Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1912 — Subtraction That Adds. [ARTICLE]

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The air was sweet with the smell of willow wood and the artificial limb maker was adjusting a delicate metal spring in a superb leg. “This one of a pair of legs,” he said, “I am making for an aviator. They are longer legs than his/OWn were. His height before the accident was only five feet six; now, with these legs, he will be five feet ten. 1 , “Men all like to be tall. And short men, when, as sometimes happens, they lose both legs, gratify this universal desire for height by ordering wooden legs of an excessive length. "Yes, paradoxical though it seems, cut a shor 1 !: man’s legs off, and he becomes taller.” i 1