I am content that others should be wiser than I. “Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.” – Helen Keller, 22. No doubt they were signs for the different members of the family at Ivy Green. Too much has been written by people who do not know the problems of the deaf at first hand, and I do not care to add much to it. Perhaps this Helen told me that for a long time she had thought of Jack Frost as a king, because of the many treasures which he possessed. It was a great horseshoe crab–the first one I had ever seen. MY DEAR MR. ANAGNOS: You will laugh when you open your little friend's letter and see all the queer mistakes she has made in French, but I think you will be pleased to know that I can write even a short letter in French. and loved him best can understand what his friendship meant to me. were questions Helen asked when she was eight years old. Of the time when I began to read connected stories I shall He has another daughter, named Mildred, who knows Carrie. Down came the mainsail. wood fire, we played our guessing game, which grew more and more World's Fair. Curiously enough, it never occurred to me to call Greek patronymics "queer.". I am sure they did not quite understand how passionately I Once while I was calling on him in Boston he acted the most striking parts of "The Rivals" for me. They look down him, and he would take me up in his strong arms and put back the tangled it, she remembers it and can tell any one who asks her. classes. I have a good mind! I want you to see baby Tom, the little blind and deaf and dumb child who has just come to our pretty garden. played it for hours at a time. JUST before the Perkins Institution closed for the summer, it was arranged that my teacher and I should spend our vacation at Brewster, on Cape Cod, with our dear friend, Mrs. Hopkins. She was very greatly excited by it, and said: 'It is terrible! The attitude of the child toward his books should be that of unconscious receptivity. MISS KELLER, MISS SULLIVAN AND MR. JOSEPH JEFFERSON. ", When friends have told her of the great happiness which awaits her in another life, she instantly asked: "How do you know, if you have not been dead?". until the whole plant was one nodding bough of loveliness and fragrance. There is no reason why she should strike from her The journey, which I remember well, was very pleasant. I have made careful investigation among Helen's friends in Alabama and in Boston and its vicinity, but thus far have been unable to ascertain any later date when it could have been read to her. Photograph by E. C. Kopp, 1902 that when she went to the Institution a few weeks ago, she was quite I came here simply because circumstances made it necessary for me to earn my living, and I seized upon the first opportunity that offered itself, although I did not suspect, nor did he, that I had any special fitness for the work. I have often held in my hand a little model of the Plymouth Rock As I lay in my bed that night, I wept as I hope few children have wept. The Keller homestead, where the family lived, was a few steps from our little rose-bower. middle of the church, where the vibrations from the great organ were They were both very, very dear! I would not rest satisfied until my teacher took me, for advice and assistance, to Miss Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann School. Indiana was the largest and finest ship in the Harbor, and we felt very cotton-fields, the hills and woods, and the crowds of laughing negroes We have a grooved board which we put between the pages when we wish to write. Whenever anything delighted or interested me she talked it over with Then she added: "I think she If you want to, you may read it to my friends. or a violet; and if she is promised a bouquet of these The untaught deaf child who is made to articulate does not know what the goal is, and his lessons in speech are for a long time tedious and meaningless. mightier than himself. I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long. I love you very dearly, because you have taught me so many lovely things about flowers, and birds, and people. and so we were greatly disappointed that you did not come. This small instrument impressed finished, and we read it in the family, it occasioned much comment on account of the beautiful imagery, and we could not She has the courage of her metaphors and lets them take her skyward when we poor self-conscious folk would think them rather too bookish for ordinary conversation. will feel it and say "black." The only thing she We played games, and ate ice-cream and cake and fruit. Had it not been for the Thursday we had a picnic. I felt my way to the hearth and picked up the pieces. Still there is much in the Bible against which every instinct of my being rebels, so much that I regret the necessity which has compelled me to read it through from beginning to end. Her height is four feet one inch, and her head measures twenty and one-half inches in circumference, the line being drawn round the head so as to pass over the prominences of the parietal and frontal bones. Rat does not know wrong. grandfather of Cyrus the Great?" She returned in a few minutes and helped me put away my things. The play seemed so real, we almost forgot where we were, and believed we were watching the genuine scenes as they were acted so long ago. For eight months Mr. Keith gave I stood in the eye of the world a mighty man and a terrible. Friday I am going to spend the day with my little friends Carrie, Ethel, Frank and Helen Freeman. Sometimes I would go with Mildred and my little cousins to gather persimmons. he was above all mortals, went down to the kingdom of the dead, never to “The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.” – Helen Keller, 33. beautiful moments when I see and hear in dreamland. subject with which I was most familiar. We would get on our toboggan, a boy would give us a shove, and off we went! The words made a distinct picture in my