The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1904, Page 9

Helen Keller, Most Wonderful of Girls, Graduates from College Next Week. ‘ i ff world. N » At the opening of the college term in 1900 Miss Keller passed the entrance examination to Radcliffe College with honor, and for four years has been one of its most assiduous and success- ful students. This was Miss er method of study: ii, Ady, Sullivan, who accompanied her to all gr? X i ge a 4 the lectures, spelled them with her hands ote as rapidly as they were delivered. She was prevented by this occupation of ber hands from taking notes, but immoe- diately after the lectures she wrote down what she wished particularly to remem-} ber on the typewriter. And of course she participated in all the examinations : by means of the typewriter. At these ‘ exami ' per Helen Keller, the won-| loved ones about her or make herself] Oe mmations Miss Sullivan was not N JUNE > NE mitt tons 4 0. derful young girl who, stricken! understood by them, : Seyrglls ori as ule, deaf, dumb and blind at the age ct| She continued in this unhappy, hope- ved erellie) pe) set up by a teacher from the Perkins Institution, and she wrote out her re- plies on the typewriter in ordinary type, and they were corrected with the other pupils’, eighicen mo! eloped a mar-|less condition a ttle before she was yellous mind which set these physical|seven years old, when her mother read handicaps at naught, will graduate w:th a newspaper account af Laura di-dnction from Radcliffe College, the| Bridgman and her visit to Dr. Alexan- Harvard Annex for women, where |der Graham Bell, of Washington. Fol- has been a student for the last fcur|towing this article, her father wrote to years, During that period the coll2s¢|Dr. Bell, who advised him to communt- records show that she made remark-|cate with the Perkins Institution, in eble progress in literature, philosophy] gouth Boston, in regard to securing a and economics, her chosen branches of] special teacher for his Uttle girl. Later | py, fond of outdoor sports, jorse and a bicycle, can Tow a boat, and js n PY 8 when in the When she lea: Radcliffe she wil study, as well as in the more general | pelen was sent to the institution, As} ot er wa in Wrentham, | field of college work, Besides this she} On the third of March, 187, Anno|Purchased. There she will dedicate her Published over a year "The Story] yfansfield Sullivan, the wonderful | ¥f°,t0 the improvement of the condition of My Life," a book which attracced widespread attention, as much for the beauty and simplicity of its style as teacher who looked into the darkness of Helen’ Keller's soul and said “Let there be lUght,” and there was light, t @ recent hearing hek Massachusetts Logitaturo: relative ie the ibetiar: education of the blind, s - i é Was present, and ma “e+ for the wonder story of triumph over] rived in Tuscumbia. Ne hind ae ae ee Cirkorct pain and ignorance and darkaces,| yijsg Sullivan began her ¢remendous| First, blind children, who need a co which it relates, it is Miss Keller's announced purpose to devote her life to the blind, and use avery effort to obtain for men and Nomen afflicted as she herself 1s the sraining which will broaden thelr men- tal and physical activities and make 4 Ufe glad for them as it has been made for ‘her. She has already contributed to ’ Mifterent magazines several articles dealing with the problem of the deaf and delivered iluminating lectures be- fore special Institutions devoted to their education. ‘The story of Helen Keller ts one of those fairy tales of modern science ‘which haye the advantage over all other fairy tales, of being actually true. She was born in the little town of ‘Tuscumbia, Ala, on June 21, 1880, so that on the day she graduates from Radcliffe she will be twenty-four, Her father, Capt. H. H. Keller, was United States Marshal of tho North District of Alabama. Up to the time she was eigh- teen months old tho ttle brown-halred, Diue-eyed baby was perfectly healthy, and her first lisping sentences had glad- dened hor mother's ears several months before she was attacked by the fever which left her deaf, dumb and sight- less and practically threw her back to the helplessness of a new-born baby, But though doomed to its helplessness she had not.the unconsciousness of ear}- fest infancy, and Miss Keller herself has pathetically told of her early jeal- ousy of her baby sister, who saw and felt and heard the things that were de- nied her, and of the wild rages into