Remarkable Feats of Human Balance – 1900
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Title : The Balance Wonderful 1900
Author : HJ Holmes
Source : Harmsworth Magazine
Year Published : 1897
Page Count : 6
Image Count : 9
Word Count : 2,564
File Size in MB : 3.1
File Type : PDF
"From her cradle Mile. Bertoldi has been a hand-balancer, for, very early in her career, her nurse dropped her by accident (an unfortunate habit most nurses are guilty of) head downwards. The little tot succeeded in saving herself from concussion of the brain by landing upon her outstretched hands. Since then Mlle. Bertoldi has developed a marked tendency to see this world from a different point of view to anybody else. At the age of six, one fine morning she astonished her parents by walking down stairs to breakfast upon her hands...."
