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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 91, 21 August 1913, Page 6

A remarkable case of ambidexterity has been brought under the notice of the South Australian education authorities, who have reproduced in the July number of the Education Gazette, issued in that State, two specimens of handwriting by a little girl who is a pupil at the North Adelaide public school. The girl is left-handed, and has developed the power to write with her loft hand to such a degree that she can produce - work equal to the best done in the public school. She can do more than that, for she can write with the right hand as creditably as with the left. Recently when one of the masters asked her to try with the right hand she astounded him by taking a pen in each hand and writing two copies of dictation simultaneously. The formation of the letters was almost identical in the two copies, and the specimen is one of the best examples of the value of ambidexterity it would be possible \ point tc.