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Show THE SALINA SUN. SAL1NA UTAH here is the watch cat Blind and Deaf, She Plays- Piano Galvestons Bathing Beauty Parade and Prize Winner - Kansas Wonder Girl Is in With Helen Keller and Class afterward fitting the parts together. Wil-let- ta Huggins. FEELS" MUSIC WITH FEET Angel Food rnd Writing on Typewriter Among Her Other Ac- Baking Masters Diffi-cu- lt complishments Classical Music. Olathe, Kan. After 25 years in the lini world of those who are sightless, deaf and dumb, Miss Helen May Martin is finding her way out. She has chosen the least reasonable method of expression imaginable for one so afflicted. It is music. Before a large audience in the Methodist church here,' Miss Martin played what is probably the first piano recital in the history of the world to have been given by a person with neither sight nor hearing. It cannot now be said that she is without speech, for site articulates even unfamiliar names accurately and understanding. The Wtrieacy of the method by which a person whose sensations are practically limited to those of heat and cold, pain and taste enters a whole new world is not comprehensible to the normal person. Mis:, Martin might possibly have been taught to place Iter fingers on certain of the piano keys anil press them down by note, but that would not explain Iter ability to grasp rhythm, nor whatever t lie sense is that tells iter when she is about to make a mistake in time to avert it. She never has heard, and i.as never been able to For a few years recognize objects. after birtlt site was able to distinguish between light and darkness, hut never more. For 20 years there lias not even been that travesty on sight. Feels Her Music. Miss Martin is able to feel iter music best by placing the ball of iter foot against the bottom of her upright piano, her mother, Mrs. Helen May Martin, says. At the church, however, site did not want to risk scarring t lie instrument she was using, so she got approximately the same result by holding her left foot under the soft pedal. Gounod's March Pontifical, the Don Giovanni minuet of Mozart Morrisons familiar Meditation. Lang's equally familiar Flower Song. the first two movements of Beethoven's "Moonlight sonata, and Carrie Jacobs Bond's A Perfect Day were the numbers used. The precision with which the young woman picked her notes out of completely blank space, struck them, and managed ritards. dynamics, and pedal were marvelous. All the pieces were taken deliberately, of course, but the distortions that would have been evident had she learned entirely by rote were absent. In the second movement of the sonata the rhythm is not simple. But neither was it too much for Miss Martin. At the end of her program, she repeated the Flower Song for an encore. Experiments with the piano were begun a good many years ago by the young womans mother, but only in the last few years have they been pressed. Never has there been available a teacher who understood both the methods used for the sightless and those for the deaf. Miss Audrea Granger, who sat on the platform with Miss Martin, is by a coincidence her first find latest teacher. When Miss j Martin was a small girl. Miss Granger' was with her for a short period, and now she is completing the work begun then. Has Other Accomplishments. In addition to a repertoire of "0 piano pieces. Miss Martin lias many of the accomplishments of the average girl. She reads Braille, and now learns her piano music by reading the notes for each hand separately, In "point She does weaving, and more remarkable yet, she makes tatting" that is even more perfect ban that of the average person with sight and hearing. The other duv she wrote a story for an Olathe newspaper on t lie typewriter. And she writes her own hank checks. While Miss Martin was completing in five years a course at the Kansas Slate School for the Deaf, in Olathe, that usually takes deaf but sighted persons eight or nine years to finish, she found time to learn to cook ami do much housework. She bakes angel food rakes and pastries as well as cooks all the staples. The last live years she has had a teacher for only one hour a day. since there is no state institution in Kansas for persons with neither sight nor hearing. While on a visit in Lincoln, Neb., her birthplace, -- ecently, she talked for an hour with Helen Keller with a great deal of pleasure. This wildcat, captured ns a