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Most famed native of the Virgin Islands yet to appear on the world scene, Camille Pissarro was born a Danish citizen in 1830. Pissarro's father, a French Jew of Portuguese descent, had done quite well for himself as a hardware dealer on the island of St. Thomas. He sent little Camille to Paris to school, brought him back to the Islands to make an ironmonger of him. Camille Pissarro stuck it out until 1852, when he ran away to Venezuela to become an artist. Three years later he was in Paris and had discovered the painter whom above...
Borderline between an abortion and a premature birth is vague. In the regular course of nature a baby is born 269 days after conception. Rare indeed is the baby born before the 26th week who survives.† Those delivered dead before that period are known professionally as abortions. Those delivered, dead or alive, after that period are called premature births...
Lead is the most common chemical poison causing abortion. Dr. Taussig found that chronic alcoholism may cause abortions, but "it is improbable that cigaret smoking even to excess can lead to" that termination of pregnancy. More boys are born alive than girls. More male fetuses are aborted than female fetuses. Some investigators believe that this preponderance of male conceptions over female conceptions is nature's way of compensating for the fact that unborn males are less sturdy than unborn females. Dr. Taussig scoffs at this theory of "genetic weakness" in males. Concerning male abortions he reasons that male fetuses...
...Living in Chicago last week was Jacqueline Jean Benson, a six-month baby who weighed 12 oz. when born last January...
...most respectable hotel during the boom there. Evalyn's mother, known to Leadville as "a rather refined lady" because she changed the name of one of her husband's strikes from Sowbelly Gulch to St. Keven's, had gone West to be a schoolteacher. Evalyn was born in 1886, can still remember the two-room log cabin that was one of her early homes. Father's system was to buy up abandoned mines, undeveloped claims. He kept after it for 20 years before he made a big strike: then, in the abandoned Camp Bird Mine...