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Show Man Using Both Hands Can Accomplish More Out of every hundred babies born, 17 are naturally right-handed, 3 are left-handed, left-handed, and the remaining 80 are capable of using either hand with equal ease. Yet, owing to our method of training the young, by the time those hundred babies are three years old all except the three who were left-handed left-handed will use the right hand for such essential work as writing, painting paint-ing and the use of ail tools. There are said to be over 400 different dif-ferent sorts of work in which the equal use of both hands is an advantage, but even in those In which one hand only is generally used it is a tremendous advantage to be able to use the left hand in order to rest the right. Sir .Tnmes r.arrle. when his right hand failed him. had to learn to write ! with his left, but Sir Robert Badcn-Poweli, Badcn-Poweli, when bitten by a dog and forced to carry his right arm In a sling, went right on with his work, writing and drawing with the other nand. for he has been able to use both hand equally all his life. The great animal artist. Landseer. I could paint two pictures at the same time, using both hand.;. The famous Leonardo da Vinci was equally accomplished, accom-plished, and so was Holbein, the portrait por-trait painter. More wonderful seems the fact that the well-known surceon. Mr. Simeon Shell. could operate 1 equally easily with either hand. Sir Oliver Lodge Is another well-known ' man who usps both hands with ease. It Is the left side of the brain that controls the muscles of the riclit side of 'lie body, so by learning to use the left hand a person actually rests one sidf of his hraln and Is therefore able to do more work at a stretrh. |