Question

how did helen keep herself occupied during the journey to baltibore

Answer 1

Hopeful, Helen’s parents brought her on a train from Alabama to Baltimore.  They hoped the oculist could recommend a treatment for Helen’s eyesight.  Helen recalled many things about the train ride north.  Many passengers on the train befriended young Helen.  One woman gave her a box of seashells, which her father poked holes into so she could string them on a necklace.  The conductor allowed Helen to follow him around, and he even let her play with his ticket puncher.Her aunt also came along with them on the journey.  To entertain Helen, she created a doll made from towels.  Helen described the doll as being “the most comical, shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no nose, mouth, ears or eyes–nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face.”  Helen was particularly concerned about the doll’s lack of eyes.  She pulled two beads off her aunt’s cape, and indicated that she wanted eyes for her doll. 
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