Arizona silver belt., 1890-01-11
LITTLE HELEN KELLER.
Remarkable Intelligence Displayed by
 Blind Deaf Mute.


 Blind Deaf Mute.
 Helen Keller has a wonderful mem ory and seldom forgets what she has once learned. and she learns very quickly She is wonderfully bright child, and her teacher, instead of urg- ing her to study, IS often obliged to coax Helen away from some example in arithmetic. or other task, lest the little girl should injure her health by working too hard at her lessons. But her marvellous progress IS not due to her fine memory alone, but also to her great quickness of perception and to her remarkable powers of thought.
 To speak little more clearly. Helen understands with singular rapldlty, not only what is said to her, but even the feelings and the state of mind of those about her. and slie thinks more than most children of her age. The Touch" schooInistresS has done such wonders for her little pupil that you would scarcely believe how many things Helen finds out, as with cleo trlc qulckness. through her fingers. She knows ln a moment whether her companions are sud or frightened or impatient ill other words. she has learned 50 well what movements peo pie make under the influence of differ ent feelings that at times she seems to read OurG,eugilts
 Ti7us,R len she was walking out one dayT3ith her mother. a boy ex ploded q torpedo winch frightened Mrs. Keller Helen asked at once, What are you afraid off" Some of you already know that sound G e., uoise Of all sorts) IS produced by the vibrations of the air striking against our organs of hearing that is to say, the cars; and deaf people, even though they can hear absolutely nothing, are still conscious of tl-ese vibrations linus. they can feel" loud music, probably because it shakes the floor; and Helen s sense of feeling IS so won derfully acute that she no doubt learns many things from these vibrations of the air which to us are imperceptible
 The following anecdote illustrates both her quickness of touch and her reasoning powers. The matron of the Perkins Institution for the Blind ex- hibited one day to a number of friends a glass lemon squeezer of new pat tern. It had never been used, and no one present could guess for what pur pose 1t was intended Some one hand ed it to Helen, who spelled demon ade" on her fingers, and asked for drinking glass. When the glass was brought she placed the squeezer in proper position for use The little maid was closely questioned as to how she found out a secret that had baliied all the seeing people present She tap ped her forehead twice and spelled, Il think"
 l cannot forobear telling you one more anecdote about her, which seems to me very pathetic one. She IS very good mimic, and loves to initiate the motions and gestures of those about her, and she can doso very clev- erl y. On a certain Sunday night she went to church with lady named Mrs. Hopkins, having been cautioned beforehand by her teacher that she must sit very quiet during the church service. It is very hard to sit perfect ly still, however, when you can't hear one word of what the minister is say ing, and little Helen presently began to talk to Mrs Hopkins, and ask what was going 8n-iirs. Hopkins told her, and rcmiiiaed her of Miss Sullivan's injunction about keeping quiet She immnlediately obeyed, and turning her head Ill a listening attitude, she said, Il listen St. Nicholas.