The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-20

Ing her visit. Prof. Ben thought ~ ,s...
ur ~ asking her pudding questions.
sh' ne said, tell me what Is the
Hsie1 thought moment. and then
answtzed confidently: Wind must be
And what is beauty"
w ny. should think beauty Is a kind
OK goodness"
Presently Helen turned the table ON
ner friend by asking him to Tell where
1ne FIRST chicken came from.
Why. out OF an egg answered. the
professor.
Wen, then. where did that egg corna
from 9! persisted Helen. ana she Iaur,,ss
heartily at having got the bes, OF her
Questioner.
AZ may be Interesting to those who
nave foilowed Heienss development ~
hisoS that the original intention az keen
ing asr mind free from religious specu-
.As'oais mas not been carried out. Guard
asf a. tney would from the usual sub-
1scts OF sunday school instruction. Hell
en- restless thoughts seized upon many
eioes mere and there. and finally one day
10 great perpsexity she made the follows.
ing appeal to her teacher. whom, sh.. he
hesed possessed OF all knowledge:
i wish to write about thing do ny.
understand. Who made the earth tho
seas. and everything? What makes the
sun hot? Where was / before came ~
liosners know that plants grow from
seeos which are in the ground, but am
sure people do not grow that way. I
never saw child-plant. Why does not
Inc earth fan. 1t Is so very large and
aeavy! Tell me something that Father
nature does May read the book called
the Bible? Please tell your little pupil
many things when you have much
time,
ABOUT this time Helen talked with an
fner person who gave her some of the
orh6dox ideas ABOUT the Creator. These
amused Helen greatly and she wrote In
her diary:
A. says God made me and every one
CUT OF sand: but it must be a toIxe-r am
made out OF flesh and blood and bone
am not? A. says God is everywhere.
and that He Is ali love: but I do not
think person can be made out of love
Love Is only something In our hearts.
Inen A. said another comical thing. He
says de tmeaning Cod is my dear fa-
tner II made me laugh quite hard. for
know my father is Arthur Keller
Heien's religious doubts were not set
at rest until she was taken to DIR. Phil
lips BROOKS. who. with rare tact and
sympathy. WAS able to furnish answers
10 her deluge OF questions which salts
fed the little girl. Since then. her love
and admiration for Bishop Brooks have
sknoWn no bounds. and she grieyed much
at his death.
Another great friend of Helen.s was
the late Oliver Wendell Holmes. When
she was scarcely 10 years old. Miss Full
Ter. the lady who taught her oral speech,
brought her to see DR. Holmes. This
was only a few weeks after Helen had
taken her first lesson In producing ar
tieulafe sounds. andyet such marvellous
progress had she made in that time and
so great was her determination to be
Understood that she actually carried on
quite conversation with the eminent
writer. 1t was in the same year that
Helen wrote long letter to the poet
Whittier on his SD birthday, sending
him many kind wishes by the winged
messengers of love-" as she expressed
It.
In his address before the National
academy Prof. Bell called special atten-
ton TO the fact that Helen's marvellous
command of language had been ac-
Quired to great extent without instruc-
tion. by simply reading to her or allow
ing her to read from the best authors,
regardless OF whether she understood the
words or not. Gradually. by some unex-
planned process Of the mind. Helen came
to know what the new words meant.
and her vocabulary increased with as
tonishing rapidity and apparently with
out effort. In other words. the child
had gained a mastery OF language by
reading books. thus reversing the ordin-
airy method which makes children. es-
pecially deaf children, study language