| Show WIDOW YDO OF NOTED INVENTOR DEAD I Mrs Alexander G Gr Bell Was Inspiration for Study WasI I That Evolved Phone WASHINGTON Jan 4 4 ot of condolence and tribute to her ca- ca career career ca career reer were Here being received from Irom a host hOlt of friends mend and admirers admirer today of ot Mrs re Alexander Graham Bell Dell widow of ot the famous lamous Inventor following her death hero bere oher Wednesday night ht at the ho home borne ot of I her daughter Mr Mrs Mra David Fairchild Mrs Boll who whon n was u a 68 63 3 years year of o a age e passed a away way after aner a long lone Illness be be- be beginning ginning with Ith a breakdown n suffered at atthe atthe I the time ot of o Dr Bells Bell's death lt lut August AU- AU Au August gust The funeral will wl take place tomor tomor- tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow row afternoon at Twin Oak Oaks for formerly for tor- formerly merly the homo home of ot Mr Mrs Bells Bell's Bell father At Mr Mrs Bell Bells Bella request tn toe body will wl willbe he cremated and the a ashes he will be burled bold beside the body ot of Dr Bell at Breach near near Baddeck Nova Scotia HAD RAD ACTIVE E OA r n WASHINGTON Jan Mrs 4 Mra 4 Mr Alex Alex- Alexander Alexander Alexander ander Graham Bell widow o of the famous ln In died dyed her here Wed Wednes- Wednes Wednesday e day day after Arter a long illness She was WILlI U 6 years of age ace I Mrs Irs Bell Ball died at the home of ot her daughter Mrs David Fairchild where she he had bad been falling ever since Inc the 1 death lat last A August of the tb In Inventor venter FATHER BACKED nELL BELL Mr Mrs Bell Belt was Mabel Hubbard the thel daughter o ot of Mr and Mr 1 Mrs u Gardiner Greene Green l Hubbard ot of Cambridge Mass MUI where h she he l wa was waa born In lift un The Th l Hub bard Hub Hub- Hubbard bud bard family traced Its Ita It ancestry tar far back through a B line IIno of American lean HUbOI pio- pio pioneers pioneers pio pioneer neer to the early erly kings of England Although Ait hOUlIh throughout her life lite lit she abe h w was waR la III wasla leader In her own small mall social seti and acted as her distinguished hua- hua hue hu business manager and aided hint In hi his hll work she ahe he lived under an affliction of ot total deafness that followed fol followed fol- fol followed lowed a set seere f era tr attack ot of o scarlet c fever In her childhood Through the de- de de devotion of o her mother however howe abe ehe learned to speak peak and to read the fhe UPI lips Up In j of o others and her teachers In a a private rot tate vate school In Cambridge where she h hwa was wa the pupil declared her herI m mentality w lias as as hoT hither than than that that ot or o the theother I other children despite her disadvantages taxes In 1895 he wrote an article Ion on lip reading that was published Inmany In inmany many foreign n Mrs Belle Belli father tather was deeply In- In Interested Interested 1 Iman In Dr Bells Bell's telephone invention lion tion backed his hie scheme and became the first president of ot th Bell Tele Telo- Tel Telephone phone company ASSISTED Am D She Sho married Alexander Graham Bell In Boston In 1874 after she ahe he had studied at his bis school for tor voice voke culture It was Wl said that she ehe was tat his Inspiration tion for tor the tho Invention of ot the telo- telo telephone tele telephone phone for tor which he Is la best beat known because his hope that he might finda find a means of ot enabling her to hear led him Into his study and experiments In phonetics phonetic Few persons realize reallie the benefits that deaf children have havo dented derl as the result ot of the tho long lone Ion Illness that robbed little Mabel J Hubbard Hubbird of her hearing for tor It was nim her father father r who In 1887 1851 disproved through her that the sign language was wal the only means of educating deaf children After teaching the tho afflicted child to read lips her parents arranged a dem dem- demonstration of her ability before Mas MIlS Massachusetts legislators legislator They rhoy were so impressed that they granted a char char- charte charter ter te- tei for tor the first school of instruction In this method and now every deaf child can be taught to speak and read the lips Mrs Bell contributed articles to many magazines magazine and wrote several severa plays She traveled around the world with her hor husband and dwelt dwell In tn many strange trang lands with him hint As a hoe hoe- hos teas tess she entertained at her her Washing Washing- Washington Washington ton and Nova Scotia homes many of othe the moat most eminent scientist of ot the world Her faith in her husbands husband's genius wa was j she ahe he encouraged I aged aed all his hie efforts and contributed buted large sums to defray the coats costs of ot his experiments experiment In mAny m ny fields She encouraged the Inventor also In his hla work In behalf of ot deaf chil- chil children chil children dren and in promoting the tb study tudy ot of lip reading among amone deaf deat adults adult She aided In all the thi benefits to humanity to which hi his work bad had contributed In Inmany inmany Inmany many was ways i t L Nor or did she ahe h confine contine her aid ald for tor education solely among imone the deaf deat for tor she Iho did much to promote the education of 01 normal children as well Mrs Mra Ben Bell is le t survived by two daugh- daugh daughter ter Elsie May fay Grosvenor wit ot of Dr Or Gilbert Grosvenor president of the National Geographic society and Marian Marlan Hubbard wit wife elDr of of Dr David Fairchild of t th the United States department of ot agriculture sac ana by Grac Grace Hubbard Bell her slater sister wife of Charles I Bell president of the American Security ft Trust com corn company pany pang of ot this city |
