THE DEAF AND DUMB PRINCE

Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 427, 15 July 1913, Page 2

THE DEAF AND DUMB PRINCE

MISS HELEN KELLERMAN ENGAGED i TO EDUCATE HIM. j The many friends of Queen Victoria of » Spain, says a writer m the ' Gentlewoman,' will learn with much regret that the case I of her second son, Prince Jaime, is apparently given np as hopeless. Albeit a bright * and healthy boy m other ways, he is both .deaf and dumb, and all the efforts of physicians m the different cities 'of Europe have been unavailing. My readers have heard, I doubt not, of the marvellous caso of Helen Kellerman, a young American girl, who was not only deaf and dumb, but absolutely blind, yet through the persistent efforts and the ex- ' traordinary skill and intelligence of a 1 woman teacher she learnt m time to. ! master not only English, but several other languages, and to read, after a complicated method, of which touch was the keynote, the best literature of her time. More .than this, Helen Kellerman became as years , went on a girl of unusual learning. She j passed several very stiff examinations, and ! took a high degree at college, and is now, according to all accounts, one of the niosi. brilliant of modern scientists among women. I learn that the rung and Queen of Spain recently summoned her to the Palace at Madrid, and that she, Helen Kellerman, has agreed to undertake the ; education of the little boy.

A municipal clerk named Klotz, who died m a hospital at New York on March 28 through the explosion of an infernal machine, confessed on his deathbed to having made and sent the bombs that killed Miss Taylor and Mrs Madeline Hereora, besides injuring a policeman. Steamers are, from a traveller's point of view, 50 per cent, safer than sailing vessels.