REMARKABLE GIFT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 177, 26 June 1935, Page 11

REMARKABLE GIFT.

YOUTH’S WRITING ABILITY. Can you write with both hands fifty different ways? asks a Scottish writer. This is the amazing gift of John E. Bowd, aged 38, of Glasgow. He can write: right hand forwards, straight up and down ; right and left hand backward; and backhand in any direction; as well as being able to write upside-down forward and backward. He can also draw with both hands at the same time. Perhaps one of liis most extraordinary accomplishments is that he can write different sentences with eacli hand at the same time. Mr Bowd was inspired to study this difficult art by reading of a film star who liad specialised in it. He himself, it is understood, lias now received an offer to make a short picture.

Mr Bowd told a reporter tliat he could not explain why he was able to write in so many different styles. “It is probably a gift,” he said, “but really I don’t know. Many people probably possess the same gift hut have not taken the time to develop it. At school I wrote with my left hand as much as with my right. It is quite simple, hut I have puzzled most writing experts.” A Glasgow professor explained that each side of Mr Bowd’s brain acted independently. It was an exceptionally interesting case, he added.