Dany and reared in civilization, has ousted Anthe family watchdog from a geles home because of its superior ability as the guardian of the famis not. only as The watch-ca- t ily. alert as a dog. but has the added terror lu a quality of inspiring prowler. Flag Sunk in Battle in Berlin Museum Berlin. The flag of the German cruiser Seharnhorst, , which was sunk in the battle of Falkland, has reached the Berlin Naval museum after a romantic journey. The captain of a Brazilian coasting vessel found the body of a German sailor washed ashore on the southeastern coast of Brazil lashed to a sea chest containing the flag. A German resident, hearing of this, bought the flag and offered it to the Navy department on condition that he be reimbursed for his outlay. But funds were lacking until recently, when a private collection furnished the means to acquire the flag, wldch is now on exhibition alongside the model of the cruiser Gneisenau, likewise sunk in t he same battle, and other mementos of Germanys naval past. for well-to-d- the form of animal no 400,000,000 Jilt f i vrlIA v & food for human There certainly can be greater economic problem than to Capt. Reuel V. Elton, adjutant general of the Veterans of Foreign Wars This colt. Is lying In to Commander of the United States, and Capt. Robert S. Cain, in Chief Woodside of the veterans, with the wreath which they took to laris private ward at the animal hospital, to lay as a Memorial day tribute upon the tomb of the Unknown Soldier of Portland, Ore. II. V. Colehurnc, veterFrance beneath the Arc de Triomplie. The wreath is of popples, the inter- inary? is working to keep life in the body and lie believes the colt will surallied memorial flower. vive. Normal in every way except for the lack of forelegs, the animal was born at he Fort Rouge Dairy farm, Fort Garry, Ore. two-legge- aide-de-cam- p Explosion Wrecks Harvard Laboratory 1 BUT HE STRUCK OUT! prevent a good human food from being People, Declares Expert. unnecessarily consumed by animals.' Wheat and Corn as Human Food. During the prewar years 1001)-1over SO per cent of the wheat crop of the United States, or approximately were used in 470,000,000 bushels, bread. Of corn, however, only 3 per cent of tin erop, or approximately bushels, were ground into meal or (lour suitable for bread purposes. It is thus seen that while this country's corn crop Is over three and one-haltimes greater than its returned wheat as much of erop, less than one-fiftthe corn as of the wheat is connumeij directly as food. Each year the people of this country consume about fifty pounds of corn per capita ns a human food. The Italians, on the other hand, eat about 50 per cent more titan we do, or 70 pounds per capita. The Rumanians and the people of the other countries, e. g.. Hungary, Russia, Jugo slavia, grow considerable quantities and consume large amounts of corn. Food Value High. Looking at corn flour, corn grits and meal from the standpoint of their composition and food value, It may he nsseried from the results of Department of Agriculture experiments that grits and meal have the same nutritional value as rice, and that corn flout and soft winter wheat flour have essentially equal fowl value. Gritfl can therefore replace rice In the diet, and corn flour replace a portion of the wheat flour, without decreasing the value of the food one iota. Iu this country, broken rice has often been as much as 33 per cent more expensive t bun corn grits; at present wheat flout (clear grade) costs about twice as much as corn flour. Corn flour and corn grits are the cheapest cereal foods produced in this country and are available not only for home consumption, but for export. There is an encouraging feature In the probable effect of feeding corn grits to so many children of Europe. Due to the unfortunate condition of certain sections of Europe, there has ieeu a very large and unusual demand lor corn grits. Through the activities of the American relief administration about hull' a million children in Roland 200.000 in Austria. 