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Show TFHROUGH a woman's j EYES NEWTON "JUST ANOTHER THING TO GET TO WORK ON" Q OME day he'll be able to do al-O al-O most everything again except play the piano." A doctor said that to the heartbroken heart-broken mother whose son had had to undergo amputation of eight fingers and a thumb. He had been held up, one winter night, robbed, beaten, and left unconscious in zero weather, in the snow. His nine fingers were the price of the exposure. ex-posure. And the musical Instrument Instru-ment which he loved to play. That was three years ago. The other day the same young man his name Is Arthur Williamson and usefulness and happiness." "Just another thing to get to work on" you mothers who find yourselves up against a handicap think of the boy who lost nine fingers, but has managed to play the piano. . 1933. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. he lives In Philadelphia gave a piano recital before an enthusiastic gathering of people. With fingers removed from the second joint, he is reported to have "raced across the keyboard in the most complex arpeggios with the nine stumps and one damaged thumb on his left hand." He has appeared as guest artist on the radio. A mother whose child In a desperate desper-ate Illness lost her hearing, said to me: "At first I was completely floored overwhelmed; I thought her life was finished. Then I was shown how other children had overcome over-come this handicap by lip reading, and I realized it was just another thing to get to work on. Today my daughter enjoys full self expression. |