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MUMMY INQUESTS. FLAPPER FANNY Bays

"MODERN" AILMENTS IN ANCIENT TIMES.

Nothing New.

X-rays and modern knowledge make an inquest on an Egyptian mummy porfectly possible, ao- cording to Mr. Watson Davis in the New York. World. Wo. mpy soon know just how Tutankha- moa came to his death. Writton history at its best is a second- kand record, necessarily in- accurato in fine or gross details, Mr. Davis remarks. The news of forty conturies ago has been greatly distorted through transfer, into bioaoglyphs and subsequent translation to language that we can understand. He continues:

"Rich as are the records of tho Valloy of the Nile, where nearly every square foot contains a trace of human antiquity, no evidence is more final and strik- ing than the remains of what were onco living men.. Gravas record the progress of man.

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RIVIERA SUICIDE.

Seven In One Week.

William Smith, an Englishman, "Historians, Egyptologists, art aged thirty-oight, walked to a connoisseurs, and archaeologiste small beach at Cap Martin early are not alone in being interested in the morning, placed a dyna in all that is mortal of Tutankhamite cartridge in his mouth. Ht. men, minor King of Egypt, who the matob, and blow his head to now reigns supreme among the atome after losing all his money mortuary splendours of a past in the gaming rooms of Monte age. Doctors, dentists, paleon-Carlo, says a Nice report. tologists and undertakers-will A box of matchos was graspod road with interest the reports in his hand when he was found. that come out of Egypt. as His papers show that he was Tutankhamen's mummy is found. born at Boston, Lincolnshire.

"The king is said to have been young when his rule ended; but is death-certificate is missing Perhaps the priests and the wise hon of his time may not have nown what diseased carried off hoir ruler.. Perhaps they knew Jad would not tell,

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The body was buried with the customary rapidity that attends gambling autoides, and the details loaked but only because the vill age was awakened by the ex- plosion.

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A few hours previously Frenchman throw himself in front of a train at Cannes for a similar reason!

TRY IT ON TUT.. "With X-rays and modern nowledge, the archaeologiste ay be able to rewrite the record Tutankhamon's death. With at disturbing a fragement' of his hroud, rays of which he never teamed will picture on photo- atos an outline of his bony ame. If medical men are al- wed to perform a bolated stomachs from the mummies topay they will probably find showed evidences of small-pox, me interesting pathologic signs. riokets, appendicitis, tuberculosis, Amonhotep II, the Pharaoh bone lesions, infantile paralysis, the Exodus and a ruler of the and other diseases. Those ills ghteenth Dynasty, 1580 to 1350 were painfully like those of to- "C., to which Tutankhamon be- Į day; little or no change bas been ged, had hardening of the ar-produced by a few thousand ries, and was a man of great years.

A Reuter report says that an opidemic of suicides has spread over the Riviera during the last. few days, seven cases having been reported within a wook,

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e when he died. From his "The bodies of Pharaohs usual- immied remains and those olly came to ignoininous ends only. no 10,000 ancient Egyptians a few hundred years after they at have been studied by such were laid to rest. Thieves in the Roopathologists' as Sir Mare locality of Luxor.plied a thriving man Ruffer, Dr. G. Elliot trade in dospoiling tombs of their ith, and others, the physical furniture and selling pieces of of over ten thousand yours of mummies which were believed to yptian civilisation have been have high medical value. Amen. rod. Skin, bones, muscles, hotep with arterio-sclerosis is the rves, blood vessels, hearts, only Pharaoh so far found who ers,

kidneys, lungs, and escaped such dectruction."..

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SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1926.

VITRIOL THROWER'S

DEFENCE.

...BARE NECKS BETTER TEMPERS.

Monstrous Deed for Trivial Pretext.

A husband who declared that The threw vitriol over his wife to make her loss attractive to other mon was sentenced to five years penal servitude at the Old Balloy. The wifo, Ivy Hudson, has lost the sight of one oyo and is permanently disfigured.

Her busband, Samuel Hudson, aturnor, aged 46, appealed to the jury not to bo prejudiced by the weakness of buman

nature.".

Doctor's Views.

Most people commit six orimes, according to Dr. Leonard Wil- liams, who, speaking at Olympia recently, said they Breathe too little.

Stuff, sleep and slack too much.. Drink too little water, and Think too little.

Thoy stuff, said Dr. Williams, boosuse they cat cooked and do- vitalised foods in a vain ondoa- your to get vitality out of doad things. Other health points the lecturer made woro

"A few days after our wod-

The most gluttonous creature ding," he said, "things word not can never overgat bimself if he as I had expected. My young which nature intended him to confines his diet to those things sister-in-law came into the kit chon and said, Your wife, fruits, salade and other foods eat-dairy produce, uncooked which conveyed a world of pos-which have not boon deprived of sibilities to mo.

their vitality.

'Loss than a month afterwards my wife went to a danco, but did not return with her mother, who had accompanied her, and I went to bed broken-hearted.

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"Next day I said, 'You were with your dancing partner last night, and she did not deny it. was terribly broken, and my businges wont down.

perfectly healthy person" ought not to require more than six hours' sloop.

Poople live soft instead of living hard. Overclothing, hot rooms, hot baths, foar of chi·la, coddling--are things which do a great deal of harm in the long Fun. Cold is our boet friend, and Later she asked to go away vital fires burning.

it is a draught which keeps the saying I was joalous. What is jealousy? The 'word is misused in lots of cases. It is not jealousy It is a just indignation.

"What has happened is the climax of two years of bitter angulsh.

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predominating

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Poople are content to get ill function of the doctor is not to and demand a cure, but, the enable society to siu without suffering.

Since the bare-neok fashion “ My.

has been in vogue women havo thought was that I must take much better tompered and from her that which makes her better looking. If women bring attractive. I thought that if I the same amount of sense to bear did that I shall have her for my-upon corsets and high heels wa self. I thought nothing of the may be favoured with a rising

gencration of beauty. penalties of my action."

Mr. Justice Mackinnon, in pas- sing sentence, said the crime was a detestable one. Hudson bad the most trivial reasons for his jealousy.

DAILY HUMOUR.

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