Show I Blind Aids Aids Blind It is characteristic of Helen Kel- Kel ler Kel-ler er the deaf and blind genuis g that she should hould give ive the no- no re recently awarded her for achieve achieve- achievement ment meat by a national magazine to the American Foundation for the Blind for which she is raising an endowment fund of two million dollars Miss Keller born bom in Tuscumbia Ala in 1880 became deaf and blind at the age e of 19 months as a result of illness Her education was under taken by bv Miss Anne Sul SuI Sullivan Sullivan livan skill and patience were awarded by Miss Kellers Keller's graduation from Radcliffe college in 1904 Since that time Miss Kel- Kel Keller ler Kel-ler ler has become an author of note a lecturer lecture and one of the most effective workers for the welfare of others similarly afflicted In announcing her gift ift she said I am going to use the to assist other persons like myself deaf and blind You who can see have no idea how those live in double darkness the prison of the body which is blindness and the dungeon dung of the mind which is silence But this double darkness has not prevented Helen Keller from becoming one of the worlds world's great great- greatest greatest greatest est women whose splendid intel intel- intellect intellect intellect lect is matched by her sympathetic heart |