edi-
ison declared his confidence that he
co^ld translate sonnd waves into elec-
trical vibrations and thus give Miss
Keller actual sound perceptions, says
the Ohio State Journal. How won-
Iderful that will be! The universe

and all the life in it, is a matter of

vibration. That is what Irgrht, heat,

isoan4 eie<;trieity ara. The promised
coincidence of these great powers
through the concurrence of their vi-

ibr^Stions will some day be accbmplish-

[ed, so that we will be able to see a

I sound or hear a color. If our senses
cannot meet the test, science will. '

' This vibration constitutes the spirit !
of the material world, and there can !

I be no more interesting experience i
than for the human spirit to contem-
plate it It is not possible that some |
day we can reason together, but it Is
highly possible it may speak, to us

! as a bird or ..to nooan of the wind.

tUl^UiN f KU/niDLD

HELEN KELLER TO
MAKE DEAF HEAR

♦

Noted Inventor Believes It Can Be Wrought With

Electric Vibrations. Also Working To Create

Printed Books Blind Can Easily Read

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.— When Helen
Keller left New York on the lecturing
tour that will keep her on the stage
until May 1, she bore in her heart the
greatest Christmas gift that she could
receive. It was the promise of Thomas
A. Edison, the inventor, that easy
speech for the dumb and printed books
for the blind would be accomplished In
the near future.

As, with Mrs Macy, her teacher, Miss
Keller boarded the train, she beamed
with happiness, secure in the knowl-
edge that some day she would be able
to talk fluently and read books which,
although printed for the blind, cost
little more than ordinary ones.

It was at their meeting at Lakewood,
the inventor's home, that she received
this promise. As it is described by Miss
Bertha E. Tomlinson, who was present
at the meeting, from the talk and some
simple tests of that happy afternoon,
Helen Keller carries today the hope of
three seeming miracles in the not far
distant future: J

MISS HELEN KELLER

Greatly increased ease and ability in
her speech and that of othets similarly
limited.

Printed books for the blind. An inven-
tion, of which Mr Edison speaks con-
fidently, which ^vill transmit sound
waves into electrical v^^lbrations, these
electrical vibrations carrying actual
perceptions of sound to Miss Keller

through her acutely sensitive fingers.^
STRICKEN WHEN A BABY

It must be remembered that Helen
Keller can have no memory of ever
having heard her own speech as she
was stricken when a baby less than
two years old. She must rely on Mri^
Macy or some other helpful friend, to'
explain to her, by finger interpretation,
whether her words and enunciation are
understood by those she is addressing,
be it a single individual or large audi-
ence.

To her great disappointment, Mr Edi-
son could not understand her, while he
heard easily enough the voice of Mrs
Edison or Mrs Macy. But he explained
to her why and how her handling of
consonants, especially the "s," "d," and
*'t" sounds, made her speech difficult to
understand by a deaf person or by
those some distance away; and showed
her how to handle better these bother-
some consonants.

There was much merry talk about
the new talking-pictures, the invention
which promises to make grand opera
as easily obtainable in any home as
parlor organs. . .,

"But what of the scenel^^alid the
dances?" demanded the girl who has
never seen or heard an opera, as the
great inventor described this recent
child of. his genius. And those who
listened and watch ed^ — for one does,
literally, watch a conversation in which |
Helen Keller takes part— could only
marvel at the reality and vividness of
her mental picture of great operatic
productions.

"But this," said Helen Keller, at last,
"is for those who already have many
pleasures. Will you not make printed
books which the blind can read? Books
for the blind now coyt so much.''

It was one of the very rare references i
to the limitations lile had laid upon!
her which ever escaped her lips; and
this seemed far more a plea for others
less fortunate than for herself.

BOOKS FOR THE BLIND
Printed books for the blind, Mr Edi-
son assured her, are one of the likeliest
of probabilities. A very smooth paper,
a "friction" ink, a type larger than
the ordinary book type — and the thing
is done. Highly sensitive finger tips
will read these books almost as easily
and swiftly as normal eyes read the '
ordinary printed page.

Helen Keller feels deeply and in-
tensely, and expresses her feelings
with the abandon and freedom of a
child. She was deeply stirred by the
realization that she was indeed facts
to face with the man whom she had
80 long desired to meet, and her in-
tense feeling moved every one in the!
l*oorn. '

"My hand is to me what your hearing
and sight together are to you," she
says in "The World I Live In." "It is
the hand that binds me to the world
of men and women."

