Of all the people(HELEN KELLER) I have read about, one of the most interesting is a woman name was Helen Keller. Perhaps you have read about her too.
When Helen was a baby, her mother liked to think that her little girl’s life would be full of brightness.
But when she was only nineteen months old, little Helen became seriously ill. For many days her mother feared that the child was going to die. When the fever left her, Helen could neither see nor hear. To her, all was as still and dark as the night. Soon her little voice became silent, too, because she could not hear others speak and she forgot how to talk.
That poor little girl! She could not see the lovely blue sky, the bright spring flowers, or the golden sunbeams. She could not hear the songs of the birds or the loving voices of her parents and friends.
Day after day and week after week passed, and not one word could she speak to anyone. How would you feel if you were shut away alone in a dark room where you could not see a single ray of light or hear the least sound or speak a word to anyone for a whole day? What a long, long, lonely day it would be, and how glad you would be when it was past.(HELEN KELLER)
But if one day would be long and lonely, what would one week be, or one year? And yet little Helen could never again in all her life see or hear.
Do you not think we should daily thank God that He permits us to see and to hear and to speak? And do you not think that we should be very careful to use all these blessings in a right way? Let us this moment decide that we will never use our eyes for seeing evil things, that we will turn our ears away from hearing bad language, and that our voices shall always speak words of kindness and encouragement and cheer.
When little Helen was six years of age, she was sent to a large city to be educated in a special school for the blind. After a while, she learned to spell words on her fingers, as you may have seen deaf people do. It seemed like play to her, and she learned very quickly. After a time she learned to talk to her friends in this way, and then she was very happy. It seemed as if a new and beautiful world had just opened before her. Soon she learned to read by touching words that were printed in raised letters.(HELEN KELLER)
Here years is a old: sample of her writing from when she was ten If you had to write with your eyes closed, do you think you could do as well? See how plain the letters are, and how straight the lines! When you are tempted to write carelessly, think of blind little Helen Keller.
When Helen was ten years old, she could write English and French. She had learned many very interesting things about plants and birds and insects. She knew something about almost every country in the world. She had made great progress in history and mathematics. (HELEN KELLER)
Helen was gentle and loving and unselfish. Through those things which God has made, Helen learned to love Him.
She once had a large dog, of which she was very fond. One day her beautiful dog died, and that made her feel very sad. When her friends heard of her grief, they wanted to buy her a new dog, But she said she would rather use the money to send Tommy Stringer to school. (HELEN KELLER)
Tommy was a little boy who had lost his sight and hearing of disease also. His mother had died, and his father was too poor to pay for his education. So, instead of thinking of her own pleasure, Helen thought of a way to make
