davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1906-04-08
Recognition by Touch

THIS reminds me that, although she recognizes
friend instantly by the shaking OF hands even in
the midst OF large crowd she can easily be deceived
by a false and unwonted manner on the part of the
person She knows Since she does not see nor hear
she depends on the personal characteristics, in
movement IN the way of presenting or withdraw
ing hand IN its special quality of steadiness or
tremor, OF slowness and lethargy or quickness and
nervousness, all OF which we totally overlook unless
they are OF marked character. There is no miracle
OF subtle skill about her perception-lt Is simply
the exercise OF the faculties she possesses.
When Helen goes to work, She works. As her
face has nothing to do but express her feelings It
continually wears she studies, look of patient
and Well-contented concentration When she writes
on the typewriter, or on the Braille machine
the little apparatus which pricks the points used
IN the pOint-writIng of the bnd-the expression
on her face continually changes, rejecting the
thoughts that are passing through her mind
She has the fault of tense conCentration-the la
bihty TO stick Obstlnately to error that She has
committed. A blunder, made in the course of
close study has to be educated of her head by as
careful process as the correct thing Is educated
Ever since her case became well-known to the
New-York tribune., 1906-04-08
4 \
- 80

~ OMEIIMES we dream. or ike to imagine
that we are something different from what
we are. By dismal freak of fancy we
~ conceive ourselves, IN such dream to be
black instead OF white, may see our
selves as Syrian or Greek or Armenian immigrant
just landed At New Orl. without a word OF English,
and strange to every thought and impulse of Ameri-
can life. In every such fancled situation at
least think what might think or do.
But no one OF us can imagine what he would do,
or thinks or even feel, II he a being without
sight OK hearing. or speech Our thoughts trans
late themselves into terms of seeing and hearing.
What " have seen Or heard, these things pile
uT - aar minds until we have what we call life
L. look back llIo1 and out Of which to body pictured
Things q the future tor ourselves and Others.
Conceive Yourself, il YOU can. getting up some
raarniug in . world which IS totally dark, totally
silent. You Sit on the edge OF bed. You feel 1t.
Something IS under your feet that IS hard But
What IS beyond, what is above, what is about you,
, 9a cannot say which way YOU will go-there IS no
This Is the situation of one of the most habituallv
cheerful. and of the cleverest and brightest Of
human beings: Helen Keller Day after dav I
have seen this girl start out on her daily HE and
laze tired to put myself IN her place She stood
before me with her habltual sweet smile on her
taee-and have never been able to do 50. / only
know that She images such a world as image. but
she does II through others eyes, through others
ea--5 and iust how she does it no one can tell
Helens inward mental world Is one in which
Others ewes and ears have served her but when
slr c9u-r1uts the physical outside world only her
teet and her fingers can be Of use to her. So She
begins With the spot where She and feels her way
IL the place where she wants to 60 This involves.
general thing, following around the outside OF
the room.
She IS not good AT short cuts, though that other
deat-alind person, Tommy Strlnger, apparently pos
sesses absolute sense Of direction that enables
hlrl 70 run Ike shot across room, a dooryard
oT the open space Of barn. Helen seems TO arrive
at sense Of direction only by reasoning out the
relation IN space of one known object to another
She follows around the side OF the room she knows
best oi ali. locating herself by well-remembered OBJ
je-ts The walls and shelves
No one comes IN blither mood to the table than
Helen Keller Her little helplessnesses there may
trouble her inwardly; but She good-naturedly puts
them aside things not worthy OF any show of
attention from herself or others, thereby uncon-
sclously rebuklng the form of egotism by which
constantly ask the pardon OF others Tor our little
aWkTardnesSes and blunderS.
New-York tribune., 1906-04-08
At the Table