And this hand, delicate, sensitive, re-
sponsive to every contact with the
world around her, caught and held
the hand of Edison, striving to secure
the impressions of personality which
come to others through undimnjea
eyes and freedom of speech.

"It is the God-hand," she said once,
the fingers fluttering on Edison's hand.
"It is the hand of the creator."

And Edison on his side was impressed
and stirred by the blind girl's marvel-
lous keenness and delicacy of touch
perception, and the possibilities it held.
He explained to her and to the others
■who listened that science would make
possible in the near future the trans-
lation of sound waves into electrical
vibrations and that these electrical vi-
brations, carried through those sensi-
tive fingers to that highly developed
brain, would register there the actual
perceptions of sound which come to
those of normal hearing through the
ears.

Just how? That is the miracle which
Is to be worked out in Edison's brain
and laboratory.

The crowning triumph ' of efforts in
behalf of the deaf and blind, Miss
Helen Keller, who is to appear tonisht
In the Mechanics' Association Course of
Lectures, is a most wonderful realiza-
tion^ of what can be accomplished
where skill, experience, persever£^n<"?
and an all absorbing- spirit of altruism
Q,re combined to assist the unfortunate,
l^orn in Tuscumbia, Alabama, June 27,
1880, she was like other normal, healthy
children, until the February following
lier first birthday when, after a severe
illness, "acute congestion of the stom-
fich and brain," she was "plunged into
I the unconsciousness of a newborn
babe." Thus she existed till nearly
Heven years old, shut out from sight
uind sound, able however to walk and
play, in her own way, making her
wants known by signs, interpreted by
* those near her, but quite oblivious to
the great world about her. Through
•'The American Notes" of Charles
Dickens, her mother had heard of Dr
S. G. Howe's success in treating Laura
Bridgeman, ^iimilarly aftlicted, but that
was a long tinrie ago and Dr Howe was
dead and, for ought the Kellers knew,
his art and skill died with him.

In quest of help, the loving father,
a Confederate veteran of the Civil War,
took his child to Baltimore but the best {
jthe distinguished oculist there could j
do was to send the seekers to Wash- !
'ington, there to interview Dr Alex-
ander Graham Bell, the famous tele-
phone man, and he had the wit to ad-
jvise corresponding with Dr Michael
Anagnos, then at the head of the
Perkins Institute for the Blind in |
Boston and, at the same time, a son-
in-law of the great philanthropist, Dr
Howe, and a most worthy successor.
He found a teacher and in March,
1887, he sent Miss Anne M. Sullivan to
Alabama to rescue the child from
bondage. "Thus I came up out of
Egypt and stool before Sinai," says
Miss Keller in her life-story, "and a
pov/er divine touched my spirit and
gave it sight, so that I beheld many
wonders." From that day to this the
lives of pupil and teacher have been
almost identical, save for brief inter-
vals.

During her stay in the Institute the
child, Helen Keller, was easily the
star inmate for many a j r, develop-
ing finally into the attractive girl in
her teens becoming the appreciative and
cultured young woman, even entering
Radcliffe 'College in Cambridge in the
fall of 1900. In all of the admiration
that every one feels for the acquire-

ments of the deaf-blind girl, we should
not lose sight of that incomparable
teacher. Miss Sullivan, now Mrs Macy,
whose life has been reproduced In that
of her marvelous pupil. The teacher
will be with Miss Keller in her ap-
pearance in Mechanics hall this even-
ing, and will form a considerable part
of the attraction.

It is not inopportune to state that
Miss Keller has Massachusetts people
in her ancestry, including the Adams
and Everett faritnilies, but on her
father's side her people were of Swiss
extraction and among them was the
first teacher for the deaf in Zurich
and he also wrote a book on the sub-
ject. Her father, a Confederate cap-
tain during the great struggle between
North and South, was later an edi-
tor, but passed on to the other world
while his child was yet at the Institute
and did not survive to realize the re-
markable accomplishments of his
daughter. "The Story ot My Life,"
published in 190.*^, written hy Mi«(s Kel-
ler, is one of the great books of the
century and deserves careftil reading,
[er mo'st recent volume, one of essavs
|.nd letters, entitled "Out of the Dark-
less," is excellent proof of the thor-
)ughness of her education and of the
)art she is playing in the battle of life.

Bestow^, YK^lSS. , post.

