A SECOND HELEN KELLER.
. Tho latest achievement- of .tho "enlightened blind" is tho graduation, at the head of her class at tho M'Kinloy High School, Chicago, of Miss Edith .M. Griffon, who lias .not seen sirico she was twenty months old. There were, seventy in her class, and sho-led.them all in ' scholarship. :, . !.Miss Griffon can memorise tho substance of seveii or eight pages of history arid science, after tpev .have;,been .read to her oii.ee. Sli'o' uses' ri Brailo typewriter at times,"but she is at homo with the ordinary machiiio as well. Sho speaks French and German, has studied Latin and Greek, has ivritten essays on Herbert Spencer's works, and is an accomplished musician. Moreover, she sews well, and prides herself, on aiding her mother in all housekeeping care.".. -. -i, !'Miss-Griffen is as cheerful as the day is long.',, Sho .'finds her life , full of interests and possibilities of helpfulness. "I haven't liny .vain regrets," sho. says—a philosophy of life to which moro fortunate mortals can seldom arrive. '
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 88, 7 January 1908, Page 3
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167A SECOND HELEN KELLER. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 88, 7 January 1908, Page 3
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