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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 13 January 1916, Page 6

Somewhat Mixed.—Mrs .Tonkin? : "Please hurrv up! Haven't you ever buttoned a bkmstj behind before?" Mr Jenkins: "No. You never had a blouse that buttoned before behind \ v ■; - Xot the least, remarkable story of recovery by shock is told of a Bristol soldier. He was discharged „from the Army because he had lost the use of his but regained his full powers as the result of a taxi-cab incident. The happy man is Private A. W. Brace, late of the Dnke of Cornwall's L,ight Infantry, whose home is at Bristol. He returned recently as an invalid, consequent on exposure to wet and cold in the trenches whilst serving with his regiment at Ypres. A number of friends, as a mark of appTeciation, bought him an invalid which was publicly presented, and in it he was photographed one Monday. Later in the day when he was out with a friend, who was assisting him in the' chair, a taxicab, which by a peculiar coincidence contained another intimate friend of his, nearly dashed into him. His friend who was with him screamed. Brace, who was so unwell on his return home that he went to bed, awoke next morning:" feeling the effects of shock, but to his unspeakable jpy discovered tha this ti/bb of his legs had been, recovered .