THE RIGHT HAND. No Reason Why Men and Women Should not bo Ambidextrous.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 4

THE RI GH T HAND. No Reason Why Men and Women Should not bo Ambidextrous.

An anatomist told me the othoi day that I could not toll which was my light h.nnl. I immediately held out ray light hand Kill he ob|ectcd J fc -aid lie did not sa\ that I could not show him m> li^hi hand, or extend my right) hand, but that I could not tell which was my rij^ht hand -thai is, that T could not desoiibo it in words, so tliat one who never lieaid of the distinction we make between the rir>ht hand and the left would be able to lind it. I thought that would be on.sy enough aKo, until 1 thought it over, and then 1 had to give it up ; tor on the outbid© of a perfectly formed human bcin^ there was nothing to distinguish the ritrht hand from the lett, and no one can describe it in words .so that an itrnorant person can find it. If people uerc ambidextious and were not taught from their childhood to use one of their bunds more than the other it woidd h^ almo.it impossible lor them to know which was which. I often think of this when 1 hear anyone say of some one whom he wishes to stigmatise as a fool that ''ho can't tell his right hand from hi- left."-- ' Science <j!ossip. "

Mr (j!ladstone in now in hit- i\iiy-^i\ih parliamentary .session. The first time the 100-ton gun was (ireel at (Gibraltar it knocked out its carriage. The coht of publishing and compiling the reports of the Challenger^espedition has already exceeded C 200,000, The King of Sweden and Norway flatly refused either to congratulate Leo XIII. upon bis jubilee or send him u present.