Show An Heroic Woman Women are capable of heroic acts in these days of commonplace as in the Amazonian times A Cuban gentleman and his wife an American lady arrived from the Bermudas a few days ago She was evidently very ill when they were detained by the custom house inspector whom the Cuban assured would find nothing dutiable in the handbag he insisted in-sisted upon examining After rummaging I rummag-ing around he found a box containing ten packages of cigarettes Then the inspector inspec-tor was triumphant for the law allows a passenger to bring only 100 cigarettes for personal use free of duty He was about to pronounce a sentence upon the Cuban when his wife stepped forward trembling with weakness and said The second hundred are for my own use sir Then madam can not object to smoking smok-ing one said the inspector with a sneer Certainly I will smoke one and she smoked one of the strong Havana cigarettes cigar-ettes On their way to the St James hotel she was horribly sick and had to Journal stop at a doctors for an hour Detroi I |