ARMLESS MAN'S FINE RECORD
Many marvellous attainments have been chronicled of those who have been maimed, liut one of the most extraordinary is that related of Qucntin Corley, who, bereit of his two arms in a railway accident, rose, at the ago of twentynine, to the position of Superior Judge of Dallas County, Texas. When Judge Corley was so cruelly deprived of Ills arms he refused to sit down and bemoan his fate, anil lie took the test job ho could get in a store at seven shillings a day and studied law in his spare time. Ho wanted to shave himself, , wash, and comb his hair, fasten his collar, lie his neck-tie, write, drive a motor-car and take part in the local bowling tournament by way of relaxation. And so lie went to work inventing apparatus which made liiiu independent of all help. His mechanical arms and hands made hiui <as good as any man. Ho refused to be pitied. "I have never," he said, "asked a favour of anyone. All I wanted was to bo left nlone to take care, of myself. It was hard at first, but it grew easier with, practice."
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 8
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195ARMLESS MAN'S FINE RECORD Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 8
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