The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-18
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Hands with Eatal Facility.


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/ Al table the one handed man will find
himself comparatively helpless unless
he confines himself to such dishes ns
/ can readily be managed With fork or
| spuon no learn to write with the left
hand Ii an accomplishment which any
reasonably patient pupil can soon ae=
aulre. but months OF practice will be
i needed to enable one to. write rapidly.
/ OF eourss the script II back hand or
italie, which with practice is superior,
that In. more regular and for finer than
/ the best efforts with the other hand.
/ simply because the writer takes more
/ paitls with his work. In d broader sense,
/ The left handler will write better, since
j tho very sIownesH Of the operation gives
him opportunity TO weigh well what he
/ writes. while The entire absence of the
/ slightest disposition to put down d
single snpeffluous word suggests that
/ more than one .e1uberahb reporter
would do well to drop shorthand and
learn Ieftshand writing.
| A we'll Anown lawyer, formerly OF
| Wall street, and now OF San Francisco,
writes equally well and rapidly with
/ either hand when he Ia tired OF using
/ one he EMPLOYS the other. He began
| leftshand practice In his junior year at
| Yale, and had the advantage, he thinks,
| OF two equally strong hands and arms.
| made go by daily exercise ut the oars.
/ The author of q recent monograph on
| the Bronte family gfaTely declares that
Charlotte's Brother Branwell possessed
| the power OF simultaneously writing
| two letters upon entirely different mat.
| tiers, The ehild.like confidence, OF the
| mildest OF marines will never efeditit. IL
| II physically impossible, An expert can
/ write duplicates of the same letter. and
| IL will be found TINT the formation OF
every stroke Ia simultaneous In the two
/ scripts, But the two hands cannot be
made TO follow OF obey two distinet
mental protnptings. A very simple
proof Of this is evident in the common
but not generally successful experiment
| OF trying to make one fofetinger describe
circle while the other attempts one In
| the opposite direction the fingers will
/ follow each other In the round aud
! while very exceptional power may en-.
/ able d pianist TO play two distinct airs
| at once. 1t would be u very extraordinary
expert who could simultaneously write
two entirely different sentences,
| But to write at will and rapidly with
either hhna liz not uncommon. This
power was the boast OF the male Mediei
| FOR generations In sueesssion, and both
| BalSHe and Roscoe have recorded 1t
/
| famous Catherine OF that family. A
Connecticut clergyman, professor In u
| theological seminary, cannot only do 1t,
| but he can take u razor In each hand and
| simultaneously shave the two sides OF
| his face. d delicate operation that seems
/ the summit of two.handea experiences.
| Mr.. Buggins had numerous examples
| for his encouragement, and to write
With the left while tho other hand was
at rect q very few days practice made
positively peasurHble. He did oil his
| holiday npte4 writing and answering,
sending what literally were =" left
| handed compliments of the season.
and receiving In return Communications
OF the success Of his sinister script,
which were neither literally nor meta.
phofieally "ovef the Left"
The reason probably why all of us
have not two fright" hands Ii for the
lack Of proper training. Undoubtedly
at birth the two are equal. The twos
year.old ysungster puts out either In
differently. for grasping or to shake
hands, and one OF the mothers earliest
and often embraced lessons Is TO teach
the child to extend and mainly use what
abe eoneeives to be the right" hand.
Neglect Of this special training fro.
uuehtly feaults Ia what are called left
handed people, who are SO simply bes
cause In childhood they began, from
chance or choice, to employ that hand
la Offices supposed TO pertain to the
other. and years have fixed tho habit.
And IL either hand can be thus trained,
early and careful discipline would make
both equally useful and expert; and
possibly we neglect tho more valuable
member of the two. Every pianist and
violinist knows that the left hand 10
capable OF q dellcaoy OF expression and
| manipulation quite impossible to the
right, In which over-sise has hardened,
stitfened, and to . degree even distorted
"The hand OF little employment hath
the daintier sense"
| How almost insensibly we make
graceful use of the left hand is seen at
the table. and almost without exception
| smokers handle tho cigar or cigarette
with the left hand, and place 1t at the
left side OF the mouth. The opposite Ii
at once awkward and incoavenient.
| What practice does 10 evident In the
evennegs with which the oarsnan pulls
md the readiness with which he
turns the boat with either oar,
and In the experiences with
which the professional baseball.
lrst catches the ball on the fly with
either hand. These are but instances.
Briareus has been dead for several GEN.
turtles. Bottom must have been not
only one OF the ''hard- handed men Of
Athens but one OF the expert two
handed, from his readiness to turn his
Lion. Perhaps in our own time, Ii the
training Is sufficiently early and rigid,
an accomplished double right-handed
| raca Ia n ,fits poegibls