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Show ALL CRIPPLES ON DIRECTORS' BOARD ?i"EW YORK. Sept. 11 The filing in the county clerk's office here of the certificate'f of elections of the Cripples Crip-ples ' Welfare society, disclosed todav a unique hoard of directors, in that all are cripples, and all but two have only one leg. Charles Noel Douglas, a writer, who has been cripple for many vears. is president of the society. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is first vice president and Dr. "William Sheldon Coons is second vice president. The society was organized for the purpose of supplying cripples with artificial ar-tificial legs, amis and appliances and securing for cripples employment for which they are best adapted". |