Sill thinks ot the table as a place where everybody
having good time, and seeks to JON IN this
good time AT once OF course the person next her,
who Is presumably her teacher (once Annie NJ Sui
Lyau now Mrs John Albert Macy), or some other
friend who communicates with her IN the sign
language tlr the deaf made upon her hand, where
She feels the positions of the fingers must her
ears for what IS said; and her words are in her
hal-chanted, peculiarly uttered speech. OF course
she does not know when Others are speaking, and
depends the fact being sIgnItled to her by her
neghb0r She waits with a smile of sweet patience
until others are silent Sometimes, in merry COM
fanes II Is a long time before Helen gets the right
O1 way, and when she speaks, what she says IS
always well worth listening TO, and generally starts
the table OF another tack with It's suggestion.
let II IS odd thing that ones talk Is less
lntrOspectIVe less egOstlC less of the taker than
Helen kellers She IS plainly thinking herself into
the people around her What they have been say
ing and dong, what they are going to do,
what their ideas about this, that the
other thing-this IS her ordinary theme.
She is fond Of relating a story, or repeat
ing wlttIcIsm clever thought that she
has read. ! have never seen a person who
Is 50 invariably pleased by other peoples
jokes as Helen Keller.
Helen has lived more in the world OF
intellect, Or OF communicated mental I'M
pressIOns than IN the world of sense She
has been Z scholar most Of her life 50 far.
and even than other attentive and
dlllgent students, has spent much time IN
the reflected inner world OF ideas But she IS
no sooner up IN the morning than her fingers,
her nostrls, and her perception OF vIbra-
tons begin 10 open to the world of sense
She seeks the veranda her everyday
place Of promenade, or II some one will
New-York tribune., 1906-04-08

DCeu VISlreI WV 0~oat rOaDv
more people than have really had right TO see her
o some OF these people 1t has been necessary to re-
fuse her Nothing else would have been possible
But her natural tendency Is to welcome all from
pure trlo ndllness and innate courtesy
Her hapPiest moments all day are spent in human
intercourse As she places her fingers TO the lips
OF visitor to tee the positions into which the vocal
organs are put, and thus to hear" the words it is
PLAIN that her expectation is fixed not upon this
process, but upon the thoughts that she has reason
to anticipate. And as the sentences shape them
selves she has little trick OF making quick starts
of pleased surprise
1t IS exactly the same when the words are read
INTO her hands by those who employ with her the
nnger language OF the deaf Several people have
learned to use this language with her with great
rapdlty. But she never uses 1t herself except
when she IS alone and meditating and is fornIlat-
shorthand OF the fingers, well as To the spoken
words that She follows with her fingers upon the
lips, are always vOcal-in her half-singing, some
what hollow, grooming voice which she herself has
never heard.
Her greatest, widest pleasure is swimming Is
II because the water coming so close to her nfold-
ing her all about, shutting out the things that other
people see, dulllng the things they hear pressing
upon her sense of touch just as it does upon the
senses OF all other people gives her feeling of pos
session OF the material world from which she is de-
barred IN the open air, and in the hollow houses
that strange and only half known to her. | do
not know that this has ever been her conscious
thought; but perhaps she feels it. nevertheless
She has never been inclined to discuss her own
psychology.
shall not forget the day when a woman who
believes in telepathy, and the Inward Eve and all
such occult notions, came to Helen This
woman had long been seeking the opportunity and
at last fate placed It in her hands. She had the
ory to prove She asked Helen thousand ques-
tlons she tried all kinds of teepathC experiments;
she had the people who were present concentrate
their thought and will-power on influencing Helen
10 do thlngs-and absolutely nothing happened.
Helen s courteous, puzzled desire to do what the
woman wanted of her, and her innocent attempts
to comprehend what 1t all about, were deiic-
iously pathetcaIly absurd.
There Is not the first beginning of anything occult
in the operations of her mind, though all of
operations are as vet scientifically explained.
All the second sight she has IS the direct
New-York tribune., 1906-04-08
Delight in Reading