which she was thrown by the knowl- edge that she could not understand the .” COMEDY OF ERRORS LEADS 10 HOSPITAL mon achool educatioi and infirm Sine | seed’ to te eee derly cared for; third, the able-bodied Uiind, who ought to work. For the frat a a8 pro’ i \- "42, db0,000 school, the re King Th uti ‘clues ‘erkins Institution. "The second must be sheltered in the embrace of and brivate soaritiea, task by teaching the child the meaning of such simple words as food, water, milk, &c, She says of thiq: “Helen learned to read by the Braille system of raised lettering and received the usual education of children who have all thelr faculties. The work was at first extremely difficult for her and for her teacher, as all ideas had to bo! communicated to her by the sense of touch, But Helen's extraordinary in- telligence smoothed ali obstacles."" When she heard that deaf mutes could gometimes be taught to speaic, she became greatly excited and deter- mined to use every effort to learn. She was at a disadvantage in not being able to see the position of the mouth when uttering syllables, but this she overcame by placing her fingers on the lips and throat and imitating the tion of the muscles. In one year she had a vocabulary of over fifteen hun: dred words, and now she has @ com-| use: mand of language equal to that of any educated person. ‘After leaving the Parker Institution Helen Keller was for a time a pupil of the Wright-Humason School in New York City. It was the desire of her life to go college, and in 189, accompanied by Mis: Sullivan, from whom she has never separated since their first meeting, sho, went to Cambridge and entered Arthur Gilman's preparatory school. There for the first time ghe associated only with pupils who could-both gee and hear. She studied French, English, German, Latin and Greek, writing her Greek exercises on ® typewriter with Greek lettering m SRK for her, which is probably the only one of its kind in the many public For the third class, heal blind, nothing advquste has been done in this State, They do not want to go to school read. books.” ‘They do hot want {o be fed and clothes and ef wv ather veaple, ‘They want wor! bs support themselves, fe “At present the adult blind form lange class, which is unremunerative unprofitable. Such they ane from the yeint of view of the thoughtful citizen. What are they from thelr point of old ‘ bi ey are not merely biind—that be borne—but they Live in Rivcees, which is the most cruel, least bearable pon the human misery that can be leid uy heart. No anguish js keener than the sense of hel; ness self-condem- Ration which overwhelms “them when every avenue aotivil ness ‘closed to them.” ty MOE AN INVOCATION, Come, Wind, from the southland! O'er green meadows creop; Rustle the vines there, And fan me to sleep! ‘The world ts but weary— I wake but to weep; I would rest where the dreams are; Come, fan me to sleep! Beneath me a pillow Of white daisies deep; Life is half dreaming; Fan me to sleep! —Atlanta Constitution. Pennsylvania, had a series of adven- tures which finally landed him in St. A Journey! le to continue his ‘omo was walking along River street yeste morning, and his atten- tion attracted to several pe: were dropping letters in a vot knowing what they were supposing they, like ing to thelr homes on the steamship, he into the letter-box, and word was sen to the Post-Office ‘to that effect. W the letter-box was opened ‘Tomo's letter Was found in it, and it is now safely tucked away in’ his pocket, but it is Soubitul If he will be able to leave the Ime to carry out his plans of sailing on the at “i morning. FAMOUS STOCK FARM SOLD. on Pennsylvania this | Mrs. “Doings” of the Kind Words Club. a that he had dropped his passage ticket] woman whom he t _ w THE w EVENING w WORLD'S # HOME » MAGAZINE. Nagg an By Roy L. ‘ (Coprrtatt, 1004, by the Prem Publishing Co,, New York World.) ‘ pss don't get in my way to- day, Mr, Negs! “I am that fretted and worrled about so many things that it is a wonder I do not go insane! But some- body around this house must keep cool and collected, and that somebody is me! “{ never complain about what I have to put up with, but if I have said it once I have eald it a thousand times that this worry {s simply killing me. “I won't stand it, I won't put up with it, and that's all there ts to It! “Tf people wouldn't make such a fuss about little things, Mr. Nagg! If you and others would do unto others as you would have others do unto you, the world would be