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Before sailing back to chivalrous France, Elise and Jules Jusserand, the mistress and master of the French Embassy at Washington, did a gentle and a Gallic deed. For 22 years, these two have represented France upon these shores ; and now, retiring to a well-earned rest, they wished to leave a suitable token of their affection...
...recognized in the U. S. is still an open question. A U. S. Court has never determined whether, upon the subsequent remarriage of a man or woman divorced in Paris, the children of such second marriage would be legitimate so far as inheriting property under a will or deed of trust is involved. Edith Kelly Gould, second wife of Frank Gould, attacked in New York, on the ground of lack of jurisdiction by the French Courts, the divorce which her husband had obtained in Paris. This divorce was sustained, but the question is not considered closed. That there should...
...vulgar suicide that the patriot committed but the appeal through a recognized ritual to the sentiment of his countrymen. The appeal has not been forgotten, as the removal of his body to a more sacred resting place testifies. No one can deny that the memory of his deed will be a stimulus to haired of the United States nor that nationalists and militarists will make the most of the tradition to kindle the spirit of war. Americans may never be able to comprehend the tangled heritage of poetry and religion that gives hara-kiri such a control over the Eastern...
...regard him as a hero. Comes Dr. Geoffrey Keynes of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, England, with a denial that there is any virtue of sacrifice in the act of offering one's blood for transfusion. Positive benefit rather than injury is to be expected from the deed. Said he: "It should be widely known that a healthy young man can part with a considerable amount of blood without any immediate effect. Several persons who have given blood for the benefit of patients have told me that they felt better and more vigorous after the operation...
...deed aroused Italy, including most of the Opposition, to a fervor of indignation such as the Latin races alone are capable of displaying. Flags were at half-mast all through the Peninsular ; places of amusement were closed; many shops had posted a notice on their closed doors: "Have closed as a sign of public mourning." Indignation was heightened and sorrow became more profound when it was learned that the murdered Deputy was a poor man and had left a widow and five young children totally unprovided...