of fingers on the speaker's lips, her countenance showing
great intentness and brightening as she catches the meaning. Anybody
can understand her answers."

In a beautiful eulogy of Helen Keller in a recent number of Harper's
Magazine, Charles Dudley Warner expresses the opinion that she is the
purest-minded girl of her age in the world.

Edith Thomas, a little inmate of the Perkins Institute for the Blind,
at South Boston, is not only deaf and dumb but also blind. She was a
fellow-pupil with Helen Keller, and in a measure duplicated the rapid
progress of her former playmate. In commenting on progress in learning
to talk the Boston Herald says: "And as the teacher said the word
'Kitty' once or twice she placed the finger-tips of one hand upon the
teacher's lips and with the other hand clasped tightly the teacher's
throat; then, guided by the muscular action of the throat and the
position of the teeth, tongue, and lips, as interpreted by that
marvelous and delicate touch of hers, she said the word 'Kitty' over
and over again distinctly in a very pretty way. She can be called dumb
no longer, and before the summer vacation comes she will have mastered
quite a number of words, and such is her intelligence and patience, in
spite of the loss of three senses, she may yet speak quite readily.

"Her history is very interesting. She was born in Maplewood, and up to
the time of contracting diphtheria and scarlet fever, which occurred
when she was four years old, had been a very healthy child of more than
ordinary quickness and ability. She had attained a greater command of
language than most children of her age. What a contrast between these
'other days,' as she calls them, and the days which followed, when
hearing and sight were completely gone, and gradually the senses of
speech and smell went, too! After the varied instruction of the blind
school the little girl had advanced so far as to make the rest of her
study comparatively easy. The extent of her vocabulary is not
definitely known, but it numbers at least 700 words. Reading, which was
once an irksome task, has become a pleasure to her. Her ideas of
locality and the independence of movement are remarkable, and her
industry and patience are more noticeable from day to day. She has
great ability, and is in every respect a very wonderful child."

According to recent reports, in the vicinity of Rothesay, on the Clyde,
there resides a lady totally deaf and dumb, who, in poi