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Title: Helen Keller Newspaper Notices
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Unknown
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Contributing Library: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind
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ellerand her wonderful teacher. Mrs. Macy.jMuch has been read abotit this girl, ;blind, deaf and dumb from childhood,but it remained for the appearance ofthe itwo remarkable personages andtheii* demonstration of how the prog-res-s. from darkness into light, fromisohition into touch with fellow humanbeings, was accomplished to give theaudience a true appreciation of themriacle which this twentieth centuryha.s witnessed. Mrs. Macy was givenan ovation when she appfeared first,and Miss Keller was also warmly. gr;eted. Most attractive in personality; ws^s the teacher, and liking upon herone realized that her life has beenbound up in her pupil, that her leader-ship has been one of love, and, equallyI looking upon Miss Keller, one sees thewonderful communion between thetwo. Dr. Park Lewis introduced Mrs.Macy, emphasizing her notable accom-plishment and told of the Buffalo As-sociation for the Blind, under the aus-pices of which the lecturers came. ^ kcs Address BeforeThrong a! Slieas Theater
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>)■>.... MISS HELEN KELLER. 1 A Graphic Story. Then Mrs. Macy began lier recital,a .simple, graphic story of liow twenty-six years ago she went to Alabama to: teach. Helen Keller, then a child of sixiand one-half years. Mrs. Macy, thenI Miss Sullivan, had been graduated onlya month from the Perkins institution in South Boston, Mass., when a teacherlwas soug-ht there by Capt. and Mrs. IKeller for their child, who at the ageof nineteen mouths had been left byillness bereft of sight, hearing andspeech. Miss Sullivan up to eighteenyears of age was blind, and her visionwas restored by an operation. Slie ex-plained that she was the only one of\the school with sight enough to attemptj1:he journej to Alabama. Slie had lived!in the hou.se with Laura Bridgeman,ivvho years before had been brought outof darkness by the teaching- of Dr.Howe, and started south whh someknowledge of the methods that hadbeen em-ployed by Dr. Howe. It wasthrough Dickens American Notes, inIwhich he mentioned Dr.

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