50,000 in Hungary, and now 3,(HK),0oo in Russia, are being fed at least one meal u day containing cither torn grits or rice as the cereal portion of the diet. Thus it may he seen that a tremendous propaganda for corn grits is being carried on by the American relief administration lu feeding almost four million children. This should mean the elimination to large extent of that prejudice against corn which lias in the past character-izea portion of the popihMon of Et. rope. 3 MOST OF IT FED TO ANIMALS Trade Commissioner of Department of Commerce Says Corn Furnishes Cheapest Cereal Food Produced in This Country. f Washington. The corn crop of the United Slates would supply all the cereal calories for over people, according to Dr. J. A. LeClorc. trade commissioner of t lie Department of Commerce. The 20.000.000 starving or undernourished Russians could lie supplied with all the cereal part of their diet needed from 5 per cent of Americas annual corn crop, is the opinion of Doctor LeClere. The corn crop or' the United States during t lie last ten years lias averaged r billion over two and LeClere. Fully Doctor bushels." says '.10 per cent of this is fed .directly to animals. Of the amount consumed by hogs and cattle, tio more than 1(1 per cent of the food value Is returned in -- 0 three-quarte- New York, lighting the flames, which gutted the a venerable building' of classic beauty erected in court house, Cayuga county J836. The cupola, roof and courtroom wert to xlly wrecked. in Auburn, "W o Supply Cereal consumption. Old Time Court House Gutted by Fire Firemen ODD FREAK OF NATURE Buys Own Coffin. Spokane, Wash. With the premonition that lie lmd only a few more days to live, Fred W. Miller, an aged and cabinetmaker of Hillyard, purchased a coffin for himself that had caught his eye a year before and bargained and paid cash for all funeral expenses, including the embalming of his own body. lie died next day. Says Coro Has igli Food Value Calories Carry Wreath to France's Unknown Hero Bear Cub Born in Park Zoo. Chisholm Minn. The Chisholm, park zoo has a nev arrival, a bear cub, born at the park. According to Superintendent Phillips, few cubs boru in captivity live long. Several years ago a bear cub was born at the park, but was killed by the male bears. This time the cub was discovered in time to lie lassoed and taken out of the bear pen. It is being raised on a bottle. I U. S. Crop Could Texas Is justly proud of its bathing beauties, yielding nothing to more widely advertised localities, and an lm-- j mense crowd was out to see the parade in Galveston, here shown. Mrs. W. L. Williams, seen in the illustr!ition, won first prize, a check for $5(K). She is from Houston. h corn-growin- g of the Interior of the Jeflerson laboratory at Ihu'wiid university that was totally demolished by t.n explosion which is said to have originated In a gas or oil tank, two men weie killed and many were seriously injured. A view He Rescued Her and Married Her Some 40,000 enthusiasts went out to be Iolo grounds in New York to see Ilahe Ruth in his first game after I, J, being ltin.Tv,,,, Commissioner Landis. And then the King of Swat struck out. Tlie photographer caught him in the act. In the next game lie began ids series of home runs for the season. Confession. Some men are incapable of being serious about anything except the next meal. She Is really pretty; small, exquisitely finished, with that air wldch so many girls seem to have acquired during the war. I felt thnt she was thoroughly well tihie to take care of herself. Except, perhaps, in dress. The first night she came down in a frock wldch hardly readied her knees and seemed to stop short at the waist bare arms, luire shoulders, bare back ; I was quite shocked for a moment when Will came Into the drawing room without knockConfessions of a ing. From g Woman, by Stephen Well-Meanin- Sudden End to Love Affair. I was nine and my ideal was We lived in u town situated on a eight little We hnd been forbidden by our parents to go In a boat, tint one day I coaxed her to take a boat ride. When 1 walked along in the boat to get the oars I tripped over the sent board and fe'd headlong into the water. R)1(, there and laughed at me struggling in the mud and wuter, and my love for her ended right then and there. Chis cago Jounif'i, lake. Herbert Thompson of the steamship Muskegon, his bride, Madame Nadina Efroin Thompson, widow of at) officer of the Russian White .Guard, arid her baby boy Eric, us they arrived in Boston the other day. Until the brawny young officer of the Muskegon came to the aid of the pretty Russian girl in the Turkish seaport of Constantinople, she had been earning a living among the theaters Hnd cafes of the Black sea dties by dancing. She tells thrilling tales of her escape from the Bolsheviks. First Naval Hventy-two-yenr-oi- d Officer |