Life — November 9, 1899 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Tune ts a handsome young woman in Washington who had the misfortune to fall down stairs @ few years 80 badly fracturing one of her knees that the limb bad to be amputated, The young woman, who walks with the ald of crutches, ls not in the least sensitive about the matter. One afternoon last week she got into an PF Street car, bound for the Illll, and found herself in the same seat with a sharp- eyed woman, who seemed to take a whole lot of interest In her and her crutches. She scrutinized the young woman's face carefully for a couple of minutes, then turned her atten- tion to the workmanship of the crutches, which she took the Iberty to handle curlously, Then she looked the young woman over again, and leaned over to ber. + D'ye mind tellin’ me how you lost your leg?” she asked, ruspily. * Not tn the nded th LT lost it in the battle of Gettysburg.” st," resp young woman, amlably; Washington Post. 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