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36 BLIND AND DEAF, YET A COLLEGE GIRL. Helen Keller, at Radclfffe, Speaks French, Reads Greek and CHE moot remarkable anil, taken al together. the moat interesting col lege girl the world has yet seen and that in laying a great deal—l* happy-faced Helen Keller, who this year has become a student at RadclifPe col lege. To reach this proud position has been for years the dearest ambition of the deaf and blind girl, and now that the am bition has fulfilled Itself her delight knows no bounds. A few weeks ago she actually began attending lectures and reciting In classes with other girls—girls whose faces she cannot see and whose voices she can not hear. Never In the history of any college has so strangely gifted and strangely unfortunate a student been en rolled on Us books. Helen Keller and her devoted compan ion, Miss Sullivan, have been staying for the summer In tho quiet little town of Wrentham. and they are still there. In spite of the rain and uneomfortablpness of the past week, they have promptly made the Journey from that town to the college every dav and have been present at all the recitations for which Helen Is registered. Nine o'clock every morning has seen thera »eated In the lecture room of PMf. Ooolldge for the history lesson, which Is one of Helen's favorite studies. Helen has always been deeply interest ed In history, especially In Greek and Roman history, and her study of the elas •lra has cans-'d her to be exceptionally well read In ancient history. It may aeem Impossible that a girl who can neither •ee nor heir Is able to take part in class work. Yet. miraculous as It seems. Helen Keller Is able to understand every word of the lecture. She keeps constant hold of Miss Sullivan's hand, and by the mo tion language Mist Sullivan Interprets to her both the lecture and any questions the lecturer may ask. When Helen Is called on to recite. Miss Sullivan repeats the question to her and then Helen answers orally, speaking with of htr college preparatory work, was Mr Arthur Oilman, for several years sec retary of Radcllff*. When Mr. Oilman •(plained to her th* meaning or chicane •nd showed her the trick by which th* N*w Englanders nullified an act of par liament. Helen exclaimed: "That was the way in which the caso waa decided In th* 'Merchant of Venice.' It was a legal qulbbl* that Rellarlo taught Portia." FYv-m the** and other Incldenta Mr Hu man waa early led to conclude that Helen Keller haa a strongly logical tvp* of mind, though women are generally sup posed to have only "woman'a logic." Years ago Helen's aptness for quota tion* was dlacovt-r«d. She has a re markable memory and seems never to IVirget anything she haa ever read or been told On one occasion, when ah* was visiting a girls' sch.<ol near Boston, she tilled with astonishment all who SAW her by the quickness with which ahe would fit to an object some of the little poetry ah* then knew Two heads of Hero, on* representing him as a child gud th* other a* an ampetor. were ex amined by her on this occasion and ah* expressed gTeat wonder that "such a gweet and lnuoc*nt child" could develop Into th* wi.ked man she knew Nero to have bee a. From th* lips of the man's taa* all* quickly read th* dominant HUMOR OF FIELDING AND STERNE. THE POST-IMCILIGENCEiriMOME iTUOYCIRat DIRECTED BY P«i>F. SEYM 01 HEAT ON. MLMOR OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE. *. The creation at the novel In It* modern f>rtri opened a rich Held for English burner. Until the mMy.