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Show POE'S AMBIDEXTROUS HOAX. Many traditions and stories of Kdgar Allan Poo arc still current nt the University Uni-versity of Virginia, at Charlottesville, where" ho was a student. Poe was verv proud of his penmanship One day, so tlic story goes, a friend entered en-tered the room to find Poe w.riting busily, busi-ly, with both hands. t ""What aro you doing?" asked the friend. "Writing with both hands," said Poe "Both hands!" exclaimed the friend. "But how on earth can you make any progress in that work?" "Easy enough. It is a theory of mine that it Is a waste of lime to bo able to use both hands at the same tune. Both hands and brain muy be trained, with care and attention, so that each hand may do ils full share of work each hand being employed on a separate task. It is not. really an affair of the hands at all, in the last analysis, but an affair of , tio intellect. I am training my hands and brain now so that J can do twice as much work as the ordinary person in a given period of time. At tho present moment, mo-ment, I am wrjting a pooin with alright, al-right, hand: one lhat 1 confidently believe be-lieve will siartlc the world. And with inv loft hand 1 am blocking out a wonderful won-derful story, a story which should capture cap-ture thousands of renders. "It will only bo a short time before I will be able to take my examinations in this manner, and dispose of two subjects simultancoush'. It will save lime,' and will give hands and brain their full duty." The Home Magazine. |