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Connie is an unfortunate actress. She is 20 and out of a job. The burden of her years has never been so appalling as at the moment when she determines to return forever to an orphan-asylum home in Illinois only to discover that her funds are limited to a half-fare ticket. Accordingly she puts her hair down and her skirts up for the purpose of traveling as an eleven-year-old child. While en route she is adopted by a wealthy Chicago family. Within the household she proves so indispensable that she is finally adopted for life...
...Roland Hegedus, sometime resident in Chicago and former Hungarian Minister of Finance, is reported to have recovered from the effects of a mental collapse suffered two years ago. He has just left a private lunatic asylum to assume directorship of the Commercial Bank of Budapest...
...organ of the Socialist Party in Poland. After searching vainly for years, the Russian police discovered the headquarters of the paper. Pilsudski and his wife were implicated. He was arrested and imprisoned in the citadel of Warsaw, but feigned insanity so successfully that he was removed to an asylum, from whence he subsequently escaped...
Announcements were made from Copenhagen and Washington of remarkable improvement in cases of general paresis (a degenerative disease of the brain, usually fatal, and caused by syphilis in the central nervous system) by the introduction of Plasmodium vivax, the germ of tertian malaria. Authorities in a Danish insane asylum have been experimenting with the method for five years and claim to have obtained absolute cures...
...timely jobs that the government has undertaken in a long time. It is a job that will be commended by all true Americans, whether they be native-born or naturalized. If our doors are to be continuously and forever open to anarchists and their like, we shall become an asylum indeed--an insane asylum, however, whose inmates will be native Americans. If there are those--and there are many of them--who feel that the Reds are not getting a square deal, it is earnestly to be hoped that they will find it convenient to accompany their more unfortunate brothers...