A deaf blind mute is perhaps the last
person who would be expected to be a
public benefactor, yet Heleri Keller
has registered her views Sf^'ttt^^lSW-
greKSional Record, along with those of
the- elected representatives of the
people. ,

It was in the House of Representa-
tives that Congressman Henry George
a;5ked unanimous consent to print In
the Record an article by Helen Keller
which was a plea for the emancipation
of woman. He received it. In this ar-
ticle she talks in this wise:

"A woman opens' a can of food that
is adulterated with worthless and dan-
gerous stuff. If a petty thief were to
broak into her pantry an^ she fought
him tooth and nail, she would be ap-
plauded. But when a millionaire man-
ufacturer robs her by the peaceful
methods of commerce, she must have
nothing to say, bvcause she 'does not
understand business' and politics is
'not for her to middle in.' "

osro>a^, ^VlsuS^s., H^-rc^ia>.

-b e-c ^-^.^ b ^-r- 5-^ „ 1^)3

EDISON TO HELP DUMffl
TO TALK, BUND TO READ!

Helen Keller Leaves, After Meeting with'

Wizard, Full of Hope of Great Things

in Near Future.

[Special Dispatch to The Herald.]
NEW YORK, Dec. 28-When Helen
Keller left New York on the western
lecturing tour that will keep her on the
stage until May 1, she bore in her heart
the greatest Christmas gift that she
could receive. It was the promise of'
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, that
easy speech for the dumb and printed
books for the blind would be accom- i

plished in the near future. !

As, with Mrs. Macy, her teacher. Miss
Keller boarded the train, she beamed
with happiness, secured in the knowl-
edge that some 6.a.y she would* be able
to talk fluently and read books which,
although printed for the blind, cost little
more than ordinary ones.

It was at their meeting at Lakewood,
the inventor's home, tliat she received/;
! this promise. As it is described by Miss:
Bertha E. Tomlinson, who was present
at the meeting, from the talK and some
simple tests of tlaat happy afternoon,
Helen Keiier carries today the hope of
three seeming miracles in the not far
distant future :

Greatly increased ease and ability In'
her speech and that of others similarly-
limited. '
Printed books for the blind. An inven-
tion, of which Mr. Edison speaks confi-
dently, which will transmit sound waves
iinto electrical vibrations, these electrical
I vibrations carrying actual perceptions
[of sound to Miss Keller through her
1 acutely sensitive fingers.

Stricken When a Baby.
It must be remembered that Helen
sKeller can have no memory of ever,
having heard her own speech as she was'
stricken when a baby less than two
years old. She must rely on Mrs. Macy
or some other helpful friend,_to explain

to her, by finger interpretatTon, whether
her words and enunciation are under-
stood by those she is addressing, be It
single individual or large audience.

To her great disappointment, Mr. Edi-
son could not understand her, while he
heard easily enough the voice of Mrs.
Edison or Mrs. Macy. But he explained
to her why and hew her handling of
consonants, especial'y the "s," "d," and
"t" sounds, made her speech difficult
to understand by a deaf person or by
those some distance away; and showed
her how to handle better these bother-
some consonants.

There was much merry talk about the
new talking-pictures, the invention
which promises to make grand opera
as easily obtainable in any home as par-
lor organs.

"But what of the scenery and the
dances?" demanded the girl who lias
never seen or heard an opera, as the
great inventor described this recent
child of his genius. And those who
listened and watched — for one does,
literally, watch a conversation in which
Helen Keller takes part — could only
marvel at the reality and vividness of
her mental picture of great operatic
productions.

"But this," said Helen Keller, at last,
"is for those who already have many
pleasures. AVili you not make printed
books which the blind can read? Books
for th^ blind now cost so much."

It was one of the very rare references
to the limitations life had laid upon her
which ever escaped her h-ps; and this
seemed far more a plea for others less
fortunate than for herself.

Books for the Blind.

Printed books for the blind, Mr. Edison
assured her, are one of the likeliest of
probabilities. A very smooth paper, a
"friction" ink, a type larger than the
ordinary book type— and the thing is
done. Highly sensitive finger tips will
read these books almost as easily and
swiftly as normal eyes read the ordinary
printed page.

Helen Keller feels deeply and intensely,
and expresses her feelings with the
abandon and freedom of a child. She
was, deeply stirred by the realization
that she was indeed face to face with
the man whom she had so long desired
to meet, and her intense feeling moved
every one in the room. i

"My hand is to me what vour hearing
and sight together are to you," she says
In "The World I Live In," "It is the
hand that binds me to the world of men
and women."

