Part 27 (1/2)
10. At All Saints Cathedral Sunday morning, Dean Seldon P.
Delany spoke on ”Salvation through Self-Sacrifice,” taking for his text Mark viii, 35: ”Whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.”
11. Rachel Green, colored, suffered a dislocated and badly sprained knee last night while she was attending religious services at Main Street Colored Baptist church and another woman began to shout and jumped into her lap.
12. James L. Crawley of Hastings is confined to his home with a broken arm and lacerated ear. His injuries were received when he stepped on the family cat and fell headlong down the cellar steps. The cat was asleep on the top step.
13. John Radcliffe, 16 years old, of Moultrie, had never been kissed, and in trying desperately to maintain this estate, while pursued at a barn dance by Mrs. Winifred Trice, Monday night, he fell out of a door twenty feet from the ground and was picked up with one arm and three ribs fractured.
14. Charged with having tried to obtain $1,000 by forgery, a handsomely gowned young woman, who gave her name as Irene Minnerly, and said she was a telephone operator, and a man who described himself as Webster Percy Simpson, thirty-six, living at the Hotel Endicott, were arrested yesterday afternoon as they were leaving the offices of Fernando W. Brenner, at No. 6 Church Street.
15. Allen & Co., Ltd., the well-known London firm of publishers, has been prosecuted for the publication of a novel called ”The Raindrop,” written by D. H. Lawrence, on the ground that it is obscene.
16. Interesting testimony was given before Justice Scudder in the Supreme Court to-day in the hearing of the suit for divorce brought by Harry H. Wiggins of Floral Park, a retired grocer.
Mr. Wiggins alleged undue fondness for John Burglond, a farm hand formerly employed in Mrs. Wiggins' cabbage patch. Mrs.
Wiggins is 53 years old and Burglond 33.
17. S. H. Brannick of this city lost a fine cow last week, the animal departing this life suddenly after the city had retired for the evening.
18. Miss Ellen Peterson, a former employee of Miss Josie Griffin's millinery, 2318 Cottage Grove Avenue, was married Tuesday by the Rev. Johnston Myers at Immanuel Baptist church.
The couple left immediately after the ceremony for a wedding trip through the West.
19. Hilda is the daughter of one of the deftest colored janitors who ever kept a dumb waiter just that. With her father and mother she lives in a court apartment on the ground floor of No.
195 Main St., and last night she was slumbering blissfully, wrapped in dreams of a chocolate-colored Santa Claus with sweet-potato tr.i.m.m.i.n.gs and persimmon whiskers, when she heard the window of her room open.
_B._ Comment on the leads to the following stories, rewriting any that need correction (paragraphs =100-120=):
1. This story dates back eight months, when Mrs. Elizabeth Hochberger became a patient at the county hospital in Chicago.
She was ill of typhoid fever and in her first night at the hospital she became delirious. While in this condition she seized a ten-inch table knife from a tray and in the absence of anyone to restrain her poked it down her throat. Attendants attracted by the woman's groans hurried to the bedside. Then an interne appeared, made a hasty diagnosis, and attributed the patient's action to the delirium. He administered an opiate.
Several days later Mrs. Hochberger, having pa.s.sed the crisis of the fever, began to recover. A week afterward she was discharged as cured.
From the time she complained of internal pains and to relatives she recounted a vague story of her delirium at the hospital. She had a faint recollection of swallowing a knife, she said. To swallow a knife and survive was improbable, she was told, but she was advised to see a physician. The first doctor called in recommended an immediate operation for a tumor. Another believed she had an acute case of appendicitis.
”It was not until we made our discovery that Mrs. Hochberger told us of her delirium,” said the doctor. ”Had I heard it before making the X-ray examination I would have hardly given it credence. I have heard of people swallowing coins and pencils, but this is the first knife ever brought to my attention.”
The knife was removed to-day by Dr. George C. Amerson at the West Side Hospital.
2. If you want a man to love you, Bear in mind this plan: Always keep him doubtful of you; Fool him all you can!
Never let him know you like him; Never answer, ”Yes,”
Till you have him broken-hearted.
Make him guess, guess, guess.
This is the chorus of one of the songs Pearl Palmer, pretty opera singer, was to have sung when she made her first Broadway appearance as one of the princ.i.p.als of the opera, ”The Princess Pat.” Now she is dead because she carried this philosophy into her own life, her friends say. Herbert Haeckler, who killed the young singer and himself Sunday night, had been kept ”guessing,”
they said, until his mind had given away.
Eva Fallon will sing the song Miss Palmer was to have sung when the opera opens to-morrow night. It was postponed from last night because of the tragedy.