Dear Sir, - As a reader of your paper for some months, I have been struck by some of the queer things some of your readers write to you about. My wife and I have been very interested in the two or three letters from one-legged lady readers. What jolly sporting letters.
Perhaps it will interest your readers to know that both my wife and I have have only one leg (each, I mean). I lost mine in the war and have since worn an artificial leg.
Three years ago I met the girl who is now my wife. I had been invited to a dinner, and owing to a mistake, I was late in arriving, and the dinner had commenced. My seat had been left vacant next to a lovely fair girl, who proved throughout the dinner to be most charming.
Afterwards followed speeches and toasts and, of course, with the rest I rose in response, as also did my companion. Still I did not notice anything different about her, and it was when we rose to go to another room for a concert that I had the shock. Turning to me, she said, "Would you be so kind as to get my crutches, please - they are in the corner behind us?"
I looked at her in astonishment, wondering what such a fair vision could want with crutches, and looking down, saw that only one silken encased leg was revealed below her pink evening frock. She noticed my surprise, and jokingly made some remark about it. I apologized and reached for a dainty little pair of elbow crutches, on which she proceeded to swing gracefully across the room, followed by a good many more admiring eyes than mine.
Well, to make a long story short, that girl is now my wife, and although she now wears an artificial leg, generally she discards it when we are at home alone together. We have some great fun together by hopping about the house. My wife is very smart at this, and can hop all over the place, usually wearing a rubber-soled tennis shoe. Although she can hop a short distance in a high-heeled shoe, I do not like her to do this, in case she falls and gets injured.
I always like to wear her high heels, and she has several with 4 inch and 5 inch heels which she wears in the evening without the artificial leg. For walking outdoors when wearing her leg she can manage 2 1/2 inch to 3 inch heels quite comfortably. In fact, nobody who did not know could tell that she is one-legged, she walks so well.
I am in a good position and can afford a maid, so that my wife does not have a lot of heavy housework, but she does all her own cooking and manages quite well.
In conclusion, we hope other one-legged readers will write their experiences. In fact, it would be a good idea to have a one-legged number.
Yours sincerely,
A One-Legged Pair