GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2365, 8 December 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

When Mrs Grace Gensehler, aged 23, of Manhattan, was sentenced at White Plains to the psychopathic, section of Bedford Reformatory, County Judge Young was told she had made thirty attempts to end her life, and that her arms are masses of scare from cuts and burns inflicted with suicidal intent. A deputy sheriff called at her home last June to arrest her on a grand larceny charge, and she jumped out of a third storey window, receiving injuries which kept her in Bellvue Hospital for eight weeks. She made several attempts to end her life while in the hospital, ii was said. The following is a translation of a rejection slip used by a Chinese editor in returning would-be contributions: —“We have read your manuscript with infinite delight. Never before have we revelled in such a masterpiece. If we printed it the authorities would ordain us to take it for a model, and henceworth never print anything inferior to it. As it would be impossible to find its equal within ten'thousand years, we are compelled, though shaken with sorrow, to return your divine manuscript, and for doing so we beg one million pardons.” A teacher received the following note from (lie mother of one of her pupils:— “Dear Madam—Please ixcuse my Tommy to-day. He won’t come to skule because he is acting as timekeeper for his father, and it is your fault. U gave him a ixamplc if a field is six miles around how long will it take a man walking 3i miles an hour to walk 2.| times round it. Tommy ain’t a man, so we had to send his father. They went early this morning, and father will walk round the" field, and Tommy will time him, but pleas don’t give my boy sieli ixamples agin, because my husband must go to work every day to support his family.”