Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-12
CUR|OSIT|ES
in THE news
Baby Throws Eleven Hundred
Dollars at a Dog-TWo-
Headed Baby in Missouri
souri,

NEW YORK, September 21.-Four-
year-old May Barrett OF Scarsdale
played with SLIGO she picked up on
The street, and not realizing its value,
scattered part of II over the lawn.
The money belonged to Mrs. John A.
Pryor of Greenyille.
While passing the Barrett home the
sstchel fell from the buggy seat, and
was not missed until several minutes
later.
The Barrett child playing near by
licked up the grip and opened IT. The
rolls OF greenbacks meant nothing to
her. Finally she threw the bag at the
family watchdog and some of the
money feilnut.
Mrs. Howard Barrett, the girls moth
er, espied the greenbacks on the
ground and gathered them up. a
short distance away she found the
scatchel. In II were paper bearing
Mrs. Pryor's name and address.
Mrs. Barrett later found the owner
searching for her money and re.utned
II to her.
Two-Headed Baby.
ST. LOUIS, September 21.-With
two perfectly formed heads rising
from a single neck and normal body,
a baby Is engaging the scientific at
tention OF physicians at Josephine
Hospital. Grand and Henrietta ayeli.
.ues, II Is declared that nowhere in
medical annals has a similar prodigy
been reported.
The marvellous child is the daughter
CT Lolo Williams, 1S years old, of De
Soto, Mo. She was sent to st. Louis
by Jefferson county physician Sa:Ir-
day and praced in charge of DR.. F. j.
Lutz, head OF the Josephine Hospital.
Details of the prodigy were hard to
obtain owing to the reluctance OF
physicians from ethical reasons to dig
cuss the case.
Both heads OF the child are normally
formed. it was learned. There are two
complete sets OF eyes and ears, two
distinct noses and mouths.
While twins have been born, like
the famous Siamese pair, bound to-
gether BY skin and ligaments never be-
fore, Il Is claimed, have two bodies
been merged into one as completely
a. In the case of the Williams child.
Many years ago an italian woman
back east was exhibiting from door to
door the wax image of two-headed
baby, which was enclosed in glass
case, an Inscription on which stated
that the freak had been born some
where in Europe.
Fried Your Liver.
CHICAGO. September 2l.-The ami
able Frenchman. De Keatiny-Hart
with the characteristic ingenuity of
HIS nation, has delighted the medical
profession al lover the world by in
venting a process of frying men and
women and children inside without
scorching their skins.
The liver of patient may be
crisped to a nicely while the epider'
mis- remains underdone. the stomach
may be parboiled while the outer lay
erS of flesh shiver under an ice pack
And the thing is done while the pa
tient still possesses the organs that
are being treated.
Not the least of De Heating Harris
accomplishments is revealed in his
choice of q name for his process. In
stead of clumsily calling his process
''frying your liver" the clever French
man has invented name in three
chapters. This is the name; Their
rnoradiotherapy." THE soul Of the
process is in the first chapter. thermo
which means heat. The second chapter
has reference to A-ravs and indicates
the primal purpose of the process. Ant
the third chapter, therapy is the eX
cause for the culinary business
II sums up like this De Heating
Fart cooks you in order that he ma
locks through YOU and he look
Though you in order that he may. SCI
what il wrong inside and cure you
The journal of the American Medica
Association explains the whole sub
iect in its terse, epigrammatic way a
"Thermoradiotherapy is a term an
nlted to new method OF applying tn
yray. the aim being to increase IN
<fRcfancv oflfhe rays. De heatlng- har