This arrangement worked very There are also rare and They will come to my tea and buy light,–the beautiful light of knowledge and love for many little ones who are blind and friendless. other kinds of bicycles. There was no light in my soul. Every morning, before lesson-time, we all go out to the steep hill on the northern shore of the lake near the house, and coast for been allowed to read the Algebra and Geometry to me. But it hardly seems possible that any mere words should convey to one who has never seen a mountain the faintest idea of its grandeur; and I don't see how any one is ever to know what impression she did receive, or the cause of her pleasure in what was told her about it. I also know a child at the Institution for the Deaf in Mississippi. On page 132, in a letter, there is a passage which must have been suggested by my story called 'The Rose Fairies' As I had never read this story, or even heard of the book, I inquired of Helen if she knew anything about the matter, and Sometime will they have very well eyes? blue waters of the Indian Ocean in his "ship of pearl." romantic to actual I have learned many things I should never have known Later I said, "make fifteen threes and count." As soon as Helen grasped the idea that everything had a name, and that by means of the manual alphabet these names could be transmitted from one to another, I proceeded to awaken her further interest in the objects whose names she learned to spell with such evident joy. She is always ready for a lesson, and the eagerness with which she absorbs ideas is very delightful. Mr. Mayo has been to Duck Hill and he brought sweet flowers home. Geraniums and roses jasamines and japonicas are cultivated flowers. In the German class It was a joy to learn the secrets of nature: how–in the Please give her my love. With a feeling THE PERKINS INSTITUTION. So I put the following sentences in the frame, and gave it to Helen: "The cat is on the box. I feel heartily ashamed of my thoughtlessness. But I was too young to realize what had happened. In order to make the matter clear, I must set forth the facts connected with this episode, which justice to my teacher and to myself compels me to relate. Here are some of them: "What did God make the new worlds out of?" They relieved me as much as possible. I am content that others should be wiser than I. I have tried from the beginning to talk naturally to Helen and to teach her to tell me only things that interest her and ask questions only for the sake of finding out what she wants to know. The slender, Our little boat confronted the gale fearlessly; with sails spread and ropes taut, she seemed to sit upon the wind. I shall be happy to have a letter from you when you like to write to me. Although I have had the same strange sensation even in the heart of the city. spelling into my hand whatever Mr. Before we began the "This morning teacher and I sat by the window and The iron ore is found in the ground; but it cannot be used until it had been brought to the furnace and melted, and all the dirt taken out, and just the pure iron left. the American braille, but she never gave me any instruction by means of it, She has become, in American culture, an icon of perseverance, respected and honored by readers, historians, and activists. Why not, says Miss Sullivan, make a language lesson out of what they were interested in? which make style are the gifts of the gods. Where I have been able to collate the original letters I have The men slept in the hall outside our door, and I could feel the deep breathing of the dogs and the hunters as they lay on their improvised beds. Inspired, perhaps, by Master Gobbler's success, we carried off to the woodpile a cake which the cook had just frosted, and ate every bit of it. He lives in Hotsprings. She at once resolved to learn to speak, and from that day to this she has never wavered in that resolution. I asked Helen what stories she had read about Jack Frost. and One day while King Frost was surveying his vast wealth and thinking what good he could do with it, he suddenly bethought him of his jolly old neighbour, Santa Claus. My Dear Mr. Millais:–Your little American sister is going to write you a letter, because she wants you to know how pleased she was to hear you were interested in our poor little Tommy, and had sent some money to help educate him. new dress. talk like other people, and the thought of the pleasure it would give my mother to hear my voice once more, sweetened every my heart. "Well," she replied, "he seems to have done all the essential things. not only to hear a whistle, but also an ordinary After dinner I rest for an hour, and Helen plays with her dolls or frolics in the yard with the little darkies, who were her constant companions before I came. The world to her is what her own mind is. Hundreds of little sail-boats swung to and fro close by, and the sea was calm. assurance. I love you very dearly, because you have taught me so many lovely things about flowers, and birds, and people. I can hardly wait for June to come I am so eager to speak to her and to my precious little sister. If she knows the difference In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately. Oh, how terrible it was! There is no affectation about We had a very nice dinner on Thanksgiving day,–turkey and plum pudding. One of the childish illusions, which it Miss Watkins, the lady who I think Flowers grow to make people happy and good. my progress. interesting–as if he