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Show AS A CHILD THIS BEAUTY WAS A PITIABLE CRiPPLE - ; . aBr vai tr ii - (Rllit) QToleii Deck nan as vhe '',. toiay. tl.eft) in me of licj- e thetie dancc coatiunee; ttnrt) Mrs. E. P, Ileckmon, her stcpmotlsbr. . G'. . styff Special.) i MUSKOOEB, Okla. Tht of :i l stepmother has worked n miracle In the Pttlc town of Muskogee. Kor th tmnaorinatlon f Helen : Heckman. from a frightened, miser-; lahla little cie.iturf. mentally tietj. i nt, I physically deformed and totalis j'.u". to a beautiful, taientco young wonfan, lias hap pencil I Ami an exceptional Bti pmbther is I the "miracle lady." CONDITION PITIABLI At the age of tatelve Ilii n's mind I lay as dormant aa th:it ot a m- i born babe. She could attract attention, atten-tion, nr rjnakc her wants known, only thrpugh barsh aoii'nda and sdmple groa-lures. groa-lures. She had sninul meningitis when a few months old and her condition con-dition was pitiable. Helen's own mother had died and her father married again. ''in p the t isk of transformation be-: gani it was a patient, loving step-! mother who underiook it. Today Helen's mental faculties are fully develapt d and &he has attained physical pidse and beauty, speech, dramatic an and ti.esle.il talent. Shr bus entertained larife a-:di ncrs iitli esthetic d.inr-: and 'impersonations. 'impersona-tions. And those folk who know her marbel, when to!d of the handicaps, she has overcome. 1WKWARDNJ SS OOARECTED. "It has all happened through the! senses of i sin and touch," ,l' BP' mother, Mrs. ES I'. Heckman, ex- ! plains "T'..e firM attempt 1 made to teach the ehlld wns to train her to 1 make u bed without assistance. Ne:;t I corrected her shuffling, stunildinK walk and awl, want movements of her body "The child's thickened tonprue was the most discouraging feature and I almost despaired of er tachliiR her to talk. Her tongue was massaged mad times a day and wo had to bandage band-age In r Jaws to ki-p them from sag-, glng." In teaching accent. Mrs. Heckman would grasp Helenas arm and, by a sllgJu or by a slronc pressure would indicate the accented and the unac-centi unac-centi d ay la bi-s. Mus.i.i! t. in i were t.iught In a similar simi-lar way. Stair stps were used to ti- li h the 'It'l the musical seale. I r. I M. KiirulM, who .if. nil. 1 Helen, as a child, says: "When I first saw her she was a imall child. I had Utt1 hope for her " |