The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-05-25
MANf PEoPLE LsFr.HAnnsn
Statistics Show that They Are Increa.
ing in Numbers Yearly

that ihey Are Increaa
ing In Numbers Yearly.
PHYSICIANS and Psychologists have
iohg been at variance as to the co,sa
OF leit-handedness in the human race
some have thought it a misfortune 9th
efs nave regarded it as a fanlt that
should be corrected in the young even
though resort be needed to rigorous
measures. But whether misfortune or
iault the fact remains that left-honded
people are on the increase In the United
states. Said a well-known physician of
washington recently: "The most relia.
pie statistics on the subject are to the
euect that in America. up to twenty
hVe years ago, but per cent. of orr
people were left-handed. This state.
ment has been allowed to run along
without question ever since. though
the observations Of everyone show that
II Is now far from correct. am not
prepared with any figures, but it is safe
TO say that at least 6 per cent. of Amer
leans today are left-handed. Take
Congress, for instance. On a hurried
Visit to the capitol one day last week
l noticed one Senator who was left
handed, and there may be more. In
the House side during a visit the week
before, saw three left-handed Repre.
sentatives.
chairman Cannon, of the ApproprI-
alton Committee, was presenting a
matter in his usual earnest style and
gesticulated entirely with his left hand.
The Representative who was on the
other side of this particular matter I'm.
der discussion was also left-handed.
To add to the interest Of che scene a
page who was called by Mr.. Cannon
TO take a paper to the clerks desk was
also left-handed. The following day !
visited the manual training school
where my son, who is left-handed, by
the way, Is pupil. and out of a class
of thirty-three | noticed that besides
my son there were two other left-hand
ed boys. The teacher told me that
more than G per cent of the boys in his
class were left-handed. On sugges
ton from him visited a sewing elias.
in the same district and found that the
sewing school teacher had observed {
similar state Of things among the girls
The proprietor Of the largest billiard
room in the city told me recently tina
the number OF left-handed players
seemed constantly on the increase. ant
that sometimes it appeared to him tina
there was a left-handed player at eacl
table. He reminded me that each o
the league baseball clubs last season
had left-handed batters and that tn
Boston club had two left-handed play
ers in It. while left-handed batter
were so numerous that he could no
remember all of them.
I'm this connection the sewing teach
, er told me that she never allowed he
pupils to give preference to the lef
, hand. but that she had not been able t
entirely cure many who were left
handed naturally. She said it was
positive injury to a girl to be left
handed who expected to do much sew
ing and that dressmakers never en-
ployed left-handed sewers when the
could avoid it. for the reason that
+ was not practicable to put two person
! at work on the same piece of work
one of them was left-handed. Strang
as it may appear, left-handedness rare
: ly occurs among the cOlOred race. ana
chinese laundryman tells me that tn
Chinese are not allowed to be lei
handed. "-Chlcago Chronicle.