AN EXAMPLE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 15, 19 January 1933, Page 13

AN EXAMPLE

HELEN KELLER, 8.A., LL.D,

Helen Keller,-who at tlio age of nineteen months was bereft of sight'and hearing a severe illnessj and who has attained a wonderful place in the world largely through her own courage and hard work, .wa3 recently in England. She paid a great tribute to her patient teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, whose unceasing efforts to givo her the best substitutes for sight and hearing and the cultivation of speech were wonderful, and with the help of the pupil/most successful. Miss Keller attended the "WrightHumason School for the Deaf in New York, and there she wrote: "I find I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed in life—-to think clearly without,hurry or confusion, toy love everybody sincerely^ to act mi everything with the highest motives, and to trust the dear God unhesitatingly." Two years later, still battling for the mastery of speech, she entered a school at Cambridge, Mass., to he prepared for Eadcliffie College, and she graduated B.A. there. • She has published several books and has attained sufficient mastery over speech to address audiences throughout the United States ' and to raise 200,000,000 dollars for the blind people. She can speak French and German i fluently. Mrs. Corbett Ashby was chairman at a. great meeting held in London at which Miss Keller received an ovation from the audience, She spoke on the subject.of world peace, and her chief urging was the education of the young toward high ideals of peace and brotherhood, with understanding among the nations.

Asked at the end of her Address if she had any special message to the children, she said with great energy;— "Yes, tell the children they can do anything they want to if they stick at it long enough." She was the proof of .her own saying, and the audience, who had come prepared to be a little troubled by their sympathy were completely set at ease by her graceful and natural manner, and went away, aa their chairman suggested, prepared to dedicate thoir own eyes,-ears, and tongues to all good purposes. , V