-arj of the ci«h- ; teenth century all studies of human life J una aoclety ha I taken dramatic or poetic ' form, but In K«o Samuel Rlchard*on die- j covered almoa; by accident that even the niv>et complex aertea of human emotions ; and adventure* and incident* could be adequately irea ed In au ordinary prose i MntUit. Ho dtfcovcry Uw ar«r torn* i Recites In Her Classes. characteristic of prlje Venus was Joy fully recognized, and a head of Jteus sug gested at once a vivacious recitation of these Homeric lines relating to Athena: "She sprang of a sudden from out the Immortal head, whirling her pointed lance; huge Olympus was shaken to Its base under the weight of the gray-eyed goddess, and all around the earth groaned terribly." She was only 11 years old when this visit took place, and that was only four years after she had begun to b£ taught The German course which Helen has elected Is conducted mainly In English, clear enunciation and always with en thusiasm. The history course she Is tak ing is given by Prof. Archibald Cary Cool- Idge, son of the late minister to France. Prof. Coolldge Is very popular with the students, and his course Is one of the pleasanteet given In Cambridge. He Is warmly Interested In the progress of so enthusiastic a student as Helen Keller. From 10 to 31 Helen has French with Mr. C. H. C. Wright. This coitrse Is what is known as the French Q», and I* parallel with the same course In the Har vard curriculum It deals with the prose and the poetry of L-a Fontaine, Cornellle, Rosme. Mollere. Victor Hugo, George Sand, Alfred de Musset and other ro manticist*. It ia a full course and has three hours a week of recitation work. Helen was' enabled to take this course, which, of course, requires a good reading knowledge of the French language, be cause she passed the examination In "ad vanced French" before entering college. Moreover, not only has she a reading knowledge of French. She has. as well, a very good idea of the spoken language. This she was able to learn In the same way she learned to apeak English, by holding her sensitive finger tips to the throat and lips of her instructor. Another course anticipated by Helen In her examination was freshman English. Her grasp of English and her aptness In Ihe matter of literary Illusions ls noth ing short of wonderful Her work In translation I* Invariably brilliant, and al ways present* a clear an.l forceful pic ture of whatever scene la being de scrltwd. While aba waa a student In a private school at Cambridge aha would interrupt when an unpieaaant translation •as offered, and when vulgar or revolt in* things were touched upon ber Una nature would almoat Invariably cry out against It. On on* occasion, when the text referred to the devil, ahe objected strenuously. saying that It was bad enough to have such a creature In ex istence without referring to him l 3 llt trature. , During her Kngllah preparation Helen enjoyed exlreaely the plays of Shake speare and the essay a of Burke. Her de licious sense of humor was shown, when, lit reading that Uurke said "parliament h.«s disarmed Wales ty statute and now proposes to disarm America by an In struction." ah* quietly remarked. "Rather polite, was it uolT" Her Instructor, for the greater part but a good deal of dldlrult Rchlller la read In the course of the year, and several Ger man themes are r.-qulr*<l Helen s them , will all be written on th* typewriter In the manipulation of this she I, an expert tCopjrTl*ht. 1*». by Seymour Katoa) fruit so immediate end so abundant. Within twelve year* there was produced a veritable library of classic n.<vel» "Sir Charle* OrandJaon."* "JoMph drear*.'' "Hodertrk Random." "Humphrey Clinker.- 'Tristram Shandy," and many other*. | The !eadl:i* characteristic of thla «arly fiction 1* Its realism. It studies human ! H*e« and human not from the m .del. hut from nature. IJke Bhak<- I »p*jw-'s .trama*. It gives a faithful pn-- | ture of its a*c It* Incidents may ha\e been drawn from tmairlnallon and lt« character* may never actually have had corporeal existence. It matter* not. We know Uuu »e have lb* vexv aldolase THE SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENT Eft. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1900- and it will prove of the greatest value to her during her college course. She seldom striken a wrong key, and her touch I* both rapid and delicate. Her machine la fitted with a manual of Oreek letter*, and she has been In the habit of writing her Greek composition exercise* In the Greek char acters. Helen hopes to take some work In the gymnasium, and to be one of the girls to enjoy the new swimming tank. Physical training for the freshman class has not yet begun, however, so that, so far, she has not had the opportunity. Bhe Is al ready a strong ar.d athletic girl and de lights In physical exercise. Bhe and Miss Sullivan are frequently seen on the Cam bridge roads—for Cambridge is now their winter home—ready for a flve-mlle tramp. Helen Is already a good swimmer and rides a tandem wheel. She delights In climbing hills and overcoming obstacle*. Just as any other healthy, happy girl does. Helen Keller passed the entrance ex aminations in a manner that would have done credit to any girl who had perfect use of all her aen.