The age-herald., 1900-10-14

pleasant translation was offered, and when vulgar or revolting things were touched upon her fine ture would almost involun- tarily cry out against it. On one occasion, when the text referred to the devil, she objected strenuously, saying 1t was bad enough to have such a creature in exist ence without referring to him in literature.
 During her English preparation Miss kel- Ter enjoyed extremely the plays of Shakes peare and the essays of Burke. Her deli cious sense of humor was shown when, In reading that Burke said, Parliament has disarmed Wales by statute, and now pro poses 10 disarm Am rica by an instruction" she quietly remarked: Rather polite was 1t not?'h When Mir. Gilman explained to her the meaning of chicane and showed her the trick by which the New Englanders nulified an act of Parliament Helen ex- claimed That was the way in which the case was decided in The Merchant of Ven- ice It was legal quibble that Bellarlo taught Portia." From these and other in- cidents MT. Gilman was led to conclude that Helen Keller has the logical mind even if all other women are held to lack 1t.
 Years ago the child was apt at quota tions. On one occasion. when she visited girls school near Boston, she filled with aston ishment all who saw her by the quickness with which she would fit to an object some of the little poetry she then knew. TWO heads of Nero, one representing him as a
  examined by her on this occasion, and she expressed great wonder that such sweet and innocent child' could develop into the wicked man she knew Nero to have been From the lips of the mans face she qulcKlY read the dominant characteristic of pride. Venus was joyfully recognized, and head of Zeus at once suggested vivacious rec itation of these Homeric lines relating to Athena: "She sprang of sudden from out the immortal head, whirling her point ed lance; huge Olympus was shaken to US base under the weight of the gray-eyed goddess and all around the earth groaned terribly" Helen was only Il when this vis- it took place, and Il, be 1t remembered means 4 years old intellectually-since the child was ' before she was even taught how to use her sense of touch
 -6us op pInoo lBul 9YII puIu ulIM IIIS -uI p9lBopu9qlne ue SupeeI Iel1V 5ulul ceases to wonder that Helen Keller entered Radcliffe with flying colors, passed in ad- vanced Latin with credit and in advanced Greek, which her tutor regarded as her star subject with the "B'' that means an non or The examination papers were given her in the Braille raised point system, and the answers she wrote upon a typewriter, In the use of which she Is an expert. Her teachers say that while at snap questions she has no more aptitude than the major ity of her fellow students, when she has time enough she greatly outstrips them In the quality of her work.
 Upon history she will write bookfuls and she has to be stopped in her dissertations upon Pericles or Cicero Besides passing in all the required subjects, Miss Keller has entered Radcliffe with a course or two to the good. Freshman English and ad- vanced French were anticipated" or taken in advance by her.
 Of the subjects which this remarkable girl is now studying perhaps that most diff ficult for her to receive is the course called French Pa in Harvard and Radcliffe It deals with prose and poetry of La Fon- taine Corneile, Racine, Molere, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Alfred de Musset and Taine This Is full course, and has three hours a week of recitation work. At the lectures Helen Is invariably accompanied by Miss Sullivan, who sits close beside her and gives her in the manual language whatever the instructor may be saying.
 The German course which Helen has elected is conducted mainly in English, but a good deal of difficult Schiller is read in
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