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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-31
HOST TO ADMIRALS.
Robert II. Thompson Entertains at
HouSeWarming.

One Of the most remarkable dinners
that have taken place in Washington in
many years was that last night incident.
to the housewarming given by Robert n
Thompson, OF New York. who has be-
come a winter resident of this city
Al the dining table there were fourteen.
rear admirals of the United States navy
who had received their first lessons in
seamanship at the Naval Academy at An
napolis from Rear Admiral T. o. Sell
fridge. T. S n. retired. who was also
one of Mr. Thompsons guests There
were also seven rear admirals about the
board who have been cOmmanders-in-
chief OF fleets. and have upheld the honor
of the nation in various parts OF tho,
world.
Most OF those present were members OF
the class Of 1865 OF the Naval Academy,
from which Mr. Thompson also grad
uated Had Mr. Thompson remained in
the navy he now would be the ranking
rear admiral OF the United States navy
Toasts were drank to The Navy" and
TO THAT grand old man. George Dewey.
Admiral % the Navy
Present were Rear Admirals John H.
Upshur. Robley d. Evans, T. O. Selfridge.
Silas Casey. Silas r. Terry. A. S. Barker.
G E. Clark, c. f. Davis. W H. Brown
son. r. Is. Bradford, c, II. Stockton, r.
Clover. ]. +. Pillsbury. l. c. Logan, c. T.
Hutchlns, J. II. Hemphill, Andrew Dun
lap. Richard Wainwright. J. NJ. Hawley,
Aulick Palmer, \. E. Niles, W. W. Kim
ball. William +. Potter, Aaron Ward, ".
H. II. Switzerland, r. Nicholson. Commo-
dore r. G. Davenport, Capts. Bradley o.
Fiske, T. A. Potts, Roy Smith, William
B. Capertcn. and Commander z. B. Eb-
erie.
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HERALD NEWS SUMMARY.

Pages.
1-Peary Takes Riding Test.
Ohio Women Deny Bribery Charge
Mad" Financier Tries 10 Die
Sets New Aero Endurance Mark.
Mexico Sees Peace Near at Hand
2-Cold Halts Street Cleaning.
Plan Publicity for Memorial
3-New Years in New York.
Incendiary at Work in Annapolis.
4-Bathtub Men Get No Immunity.
6-WagOn Men Fight Light Order
Oyster Famine Ayerted.
5-Dance at the White House.
Yale Boys Give Pleasing Comedy.
Hints to Bargain Hunters.
S-Edtorials.
9-The Big Stick.
lO-News OF Washington Churches.
ll-NeWs of Alexandria.
Unique Christmas Novelty.
l2-Roy Aston Is Dead
l9-Anti-Saloon League Meets.
l5-Commercial and Financial
16-oppose Bar in Union Station.
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City OF Mexico. Dec 50.-With the fail
Of Nal PasO yesterday. the backbone OF
the revolution has been broken, govern
ment officials here assert The rebel
army is completely routed and further
resistance in Chihuahua is not =antici-
pated-
Federal troops are preparing for their
march against Ciudad Guerrero. which,
it is expected. viii be taken with little
difficulty. There is a small force OF Z
rebels at this place
Heavy fighting preceded the fall OF Mai
Paso yesterday. according TO unofficial
sdvices received here to-day.
Col Eseudero, at the head OF LOO
troops, was sent in advance by Gen.
Luque. He met the insurgents on the
mountain side at Nal Paso and a battle
lasting several hours ensued. The rebels
retired, leaving the pass in the hands
Of the government forces. The exact
number of killed and wounded on each
side cannot be ascertained AT present
Rebels Put TO Flight.
There was a small outbreak yesterday
nea-. Cordova. state OF Vera Cruz Il
was Of little Importance. The rebeis
attacked one town. The government
sent 30 troops against them, and the
rebels took 10 the hills
Reports from Tabasco say that 10
rebels attacked Santa Ana, a small port
on the Gulf OF Mexico. state OF Tabaseo.
After attacking the municipal palace and
sacking the treasury. they went 10
Tonala, town twenty miles distant. The
government sent 400 infantry against
them. If an engagement resulted II has
not been reported.
Yesterday al Tabasco. twenty-thres
rebels attacked the American hacienda
Las Colmeias. The manager. A.
hwerin. was AIKEN prisoz and held
for twelve hours. He was released after
the plantation had been sacked. All the
men employed ~ the hacienda were
forced 20 join the rebels. SchNerin SAYS
ne was well treated by the rebels
See End of Struggle.
Fl Paso, Dec. 3a-The most optimistic
view yet taken OF the trouble in Mexico
is that expressed in dispatches from Chi
huhua and by travellers from that re-
gion to-day. The insurrectos' main BODY
appears to have disappeared, and they
are found only in small bands The fact
that the federals have secured control oF
the railroad out Of Chihuahua and are
now enabled 10 make repairs is looked
upon as a confession Of weakness on the
part OF the rebels, and is taken as an in
dication that they see their own failure
and are about 10 quit
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SEEK KNOX'S SON.
Lancaster Officials Say he Broke
Speed Laws. ~zs

