(By United Press)
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.—“Progres
sive myositis ossificans’’ one of the
rarest pathological manifestations
known to science, has put in its ap
pearance again.
In plain every day English “pro
gressive myositis ossificans” means
gradual transformation of tissue an<J
cartilege into bone. A little nine-yeai
old girl, whose name is withheld, is
now in the Jefferson hospital awaiting
the day when she will be completely
petrified. This, according to surgeons
studying the case is probably but s
few years off.
The case—the second of its kinc
known to Dr. John Chalmers Da Cos
ta—came to this city from a Wilming
ton, Del., hospital as soon as the na
ture of the ailment became establish
ed. Prof. W. W. Hawke has the chile
under special observation, and wil
conduct a series of experiments t<
analyze the patient's digestive pro
cesses.
The disease is thought to be caus
ed by the improper functioning of th<
parathyroids, small masses of gland
like epithleium lying beneath the thy
roid glands in the neck. It is the para
Thyroid glands which control the sut
ply of lime salts, or bone-building elc
ments to the body, and if these gland
are removed death invariably follows
The child appears normal to the un
trained eye, but when one touches
the muscles of the neck, arms, and
back they are as rigid and hard as
I stone. The disease attacks progres
I sively all the voluntary muscles of
; the body. The involuntary muscles
; are unaffected, death resulting from
inability to eat or move any portion of
the body.
Dr. Da Costa places the outside lim
it to the age which the child may at
tain at 20 years.
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NEW YORK, Jan 9—-The eighteenth
j Annual Automobile Show opened at
the Grand Central Palace today—war
time prices availing. The show will
continue until January 12th.
Eighty-six manufacturers are dis
playing more than 300 models, rang
ing all the way from tiny run-abouts
[ selling for a few hundred dollars to
I the largest, roomiest imousines cost
ing up to $20,000
The exhibit includes cars meeting
-j every purse, but the percentage ol
! one-priced cars is markably lower than
- in 1917. East year about ten per cent
- of the models sold for under $750.
- This year just slightly under six per
- cpnt of the models sell under this
- mark. <
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i Twenty-one per cent of the 1918
‘ models list for under $1,000. Last year
this price class represented twenty
seven per cent of the models. A man
desiring to spend between $1,000 and
$2,000 for a car this year has 40 per
cent of the models on the market to
select from, while last year he had
but fifty-three per cent.
Thousands of little attachments de
signed to add to the economy and
comfort of automobile maintenance
are displayed on the upper floors ot
the Palace.
The 1918 cars show very little if
any change mechanically over that
of 1917. What changes have been
made, are chiefly in the nature of mi
nor refinements
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IMPERIALISM NO JOKE,
RUSSIANS REFUSE TO PAY
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 9.—It took sev
eral months for the Washington tele
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phone company to learn that the Revo
lutionists in Russia were really in
earnest.
In the telephone directory, either
through typographical error or inten
I tion, the embassy here was classified
as "Imperial Russian Embassy.”
An official noted it when the month
ly bill was received. Unable to see
the joke, he returned the statement
with the information that when the
| mistake in the directory and on the
books was rectified, a settlement
would be made.
A month later a second statement.
And again the statement was re
turned “for correction."
Recently the new directory was is
sued and the correction made. And,
as agreed, a check for the amount due
was forwarded by the embassy to the
telephone company.
(By Associated Tress)
AMSTERDAM, Jan. 9.—A gloomy
picture of Germany's future was
painted by Grand Admiral Von Tirpbz
in his recent speech in Esser, accord
ing to the Hamburg News. Regarding
a successful economic war against
Germany after the war he said
“imagine the position !f we simul
taneously have to bear the burden of!
taxation which must fa!l on every
German and despite th» fallen value
of German money, we still have to’
buy the most necessarv food and raw
materials abroad. Gan anyone in his
heart Of hearts really believe that if
these circumstances were to occur
without an increase of power, with
out indemnity and without security
thn* we could avoid Germany's ruin".!
Germany’s plight at the hands ot j
England he bemoaned as follows:
“Not only has England taken our
colonies and Mesopotamia, but every-'
where she has made deeper and firm
er bases for her maritime and colo-j
nial supremacy. She has tarnished and
trodden down the prestige and honor
of Germany bp unprecedented calum
nies. In the whole transatlantic world
we are considered as conquered and
done for."
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