much better. “Think of the hundreds of little eon- siderate tasks, the favors now and then, the help and assistance you might sive others, Mr. Nags, if you were only « little unselfish and considerate. “These little things of ife do not mean much to you, but, @h, they would be of such vaet help to others! “Sew a button on your vest, you say? “Look here, Mr, Nagg, do you think I have nothing in the world to do but be a seamstress and a valet for you? “Sew it on yourself! You see I am busy preparing the house for those aw- ful women who come here to the Kind Words Club meetings and take up my time and waste their own. “It makes me smile to myself to near them gabble about helping with the world's work and all that rot when they are nothing but a pack of lasy, silly boarding-house lady loafers, that sit around trying to build up thelr own reputations by tearing down the repu- tations of other “Why do you smile, Mr. Naggt Ah, yes, you smile contemptuously bec: I have joined an association of gentle women; because I am trying to incul- cate some culture into others; because our motto is ‘The Gentle Act, The Kindly Word!’ “Here comes the whole lot of them now! “I suppose they stopped off at Mra, Terwiliger’a to back-bite me! Well, thank goodness! I am Paddy for them! “I know their tricks and I know who and what they are! : “Listen to them gabbling! You can jhear them @ block away. They are jmaking up in emphasis what their con- versation lacks in intelligence! “Wheat are you running away for, Mr. Nagg? The company of refined and pleasan' feel awkward and out of place, I sup- pose, ‘t-spoken women makes you | “How do you do, dears? Yes, Mr, d Her Friends McCardell, Nags 1s just gone downtown. Was 90 worry he could not stay to ae meeting. He is #0 interested in the work of the gociety end its plans and Purposes. “But one thing he can’t unders how we can all meet and air caeieines without any unseemly controversies, “Men do not understand such things, my dears. You know in politics they t so heated and call each other the most terrible names and accuse each other of dreadful things! “Where is Mra. Skippaway? I won- der if it ¢s true what I was told the other day that she was President of a Indies’ mite society a couple of years ago and there was @ dreadful hew-to-do aboati ths funds being missing? “It Js awful to talk that any one. “And Iam wure Mre. Skippeecy lee dle before she would do such 4. is, for look Sere ceke te bow beautifully she “No, even at the meetings of our club we should never gos; Deak pohiety gossip or 5; i of “But what I will sa would suspect her as planned 0 didn't Say treasurer, but, then, she is so sly, and I do think she's the most malicious woman I ever met “What were you going to say, M: Gradloy? Oh, yes! About the mili. man? My dear, I never listen to ser- vants' gossip, and even if I thought you spoke to the milkman the way he Says you did about me I could pay no attention to it, for you know how betty and bitter tradesmen are when thelr eecounts are not settled. “Oh, yes, he did tell me that you sald he had charged you for eight quarts too much; but he sald that was a way you had to stir up a row go's to have an excuse for not paying anything. “My dear Mrs. Gradley, pray do not be angry.I am simply telling you what the milkman said. Of course, I paid no heed to him, although he was rather amusing.” “Mrs. Dusenberry is going to play us something she has composed on the nino, Mrs. Nags.” “Oh, that will be lovely, Mrs. Ter. wiliger, and tt ts so kind of Mri Dusenberry. I do love her soft, dreamy music, “There, Mrs. Dusenberry ts playing; now let us all be quiet! How did you say the dress was made? Who do you think pays the expense of her trips? Yes, she paints an inch thick!—Ob, don't Imugh #0 loud, Mrs, Spooner, Mrs. HE musical or ding-dong stilts may make torture for neighbors, but it is lots of fun for boys. ‘They are or- dinary stilts with gong «ttachments. Bi- cyclé gongs, alarnr clock gongs or any bell of that sort may be Am™ix the gongs on the footholds of the stilts at the point A as:shown in figures 1 and 2 Next fix two large screw eyes in eacti atlit at B and C. Now if the distanco from the side of the bell at point A to the ground or end of the stilt is two feet naw two very thing round hardwood sticks into two lengths of one foot ten inches each. Wind a piece of strong wire round and round both ends of the hardwood sticks and then drive tacks met in Florida. Aftor his death Mrs. Lortilard became tho Countess