they to affect her state and
they impress her friends, the half-hours-
hours sOnetlnes-at the end of the dav, that
she passes reading her books, not for the pur-
pose of study, but OF inward delight.
\ considerable library of books has been
put into the raised letters, just for her. That
IS to say, the interest of certain of wealth
and generosity IN her case has led them TO
appropriate the large sum of money which 1t
takes to put a considerable number of books
into the raised letter; but all blind people
get the benefit OF these publications. When,
= upon completion just for her the books take
their way to her happy hands, they also go
to the libraries of the blind institutions. Thus
the fame of her has resulted a vast
addition to the pleasures and the knowledge
of the blind
As the raised letters intended to be read by
the blind are large and embossed, and imprinted
upon one side OF the paper only, small book IN
ordinary print makes large book raised letters.
Helen's library looks like collection of big scrap
books 1t takes two three of these to hold The
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" OF this book
Helen especially and unwearyingly fond. When she
wears at any other time. She Is always expecting
something funny. and when the funny thing comes
her halfsuppresSed laugh always comes too She has
read the book SO many times that she knows 1t
almost by heart, and one who watches her can see
the AutOcrats witty savings daWnIng on her face
sometime before she gets to them, as her fingers
move with startling rapidity along the lines.
In the summer evening she sits the Veranda,
with her big book spread in her lap, reading the
shadows gather, reading after darkness has
fallen-t IS all to her-and smiling or knitting
her brOws, graVely shaking her head, the
images that enter her mind through the tips OF her
New-York tribune., 1906-04-08

OpVIdJIOIIS aIt Is NtJ SCItHJIICaIIN ApIaIIeu.
All the second sight she has IS the direct
and natural product Of a great deal of careful,
well-organlzed, concentration of mind
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16
ooooooOoooooooo 5000
0
o
GREATER OKLAHOMA
ooooooooooooooooc

At Chlckasaw, farmers complain
that there hasn't been enough wind
in the last month to keep the wind
mills running.
The Photographers association
Of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
will hold three days meetin, at
Shawnee, September %, 26 and y.
The Carnegie library building at
ChickaSaw is said to be a good one
except that the water runs down be
tween the window sills and the walls
and is running the plaster.
TIE school land lcssees of Okla
huma will meet at Enid next Tues
lay to outline a plan making known
convention, the state legislature, etc.
speaking of the audience that at
tended performance of John l..
Sullivan at Oklahoma City, The
Times journal says: Everybody got
soaked before the evening was over.
1t rained"
Engineers of the United States ge-
illogical survey, planning water
works system for Lawton. have been
forbidden by the war department to
make survey in the Fort Sill mill
tary reservation, and the 100000
appropriation for water works will
be idle until the engineers find some
other way to reach Mount Scott
One Of the best fishing pools in
Medicine creek. in the Comanchc
country is known as Heyl's hole
sometimes erroneously called Hyer's
hole. Captain Hevl belonged to thr
fourth cavalry and was stationed Of
Fort Sill years ago. He was known |
Ms the best fisherman ct tie Garrison
His favciite fishing place was near
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16

lar plan whereby the minority of the
Legislature shall have power to refer
measure to a vote of the people.
Ii is not known how Mr. Kornagay
will take to tn ida of giving up his pet
plan. He is somewhat tenacious OF
his ideas, and may give his advisors
some trouble. The latter, however.
will tell him he has to come ont fat
tootedly in favor of the iniative and
referendum of be defeated. II seems
almost certain that the republicans
will endorse the measure. and how.
the democrats friends of Mr.. Korna-
gay will ask him. can YOU hope to
prove 10 the farmers that YOU are
'gliust the corporations and the re
publicans in favor of them when YOU
IRE against the iniative and refcrcn-
'uu ami the republicans are in favor
E it2 Nlnifesllv. it would be alb.
uri Annl so the probabilities are
'ir kouHgly will change his mind
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
o OBSERVATIONS BY BUNNY. c
OOOooOoOoOOoooooC

