KISS FOR COOLIDGE

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3249, 20 January 1926, Page 11

KISS FOR COOLIDGE

VISIT FROM AUTHORESS. AFFLICTED WOMAN’S TRIBUTE. WASHINGTON, January 12. Miss Helen Keller, the authoress, who Id deaf, dumb and blind, called at the White House and kissed the President, Mr. Calvin Coolidge, who. though somewhat embarrassed, allowed the photographers to take snapshots. Tho story of Helen Adams Keller, who is now 46 years old, Is one of tho strangest ever told. Though apparently cut off from all perception of the world, she woo able, by perfecting her sense of touch, not only to communicate with her followbeings, but to graduate with honours at Kadcliffe 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. Mias Keller has published several books .Including “The Story of My Life,’’ “The World I Live In," “The Chant of the Stone Wail,’’ and “Out of the Dark.’’ She recently "listened’’ by wireless to the CNow Tork Symphony Orchestra, and declared that she was thrilled by the throb and “urge’* of a Beethoven symphony. »