Harry Shippe Truman

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When Harry Truman was about five years old, his family noticed he was

having eye troubles. With these eye problems, Harry wasn't able to see

stars or the falling dust from fireworks. Harry never noticed this. When

his mother got his first pair of glasses, they were thick glass in which

the doctor said that he shouldn't run hard or play in many sports with them

on. Harry saw a whole new world when he first got the glasses. He would

stare for hours just looking at the bright stars. But, Harry's fun with

the glasses soon ended when he went to school. The other kids would tease

him about the glasses because he was the only one in the class with glasses.

The teasing didn't bother him much because the other kids grew up learning

not to hit kids with glasses.

Harry liked reading books in his spare time. He especially liked Mark

Twain's books 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn'. He had to read mostly

adult books. Another one of his favorite books were biographies of the U.S.

presidents. Harry read most of the three- thousand books that were in a

nearby library. Harry was very good in school because of reading all the

books. His mom wanted Harry, his brother Vivian, and Their little sister

Mary Jane to enrich their lives so she bought them a piano. She gave the

children lessons and noticed that Harry was especially gifted with the

piano. So, she sent him to get professional lessons with a woman named Mrs.

Edwin C. White. Everyone in his family thought that Harry would become a

concert Pianist. Harry thought so too. Harry had experiences that the

other kids did not have while playing the piano. Harry's teacher once was

a student of one of the greatest pianists ever to live named Ignacy Jan

Paderewski. When he was having a concert in their town, Harry's teacher

brought him to the concert and introduced Harry to Ignacy. Ignacy showed

Harry how to play his own famous composition Minuet in G. It was a moment

Harry never forgot. The kids at his school really started to make fun of

him when they saw him going to school with music roles because they thought

piano playing was for sissies. But he kept on going and still ignored them.

Harry' father got harry a pony so he wouldn't be all books and piano

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