kernl Duglus anOwnces that he vii
herattur w the fonetick spelling in
hlz Muskoge Fenix. The kernl IL tn
be kumended on hiz modurn methuds
but when he gets strung out on wun
NV thez impashuned oratorikal fitz
which hav karakterizd hiz editorial
koIum, to the averaj man to the effekt
vii be sumthing lik chinez deklar-
ashun NV war or 4 Skripz-McRa tel
egram. | hav sum orijinl ideurz NV
mi own; but am prity wei rekun-
slid to old Noa Webstur. He made
hit with me a number Nv yeers
ago when in kumpany with a duzn
or tu uthur kidz | had tn stand in lin
four 0urz at tim and study the
butez set forth in the unabridjd. |
kontraktd a dep and abiding luv for
Noa then and | swor that the faith,
hop and charite gand by that asocea-
shun shud nevr b misplasd.
lmajun Kernl Duglus handing Ra-
mund pakidj in stuff lik this In
sted of iilipik which shud liv in
the anulz NV tim, the artikl wud lux
NOR lik an advertizment for a mul
sal! Think NV the brilyunt saterist
seking to fla hiz enemez in a kolum
NV ejipshun hirogliikzl Yank bak
the straying memury Nv that Grek
lesun yu munked with in the daz
GAVIN bi and yu ma realiz how the
story of the kernl S resunt blak de-
fet wud LUX in print
Their IL onle wun okashun that ]
kan remember wher the kernl wud
hav gand hi uzing the fonetik
still 1t mite hav ben NOR realistik
if he had written that poum "Out
Buzing With the Boyz" akording
to the Jim Jam methud suggested.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16
LIFE.

I.ife's game Of go and hustle, liPe''
thing of rush and hustle,
Life's play of brain and muscle,
life's all jump and whiz and whir,
Life's game at those beginning all The
world is set a spinning,
That the very thought Of winning ,s
itself splendid spur.
Life's a thing Of rough-and-tumble,
life's thing Of laugh and grumble,
Life's a thing Of grab and tumble,
life's thing of jolt and jar;
Life's a stretch Of daisied meadows,
life's place of glints and shadows,
Life's thing Of maids and widows,
smiles and tears and there you are,
Life's thing of self-styled winners,
millionaires nd saints and sinners,
Men who have and havn't dinners,
thing Of riff-raff, steal and toll;
Men who go their ways a-alughing,
men who go their ways a-chaffing,
Men who go their ways a-quaffing,
men whose only thought is spoil.
Maidens wise and maidens witt, maid
ems beautiful and pretty,
Painted women-O, the pity always
changing yet the same;
Thing Of high and low eRdeavor, thing
Of push and pull forever,
Game for dolts and players Gle er,
thing of love and glee and SHAME
But who plays the game allowing, Eft
ing, helping never showing,
Laughing, smiling, turtle-doving, thru
its jars and outs and ms,
With wife and little laddie or wee
lass to call him daddie,
Doesn't do so very badly, he's the
chap who truly wins.
Judd Mortimer Lewis, in the Amer
lean Magazine for September.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16
DIsFRAKCHISEMENT CAMPAIGN IN GEORGIA

Good advice is offered to Georgia. which is about to
disrOnchise negro voters by the Charleston News and
Courier published in state that has already done
The News and Courier rejoces that the is about
gians and here is where the advice is to be commended
not to adopt constitutional amendement aimed at dis
franchisrg the negroes only This has been done by
number of southern states beginning with Mississippi
and Louisiana To say the least it is Of doubtful con
stitutionny aud is dsngenous if it is constitutional
Whatever law is passed in Georgia the Charleston paper
suggests should be fair and if few white voters are
disfranchised the making of an impregnable defense
against the assaults likely be made against it, sooner
later, will be worth the "sacrifce" What "sacri-
flee" is not clearly Indicated hut the ntmaton is plain
that southern leaders do not yet think that their dsran
ctiscment experiment is not out of the woods
In reply to the argument that if suffrage limitation
should be put sQuarey and honestly on ileracy "it
would induce the negroes to flock to the schools and
qualify themselves to VOTE" the News and Courier an
swcrs that has not operated in South Carolina On
the other hand, if white toraes are disqualified they
will send the children to school, for the whites ler from
the backs in this that they regard dsfrancscmcnt as
Uorc Illuminating than ltcracy They cherish the right
to vote while the negroes esteem the ballot lightly" An
educational qualification is good thing in itself apart
from the negro question, says the Charleston paper
This is sound counsel At the same time there is
world of significance in the agreement between the
News and Courier favornc educational test and the
Gcorgians who opposc such a test on hc pont that f
negroes did Hock to the schools and qualify themselves
to vote the test would be failure after all. Evidently
the main thing is the dsfranchsement Of the black man
because he is black and not because he is icratC or
unfit TO vote
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16
WHAT OLD MAIDS7 NEVER

