Show Blind d Deaf and Dumb GirlIs Girl GirI Is Accomplished as Student nTA BUnG 5 c. c AP- AP AP A secOnd Helen Keller Is Miss Ruby hiller 20 student at the south Carolina state Institute for tor the Deaf and nd Blind Miss lIss Miller Iiller daughter of Mr and firs C. C E. E Miller l of Columbia was left totally blind deaf and dumb at 3 years of age by an attack of meningitis and for nearly six years following remained in a state of underdevelopment She Sho now can speak plainly knit Io basket work bead bad work plain lain se sewing cook and pia play the piano and has a speaking ed edge e of Latin and French both vocally and by by the sign language She is finishing the regular high school course for tor the blind and is I nearly ready to lo enter college The girl Is unable to hear hear- any I sound yet by training she has learned to Use her vocal cords in intelligible speech Although she cannot hear the pitch of her words they have remarkable inflection and expression She he hears rs by a sense ot of touch in which she can tell b by vibrations the words that others speak to her To do this she places the fingers ot of one hand vertically across the speakers speaker's Ups lips and her thumb be- be neath neath hill As 5 the vIbrations are recorded on her s sensitive fin gers the meaning Is trans trans- transmitted ed to her brain and she repe repeats ts the words after atter the correctly cor- cor cor- cor then she ImmedIately gives orally a responsive answer From rom the the time Sias was 3 years old until she entered the school for tor the dear deaf and blind when she Ehe was about 7 years ears pid ld nothing had entered her mind During her first year at school her case seemed hopeless from the tho standpoint ocher learning anything Jut but during the second year she picked up two or three words then progressed She has no recollection whatever er of sound Round but says that she ahe can recall havIng once seen some cows pass the front front yard ard at her home before her illness swept away both sight and hearing The total value hate ite House and its is sU at about |