mind. We had stayed up at Fern Quarry later than usual. usurer's rate of interest my kickings and pinchings. are coming north to spend this summer with me. If I did not know the words and idioms necessary to express I am afraid I find fault with the poem as task. MARK TWAIN has said that the two most interesting characters of the nineteenth Even now, she calls my attention every day to mispronounced words. Indeed, I am not sure now that I read all the signs than mine; for she is my constant inspiration.... At the end of September Miss Sullivan and Miss Keller returned to the Cambridge ... — has already communicated with you in regard to her and She is very fond of all the living things at home, and Of course, it was not easy at first to fly. as this before, we inquired of her where she read it; she replied, "I did not read it; it is my story for Mr. Anagnos's birthday." I had a frame in which I could arrange the words in little But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out. I went upstairs with something which my mother made me understand I was to give to Miss Sullivan; but no sooner had I given it to her than I slammed the door to, locked it, and hid the key under the wardrobe in the hall. especially from the latter! nature's unlettered children (so I thought as I fingered them) that seem Yale, and there was tremendous excitement here. How much of my delight in all beautiful things is innate, When I go to France I will talk French. fond of bananas, and one night I dreamed that I found a long string of companionship of the great and the wise, I am trying to realize what my life might A man was placed on guard at the door to prevent I object like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings. Many very handsome houses and large soft green lawns around them and trees and bright flowers and fountains. some candy, I said: "Will Helen please give teacher Mr. Albert H. Munsell, the artist, let her experiment with a wax tablet and a that were to make the world blossom for me, "like Aaron's rod, with Lake... Dr. Bell told me many interesting things about his work. Can any one doubt after reading these questions that the child who was capable of asking them was also capable of understanding at least their elementary answers? Central Park, the only part of the city that was congenial to me. As the train rumbled by, the trestle shook and swayed until I thought we should be dashed to the chasm below. Then when I was older I learned to play with my nurse and the little negro children and I noticed that they kept moving their lips just like my mother, so I moved mine too, but sometimes it made me angry and I would hold my playmates' mouths very hard. We also went in typewritten form, and as a braille machine is somewhat cumbersome, she has got into But every one Every day I find out something which makes me glad. the real and the earnest in the workaday world. dust, yet they rise again and menace me with pale looks, until like Bob But, while we were discussing plans for the winter, a suggestion which I have also italicized a few important passages. The The wandering in the dark! It was in these early days that Dr. Holmes wrote to her: "I am I was strong, active, indifferent to consequences. leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet This is shown in a little story she wrote in October last at the home of her parents in Tuscumbia, which she called attention to the subject under consideration or the manner in which it I had had, moreover, a good start in French, not see; but it did not seem possible that all the eager, loving They require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. I am very much afraid that you are thinking in your head that little Helen has forgotten all about you and her dear cousins. When I asked her about it in the morning, she said, "Book–cry," and completed her meaning by shaking and other signs of fear. HELEN A. KELLER. one day accompanied my friend and me through the At nine I go to the gymnasium with the little girls and we have great fun. to speak to me as she would to any hearing child; the only difference Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; we must do, and what our professors say or how they mark our themes. She suggests It is thrown across the gorge at a height of two hundred and fifty-eight feet above the water and is supported on each bank by towers of solid rock, which are eight hundred feet apart. There has been much discussion of such of Miss Sullivan's statements and explanations as have been published before. After they had all been pressed together for many thousands of years, the wood grew very hard, like rock, and then it was all ready for people to burn. heart was being fulfilled. They spent the rest of the spring reading and studying. not discouraged, nor am I afraid. Johnson, and "The Plague" and everything else must wait a few minutes this afternoon, while I made Miss Keller a writer, to go too far. Those with a cross after them are words she asked for herself: Doll, mug, pin, key, dog, hat, cup, box, water, milk, candy, eye (x), finger (x), toe (x), head (x), cake, baby, mother, sit, stand, walk. Her imagination is so vital that she falls completely under the illusion of a story, and lives in its world. Helen got up this morning like a radiant fairy. He is a great strong boy now, and he will soon need a man to take care of amused and entertained Helen by reading to her from a collection of juvenile publications, among which was the copy of splendid time; the toasts and speeches were great fun. Mildred is a sweet little sister and I am sure you would love her. I imagine she will have fun with the little toy man. mind to the exclusion of the moral. clasp of a friend's hand. My mind I feel every day more and more inadequate. Philadelphia that we often meet friends whom we learn to love afterwards. Laura Bridgman Therefore it has always seemed best to me to teach anything whenever my pupil needed to know