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Show Feopie TV no t m,iBn. Among tho periodic waves whicfa strike our great centers there is none bo strange as that of mysterious disappearances. disappear-ances. Such a wave selects its victims from all classes, ages. Men, women and children are impartially its prey. Sometimes Some-times the absentees return in a dazed condition unable to tell of their whert abouts. Others present a mystery dark er still, for they never return and are no more heard of. Foul play, a crazed fever for wandering, premeditated flight, are called to account as cause?, but some oi these mysteries have neither ' apparent cause nor end. It is a queer and weird feature of our modern life that these mysterious disappearances can so easily take place and their subjects be neither traced nor recovered in spit of our crowded civilization. Put perhaps per-haps it is because of it. lAaltimor American. |