'GIRL WILL WED
HELPLESS
Blind, Deaf and Armless as Re
sult of Injuries Received
in War.
LOVE SOFTENS “EXILE”
French Soldier Believed to Be Most
nfortunate Being in All History
—Scientists Were Debating
Painless Death.
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Pyds.—Blind, deaf and with both
trim* amputated as the result of in
juries received in action during the
war, the young French veteran, Emile
Tiiloloy, considered the most unfor
tunate being in all history, has found
x refuge from his tribulations in the
love of a little peasant girl, Jeanne
Delavoine, his boyhood sweetheart.
Their engagement has been an
nounced and the marriage is to take
place early in the spring.
The announcement has set at rest
the minds of leading French moral
ists and philosophers who had been
debating if the ending of Tilloloy's
trials by euthanasia would not be
lu stifled.
Debate Painless Death.
Had society any right to demand for
the sake of a moral precedent, the
continued Calvary of this modern Job?
Would it be an humane and enlight
ened act to put an end to his horri
ble sentence by quick and painless
death?
These were the disturbing ques
tions asked by French metaphysi
ciat&
On July 24, 1916, Tilloloy was
wounded in both arms and the face
by a bursting shell. The detonation
broke both ear drums.
Expert surgery and tender care
saved his life, but he left the mill
tary hospital a year later deprived of
tiie three senses of sight, touch and
hearing, able only to taste and smell.
Taps Only Language.
He was taken to his own home, in
the little hamlet of Canaples, Depart
ment of the Somme, and placed un
der care of his mother and two sis
ters.
A primitive system of taps on his
body for “yes” and “no” constituted
his only means of receiving messages.
Upon Tilloloy’s return to his home
Jeanne became a daily visitor, taking
her turn at sitting beside him and
tending his needs. She identified her
self by three short taps.
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She Identified Herself by Three Short
Taps.
He concealed all affection, fearing
that out of sympathy she would' sac
rifice herself to bring him a ray of
happiness, and for three years she
continued her tender ministrations.
Finally Tilloloy said to his mother:
“Jeanne must care for me, or she
could not be so faithful. Do you be
lieve she loves me?”
The answering tap was in the af
firmative. Upon his sweetheart’s next
visit Tilloloy put the question:
“Jeanne, will you marry me?”
^'resolute tap and the folding of a
pair of arms about the blind man’s
mutilated body turned his fears of a
lifetime of solitary suffering into
dreams of quiet content.
LIVES TO TELL OF LONG FALL
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Chicago Mason in Milwaukee Blown
From Top of 125-Foot Smoke
. stack.
Milwaukee, Wis.—Plunging from a
smokestack 125 feet high and living
to tell of the accident was the experi
ence that overtook Edward Skaring
of Chicago. Skaring, who is a mason,
was at work on the top of the smoke
stack when a powerful gust of wind
burled him from his perch. A rope
on the inside of the stack broke his
fall. He landed at the bottom with
his legs fractured in two places.
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FORCED TO GET EXCITEMENT
English Court Clerk Is Given Eight
Months in Jail for Altering
Postal Drafts.
London.—Here is a young man who
j cannot get enough thrills out of life
without being dishonest. And even
dishonesty soon ceases to lead a
thrill to him.
James Walter Evers, twenty-six, for
merly a clerk at the admiralty, plead
ed guilty at the Old Bailey recently to
forging and altering naval postal
; drafts worth $7,100. Pleading for
; leniency, Evers said:
“During the greater part of my life
j I have been afflicted with an extraor
i dinary lust for excitement and thrills.
| While this longing for excitement has
! often led me into dangerous and trou
| blesome adventures, it has never made
me commit a criminal offense until
now. I swear when I conceived this
| scheme my main thought was the ex
citement. I left off going to post of
fices because T found myself going into
them mechanically and getting no
thrill of excitement in handling
forged drafts over the counter. I had
l 200 more drafts in my pocket.”
Evers was sentenced to eight
i months’ imprisonment.
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Wear, Washing and Your Clothes
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Why do clothes wear out? Is day fallen on a cloth, holes will develop
to day use a principal factor ? Has during the first washing,
laundering a weakening or strength- A starched collar that has never
ening eifect? How much has the been worn—such a collar as is corn
quality of the manufacturer’s work monly favored by men—can be con
to do with wear? What can rea- finuously washed in laundries like
sonably be expected of a given piece ours as many as 40 times before it
of fabric ? will begin to fray. But if the collar
In behalf of the housewives whom is worn between washings, it can be
we serve, these questions have been laundered only 20 times or less. In
searchingiy inquired into. a word, the wearing of a collar—the
Tablecloths of real linen, well putting it on and taking it off
woven, can be laundered as many shortens its life by 50 per cent or
as 100 to 150 times before showing more.
wear. This is the average of our Personal apparel and household
methods of handling linen that has linen are bleached, dyed, woven,
been finely made and properly cared tailored, packed, shipped, stored, un
for by the housewife. packed and used before they come to
Flaws often appear in curtains at us. If at any stage there has been
the point below the shade, where poor workmanship, misuse or abuse,
they are most exposed to dust-laden “it all comes out in the wash.”
air and the action of the sun’s rays. But when you have purchased
To check these corrosive influences with judgment, and used your things
many housewives have their curtains with care, our cleansing methods
Curtains wear washed oftener than cleanliness alone will help you prolong their usefulness.
the point where requires. .Laundering and
gi"Ztbth‘Llh If a fewdrops of T , conservation of
. of the open win- a harmful fluid, like WC I f6Ei clothes have be
dow- the solution in an ^our Clothinsr come an art with
automobile stor- UL/L**. ” us. Send us your
age battery, have W11110 family washing.
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