of touch is developed to such an exquisite extent
as to form a better eye for her than are yours or mine for us; and what
is more, she forms judgments of character by this sight." According to
a recent report of a conversation with one of the principals of the
school in which her education is being completed, it is said that since
the girl has been under his care he has been teaching her to sing with
great success. Placing the fingers of her hands on the throat of a
singer, she is able to follow notes covering two octaves with her own
voice, and sings synchronously with her instructor. The only difference
between her voice and that of a normal person is in its resonant
qualities. So acute has this sense become, that by placing her hand
upon the frame of a piano she can distinguish two notes not more than
half a tone apart. Helen is expected to enter the preparatory school
for Radcliffe College in the fall of 1896.

At a meeting of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of
Speech to the Deaf, in Philadelphia, July, 1896, this child appeared,
and in a well-chosen and distinct speech told the interesting story of
her own progress. Miss Sarah Fuller, principal of the Horace Mann
School for the Deaf, Boston, is credited with the history of Helen
Keller, as follows:--

"Helen Keller's home is in Tuscumbia, Ala. At the age of nineteen
months she became deaf, dumb, and blind after convulsions lasting three
days. Up to the age of seven years she had received no instruction. Her
parents engaged Miss Sullivan of the Perkins Institute for the Blind,
South Boston, to go to Alabama as her teacher. She was familiar with
methods of teaching the blind, but knew nothing about instructing deaf
children. Miss Sullivan called upon Miss Fuller for some instruction on
the subject. Miss Fuller was at that time experimenting with two little
deaf girls to make them speak as hearing children do, and called Miss
Sullivan's attention to it. Miss Sullivan left for her charge, and from
time to time made reports to Dr. Anagnos the principal of the Perkins
School, which mentioned the remarkable mind which she found this little
Alabama child possessed. The following year Miss Sullivan brought the
child, then eight years old, to Boston, and Mrs. Keller came with her.
They visited Miss Fuller's school. Miss Sullivan had taught the child
the manual alphabet, and she had obtained much information by means of
it. Miss Fuller noticed how quickly