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...trend was against all fads. Said Dr. Mary Swartz Rose: "The mysteries of vitamins, the specificities of minerals, the inner qualities of proteins, shortcomings of calories, the intricacies of biological equilibrium lend themselves to sciosophical interpretations that sound like gospel to the man on the street; and if they extract a little money from him, so much the better...
...Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances Burnett, 22, vanilla extract scioness; Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., 29, Boston socialite, president of Skyways, Inc.; and Frank Penrose Sproul, 25, Harvardman, assistant manager of Skyways, Inc.; instantly, when Ames's cabin monoplane went into a tail spin at a height of 2,500 ft., crashed in a field; in Randolph, Mass. Died. Sidney Wilmot Winslow...
...Note: The following is an extract from the serial biography of Prince Michael Romanoff, nee Gerguson, an impostor...
...undisputed "Pearl King," purveys Mikimoto pearls to the Imperial Court. Speaking only Japanese and proud of his eccentricities, Pearl King Mikimoto loves to fete Occidental visitors to his pearl farm. First they are given baskets of Mikimoto oysters. Next Mikimoto minions open each guest's oysters, extract the pearls and present them to the guests, throw the oyster meat and shells away. Pearl King Mikimoto then leads the way to lunch which begins with fried oysters in which the guests find badly discolored pearls...
...eyes, bronchi, etc.). Whichever theory is correct, and proponents of neither claim certainty, allergists have progressed remarkably in treating the multitudinous manifestations of this peculiar sensitivity. By testing various substances on the patient's skin, allergists find just what he is sensitive to. From that they prepare an extract with which they very often can immunize him. But immunity to the pollen of one group of plants does not protect against the pollen of another group. A cured hayfever does not prevent migraine or hives. The tendency to allergy is inherited...