Dear Sir, - I would like to say a few words on Miss Roper's articles, in which I have been very interested. I understand perfectly, and respect Miss Roper's point of view. I know her article must be helpful to many readers. But, if I may say so, her point of view is that of the normal person pitying and offering consolation to the crippled girl. That is healthy and fine. There's no gainsaying that.
What I think Miss Roper fails to realise - and I say it without out intending any offence - is that there is quite a large proportion of one-legged girls who do not regard themselves as cripples, and that the very last thing they ask for is pity or consolation. That large proportion is represented by the majority of "monopedes" who write of themselves and their experiences to the columns of "London Life." Further, that there exists a certain type of man who finds the monopede attractive - not in spite of, but because of her one-leggedness.
It is primarily this type of girl and man which is represented in the correspondents columns of this paper, and to whom articles and stories in its columns are addressed. I feel therefore, admirable though Miss Roper's articles are, that at least some of her dicta will not commend themselves to this comparatively large section of your readers. I should say that she is convinced that no one-legged girl is attractive because of her deficiency, and that such a girl should never dream of trying to attract by that means. The columns of "London Life" far the past ten or twelve years have afforded a complete answer to these opinions.
May I suggest, very diffidently, that Miss Roper would better please the one-legged lady readers of this paper if her fashion articles were designed to advise them on how to make the most of their unusual charms, rather than how best to hide what she regards a pitiable infirmity?
I hope Miss Roper will not take all this as a impertinence. I respect her point of view, as I have said, merely thinking it wrongly directed in the present instance. In any case, I have found her articles extremely well done and, for their own standpoint, very interesting.
Yours truly,
Wallace Stort.