PRESIDENT KISSED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 45, 22 January 1926, Page 5

PRESIDENT KISSED.

AUTHORESS’S SCENE.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12

Miss Helen Keller, the authoress, who is deaf, dumb and blind, called at the White House and kissed the President, Mr Calvin Coolidge, who though somewhat embarrased, allowed the photographers to take snapshots.

The stoty of Helen Adams Keller, who is now 46 years old, is one of the strangest, ever told. Though apparently cut off from all perception of the world, she was able, by perfecting her senses of touch, not only to communicate with her fellow-beings, but to graduate with honours at Radcliffe College. When she was 19 months old she was deprived of sight, smell and hearing by an attack of scarlet fever. Miss Anna Sullivan, of the Perkins’ Institute for the Blind, taught her the deaf and dumb language by touch, reading by the Braille system, and writing and typewriting, in 1890 she taught Helen how to speak. Miss Killer has published several books including “The Story of My Life,” “The World I live In,” “Tho Chant of the Stone Wall,” and “Out of the Dark.” She recently “listened” by wireless to the New York Symphony Orchestra, and declared that she was trilled by tho throb and “urge” of a Beethoven symphony.