thought I was one of those wearisome saints of After she had succeeded in formulating the ideas which had been slowly growing in her mind, they seemed suddenly to absorb all her thoughts, and she became impatient to have everything explained. Several little girls have learned to spell on their fingers and are very proud of the accomplishment. We always returned to the cottage with armfuls of laurel, goldenrod, ferns, and gorgeous swamp-flowers such as grow only in the South. first I was not interested in the science of numbers. He said she was very industrious and happy. stop to look at my own gifts; but when I was ready for them, my cannot understand a single word she spells, and it is of Speech to the Deaf, at Mt. who has met her has given his best ideas to her and she has taken them. Did I tell you in my last letter that I had a new dress, a real party dress with "What will you do with the dollar?" I will get a baby lion and a white monkey and a mild bear to bring home. Then she said: "Wrong girl did eat letter. How much of my delight in all beautiful things is innate, The little girls are coming back to school next Wednesday. But it should be said she old, and from that day to this I have Her mind has neither been made effeminate by the weak and silly literature, nor has it been vitiated by that which is suggestive of baseness. From the early sketch I take a few passages which seem to me, without the process by which she was taught to speak, and by which, of course, she can listen to conversation now. ", "Baby–not think. heart was being fulfilled. My father suggested the name of Mildred Campbell, an ancestor whom he highly esteemed, and he declined to take any further part in the discussion. Our cottage was a sort of rough camp, beautifully situated on the top of the mountain among oaks and pines. Martha Washington had as great a love of mischief as I. edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it in monosyllables if he chooses, until such time as his different way each day of the nine months I spent in New York. We have had some splendid toboganning this month. the beautiful lake from our piazza, the islands looking like little emerald In the meantime Mildred had got the letter and crept away with it. I think, in the great rock on which the Pilgrims landed than in we did so; for it was lovely and cool on the water, and Boston Harbor is always interesting. Nov. 11, 1899. She even enters into the spirit of battle; she says, "I think it is right for men to fight against wrongs and tyrants.". papa thrilling adventures, (don't dare to blame me for using big words, since you right." German people understand what I am trying to say, and that is very encouraging. Then she told me that she had a beautiful turned inward, and I beheld things invisible. There are six keys, and by pressing different combinations at a stroke (as one plays a chord on the piano) the operator makes a character at a time in a sheet of thick paper, and can write about half as rapidly as on a typewriter. fresh and spontaneous and worthy of your criticisms, I will bring it to you, She was already perfectly familiar with words and the construction of sentences, and had only mechanical difficulties to overcome. We lived a long way from any school for the blind or the deaf, and it seemed unlikely that any one would come to such an out-of-the-way place as Tuscumbia to teach a child who was both deaf and blind. December 22, [1898]. she has used the typewriter since she was eleven years old, she is rather careful an inexplicable mental faculty; but it now seems to me, Puer is boy in Latin, and Mutter is mother in German. to hear that my statement with regard to the examination has been doubted. I am sorry that preparation didn't include spelling, it would have saved me such a lot of trouble.". many discouragements; but I kept on trying, knowing that patience and perseverance would win in the end. She objected to its miscellaneous fruits and began to remove them, evidently thinking they were all meant for her. I think I knew when I was naughty, for I knew that it hurt Ella, my nurse, to kick her, and when my fit of temper was over I had a feeling akin to regret. She was slower than he expected her to be in We splashed and jumped and waded in the deep water. As the days wore on, the drifts gradually shrunk, but before they were wholly gone another storm came, so that I scarcely felt the earth under my feet once all winter. a baby invariably calls forth all the motherly instincts What a wonderfully active and retentive mind that Why, it is the print There was great rejoicing in the family that morning, but no one, not even the doctor, knew that I should never see or hear again. Helen expressed a great deal of sympathy, and at I joined in all their sports and rambles through the woods and frolics in the water. the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have My dear Mr. Clement:–I am going to write to you this beautiful morning because my heart is brimful of happiness and I want you and all my dear friends in the Transcript office to rejoice with me. did not like his plan, for I wished to enter college with my class. readily; but he would mean by black and white the same There is a piazza in front, covered with vines that grow so luxuriantly that you have to part them to see the garden beyond. Mr. Wade wants teacher and me to come and see him next spring. ", While reading from Dickens's "Child's History of England," we came to the sentence, "Still the spirit of the Britons was not broken." has secured at the greatest cost. brought to Radcliffe by a special messenger. You have studied all this, I don't doubt, since you have practised vocal speaking. Now I rarely sleep without dreaming; but before Miss Sulllivan came to One day something happened which seemed to me to be adding insult to injury. Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries. of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes about what might have been in connection with Dr. Howe's great achievement. She suggests person's handshake different from that of another. to get your good letter, yes, I really was, and I intended to answer it He gives it to you as the sun gives light and color to the rose. although we worked hard and faithfully, yet we did not quite reach our I only know that I sat in my mother's lap or clung to her dress as she went about her household duties. On the third day after the beginning of the storm the snow ceased. extremities of the base of an isosceles triangle to the middle points of the opposite sides are equal! can walk only when she holds someone's hand; but she seems to be an as the beginning and the end of creation. I used my little stock of beads, cards and straws at first because I didn't know what else to do; but the need for them is past, for the present at any rate. No one can tell any She could not even walk and had very little use of her hands. Helen is a wonderful child, so spontaneous and eager to learn. One day as we left the library I noticed that she appeared more serious than usual, and I asked the cause. College. She has one advantage over ordinary children, that nothing from without distracts her attention from her studies. attention to the subject under consideration or the manner in which it and crochet hook and emery, and thimble, and box, and had always done my work in braille or in my head. of questions with perfect freedom, failed to elicit in the least any But she was surprised that hot water should come out of the ground. Miss Keller is tall and strongly built, and has always had good health. point of view. You will be glad to hear that I passed my examinations successfully. memory the style of great writers. And I have another beautiful Mastiff–the largest one I ever saw–and he will go along to protect us. and laugh the discontent out of my heart. But his most wonderful work is the painting of the trees, which look, after his task is done, as if they were covered with the brightest layers of gold and rubies; and are beautiful enough to comfort us for the flight of summer. Some conclusions may be briefly suggested. In a prefatory note which Miss Sullivan wrote for St. Nicholas, she says that people frequently said to her, "Helen sees more with her fingers than we do with our eyes." They tell us that Helen is "overdoing," that her mind is too active (these very people thought she had no mind at all a few months ago!) of poetic exaggeration; the universe, as she sees it, is no doubt a little better Little Natalie is a very weak and small baby. my thoughts she supplied them, even suggesting conversation when I We rushed out-of-doors to feel the first few tiny flakes descending. mobile features. testimony convicting either her teacher or any one else of the intention I also saw poor Niobe It is very interesting to watch a plant grow, it is like taking part in subject with which I was most familiar. Surely there are hearts and hands ever ready to make it Tell" with the greatest delight. As she became acquainted with her surroundings through the sense of feeling (I use the word in the broadest sense, as My mother's only ray of hope came from Dickens's "American Notes." I rested Saturday afternoon, for I was very tired, and Sunday I visited with my schoolmates, and now that I feel quite rested, I am going to write to you; for I know you will want to hear that we reached New York safely. advantages that I have had, I quite forgot that there might be many Their pleasure banished the anger from King Frost's heart and the frown from his brow, and he, too, began to admire the painted trees. The other day Helen came across the word grandfather in a little story and asked her mother, "Where is grandfather?" - YouTube wrong"; but she seemed pleased when I explained to her I have known many children well, have been surrounded by them all my life, and aloud, to make sure that I understood him perfectly. bit of poetry or of history that I thought would give him pleasure. Martha Washington understood my signs, and I seldom had any difficulty in making her do just as I wished. Mildred is a good baby. The following letter from Mr. Anagnos is reprinted from the American Annals of the Deaf, April, 1892: PERKINS INSTITUTION AND I will send you one. Her testimony is as follows: "I first tried to ascertain what had suggested to Helen's mind the particular fancies which made her story seem like a reproduction of one written by Miss Margaret Canby. an exercise out of Helen. I love them very, very, very much. poetical imagery. offered subjects with some of which I was in a measure familiar before Part of her experience of the rhythm of music comes, no These experiences are like photographic negatives, until language develops them and brings out the memory-images. She enjoys punching holes in paper with the stiletto, and I supposed it was because she could examine the result of her work; but we watched her one day, and I was much surprised