By the time tha*t Miss Sullivan arrived to teach Helen Keller, Miss
Keller's sense of touch, smell and all others were so quickened that it
was not nearly so difficult for her to use her hands effectively.

Helen Keller was grasping, eager, and willing, to use the material whish
was at her disposal. Her desire for knowledge was the impulse that made
her advance so rapidly.

Miss Keller's life depend3d upon the sense of touch. It was that she
received the stimlations of the world about her wth her hands that had
developed so keen a sense of touch.

In 1890 by use of the some of touch Miss Keller learned to speak.

Hers was a live of imitations. She had no other way to learn.

Wiss Keller relates —- experiences at lengths which I cannot describe
but upon reading and studying mush can be learned from the story of her life.
One factor is that we as individuals do not develop to a very great
extent , physically speaking. That is that we actually do not utilize out
specially designed senses as much as we could if we had to. Jt also shows

that we do not take very good care of the mechanism by which we live so
easily. Our task of living in the purest sense is comparatively simple.

Instead of havéng one sense to depend upon for our very existence we have
many, both direct and indirect to aid us in living.

| In pointing out the advantages that we have in living our lives we should
be constantly ee to develop them to their fullest extent; to make ourselves
more effective as functioning parts of an organizations; and to help others
realise that they also can do much better. .

Miss Keller attended college and graduated., and here we struggle with
so many advantages and often fail to do the job. She could read, write,
visualize very accurately and almost hear with her hands. She used her own
typwriter without the benefit of hearing or sight. So sensitive were her

hands thet she could feel and tell types of feeling that was expressed in

the tone of ones voliceée