The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1903, Page 11

‘THE WORLDI: Mi\WOAY EVENING: MARCH 16, 1008. Promeresh by Marihelt (090) ; val auns atte oe in , rk On the WW Revrri lor Sraitie Brine. ss Fel/er keadin: 7a fatter Ta er eillies >piry roons: “ .* 1.) have once seen! tt we have once seen, ‘the day is ours, and what the day] printed words in raised letters. I quickly learned that each printed word stood) gards as a most pleasing achievement. Her education, step by step, the 4 of The Hickok bag Measiag sash for Her Fellow hes shown.’” ai an object, an act or @ quality. From the printed slip It was but a step to the) of the unfolding universe, the patienve of her teachers and the pleasures, fl jerers, an Edu Inted book. derived from knowledge, the blind girl describes most fully, i y ow on cation, The pranks of her childhood, the rage into which the knowledge that| For @ long time I had no regular lessons, Even when I studied most earnestly| At last, in 1896, ahe entered the Cambridge school for young ladies to de! other people communicated with their lips threw her, the jealousy of her Hibecsopapre) Ike play than work. seeded M! ‘ pares ie ht me she| pared for Radcliffe, and the subsequent attendance at this college she tooks: * ust by a beautiful story or a poem. I cannot explain the peculiar sympathy] as one of her deepest joys. | KELLER, the wonderful girl who, though deaf, dumb and| >", sac” <1 © these emotions she devorthes with a atralghtforward) srcy sullivan had with my pleasures and desirea. She never nagged me and in-| “4m frequently. asked how f overcome the peculiar conditions wnder blind, became educated by means of the very deficiencies which troduced dry technivaltties of science little by Uttle, making every subject so real “Meanwhile the desire to express myself grew. The few signs I used] that I could not help remembering what she taught. We read and studéed out of would have debarred their average vessel from all contact with Whe-world, hes written a book. became less end less adequate, and my failures to make myself understood are eee alten de paral to the house, All my early lessons have in them the) sreited into my hand as rapidly as possible, and much of It ta called “The Story of My Lite,” end te to be published by Double- | Tre Invariably followed by outbursts of passion. I felt as tf Invisible} istoned with increasing wonder to Mise Sullivan's descriptions of the ereat| 10°" ta uke hounds in purvult of & hare, which they often deg, Pi & Oo. hands were holding me, and I made frantic efforts to free myself. I strug-|round worl, with its burning mountains, buried cities, moving rivere of ice and epect I do not think I am much worse off than Miss Keller. when a mere child, came under the influence ot Miss A.|Sled—not that struggling helped matters, but the spirit of resistance was aay ore eae ewrecge, pe cms raived maps in clay eo that I could feel the] 9PVor 00° De Nah © the lectures, because my hands ‘ME Buillivan, who recognized that behind the well-nigh insurmountable | Strong within me—I generally broke down in tears and physical exhesetion. | Arithmetto was the only study Helen Keller says she dia not lke, but in ea sown what 1 ota comeeter Ot Sam pena £es home I vobstacles that barred her path the afflicted girl possessed genius and energy If my mother happened to de near I crept into her arms, too miserable even soology and botany she took @ deep interest, desoribing vividly her delight the my lscsll oo that the pi fdbenip thn no difeulty ‘far beyond that of most better-equipped persons. to remember the cause of the tempest. After a while the need of some Wonders that were taught to her through bits of sandstone and tiny ones paa-[I know.” : : Patiently and skilfully Miss Sullivan began her pupil's education. Her|means of communication became so urgent that these