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...Howard F. Barker, author of "American Speech," recently compiled a list of the ten first U. S. families...
...very severe upon Bernard Macfadden because of his "vicious promises" that cancer yields to dietary treatment. I have not seen Macfadden's article, so I do not know who are the authorities whose names he "drags in," but I have read the book of Mr. Ellis Barker, who quotes literally hundreds of authorities to the effect that the most probable cause of cancer is canned and denatured foods. And Sir Arbuthnot Lane, England's best surgeon, says in substance that Mr. Barker knows the cause of cancer and the remedy. Perhaps these are Macfadden's authorities...
Prunella. Students of the Theatre Guild School revived this fantasy by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker for three special matinees. Winthrop Ames officiated as guest director. The story is that of Pierrot and Pierette. One young lady, Sylvia Sidney, gave brilliant promise. The matinees attracted sufficient attention to be extended...
...Oakes Ames, Mrs. Lebaron R. Barker, Mrs. Edward H. Bradford, Mrs. Samuel W. Bridges, Mrs. John H. Burton, Mrs. James L. Carroll, Mrs. Marion A. Cheek, Mrs. Charles F. Darlington, Mrs. George E. Debevoise, Mrs. Henry C. Dyer, Mrs. William B. O. Field, Mrs. John R. Fordyce, Mrs. Hollis French, Mrs. Thomas B. M. Gates, Mrs. Percy B. Gibson, Mrs. Thomas H. Halsted. Mrs. Charles L. Harding, Mrs. George Hogue, Mrs. Hector J. Hughes, Mrs. Lewis Iselin, Mrs. Henry A. Jones, Mrs. Samuel T. Jones, Mrs. John K. Kane, Mrs. Louis W. Ladd, Mrs. Charles W. Leavitt, Mrs. David...
There was born this week of a mother in South Bend, home of clocks, twins, as the barker would say, "in human flesh", joined in that integral fashion hitherto solely suggestive of Siamese ancestry. The parents are Americans. So there is no longer need to think that, though she excels in sports and morality and feminine jankles, America is without Siamese twins. That day, to use the words of the successful reformer is gone forever...