When does girl become an old maid2 This ques
ton blunt and shon of delicate nnuendo is figuring
in the somnocn discussion of Philadelphia society One
might say that girl becomes a old maid when she fails
to marry betimes but that is not the point What is
the year that ushers in spinsterhood and closes
forever the gates Of YOUTH
OF course, this is a matter in which man has not a
word say No rational Of trousers would tempt
fate and the of femniny by attempting sugges-
ton, for arbitrary dead line would necessarily bring
down upon the luckess masculine head storm of re-
probation 1t has ben left to the women themselves to
brave the peril And they have placed the age at 40
years, Under this ruling is tender bud until
two years have counted their gloomy tany of days
and the hair near the scalp begins to when
This unfortunate agitation came about because the
Philadelphia Young Womcn's Christian association found
necessary to revise its membership There is home
feature under the charge of the directors of the assoca
ton and it appears that this home is not large enough
accommodate all who would like to take advantage of
it, Some Of the older boarders charged with being
longer young," in the Y w. c. A. acceptance of the
word and they asked to yacate But this quite
naturally they refused to do resenting with bitterness
the inSnuation that they old maids, Then the di-
rectors frankly faced the situation, and after heated
discussion that of 40 years or over was proper
candidate for the Old Ladies' Home and had no claim
upon the further hospitality of the Y. W. C. A.
Now there is a furious protest against requiring the
boomless hangers to divuge their ages 1t appears
that the sacred of the Y W. C. A. are not proof
against the gentle age perjury that is the common femi-
nine heritage Not single faded flower will confess to
40 years they disposed to leave the home, they
wouldn't do it for anything, as it would be quasi
confession of over-maturity Forty years od' Never.
Not single of them is that DID, or anything like it,
What difference does make if they are prematurely
gray or that through sickness they are wrinkled and
coloresSR They not 49, The directors insist they
have no room Cor old maids meaning thereby the hap
less madens who have counted the golden petals for forty
summers There is n hopeless deadlock in the Y W. c.
A., because Of lack of tact Now if a masculine sugges
tion from safe distance would be in order why didn
the directors automatically say that all the 'girls"
who could not get married when they wanted to might
stay1 That would have cleared the home within forty
eight hours
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16

New York, Sept, l5.-A love story,
in which an actress, theatrical "an-
gel" and a young millionaire played
a triangular game, was unfolded in
the West Side court, when Carlton
Burnett, of 80 west SiXtyfourth street
but better known on Broadway, and
George Peter Mason, who also makes
his principal abode where the white
lights shine, were arranged on a
charge of disorderly conduct. The
two were arrested at three O'Clock
yesterday morning, as they fought for
the love of woman, Miss Eula Jor-
dan, show girl.
Miss Jordan was in court--not for
the first time-although on two pre-
vious occasions she had had Mason
arrested for annoying her, she said.
Miss Jordan became acquainted
with Mason two wears ago while she
was awaiting an opportunity to sign
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-09-16
THAT BUILDING INSPECTION,

In consideration Of the past and what we know
about building contemplated in Tulsa it IL up to the
city council to appoint building inspector provided
for l., nm ordinance recently passed by that body The
ordinance provides for the pay and duties Of said nspec
tor and should he man thoroughly acquainted with all
kinds o. buildings weights, strains, carrying capacity
of iron steel brick or stone, and must be man cacu
lated to use good judgment and render decisions without
prejudice favor.
The city of Tulsa has passed the village state and
Ia making rapid strides toward a metropolitan city, and
it should be the duty Of the city council to require every
person or company building in Tulsa to take out "A
building permit before commencing to build accompanied
with complete plan and specification Of said building
addition and file with the building inspector This is pro
vidcd for in former city ordinance and should be
forced People should not be compelled to live in flats
and tcucmmts, occupy offices that are insccurcy
built