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Show "HOW TOWlrWEt PEOPii" AN AMAZING LITTLE WOMAN TPHERE'S a lot of readjusting going on in the lives of Arr--ri- cans these days. Some are complaining, making themselves miserable about it; others are taking it on the chin, detern-ined to get the most out of life. So I want to tell you of someone --w!r-who is doing just that taking it on the chin. v If you had gone to Rockefeller Plaza, at Radio "i v City- on a clear cold day last winter, y.-- no j t'ou,Jt would have seen a woman five feet three ? v ? doing fancy skating with the best of them. If ' '" ' yu had followed her to the bowling alley, you , k. wouI1 have found that she had a score oi 1-10. D. Carnegie In additiou she is a enthusiastic swin.mer, with a remarkable zest for living. In her black f velvet skirt, she twirls and dances and mingles with the hil-dren hil-dren who love her with a smile and a twinkle in her eyes. This little woman is Mrs. Cecelia Kearney, 4512 Broadway, Broad-way, Long Island City, N. Y. She is 70 years old. Now look closely. She is stone deaf and hasn't heard a sound for ten years. Her deafness was caused by an attack of malaria fever when a child, and as her years increased her hearing decreased. She once wore a hearing aid, but her affliction deepened and she got to the point where the aid did not help her. Well, to go through the business of every day living with out hearing a sound requires fortitude. Plug up your ears tight, for several hours and go about normal affairs and find out for yourself. Mrs. Kearney says that the secret is health, and that the secret of health is exercise out-of-doors. (For my part I believe the spirit has even much more to do with it.) You'll notice that she has chosen the kinds of exercise that brings her into contact with other people, but one in which the skill required is not dependent upon others. m-T-here V,S a time when she wasn,t 50 happy ab"t this affhction That was before she had heard about the League for the Hard of Hearing at -ISO Lexington Avenue, New York C.ty, and learned that they helped the deaf by teaching them hp reading; providing amusement and companionship' at the League headquarters; games, teas, friends always on certain days of the week. The people who gather there might be sit-l.ng sit-l.ng around at home bemoaning their fate, but for the kindliness and foresight of those who started this marvelous work. estJTc !r Ur armd forccs' th Government has e tabnsned Sounding Posts, as they are called, to help those of our men who have had their hearing impaired while in the -service oi their country. |