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Show Theory Shifts in Teaching ' . Left-Handers to Write " By Iumc W. Barton, MJ. As youngsters in schools, any boy found writinf with hU left ' band waa rapped aharply over an caa atudy the suggestions of Dr. Euatia and uaa thair beat judgment judg-ment la each case. Eating Tear Way to Health ' Be aura yon are getting the all. round dally diet for your type of build, occupation, etc. Send for Dr. Bartona handy booklet oa thla subject entitled "Eating Tour Way to Health." Send 10c and a Sc atamp, to cover coat of handing and mailing, to The Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram Home Service Bureau. Salt Lake City 10, Utah, and aak for your copy. Releaaed by Bell Syndicate, Inc. . uie Riicini with ruler or pointer, and . made to uaa hia , right hand. The boy who could throw a baaeball ' farther than any I of the reat of us, I and the brightest atudent in the 1 room were both 1 e f t h a n.d a d. EPS nuwmr, we uw ing the left hand Dr- B" 1 waa believed to affect them mea-tally mea-tally when they were elder none t of ua, including these left-handers, i gave the matter further thought It waa yean later when research re-search workera dlacovered that writing with the left hand did not hurt children mentally, aa, on the average, left-handers were aa bright If not brighter, than right, handed writer. Since that dis-' dis-' eovery teachers have not tried to . iorcaJaft-hanrtrd yniingstari , tn write with their right hand. It will come aa a surprise, then, to-learn to-learn that some research workera advocate that a left-handed youngster young-ster should still be taught to write with hia right hand. In The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. R. 8. Euatia states that many apparently left-handed left-handed primary grade children may be successfully taught to write with the right hand. When writing begins they ahould all be ao taught because the uaa of the right hand fits in better with the left to right direction of writ-Ing writ-Ing and also because it conforms to the custom of the majority and hence is easier psychologically (they are not "different" from others). If, however, a child ob-Jecta ob-Jecta strenuously or shows eigne of aervoua atrain, of which stuttering stut-tering may be one, the attempt should be abandoned at once, and he ahould be allowed to uaa hia left hand without criticism. A suggestion that might satisfy both sides in the controversy aa to the wisdom of teaching left-handers left-handers to use the right hand in writing, la that those who are allowed al-lowed to write with the left hand, ahould be ahown the proper position posi-tion of the paper which la slanted with the top border to the right Instead of to the left aa ia usual. It la often necessary to drill them in the uaa of this position, since otherwise they are likely to Imitate their right-handed neighbors. They ahould also be allowed to write with a alight backhand slant if they aa prefer. Physicians, parents and teach |