outbursts occurred Pe perenne Bed jected psaiyhagra (Bist taralabea the stare of Lite Qitlnsistea sees WdeV baveiunre eek cok ts @@orts were crowned with almost instant success. daily, sometimes hourly.” ‘The next important event in Helen Keller's life was entering the Perkins In-| Keller's friends are Joseph sestenson, we ward ets ts sree Oferk u ©. ‘Through the sense of touch the girl learned the aspect of objects Then her mother read en account of Laura Bridgman and the aubse- | stitute for the Blind, where she began to make ¢ri bind chil-|ence Hutton and Oliver Wendell Hotmes. F: lasircoore He ‘The volume contains a quantity of correspondence between Miss Keller tafound her. By touching the lips of others with her finger tips she learned,| quent visit to Dr. Chisholm and Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, of Washing- | “"*: ietpciead Ldap yieynee Hee the re-| these men of letters and art. from vibration, to understand what was esid to her. In equally phe-|ton. At Dr. Bell's advice Helen’s father wrote to the Perkins Institution, in :momenal manner she learned to talk. ; Boston, for a teacher competent to begin Helen's education. LETTERS, A W ’ P id CRANDALL'S Sra 4 NA After reaching the point where the @verage gtrl finishes her educa- “The most important day I remember fn all my Ife is the one on which QUESTIONS, oman s rl (4 hes tion, Mise Keller went to college, wheré she won honors continually and|my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder ANSWERS. fo a beautiful hesd of hair, Any one can have It Carriages Sorters Bigre at PROCTOR, je | by properly treating and feeding the hair. tar wutstripped her more normal classmates. when I consider the immeasurable contrast between the two Iives which it ite ‘ ties Keller’s powers of acquiring knowledge seem limitless, Nor is} connects. It was the 34 of March, 1887, three months before I was seven pei te coats hk oot, tant penply . iil a SO Se Sane" DY Sl {Rise yShe content to “live unto herself.” She is already, in a way, the champion | years old. Thursday. ot the blind. ne “Light! “Give me ight!’ was the wordless cry of my soul; and the| To the Bittor of The Brentng World! Amusements, eS pas + A fow days ago the spoke at the Massachusetts State House in behalf| light of love shone on me in that very hour. On what day of the vee wee ere aaTROFOLITAN ones TNIV RCT Te aT oll I. i ai Ta tee ae 1? jO# these fellow-sufferers of hers, begging that their life of darkness be no “I felt approaching footeteps. I stretched out my hand to my mother, my It Is Not @ State. oe (longer. codpled with the horrors of enforced idleness. Some one took it, and I was caught up and held close in the arms of her |, ie naitor of The Drentng ‘World: In English, whose purity and eloquence astonished her listeners, Miss|who had come to reveal all things to me, and, more than all things else, to] A says that Washington (District of/ 9 jin sot only do that, but tt cures DAN. Boe ea e ,Keller depicted the sufferings of the blind and urged thelr mitigation, | love me.” Columbia) was admitted ase State, Bl pnury, and STOPS FALLING HAIR, kesping Feo te Though society has, since her childhood, made a pet of this strange The endeavors of Miss Sullivan to teacti her the meaning of words, the ipo seal Often as Blect _girl, she 1s unaffected and utterly unspoiled, as her mode of telling her|eignificance of “food” and “water,” ere descrited with rare subjective ‘o me Bkiow s¢ The Brains World: the eoalp clean and healthy, It ta a clear, delicately pertumed tonic, contain- | Set, A: tng NO coloring matter, (0 grease and NO in- | Set, Bid ,Hfe-story will show. The éxtracts from her book are reproduced here by | touches that permeate the entire book. ‘Later she continues; it Sinctenl, the President an iv Prynisspeara ‘permission of Doubleday, Page & Co. “] remember the morning that