The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-02-26
AN ARMLESS LADY'S WAY.
Deprived OF Arms, but Not a
Helpless Woman.
How She Threads a Needle, Writes and
Eats by the Aid of her Toes,

"Now, let me show you what l can
do; dinner'n be here in just moment.
Thread a needle? OF course I can;
see?" and suiting the action to the
word, Mrs Thompson picked up fine
needle with the large and second toe
of the right foot, held it tightly be-
tween the tips and, taking some yarn
in her left foot, rolled the end deftly
on small smooth stone, put it in her
mouth by bending her body almost
double and deftly inserted the yarn in
the needle, more easily than bachelor
threads large needle with a very fine
thread. Next she took hansome tidy
on which she was crocheting and with
remarkable deftness held the work with
her right foot. while with her left she
guided the needle in and out, catching
The thread with ease and fashioning
the figure as fast as "my lady" in the
sittingroom does with her soft hands.
Her right eye giving her some trouble
during this work, she deftly pushed
back the spectacles which she wore
and with the second toe rubbed the
eyelid. Then she bent forward and
brushed back few stray hairs from
her forehead. Taking up the pen be-
tween the large and second toe of her
left foot, and holding slip of paper
with her right toes, she wrote in
feminine hand, small and rather neat:
"He that lends to all shows good will
but little sense Ann E. L. Thomp-
Bon. Born without arms, December
%, 1889. Ca" This written, she put
the pen down, took up blotter with
her left foot, placed it over the writing
and dried the ink. Taking up pair
Of large scissors with the large and
third toe of the left foot she cleverly
cut off the portion of the paper on
which she had written.
Here comes my dinner Now you
can see me eat-not that it's such a
sight, but you may find it odd to see
one eat with toes instead of fingers
Mr.. Thompson spread out napkin
on the platform, and placed on it the
dinner of person in good health.
Mrs. Thompson turned around in her
seat, took up cup of tea in her foot,
stirred it up with spoon held in her
right toes, and half bending. half
raising the cup to her lips, drank off
the tea and placed the cup on the plat
form. Then she grasped fiat handled
silver knife in her left toes. caught a
fork between the first two toes of her
light foot and cut some steak into
pieces. Part of it was tough, but she
had no more trouble in cutting it than
an ordinary person would have. A
piece Of meat held on the fork was
transferred to her mouth and was fol-
lowed by piece Of bread broken from
a slice by her large and second toes.
AS soon as she had finished this
novel meal Mrs. Thompson continued:
Il forgot to tell you about my school
ing. Oh, yes, went to school, The
pupils were kind and 1 had little
raised platform for my use. held
my books in my toes and read
and studied as we'll as the rest of the
girls. l held slate in my right foot
and pencil between the toes of my
left and managed to figure as well as
anyone. My right limb is shorter than
my left, and l learned to write with
my left foot, as you have seen. 1
learned all that was taught in the
Common schools of Georgia before the
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