-es. She passed In ad vanced Ijitln with credit, and in ad vanced Greek, which her tutor regarded as her star subjec.t, with the "B" that means honor. Moreover, as already staled, she had two courses to her credit, freshman English and advanced French. When Mr. Gllman was asked by Miss Sullivan to undertatke Helen's prepara tion for college, he felt a natural hesi tancy In attempting what seemed to be an almost hopeless task, but after becom ing familiar with what she had already accomplished, he saw his way clear to all the examinations except that in ex perimental physics. This obstacle was surmounted by the substitution of Its alternative*, text-book physics and astronomy. In the pursuit of the former subject Helen's excellent touch stood her In good stead. When she first met the word mercury, for In stance, and wa* taken to the laboratory "to have a look" at It, she took some In her hand and readily enough understood that the stuff had been well named quicksilver. When some was spilled on the floor and she tried to pick It up she found It extremely elusive. Then she weighed a bottleful with almost absolute ly accurate results. As for astronomy, when provided with a planetarlus, upon which she could feel the position of the heavenly bodlea, this presented almost no difficulties. • leometry and algebra were naturally rather hard for a girl who had only her sense of touch to help her, but by pa. tie uo« and the help of several Ingenious instruments these subjects, too. were mas tered. For all Helen Keller's remarkablo Intel lectuality, she is. In the main. Just a pleasant, normal girl, fond of fun and delighting in social pleasures. She sews, crochets and embroiders quite like an n|d fashlcned girl And, most marvelous of all, she (days a capital game of chess. Hhr haa already secured a warm hold on the heartstrings of her callage mates, and acme of them are learning the manuai language. In order thut tfiey may the roor«- readily tsUk with her But this Is scarcely necessary, aa Helen can nearly always understand what is siild to her by placing ber fingers on the lips of the gprakcr. Tl -re Is not a happier face in the col lege than Helen Keller's as sbe looks forward to four years of study which I* a pleasure and to the :>ard * irk which she fs sur« will bring her the coveted degree of Bachelor of Arts when the class of ISM say* good-by to the college beyond the Charles. of the period: we vlalt the rural cottage, the country Inn, the humble vicarage, the hall of the country squire. the fashionable drawing room, we learn how the common people actually lived, what th»y talked about and laughed shout, and how they looked at life. Thia I* the trueat kind of history A alttgle book of Fielding a gtvea ua a more grabble picture of a middle eighteenth century than a whole *helf of formal histories. In n b w-.k tiko ' Tom Jone*" r Roderick Random w« re: * full breath from U»e actual England of the early Oeocges. The master humorist among the earl* novelist* »<• Henry Fielding, a man who In vary many way* remind* ua of the genial Richard Hie-le Bosh were lm pulalye ;ind Improvident, fond of trivial Joy* and reckless living, and both were kind-hearted, loyal to tnetr Wen.,, and full ..f hearty good cheer and aunnv OptUBiWI. * A a noveSi-1 wa* • Oir« - t fc»» Mr ., 0 . f , Thackeray and IMckena. Tnrovjfn atl hi# work. Uiwie ruM a fierce Uitoieratii-p of »haro«- of %oohbery. of ot>- prvs-l >s of the weak by tls, strong l.iHUicerlty an: injustice. J *eph An drew* la a kind of "Pilgrim ft Pi »r».. 