The Washington times., 1921-05-05

From Mrs. Vanderbilt, $l00.
HOW MUCH Do You Live7
$500 Per German.
Two "Caesarean" Children.
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright. isil.D

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Today Is the one hundredth an
niversary of Napoleon's death. On
such occasions human beings are
like little mice playing around
some great mausoleum
In New York City yesterday, for
Instance. they sold at auction for
$46 a Napoleonic eagle, cut from
the cloth that covered Napoleon's
coffin when 1t was carried into
the Inpalides.
Newspapers remind you that
there are still living on the island
OF st. Helena two turtles and a
parrot that saw Napoleon when he
was alive, The turtles Just crawl
around; the parrot says Bona
parte." The turtles are ITO years
old, the parrot 120 years old.
Learn from the turtles and par
rots that 1t doesn't matter how
. LONG you live. 1t matters how
MUCH you live. Napoleon. in the
hundred days" while he was
plunging down the heights from
glory to miserable failure. lived
longer than the average man lives
in a life time. Probably Lucifer
while falling from heaven to hell,
where he now lives frozen in the
ice at the bottom. lived longer in
q few seconds than Napoleon did
altogether.
The total indemnity amounts to
about five hundred dollars for
every German man, woman and
child. A large sum, if you look
upon it as a payment by the indi-
vidual. Not so much if you con-
slider the proposition as it really
is, namely, as a sort of economic
slavery.
Any healthy German. if you
could own him for life. as a slave,
would sell for thousand dollars,
even a very young German. He
would soon earn that and show a
profit. Therefore, on a slavery
basis, the order of the Allies COM
enanding Germans to buy them
selves back at five hundred dollars
apiece seems not an excessive val
uation.
They are now slaves after de-
feat, allowed to buy back their
freedom in thirty odd years.
Interesting to every human be-
ing, since Adam and Eve had their
first cnid, is the news about Mrs.
G. M. Blake, Of Peekskill, N. Y,
and her boy and girl baby twins.
Joel Caesar and Viola Caesarea.
Mrs. Blake, forty years old. never
had child before. Normal birth
was impossible, and the children
were brought into the world by the
"Caesarean section" All three
IRE doing well. Each twin weighs
seven pounds.
Nothing is authentic in the yarn
that Caesar came into the world in
the fashion named for him. 1t is
possible that he, like other rulers
eager for more soldiers, advocated
or ordered the "Caesarean section"
which until recently meant the
death of the mother in fifty per
cent of all cases and originally
meant her death always.
Now the mother dies in only
three per cent of such cases.
In the beginning the operation
was performed only on women
that had actually died without
bringing the child into the world
or that we're practically dead
Then the operation was perform
ed and the child, il possible, saved.
Many a living child has come into
the world from a dead mother
In cases Of difficult birth
throughout the centuries the GUS
tom had been to crush the head
lof the child, sacrificing It's life to
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