de Agreda through a mar- riage with an Ltallan nobleman. She also died a few years af , leaving two pequtiful daughters, who now reside in Florence, Italy. ‘They are sole heirs to Mr, LoriMard’s vast fortune and aro now converting portions of his real- estate into money. Lorillard ‘The farm cost. Mr. Lorillard $40,000. It’ was sold yesterday to Ka Hatch, of Lord lor, at Eatontown something like Tomo Mailed His Steerage Ticket in Letter-Box, Got Ex- a ea cited at Pier and Fell Into} ticd, to board, the Rae and which conti his eiseraas me work thus steamship pier and er, He was et, but could not. ment on the of the excite- ate ts Si eavelopa hs nel gardenia : “ Ket) edward P. Hateh Buys Old Geor Lorillard Place at Eatontown. The old George Lortilard stock tarm at Eatontown, famous in the days of the Monmouth Park ‘and ing in New Jersey, has been mord leas neglected, was sold Thureday by ‘Frank \Durand, reprosenting the heira. Ml Mr. ‘Lor ns ‘s estat. Trace course, which, -since 4be abandonmespigs on? ward P. New York, for $14,000. It is understood that Mr, Hatch will use the farm for stéck-breeding purposes. Tested! Tried! Unequalled!! = NORUB only. p Makes into the ends after the wire has been securely adjusted by means of a pair of pincers. Next insert the thin sticks through the, screw eyes at A and B and, this finished, drive a small nafl into each at point D. ‘This {s to prevent each from slipping out when the stilt ts raised from the ground, The thin atick working loosely in the screw-eye, of course drops to its lowest point when the stilt is off the ground and 1s only prevented from slipping out together by the restraining nail (D), which, caught against the lower scrow- eye (C), as shown in figure 1, thus leaves an inch sticking out from the atilt end, As the stilt end strikes the ground the ting below it must necessarily strike the ground first. The thin stick, being loose in the screw- eyes, is suddenly driven upward by the foree of its impact with the ground. ‘This sudden motion causes its upper ‘end to strike the rim of the dell (A), #0 you nee that the bell rings at every step. A number of boys with stilts differently attuned could play a tune as they move alon/ —————— CLEVER GIRL. ‘What did the teacher say about vour essay?” asked Mrs, McGudley, fe said {t was tautological,”’ swered the girl graduate, an- AMUSEMENTS, Vr, USS Sante AM orchestral Saas, $1 To-night, soc: Vp autiful sur “sr MENIGE Matinee Ts er WEST ENDsoncobine, Boreas of he Rt ekan Rent Week Bveninas. DDA GARLER” ‘Wednesday & Bati Main, “CAMIEEE few right std the left, ear and there t eye. ihe man is extremely simple and in his habits. touch “spirits seom to smokin’ seems to ‘elp it” “Wihat do you consider your greatest feat of memorization?” “The names, nicknames and numbers of the 1% regiments In the British army,” replied the mnemonic marvel. “And what is the silliest question ever asked yout” te “Anyhow,” me my pipe and “wtorical fai tale about, an’ I'm There's lots a’ folks aa doesn't live to be thirty four or five, An’, anyhow, I'd rather be Datas an’ dio at thirty- four or five than be Morris Bottle, the atoker, an’ live to be sixty, It may be & bit exhaustin' loadin’ up your mind with dates, but it ain't ‘alf so bad us loadin’ up a furnace wi' coal, Standin’ before a furnace wi’ nothin’ on but a pair o’ trousers an’ workin’ like # devil fn ‘ell ain't @ ‘ollday, eo it ain't.” “How many facta and dates do you estimate are stored in your mind?” the man was asked. Eel “About quarter of a 40 I know? I took about six weeks to figure {t all up one time.” ‘This peculiar gentus, who has been ne eee who for ten years before was a coal-heaver, professes to feel no mental strain beyond « slight nervous- neas and weariness if questions asked him during an exhibition for « longer period than half an hour, But he sleeps only about two hours at @ stretch, and even then dreams dates. Uncertainty as to eiees date pre- vents ‘his aleeping at all. “It's a natural gift,” Je his simple explanation of ‘his talent for remfem- ta and dates. Paring facie, be other and more sclen- tifle reasons. For one thing, years old, swing, striking on that, even, he says he tremely retentive memory, the accident, in pera “I never HIYSICIANS ‘ave told me to Propare for an early deceas was the somewhat ponderous way Datas put it “They tell me I'll be passin’ in my checks w'en by the|* time I'm thirty-four or five.” According to these predictions, in whieh the former ooal-heaver, now