A ONE-ARMED MAN.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 August 1919, Page 3

A ONE-ARMED MAN.

The triumph over the disability of a lost limb is not only exemplifiecl in the case of the one-legged cricket-:1-. “There is no need to be clownhea.rt.ed about a lost leg or -arm,” writes a cor-:-espondentpof the “Daily Chronicle." “I have lost my left arm, and can do practiealiy everything that a man with two arms can. I can tie my tic as ncatly, and quickly as I ever did, lace my boots,- .ride a. horse and bicycle, drive a horse and trap drive a. motor car, play billiards (using a block of weighted wood with three grooves in it as 'a;.rest), golf, hockey, tennis and swim’ quite‘--easily. Cutting up food can be done with practice in the cleft use of a knife_ Filling a pipe from 9 pouch or lighting a match is simplicity itself whether you are sitting ¥ittillgA_§lO4\V"l‘_ll or standing up, and Vaasliing the’ one hand is easy when _\l.'<\u\_1{/_r_lQ\,_V_j,'hO\7s’ to make use of the .--c:i;bb'i;;g~' brush on the wash basin. ‘4‘nli:cAr;;"ll‘_]_r;,_lll:Ala» glove on with the aid (-1 froux‘ teeth, and place a sleeve-link in the shirt cuff bf’ the same method."