1 11 Stupendous Clearing-UJ I ||( Sale All This Week, I [Of all the and^J (Law W 5 aIVING_ -5 111 I Chairs, Dlnlnft Tables, Fancy Rockers, Imm 35 Chiffoniers, Sideboards, Bedroom Srii|9 3S ' jjjjjjj Stoves, Etc., atlßcomparable Prices. I 2g| Everything in the store is^iJ II CARPET SWEEPER I FREE ■■■■ 1 Sale Commences Monday ifl £TO EACH CUSTOMER PURCHASING | ftnfl | E n ||* PAft|Hvrfl I 3 GOODS TO THE AMOUNT OF $25.00 £ H™ ■ %OR OVER DURING THIS SALE. 5 Saturday Night, at 10 #oj| * W WVW W 1 - Ajjw I ( ■ ■ - -- -- - - | ill 1 THE CHICAGO FURM gg (| 0 1332, 1334,1331 Bmai Ave. And llmti Almost the entire book Is taken up with the details of a slna-le Journey In which Innocence and (simplicity, personified by Andrews unit Fanny ami Parson Adam*, find ut almost every step some new form of wickedness to destroy them Dtrrlng their pre Kress they oome In contact with almost every form of human wenknrn They encounter the hypocritical church mar.. the Igncrant and cruel lawyer, ths unjust judge, the lewd peasant, the cringing and fawning yet heartless land lord, the fine lady fastidious concerning the proprieties, yet nt heart thoroughly Immoral, and everywhere selfishness and vanity and obaenulence to money and power. The whole vain and cruel age Is before us, held up for us to laugh at. Hut there Is never any spite at Individu als. never any misanthropy In Fielding's satire "We who are admitted behind the scenes of this gfe a t theater of na ture." lie declares In one place "(and no suthpr ought to write anything beside dictionaries and spelling books who hath not this privilege) can censure the notion without conceiving any absolute detesta tion of the person whom, perhaps, nature may not have designed to act an 111 part In all her dramas 1. The satire Is never directed against the people; It Is the act that Is held ur> to ridicule We Join In the author's full, hearty laugh, but we feel at the same :lme the deep pathos that underlies It all. Joseph, sorely wounded, la visited by Parson Barnabas: "He then questioned him concerning his foreglveness of the thieves. Joseph nns wered: "He feared that was more than he could do. for nothing would give him more pleasure than fo hear they were taken.' That." cries Barnabas, Ms for the sake of Justice.' 'Yes,' said Joseph, 'but If 1 was to meet them again I am afraid I should attack ilietn and kill them, too. If I could ' 'Doubtless.' answered Isarna bas, 'it is lawful to kill a thief; hut ran you say you forgive them as a Christian ought? Joseph desired to know what that forgiveness was. 'That Is.' answered Barnabas, "to forgive them as as-lt- Is to forgive them as—ln short, it is to for give them as a Chrlsilan.' Joseph replied, he forgave them as much as he could. 'Well, well,' said Barnabas, 'that will do.' " Agalu. » Adams is sent to the rlo 1 ) Pargon Trullllier to borrow the few shillings that will relieve his great distress, since the good parson has a wide reputation for charity, the word seldom being out of his sermons, he I* rerelved at first with Incredulity, then with actual Insults. The parson is even meditating violence, when hi« wife, see- Ing him clench his fist. Interposal and begs him not to fight, "but to show him self a true Christian and take the law of him." Kleiuing Is full of these little bits. His pages bubble over with good nature. Sometimes he laughs boisterously but more often he chuckles slyly to himself oyer the weaknesses, the vanities, the petty foibles of humanity Hophla. for Instance, Is In deep dlctres* over Ihe mlafortunea of Jonea. "Oh wicked, wicked eyea," *he cries, ••that have wrought all thla mischief How ran I ever hold th.-m up again-' Yet, all the time aha la regarding with grr«t «mtl*f^. tlon her image In the mirror Again l»arson Adam*, to convince Wilson of hla supreme contempt for vanity. < ffer* to walk ten mile* to fetch hla sermon on that vice In the same novel the country huntsman, whoa., doga have attacked the par»«n. calla thi-m off at oace f.,r f* ar that they will br apolled by following vermin. Note the ir .ny In thl» epiaode .if Capt. num. who rpent much tlm every day ro«»idering how liable .Mr. Altworthy wlv.ae he IT he waa to be. waa to die of apoplexy; Hut while th« captain waa OfiH fifty busied in deep contemplation* of thla kind. oru» of the mi>*i unlucky aa well na ':n#> a*,)ti.