Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1917 — Armless Handwriting. [ARTICLE]

Armless Handwriting.

An inventor in the United States has patented a device, to enable armless people to write with their knees, An artificial limb expert in a London hospital said it would rarely be needed 4 “Give us a man with a stump and w« will teach him to write.” Special instruments are built to fit the stumj and carry stylographlc pens. Three pages of manuscript. In * splendid bold, legible hand, written bj one of the hospital’s pupils, who ha* no.right arm and only the stump of hi* left, were shown 'at an exhibition oi work by disabled soldiers and sailor* In London recently. In- the first nine months of its ex Istenco the British minister of ma nitlons spent £22^00,000.