And this hand, delicate, sensitive, re-
sponsive to every contact with the world
around her, caught and held the hand of
Edison, striving to secure the impres-
sions of personality which come to oth-
ers through undimmed eyes and freedom
of speech.

Helen Keller, Whom Thomas A. Edisoi: Has Promised Aid for Blind and Dumb.

"Vvi^.

"It is the God-hand," she said onee,
the fingers fluttering on Edison's hand.
"It is the ^and of the creator."
, And Edison on his side was Impressed
and stirred by the blind girl's marvellous
keenness and delicacy of touch percep-
tion, and the possibilities it held. He
explained to her and to the others who
listened that science would make pos-
sible in the near future the translation
of sound waves into electrical vibrations,
and that these electrical vibrations, car-
ried through those sensitive fingers to
that highly developed brain, would reg-
ister there the actual perceptions of
sound which come to those of normal
hearing through the ears.

Just how? That is the miracle which,
is to be worked out in Edison's brainl
and laboratory.

HELEN KELLER. BRINGS TEARS TO EYES
WITH HER MESSAGE OF PATIENT YEARS

The first impression on hearing Helen

Keller speak, last night, in Mechanics

hall, was one of awe at the miracle that

sems to have been performed in her case.

Tears came to the eyes on hearing from

this deaf, blind and formerly dumb giirl a
;inessage of love, faith, patience and un-
flagging cheerfulness. Mrs. Anne H.

Macy, Sullivan, her teacher, also spoke.
Worcester county mechanics association,]

Myron F, Converse, president, with 6.1

H. Coates as chairman of the committee,

was responsible for Miss Keller's presen-
ilation in the most remarkable lecturjp.i

ever given, as many would consider it.:
."The heart and the hand, or the right:

use of our senses," it was called.
Mrs. Macy spoke for an hour, telling

some of the history of the blind girl, andl

Miss Keller spoke for 20 minutes, giving

a lesson of good cheer.
Accompanying the lectlirers on the trip

from Boston to Worcester, made jual in

time for the talks and a quick return,

was Miss Keller's mother, whose face

beamed with joy at the achievement of'

her wonderful child. After the program

crowds beselged the anteroom door, and .3

few got in to shake hands with Miss Kel-

ier arjjd .to hear her speak again.

I' In an interview with The Telegram^ re*
^ porter she shook hands, expressed a mes-
sage of love and inspiration and referred
to her trip and her pleasure in being able
to speak in Worcester to so many peopl'\
Mrs. Macy stood by all the time, and
the bond between teacher and pupil
seemed unbreakable. Mrs. Macy inter-
preted when it seemed necessary, which
was rarely indeed. -.'

Mrs. Keller said, witb sparkling eyeso
"I am her mother." Mrs. Macy told of
a visit that pupil and teacher made at
Christmas to the mother In Alabama, and.
;of returning for the lecture course. /

The atmosphere radiated by the tno
was one of great tenderness, and all neaf
seemed to feel uplifted as if in a miracu-
lous company.

Mr. Coates spoke the introductory-
words, referring to the achievement
about to be exemplified. Mrs. Macy*
then spoke in a somewhat high-pitched
but resonant and carrying voice, telling
the story of her first meeting with Mis;?!
Keller, and the incidents since then aa
they related to the lecture.

Deaf and blind at the age of 19 months,
Helen Keller was in darkness until she
was nearly 7. Then Mrs. Marcy (Miss
Sullivan), a graduate of the Perkins in-
'stitution, where Dr. S. G. Howe had
done his great work with Laura Bridg-
maii, went to Helen's home in Alabama,
and began her education. At the age of
ilO Helen learned to speak. At 16 she was'
preparing for college. She graduated
ifrom Radcliffe colleg-e in 1904, receivingr
fthe degree of bachelor of arts, cum laude.
While she was in college she wrote "The
story of my life," which has been trans-
lated into 15 languages.

Since then she has written three books
and has devoted herself to work for the
blind and the deaf. At several meetings
in their behalf, she has delivered spoken
addresses. But her voice did not carry
far then, and it was always necessary
for someone to repeat what she said,
sentence by sentence.

During the past year she has taken
another step. Under the instruction of
Charles White a teacher of singing 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. 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 in Boston at the Har-
vard medical school.