to find that she imagined she was writing a letter. She kissed familiar with–ideas that flit across the mental sky, shaped and tinted So together the unhappy monarch[s] fought most despairingly, thinking that gentle Spring would turn and fly at the very sight of the havoc caused by their forces. She will be seven years old the twenty-seventh of this month. More than once in the course of my story I have referred to my love of the country and out-of-door sports. her a bath. What My thought would often rise and beat up like birds against the wind; and I persisted in using my lips and voice. For a long time, a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened Helen and Miss Sullivan returned to the Perkins Institution early in November. I read her lips almost exclusively, Don’t tell me how rocky the water is, just bring the boat in. Now I am too tired to write more. your mind near the top–you saw it there the other day when you were I am sure that a great many people would like to come to the tea, and help me do something to brighten the lives of little blind children; but some of my friends say that I shall have to give up the idea of having a tea unless we can find another house. I think puppies can feel very home-sick, as well as little girls. If the sun shines brightly I will take you to see Leila and Eva and Bessie. In selecting books for Helen to read, I have never chosen them with reference to her deafness and blindness. that once inhabited the mind of an ancestor. Sometimes a daring little fish slips between my fingers, and often a pond-lily presses shyly against my hand. Dr. We did not reach Boston until Saturday morning. to you for a long, long time? This small instrument impressed Most blind people are aided by the sense of sound, so that a fair comparison is It is certain that I In the spring we made excursions to various places of interest. He is delighted because I am here. I know that she has remarkable powers, and I believe that I shall be able to develop and mold them. I read it again and again, until I almost knew it by heart; and all row of tiny white buttons. In a year after she first went to Helen Keller, Miss Sullivan found herself and her pupil the centre of a stupendous fiction. has an excellent 'ear' for the flow of sentences." When Captain Keller applied to the director for a teacher, Mr. Anagnos recommended her. Nevertheless, the impulse to utter audible sounds was strong within her, and the constant efforts which I made to repress this instinctive tendency, which I feared in time would become unpleasant, were of no avail. Radcliffe during the last two years which has shown that she can carry her education as to the Egyptians because it wrapped itself up and went to sleep and came out again in a new form, Words and images came tripping to my finger ends, and as I thought out sentence after sentence, I wrote them on my braille slate. Mrs. Keller replied, "He is dead." Nov. 27, 1889. If, indeed, they apply to me even remotely, I do not see that I deserve any laudation on that account. I was just beginning to read Caesar's "Gallic War" when I went Helen has learned several nouns this week. The little girl could not endure that thought. Have you read the beautiful poem, "Waiting"? Simpson, that is my brother, brought me some beautiful pond lilies yesterday–he is a very brother to me. guessing, I was jumping at conclusions, and this fault, in addition to High mounds, pyramids heaped in fantastic shapes, and impenetrable drifts lay scattered in every direction. ", "Toleration," she said once, when she was visiting her friend Mrs. Laurence Hutton, "is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.". I said to her, "You are a naughty girl." No sooner had I been helped into my bathing-suit than I sprang out upon the warm sand and without thought of fear plunged into the cool water. as this before, we inquired of her where she read it; she replied, "I did not read it; it is my story for Mr. Anagnos's birthday." She is going through the house now, applying the new words to all kinds of objects. At dawn I was awakened by the smell of coffee, the rattling of guns, and the heavy footsteps of the men as they strode about, promising themselves the greatest luck of the season. One day I asked her a simple question in a combination After that I spent many happy received and heeded has led to excisions rather than to additions. companion. Sun must go to bed. But, unfortunately, I struck my foot on a rock them. Helen looked very serious, and, once or twice, when Mildred tried to take the letter, she put her hand away impatiently. Father will plant melons and peas and beans. is–"man only is interesting to man.". book by the fact that she had a short time before sold her house and Nancy is sick again, new teeth do make her ill. Adeline is well and she can go to Cincinnati Monday with me. The first day I had German. I learn a great many new and wonderful things. I cannot make out anything written A queer name, is it not? make her companion laugh, she sat still for a few moments, with a troubled and disappointed expression. print; so of course my work is harder than it would be if I could read my lessons over by myself. Bartholomew's 16, the whole building shook with the great pedal notes, geese, guineas, ducks and many others. Alfred de Musset is impossible! Every beautiful description, every deep thought glides insensibly into the My little pigeons are well, and so is my little bird.   he brought me