Dear Sir, - After three weeks of waiting to see another issue of "London Life", I was very happy to find new interest and more letters in and from lady monopedes.
The long letter from "Monoarm" was most interesting to me, as I have a friend who lost her arm when she was five years of age. While playing about with other children, she came to watch her father at work near a running chain-belt in same sort of machinery. One of her playmates bumped against her and her arm was caught in the belt and so badly mangled that it was amputated at the shoulder. As she grew up she easily learned to do without her right arm and, being very attractive and possessing a good voice, she enjoyed many friends.
She married, and became the mother of two lovely daughters, and in spite of her handicap has managed to live a normal, happy life. She appeared in public either in long- or short-sleeved gowns. If the latter, she pinned a handkerchief inside the opening. She told me once that when she was young, the loss of the arm seemed to affect her sense of balance, and a number of times she fell against the shoulder. A small piece of sharp bone had been left, but as she grew older this became less pointed and didn't cause so much trouble.
She was at all times perfectly at ease, and I cannot remember seeing her embarrassed because of her empty sleeve.
At present she is so far from where I am located that it would take some time to get in touch with her, or I most certainly I would get a picture to send in for publication.
Yours truly,
Still Interested