Dear Sir, - I noticed in the Xmas Number someone said "London Life" was read even in Scotland. Well, it is alsa read in wales. we have been readers for years. My brother buys it in Cardiff.
I live with my brother and his wife, because I am a cripple. I have been for thirteen years.
I am 23, and ever since the accident, when I was ten years old, I have never walked nor even stood unsupported by someone. My left arm is gone at the shoulder. My left leg was amputated at the hip. My right leg is cut aff just below the knee. Of all my limbs, I only have my right arm and hand, and my right half leg.
Incredible though it seems, I can do everything for myself except, of course, walk and stand. I am quite happy. I earn quite a good income sketching and painting. I can get about the house and gardenr too, quite unaided. I sit on the ground and move very slowly, of course, by pushing myself along on my one hand and single stump.
My indoor dress is very simple. A short sleeved shirt and a pair of silk trunks belted at the waist. The trunks are one-legged, too, sown up on the left side. I wear silk because it wears well and slides over the floor easily.
By adopting a sitting posture I can even negotiate stairs up and down. For out of doors I have a specially built self-propelled chair. The handle by which I move it also controls the steering. I can get in or out unaided. I only put on a one-legged coat to go out. Rugs and a leather apron cover me from the waist down.
Well, Mr. Editor, all success to "London Life"
Yaurs truly,
One Limb