The morning call., 1894-11-23

slole TO make anything of the darkened
and enteebled mind, but. she still thinks
that with dlligent effort, under proper con-
dttions, something might be done.
She provides a special caretaker for
Sarah, who must be with her night and
day. She has NO doubt of the origin of
the girls inf1iction as here stated.
There are many old women who have
been In the institution siuca Sarah LutZ
first came there twelve years ago and they
go further in their accounts. They say
that when the child grew firm upon her
feet she drew their special attention by run
ming constantly, with peculiar motion. in a
circle round and round. This the house
keeper repeats but Mrs. Weaver knows
no more of 1t than that they who claim 10
have often remarked il say so. For many
years the girls special guardian was a
Mrs. May, who had peculiar influence
over her and who was con Instant in her
care and watchfulness until the day of her
death q few years ago. She often spoke OF
this popularity.
Mrs. May was very deaf and Mrs.
Weaver learned by experience that the
sympathy or fellowship or the instinct of
the deaf made them the most trustworthy
IN the care OF this unfortunate and so gave
her into the care of another so inflicted and
VINO Is now her constant guardian.
There is another reason why she thinks
the deaf the most fitting companions and
that is the cry that the girl so often utters
at night. Only the very deaf could find
much sleep with her. But on the other
hand the cry. falling upon deaf ears, is
often unanswered. and then it rises and
takes on that terrifying timbre of the wild
animal that seems to fill the night with
horror, seeking every remote part of the
great building and peopling the backness
with intangible evil.
Some one rushes to Sarah Lutz's room
and touches her cheek, and the cry dies
down to the familiar, affecLionate
whinny. The deaf roommate is aroused,
some water is brought and, having gulped
down the incOnceivable quantity that she
will. the unhappy freak goes to sleep
again.
During the day she sits beside the deaf
but now watehful and kindly old woman.
now still for an instant. with dOwncast
eyes, as in the picture. now starting up
with the strange wbinny, feeling to see if
her companion is there. finding her hand
and pressing IL to her face. II the Old lady
recognizes the movement with an answer
ing caresS she will rub her face against
her with her peculiar cry of salts faction.
Hungry or thirsty. she will become more
demOnstrative, the signs being we'll known
TO her attendant. Water she will drink
whenever offered, and it is one of the little
bits of exhibition to which she is SUBJ
lected for the benefit Of the curl ,us.
To those who study her there certainly
seems TO be deep-seated intelligence that
might be developed. Whence came this
yearnng for affection. this quick demon
strative response? And should there
fall silence in the room or any unusual
happening the old women who are her
companions and know her moods say at
once, "She knows that something is going
oD," for she is restless and more than
ever gr0pes for the friendly nand she has
learned to know and clings to it with evil
dent suspicion of harm.
DR.. Amos g. Warner of Stanford Uni
versity. who has been making special
study of the helpless and inefficient from
psychological standpoint and who max es
frequent visits TO the Almshouse for this
purpose, considers Sarah Lutz one of the
most startling bits of Illustration known to
him. DIR. Warner Ia now in Arizona
busily engaged in putting his studies in
shape for pubica ton in book form,