Dear Sir, - Can you tell me of any book which deals exclusively with legless people or limblessness of any sort? I am an admirer of Mr. Stort, and I hope he writes again soon, plentifully illustrated. Does he publish his work in book form? Are you going to publish a photo of the one-legged dancer of "Blackbirds of 1934?"
A girl friend of mine is fearfully interested in limblessness, as she is partially legless herself. Both of her legs were amputated just above the knees. She could wear wooden legs, but chooses not to. She either gets about in a self-propelled chair, or walks on her stumps and tiny crutches. She mostly has to be carried everywhere.
Unlike Mr. Stort's heroines, she does not wear shorts, but a brief skirt and the usual feminine garments. Incidentally, she does not wear stump socks, but somehow her suntanned bareness does not look out of place. She has been legless eleven years, and is 21 now.
When I take her out in my car, she does not take crutches, for she knows I prefer her not to. In the country we have thrilly games in the long grass, she walking on her stumps while I support her "like a baby learning to walk", as she laughingly puts it.
All success to "London Life"
Yours truly,
Twenty-Five.