Dear Sir, - Since writing you last I am glad to see that we have been having quite a lot of letters from one-legged lady readers. Congratulations especially to "Happy With One" and "One Legged wife," who have followed my example and sent photos of themselves.
What has became of "Edith", who just requested this feature?
Your double numbers have been very good just lately, especially the Jubilee Number; but now how much more interesting it would have been, particularly to we monopedes, if it had contained a contribution from the pen of Mr. Wallace Stort. when are you favouring us again in this way?
I notice that some correspondents favour the use of the crutch only; and while admitting that this gives you one free hand, and it also tends to push one shoulders up and gives one a rather deformed appearance, which in time must grow on one.
Another feature of your correspondence has been the number of letters from men who are admirers of limbless girls. This feeling among men is far more extensive than one might imagine, as I can speak with experience.
I have persuaded my husband to write you after such a good lead, and he has promised to do so.
I have been wondering if any one-legged ladies have the same trouble as I have with the shoe-shops. No shop here will sell me one shoe only. I always have to take the pair, with the consequence that I have a number of left shoes which are, of course, no use to me.
When I first had my leg amputated my friend, who I mentioned in my last letter had last her right leg and luckily took the same size -in shoes as I did, so the pair did for the two of us. Now, of course, this arrangement is no use to her, since she recently had the other leg taken off.
Although I have tried to wear an artificial leg, my doctor tells me I will never be able to, as my stump is too sensitive. So you see these shoes will be of no use to me ever.
I wonder if any lady with a left leg size 5 would put an advertisement in your sales and wants column, and I will forward particulars. Two of my friends in my experience have lost their left leg, and in each of the photos that have been published this is also the case.
Yours truly,
Single High Heel.