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rnemxiA. Ta Helen Keller A Living Proof of the Divine Spark in the Human Brain By Alice Booth
This is the fourth portrait and biography in Good Housekeeping’s series of America’s most distin- guished women. Each month hereafter a portrait will be reproduced until the series of twelve is con- cluded. Announcement of the prize-winning letters from our readers appears onpage 108 of this issue
/%T NINETEEN months, illness locked the child when it is happy; nodding, smiling, turning her head /A that was Helen Keller in a sightless, soundless from one of us to the other; capping some deft sally cage. She was blind, she was deaf. Her baby with a playful pat of her hand on my arm. lips had learned only a few words. She knew discom- We were gay, over the tea-cups a little interlude fort, and a few primitive needs, but had only a cry in the work with which Helen Keller’s life is filled. to express them. She knew the comfort of her mother’s She is not an idle person. Her working day is longer presence—tenaciously, day after day, she followed her than the law allows in offices and factories.
mother about the house, held to her skirts . . . Since her sophomore year in college she has written In the midst of a happy family life, she was alone in seven books—one of them, “The Story of My Life,” a great silence. Under the blazing southern sun, she in the best-seller class; it has sold over a hundred walked groping in the never-changing darkness. Had thousand copies. Her work for the blind is incessant she thoughts beyond the ordinary human hungers? in its demands—for them she is constantly writing, Impossible—for after all, we think in words, however speaking, appealing. Her heart is full of sorrow for faulty they may be, however inadequate to express them—for they have so much less* than she has, she our greatest emotions, our loftiest aspirations. And says. And always she is reading, studying. It is al- she knew no words. And no one could teach her any most impossible to tell Helen Keller a new fact—she
words, for she could not hear. . . . has heard them all already, and from people like Ein- Yesterday, I called on Helen Keller. A smiling stein, and Mark Twain, and Alexander Graham Bell, woman came to meet me—erect, poised, animated. and Edison and Burbank and Andrew Carnegie. We shook hands, and she spoke to me in greeting Hers is a life remarkable in its power and influence yes, spoke. Her voice was forced, breathy—but it was among the finest minds of the day. Her accomplish- a voice—and her shining eyes and quick smile more ments are outstanding even in a seeing, hearing, speak- than recompensed for its deficiencies. ing world. Yet every one of them is made in the black- I could not believe that she was blind. Her eyes are ness of endless night, where no whisper ever breaks the clear, wide-open, with the happy innocence of a child’s. eternal silence. They are a vivid, shining blue that fairly glows with Surely humanity, uninspired by any God above, excitement. could never have torn away the barriers that im- We sat down to talk—her secretary at her side. prisoned her. I had expected to pity her inability to communicate At six Helen Keller had not changed much in in- with me. I was wrong. She was perfectly able to ex- telligence from the baby of nineteen months. She press herself. She talked in a stream, words fairly knew the primitive hungers and expressed them by tumbling from her lips in her haste and eagerness, incoherent wails. She had of her own accord invented while into the hand of her secretary she was constantly signs for eating and for drinking, and used them in spelling words and thoughts—more words and need. Most pathetic of all, she had invented a sign thoughts. It was I who sat apart, unable to communi- for her mother—a touch on the cheek—which signi- cate with her, unable to meet this rapid brain except fied her want of her mother on the rare occasions when through the interpretation of Miss Thomson’s hand she was separated from her. spelling into hers. Her childish hands were constantly touching, feel- I had thought our conversation would be slow, ing, investigating, prying. The garden of the Keller labored, difficult. But it raced. home in sunny Alabama was surrounded by a clipped And again I could not believe that Helen Keller was box hedge, and inside that enclosure Helen groped her blind. Her face was animated by a hundred changing way. She found the flowers by their scent—but no shades and fancies. There was in it none of .the blank one could tell her their names or their colors. One in- patience and endurance that mark the countenances stinct—old as the race persisted in this deaf and of most blind people. She smiled—she laughed dumb and blind child. She had a doll—she loved her easily, naturally, a charming laugh. She was never doll. still—tapping her feet on the floor; bouncing up and Even then a vague feeling came to her that she was down a bit on the deep-cushioned sofa, as a child does different. She used to come ( Continued on page 275)
