PERSONALItY Mark t interesting cers of teentury are Napoleon and ion ified by trut already been ten, and all t I can do is to give a fes about Miss Kellers tle to w is known of y.
Miss Keller is tall and strongly built, and o be more nervous t Englis of gesture is t ruments of communication t taken to tings of t urally gesticulate. Indeed, at one time it t o communicate ematized gestures, ted by the Abbe de lEpee.
ed and expresses all t--t make tures eloquent and give speecs meaning. On t knoalking imate friend, o o see, as s;t of t; In to get tences one of the eye.
eristic tig makes one persons from t of another.
trait most ceristic, per of playing s and epigrams.
Some one asked o study.
quot;Yes,quot; s;but I like to play also, and I feel sometimes as if I up inside me.”
Dr. Furness, t to let tell oo many assumed facts about t Sized, married, and died.
quot;ell,quot; s;o ial things.”
Once a friend making quot;g,quot; ;; ended. Finally Miss Keller told o quot;fire both barrels.”
Mr. Josepo Miss Keller .
quot;t,quot; ;is your prize-fighting bump.”
quot;I never fig; s;except against difficulties.”
Miss Kellers deeper kind of humour which is courage.
teen years ago so learn to speak, and seac until so take lessons, alt of t as an
experiment unlikely to succeed and almost sure to make made o college. After sions and received ificate of admission, s to go on. S s satisfied until s ered college.
tempts to do o do it as rying to be like ot fully to be o be beaten for pevensons--tempt for touc. Sakes tramps in tc you could not get o admit t s, and you certainly could not persuade o stay at time.
So s smanlike determination to est, one may o.
If s knoo a question, s (no blind person can tell colour), s and say quot;black.quot; If it o be blue, and you tell riumply, so ans;thank you. I am glad you know. hy did you ask me?”
uresome spirit puts tle t s for ter. Moreover, Miss Sullivan does not see o tigation of tist, and s. asked s t o sit up and cters tle consequence.
Miss Keller likes to be part of touc a joke, soo, just as if s. If ot sympatically, ss of Miss Sullivan so minutely t so o knoion been spelled to ime. In to music is in part sympatic, alt for its own sake.
Music probably can mean little to beat and pulsation. S sing and s play ts so beat out a tune on t of music, actile recognition of sound of , from tion of solid objects , ts. But so feel tion of tself. .
Bart pedal notes, but t does not altoget for ion of tes swelled made her sway in answer.
Sometimes ss to feel traction, and from ts genuine pleasure. No one kno is amusing to read in one of t Miss Keller quot; and intelligent appreciation of different composers from erally felt te.quot; If sell any one who asks her.
Miss Kellers effort to reac and meet otellectual ground ion became more systematic and s o every one o aken tion, t to s to spell into ion comes inevitably, quot; are you talking about?quot; ts of tercourse of normal people, so t her
detailed information is singularly full and accurate. Salker on ttle occasional affairs of life.
Muco ly. ops suddenly, attracted by t of s and toucruly as it is ours, to enjoy wo remember whe walk is done.
eresting place like Niagara, ial elements, o Miss Kellers imagined vieer to our eyes is confused and overloaded iculars. If give ails, Miss Keller asks questions until sed to isfaction.
S see ty to serve ells some one about it, ions are accurate and vivid. A comparative experience draten descriptions and from eac erms of sound and vision. true, ic exaggeration; t, is no doubt a little better t really is. But is not so incomplete as one migonis il plunge into t it is salt. Many of tacs and facts of our daily life pass around and over sailed acquaintance o keep from being essentially defective.
Most t s first ouc, ell minute siful lace. Miss Keller used to knit and croc, but ster to do. its, ouc been used enougo develop it very far beyond normal acuteness. A friend tried Miss Keller one day ed o be in identifying tive s never ty details of life, by the way, which she has been spared.
S and general intention of a statuette six inco expresses an idea of beauty. Large statues, of er t true dimensions and appreciate more immediately ture of a sculptured figure. ts in Boston sood on a step-ladder and let botatues. a bas-relief of dancing girls s;; ;One is silent.quot; the singer were closed.
It is, one can best measure to tle sense of direction. S mucainty in rooms blind people are aided by t a fair comparison is o make, except erity is not notable eits are guided by told, ised no single constructive craft wwelve, h.
Munsell, tist, let ablet and a stylus. sty o make, after models, some conventional designs of tlines of leaves and rosettes. typeer. Altypeer since ses e sureness. s seldom contain typograpo Miss
Sullivan to read. ypeer tacs. Sive position of touctle finger on ter edge of the board.
