Helen Keller Newspaper Notices . education also \savs: j The educated woman is she who |knows the social basis of her life, and iof the lives of those whom she^wouldhelp, her children, her employer, her!employees, the beggar at her door and iher -congressman at Washington. WhenShakespeare wrote •Hamlet or,whether he wroteit or not, seem rela? jtively unimportant compared with thej question whether the working womenin your town receive a living wageand bear their children amid propersurroundinss. The history of our Civil war is in-ccmplete as taught in the schools ifyears afterward the daughter
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices . education also \savs: j The educated woman is she who |knows the social basis of her life, and iof the lives of those whom she^wouldhelp, her children, her employer, her!employees, the beggar at her door and iher -congressman at Washington. WhenShakespeare wrote •Hamlet or,whether he wroteit or not, seem rela? jtively unimportant compared with thej question whether the working womenin your town receive a living wageand bear their children amid propersurroundinss. The history of our Civil war is in-ccmplete as taught in the schools ifyears afterward the daughters andgranddaughters of veterans do notunderstand auch a simple propositionas this: The woman who bears achild risks her life for her country. Itis just such fundamental propositionsrelated to the proDlem^s of life whichschool education seems to ignore. Inschool and college we spend a greatdeal of time over trivial matters. tv n-utV lRi\/-eT J- T/Crut- IJW W^ l/cSurugLYv^ JwLa| 5 ,_jl^l 3 HELEN KELUR TO LECTtJRE !s a il. Miss Helen Kellar. Boston.—Miss Helen Kellar, T;lieblind woman, announced that shewill undertake next winter an ex-tensive lecture tour. Miss Kellar,through her teacher and friehd, A. Macy, declared that the cabledrumor that she would go to Spain toteach two of the royal children is nottrue. Bostoru, Vl^a-SS., TVloTrruuYuti (at&b-e/- Miss Helen Keller demonstrated aiP|the Sagamore conference, both on thaiplatform and the hotel piazza, thatshe has acquired the power of speech;to an extent which is well nigh per-jfectlon and for a deaf mute nothingjshort of marvelous. She has mastered^the muscular movement of every wordin her vocabulary, and, what is all themore extraordinaray, her process ofenunciation, which was at first per-,formed with conscious effort, is nowapparently natural or at least uncon-iscious. « * * I Many persons in an assemblage re-cently addiessed by Miss^elen Keller,marvelled tliat this distinguTsReT^a^aTand blind woman halted i
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