The Saint Paul globe., 1903-08-06

There is one St. Paul young woman
whose vacation has not been one or
unalloyed 10y. This feeling that one
must go away in the summer whether
the weather is unbearable or not, takes
possession of some persons every year,
and this summer I was one of the VIC
TINS" said she, the other day to L e
Globe, 81 had been working hard at
school during the past year and made
up my mind to spend two weeks OF
July with some friends of mine who
have farm near a lake in Illinois. L
started; in the middle of the night l.
was awakened by an awful jolt which
threw me out of my berth into the
aisle of the car. We had run into
freight train and while every one was
badly shaken UP, no one was seriously
hurt. We congratulated each other on
our narrow escape and went on my
way rejoicing. My friends met me,
and the first evening we sat up late
talking over old times. The conSe-
Quence was that we retired very late
and slept heavily and the next morn
ing discovered that the house had been
entered in the night and much Of the
silver taken and some money. Among
the latter was my purse that l had
left careleSsly down stairs on the hall
table. Even then it did not occur to
me that | was a Nemesis or had brought
bad luck with me. But l give you my
word that every day I stayed in that
house something happened to me or
some member of the family. The day
after the robbery we were out driving
and the horse ran away and We spilled
out, but nobody was hurt, fortunately.
One night the servant dropped blue
berry pie down my back at the table.
That was laughable, but it ruined my
gown"
Finally I became frightened; I told
my friends if 1 stayed any longer some
one would be killed. While they were
cordial and pleased to have me. saw
that they were much puzzled by the
train of accidents that seemed to fol-
how me. When it came time for me
to go lost a pound or two thinking
about it; something terrible was bound
to happen on the homeward journey,
and this thought so affected my friends
that they, too, were reluctant to have
me start. / laughed about it, but
was pretty nervous after all. and prom
ised to telegraph from every station.
Well, everything went we'll on the re-
turn trip and l began to think l had
worked off the evil that was pursuing
me. But the most ridiculous thing hap
pened; | met young man on the train
who was an old friend and as we came
out of the depot together and walked
up to Fourth street-it was last week
what should we meet, but the car
niVaI police wagon, and they promptly
arrested my escort, and in spite OF his
remonStrance, carried him off, leaving
me standing on the corner with his
suit case and my own. l was very in
dignant, as / couldn't leave his bag
there, and instead of his carving mine
home and his, too, I had to carry them
both. That was my last piece of bad
luck Wasn't that altogether curious?
I've decided to stay at home in the
summer hereafter"
Another Helen Keller has been dis
covered in the person of little Eva
Halliday, of Wisconsin, who has made
almost as much progress at sixteen
years of age as had Miss Keller at the
same age. This little girl, like the 9TH
er, was not born deaf, but was made so
as the result of catarrhal fever when
she was six years old. She now at
tends school for the deaf in Wiscon-
sin and through a teacher, Miss Boyd,
has attained wonderful mental
growth. Miss Boyd herself, strange to
say, is totally deaf and partially bereft
of speech. 1t is only year and a half
ago that this little girl entered the ed
ucational institution and came under
the care of Miss Boyd. At the time she
only knew eight signs that meant GER
tain things to her. BY the same man
ner of teaching used by Miss Sullivan
with Helen Keller, this little girls
teacher managed to reach her mind
and since then her progress has been
rapid and steady. With her teacher
close at hand the little deaf and dumb
girl takes the most intense pleasure in
every new word and idea, and is climb
ing slowly and painfully, but surely,
up the hills of knowledge and bids fair
to rival Helen Keller herself in her
quick intelligence and great desire to
better ner condition. She operates
typewrfting machine with ease, uses a
sewing machine and goes out shopping
and selects things rapidly by the sense
of touch. This building up of a mind
step by step must be at once fascinat-
ing and painful labor to those engaged
In 1T, and the career of the little Wis
consin girl will be watched with in
tereSt.
In one of the late New York papers
there is description, with illustra-
tions, of the New York women auto
mobiling,, and what is proper for them
to wear. st. Paul women are usually
quick to take up any new fad or sport,
but they have been strangely slow
about automob1ling, and as yet only
few fashionable women own and run
their own autos. There are a few
women who have electric runabouts
and who go down town in them and do
their errands and shopping that way
but the larger number of women here
wait until evening and drive with
their husbands as chauffeurs.> To be
sure, it is safer so, as women in
crowded street are more likely to lose
their heads than men, but in one of
the runabouts going at moderate