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Show This Week by Arthur Erisbanc Only One Woman's Record ray, and Pray Quick rftill a Queer World Don't Neglect Colds Miss Alicia Patterson, fearless young girl whose father, Josepn MediU Patterson, had a machine gun command in the big war thought she would like to do something some-thing on her own account, and biuke the woman's record flvhv irom Philadelphia to New York in tcrty minutes. She deserves credit, cred-it, but there is one world's record lor women compared with which all others are unimportant. A girl, born long ago in Thrace now called Bulgaria, had write! on her tombstone: I am not of the noble Grecian race Thrace01" Abrotonon and born i" Let Grecian women scorn me if they please. ' I was the mother of Themistocles. Those lines will live longer in " m e lunger m history than if she had written "l am Abrotonon, who ran barefoot li'em Thrace to Athens and back in twenty-four hours, then swam the Hellespont eight times, breaking the woman's record in each case - The real records for women are held by Nancy Hanks, mother of Lincoln; Olympias, mother of Alexander Al-exander the Great; Bertha of the Big Feet, mother of Charlemagne-the Charlemagne-the wife of a humble French tanner, tan-ner, mother of the great Pasteur and other mothers. Another one of ten thousand tragedies in prohibition and bootlegging. boot-legging. John Bugelo, driving his ca.-, with his country cousin Joseph Denttce beside Mm, thought he was bound for a good time at Coney Co-ney Island, and picked up two friends on the way. When they reached the Church of Our Lady of Precious Biood, in Brooklyn, one of the men on the back seat said "Here's a church. Pray and pray quick." Bureio and Dentice jumped' Dentice escaped with a bullet in his jaw, Bureio crumpled up dead with bullets and slugs in his body. hihthe0Ji-:e Say Bugei0 W!s "acolve n tne grape racket." 'lle Plain ol hls funeral He ne' ?n" Mt carmel Cemetery, in a coli n that cost $$11,800. And we talk "bout "ancientaysof barbarism!" Lv!!i!.il!i'i0!1 aSe" reporc a place m New York where something cal l 18 S0ld u five cents a In teen cents for a full pint rne art 01 making spirit,, Vmch was unknown to the ,nci.,n s, never nev-er produced anything more hor-..b hor-..b e than the vile concoction sold lo; nve cents a drink. it ,3 sairl to be worsen en than the prodSrt ot -Mew York's Bowe, y "Smoke houses " where men pay" ten cents -atu ' denatuvecl alcohol and VUtU. ... aim You are living in a world still primitive, Brazil r,organizes it-beU it-beU oy violence, just as this country coun-try cud 154 years ago, nd the Bra-i.an Bra-i.an mob in Sao Paulo tears ucyn its Cambusy puson, as ere mob of the French revolution tore down the Bastile. In the Arctic, German scientists traveling peacefully on their dog sleds, were suddenly abandoned by then- Greenlander guides, who informed in-formed the Germans there were demons on the ice. They knew it by the sudden change in th weather. The Germans tried to persuade the Greanlanders that demons live in a hot country and couldn't stand the ice, but the Greenlanders know better Their, hell is frozen, not hot. Dr. I. Stieglitz of 'New York, a ! brilliant physician and scientist rebuked an elderly patient for neglecting neg-lecting a cold. The rebuke should be useful to all men past 50. ".othing could be more dangerous," danger-ous," said Dr. Stieglitz. "When you neglect a cold at 50 or older you deliberately endanger your life A cold in itself may be easily cured, cur-ed, with two or three days in bed Neglected it runs into pneumonia ' "-ww iJiil, U-iAHJlIltX. Mr. Whitney, who died recently, recent-ly, aged 58, had a cold and went about for three days neglecting it attending to business and finally went to bed. Pneumonia developed develop-ed and he died in 24 hours H hadn't a chance. If he had gone to bed a, the first signs of a cold, he, vould probably be alive and well now." Calvin Coolidge radios his fellow citizens that prosperity can't be guaranteed. But you can deserve it. In his daily "piece," he seems to think the people may have been spoiled by too many toys. ! "Our people own a large supply of cotton, copper, wheat, petroleum J and other raw matepials. They E have heavy deposits of money in the bank and many millions in- vested in foreign countries. Their I automobiles number twenty-five millions. And so, they are feel- i ing very poor.- E |