A DUAL BRAIN A DUAL BRAIN

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 12904, 3 July 1936, Page 4

A DUAL BRAIN A DUAL BRAIN

MAN CAN WRITE WITH Dj Th HANDS AT ONCE. AMAZING TESTS. PECULIARITY FOUND OUT AS SCHOOLBOY. O.'.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). (Deceived July 2, 9-2-5 p.in.). SYDNEY, July 2. A resident of Btecroft suburb, Stir ling Wilkinson, possesses the iaj§ gift of being able to write or dratf with both hands simultaneously. Hj s own opinion is that ha has a dual brain. Ho demonstrated writing rJif. i'ertm words and sentences simultaneously with both hands and al*. wrote the same words backward, and made simultaneous entries of figures w ith both hands. He drew separatesketches at the same time with aa exactness which astonished a H.rzbd interviewer. Wilkinson explained when lie attended a kindergarten school he found he wrote backwards with the left hand. He was medically examined and the opinion was expressed that he either had a disease of the hrahi or the arm. His le:t ara war- strapped to-his body in order to cultivate the correct manner of writing. He relates that wh lie attending college he was given four hundred lines to write for some minor misdemeanour and, by using both hand A at one?, was able to accomplish thf detention in half the time that other boys took. It was then that his abiritv to do two things at once was discovered, resulting in his subsequent' detention being doubi.s tiiat of other hoys. . Wilkinson declares that he finds no strain on the brain to concentrate ijn writing and drawing uitii coin hands. - - -