demonstrating his remarkable memory on the New York Theatre roof has a Simple faith, Datas has only five or six years to ive. He views the prospect philosophically. he mused, Ife the same as some one elas, I'm no ‘and for games or sight-seeing. Give glass of beer, wi' a Datas, experienced a fall from a his head, Before he recalls, he absorbed knowledge, especially dates and events, uch more readily. oe to the shape of his head, the 6 is considerably larger than Ho ts a trifle deaf in the .eft ig a slight cast in the epirits,”* ‘urt AMUSEMENTS, LUNA PARK FIRE AND FLAM THB GREAT FIRE SHOW. DURBAR OF DELHI B. RT OBXPRESS FROM BRIDGE—86 Minu ORIGINAL OF ALL GREAT lw the World of Tmitatore—Ask nequalled by vor! itatore—. | rour Nefehbor. gsc AN “I don't see to read about or py. W'y worry? —Jan. 17, 1874. 'Ow March 21, 1874. June 1, 1765. from working mines?—In 1850, ‘When were pins first 1708, when nine mun?—Jan, 3, 1870, cad an ex=| 4 1082 but after atre, aay: ken?’ ‘Never ‘avin’ down very disappointed. “In Data: when think Cromwell he my memory; PROCTOR’S 234 St. A _Bpl "Gracious me! ‘To think of your doin'| Datas took his pipe from hia moutl: pfpteeatis anything Uke that, almost the first] and laughed. Ath Ave { ‘ON OCH time tryin'!""—Washington Star, “[t came one night in the Palace 'The- *U win TOG BS. The Most Tai in DREAMLA FALL CANALS OF 8, in the Dublin one time, | “a man ‘ops up and asks me too," he said. To-night, Res, SOHIGHLAND 1) Doctors Give Datas Six Years to Live; Head Holds Quarter Million of Facts. A Few of the Questions ; Datas Answered This Wee HEN did the Siamese Twins dle? ‘When were King George's coro- nation robes sold?—June 9, 1831. ‘When were Pullman cars first run?— When was the Isle of Man soldt— In what year were women prohibited English coal made?t—In 12%. When were tulips first brought to England from Americat—In 1578. When was « tax paid by bachelors in the United Kingdom?—From 16% to When was the walts introduced?—In 1813. What ts the largest steamship in the world, and when was it launched ?—The Baltic; launched November 21, 1903, When was Aguinaido captured by Gen, Funston?—March 17, 1901. When was the Brooklyn bridge be- When opened?—May When was the first execution by elec- tricity in this country?—Aug. 11, 1839, ee A sad-lookin’ lady rises up and) ‘eard of ‘im’. Lord bless you, ‘ow they. Ow soon is @ lady's ‘eart bro-| did applaud my ignorance!” 5 broken none couldn't say, mum,’ I says, an’ sho sets Lik. was Qorn, I didn't memory's almost as good as mine. But Cromwell a very wood subject 1 telis em to walt till she’s Pyar for a Dublin audence, so I inquires, then If she wants fo she can aell ‘er ows ‘Cromwell? Who's Cromwell? I never gha'n AMUSEMENTS, To-day, 25c., 50¢. SUBMARINE BOaT. PASTOR'S KEITH'S, AERIAL. GARDEN, "ev.,amstersam “a Litto of Rverything.” “RAIN NG tation [Best SHOW roti ices Ze. and 0c. eee ek SOUTHERNERS | ABW 3AL & Anderson's ROOF’ BHOW. J ja AMMERSTEIN'S,42 St, B'way & 7 Av. | i ‘ARADISE ROOF GARDENS He COOLER together with ‘PARSIFALIA’ CO, of 75, Ugeler Sensational es, MANHATTAN BEACH THEATRE. YORK ROOF Sera tO, De Welt Hopper in “Wang nur (un Stanley & Brockinan. Estel ‘Attrnctions—limhott GRAND BIG BILL Bostock: NER HINDOO SAURKD Bonavita’s Lions,The Agth St 20 & {ATTOORD BULL ‘CO! le Wordette Conn & TO-DAY. Coney Island continued | y SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1904. HI when William Kempler was killed at = © Sing Sing. . When did Blondin, on @ first cross Niagara ake cone a Aalee When did Herbert Spencer die?—Dea 8, 1903, When did the great Hoboken fire eo cur?—June 8, 1900, When was the sewing machine come, pleted by Eas Howe?—In 1546. Ey When was the Irish potato famine?=. In 1846. When aid John Brown make his raid Into Virginia?—In 189. x When did Rome become the capital Italy?—In 1870. When did two Popes reign at the, same time?—In 844; Liberfus and Felix. By whom and when was vaccination, first practised?—By Dr. Jenner én 1796. | When wes Ireland conquered by Henae) U.2—In 1172, a What two ex-Presidents of the United States died on the same day?—Adems and Jefferson, on July 4, 1826. When and by whom were balloons dm: vented?—In 1788, by the Brothers, { 00. in Bran How old is Ana?—2Id enough to know better. Datas rapped his head—the head which | 1s already sold to the King’s College | Hospital for £2,000, They want to buy my daughter's 'ea@ ‘She's twelve, an’ ‘er sha'n't sell my own i] AMUSEMENTS. 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