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Show I qiRL, BLIND FROM CHILDHOOD, T T O (3 I I FINDS AFFLICTION tyO. BAR TO llj Vy v I d -v :' u iV f .-...- . ryryr- v V' WHAT tllim WOMAN IIAS ACC01IFLISHED Entered blind intUtutioa at 8. -Honor member of many elasaei. Graduated with digtinction. Entered University ot California. -Graduated from social 'science course. Mastered four languages. Became extort in athletic rami. Instructor in San Francisco public schools. Entered Hastings College of Law. Admitted to the bar. Practiced law. Discovered musical talent. Began cultivation of her voice. , Now to study in Italy. Aspires to fame on concert stage. Special Correspondence to The Telegram. BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 12. Being deprived de-prived of .her sight from babyhood has not deterred Mies Christine LaBar-rfttjue LaBar-rfttjue from entering upon a profession-ar profession-ar career. She has, been graduated from the .University fef California, admitted ad-mitted to practice law in the Bute of the Golden Gate, is master of four languages, lan-guages, and is now going to Italy to prepare herself for the concert stage. All of this she has accomplished in the brief period of twenty-eeven yeajrs. During her course in the college of law the blind woman taught, in the , public schools of San Francisco. Upon her return to this country she hopes to be heard in oratorio. She has the voice of a dramatic soprano. "I should much rather have lived in obscurity as a good lawyer," says Miss LaBarraaue. "I shall hope that I may give pleasure as a singer,' but the law is the profession .should have chosen as my life work. I loved it, and I love music, but the law more." By her manner Miss LaBarraque does not betray that she is sightless. In college she was interested in athletics, ath-letics, and took exercise on the apparatus ap-paratus with the rest of the girl students. stu-dents. She is an enthusiastip horsewoman, horse-woman, and never permits anyone to rein her horse when riding. Her companion com-panion just gives her a hint as to the turns in the road. She is a great admirer of color. Her apartment is fllled with beautiful pM"es, and she talks of them with enthusiasm. She dresses in becoming taste, and knows by the sense of touch whether or not her friendrSire becomingly gowned. By Miss Christine LaBarraque. A blind man or woman can make a place in the world. All that is needed is a determined will and plenty of patience. pa-tience. In doing my work at the university I employe3 three readers. During my entire course I kept them busy. I was the firt 'blind girl to enter the University of California, end I encountered en-countered considerable opposition. My first three months there, on account of this, were trying times; but after that my college life became very happy. My course lay through the depart-, ment of social science. The study which caused me the greatest difficulty was mathematics, especially when I came to differential calculus and analysis. analy-sis. Then I thought I should have to give up, but finallv I secured the instruction in-struction of one ? the .junior mathe-mnticiana. mathe-mnticiana. and all went well nfter that. |