Show 1 r 1 IC I 10 If IE i I 1 I i Olive ye barton O C 1929 bu NEA Service Inc The longer I r live Uve the l less ss reason t see for making the genius man mart a handed 1 creature Why In the world we take lead pencils and forks and needles from childrens children's left lect hands and nd transfer r them to the right I dont don't know Y Ive I've seen children many times en enter enter enter en- en ter school with the enviable gift of ot using sing both hands with equal facility Y Then what happened Invariably those children lost their In iii few skill With the left hand a short months What a pity To be born ambidextrous I consider one of ol the greatest pieces of ot luck a a. person can have RESULT OF BRAIN STRUCTURE There are so many reasons for having two two skilled hands aside from tho the obvious obvious' one of convenience ef efficiency efficiency ef- ef and insurance against accident ac ac- ac- ac The speech area or the part pant of of- of f. f the brain that we talk with is on the left side of the head Right spang up against it is the area that controls the motor nerves of r th the right arm arp and hand and the right leg a arid and foot loot Undoubtedly speech and the right hand are so related as to be almost inseparable This is still more accentuated ted by the fact that the mental processes we we use useIn usein usein in writing are almost the same as ns those we use in talking Each Impulse Impulse impulse Im Im- im- im pulse Is the expression lon of thought HANDS WORK WITH MIND Doctors tell us us that adults who have had this brain area destroyed often lose the power of ot speech simultaneously with the par paralysis of the tho right hand su such h people do not often otten regain the power of or speech But this must not be confused with paralytic stroke which is different On n the other hand we are t told ld that where such accidents have hap happened happened hap had to children and they were compelled to use tho the left hand Nat Nature Na Na- t tune ture re has taken advantage of ot youth as usual an and built up p a new speech area on n the right side The child often often learns to talk as well as ever ver It does seem therefore that the tho exercise exercise exercise ex ex- ex- ex of or the hands materially af affects affects at- at the power of speech Isn't that good argument for the premise that if it human beings were trained to be handed double-handed or ambidextrous ambidextrous am nm- that in time time time-it it might be centuries of or course men course men would have two perfectly perfectly- perfectly developed developed speech areas instead d of or one I |