The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-06-13
TALE OF THE LEFT-HANDED GIRL
WHO HAD TO BE RIGHT

WHO HAD TO BE hluhA
NV stammerinf reached a Notifying stage
wbeS S entered high scnool. High school was
torture. but don't know how ever mad the
courage to go to college. College was not so
bad, as they love to let students sit and listen.
But teaching ruined me :. SO took refuge
in an office.
Mother always complained I stood on the
wrong side of the ironing board and / sewed
the wrong way. Yet never knew was ie1t-
handed until my physical examination In col
ege showed the left arm stronger than the
right, although by that time the right was the
more skillful.
was unable to learn to swim until my in
structor suggested that try 1t on the ieit sioe'
and away l swan without further difficulty.
Since I've been away from my parents home
and have had chance to do things without
comment, have sewed q great deal and De-
lieve sew left-handed. but I'm not sure.
AS soon as / gave up teaching and began my
present work took a course In vocal exercises,
such as you recommend. X don't tnlhk II
aIyzed 1t is a long drawn out process,
think 1t took over four years, and I'm not sure
I'd recommend it unless you have most hon.
orable analyst, for / can see now patient
might get more injury than benefit out Of 1t
/. but finally got rid of a lot OF silly Ideas
as well as my stammering think now !
must have loved my trouble too much to part
with 1t easily.
Both my mother and my grandmother al
ways insisted that use my right hand. Then
later when / began suffering l think my
RrandmOtherS
slowly tended to make me more conscious OF
the abnormality in my speech.
I don't want any of my family or friends TO
know that / was ever so abnormal as TO re-
uuire psychoanalysis to restore me TO ordinary
life. 81. n. Al
Maybe 1t is only coincidence that this girl
was naturally left handed and began suffering
when her misguided teachers and parents COM
PEELED her to prefer the right hand for skilled
work. Maybe 1t is only coincidence that there
are so many such condolences.
Even 80, what sound reason can anybody
give for forbidding child to use the left hand
for writing, drawing, and other skilled move
ments IL that Is the hand nature ordains for
such use?
Because the majority of us approximately
9s per cent? are naturally right handed, should
we mulishy decline to recognize the per cent
who are naturally left handed?
The brain centers for fine movements OF
the fingers and hands are in the right cere-
Drum Of a ft-handed person, in the left cerc-
brum of right-handed person. The brain
to those controlling skilled finger movements.
Interference with natures scheme of Develop
ment may confuse or disturb the fine nerve
communications between these control centers,
and that in my opinion, is the explanation for
the apparent tendency to bring on suffering II
you force the left-handed child to prefer his
right hand against nature.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Express my sincere appreciation for your
advice constipation habit. When mad
e'~'c
up all Iaxatiycs etc, stopped worrying and now
1 am cured! believe freedom from worry and
the elimination OF the tOmmyrOt about "auto-
Intoxication" Is q big factor In the cure.
Answer-It Is not cure Just correction Of
D. bad habit. Send a stamped envelope bearing
your address. for advice on the management of
nstipation. Inclose dime IL you want the
booklet, "The Constipation Habit.
Protective Cream for Machinists
have tried out the formula You published
for q protective skin cream and find 1t very
satisfactory to lacquer workers and others en-
gagged in dirty work. As you gave 1t the FORM
uIa calls for pounds gum Arabic, 10 pounds
soap chips, "a pounds water, pounds hydr0us
woOIfat a ounces acid red and A ounces oil OF
Iemongrass Many who have used 1t request
more. Is there any reason why I should not
make and distribute this at q small profit? i
cannot AFFORD to give IL away wv. j. G.)
Answer-No objection that know OF, pro-
yided you make no unauthorized use of any
personal name.
Crytorchidism
Son 1871 years old has displaced testlcIe.
Please send me the name OF u good hospital,
IL an operation Is necessary. I'll. 81
Answer-You should be guided by the advice
Of your own physician who has examined the
boy. II the gland is in the inguinal canal an
operation Ia Advisable now. II IT Is In the alb
domen, ordinarily It Ii best TO wait until some
complication calls for relief. That may never
come to pass.
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