WALKING WITHOUT LEGS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2647, 10 November 1919, Page 7

WALKING WITHOUT LEGS.

Usually a man who has lost his legs is not greatly sought after by employers. There is one firm, however, by whom he is welcomed. This is the Morris Manufacturing Company, of Kansas City, U.S.A., a business house that is probably without a counterpart in the world, so far, at all events* as its personnel is concerned.

It specialises in the making of artificial legs, and the three partners can only muster two sound natural legs between them.

Every employee of the firm, too, is minus at least one _ leg. Even the young lady stenographers are more or less legless, while the firm’s travellers "carry" their "samples" about with them without being burdened with bags to hold them. Their star traveller, in fact, carries two, for he lost both his legs several years ago in a railway accident. In their stead he now uses two of his firm’s products, each of a different pattern, and which he willingly unscrews when the occasion demands in order to exhibit their advantages to prospective buyers. Orders come from all parts of the world, and a school is held, either by correspondence or at the company offices, to teach people to walk on their artificial legs. Altogether some 200,000 persons have been "put on their feet” by this curiously-staffed company—a company which, speaking figuratively, may be said to have "hardly a leg to stand upon."