>b!e ac. Identa happened to him Ttie utmost malice of fortune could In -4 :oi\e • r.. tiling - . c r „el - m&laprupoa, *o absolutely deatruttlve to all hla achemes. In abort, not to keep the reader In long auapenae. juat at tti» very inatant when hla heart waa exulting In meditation* on the happineaa whl' h would accrue to him by Mr Allworthy'a death lie himaelf died of an a{>o|tlex> .*• The whole nlmuaplK-re of the book la one of #ly fun. The very tit lea ut the chapters are amualrtg. "The reader a neck brought Into danger by a descrlp. tion. his escao*.' 1 "The mo ruin* Intro. duced In some fine writing." "Contain ing one of the most bloody battles, or rather duels, that were ever recorded in domestic history." "Better worth read ing than all the works of Colley fibber and many others." We are never sure whether Fielding la In earnest or not. "It seem*," says Uiw <ll, "as If the two lobes of the brain were never In perfect unison, so that If ewer one of them be on the point of surrender ing Itself to R fine frensy of unqualified enthusiasm, the other witches over It. makes fun of It. renders It uneaay with a vague sense of Incongruity till at last It Is forced to laugh when It had rather cry." He gravely pretends that "Tom Jonae" Is a kind of comic "Iliad," differing from Homer only In Its treatment of the more humble circles of life. Instead of battles between gods and heroes we have fierce fights between kitchen malda and awk ward boors—"as bloody a battla a* can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold Iron." Ha Introduce* elaborate Homeric similes: "As a miser wno hath In some well built city a cottage, value 3D shillings, when at a distance he Is alarmed with the news of fire, turns pale and trembles at his loss; hut when he finds the beautiful palaces only are burnt and his own cot tage remains safe, he comes Instantly to himself and smiles at his good fortune; to Rophla," etc. But sometimes no comparison can sat isfy him. "Header, we would make a simile on this occasion but for two reasons: The first Is It would Interrupt the description, which should be rapid in this part; but that doth not weigh much, many precedents occur ring for such nn Interruption: the sec. ond, and much the greater reason, la, that we could find no nimlle adequate to our purpose; for, Indeed, what Instance could we bring to set before our reader's eyes at once the idea of friendship, courage, youth, beauty, strength and swiftness? All which blazed In the person of Joseph An drews. I,et those, therefore, that de scribe lions and tigers and heroes fiercer than both, raise their poems or plays with the simile of Joseph Andrews, wno Is himself above the reach of any Mmlle." Fielding's work is also full of the mere ly comb Too often he descends to the buffoonery, the coarse epithets, the lu dicrous situations and hard blows of the csrlv inedv The battle royal between Moll Hfatgrfrrt an<l h*r <leir« 'torn, whAfM the luety amason puts to Ignominious night the whole parish. Is humor of the most elementary nature Parson Adams Is lesten In almost every chanter of "Jo seph Andrews" He Is continually the victim of ludicrous circumstance*. Me falls Into Parson Trullibcr s pig sty ha if h t '"'i' ,'H ,h< ' ! HC " hy * nonful of hog s blood, thrown by an angrv ams- S'.r, he Is assailed by a kitchen maid with a soaking mop. There Is no end to the /■. J. wWrh ,lv " author Plays m>on him. All this Is humor In Its crudest form, yet jr i t * ' u ' n " )r 'h"t many can ap. The leading charm of FWil'm lira hla wurntM to nature. He 'a not n'wavs r;l '?n 'what that hn« coittf tut of the eighteenth renlury la" bul he la never Immoral. Mb In a.« w'lolmowie *a nature herself. Bo U |re Weston la Admirably drawn. Ilka loud halloo MbAM through th» J**"*, r,( Tom Jones' like the lay of nounda through a forest. Tie ta close l« future. Joyf.ua at * .nrln* morn'ng and a* fresh and free. When Tom Ilea \. rv -l« tc he Inalata on »er»n»dlng ;>im 1" M,"l < . rn,nr ,in, '* r h '» window with the ■lirlll Ms*!