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ARTHUR J. CRAMP, M.D. Chicago...
...Physical Culture Hotel at Dansville, N. Y. (rates $33.50 to $80 per week, with extras). There he might choose a Macfadden diet-&-exercise cure which is supposed to correct 150 human miseries, including acidosis, alcoholism, apoplexy, gout, impotence, lowered vitality, masturbation, ptomaine poisoning, sleepwalking, sterility and writer's cramp. Patrons showing up in "trances" are warned that they must pay their own attendants...
...those familiar with the popular literature of spiritualism, what Researcher Garland has to tell will be nothing new. He and his fellow-researchers did what they could to cramp the mediums' style, by tying them to their chairs, tacking their skirts to the floor, putting rustly newspapers on their laps. In spite of these bonds tables gyrated, pianos played, "ectoplasmic" faces made luminous appearances, megaphones whispered remarks from dead-&-gone characters on "the other side.'' Investigator Garland was impressed but noticed some incongruities. "I confess that it was a bit surprising to find Socrates and Julius Caesar...
...Jersey, Clinton Crane was first captivated by sailing, designed small boats and yachts, won the Seawanhaka cup four times, built the motorboat Dixie in which he made a world speed record. After studying naval architecture in Glasgow, he designed U. S. warboats for Philadelphia's William Cramp & Sons. Because St. Joseph Lead Co., in which his family had a fat block of stock, had exhausted the best of its ores, Crane at 40 reluctantly abandoned the sea, plunged into a study of mining methods in the U. S. and South America, invented an underground shovel, became head...
...attentive to her only from habit. In comparison with Mario, who believes that "if you are a man you must be ready to fight every other man and to make love to every pretty woman,'' Rose finds Oliver stiff, deliberate, chilling, the victim of a moral cramp. Rejected again, Oliver returns to the front, is killed. The book ends as Mario visits Rose to tell her of Oliver's last provisions for her, is pained at her disinterest in Oliver's wishes and Oliver's will, perplexed and uncomprehending at her nervous manner with himself...