Mrs. Macy explained that she herself
was almost totally blind till an Opera-*
t ion gave her imperfect sight. She was
the only available one to send when the
call came from Mi-s. ' Kellfei- in Tusctim-
bia, Ala., for a :teacher for. the . little
Helen. "^

The child was Ijorn, Jtine 27, 1880, was
jiormal fa.nd healthy till a disease, the
nature <>f which is uncertain, but which
iSVSiS called congestion of the brain and
tetomach, deprived her of the use of her

nf 9. C U 1 1 i G S .

! She was lively, romped about the house,
had a fierv temper and was like a young
animal. The desire for a teacher came
after Mrs. Keller had read in "The Amer-
ican notes," by Charles Dickens, of Dr.
Howe's success in treatmg Laura Bridg-
man, another deaf mule, 40 years be-

fore. The fathei' had taken his child to
Baltimore for treatment, thence to Dr.
Alexander Graham Bell, whose study for
ud for the deaf had led to the invention
)f the telephone. ^ ^,

The father was a veteran of the con-
federate army. Finally he saw Dr. Mi-
chael Anagnos. a Greek, who wag head
of the Perkins institute. Through him
the teacher was sent in March, 1887.

She was young and enthusiastic, but
had no special method and, as she said
last night, she studied to guide her pupil
And in that way learned Jierself.

The two romped in the farmyard, knew
the life of beast and flower and got to
an understanding that has opened the
■"Soul of the blind girl. Mrs. Macy had
some interesting experiences with the
child at first, which she related to the
amusement of the audience, though i
pathos succeeded the humor in quick i
order.

Spelling doll by hand language was the
first lesson. Then came cake and other
things that the child liked. She learned,
by association of ideas. The doll was
taken away and then returned after she
had spelled the word.

One glad day the teacher ^nelled the
word water as it gushed over the child's
hand and then tl^e pupil asked many
questions, pointing to different things and
waiting for the teacher to spell them.
That was the day when, after a month
of teaching in a groping sort of way,
there flashed into the child's mind the
idea that everything has a name and she
acquired the names after that in rapid
succession.

"Instead of a baffled little animal there
stood a radiant child." Mrs. Macy said.
After four months the child could write
a letter. In six months she could read
.<=!imple stories, in a raised orint book.
On her eighth birthday. Dr. Edward
Everett Hale met her and was much
imnress^d.

The system of education which Dr.
Maria Montessdr} has come to America
to expound was evolved at the same time
in this county by Mrs. Macy who real-
ized that the way to teach a child is to
give it freedom. Lessons at certain
hours were abandoned and thereafter thei
child led the teacher who believed that
if the pupil wanted to sail a boat the
time for a navigation lesson was at hand
and arithmetic could wait.

"It is the child's prerogative to take
the initiative," said Mrs. Macy.

Credit was given to Miss Sarah Fuller,
principal of the Horace Mann schauj*.
Boston, for lessons tr%t helpe^[^(^|ffiss
Keller to talk with her vocal organs and
the resonance of the voice was attributed
to Mr. White.

Mrs. Macy explained that it was Miss
Keller herself who determined to talk
like other persons and when they had
n(^ faith that she could, she forged ahead
and proved tliat she was right. Dr.
James Carr Love calls her the greatest
individual achievement in the whole his-
tory of education.

Mrs. Macy considers the four years
passed by Miss Keller at Radcliffe almost
wlasted, with the exception of the En-
§hsh courses taught by Charles T. Cope-

land. Nothing- was done to make the
other studies easier for Miss Keller but*
she was made to fight it all out alone,
with not even the presence of her guide,,
Mrs. Macy, at the examination to read
the questions to her in sign language.,
Hut Helen Keller won her degree-. ,

jThe book, "The story of my life," for;
Which she got $3000, was written at Rad-;
cliffe and accepted as her daily themes.

iAfter'Mrs. Macy had finished, she, with'
Mrs. Keller, led Miss Keller to the plat-J
form wheref her nostrils were greeted
with the odor of a bouquet of americah
beauty roses on the stand in front of
her. The blind girl bowed and smiled.

^Her hair is a grayish brown, her eyes.

■.^rgij^ her smile shows good teeth and
her lips are prettily curled.

