Show h vol t 0 7 1 au P N R 7 ill I 1 E I 1 Z I 1 THIS GIRL DOES NOT I 1 misfortune grow grew luto into n womanhood sot not knowing L 11 that she wa W Dif different femat from fin others other I 1 ahe ah platies MIM no keuer falth in od sioux falls S D letter INNIE bagu haguewood woo d a 17 year old O id pupil in the south da kato school fo for r the deaf and dumb is the helen keller of the west and promises to develop the k marvelous marvel ous capacities ing speaking w while hile deaf dumb and blind exhibited by the wonderful girl now a student at harvard annex miss haguewood is 17 years old and her story is almost a precise repetition of that of helen keller the eastern girl however has had a great ad advantage van over her western sister in that her teacher was more adept than miss H Hague ague woods instructor linnie was born at ida grove iowa and like helen was a perfectly normal child up to her eighteenth month A at t that time she was stricken with a spinal disease and when she recovered it was found that she had lost the 8 senses of sight and hearing totally she lived in a world without sound and practically never having heard the human voice she was unable to speak notwithstanding that the muscles and nerves used in articulating were in nowise injured but linnies parents unlike those of miss aliss keller were not rich and were unable to engage special teachers for her indeed they did not know that their child could be rescued from the awful solitude tu de in which she lived until she was nearly 14 years old what has been accomplished with her in that short time is almost incredible not long ago miss haguewood was presented with a beautiful typewriter and the other day at the request of the writer 8 she he 8 sat at down and wrote a letter which is given below she wrote this note without any aid whatever never missing a letter and handling her machine as expertly as might be expected of a girl in the full possession of all her five senses the letter is perfect there Is not a single misspelled word in the communication miss Hague woods letter runs thus mr day wants me to tell you about my typewriter all the children and the teachers of sioux falls gave it to me saturday feb 27 1897 1997 it has made me happy the ladies of sioux falls gave me a beautiful dutiful new ringi shall not forget them dp do you think my typewriter is nice I 1 am visiting mr simpson we are good friends frienda he teases me when I 1 go to see him in his office I 1 like dakota the blizzards blow at me and make me laugh they are gone now spring made them go away spring means march april and may I 1 shall go to my home in delaware iowa when happy june comes they will be glad to see me sty my school is the iowa college tor for the blind at vinton iowa I 1 have many dear friends in vinton some day I 1 shall go to them your friend LINNIE HAGUEWOOD until she was 12 years old miss haguewood wood was cared for like an infant at that age she was taught the manual alphabet in this study she made but little progress at 14 she was taken to the asylum for the blind at vinton iowa and although at t that hat age she was yet unable to walk she was in perfect health when she entered te red the asylum she was unable to communicate a single thought to another human being miss dora donald one of the teachers in the asylum became interested in the girl and determined te ter to do what she could to help her editor bernard murphy of the vinton eagle ook look up the case and opened a subscription tor for the purpose of educating little lynnle lannie the iowa legislature appropriated tor for the purpose and the work was begun miss donald took charge of and de I 1 1 I W 41 I 1 am atod I 1 I 1 LINNIE 1 voted all her ber time to her pupil MISS misa donald has worked unceasingly with her charge I 1 and la Is now being rewarded eil by bi most marvelous results some time fame am ago pupil and teacher came to 6 sioux palls falls benefit I 1 of the superior anterior I 1 ii AdIll tle 8 in AU the I 1 school he here 1 div e donald ali aff opp I 1 t X 4 ahe methods and J 1 af 1 t I 1 I 1 jk ia L 1 recently that un lan ii wl del gaw tor 7 I 1 M kcf I 1 a ahm 9 a aulry ai danhi v bi V iti ram I 1 flo I 1 ii T ilY sinew I lii e z ad 1 I 1 aa I 1 olwe griddi i e then ra r A I 1 to 1 Z aim ji C 1 I J ii v ad gnei I 1 1 k 1 unwe A az v pita of 1 6 A 1 I 1 IQ 10 T re t 1 wabe 01 mi nver k ike W I 1 Q 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 ar 11 a am APO I 1 I 1 gg i n I 1 R 1 4 I 1 j 29 Z 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 P 1 roe sf of heaven and lire iii I 1 ls is one of tare raft and re rc and tier her hands an delicate r 1 I fined beauty bean tr ben sensitive iid arid tapering would be the I 1 en envy VY of a sculptor she has lately been beebi told about helen keller and linale I 1 thinks that helen herself and a girl in council I 1 bluffs iowa who hm has is broken her leg are the most moat um unfortunate for tu nate people in the world worl d miss donald is now teaching her pu how to talk the method used Is similar to that employed by miss sullivan in her education of miss keller heller linnie places her delicately sensitive fingers on the mouth of her t teacher eacher miss donald then enunciates a sound and the pupil endeavors to imitate it one sound is repeated hundreds of times until it approaches perfection and then another is tried the varl various sounds are then combined and the result is articulate speech miss donald readily understands what her charge says but others cannot the teacher regards this work as aimo almost st hopeless but with the pa patience tience and great success of miss sullivan sulliva n and miss keller before her she could not despair the process is tedious and long but the results are certain it if the met method hod be persisted in linnie has a wonderful memory R and nd Is a close observer with her hands bands it was only through the s sense en se of touch that she was able to learn anything she was given an object and its name was told to her in the manual language greater difficulty was experienced when it was necessary to give her abstractions verbs adjectives and the like e so 0 success successful u has as her er teacher been however that linnie is now able to talk rapidly with her teacher through the manual langu language ag e and to communicate with the world outside her sight her hearing bearing and her speech her vocabulary is now that of a child about 7 or S years old for it must be remembered that her education did not begin until she was 14 years of age anti and at that time she had no name tor for anything and little idea of its size shape or use being in effect an infant without an infants opportunity her mind is very mature however and she is t 1 rapidly enlarging her vocabulary her iao I 1 M 1 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 6 1 A 4 k I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 11 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 11 I 1 7 4 I 1 I 1 HELEN KELLER special delight in study is in mathematics and she is able to add multi multiply and divide numbers below 1000 with wonderful accuracy on the slates pr vided aided for the blind she is very fond of display knows when she is well dressed and like others of her sex is said to enjoy having her own way miss haguewood is able to cut and sew her own garments to write letters on a typewriter to read readily her sunday school paper and her bible and to write slowly on the tablets which are provided for the blind by her delicate sense of touch she is able to recognize her friends and even to remember on second meeting those whom she has noticed before she is able to recognize at the first touch those whom she knows well she is passionately fond of flowers of dress and jewelry and next to her typewriter her dearest possession is a gold ring with a beautiful setting presented her by the ladies of sioux F falls alls miss donald says she forms a very accurate idea of the general qualities of persons by posting herself on their habits of dress |