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Show AN ARMLESS ARTIST. The career of Charles Francois Felu. the armle?s f Belgian artist, is one of the most striking instances on record of success in overcoming the deficiencies of nature. Born June 2b 1S."0, at Waermaede, near Courtrai, North Flanders, entirely without amis, he nevertheless achieved considerable success as a painter. Beginning the study at Antwerp when f already 25 years old. by means of his feet he copied some hundreds of the best masterpieces to be found there, and specimens of his work, original and otherwise, oth-erwise, are to be found all over the world, cspecially in America. The queen regent of Spain bought ono of M. Felu's pictures in 1S8B and made him a chevalier che-valier of the Roya lOrder of Isabella, and the king t of Portugal, accepting a work from him. sent him the cross of a chevaiier of the Order of Christ of Portugal. In 1874 M. Felu visited London, where many people peo-ple saw him copying in the National gallery and tho Kensington museum. One of his earliest' recollections recollec-tions was of sitting in the garden while his mother taught him to grasy with his babv toes the bnVhr, flowers for which he cried. Very smi he learned to got her them for himself, and, steadily pursuing this form of instruction, his feet soon became flexible flex-ible and useful. M. Felu mixed colors without difficulty dif-ficulty and worked quite easily. Holding the paleftn by the left great toe, passed through the orifice Jiku a thumb, with the other foot he manipulated th brush with astonishing skill and confidence. At meals he used a knife and fork, and managed hi- own drinking glass. L'ntil the last few years it-always it-always shaved himself, and never had an aeoidn. His one grievance was that he could not gain mastery mas-tery over a buttonhole. , |