* of hla horn He la in fu'l t"ir*ult of hla runaway dawshler rtophu when a na r k of hound" In full try rros»e* Ma tr;t<k Instantly all thoughi* of hi, daughter are lost, ,»nd with n rn'ghtv •I. ut be dashes In pursuit of the flyin. tutfk. ' Tho hottnda ran verv h*M OV " rt " rh hedge »!ih all hla usual vociferation and rltv, rtnrt with all hi* usual pVtuw, " • w * . Picture could < .me only from "if I*" "f a 'nje humeri*!. Trie only other rov- let of the »ra w. rthv to be mentlored with Feldln* a* a humorist la 1-aurence St»rne whose reputation resta almost wholly upon Ma no\el. if It rnav tie failed >i novel "Tr'a tram Bbandv" I]T», Thla chaotic v„". BnilUi' m 'me of the curlositie* of i' .1 llleratore. It u» without plot without form iod order, without consec utive interest. The hero la not born until well toward the middle of he Col^i •ad h. u hardly out ot atory clone*. It !• a mere Jumble of ec centrlcttle*. The reader in constantly surprised bv gome fantastic conceit: blackened Daaca or blank leave* suddenly confront lilra: omitted chapters t<» be filled In by hi* Imagination; paces of isterlska and period*: Itnes and ptro «aque curve*; chapter* consisting of a ln*le sentence—no mechanical trick haa b*»n omitted. The READER 1M never pre pared for the next chapter. "If 1 though you were able," the author declare*, b form the leaat judgment or probable con lecture to youreelr of what waa to cnmi In tha next pave, I would tear It out ol my book." Mm. Shandy at a keyhole li on the point of learning what she »up poaea to be an Important aecrat, but a.l the critical moment we are dlaappolnted: "buying the edge of her Angers acroa« her two llpa, holding In her breath and bending her head a little downward, with a twlat of hep neck (not toward tha door, but from It. by which meana her cur waa brought up to the chink) »he listened with all her power*. "In thla attitude I am determined to let her atand for Ave mlnutea, till 1 bring up the alfalra of the kitchen to the una period.'; One should never read "Tristram Shan dy" for lt« story. It Is without form and It would be void were it not for its char acterisation and its humor. My Uncle Toby is one of the few really striking figures In Kngllsh literature. Tn creat ing him Sterne show* what he might have done had he been content to leave his fantastic conceit* and iniilce an honest, earneet picture of life. Were the whole of "Tristram Shandy" equal In merit to Its beat passage* It might stand HS one of the aupreme masterpieces of literature. Sterne was n sentimentalist. "Humor and pathos," nay* Raleigh. "are never In their nature far apart; in Sterne they are almost Inextricably combined. Hla laugh ter and hla tears are ao facile and their springs lie ao near together that the one almost Infallibly provoke* the other." There IN nowhere a better picture of a kindly soul than Sterne'* Uncle Toby. "Mv I'ncle Toby had scarce a heart to retaliate upon a fly. # Oo.' say* he one day at dinner to an overgrown one which had bussed about hi* noae and torment ed blm cruelly nil dinner time, and which, after Infinite attempt*, he had caught at laat a* It flew l»v him. Til not hurt thee.' *aya my t r ncle Toby, rlalng from hi* chair and going aero** the room with th<* flv In hla hand; Til not hurt a hair of thv head. On.' **y* be. lifting up the sash ana open In or hi* hsnd s* he spoke to let It escape, ao. poor devil: get th** Hone; why should I hurt thee? TMs world sure ly I* wide enough to hold both thee and me.' M Tt I* not easy to give a sample of the bumor of Sterne. It I* pervasive and not eaay to Isolate "It la," amy* Cross, "a kind of humor that evoke** only the gen tlest emotions of pity to be followed bv the smile. It enfranchises the heart, purg ing It of sntf giving ***t to toe bagatelle* of existence." Xuf Pennsylvania State College. •■lt of mu Onated *flaatnnary. . ®* Bmlth, a missionary to Japan, his place, and now bring* »ult against the Foreign Ml*slonarv Society of .t hla country for 132.000. *o much of It due now and no much on the expectancy or his life. He says his work wa« a life Job. 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