The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-09
TRY TO BE AMBIDEx1ERoUs.
Advantages Of Ability to Use Equal
lv RIGHT and Left Hand.

Many physicians who have given the
matter some study see in the use of both
hands to the same extent very sadsfac-
tory results on the general health, In
deed, there seems to be no sound reason
why the left hand should not be devel-
oped equally with the right hand, and
school authorities in Germany have made
left-hand work during part OF the time
compulsory on the student.
Much of the mechanical work that Is
now done with the right hand could be
done as well with the left hand IL that
member were sufficiently trained. and
would not only result in more efficient
work, but In an increased quantity of It,
1t Is, OF course. very evident that when
both hands are equally dexterous they
may be used alternately and the worker
need never stop for rest, for as soon as
one hand gets tired he can use the other
Accordingly the German authorities have
given considerable attention to left-hand
work in their mechanical schools. The
students are taught to saw. plane and
hammer as we'll with the left hand as
with the right, and the Importance OF am
bidexterity Is impressed upon the minds
of the young men and women
In Japan the children are taught to
write and draw with both hands at an
early age. II is to that method, indeed,
that many attribute the superiority OF
certain classes of Japanese art. The en-
tire arm Is employed in drawing and no
supporting device whatever Is used. In
a similar manner the German scholars
are made 10 draw large circles and other
figures on the black board, first with one
hand, then with the other. and without
any brace on which to rest wrist or ell
bow, the whole arm thus being brought
| into action. Just why one employs the
right arm In so many things in preference
| to the left is question which mas NOT r. as
vet received a conclusive answer. the
more commonly accepted idea is that the
| habit is directly due to the fact that a
| mother invariably carries child on ner
left arm so that she, the carrier, nay
| have the free use of her right arm.
| Thel, again, there are those who say
| that the physiological construction OF
| the nerves and veins that enter the right
| arm lie different from that of those which
| enter the left one; the nerves and veins
| of The right arm being more prominent.
| hut. despite the fact that an examination
| of the arms of a lett-handed person re-
| yeais the fact that his left arm contains
more prominent veins and nerves than
his right, it is, nevertheless. Impossible
| TO say whether the phenomenon noticed IS
the effect of the habit or the habit the ef-
feet of the phenomenon.
The art of writing equally wen with
both hands is one that should be Guilt
waited and acquired by everyone. Even
slight accident to the right hanu lhcapacls
tates one nowadays from all manner OF
work. whereas. II the use of the left hand
were cultivated as it should be such mis-
fortunes would lose much of their neon
yenience. Slight practice will work won
ders. Write the alphabet Ave times day
with your left hand for a month and al
the end of that time you will be surprised
to find that you can write as well Win
your left hand as with your right.