Lancaster, Pa, Dec. AK Lancaster
magistrate to-day issued a warrant
against sen Of Secretary Of State Knox
foFeviolating the speed law in this city
yesterday An automobile with three men
in it raced through Lancaster and il is
believed the Seeretary's son was one Of
them.
Suit was entered against him because
the license for the machine was issued to
the Secretary at Harrisburg. The war
rant viii be served tomorrow.
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TAFT TO BE GUEST.
Will Aid Press Club Celebration
New Years Eve.

President Taft will be the guest of the
National Press Club this afternoon at
its annual New Years Eve celebration.
There viii be an entire absence of for
mality, however, as Mr.. Taft has many
times put the taboo on anything but
purely social time when he mingles
with the newspaper men.
The President is expected to drop in
about o'clock Tea viii be served.
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New York. Dec. co-Whea Joseph G.
Robin, the kite-nying financier. whose
schemes have closed the Northern Bank
and the Washington Savings Bank, OF
New York. was about To face the hrst
indictment OF grand larceny against him
to-day, he tried 10 Kill himself He took
twelve 1-lI2 grain pills OF hyOscyamine,
a poisonous aIkaloid, but he didn't sue
ceeA He spent tonight in the prison
ward Of Bellevue Hospital. where the
doctors thought that he had more than
an even chance for recovery.
Robins attempt at suicide was the
most sensational move that he has yet
made within the past week. since the
state officials and the district attorney
have been after him. lie came down
to the Criminal Courts Building to-day
TO plead before Judge Grain. and while
the judge and a crowd Of spectators
were waiting for the prisoner 10 appear
he collapsed in the adjoining room It
was generally conceded that Robin. in
his present serious physical condition.
would have died then and there were It
not for the immediate medical aid he re-
Ceived.
Says GOOd-by to Sister.
There vas not the slightest doubt OF
Robins attempt 70 kin himself to-day.
As soon as he began TO be affected by
the drug he groaned and told DR. Austin
Flint. the alienist retained by former
District Attorney Jerome 10 defend
Robin, that he was dying. He said good
by to his sister, DR.. Louise b. Robin
ovitch, and then a stomach pump was
so employed that it brought about salts
factory results.
No one seemed to know for certain
Continued on PeEe 6, Column I.
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SEES BABES FINISH.
Scientist Says There VIII Be None
in 202O.

st Louis, Dec. 30.-There viii be TO
children in the United States under FIVE
years Of age in the year 203o Babies, ac-
cordinsly, viii have disappeared from this
country as early as 20l5
This is the mathematical conclusion OF
Walter F. Wilcox, professor of politi-
cal economy and statistics at Cornell
University, after exhaustive study and
comparison Of birth rates during the last
century. Prof Wilcox addressed the
American Statistic Association to-day on
the subject.
The only hope Of seeing babies in the
United States after 2030. according to
Prof WillcoX's calculations, Is by import
ing them from France. France, he says,
Will continue TO have babies eighty years
after the United States has quit
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- @ DIE IN FIRE.
Three Others Fatally Burned in St.
Paul Flats.

81. Paul. Dec. So.-Two dead. three dy-
ing, and ten others injured is the result
Of fire in the Concord flats, Eleventh
street, between Robert and Minnesota
streets, this morning. The dead:
Unidentified woman. aged about thiriy-dre: body
found ip ruins
Anna ETi aged twenty-five. employed at Emporium
Department Store; died az ST, Josephs Hospital
fr0n buns.
Fatally injured.
Miss Erd. younger sister Of Anna Erd. dyirs at
st. J0saUh's Hospital
Mrs Rose Moore. forty five; burnsd; St Joseph's
Hospital; Viii die.
Mrs- Anna Liehenhell; feH c7 face Jumping from
building; ST. Joaephs Hospital vii die
The explosion OF a gas stove is be-
lieved to have been the cause Of the fire.
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STATESMAN WOULD AID
POOR STRAP-HANCERS