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('Continued from page 34) into the library and find herself walking on papers—newspapers—everywhere strewn about the floor, and she would find her father in his big chair, with a strange thing upon his nose
• and hooked over his ears, sitting with one of these great sheets of paper held before him. QDlar dwjjanum toutlnbirusln starts, And though she put on the spectacles and held one of the sheets before her, she could not get ,any sensation from it, or any interest.— Yet somehow there must be interest there or her lxi:o.\*«:iors Stabs! father would not do it so constantly. She noticed, too, that other people kept moving their months when they were with each other, but she could not understand what they were doing, nor why. She tried to imitate them, but there was no result to that, either. She knew a push meant “go” and a pull meant ' “come,” but these adults seemed to have some other signs whiqh she could not fathom. Her hurt and baffles! longing to be one with them culminated in terrific fits of temper, in which she screamed and cried in a frenzy—trying to free herself from her prison. When she was six, her father took her to Baltimore to be examined by a famous oculist, in the hope that something could be done for her eyesight. It was a vain hope, but Dr. Chisholm advised Mr. Keller to go to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, in Washington, for information as to the possibilities of educating the child. Dr. Bell was glad to help the child, and at his suggestion Mr. Keller wrote to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, where Laura Bridgman had been so marvel- ously helped, asking if a teacher could be sent to Tuscumbia for his little girl.
I_F ELEN was almost seven when Miss Sullivan 1 came to her—an active, well-formed child, full of life and .energy, and with that gift for attracting affection which has remained with her always. She won her teacher’s heart immedi- ately—and then began the task which became the absorbing work of Miss Sullivan’s life, the task of setting this child free. She began with a doll, which she had brought for Helen from the Blind Institute. Laura Bridgman had dressed that doll—it was more than a doll; it was a message of hope. After Helen had played with it, Miss Sullivan spelled ROVE it for yourself. Put a Dr. into her hand the letters d-o-1-1, and the child PWest’s Toothbrush, and any inferior —as always, imitating—reproduced—not too well—the movements of her teacher’s fingers. brush, to soak for five minutes in water. Miss Sullivan repeated the symbols slowly, and Then see what dampness does to the the child tried again. There was no conscious- ness in the imitation—merely the instinctive inferior bristles. You’ll see why urge to copy what these in people the black the inferior brush can’t clean world thought worth doing.
When she finally made the four signs to Miss teeth ! For this is what happens Sullivan’s satisfaction, Miss Sullivan patted Da. West’s brush Inferior brush Helen’s shoulder and nodded her head in token of approval. The child ran to show her mother No one today risks willful neglect of teeth. But many still suffer dingy this new trick she had learned, still with no teeth—and worse—through Unconscious Neglect. They use brushes conception of its purpose. In the days that followed, she learned that can’t clean. / * t Using a Dr. West’s Toothbrush you stop such several more combinations of finger signals— Unconscious Neglect. Its modern design and small size enable you to still without connecting them with the objects they named. reach every tooth. Its premium quality bristles clean thoroughly. Every One day Miss Sullivan tried to make her Dr. West’s brush is "surgically clean”—thoroughly sterilized, doubly distinguish between the words “mug” and “water”—without success. Helen became tired sealed against dirt. 111 That’s why this famous toothbrush is pre- and impatient as the new game was prolonged ferred by more people than the five next largest past the border lines of her interest and pleas- ure. Frantic with rage, she flew into one of her brands, combined, 111 Today get Dr. West’s worst passions. brushes (all good stores have them, for each Patiently Miss Sullivan waited until the
