. Blind Deaf . sugar is is noted for sugar plantations. It growsthere because it is adapted to a hot climate. TheFrench make sugar of sugar-beets. Another story isabout a boat. I have read it, and it made me thinkof the little waves in the lagoon at the Exposition inOmaha. The little waves will be happy when theweather is pleasant. They are frozen now. I am verysorry for them, but the warm sun will shine againsoon and make them melt. Then they can creeparound the boats, and whisper to the happy people inthe boats. I am always happy when I am in a boaton the water. I am s
. Blind Deaf . sugar is is noted for sugar plantations. It growsthere because it is adapted to a hot climate. TheFrench make sugar of sugar-beets. Another story isabout a boat. I have read it, and it made me thinkof the little waves in the lagoon at the Exposition inOmaha. The little waves will be happy when theweather is pleasant. They are frozen now. I am verysorry for them, but the warm sun will shine againsoon and make them melt. Then they can creeparound the boats, and whisper to the happy people inthe boats. I am always happy when I am in a boaton the water. I am studying about the North Cen-tral States in geography. I can learn the States andtheir capitals. I am studying about Captain JohnSmith in history. He liked anything wonderful. Ilike geography better than history. History is notinteresting because it is about such old people. I wish you could be here to explain the new words. I am always your loving friend, Linnie Haguewood. Sioux Falls, S. D., March i, 1899. 48. / regard the picture of Mrs. Town- The send listening to Mrs. E. S. Jones, Blind-Deaf matron of the Ohio Home for Agedand Infirm Deaf which appears onthe opposite page, as the very bestpicture of talking to and hearingby the blind-deaf that I have everseen. Not only is the expression ofiyitent liste?ii?ig on Mrs. Townsendsface most characteristic, but the atti-tude and expression of Mrs. Jones isvery life-like. It is evident that, from Mrs. Town-send having lost her sight quite re-cently, she has ?iot yet developed thevery delicate sense of touch the blind-deaf ordinarily have, and her handbears too heavily on the is also the case with StanleyRobinson and Clarence Selby, whilethe hands of Helen Keller, LinnieHaguewood, Katie McGirr, Made-line Wallace, Leslie Oren, Eva Hal-liday and many others rest as lightas a feather on the talkers hand. 49
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