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Show 1 i I TRIUMPHED OVER HARD FATE m Example of Florlan, Crtat French , Engraver, Should B Inspiration to tha Unfortunate. Seldom haa there been aeen a more Inspiring example of Indomitable en ' ergy triumphing over fate than that which the entraver Florlan la now - giving to th$ world. Six yeara ago. while at work upon the designs for the new French bank ; Botes, he waa suddenly stricken 1 by paralysis. Ilia right aide became aa If dead; he waa bereft of speech: the hand whose skill had made him famous waa uselesa forever. Did he ' complain? Did be resign himself to ' the Inevitable? Did be alt down In ' despair and allow his young wife anl daughtera to support him? Not for a moment He let the women work. It Is true, but only while be learned J to engrave with bis left band. Uo'tt. after houii- dy -'aftfr day, ; aontbTafter iiion'h be passed, strug gltngwlth that awkward, untrained left land, drawing at first crudely like a child, then with ever-Increasing precision. Gradually he educated the refractory member to obey bis will Drawing, water-color painting, design Ing for typographers succeeded one another, an-other, until to-day be baa again at talned absolute mastery over the graver's tools. Arsene Alexandre, the famous art critic, aaw Mjj at work t few weeks ago, hla wooden . block acrewed to table, his left band plying ply-ing Che tools with atl the deftness his now dead right band formerly possessed, pos-sessed, bis speechless llpa smiling, and his face radiant with happiness. To a man like Florlan fate has no terrors. Such men cannot be conquered. con-quered. And If ever labor ahould erect Ita Pantheon, Florlan Is worthy of a hlet niche among the heroes e work. |