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KELOWNA 



the construction of the city's three bridges. 

 Keene has the state normal school for girls, a 

 business college and a library with 17,000 vol- 

 umes. The high school building, erected in 

 1913 at a cost of $125,000, is among the notable 

 structures; the city has also a Federal building 

 and a Y. M. C. A. building. Spofford Lake, a 

 noted fishing resort, and Monadnock Lake are 

 in the vicinity. 



KEEWATIN, kewah'tin, a town in the 

 Kenora district, Ontario, on the Canadian Pa- 

 cific Railway, at the northern end of Lake of 

 the Woods, three miles west of Kenora and 

 123 miles east of Winnipeg. Lumbering and 

 boat-building are leading industries, but the 

 town is known chiefly as a summer resort; the 

 fishing and big game hunting in the district 

 also bring many visitors, most of whom come 

 from Winnipeg. Population/in 1911, 1,242; in 

 summer the number is nearly doubled. 



KELLER, kel'er, HELEN ADAMS (1880- 

 ), an American writer and lecturer, blind, 

 deaf and dumb from babyhood, who has been 

 able to share in the joys of a normal life 

 through the power of her own keen intellect 

 and the faithful 

 ministry of her 

 teacher and com- 

 panion, Miss 

 Anne Sullivan. A 

 serious illness be- 

 fore she was two 

 years old de- 

 stroyed sight and 

 hearing, and for 

 years her power 

 of speech re- 

 mained dormant. 

 When Helen was 

 eight years of age 

 her parents HELEN A. KELLER 

 brought Miss Sullivan from the Perkins Insti- 

 tute for the Blind, in Boston, to their home in 

 Alabama, and the little child was taught the 

 deaf and dumb language by touch, and learned 

 to read by feeling raised points which repre- 

 sent letters (see BLINDNESS). A special type- 

 writer was made for her use by which she did 

 :ill her writing. Later she was also taught to 

 talk, though imperfectly; the power of correct 

 speech was developed later, and to-day Miss 

 Keller has the power to interest large audiences 

 in her lectures. 



She attended the Wright-Humason and the 

 Cambridge schools in Boston before entering 

 Radcliffe College, where in 1900 she was gradu- 



ated with honors, after completing the usual 

 four-years' course. During this time Miss Sul- 

 livan was her constant companion, attending 

 all her classes with her, and repeating by the 

 hand language the lectures and class discus- 

 sions as they were being given. Perhaps Helen 

 Keller's greatest achievement is her happy out- 

 look on life, for she is unfailingly optimistic. 



Since graduating from college she has con- 

 tributed articles to the Century and McClure's 

 Magazine, the Youth's Companion and the 

 Ladies' Home Journal. Her longer writings in- 

 clude Story of My Lije (her autobiography), 

 Optimism, The World I Live In, The Song oj 

 the Stone Wall and Out oj the Dark. She has 

 been a member of several commissions serving 

 in the interest of deaf and dumb and blind 

 schools, and has spent some time traveling and 

 lecturing on subjects of present-day interest, 

 such as woman's suffrage. 



One of the finest tributes ever paid to Helen 

 Keller is Madame Maeterlinck's The Girl Who 

 Found the Bluebird, which she wrote after a 

 visit to Miss Keller. 



Consult her book, The Story of My Life. 



KELLOGG, kel'og, CLARA LOUISE (1842-1916), 

 an American dramatic soprano, born at Sum- 

 terville, S. C. The greater part of her musical 

 education was received in New York, but it 

 was completed abroad. Her first role to re- 

 ceive enthusiastic applause was that of Mar- 

 guerite in Faust; later she was equally suc- 

 cessful in other roles, her dramatic powers and 

 singing receiving high recognition. She or- 

 ganized an English and an Italian opera com- 

 pany, in both of which many famous singers 

 won their first laurels. She was the first Ameri- 

 can singer to win European plaudits. In 1887 

 she married Carl Strakosch and retired from 

 the stage. Madame Kellogg's autobiography, 

 Memoirs of an American Prima Donna, at- 

 tracted wide attention on its publication in 

 1913. 



KELOWNA, kelow'nah, a city in British 

 Columbia, in the Yale district, in the southern 

 part of the province. It is on the east shore 

 of Okanagan Lake, sixty-four miles north of 

 Penticton by steamer and thirty miles south of 

 Okanagan Landing. At Okanagan Landing 

 connection is made with a branch line of the 

 Canadian Pacific Railway, which meets the 

 main line at Sicamous, fifty miles farther north. 

 The region about Kelowna is a fruit-growing 

 district, especially famous for its apples, and 

 the principal manufacturing plants of the city 



