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Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

CLEOPATRA THE FLIGHTY

FASCINATING STUDY BY .MR WEIGALL.

LONDON, March 1

.Mr Arthur Weigall has the lite-giv-ing touch, ami liis now hook on “The Lite and Times of Cleopatra, Queen oT Egypt" brings the past up vividly before the reader and makes his history as fascinating as a novel.

lie is one of the greatest authorities on Egypt affairs, and here he essays with no little success, to prove that Cleopatra was quite a respectable lady —a trifle skittish. perhaps. hut no .lexehel or Delilah. She did not slum Caesar, bui rather hersell capitulated to Caesar's fascination.

Cleopatra was not above practical jokes:

It is related how once v. hen Anthony was fishing in the sea. she made a diver descend into the water to attach his line to a salted fish, which he drew to the surface amid tlm greatest nier-

liv all mid coincidence one of thu jokes that Lord Eeresford in his gay young days played on one of his admirals was to attach a kipper to the line with which the veteran was fishing. I.at In that ca-e the result was not merriment—tinlv an awlul row. THE LATIN LENIN.

Telling pictures are given of the great Romans with whom t loopalra was In-ought into relationship. Brutus. tlie assassin of Caesar, is pol l rayed l.y .Mr Weigall a- a l.aliu —‘highbrow." Augustus is represented as having lieeu as unpleasant as Lenin:

A curious-tonipered man. morose, ((llietly cruel, and secretly vicious. So many persons were tortured and crucified hv Idm that be came to be known as the *'Esecui inner." llis complexion was sallow and unhealthy, his skin being covered with spots, end hiloot h Were much licenced. It was in keening with the cruelty of the times that ( leopatra. before she killed 'herself, ad'.n'inislered various poisons to crituiuals to find the letisl painful: Anxiously she watched the death struggles in the prisoners, discarding those drugs Inch produced pain and convulsions. She experimented with venomous snakes, subjecting animals and human beings to their poisonous bites.

As the le-nll nl tlu-se highly practical te-ts she sell-. teil tile asp to kill hersell with, though -Mr Weigall in his entrancing pages thinks the real snake she used was “the deadly little horned viper."

CANCER TREATMENT. LONDON. March 1

A special parasite which Dr -lames V of Edinburgh I'niversifv, believes he has- obtained from cancerous lumsiu's in man and in animals, and the remarkable results obtained when the lanier miero-nrgaiiism is injected art! lira liv into a healthy animal, are tin' sobiect of an article nl great interest in the .Mareli number of the "Empire Review". Dr Yeung lias read and approved the article, which is written by a medical rories|iondenl in “popular" form. The special parasite. Dr Young claims, “ran actually be seen growing out of lln* inner reees-:ses of the cell iiiii> i!e- ariiljeial nutritive medium in which he ha- ineiibuled the growths-" lb- further claim- that in ils laboratory phase the “i-am-er parasite lip longs in a familiar type of germ." lie believes that it is pinbably. like the germ- of some oilier diseases, almost übiquitoii... This lari would thus explain tie pm a leoee of eaiii-er tin man and the care with which it is prodtit rd in In horn i nr.v animal'. Wlien the eaneei' micro organism is injected art ilirally into a healthy animal it" goes straight for widespread parrels iit primiliw cells ami provokes ill ilirin an li'llii' nndllpiical lilt -net lar in Us intimate teatiires to an ordinary caiii'cr." The disease which Dr Young has t Inis prod need in Ibe laV orali.iy resembles a disease in mail ■ li-iil. .v-iii in ) which ha. for long hern considered b.v many doctors In he a kind of rancor. I)r Yeung's experi mem i i an a'li- ( ltlal raises no L-s an iss'ie ilina the I'll- -■ il>il ii -, Ilf flic "wholesale prnlection of man him-elf again -I the lavage. of this dire ilisra-e.” He believes |hr result, olilaiind In lie "r:teiii;ragi:ig and In warrant a ccriain am nut of bojie."

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