The Anaconda standard., 1899-09-24
HAS A WONDERFUL TONGUE.
Crippled Girl Who Supports Herself in a
Remarkable Manner

RemafRaDle Manner.
Miss Fannie w. Tunison of Sag Har-
Dor, l.. l., is probably the most Won
derful cripple in the world. Since the
day of her birth her hands, feet, legs
and arms have been paraiyzed, but,
being of a most ambitious nature and
entirely unwilling that she should be
only a useless burden to those around
her, she has by the most untiring and
painstaking efforts trained her tongue
to perform many of the duties usually
accomplished with the hands. Her
case, according to the best medical
authorities, is without parallel in the
world, and to those who have seen this
young lady at work 1t hardly seems
possible that she could do all that she
claims.
Miss Tunison, who is about 80 years
old, is in no way deformed; in fact,
she is very good looking young lady,
bright and intelligent and an excel
lent conversationalist. She lives with
her father and two cousins in a. little
fisherman's cottage, which was built
by her grandfather, a seafaring man
and a soldier of the war of 1912.
Every morning Miss Tunison, who is
an early riser, is lifted by her father
into her invalids chair, which has a
cleverly constructed work table at
tached to it. In this chair she remains
throughout the day held in by a
body, which is entirely powerless. In
the winter her chair is placed by the
front window, so that she can see the
people passing along the sidewalk,
while in the summer she is wheeled
out of doors and taken around the
village. Every one in the place knows
the young and cheerful invalid.
From the time she is lifted into her
chair in the morning until she retires
at night she is never idle, as she Is
engaged in painting pretty bookmarks
and blotters, embroidering doilies, mats
and tides, making attractive table
covers linen outline quilts or quilts of
craze, outline patchwork. All of this
work is done with her tongue and
mouth and without the slightest as
sistance, as she threads her needle,
knots her thread and even uses pair
of scissors with her tongue. She VIII
take a needle out OF her needle book
by little lead weight which holds 1t
down and then places it standing up
in her work. After the thread is
wound off the regular length she cuts
IL off with her scissors, her tongue
takes up the thread and in some
strange way it is passed through the
eye of the needle. She passes the
needle through the work, which she is
holding, then throws the work over
and holds it down by a weight and
draws the needle through with her
tongue This she will continue to DO
until her work is done.
In drawing she uses wax crayons or
soft lead pencils. She is fond Of draw
ing flowers with colored wax crayons
and when it is taken into considera-
ton that she has not the use OF her
hands, but only her tongue to do 1t
with, she arrives at some striking re-
suits. In strirsing beads she is re-
markably dexterous. She will place the
needle after it is threaded upright in
the cloth to hold it, and then with her
tongue she will pick up some beads,
one by one, and place them on the
needle When the needle is full she
will take it out of the cloth and let
the beads pass down on the thread
and then put the needle in place again
for more.
She has a metalaphone, on which she
loves to play occasionally to amuse
herself, and will often, when she has
friends in to see her, show them how
she uses it. She places the instru-
ment on the table and, holding the
mallet in her teeth, will manipulate 1t
dextrously with her tongue.-New
York Press