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...room were tastefully arranged morris chairs, a sofa, a table on which stood a lamp, and along one wall even a bed. In the center had been placed a card table on which appeared all the evidences of a well-spent evening, even to a tempting-looking lemon rind in one of the glasses. In the way of wall hangings the decorator had draped a tapestry over the bulletin board, and above it in a neat row along the window-sill were arranged the contents of a well-stocked library. The personal touch in these decorations had been achieved...
Conductor Klemperer is as exciting to watch as the music he makes. He is so tall (6 ft. 7 in.) that he uses no podium but even without one he has to bend like a melon rind to get level with his men. When he spreads his arms an entire orchestra seems to fall under the shadow of his wings. For a lush string passage one arm will suddenly take the form of a violin while he plays on it with the other. He stands erect for staccato effects, hunches his head forward and fairly plucks the quick, short notes...
Died. Tom Bacon Rind, 84, onetime Chief of the Osage Indians; of cancer and pneumonia; in Pawhuska, Okla. Towering 6 ft. 4 in., he adhered strictly to the old-time tribal customs, deplored the "civilization" of his oilrich braves. Annually for 25 years he junketed to Washington to be greeted, photographed...
...ulcers, abdominal growths, pernicious anemia. Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched at the top of each kidney. Each gland is made up of a cortex or rind and a medulla or pith. The two are inseparably united, more so than the core and pulp of an apple. Medulla and cortex have different embryonic origins. The medulla originally buds off from the same cells which provide the sympathetic nervous system. The cortex begins in the same cells whence...
Reelected. Fred Lookout, Progressive, to be Chief of the Osage Indians, by 163 out of 397 oilrich Oklahoma braves who in expensive motors went to Pawhuska, voted against onetime Chief Tom Bacon Rind, Conservative, and Paul Red Eagle, Independent candidate...