niaUe.] 148 (May .7. 
luT ill early childhood of two most, iiii|K)ri,aiit senses, llei' voice 
was inarticulate, its cries were niodulate*!, however, and in a lim- 
ited degree expressive of her meaning. She had but two signs by 
which she definitely communicated her wants, — the pressing of the 
closed hand against her lips being a request for food, and of the 
crossed arms on her breast a demand for water. 
Tlie i)hysical state of the case was this : At two years and a 
half of age the child liad eerebro-spinal meningitis with entire loss 
of the senses of sight and hearing. She was brought up on a 
Texas ranch, and at six and a half years of age was brought to the 
Kindergarten for the blind in Jamaica Plain. A careful examin- 
ation of the eyes and of the ears showed both of these organs to 
be useless. Her tactile sense was, however, above the normal 
and her sense of smell exceedingly acute. The disease which had 
impaired the hearing had apparently also affected the function of 
the senii-circidar canals, as she could be twisted and turned for a 
long time in any direction without being made dizzy. Her s])ace 
percejition was good, as she measured distances in the movement 
of her body with great accuracy ; her memory in this respect, as 
in all olhei-s where her tactile sense was concerned, being very 
lemarkable and including apparently not only the impressions 
received thiough the hands but also throngh the feet, it Ijeing 
noticeable that she remembered the position of a marble floor, of 
a wooden iloor, of the rising tread of the doorway, or of rugs, 
whether kept in their place or changed to any position. The 
power of memorizing, which we who possess all our senses divide 
in varying proportion among them, this child had concentrated 
])rincipally upon the remembrance of whatever came within her 
touch, but it was not until after education for a year or more at 
the kindergarten when she was taken for a visit to her former 
home and family in Texas that the extent of hei- memorizing 
became fully ap]>reciated. After two years' separation from her 
family and the opening up to her of an entirely new world she 
knew her father and her mothei* the moment she touched them 
with her hand. Taken to the old house from which the family 
liad removed in the interval of hei- absence to a larger one, she 
searched out all the old familiar cracks and crannies ; a little hole 
in the door, the peculiar leather tag by which the door was 
opened, and a bit of ribbon she herself had tied to the handle, — 
and it was indeed touchinij to see her uufasten this and store it 