it, whether it had any bearing on the projected lesson or not; her inquiries have often led us far away from the subject under immediate consideration. The "Iliad" is beautful with all the truth, and grace She recognized that others used their lips; she "saw" her father reading a paper and when he laid it down she sat in his chair and held the paper before her face. Why, it is as easy to teach the name of an idea, if it I then concluded that the story must have been read to her a long time ago, as her memory When I was not "Aeneid" and one book of the "Iliad," all of which is most fortunate, as I have come almost to the The stars are called the earth's brothers and sisters. she has come most fully to be herself. He knows that we can be really happy only when we are good. She screamed with glee when the little things squealed and squirmed in their efforts to get back to their mother, and spelled, "Baby–eat large." Sammy has a dear new brother. I have done nothing but select and cut. Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe was born in Boston, November 10, 1801, and died in Boston, January 9, 1876. She asks many questions about the sky, day and night, the ocean and mountains. He will not work joyously unless he feels that She has now reached the question stage of her development. True, her view of life is highly coloured and full was covered with dirt–the remains of mud pies I had compelled her she read to Helen the story of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," which she had This is the effect of putting it all in a summary. ground, and she is very dirty, and she is cold. Progress," "Robinson Crusoe," "Little Women," and "Heidi," a beautiful But I love "The Jungle Book" and "Wild Animals I Have Known." between Schumann and Beethoven, it is because she has read it, and if she has read We room floor is flooded with sunlight. is not always kind. His name is Tommy, and he is five years old. Soon after I became her This was the pinnacle of my happiness, from which I was in a little while dashed to earth. Just before the books came, Mr. Gilman had begun to remonstrate with MISS KELLER, MISS SULLIVAN AND DR. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. Her father, Captain Keller, wrote to me as follows on the subject: "I hasten to assure you that Helen could not have received any idea of the story from any of her relations or friends here, none of whom can communicate with her readily enough to impress her with the details of a story of that character.". Nevertheless, I must tell you that we are alive,–that we reached home safely, and that we speak of you daily, and enjoy your interesting letters very much. I had noticed that my mother and my friends did not use signs as I did when they wanted anything done, but talked with their mouths. In the first place, I laboured night and day before I could be understood even by my most intimate friends; in the second place, I needed Miss Sullivan's assistance constantly in my efforts to articulate each sound clearly and to combine all sounds in a thousand ways. I thought very much about the sad news when teacher went to the doctor's; she was not here at dinner and I missed her. letters, in the reading of which I have been unable to follow her, much material for cultivation of the taste she possesses for for the winter. Nevertheless, the impulse to utter audible sounds was strong within her, and the constant efforts which I made to repress this instinctive tendency, which I feared in time would become unpleasant, were of no avail. My sister can walk and run. Sainte-Beuve say, "Il vient un age peut-être quand on n'ecrit plus." now; the "far-away country" was here. send it to me? are permitted to drink in the eternal beauty of the old masters without When she felt a bas-relief that long after I had forgotten it, it came back to me so naturally that Helen and I came home yesterday. knew that I should never see my sweet little singer again. Many stores were burned, and four men were killed. by certain movements of the fingers, I have talked We sat in the hammock; but there was no rest for the weary there. Greece, ancient Greece, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. Nevertheless, it was the only sign she ever made for water, and not until she had learned to spell the word to learn to speak. ours! I think the bell is an instrument, too. pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the my heart, because it seems rather hard to me that any one should imagine Perhaps the Old Sea God as he lay asleep upon the shore, heard the soft music of growing things–the stir of life in the earth's bosom, and his stormy heart was angry, because he knew that his and Winter's reign was almost at an end. And for the first time I was I do not know what books we have, but I think it is a miscellaneous (I think that is the word) collection.... P.S. vocabulary all words of sound and vision. objections could be raised except indeed by those who are hostile to but war, and one sometimes wearies of the clash of spears and the din of "I have laughed at the poor duck, with the red rag tied round its leg. I saw doctor in Washington. A new light came into her face. I place my hand on the hand of the speaker so lightly as not to impede its movements. A fire was kindled at the bottom of a deep hole in the ground, big sticks were laid crosswise at the top, and meat was hung from them and turned on spits. hugging and kissing every one she happened to touch. subsequent events have borne out this impression. My heart was full of tears, for I love the beautiful truth with my whole heart and mind. All day long in their play-time and work-time Miss Sullivan kept spelling into her pupil's hand, and by that Helen Keller absorbed words, just as the child in the cradle absorbs words by hearing thousands of them before he uses one and by associating the words with the occasion of their utterance.
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