J Her complexion and neck are fair and
her form is well set up and inclined to
slenderness. She wore a,n american
beauty charmeuse gown witVi lace and
\^elvet trimming and long white gloves

h-which she removed to give an illustration
of lip reading by the hand, after her,
talk. 4

Mrs. Macy wore black charmeuse with
brilliants trimming the corsage. She is
slont with a rosy face and black hair.
• Miss Keller, who could not hear her-

I self talk, was heard distinctly in the first
few rows from the stage. She was hegird

I by many farther back who bVcame ac-
customed l0 iier ■ voicfe' after* a while,
but there-were others . who could not
catch the words because of, the pecullar-

|ity of Utterance: Th' th^ front §eats the
the audience ll'^tened' to a vOice that was
not unpleasing and, whether' one watched,
the lips or not, was easily heard. Miss
Keller said . in part: —

"I bring you a message of love and
brotherhood. My teacher has told you
how I learned to talk. My teacher opened
my soul, freed me so that I learned to
know myself. You have helped me to
see, to hear, to talk. With my mind,
heart and soul I see and understand.

I "I was in darkness till my teacher came.

[My hand is to me what your hearing and

sight together are to you^ It Is the hand

that binds me to the wci*ld, of men and

women.

"You who have your sertses, make good

^use of them. Be glad that you can s?e,
hear and speak."

She went on to speak of the brother-
hood of man, showing her socialistic in-'
terest in a revolutionized society. She
answered questions by reading frojn her
teacher's lips what the audience said,
and confessed that she is a militant suf-
fraget, as the men were militant who
threw the tea into the Boston harbor.

She added a touch of humor by saying
that she can dance the turkey trot. Sne
said that she hears the music of violin
and oman by means of the vibrations,
and that she recognized applause through
her feet. She said it does not hurt her
to talk except occasionally, and. she re-i
cited "Mary's little lamb," to show how
easy it is to do it.

Miss Keller talked with Daniel E.
Denny in hand language after the lec-
tture. Crowds waited to see Miss Keller
as she left the hall, but she w^ent out by
I the back door and hurried gff to the sta-
tion.

Thomas, A. E<3ison' is a; friencl of Miss
'Ke"ller, and he believes he can invent an
instrument to make her hear. She is filled
with joy at th'e prospect, and will visit
him. at his, home, after ..thls^Iec|riire tour,
to have ariothei'' conference With him on
|:he^ subject,, ■ ,, .,-

In the audience were ineiiibera of the
school committee, pro^essioi^al' men and
women, members of the as.sbciation and
many curious to see the blind girl, who
is a leading figure in the world, and one
of the most remarkable human beings of
fJlLJ^he^ ages.

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HELEt^K£LLER-SPEAKS
^"^ IN ME_CHANICS HALU

Bringing a message of love, faitj
patience and constant cheerfulnes
Helen Keller, the famous blind, deaf
and formerly dumb girl, spoke in Me-
chanics hall last night under the aus-
pices of the Worcester county mechan-
ics' association.

Miss Keller was accompanied by her
mother and her teacher, Mrs. Anne H.
Macy. The latter also spoke. ,

George H. Coates introduced- Miss
Keller, giving a . brief sketch of her
career and accomplishments.

Miss Keller, of very pleasing ap-
pearance and charming manners, spoke
in a voice that could be heard dis-
tinctly several rows from the stage and
in other parts of the hall, after the au-
dience had become accustomed to it.

She said in part:

"I bring yQu a message of love and
brotherhood. My teacher has told you
how I learned to talk. My teacher
opened my soul, freed me so that I
learned to know myself. You have
helped me to see, to hear, to talk.
With my mind, heart and soul I see
and understand. I was in darkness
till my teacher came. My hand is to
me what your ^hearing and s'ight to-
gether are to you. It is the hand that
binds me to the world of men and
women. You who have your senses,
make good use of them. Be glad that
you can see, hear and speak."

She also answered questions by read-
ing from her teacher's lips, and said
she could hear violin and organ music
by means of vibrations and could dis-
tinguish applause through her feet.
She also recited "Mary's little lamb."
Mrs. Macy talked about an hour, re-
lating experiences of Miss Keller's life
and describing the various steps in her
e^Jucation.