storm was over; then she brought the child’s member of the family ; all fully guaranteed). hat and took her hand. Helen loved to be out- See how your teeth brighten when Uncon- doors, and went' willingly at her side. Down in the garden some one was pumping water, and scious Neglect ends. {An equally great aid the teacher placed the child’s hand in the cool to white teeth is Dr. West’s Tooth Paste.) stream, while she spelled into the other hand purposefully, impressively, arrestingly, “w-a- t-e-r—w-a-t-e-r w-a-t-e-r—” Like a miracle the connection was made— the spark was fired that has made Helen Keller one of the burning intellects of the day. She knew that the water flowing over her hand ©1931.W.B.M.C© Hr.lHfestls TOOTHBKTiH In using advertisements see page 6 A —
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Helen Keller and those fingers moving in her other hand— were one thing— USE GOOD the same thing. Before night HOUSEKEEPING’S she had learned over thirty words . That was the beginning. All things followed BULLETIN from that SERVICE AND SAVE day. The child learned to read, her keen, active mind pleasuring itself in every task assigned to it. TIME, MONEY OR TROUBLE Finally her teacher took her to* Boston, to the Perkins Institute for the Blind— and Time-saving methods, there the child met other children who money-saving meals, ideas for amid spell to her as she spelled to them. At last she could decorating exchange her thoughts and ideas and furnishing, budgeting the income, with the people of her own age. A new world opened entertainment of guests, almost every before her. one of homemak- In 1890, when Helen Keller was ten, she ing’s began perplexing problems are answered in the special to learn to speak. It was a task almost superhuman. She must leam merely from bulletins prepared by Good Housekeeping touching her Institute, the teacher’s lips and throat, and cor- rect her mistakes Studio of by a mechanical change of Architecture and Furnishings and other her Good own lips and throat. She lacked not only hearing, Housekeeping departments. Fully illustrated, practical but sight, to guide her. And she could not even judge her own success or failure. and authoritative, If genius they bring you expert help in handy, is the infinite capacity for taking pams then useful Helen Keller’s acquisition of form. Scan the list below speech is and see how many are nothing short of genius. The labor, the endless discouragement, timelyfor present needs. To order, use the coupon below. the hopes, the disappointments—a whole drama of success and failure must have occurred in that struggle. 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Perhaps Helen Keller and Miss Meals That Keep the Family Fit 25c Hand (New) 25c Sullivan should be Pies and Pastries—Making named as one of the twelve and Baking All Types 25c How to Equip the Clothes Closet 25c Recipes by Chart—Bride’s greatest women—they are as inseparable Cookery Primer Sched- How to Paint and Stencil Furniture—How to Re- as ules, Series 2. Lindbergh’s 25c finish Natural Wood Furniture 25c “We.” Recipes by Chart— Bride’s Cookery Primer Living Rooms of Sched- the Seventeenth Century of Dif- As soon as she was graduated, Helen began ules. Series 3 ferent Types 25c her work of Reducin'; Menus (Safe and trying to help others. Already, at Effective) Nurseries and Children’s Rooms 25c Refrigeration the Year 'Round Making the the end of her sophomore year she Most of Nondescript Rooms ... 25c had written Removing Spots and Stains Smart Lamps, Shades and Lighting Fixtures 25c “The Story of My Life,” an epic of difficulties Salads and Salad Dressings 7 The Principal Periods of Furniture Design Since surmounted and of triumph in the Sandwiches and Hors d'Oeuvrcs the Twelfth Century face of fail- 25c ure. Selecting and Installing an Oil Burner Now she began a campaign for one defi- That First Week of Meals ENTERTAINMENT nite thing—to save eyesight to the thousands The A B C of Electricity for the Housekeeper of babies mfected at birth, by The Etiquette of Serving A New Moon Bride’s Shower 10c legislation order- Breakfast, Luncheon ing and Dinner Games, Contests and Stunts 10c the safeguard against this infection to be Time Rules in Rhyme Bridge Party and Temperature Cooking Chart—on Oil- 10c applied as routine by all doctors or mid- cloth A Pat and Patsy Party f . ioc wives. Vegetable Main Dishes Mottoes and Mascots Birthday Parties for Twelve Months In those days public .