SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 23 September 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

"A CRIM SEX WAR."

[By Electric Telegrath—Copyright] Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables.

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, September 22

The proposed college where supeifluoUs girls would find their occupation in business is not favoured by Sir Thomas Lipton, Sir Algernon Lyons, and Sir Thomas Dewar. Sir Thomas Lipton says that iheordinary educated girl is more likely to be contented in business than the college girl. In his experience, intr college men are successful at business. The same applies to a woman. Sir Algernon Lyons considers that positions are rarely found >'n business for college girls without displacing men. He thinks the outlook suggests a grim sex war.

MOTORS V. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

London, September 22

In an article in tlie Times on railway unrest, a correspondent points out that formerly the British trader depended entirely on the railways, hut now the post office convey*, mails hy road by motors from Bouden to Brstol, Birmingham, Cambridge Dover, and elsewhere, at a lo.re; cost and with greater despatch than the railways. Other Government Departments arc using similar services. “THE FUGITIVE AT COURT.” London, September 22. John Galsworthy’s play “The Fugitive at Court” is a theatre success. It might be labelled “the general cussedness of things.” It makes the audience feel that the world is all very “sad, and bad, arid mad.” THE END OF THE WORLD.

Berlin, Seut a mher 22

Professor Philip Fauth, writing to tire Journal of Natural Science, predicts that the world will ultimately be completely frozen over and encased in a coating of ice which will destroy ill life. The world will then be absorbed by the sun, becoming a flaming fragrant of blazing gases. Eventually the planets swinging through their narrowing orbits will fall into the sun, causing a new explosion. and perhaps the birth of a new solar system. , ■ ■ THE PHILOSOPHY OF EMOTION. London, September 22. Mr H. G. Wells’ latest novel, “The Passionate Friend” is exciting the greatest interest. It expounds his philosophy of emotion that there are no universal laws of affection or desire. Many people are urging the libraries that they should ban the book, but the libraries decline to prohibit it.

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

London, Seotemher 22

At Antrim a suffragette climbed on the platform at a meeting and asked what action the new Ulster Parliament would take regarding votes for women. She was ivt replied to. “GETTING ME BY DECREES.” New York, September 9. A young man named Fred Maybury, of Yuma, Michigan, is one of the most-operated-on men on the face of the earth. Ho is only 25 years old, but in ten years he has been on the operating table 14 times. Maybury made bis surgical debut when his right hand was cut off in a mill accident, and an artificial hand was provided in place of the one he lost. Next, his left leg was cut off in the same machine that robbed him of his hand, and when he recovered a false leg and a false hand belonged to him. Appendicitis was his fate soon afterwards, and hardly had he recovered from the work of the surgeon’s knife before a charge from a shot-gun struck him in the left eye, and that organ had to be removed and a glass eye put in its place. Then necrosis developed in bis loft arm, and some of the bones had to be taken away by a succession of operations, and to add to his cup of bitterness his medical men told him this week that he would have to have part of his liver cut out. Maybury is now in hospital recovering from what he calls his last carving stunt. He amuses himself by singing his own version of an old comic song to the other patients and to the nurses. The first line is, “They’re getting me by do-

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