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Famous Blind Woman Talks To Biff Audience In

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Training Told By Mrs Macy

HELEN KELIjER

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I Bring-ing a message of love, good

fellowship and good cheer, Helen

Keller, the miracle of the age as far

as individual achievment and sur-
mounting of obstacles is concerned,
spoke in Mechanics hall last night he-
fore an audience that packed the au-
ditorium to the doors. It was one of
the regular series in the Mechanics
Association course, and the audiefce'
was one of the most representative
type. It included men and women
prominent in the educational world,
all anxious to see and to meet if pos-
sible, the wonderful woman who, al-
though deaf, dumb and blind, has
succeeded in taking a college degree
and of becoming sufficiently intelligi-
ble to be understood in such a hall.
She was accompanied by her teacher,
Mrs Annie H. (Sullivan) Macy, who
gave part of the lecture.

G. H. Coates presided introducing
Mrs Macy as the first speaker. Sh5
said that when people first see Helen
Keller several questions come to
their minds, and it is only after these
questions are answered that they ap-
preciate Miss Keller's words. The
questions are "How was she taught?"
"How did she learn" and "How did
she take a full college course." Mrs
Macy gave a brief sketch of the Ufe
of her pupil from the time that she
first went to Tuscumbia, Ala., to
teach her, 2 6 years ago last March.
Helen was then nearly seve)i years
old, and she was deaf, dumb and
blind, a condition that had existed
from her 19th month. She was a
perfectly normal child until then and
the condition was brought about by|
an illness still undiagnosed, but which
was supposed to be a congestion of,
the brain and stomach. The little
Helen was a normal healthy little
animal, with active brain, a fiery dis-
position and eager, inquisitive little I
fingers, feeling of everything and
j anxious to fight her way out from the
j barriers that were holding her back.

HOW TRAINING BEGAN
The'^dea that the, little girl might lie
■ taught came to Mrs Keller after read-
; ing in "The American Notes," by
'Charles Dickens of Dr Howe's success
';in treating Laura Bridgeman. Con-
; sequently a request was sent to the
Perkins Institute for the Blind in Bos-
ton for a teacher. Miss Sullivan had
only been graduated from there about
' a month, and was the only person who
was available who could see well
enough to undertake the journey. She
had lived in the house with L«a.ura
^Bridgeman, then a woman perhaps 58
years old and had learned the manual
alphabet. Mrs Macy explained that
she herself had been blind until 18
years old and regained her sight after
an operation. Mrs Macy told of her

advent in the household, of her first
encounter with Helen and the many
incidents relative to the awakening of
the mind of the child. She taught her
by the association of ideas with the
article, for example, giving her a doll,
then spelling th^ word into her hand;
taking away the doll and making her
ask for it by spelling it, also.

Mrs Macy said that the education of
the normal child begins from the time
that he is born. Everyone who comes
near the cradle with any article speaks
the name of that article, and from very
birth the child is showered with words.
In ' this way the language is learned
until one day, when baby wants milk,
he says the name of it, and in this way
learns to talk. In the first 25 days tHat
Miss Sullivan was with the little Helen
Keller she learned 18 nouns and three
verbs. Then, at the end of that time,
the idea flashed through the child's
mind that everything had a name, and
on that day she learned the names of
30 articles, each one of which she ask-
ed for, herself. The real meaning of
language had come to her, and from
that time the prison doors were open
and the little captive set free. By the
fourth month she was writing and had
also learned the Braille system. In
six months she was reading little stor-
ies in raised print and acting them
out with vivid imagination. She en-,
dowed everything with life, and acted
out the Babes in the Woods, and Red
Riding Hood, just as do other children.
On her eighth birthday Dr Edward
Everett Hale came to see her and was
received by Helen in a very serious
mood.

FORGES AHEAD FAST
Mrs. Macy said that when she first,
began to teach her little pupil she^
thought that an exact schedule waSj
necessary, but that she soon aban-r'
doned that and made it a point to give'
up the lesson just as soon as she saw
her pupil's attention beginning to wan-
der. It is of very little use to attempt
to give a lesson in arithmetic if the
little pupil's mind is entirely occupied
in keeping his boat right side up in a
basin of water. Better results are at-
tained if the teacher immediately aban-
dons arithmetic and takes a lesson in
navigation, instead. She expressed it.'
as her belief that it is only through
freedom that the individual develops.
Mrs. Macy said that if it is true that-
Helen Keller ovv'es her education to her
teacher, it is equally true that her
teacher owes hers to her pupil, for
she had to study to keep along with
her. She admits that she has now
outstripped the teacher, for Mrs. Macy
says that Miss Keller knows more
Greek, Latin, higher arts, economics
and socialism than she herself does.

