Helen Keller Newspaper Notices . ons that shewould go to the Spanish court. TNOTKD WOMETM (Copyright, 1913, McClur e Newspaper Syndicate.)HELEN KEDDER. The two most interesting charac-ters of the nineteenth century, ac-cording to Mark Twain, are Napoleon?Bonaparte and Plelen Keller, and trueas this may be there is no doubt thatthe world would be somewhat betterIf the great Corsican had turned hismany talents to as good advantage asHelen Keller has turned her few. Helen Keller was born 3 3 years agotoday in Tuscumbia, Alabama, andwhen 18-months-old suffered from asevere illness which deprived h
Helen Keller Newspaper Notices . ons that shewould go to the Spanish court. TNOTKD WOMETM (Copyright, 1913, McClur e Newspaper Syndicate.)HELEN KEDDER. The two most interesting charac-ters of the nineteenth century, ac-cording to Mark Twain, are Napoleon?Bonaparte and Plelen Keller, and trueas this may be there is no doubt thatthe world would be somewhat betterIf the great Corsican had turned hismany talents to as good advantage asHelen Keller has turned her few. Helen Keller was born 3 3 years agotoday in Tuscumbia, Alabama, andwhen 18-months-old suffered from asevere illness which deprived her ofthe sense^,„iiiis-.],ia»AiJ^earing. Untilshe wasseven years old she d\^elt ininpenetrable darkness. Intre§cribingthis: period of her life Miss KeUerwrites, Have you ever been at seaIn a dense fog, when it seemed as ifa tangible white darkness shut youin, and the great ship, tense, anxious,groped h&r way toward the shorewith plummet and sounding line, andyou waited- with beating, heart for.^something to happen?. Eventually, when Helen was sevenears old, something did happen. hat was the coming into her sight-less, .soundless life of her faithfulteacher and companion; Miss AnneSullivan. Under Miss SuUivans instructionHelen made marvelous strides in hereducation. When she began she hadno conception of language and aftersix months dilligent work Miss Sulli-van had taught her 62 5 words. At13 she used the manual alphabet atthe rate of 80 words a minute, hadalso mastered the oral language sothat anyone could understand also could write and understandFrench and had written several arti-cles forgone of which she had beenpaid $15 0 by a prominent ;^ Helen Keller entered Radcliffe, thewomans department of Harvard andone of the most difficult colleges inthe country, at the age of 21 and tookher degree when 24. At that time shewas conversant with French, Ger-man and Spanish and was familiarwith Greek and Latin. Probably few women of her agehave had so manj
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