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Show FEET HIS HANDS, TOES HIS FINGERS Defic$ Normal Limitation ot Mankind. " Berlin. Artist, Juggler and newspaperman, newspa-perman, Carl Herrmann Unthan Is one of the world's wonders, tOn April 5. he was eighty years old. During all this span he has been defying the normal limitations of mankind. ' ' For Herr Unthan was born without .arms,, seemingly condemned to. a lifii Of helpless misery. Instead of which the victim of chance has led a brilliant bril-liant nnd prosperous life. He developed devel-oped his feet and made them serve nearly all the purposes of bands. This elghty-year-old cripple shaves himself, runs a typewriter with his toes, has figured on the variety stnges of the entire world, renowned as armless violin plnyer, Juggler nnd actor. Some years ago he was a famlllur figure In the United States. As he grew older he retired from the stage and since ttien has been ceaselessly active as a writer on theatrical subjects for various newspapers. When a Berlin reporter called upon hltn there hod been a small tragedy in the little flat where he has lived for many years with an old servant girl, I'epl, for the "gracious sir" had that morning cut his toe with a razor while shaving. Nevertheless, the reporter re-porter found him sitting before his typewriter whose keys were clicking merrily under light blows of his marvelous mar-velous and prehensile toes. The reporter re-porter shook the old man's foot and was motioned to a Chnlr, where hi sat nnd heard the entire story of this miraculous triumph of will over destiny. des-tiny. For at birth Herr Unthon's feet were no more adapted for hand work tbnn those of anyone else. |