The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-02

sum to provide a Httle treat for the
boys who had staYed at home. When
Tommy was told Of the plan, he asked
cheer1uily: How much shall / giye?''
just what you WISH they said. He
gave the largest cQin he had-a quar-
ter. At another time he bought era
vat to present to Miss Browns father
as birthday giftss4
he mas, OF course, no conception OF
light. Once, standing over a bowl of
hot water, he said: Feel the sun;
yes, it is like the SUM- One night
someone said that it was too dark out
side the house to see anything. am
not dark, remarked Tommy. He Tx
ened generous friend to Mr.. Lin
coin, who was So good to the poor
black people, After a lesson on the
compass he turned to Miss Conley and
said You are my compass, for you
show me the way Once. when the
motion of the earth was under consid-
Grafton she asked: IF you were stand
ing on a car moving at full speed, and
it should suddenly stop, in which di-
rection would you fall?s Il shouldn't
fall, answered Tommy. II should hold
on to the strap
AT Wrentham he is forever devising
some mechanical help, and consequent
~ the Brown house is rather more
than up-to-date. He canes the seats
OF chairs and makes wastebaskets,
puts in electric bells, sets everything
in order.
In fact, while Tom lives the South
Boston institution needs no further tes-
timonial of it's unique and marvellous
usefulness.
But 1t was hard one, nevertheless,
for 1t demanded boundless attention
and unrenlitting patience The next
step took Tommy to the kinder
garten department.; and here he soon
through the imperyious Businesses of
locked and never-opening senses and
OF l1berating his spirit from its cap
tivity was begun with great earnest
ness and unflagging industry"
Four Years Old; Couldn't Walk.
Thus Mr.. Anagnos puts it in one of
his reports. To the Sunday Journal re-
porter he said:
1 have never seen a more pathetic
sight in all my life-and 1 am used to
seeing such sights. Tom came here in
April, 1891. when he was four years
apd seven months Old AS soon as I
saw him I knew that he would test
our resources to the utmost. In the
first place, he could not walk. and he
was either indisposed or too weak to
stand up. He crept around on all tours
and without showing one glimpse of
human intelligence. For the first six
iHOItHS we devoted ourselves TO MS
physical training am meantime was
watching him for some sign of reason.
AT last it came. and it was curious
thing. 10Y
Il noticed one day that he was creep
ing backward. never forward. I took
this as clue, and found that he had
stopped creeping forward because
when he collided with any solid object
he hurt his. head He was creeping
backward because when his feet touch
ed chair or the wall he did not mind
it SO much
With that discovery as a basis for
the assumption that his intelligence
was latent, they went to work to un-
cover another little piece of his mind.
Miss Bull, his first teacher, undertook
to teach him that things had names,
tand she put piece of bread in his
hand and then the five letters of the
word bread in their proper order 1t
took Just six months for him to learn
the Connection between the letters and
the thing which he held in his hand
and tasted three times day.
Six months! Yet the teacher and
the director were almost overjoyed.
Tommy was now. nearly seven. But. he
could stand erect, and he could name
bread. His case was no longer a hope
less -one.