\ .. ior sentiment was out- Bright Bowknot Booklet with Six Party Sugges- raged by any public mention of a social evil. ARCHITECTURE 20c It was almost impossible to put before the An Olympic Beach Party ioc people the horror of the facts A Pirate and Captive Party with Bunco 10c and the sim- Hardware of Different Periods“eriiid 2Sc r~ Tons of Money (Bride’s plicity of the Architectural Details and Shower) 10c remedy. Never once has Helen A Circus Carnival and Progressive Period Lighting Fixtures.. Travel Lunch- Keller faltered in what she thought was her eon v 10c P c duty. Due to her more than to any other per- School Banquet and College Dance 10c son, Horoscope Party for Stars 10c legislation demanding precautionary HEALTH Magic & BEAUTY Circle of Months Party with Twelve Games 10c treatment of the eyes of all babies is working Kid School Party for Grown-Ups 10c A Primer of Personal liveliness in twenty-eight states. A Washington and Lincoln Bridge Party 10c Today work for tlie American Foundation for the Blind occupies a large part of Helen nBulletin Service LIST ITEMS Keller’s time, but she has done many other HERE n things as well. Lecture tours vaudeville GOOD more — HOUSEKEEPING (If space is needed i another piece ofpaper) the latest is to be a talking movie; she has al- 57 th St. at 8th Ave., New York, N. Y. ready appeared in a silent one. Books appear Enclosed find 8 in stamps, check constantly, books that exhibit a range of or money order (not cash) for the items thought and appeal not narrowed in any way * listed here. by the limitation of her senses. And if any one doubts that Helen Keller can form as true Name a judgment of a person as himself, let him turn to her impression of Mark Twain in “Mid- Street . stream.” • All my life I have been a Mark Twain fan. City and State_ I have read everything he has ever written. I have read every book I have heard of that has been published about him, and I found April 1931 Good Housekeeping — .
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Helen Keller’s portrait of him more vivid, more atmospheric, than any other I have ever seen. l-'riends—Helen Keller has had many of them—and among the great of the earth. Her mind meets theirs at ease, on the same plane. And there are other joys of life which she not only shares with us, but perhaps rivals us in appreciating. Flowers, for instance. She loves them—has t loved them from her babyhood. She can tell them, of course, by their odor and by their out- line. I wish you could have seen the movement of her hands as she spoke of lilies of the valley— the outward, upward sweep of two spreading green leaves, the delicate touch of the de- scending fingers as if they rang little white bells. I had never before thought of the touch of flowers, of their exquisite, sculptured out- lines. Here is a joy Helen Keller has had for years, a joy of her very own. And then her dogs. Great Dane and Scot- tie, she loves them both alike. They come close to her. They understand her when she speaks to them. They lay a head upon her knee and look at her in mute devotion. How could she not understand?— She loves to be outdoors with them likes to walk with them, and to feel i off over the nrougn. their wild plunges as they dash meadows and then come back to her side. One outstanding characteristic of Helen Keller is her amazing courage. She fears nothing. She rides horseback, and delights in it. She has been up in a plane—and loved the moonlight the rushing, soaring sensation. She swims she floats—most appalling of all to a timid ^ soul with eyesight, she dives. To me that - down a path
is the bravest thing I have ever known. She worried thought. Let go . . . they does not merely jump off into deep water, whisper. Forget holding her nose with one hand. She dives— ofcoral sand . . a splendid, curving forward dive. She can The one thulg Hawaii’s creators swim under water, too, she told me. She goes out with a long, strong cord tied to her belt, ew thrills in your favorite ffirgot waJfeeasons. May Day is so that she can frolic and play at ease—and sport in Lei Day/ And you’ll find May then find the way back to shore. N Hawaii. Riding? Have you ever galloped through almost every month. And winter CHF. often speaks of color. I asked her what has always been Kapu (taboo.) the moonlight . . . down a path of colors meant to her—red—white—blue. She put both hands to her cheeks in a coral sand? Golf? Play on courses Qost ? Base the estimate of the charming gesture. “Red is warm,” she said. where rainbows and flame trees are “As when my face flushes from embarrassment cost df your trip on the fact that or pleasure. Pink is smooth and exquisite— hazards. Hiking? Here it is