Indianapolis. Dec. 30.-Repre-
sentative William e. Wagner. OF
Clark County, viii introduce in
the general assembly next week
bin for the relief of the street
car strap-hangers.
1t will be entitled An act for
the benefit of the travelling pub
lie" and VIII provide that when
ever a passenger on a steam
road, interurban. or urban car
line is compelled to stand up, he
be required TO pay the usual full
fare, but receive from the con-
ductor a voucher, emitting him
to a rebate OF additional trans
portation to the value OF one
half his fare.
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Council in All Nisht Session.

Barcelona, Dec. so.-The municipal coun-
ell held an extraordinary session which
lasted all of last night 1t rejected the bud
get presented by the committee of the
Radicals. This excited the Indignation of
the Radical minority who withdraw from
the hall
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CEILING FALLS ON AUDIENCE.
Panic Follows Accident at New,
York Auditorium.

New York, Dec. 3o.-Four persons were
injured and thousand others thrown
into a panic tonight when a part OF the
ceiling, twenty feet square. crashed down
in the main auditorium OF the Educa-
tional Alliance, at East Broadway and
jefferson street.
Ihe injured were treated by Or. Ar
luck, OF Gouverneur Hospital. ard then
went 10 their homes. They Were Her
mann NotokOff, Of Newark; Joseph Zele-
cowitZ, ] First avenue; Moses Hoewer-
fling. 13G Cannon street, and Morris
Marsh, - Orchard street.
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NEW STAR DISCOVERED.
English Rector First tn see Orb in
the Heavens.

Cambridge, Mass. Dec 30.-T. W Dy-
son, the newly appointed astronomer
royal of England, cabled the Harvard
Observatory this evening that Rev. T..
f. Espin, Of Walsingham. England had
discovered new star. According TO the
cablegram, the stars brightness as seen
IN England was Of the eighth magni-
tude; its position in the sky Is 2 hours
81 minutes plus 81 degrees Is minutes
north, which would place it due north
in the western part Of the Sky. about
half way between the zenith and the
horizon. The spectrum of the star shows
two bright lines.
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HORRID EXPRESSMAN LOSES
GOWN FOR MRS. LONGWORTH
But New York DTessmaker Quickly Sends Similar
One to Be Worn at TaffS' Recepfion.
Listen Pirlsi

Listen, girls!
Supposing you had planned to attend
the Tafts' New Years reception, and
supposing you had ordered the daintiest
gown ever-if you are a girl-and suppos-
ing you were anxious.y awaiting its de-
livery-when a hOrrid man should call
you up and say the dress had been stolen
from an express wagon. Wouldn't it
peeve you unspeakabiy?
or course 1t would
Well, that's just what happened to Mrs
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PEARY COMPLETES
RECORD TEST RIDE
Explorer Covers 10 Miles
III Three Days.
SMILING AT THE FINISH
Braves POtOmac's ley Winds on
Speedway Course.

AssrIde for First Time in Seven
teen Years, Naval Officer Goes
Through Physical Ordeal without
Turning a Hair-MeetE "DOc Cook"
Completing the Severe Feat.
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Barcelona, Dec. N-Owing to the strike
OF the carriers and dock laborers there is
a great scarcity of coal at the factories
and It Is thought that unless the trouble
Is quickly settled many industries viii he
crippled and thousands OF employees
thrown cut OF work.
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REBELLION OVER,
ASSERT MEXICAHS.
lnSurrectiOn Crumbles with
Nal PaSO Battle.
MADER0 ARMY ROUTED
Federalists Are Now Marching
On t0 Guerrero.
MADER0 ARMY ROUTED

Following Decisive Victory OF Mex
leans Over Rebels at Mai Paso, In
surrectOs Take 10 sIOuBtains-Bat-
tie Lasts for Several Hours and
Large Numbers Are Lost on Both
sides-MaderO's Force Decreases.
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WEATHER FORECAST.

For the District of Columbia
Fair and colder to-day; to-mor-
row, unsettled and warmer; nod
crate north TO east winds.
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Ready to weEcome Alfonso.

Mellila. Dec. sO.-Gen. Adave, captain
general Of MelliIa, has arrived here 10
make the final preparations for the COM
ing visit OF King Alfonso
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MAGISTRATES ARE WARNED.

