The Life of Helen Keller.

This is a story of a life in which gigantic difficulties were over-
come. A life was begun then nearly stopped abruptly and begun againg
without some of the very vitel fundamental characteristics that every
other person to live his life with.

Helen Keller was botn June 27, 1880 in a small town in northern
Alabama by the name Of Tuscumbia. The home of Helen Keller was called
"Ivy Green", Helen Keller was a normal child for nearly nineteen months.
Tnis is the time in the life of an individual that he or she begins to
grasp subconsciously the facts of his or her existerice. Helén Keller
walked at the age of one year, as do many children.

Acute conjestion of the stomach and brain caused the loss of her
sight slowly and also her hearing.

Upon recovery to mobile state once more this girl @n a world of her own
began to function again slowly. Before she was able to understand or speak,
she was plunged into a bleak dark world in which there was not the normal
reactions that everyone else has. Everything was different for her. She
lived and learned of nature with her hands in the early years, but not. until
leter did she realize that within herself she had learned. She used her
hands from the beginning of her dark life. Her sense of touch, smell, pressure,
and all others were made more acute by the loss of the sense of sight and
hearing. At the age of five she was able to do minor jobs in the household
of her mother.

Miss Ann Mansfield Sullivan arfived in March 1887, three months before
Helen Keller was seven years old, to teach her.

This day, Miss Keller describes as being the most important day of her life.

The patiemce, love, and care that Miss Sullivan exerted with Helen Keller

is something to be marveled.