The Two Hands

It is remarkable that with tlife majority of people the neglected left hand is not in mere strength inferior to the right. We have heard truly light handed people actually declare that their left hand is the stronger, and from the writer's own experience he knows this to be the case. This may be from the inechanical advantage and better balance of the body, the right side being heavier, or it may be due to the large aníseles of the nnused arm being less hampered by the development of other musüles. It is difficult in these cases to say which is the "right'' hand, for the t'act that the unused arm is the stronger does not imply ambideiterity, nor can we justly give the precedence to strength over dexterity. Moreover, we cannot cali hand that excels in one series of u„xterous motions the superior hand if it can be shown that the other is chosen to perform an act whichj apparently trifiing, may require some knack or nicety of touch, it is the hand put forth in emergency, when taken by surprise, that makes a spontaneous gestare, the hand that acts h'rst, which is the "right'1 hand