I first esked the meaning of the word sore tree ERSon AN, 4 begins this remarkable woman, in telling the story which combines so |lets in the garden, and had brought them to my teacher, She ‘had tried to ining World: wonderfully the knowledge of her existence which has been gained through |Xis# me., Miss Sullivan put her arm gently around me and spelled into my | "ys Waterford, ireland, a city or nett | ret te to ve Halt Tonle on the murat re-|\\ 4 mee Re her acute sensibilities and her unusual intuitive understanding of the out-| Magy tre Tete a aceg, palien tate VICTORIA » “aide world, Pd She drew me closer to her and said, “It is here,” pointing to my heart, whooe| a, ine wéttor of The Evening Wo kay others. ce ‘Aste. by A “I have,’ as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that Her words pussled me very much, be-| | where can I get an application beak “elings about my childhood like a golden mist. When I try to classi 2 for the Police Department? A. fg re hb wid avon gi \earliest impressions I find that fact and faney look allke across the shoe Z soyele: he #10) 08 {8 bey De S2 oe eNe one i sal ankle vireet Toes Commiatoner, Fo: a Amusements, at , BT (Ghat link the past with the present.” 7 tion which meant, ‘‘Ie love the sweetness of flowers Or. sm A Milorneunoris WILLIAMS & WALKER ' Bpeaking of her precoctous childhood and the events of her baby lite, N mE SMUSEUM __v1N Danony.” Last wank” ; is not love?™ I asked, pointing in the direction from which the heat CAS] rc or, .|GRAND THE FATAL ae “These happy days did not last long. One brief spring, musical with| "1, palin eeyiieh there could be nothing more beautiful than the sun, SOUVENIR MDS pong and robin and mocking bin; one summer rich in fruit and roses; one| whose warmth makes all things grow. But Mise Sullivan shook her head, and I The kind You You fave Atv fits K sever |WEDDING Decers <t GAC aBA erinMaon,. sped. by tnd left thelr. gitie at the teat’ or ign | Fas eromir guesied And Cleapetoins, 7 thoustib st etrmngy What cay teacher eovid J dah Y Yong «hal DORR ery se oe Bears * Broad a 830 7 ‘Helen Keller describes tho first conscious perception of an abstract idee as me J L i ee BU ALLAN Sst ete rr qa diiness which closed my eyés and ears and plunged me into the unconscious-| coming from counting beads, She noticed an error in the sequence and begume ot Tt Bishop's MOVE welll jah 1” mess of @ new-born baby. But during the first nineteen months of my 1itd | puzzled, Instantly Mie Sailr a8 Sasiles (os in ace ibe biainas : E 7 Pa — TULLE oo a ih deat child knew to be the process going on in * nl HB wa} bra gins Maal i gone hd rie cee felds, @ luminous sky, trees and|*™ ie ot important sep in my education was learning to read, As oon as 1 Amusements, snriRe TH THEATRE, a a le PASTO "S poe Bi Ater 24 ave ea yee ith hich noss followed could not wholly blot out. If wel could spell a few words my teacher gave me slips of cardboard on which were Dh ORERNE’S GRAND FRER |». me UNFORKSKER, more. ee PHA DR. GREBNE Gatex Te Bg og ne care \ A Falsehood that Savéd a Wife from Heartbreak, * Copyright, 1908, by Dolly Story Pub, Co) | Like @ man in a dream he staggered, since he has married me.’ “Phere 1s only one woman who could 19 Bven, 8.15, Mate. WED @ DALY'S Sie Pa “| DON'T know whether to pity or|4o.where whe sat, staggered horribly ep mghe read the letter through carefully | have rae a fewer, dearie and! In Grand Central Palace, ve orth TINE, MARCH 23—SOUVENIRS. Shs THE BILLIONAIRE. Wi wilt rere though drunk with wine. for the third time, Ht taciaciea ane, 454 and dh The Girl With the Green EYe8 wedonadss Weber & Fields’ MUSIC ) Bway & 90th Bt, To-Morrow Night “It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life,”|“iove.” ‘This was before I knew many words. I had found a few early vio- Watactana hal acty ‘ 1 5 Cis, Botte Yee ae PRINCE: 