Dear Sir, - I have read with considerable interest the letter from "Crippled Girl" and others on the subject of "Are Cripples Really Attractive?" and I beg of your courtesy a little space to bring forward a point or two which may have been overlooked by the debaters.
Nowadays the average girl is a mass of nerves. She wants to go places and do things all the time; dancing, dining or theatres. There is no repose in her nature - her rushed business and social life forbids it. She never takes time off to relax, and a week or so of her continued presence will reduce her friends to the merge of breakdown. Either the friendship is broken off, or else the continued fraying of taut nerves drives her men friends almost insane.
Not so the crippled girl; she relaxes because she must, and her natural handicap means that she must spend hours alone, either reading, sewing or writing, and therefore there is round the cripple an atmosphere of rest and relaxation that most men find comes as a welcome anodyne after trouble, strife, and the awful task of keeping up with exploits of their other girl friends.
Because the crippled girl society is soothing and restful, it comes as a welcome anodyne, and therefore no crippled girl can complain that she is short of men friends if she remembers that her own peculiar atmosphere of restful intelligence has the charm of a quiet country lane in direct contrast to the traffic ridden road which can be compared to Miss 1936.
Does the secret of the cripple's charm lie in the directions I have mentioned, rather than in the obviously fictional descriptions of Mr. Wallace Stort and other champions of limbless people?
Yours truly,
Happy But Crippled.