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

new. and was at once taken to the kin
dergarten in Jamaica Plain and placed
under the supervision of a young Wom-
an who was employed with the ex-
press purpose of looking after him and
of serving him as his special tutor.
Then the work of piercing showed an
extraordinary mechanical intelligence.
Afterward he attended the primary de-
partment, and at the same time ne
took two lessons a week at the train
ing school on North Bennett street. Al
this school, under the sympatheuc
training Of Mr.. Larson and Mr.. Sand
berg, his mechanical faculty blossomed
beautifully.
Miss Bull, his first teacher was sue
ceeded in 1892 by Miss Laura A.
Brown, and the next year Miss Brown
was succeeded by Miss Helen S. Con-
ley, who has been his teacher and COM
panien ever since.
I'm June. 1899, in the seventh year OF
his intelligence, he composed and read
from his manuscript in raised char
acters of the commencement exercises
of the institution the following story:
His First Story.
1.-TWO Boston boys. The Puritan boy
of 1690-The Boston boy of 1899. Bos-
ton is an old city. More than 200 years
ago the Puritans. came across the ocean
to find new home in America. They
+ built a town on three hills and named
it Boston. That was their old home IN
England. etecs
"The little Puritan boy walked
through grassy lanes instead of streets.
He drove the cows to pasture on the
common Washington street is the old
crooked coWpath. There was high
beacon on Beacon Hill and windmill
on Cops Hill. The boys liked to
coast down Beacon Hill in winter.
IAN Indian was the postman who
carried letters from town to town. The
people Travelled by stage. The only
ships were sailing vessels.
Because the people in Boston town
were good and brave, it grew to be a
big city. There are 100000 people in
Boston now.
"The Boston boy of 1899 rides in
steam and electric cars and carriages
without horses.
1.-The mail and telephone and tele-
graph carry our messages. Steam
boats cross the ocean in a week. There
was not land enough for all the people.
so more land was made in the harbor.
The old Town Dock is part of the sub
way now. The little Puritan boy would
find everything changed except the
Common.
81 am very glad that the little Puri-
tan boy came across the sea from Eng
land to live in Boston in 1890, but 1
would rather be the Boston boy Of
1899"
That story was composed by Tom
himself and written in the Braille point
characters during his hours of play.
1t was cleverly illustrated by pictures
of Toms own conceiving and outlin-
ing, cut out of white paper and pasted
on upon black background. Besides
his own hands made the table on which
the manuscript rested while he was
reading.
The normal child of twelve could not
have done better in any respect, and
remember that Tom had been normal
child for less than seven years.
His Demonstration With Air.
In june 1902, when Tommy was in
his tenth intelligent year. he read and
demonstrated at the exercises in Bos-
ton theater a paper entitled Air: One
of the Great FORCES off, Nature; Our
Dependence Upon 1t; the Laws Which
Govern It." He said:
"Our earth floats in air. The life OF
plants, animals and man depend upon
it. 1t is this force of nature that makes
the earth either a desert or a fertile
land Moving air we call winnda
wind is caused by: l. heat; 2,
moisture.
4. Let this experiment prove how