GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 October 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

A SCHOOL FOR SUPERWOMEN.

Bryn Mawr College, one of the bestknown higher seats of learning for wonnen in America, intends to try to produce twenty superwomen as result of a process which will require eleven years to complete. The girls (the Express says), are to he selected between, the ages oi ten and twelve, and their entire (nlucation will be conducted as far as possible in the openair until they reach the age of seventeen or eighteen, when they will become formally matriculated at Bryn Mawr, and will" complete the usual university coui\se. The primary educational course leading up to the entrance at Bryn Mawr will- be conducted for the twenty young ladies in seven separate one-storey class-rooms, constructed of wood and glass. There they will live in winter, bundled in furs and warm clothing, and breathing pure air, which will be furnished by machine pumps in bad weather and by Nature direct in good weather by letting down the sides of the schoolrooms. The superwomen are expected to en ergo at the end of the eleven years perfct in physical charms and as nearly perfect mentally as the Bryn Mawr course of study ciin provide.

AN ARCTIC MAMMOTH. The , French Museum of Statural History has been enriched by what is believed to be the finest mammoth of the world. Unlike most remains that have been found fossilised iq. the earth of caves, this specimen has 'been frozen for centuries in Arctic ice. Its transport was a matter of no small difficulty, as several thousand miles had to be covered in sledges and ships before rapid methods of transit could be arrived at. All the ibones having bean carefully numbered, the rcconstitution of the beast was a matter of no difficulty. But besides the skeleton will be exhibited its shaggy coat : of hair, which resembling that of. a dog in texture, clothing a duplicate carca.se, and the public will not have to exercise any imagination, but will see before it in, .the. Btuffed mammoth the animal as it walked the earth in prehistoric days. The scientists go even further, and have discovered that this creature had oaten not long before feeing overtaken with some sudden death, and in it® digestive tubes they found the grasses and herbs on which it fed —a prehistoric flora of indisputable authenticity, even if acquired in such strange fashion.

OPERATED ON FOURTEEN TIMES

A young man named Fred Maybury, of Yuma, Michigan, has been operaated on perhaps more than anyone else on earth (says a; cable message to the Australian newspepers). •He is only twenty-five years old, but in ten years ho has been on the operating tfjble fourteen times. Maybury made, his surgical debut' when his right hand was cut off in a mill accident, and an artificial harid was provided in place of the one he lost. Next, his left leg was cut off in the Machine that robbed him of his hand, and when lie recovered a false leg and a fa.lse hand belonged to him. Appendicitis was hia fate soon afterwards, and hardly had he recovered from the work of the surgeon's knife before a charge' from a shotgun struck him in the left: eye and that otrgan had to be removed ana a eye put in'ite place. Then necrosis developed in his left 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 iqedical man told him recently that he would have to have part of his liver cut out. Maybury' is now 1 in hospital, recovering from what he calls his last "carving stunt." / He amuses himself by singing his own version of an old comic sang to the other patients and to the nurses. The first line is, "They're getting me by deegrees."