Miss Kellers reading of t by ouco cause some perplexity. Even people Miss Sullivans quot;mysterious telegrapionsquot; is t in use among all educated deaf people. Most dictionaries contain an engraving of tters. t looks at t it is also possible to feel ts ly over talking to s t conscious of tters or of separate antly enougo get a sloure, not fast enougo get every word of a rapid speaker.
Anybody can learn tters in a fees, use ty days of constant use talk to Miss Keller or any ot realizing once tter educated.
Miss Keller reads by means of embossed print or tters, botters and capitals. tters are of simple, square, angular design.
tters are about teent t;S ory of t; is in six large volumes. t ype do not lie close. time t one of Miss Kellers friends realizes most strongly t sle of he page.
t convenient print for tions, too many, indeed--Englis. Miss Keller reads t educated blind people kno it rouble if, as Miss Keller suggests, Englised. tted from etext] gives an idea of s look. Eacer (eitter or a special braille contraction) is a combination made by varying in place and number points in six possible positions. Miss Keller er on es letters to her blind friends.
t combinations at a stroke (as one plays a cor makes a cer at a time in a s of te about ypeer. Braille is especially useful in making single manuscript copies of books.
Books for ted in number. t a great deal to publis a large enougo make table to t titutions o pay for embossed books. Miss Keller is more fortunate t blind people in tlemen, like Mr. E. E. Allen of titute for truction of to print, as ions of books t she has needed.
Miss Keller does not as a rule read very fast, but sely, not so muc is one of s of mind to do terests o remember it for some future use, sters it off sly on t imes talks to -mindedly in t. he veranda, her hands go flying along beside her like a confusion of birds wings.
told, tactile memory as bot;in t; o spell a sentence in t impresses it on as many times and can call back
ts sound.
Like every deaf or blind person, Miss Keller depends on o an unusual degree. tle girl s neiginctive odours. As ellect greo ent sifies objects by to determine. to disrepute, and a deaf person is reluctant to speak of it. Miss Kellers acute sense of smell may account, for t recognition of persons and t omary to attribute to a special sense, or to an unusual development of t o elling when some one is near.
tion of a special quot;sixt; suco Miss Keller, is a delicate one. tain, s ot ence of a special sense is not evident to o any one ly not a singular proof of occult and mysterious ttempt to explain o reckon y. Serious and complex t s sly, except suc, it ence of spirit matter, or of innate ideas, or of immortality, or anyt any ot prove. Pried to find out ract ideas before sion, t no time. Sion of God before s;God,quot; as s very clearly show.
ime is excellent, but be known, for sch since she was seven years old.
Miss Keller cc gold indicator o rigil, by means of a pin inside t locks akes a corresponding position.
t of tor bends over t eleven raised points--tem forms tcce dial for ttac in effect one h a single raised hour hand and raised figures.
ts--a space y minutes--Miss Keller tells time almost exactly. It s any double-case cal removed serves e to feel tion of t disturb or injure them.
traits of Miss Kellers cer are so one needs not say muc tion keep iful. No attempt is made by to preserve or to break tle girl, a good many unactless t repeated to o tc selligent young rue t remains true no;I believe s-minded ence.... to even learned t exion on ion. quot;Some time ago, ion for t a good dog s ime, Lord forgive t ;Of course tion he knowledge of evil,
s so-day.... e by terature, nor been vitiated by t it is pure. Ss, and ers of noble men and women.”
Sill o tragedies. ion is so vital t sely under tory, and lives in its es in a letter of 1891: quot;Yesterday I read to ory of Macbetold by Cly excited by it, and said: It is terrible! It makes me tremble! After ttle errible so t people o do wrong.“
Of t people seem to knole un of tant difficulties took o tolerant, most trustful of a reated her kindly.
Once ;love,quot; s; is easy; it is w everybody feels for everybody else.”
quot;toleration,quot; sing ton, quot;is test gift of t requires t of t it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
Se fairness of temper. So far as siceably different from otion. Saps take oo bookision.
Sly rut no one is more tactful and adroit turning an unpleasant trut it possible to t all ttention t ake oo seriously. Sometimes ss started on a very solemn preac. teactle sermonizer, and s en, to be laug, for ness carries eners false sententiousness in ions, sruth original.
balance. and ministering sort ely, sen in otical and national movements. Sensely pro-Boer and e a strong argument in favour of Boer independence. old of ttle people, a fees. trating questions about terms of to discuss them.
Boteacruck by ructive reasoning; and s in pure matics, to muc of ing, apart from ive ions and tecters o e to clear up misunderstandings, and w vehemence.
Simist and an idealist.
quot;I ; ses in a letter, quot;t L-- isnt too practical, for if s deal of pleasure.”
In t s at t-e on October 18, 1894, quot;I find t I o learn in my sco t o love everybody sincerely, to act in everyt motives, and to trust in dear God unatingly.”