Oct 31927 97 7275 6. write normally. Her mother died of "Fretnation" - (worry) when she (Ethel) was 12 months of age. - Her father died of an accident some 25 years ago. They were not married. Ethel is not married but has three children, all of whom are dead. She says that she practised this writing while at school but doesn't know why. She uses her left hand when writing backwards and her right hand for the forward writing. She was in the 5th book when she stopped going to school, and was 16 years old. She has a reading age (English scale) of 8 years & two months. Personal comment. When this woman was a school girl [end]