Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-07-02 | Page 20 | "Because I Use False Legs!"

it : ! "BECAUSE I USE FALSE LEGS!" ' 4 VERA LAMB. TO WHOM LOSS OF LIMBS ALSO BRINGS LOSS OF LOVE. BY ROY GIBBONS CHICAGO "Other girls and worn en use talse hair, false complexions false teeth, even false forms, so why should I be condemned because "Just because I use false legs9 Answer that If you can The younp woman who raises the question b Vera Lamb, who is 17 She was fir rested because sho stole, It Is charged, a pair of silk stockings to cover her artificial limbs Vera comes from an Iowa farm Her feet were frozen when she was 10, Doctors amputated them she bought limbs and has learned to walk per fectly. Sho came lo Chicago to earn money enough to pay lor them o:i the Installment plan While here h. engaged the .-.tfen tion of a young man. She ku him very much. But a dreadful fear born (of past experiences, possessed her I When she was 15, she says, sho had tiuiirjiil wiihuut ihIIhi Ih r husband ' of her Infirmity As soon as he dis-COl dis-COl Bred it, he left her j "And I do so want love and kindliness." kind-liness." she said. "1 can cook, and sew. ; and love to keep house. Besides, my ankles are pretty, aren't they even i li they are made of wood or something some-thing ' And who can blame me for not wanting all the world to know the ; the truth'' I "No one can Imagine what totttir. b I of mind 1 suffer because of my affile-I . lion. I'm not bad looking, and I like I companion-hip and pleasure. I would 'be such a good wife. Can't love live j without with " Her question unfinished, she burst , into tears '