ordinary then II declared ‘ ere the ordinary person I it all he could do to drag boots up. _ . the. onal Society is going to try tol ’ tit what is the hem-ct that enables to. perform such feats of phyai. strength under conditions that I 151 render the task on itnpossible m for the average man. , Three outlets have just gone to Peru to otigate the phenomenon. They veIProtesaor Mealtins. J. I. Barcroft ‘ - J. H. 'l)ogg~art. the two latter of. Mbridse Universit) «live other scientists from Canada w New York will join them in Peru. II Bancroft told an interviewer that tie purpose of the expedition is to test entrain to which the heart and 3 I :are some; ed by carrying heaVy I at such g: at height and to on» war to discover how the natives can (I it. also EDDY HOME FROM NEAR EAST (Continued from P...” 0116) ~ ”this Connecticut Inurse was sent an: rto Aintah. in Cliicia. where she ”about the time that the Turks Mine belligerent again. and much ‘ her time during the early days of M}; “lay in Aint'ab was occupied in 11mm“: civilians who had been Wounded by the rifle and shell fire of ~m Moslems Several times the hits- tat was shelled, always at night, but Miss Eddy and the other nurses of the 1mm:- East Relief remained at their am for, as she exprlssed it. "There "Was work to be done ” , After a tlmc- the Turks tzlrned their .W upon a detachment of French “(Hers of thc tricolor were quick to. m upon the Christian people. The million of the tricolortwere quick to “Hate. In the meantime, however. ‘ Turks had secured control of the 1-1. so there was nothing for the . Itch troops to do but bombard ”(Within battery or artiflery which had Koren sent from another" point. Q In Aintab there was besides the hospital a. Neur- l-lnst Relief orphan- age, which V‘uS (firing for hundreds ‘3‘ children who had been left without. hikers and motiurs because of the atrocities of the Viohammedans. men the bombardment order was heard; the Near East Relief officials decided to COR” the children to anoth- tr orphanage some miles away. The my left on foot, with an escort ot‘ 1311001113. and Miss Eddy left with it. .Al'ter a hrlcf stay at another on “nose. she ' r turned to Aintub We she continued being active in . splendid work that the Near East 'Vllege on the ground that monks never )paid On being refused. because. so 'the slopes of the pagoda. Eventually so was in forum 3 y entire civilized world « In Aininb conditions w e bad 'eInough. but in Marashi another cl about sixty miles away: tnom Amtahr she said that conditions were as bud . as they could possibly become: In the trail of fainine 11 Marital: the e has come pestilence and throughout; all hours of the day the black wagon of death is upon the streets piokin 1 up the victims of the plague where . they have fallen. To the individual in this country an orphanage suggests rows of bright. white beds arranged in large roomy corridors. but. Miss Eddy says that‘ this suggestion of room and so do cannot be secured in the Near E today. All or the orphanage: today are crowded. In the orphanage in Alntab, there are so many orphans to be cared for that lords could not lie ' used and they have to be placed side; by side in close rows upon the floor. and the sad part of itoll is that theres are thousands of other children who are before the orphanage doors seek- ing the food shelter and comforts, now being- given ‘9 those within, the home. - If I: It is the aim of the Near East: Re- lief officials in charge of the orphan- age work. she said.» to teach ghelr young charges trades and occupations which will make them worth-while ci‘tizr-ns’ln the hope that) the country eventually may rise from the depths in’which it now is. She hadgiittle hope. however. that this ever would . be done until the protection otIsome friendly power were giyen for 11 pe- riod long enough to enable agricul- ture and business again to be con. structed from the foundations up. \10\ RH DEMAVDFJ) FRI-3F. ADMIT- . ' TANCFZ. RAVGIWI§Z Dec. 24 min the course of a Buddlst festival on the slopes o: Sh\ve-l)agon pagoda 200 monks were admitted to a theatrical nerformnnce free of charge. whereupon another 150 demanded the some pri- that were told. thcr was no room for them. the monks to e down'the tenc- lug and turned out the audience. The p’olice ware summoned and temporary quiet was restored. but the dlswtisiled monks and their sym- pothlzers rapidly increased to a crowd or 3 000 133" arrival of 40 Gurkha: to keep order was the signal for a fresh outbreak and for three hours there new continuous free fights on the rioters “ere dispersed. after one Rurmnn had been killed and 11 the jured. Two of the Gurkhas were also injured. ’ Christmas 013313 We do the Whole , Business " 3Wr'apping! Addreaoe' Mailing ‘" you get. eyer‘y assurance the recipient will appreciate, 's = , brand. I We’ll see that he gets it. 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