The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1885-02-26
GEoRGIA's ARALEss WOMAN.
How q Griffin Girl Walks. Writes and
Eats With Her Toes.

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Deane place, in Griffin, is now 6
a Mrs. Thompson, and lives il
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A Mil,
waukee paper publishes this &C
count of Mrs. Thompson that may
interest many who knew Miss
Leach as a child:
"Now, let me show you what ]
can do; dinner'll be here in Just a
moment. Thread a needle2 OF
course I can; see?"
And suiting the action to the
word, Mrs. Thompson picked up a
fine needle with the large and Sec
ond toes of the right foot, held it
tightly between the tips, and tax
ing some yarn in her left foot,
rolled the end deity on a small
smooth stone, bent her body al
most double, and deftly inserted
the yarn in the needle, more east
ly than a bachelor threads a large
needle with a very fine. thread.
Next she took a handsome tidy on
which she was crocheting and
with remarkable dizziness held
the work with her right foot,
while with her left foot she guided
the needle in and out, catching
the thread with ease and fashion
ed the figure rs fast as "my lady,
i'll the sitting room does with her
soft hands. Her right eye giving
her some trouble during this work,
she deftly pushed buck the spec
tacles which she wore and with
the second toe rubbed the eyelid.
Then she bent forward and brush
ed back few stray hairs from
her forehead. Taking up the pen
between the large and second toes
OF her left foot, and holding a 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. Thompson.
Born without arms, December %,
1889, Ga" This written, she
put the pen down, took up a pair
of scissors with the large and
third toe of her left foot, and clev-
eriy cut off the portion of the pa
per on which she had written.
Here comes my dinner. Now
you can see me eat-not that its
such sight, but you may find it
odd to see one eat with toes in
stead of fingers"
Mr.. Thompson spread out a
napkin on the platform, and
placed on it the dinner of per-
son in good health. Mrs. Thomp-
son turned around in her seat,
took up cup of tea in her foot,
stirred it up with a 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 platform. Then she
grasped a fiat handled silver knife
in her left toes, caught a fork be-
tween the first two toes of her
right 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 a
fork was transferred to her mouth,
and was followed by a piece of
bread broken from a slice by her
large and second toes.
AS soon as she had finished this
novel meal, Mrs. Thompson con-
tinued: Il forgot to tell you
about my schooling. 0, yes, !
went to school. The pupils were
kind, and had a little raised
platform for my ease. / held my
books in my toes and read ana
studied as well as the rest of the
| girls. [ held slate In my right
foot and a pencil between the toes
Of my left and managed to figure
as well as anyone. My right limit
is shorter than my left, and
learned to write with my left foo
as you have seen. l learned al
that was taught in the common
schools of Georgia before the
war;"
Wanted.