Inadequate Bali from Alleged Bur-
glars Leads 80 Notice.
New York, Dee. 2O.-The appellate divi-
sion of the Supreme Court dismissed to-
day the charges brought against CITY
Magistrate Peter T. Barlow. for taking
inadequate bail for three alleged bur
glars. but in its decision said that the
magistrate was negligent in the case in
QUESTION, and exceeded his authority. A
warning against doing similar acts was
issued to magistrates.
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t"NUHFy llI--.1, IUII,
southern Railway will sell Wardi &C..
saSke,s February p to q 20 PensacoIs
ssiooiie' and New Orleans at greatly re,
ouced tares. -Four fast trains daily.
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SI.23 Ia baltimore and Return
Saturdays and Sundays. via Peana r. r
Tickets good returning until Sunday night.
All regular trains except the Congress
sI0nal Limited"
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Ohio WOMEN DENY
CAUSING SCANDAL
Say They Aided in Cleaning
Adams County.
VOTES NOT SOLD FOR FINERY
Reports Spread Broadcast that They
Urged Husbands 80 sell Franchise
Arouse Women of state--EvanEel-
list Billy" sunday TO Take Up
Scandal in Lecture Course.

West Union. Ohio, Dee S0--The women
of this town to-day claimed the credit for
the cleaning up Of Adams couaty IN
which over 1,000 OF its voters have been
indicted by the special grand Jury for
bartering their ballots last election.
The women OF West Union and the sur
rounding country are indignant over the
report spread broadcast that they were
responsible for the corruption OF their
husbands-that they urged them TO take
money for votes in order that they might
buy for them the fnery possessed by city
folk. Mrs. Nettie Plummer said:
"The women protested against the cor
ruption OF Adams County long before the
men saw anything wrong in vote buying
or selling. We urged our husbands TO do
something Things got to be so corrupt
that no woman who had any control over
her husband would allow him to enter
politics"
Total Indicted 1917.
Judge Blair to-day announced the total
number indicted for selling their votes
as l,0U The county clerk SAYS the
number is LBS. Unofficial counts make
the number Lose "Blly" Sunday. the
famous evangelist, is coming into the
purchasable vote zone on New Years
Day, and for six weeks viii lambast the
eorruptors and corrupted. He speaks at
Portsmouth, and Adams County folk
have declared that Scioto County. in
which Portsmouth lies as we'll as several
other surrounding counties. are as cor
rupt as Adams County.
Adams County has found confession
good for the soul. and large crowds OF
Adams County men and women are pre-
pairing to make pilgTimages 10 the church
where the former baseball player will ex-
pound the Gospel in his original way. II
IS expected that Billy Sunday viii not
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i.25-BaltimOre and Return.
Baltimore a. 0hio.
Every Saturday and Sunday. All trains
both ways. both days. except Royal Linn
tied
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$I.25 TO Baltimore and Return
To-day and tomorrow via Baltimore &
Ohio r r.
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In Making New Year Resolutions
Include a resolution 10 open an account
with banking department OF Union Trust
Co. 18th and H sts. Interest on all az
counts. Deposits subject to check
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mad" FINANCIER
TRIES TO END LIFB
Robin Swallows Poison, but
1t Fails to Work.
C0LLAPSES WHILE IN COURT

Tablets Taken Before He Leaves
Sisters Home 20 Fnce First In
dictment for Grand Larceny-Even
Chance OF Recovery-Taken TO the
Prison Ward Of Bellevue Hospital
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neglect golden opportunity 20 air his
views concerning men who sell their
birthrights.
The story Of Esau and Jacob Is one OF
Sundays favorite texts Adams County
last week was Indifferent II is begin
ming now 10 feel ashamed Of itself
Adams County has appeared in the
newspapers Of the United States during
the past week more often than any other
place IN the country outside Of New
York, Us leading citizens are rushing
20 ask that the outside world be charita-
hla
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Fenton Defends County.

Lucien Fenton, former Representative.
is foreHr al grand jury Of
the fife est men IN the
county" Blair picked to
clean ~
"AdaF said "nav haze
been 81 ~ is leading all other
countie aninE There are
other und US that arc Just
as baf county in the State
is doiT redeem itself? Adams
Count honest. II is a moral
count lean county. II has
realiz and is improving"
Ek ID over what hss hap
pene indicted men. dlsfran-
chs They expHess 'their joy
ovei 10 the judge. They feel
beti essing and are thankful
10 for doing what he has
dor
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Choicest Flowers at BiaeExistone'S.
Well developed, long lasting. 18th a. IL
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Or. HALE A FRIEND IN NEED
Proof That He Lived Up to the Prlhel-
pies Of "Lend-a-Hand" Societies
He Founded.

