The Washington times., 1921-12-13

Hearts Do Break-Women 8.
The Gorilla Family.
Eight Babies at Once.
Exchange Up, All Happy.
y ARTHUR BRISBANE
Copyright 1891.

l1y ARTHUR BRISBANEl
copyrisht 1891
Men have died and worms have
eaten them. but not for love-"
says Shakespeare.
Men do not die Of a broken
heart. Women do. sometimes.
A Dr.. Glickstein was shot dead.
IN his office. by a woman un-
known.
Yesterday another woman. the
mother Of the dead man. looked
into her dead sons coffin and
dropped dead. Women take
things more seriously than men.
II they did not children would
not b 20 we'll cared for.
Akslsy. . mighty hunter for the
Natural History Museum. is COM
in& back from Africa. bringing
IN entire family Of five aorillas.
The father. weighs 800 pounds.
and IL thin.
That Is by no means top weight.
Some Of the red-haired gorillas.
eight feet high. weigh as much as
. fair-sized horse.
When the gorilla family arrives
and Is nicely stuffed. see it.
You will ask yourself: "How
should we humans feel if q gorilla
came up from South Africa, killed
. whole family of five. took it
home to be stuffed?"
Next you will notice the baby
gorilla, infinitely more intelli-
gent and human in appearance
than the older animals. Like
ourselves, gorillas get uglier and
less like humans as they grow
old. Nature makes all babies
pleasing. wonderful in appearance.
including little rabbits. gorillas.
and men. That persuades the
mothers to take good care Of
them. Every mother says: ~
have a wonderful baby"
A reverend gentleman earnest
~ and convincingly denounces
birth control. He says it's advo-
Gates would yield themselves up
"to a life of passion" 1t would
be bad for the world il large fam
lilies ceased; we still need them.
But there may be a reasonable
way station between "a life Of
passion" and twelve or fifteen
children for one mother.
Yesterdays news told of
Z mother in Tampico having eight
babies at one birth. all stillborn.
If that happened to her two or
three times. and they lived. which
luckily they never do under such
conditions, her views on birth con-
troll would be interesting.
No man, Of course, Is fit TO
decide the question, since no man
really knows anything about 1t.
One child bearing experience
might modify his views consider
ably.
Yesterday the English pound
sterling was worth one dollar
more than q year ago. 1t sold
at $4.24, not far from par. Cen
tlemen in high finance think Eng
land hasn't lost anything by the
recent conference negotiations,
and they probably are right.
France Is delighted. ENGLAND is
delighted. Japan is delighted..-
they are all three delighted with
the four-power agreement. Uncle
Sam Is rich. he has a hundred
million children. his dear friends
and neighbors only got ten thou
sand million dollars out of him
last time. There's a lot left.
There is cause for being delight
ed with a treaty that makes him
. partner and a guarantor.
The Island Of Yap dispute has
been Settled" you will be glad
10 hear. We get one of the three
cables. Isn't that nice? 1t
could be cut, made utterly worth
less, in half an hour if the Japs
chose. A.
bland. We will get more settle
ments Of that kind as time passes.
However, there is some com
fort. Frank Munsey, wizard at
figures, discovers that war
bonds and Liberty bonds have
increased In value lately to the
extent Of two thousand million
dollars.
They stayed down around
s4-8b-86 long enough to make
little people sell out. Then big
rer people bought in, and now
fhe bonds have increased two
thousand millions in dollars.
"To him that hath shall be
given" ,
the satisfaction of being patri.
otic for while. That's good
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