Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-24
By O. p. M O R is

meals and put into the other conventional right.
You will not be surprised to learn that this SEEM
ingly trivial question has exercised the greatest
scientists for many years. Why right hand
ed? One great physiologist points out that when
dweller, and had to fight with man,
moth mastodon for bare subsistence, stone AK
spear in hand he probably used the right hand
in order to keep his heart most vital OF organs as
far away possible from adversary's assault
And later, when tribe fought tribe as common
foes, it found convenient to WELD weapons in
uniformity, leaving the other hand and arm free
for preserving balance and for holding shield In
this way it is thought right handedness brought
about and passed down from father to for
told generations. Man has ever been fighting
animal, and it must have been clear to him from
the earliest times that if some of the fighting pha-
1anx right handel and others left handed,
their weapons would be continually clashing, and
their squares thrown into disorder with disastrous
effect when the enemy should perceive momentary
confusion.
On the other hand if each used spear
with the same hand as his neighbor, symmetry and
system would be given to the fighting force To
maintain that the left hand suffers from any physl-
cal disability, compared with it's more favored
fellow, is unfair, and not in accordance with fact.
This may be shown by anyone who takes pains to
become clever as the other. One may go further,
and point out that in some matters of every day
life the left hand is habitually given equal rights
with the other. Thus in knitting woman gives
both equal share of work; and apparently she is
equally skilled with each hand And have you not
noticed that when riding man gives his left hand
Biblical Warriors Left Handed
THERE is much curious and interesting evidence
to show that in the early days of the worlds his
tory left handed men abounded, and were warriors
of renown at that If you turn to the Bible you
will find many references to left handedness. Thus
Ehud the Benz Jamie, who slew Eglon, King of
Moab, left handed man; and this unexpected
accomplishment enabled him to draw his deadly
dagger unobserved from his right thigh And then
again, you remember that of the children of Ben
jamn who went out to do battle with those of
Israel" Twenty and six thousand men that drew
the sword, besides seven hundred chosen from
Gibeah-we read as follows: Among all these peo-
pie there were seven hundred chosen left
handed; everyone could sling stones at hair
breath and not miss Later in the Holy Book
we find many of King Davids best fighting men
ambidextrous the wisest among us wish to see
children to-day. They armed with bows,
and could both the right hand and the left in
hurting stone and shooting arrows"
But, truth to TELL it is difficult matter to make
out first rate for left hands when properly
trained. You may not be aware that many world
famous artists have been either left handed amb
dextrous Thus Hans Hobein painted his master
pieces for bluff King Hal with his left hand; and
well did it him that Hobein canvas has
brought one hundred thousand dollars before
Again, Cornelius Ketel Dutch artist, who painted