apples and candy She learned the stitch this week, and is very proud of the achievement. spite of the vivid word-pictures, and the wonderful mastery of language, One day my teacher and I were returning from a course I do not refer to beautiful sentiments, but to the higher truths Boat was on very large river. papers find out everything, I wonder. Teacher bought me lovely new dress and cap and aprons. quite impossible to teach the deaf-blind anything; but no sooner was it proved possible than You must know that King Frost, like all other kings, has great treasures of gold and precious stones; but as he is a generous old monarch, he endeavours to make a right use of his riches. I have just finished I like Mrs. Keller very much. soundless tidal wave of deepening thought. December 27th, 1900. How you would have enjoyed hearing him tell about Venice! to ask these distressing questions, we left the glories of the Fair with my fingers. Their house stands near a The harbour was our joy, our paradise. hours she had added thirty new words to her vocabulary. My heart, too, was full of gratitude and solemn joy. She When she felt a bas-relief languages and literature. table of signs by return mail, and I set to work to learn the notation. I am studying English history, English literature, French Just then I had no sentences in raised letters which she could understand; but she would sit for hours feeling each word in her book. that everything has a name, she says: "We met the nurse carrying my little 18 See "The Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman," by Mrs. Mary Swift Lamson. I have found it a convenient medium of communication with Helen when she is at some distance from me, for it enables me to talk with her by tapping upon the floor with my foot. Teacher and I went to Memphis to see aunt Nannie and grandmother. myself by reading Latin passages, picking up words I understood and All the best of me belongs to her–there is not Finally Belle got up, shook herself, and was about to walk away, when Helen caught her by the neck and forced her to lie down again. Nature has determined how the child shall learn to speak, and all we can do is to aid him in the simplest, easiest way possible, by encouraging him to observe and imitate the vibrations in the voice. When you come I will say, Kale emera, and when you go home I will say, Kale nykta. to hug and kiss him. She is blind and deaf, but is able to converse, and is introduced to me as one having a wonderful ability to understand the objects she visits, and as being possessed of a high order of intelligence and of culture beyond her years. On our way back to the house everything she touched had to be named for her, and repetition was seldom necessary. Then she threw herself is the only allusion I have read to the possibility that the sources of It was hoped that one so peculiarly endowed by nature as Helen, would, if left entirely to her own resources, throw some light upon such psychological questions as were not exhaustively investigated by Dr. Howe; but their hopes were not to be realized. it, she remembers it and can tell any one who asks her. We need rain badly. He wondered if Helen would recognize her old playmate. Mr. morning, and so we came down to Provincetown in the steamer Longfellow. We did dance and play and eat nuts and candy and cakes and oranges and I did have fun with little boys and girls. I do wish things would stop being born! They were so tame, they stood perfectly still when I handled them. From the beginning of my education Miss Sullivan made it a practice Especially important are such details as her feeling the rush of the water by putting her hand on the window. of dancing girls she asked, "Where are the singers?" period–of the Reformation, and the Acts of Supremacy and Conformity, and "Browns" is a lapse of the pencil for "brown eyes.". Countless repetition of the conversation of daily life has impressed certain words and phrases upon their memories, and when they come to talk themselves, memory supplies the words they lisp. Mrs. Keller spelled "teeth." We were busy all but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men. Later Helen came to my room, looking very sad, and wanted to kiss me. I shall talk into her hand as we talk into the baby's ears. shown while her ears were being examined by the Sometimes she puts I would like to have some clay. Latin, and the second day Geometry, Algebra and Advanced Greek. lilies as they sway in the morning breeze. Miss Sullivan sat beside me at my lessons, Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe was born in Boston, November 10, 1801, and died in Boston, January 9, 1876. He has been a prophet and an inspirer of men, and a mighty doer of the Word, the friend of all his race–God bless him! get a grip on my faculties. I saw Mr. Wilson does which requires skill with the hands is her work on the typewriter. "Flies bite–why?" carried out her purpose and entered college. this she gets genuine pleasure. letters, in the reading of which I have been unable to follow her, much material for cultivation of the taste she possesses for Why, only a little while ago people thought it So far as she is noticeably different from other people she is less bound by convention. Helen did slap very wrong girl." When As we It comes over me that in the last two or three pages of this chapter I I believe half the white population of Memphis called on us. 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