For the first three yl^ifs" Helen
ence. The manual alphabet opened the
after that insisted that she learn to
talk. She was consequently, taken to
Miss Sarah Fuller of the Horace Mann
school but it has taken Miss Keller 20
years to learn to speak before an audi-
ence. The manuel alphabet opened the
door of her mind, and speech gave
wings to her thought. Miss Keller
went to college in opposition to the
wishes of everyone but her idea was
expressed in a letter to the Dean cf
Radcliffe, in which she said that she
realized the obstacles aheadvOf her but
"no soldier ever gives up, before the
battle." j

She took such courses as GernaanI
Greek, Latin, economics / and similai
courses without any books printed ir
f Braille, and Mrs. Macy said that some-
'times the task they had undertaker
^seemed too much for mere mortals
.'Every book had to be spelled into hei
iiand, for, while some of the book;
were copied for her in Braille, thej
generally arrived too late tor use. Mrs
Macy did not speak enthusiasticall;
of the college course, which was take:
by Miss Keller practically unaided b
^anyone. She said that the studies tool
'so much time that they were force*
:;to miss most of the pleasant thing
'and the larger opportunities that gd
to make up college life. Miss Kellei
published her book "The Story of Mj
Life" in her sophomore year, becaust
the chapters were accepted as themet
in composition. Mrs. Macy remarked
dryly: "It is doubtful if any othei
sophomore ever received the sum ol
$3000 from any magazine for under-
graduate work." Mrs. Macy gave
much credit to Charles T. Copelan'd,
instructor in English, for the help that
he gave Miss Keller in her college
work.

Now Miss Keller is independent, ex-
cept in practical things. She can not
go to walk alone, until some one takes
her, she can not read books and maga-
zines until someone has the time to
read them to her. She can not walk
upon the stage alone, until someone
goes and gets her. Here is where the
pathos of it all oomes, in spite of the
admiration that everyone feels for the
wonderful way in which the girl has
overcome apparently insurmountable
obstacles.'

APPLAUSE FOR MISS KELLER

Miss Keller was greeted by a burst
of applause, as she stepped upon the
stage and was led to the front by her
teacher. She spoke in a voice, that,
while unintelligible to some was fairly
clear to the people occupying the front
,seats in the hall. She said, in part:

"I bring you a. message of love ana
brotherhood. My teacher has told you

how I learned to talk. My teacher
opened my soul, freed me so that I
learned to know myself. You hav^
helped me to see, to hear and to talk.
With my mind, I see and understand.
What I have to say is very simple. We
live for each other every one of us.
Where I was blind, now I see; I was
jdeaf, now I hear; I was dumb, now
I speak. Without my teacher I would
be nothing^, without each other, we
would all be nothing. The world is full
of beauty and good things. Look for
them and. you will find them. You
who know your senses make good use
^f them. Be glad that you Qan see,
hear and speak."

At the close of the little talk Mrs
Macy gave a demonstration, showing
how Miss Keller reads her lips by
holding her fingers lightly against
them, the thumb resting on the larynx,
the forefinger on the lips and the third
finger on the nostril. In this way she
I gets all the vibrations and in this man-
ner she read the questions that the
audience asked her through her teacher,
last night. She gets the music of the
violin and the organ through the vi-
brations and realizes when her audience
is applauding by the vibrations which
come to her through her feet. She re-
cited "Mary Had a Little Lamb," in
order to give the audience the oppor-
tunity of hearing her say something
familiar that required no effort oil her
part.

Miss Keller and Mrs Macy were ac-
companied by Mrs Keller, the mother
of this wonderful young woman. The
teacher and pupil have been spend-
ing Christmas in Alabama, and return-
ing for the beginning of the lecture
tour, were accompanied by Mrs Keller.

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HELENJffiLLER IN '- .
LEXINGTON TODA^

Lexington, Dec, 29.— Miss Helen Kellei*a
the woi'ld's most famous blind girl, whd(
was appointed recently to a municipal
position in Schenectady, N. Y., will to-
morrow afternoon speak at an opeiH
meeting oi the Lexington Outlook Club'
in the town hall.

The lecture, which will be given ^t
3.30,. j« entitled "The Heart anj^
the Hand, or the Right Use of Oijr
Senses." Miss Pleller will be accom-
panied by Mrs. John Macy, her atter,-
dant and teacher.

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