The late Dr. Edward Everett Hale.
the founder of the "Lend-a-Hand" soci-
cites, practised what he preached He
lcnt his own hand time and time
again Once, says the Woman's Home
Cen panlon, his travels brought him to
a town where friend of his was edit
ing a daily newspaper.
When he called on him, this. friend
lnfolded d tale bf wBe. His Wife WAS
eefi6usly Ill. She had gone into the
country, believing that a change Of air
would do her good. She was pining for
her husband, and he was pining for
her. but he had no assistant, so If he
took a vacation the paper must stop.
DR. Hale listened and, returning to
his hotel, sat down at his desk
Before he got vi he had written
with that ready pen of his enough
articles on topics of contemporaneous
interest to fill his friends editorial col
umns for week. Returning to the
sanctum, he threw his copy on the edi-
torial desk, with the remark:
There, now you can go and visit
your wife,
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J. O. Hill, who Ives South
east of Kenna. came in Wednes-
day from Roswell, and remain.
ed over night to attend the lie.
publican primary. He went to
Roswell Ivy team, just for the
pleasUre(9 of the tip He got
all the pleasure he needed OH tie
down trip and left / is partner
to return by himself with Tie
team, and Mr.. Hill came back
on the train.
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ALcW DOWN TRICK

An e&itpr o. a smali American
pal er recently stated thai he ad
been k sscd Icy one of the most
beautiful married women III lie
town He promise ed to tell her
name in the hrot issue of his ra-
per next month In two weeks
the circulation OF his newspaper
doubledl but when he gave tn,
name of his wife he had to leave
town. -Tucumcari Sun.
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VIM kettIea slnn.

The reason a kettle sings" is a
fery simple one As the water gets
lot little bubbles 81 steam are found
At the bottom 81 the kettle. These in
heir rush upward strike the sides Of
he kettle and set the metal it Is
made of in vibration, thus causing the
cumming sound we call singing. You
Ill noece copper kettle, which has
hin sides, will make much louder
NJ more musical note than a com
con iron kettl-
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King ekanaty.

The Ctimea and the whole Black
sea region, owing to the sparse popu-
lation to consume it, had great sur
plus Of wheat For centuries it was
coveted by all hungry nations-and
exploited by the one with the strong
est armies. For centuries after Athens
had Toasted upon the grain-raising
lands beyond the Bosphorus, Mithri-
dates, as a preparation for his life and
death contest with Rome, fell upon
the corn fields of the Crimea. Because
Sicily was yellow with wheat from
earliest memory. through ages and
ages she was raided by all the powers
of the world. It was because OF
Egypt's corn, more plentiful than any
where else along the Mediterranean,
that Caesar and Pompey wanted the
land of the Ptolemies. It was when
Rome held or controlled the granaries
her first and dearest conquests-of
Sicily, Sardinia, Spain and Egypt that
she could become mistress of the
world,
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MISS THE LIGHT AND NOISE
Reasons Why Some TownspeopIe Are
Unable to Live Comfortably in
the Country.

The necessity which some people
feel for noisy surroundings was men
toned by a famous specialist in Civ
Ing medical explanation of the case
of little Horace Collins, the heroic
messenger boy, says the London Daily
Mail. The lad, although able to graft
fly every wish as the guest of Lord
Lansdowne at Bowood house, has a
mastering longing for the hustle and
lieht of the London streets.
1T is a very clear case of nostalgia"
said the doctor. "A person suffering
like that has lost two everyday friends.
as II were-noise and light. It is en-
tirely due to the nerves. Our nervous
system gets into a pronounced groove
in accordance with the everyday con-
dition under which we live. A sud
den change in living throws the nerv-
GUS system out of gear. Both light
and noise are nervous stimuli to peo-
pie who live amid noise and light
Take away the comradeship of no
and light. and the nervous sys' N
loses two stimulants necessary to its
well tS.rg and suffers in consequence
With The boy Collins the fact that
he Goes not see policemen troubles
him. because policemen to him have
become an important part of the nat
ural scheme of things.
"A very similar case occurred with
a London housekeeper Of mine. SHE
was cent away to the country. anC
simply could not endure to live there
She missed the companionship o
noise so much that she had to b.
brought back to town again quickly
for her health was beginning to sui
fer"