The teachers college quarterly [serial] . rst letter, which waswritten three months after her teacher came, to her Cousin Anna ( T. Turner) : Tuscumbia, Axa., June 17, 1887. helen write anna george will give helen apple simpson will shoot bird jackwill give helen stick of candy doctor will give mildred medicine mother willmake mildred new dress. {no signature.) 42 The Training School Quarterly She improved in her writing very rapidly. She does almost all ofher work now on a typewriter. From this first baby letter to the leadingarticles in the best magazines is a far cry. But the wonder
The teachers college quarterly [serial] . rst letter, which waswritten three months after her teacher came, to her Cousin Anna ( T. Turner) : Tuscumbia, Axa., June 17, 1887. helen write anna george will give helen apple simpson will shoot bird jackwill give helen stick of candy doctor will give mildred medicine mother willmake mildred new dress. {no signature.) 42 The Training School Quarterly She improved in her writing very rapidly. She does almost all ofher work now on a typewriter. From this first baby letter to the leadingarticles in the best magazines is a far cry. But the wonderful thingin her life, the miracle, is developing speech from absolute dumbness tothe point where she can address audiences in large halls so that she canbe heard and understood. More wonderful still, she does not merely callwords so that one can catch the miracle of speech from the dumb, but shedelivers a message replete with sound philosophy, wholesome optimism,that within itself is an inspiration. Helen Keller is a miracle and Reports on Special Trips Miss Armstrongs Report on the Sand Hill Farm Life School Miss Martha Armstrong, teacher of Household Economics in EastCarolina Teachers Training School, spent three days this spring givinglectures and demonstrations in the Eureka, or Sand Hill, Farm-LifeSchool in Moore County. This is the school in which Miss MaryRankin, formerly of the Training School, is working. Miss Rankin toldin the last issue of the Quarterly some of the interesting things theywere doing. Miss Armstrongs report gives the point of view not of themere visitor, but of the expert who would be keenly sensitive to all ofthe household affairs in this school community. It would be interestingto put the two accounts together. It is in the main the same story, butfrom a different angle. Miss Armstrong may tell the story of her visitherself: All of the work of this school is done by the hoarding pupils, who arerequired to give a certain amount of time each
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