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...value of the Finnish bath as a conditioning medium was not appreciated by American athletes until Paavo Nurmi visited this country last winter. During his series of record-breaking performances on American tracks, Nurmi made use of Finnish baths in New York and Chicago, and when he came to the Harvard Stadium to make his great bid for the American mile record held by Norman Tabor, he visited the baths at Quincy, accompanied by Coach Mikkola...
...Last of Mrs. Cheyney. Before the dawn of realism, romanticism, expressionism and the other isms by which the modern theatre is cataloged, there was a type of drawing room comedy which served as staple entertainment. Wilde, Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones all worked industriously in this medium, thereby gaining fame and gold. Of late years the drawing room has been virtually unoccupied. Nice people saying casual, witty things have nearly vanished. Therefore it is a great novelty to see one of these comedies again, suavely, smartly written by Frederick Lonsdale (Aren't We All) and even more suavely...
...certain Dr. J. Allen Gilbert of Portland, Ore., had made with his wife just before she died eight years ago. Both had been interested in spiritualism. While the woman lay ill they made a pact that if she died she would try to communicate with him through a medium. To defeat fakery, they fixed upon a countersign, wrote it down, sealed it in an envelope. It consisted of the date of Dr. Gilbert's birth, of his wife's, of their daughter...
...Gilbert died. The Doctor offered a reward of $500 to any medium who could give him a message from her-certified of course by the countersign. First 139 mediums tried for the money, but to none of them had the dead Mrs. Gilbert communicated the password. More letters began to come in. Dr. Gilbert asked the co-operation of Editor Wright. The strange abracadabras that the editor read aloud in the hushed room in the Woolworth Building were the attempts of 284 mediums to prove that they had talked to a dead woman...
Chauncey B. Brewster), able and popular Yale professor, interpreter of Boswell, read an address by Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor of Newark, N. J., in the latter's enforced absence. Wrote Mayor Raymond: "The task of the Catholic Church today is to create an age of faith through the medium of an order of celibate preachers...