Dear Sir. - With your permission I should like to write this open letter to "Dawn".
Dear "Dawn", - your recent two letters have set me thinking and I am of the opinion that you are a very sweet-natured cripple in spite of a lifelong lameness which might well have soured the outlook of many, had they lost a leg and had thus made it well-nigh impossible to dance and to swim and to take part in the activities the average girl longs for.
Your first letter, "Dawn," gave an indication of the kindly nature you possess, but you are too sensitive that you are the owner of only one leg.
To enable you to walk at all it is necessary that your crutches must be your constant companions; but don't think that your only companions need be your crutches, intriguing as they are. You state that you have a pretty face, and I do not doubt that your one remaining leg is a shapely one. - Now, "Dawn," keep your kindly view of others compared with your own crippled state, but add to it the intention of making the most of yourself.
You say you like clothes and jewellery and would like to wear an anklet.
If you wear one smart high-heeled shoe and a silk stocking on your only leg, I would advise you to do so and enhance its charm. It will not, I think, draw attention to the fact that you are a cripple, as your mother thinks it would, but rather it will show that a one-legged girl can look just as attractive as one who has two - in my humble opinion much more so.
So, "Dawn," take a leaf out of "One Leg's" book and get rid of your shyness and use a pair of slender crutches (do not have an artificial leg, for goodness sake!), and let the world see that a well-dressed and well-shod girl hopping along on her single leg and a pair of slender crutches is one who not only excites sympathy, but has a very definite attraction for many of us men. I wonder, "Dawn," if you will send a photo to the Editor for publication, like many others have done, and like "One Leg" will soon.
I would finish by saying that you have an asset, "Dawn," in being I am sure you are - a delightful and charming single-legged cripple,
Yours truly,
A Mere Male