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Show RUG ACTS AS PARACHUTE Life of Woman Is Saved in Peculiar Way. NEW YORK. Aug. 9. A rug which formed a parnchuto saved tho Uf o of Mrs. Koto Gctln today In a fall from tho llfth lloor to a cement paved yard. Mrs, Gctln'a tight arm was broken. Shu fell out of the back window of a flat at HT Chorry street Into a deep, narrow area crossed by family clothes lines, plunging from tho fifth to the third floor without striking any obstruction until sho hit a rug, which lAy spread over two clothes lines. From that point downward tho edgoa and corners of tho rug flopited nRalnst clothes lines sufficiently to rotard tho plunge, which other-wleo other-wleo would havo proved fatal. |