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Show Ex -Athlete, Now Invalid, Wins Success, Happiness Talented 23-Year-Old Girl, Suddenly Stricken Strick-en With Paralysis, Wins Use of Arms; Makes Many Dolls. Louise was not content to gain ! back her health. She wanted to do something worth while- Friends and relatives reminded her of her artistic talent encouraged her to take up her pencil where she had left off back in school days. So now every day, Louise props her drawing board up before her and designs enchanting little paper dolls playthings . that little girls adore. She does all this lying flat on her back with the paper held above her. Uncomfortable? Difficult? Diffi-cult? Yes! But she loves it. Louise's dolls have been highly praised by California artisjts as original and works of art- They're grown-up dolls, gorgeously colored smartly dressed- Little Spanish girls, Japanese youngsters all kinds. Is Kept Busy i. Soon her friends began to ask for them. Their kiddies liked them-The them-The demand increased and Louise decided to sell them. There were those hc-avy doctor bills to take care of. She tells you that with a light of triumph in her eyes. And you don't blame her. Now she's kept busy all the time to keep up with the demand. She has as many as 25 orders a week and is now planning to improve her equipment and do even better than that- Thus Louise Hayes has made the hours change to minutes and every day her little brush is at work on a set of dolls for someone. Although many, many months must pass before be-fore she can hope to walk again if ever her friends feel that she will. She says so, too! In Oakland they call her "The Girl Who Wouldn't Give Up." OAKLAND, Calif., May 6 (NEA) "Smile and the world smileswith you!" If you could see 23-year-old Louise Hayes of Oakland, California, Cali-fornia, today you, skeptic though you may be you would believe. Here is a story of courage a saga of unconquerable grit. It all goes back many, many months, when Louise . Hayes was 21 years old. She is a beautiful girl unusually un-usually gifted with talents and greatly interested in the stage- Tall and slender, Louise ha:l taken many prominent parts in charity and community plays. She loved to dance and the tennis courts knew her vivacious figure. Only 20 months ago, she was laughing, with life a youthful heart singing the joy of her age. Stricken by Paralysis Then one day when she and her mother were walking arm in arm up the stairway of their home, she stiffened and fell to the floor-: floor-: Paralysis! Its cold hands crushed the rhythm of her body and shackled shack-led the onward rush of her youth- That was the last time she walked walk-ed and eminent doctors shook their heads. She would never dance again gone were those active days on the courts stage ambitions abruptly abrupt-ly ended. But no misfortune could quench the fire in her eyes nor that of her smile'- Louise Hayes decided that she had everything to live for that she wasn't through. Today after indescribable days of agony, long hours of effort to move the iron-bound muscles Louise has the use of her arms, though she is still held in her bed. Her mother would tell you how she kept on through the long days of uncertainty an unyielding will determined to crush her misfortune. No tale of unhappiness or words of self-pity from her. |