6m) ‘eager, delighted child. Then, in the dreary month dt February, came the|"”, show me love. Ta a aa ee it la been te Snd.the Lar By Alban, E, Redd: HISHIE) [AMIMS otters ces Sm a ar NEW SAVOY THEATRE, 34 ot. oD ; i» WIZARD TOF Ori bat Mat Genpise you; she remarked, — "May I ask you it your purpose| “Vor the love of H. 1 It was written in plain unvarnished ‘act WALL. | Mats. Tres, & Sat. f sending for mé was to impart this! Marion,” he mutvered hourvely, mee: anaes warning her not to trust the MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, MADISON 59, THEATRE, 201 st..or. war, | Tax musical TWIRT YsWHIRLY KBITA’S Se and & somewhat trifling in- led her hi nd. Do O'CLOCK, ABSURDITY, ng ing He bent over her, she put one white| man she called her huebai av 8 iE di baw b THE BIG LITTLE PR Aw scandy he asked, coldly, arm around his neck and drew his head! The truth was told brutally, no de- Deets seen 6h 1 oslock. ELSI de | WOLFE | in CYNTHIA. new burlesque LB PRINCESS ee ‘The woman looked up and laughed de-l down, The tricks were nearly ail|t#lls were omitted; was there, then, no 4 PRE for BOTH MEN and WOMEN, | currerion THEATRE, —Wvayaaaec | 4 ¥ OF MUSIC, Lith Bt. & Irving Place, BIJOU | MARIE CAHI ‘WANGY BROWN.” visively. taken; she could afford to hope? +1 consider it my uty, I may say, my SRMNE Oma rik the trump) "OR, gacred, Af. somewhat unpleasant, duty to] « pitowoily, luatrated Lactury by Lon 2 Mies, 020. Nets WED, & SAT Wink, pLORODORA Rives md a The Me! Nellie! little woman, heer] bet “Perhaps, 0, Mttle woman,” he wala,| ™pimelving ‘end ya aver glvei JAMES T. POWERS "8 JEW ET pric 00.7631 ariing, am I not sweeter than that tnt flaxen-heired innocent wit It was Bhe looked up and cried ppulaively; | WHONBEDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING | GARDEN THEATRE, a Mai MF ine te at 0P0) a ete your ©] foolish livtie doll?" ¥ 1d Ralph, do yor ND 20, at Ma ef the engagement which formerly ex-[Goriy, nt *MPETES 8M") “With '@ monn, she aragued herveit| neve that even ft itvwge teus T” ahold eres SOTHERN Kaa gpk Se Maks | Te MATINEE TO-DAY. insted between us," she replied sarcas-| 1. ay fostant he sprang upright, his room and turned 0 y re, tte ‘wor WERE theally, § Ralph Winter trembied as HG latenea, face flushed with shame and humilia-|™ ton, Ln Oi WELCH we Free Private Lectures to Men Only NEXT WEEK (FARE WDL ne HAMLET Es eet ie fMPERI, Bu chen BST si What's the matter, Nell?" ital pointe B, i Read that! sho almost shfieked. lanteg Jatermation,yonn, the ita, wlals/ KNICKERBOCKER THEATRE, » ' A iu ayn er Me Ae ney Sa lear ta You are not worthy even to kiss the! ‘This little dramatic effort on her part| "But } she | ae ce shouttie' am anaarnant, "Bvery moa | Monih: Dyan. 8. Male, wed 4 BELASCO THEAT! ici oak | WEST va ii: aA Ground she walks on,” he said, he never even “ Will Gud it to bie dmterest vo aiiend theae free DAVID Bi [rocr old mank 1 was only teasing |, 7? "Ot moment he was gone, i Nei eh a reall AND FRIDAY APTERNOONE, MR. BLUE BEARD ines ae ra a phe sald, gently, 0 Panngt thank you enough, Marion,” tone of Voice Moreh 1F 486 OF 8) 2D o'sioss, MORE THAN 3 SHOWS IN ONE, |MATINBE DAILY, Ont Amusements, Sire, MONTAUK ¢ iar Raregna’t 1 her ‘before. 4") id /" ahe laughed, tale Greene will give a graphically Itustrated a Except Mon., 2c. pine week, Lowe in he Desert ao een hei da. hai 0 AVE Her eyed (eller at ankoa, | ft cage between er twa dainty, hande Foo Private Lecture to Women Only, 3¢ rA¥fy (IN CONVICT STRIPES | ROLE ir ED. ARLEM) Kvee at § ous he was true and | UrgmUlOUN oe in a atrona.{ ioe to thank needed Wir | wat i mos nol, seri 208 a | siti bie ; bere | Virginta fa Harned in TRIS, fo men.” “Obi It Cannot be oe | oooures ereaahsebeatanas wr Sane ag ald fey i ‘| Aduileston PREE to oft Lectures. CASINO *Y rs a 8 ue HO0d ea eg oa nn ’ iCOL nd aN ia i cies — canbsbillelot at ie Ball