ex- All-inclusive-cost tours from Pacific like the cheek of a little child. Blue is the ploring. And swimming.the sport curve of the sky above me. White is intense ex- Coast ports and return, can be en- citement—spiritual or intellectual—and white of kings. joyed for les'5 than $350 —some is also the cold, calm peace of snow in winter, when the hills and fields are still and waiting. even less than $'300 with good ac- Hawaii Rights ! Haw aiian — Green—I always think of green as the way commodations afloat and ashore. my garden smells with the fresh dew of early moon. And it’s not a moon to be morning on the grass or after a shower — when trifled with. It is potent, bewitch- For details, write! the flowers and trees are cool and sweet with rain-drops. Lilac—lilac is a caress from a ing. It dominates the night and, loved hand. Purple—purple is the mystery of the dance . . (just to look is an far-off hills—no one can ever quite say what . purple is.” adventure.) Moonlight on the wa- Could you better it—you of the seeing eyes? ter. Leis of gardenias, plumerias, HAWAII Which will you have—so many shades of red and white to make a pink—or just the color ginger blossoms . . . The whisper- (l a baby’s cheek? If we have the accurate ing drag of surf. composition of colors, Helen Keller has the
ultimate result of them, their essential spirit. c I{est on the velvet cushion of a One thing more she has, in measure granted to few on this earth—a religious vision that tropic breeze. Soft wipds from transcends many times that of ordinary mor- across the cool Pacific, washed by tals engrossed with the world about them. Her faith to her is the supreme fact of existence. a million waves. They, come with Her book, “My Religion,” is a testimonial of the fragrance of a thousand flow- faith that flamed through the blackest hours Torch fishermen add col- One of Hawaii’s Hulas her life has ever known. Let her speak to you ers to untie your ever mean and y or to Hawaii's nights. ...using the split bamboo. in her own words what Divinity means to her— It would almost be worth a life of black silence to have one’s soul irradiated by a consciousness like this: HAWAII/ TOURIST BUREAU “As I wander through the dark, encounter- (OF HONOLULU, HAWAII, U. S. A.) ing difficulties, I am aware of encouraging 225-G BUSH STREET, SAN FRANCISCO orll51-G SO. BROADWAY, LOS ANGELES voices that murmur from the spirit realm. I M A T S O N./ Line from SAN FRANCISCO sense a holy passion pouring down from the 215 Market Street, SanMncisco 535 Fifth Avenue, New York 140 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago springs of Infinity. I thrill to music that beats s S C Line from LOS j c ANGELES with k A r the pulses of God Bound to suns and 730 So. Broadway, Lo4 Angeles 140 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago 535 Fifth Avenue, New York planets by invisible cords, I feel the flame of 4 NY TRAVEL AGENT WILL GIVE YOU FULL PARTICULARS
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28o are YOU trying Helen Keller eternity in my soul. Here in the midst of the every-day air, I sense the rush of ethereal rains. to entertain in a I am conscious of the splendor that binds all things of earth to all things of heaven—im- mured by silence and darkness, I possess the home that doesn’t light which shall give me vision a thousand fold when death sets me free.” Perhaps, after all, that is the greatest thing about Helen Keller—greater even than her look the part? literary achievements; greater than her work for those who walk in darkness; greater than
her power of speech : That she has accepted life Has it seemed to yon lately that your as it has been meted out to her, not with bit- friends aren’t enjoying their visits as terness, not even with pallid resignation—but joyfully and thankfully, as a gift from Some- they used to? Have your dinners and one she loves and trusts. parties begun to lose some of bridge (Next month, Grace Abbott) their old gaiety and sparkle? Then it’s time to look around your house critically, as you would a stranger’s. Wiring for Comfort
