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...placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress...
Cholera strikes suddenly. Intense thirst is followed by acute cramps and collapse about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...
...thirst for an actual view of the social and judicial evils of Chicago, a splendid opportunity is provided for him in Maurice Watkins' "Chicago" now playing at the Plymouth Theatre...
...would be hooted down with yells varying from "unconstitutional" to "dirty race prejudice." Such accusations, would contain a mead of truth. Any man, it has been said, may in America have an education; not infrequently the statement's scope has been widened to include a university education. Ambitious America thirsts after learning; because that thirst went unrecognized until the teens had stolen upon the box is no reason, in the American tradition, for a refusal to appease it. The European plan of secondary education will need much grafting with American educational flora before it can be safely transplanted...
...difficulty with traditions is that in every case sooner or later an attitude of skepticism supplants trusting credulity, and the thirst for accurate knowledge demands facts and demonstration. One may infer that such a desire overtook the inhabitants of Eastland, Texas, thirty years ago, for the tradition that has grown up in the West as to the indestructability of the horned frog was put to the test. A live frog was placed in the cornerstone of the courthouse of Eastland. Now the old structure is to be vacated, the cornerstone will shortly be opened, and opportunity will be granted...