If your walls and woodwork have (Continued, from page 91) become drab, if your furniture is should of course, be laid out in accordance scratched and dull, if your floors are with the lighting scheme, whether this pro- vides for a central fixture, side fights, or the scarred and lusterless, you have the newer cove lighting with its interesting possi- answer without looking farther. You’ve bilities. Do not forget outlets for the vacuum simply forgotten how sensitive people cleaner and floor polisher. are to surroundings. Who can be gay The major wiring problem in the living room in a cheerless room? concerns fighting. Here, as in the dining room, the location of the fighting fixture outlets With Kyanize Lustaquik Finish you will be determined by the fighting and decora- can quickly transform even the least tive schemes. But portable lamps and lighted attractive room in your house into a ornaments which are becoming increasingly place of distinction and charm. With popular for providing interesting spots of light or color will require convenience outlets. The it you can easily i^ake your home what adequacy of the wiring will be judged by its you desire it to be*—the^perfect setting ability to take care of any placement of fur- for a happy time, ^7 y niture. Kyanize Lustaquik, Finish is not only Every home-maker will appreciate the need for a generous number of outlets in the living easy to apply, but driesi jjust-free in room. Even the mantel now needs an outlet for one hour and harden^ iri^'our hours. the electric clock or, in some cases, for candles This beautiful hard-finish enamel, or lights. And the fireplace itself may need ideal for refinishing furniture, is also an outlet for one of those interesting “coal” popular for giving neA life to walls grates with the flickering fire effect furnished % by an electric lamp with a revolving disc on and woodwork. It comijs in sixteen its top. Of course there is an outlet for the beautiful colors to harmonize with any radio! l of your decorative schemas, and can Bedrooms and dressing rooms need sufficient be applied equally well to w\>od, stone, fight at the bureau and dressing table. This is glass, or metal. Kyanize lustaquik usually furnished by drop fights or side wall brackets properly located to eliminate deep Finish is an enamel of unqu
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ITTLE ANN, who had been ' Little Ann when her mother I_j was Ann and her grand- mother was Ann and for a very little while even her great grandmother was Ann, and who was still Little Ann though she was no longer Little Ann really, stopped beside the statue of “The Confed- erate Soldier” on her way across the Battery to work, Just here, in the days when Charleston was young, the home of one of the early Beauforts had stood, and down below, where a freighter was steaming in past Fort Sumter to dock, leaving a trail of smoke spreading darkly behind, her an- cestor’s sailing yessels had arrived from his extensive plantations in Bermuda. Watching th4 freighter, Little Ann saw instead of a boat bringing oranges and lemons from Flbrida other boats bringing other cargoes: Sugar. Coffee. Spices. Fine stuff for fine dresses for the fine ladies of the family. Boxes of sweets decorated with perforated paper. Plantation hands from Bermuda to be developed into house servants. She knew all about the cargoes of the sailing vessels. Knew, too, about the burn- ing of the house which had once stood where pause before the there was now a park, and the removal bronze tablet which of the Beaufort family to Meeting Street. displayed the immo- The Meeting Street house was still bile countenance of standing. If she went a little out of her another of her an- way—and she had already come a little cestors. out of her way to walk across the Battery The ancestor on she could pass the house on Meeting Street, the tablet did not ap- although that, perhaps, was silly in that prove of her. Little the house no longer belonged to her family; Ann always felt cer- even sillier than walking across the Bat- tain that when she tery, where she ccfuld at \east pretend that paused before him, she walked because she Kked the view of the bronze counte- the ocean and nbt became of the house nance frowned, and which had once stood theA. was reduced by that She did like the view, fcn the distance frown to the level of was the ferry which went\over to Sulli- apology because she van’s Island, where she hati spent much knew so well why her happy time with all the babe-legged little ancestor frowned. / cousins now widely scattered Above the In his day ladi/s ferry was the spiderweb of\steel bridge were ladies and did which also went to Sullivan’s Island, chal- not pass on foot and lenging the slowness of the dingy little unattended on/ the ferry boat. way to work, but “I’ll always go over to Sullivan’s Island things had been far by the ferry!” thought Little Ann loyally, less complicated and then, because time was passing, and then. because if she wanted to pass the house on Walking along in Meeting Street she must hurry, she did not sunshine which was HV1621* K282 c. 1
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