Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-27
Highlights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands

TIME BULLETIN, Sydney.-Amy
johnson is a much more signifi-
cant circumstance than most of
Il those may have thought who
cheered her and put their hands
in their pockets to buy gifts for her
For she represents the rebellion of
women, one of the most tremendously
important features of this generation;
indeed, it may be the most important
feature of all. Amy johnson and the
f1apper who bareS her knees to the
world are standard bearers in exactly
the same cauSe-probably without either
of them in the least realizing it.
1t began, of course, long before the
war. But up to that time it was scarce
~ at all a physical rebellion. The lead
ers of the feminist movement of the COS
were entirely intellectual They aimed
chiefly at an improvement in the social
conditions affecting women and chill
dren. To that end they sought the
franchise, yet the gaining of it left no
real mark upon women. The real change
came with the war. Until then there
was great gulf fixed between the sexes,
and woman was generally believed to
be moral or physical weakling in
capable of taking care of herself.
Exigencies of war changed all that.
Woman showed herself as brave. strong,
capable and efficient as man. Dress re-
form and the greater freedom that came
with 1t have helped the development,
as has also the increasing employment
Of women in factories, shops and offices.
Woman has an independence she never
knew before. She can mix with her
fellows of both sexes. She can. when
she feels disposed. pick out q man she
ftllyc cI1o until fA- foll
ask him to marry her and buy the fur
niture herself: she can take her Jason
and fly the earth unchaperoned. and in
stead of rebuking ner, grandmothers
will load her with praises and frequent
ly with more solid gifts.
The rebellion of woman Is one of the
few good things the war has left us.
Though it may have helped to produce
some of the worlds current economic
disturbances 1t has done away with an
enormous amount of hypocrisy and
given the sexes a saner relation.
X X X X
Spanish Physician
Lectures on Novel Methods.
La Presna, Buenos Aires-The Span
ish physician. Francisco Asuero. lectured
recently on his novel methods in cura-
tive and preventive medicine. We say
novel because. while his system is not
one that was hitherto unknown, it is
one which is not practiced
nor Endorsed to any great extent by the
profession of the present day. The lee
ture was delivered in the auditorium of
the Circulo Medico Argentine, and vari-
10 nj cli6nS nYhihifG
testified to the success of the Asuerian
system of therapeutics
Perhaps the most celebrated demon
Strator of \ similar school of medicine
is DR.. Sangrado. whose practice OF mcdi-
cine is described so Immortality in Gil
Bias" IT, has long been maintained that
DR.. Sangrado. whose panacea consisted
In giving the patient all the water he
could drink. and relieving any pressure
thereby incurred by letting of blood, was
not 3 romantic invention Of LIE Sage,
but the depletion of a Spanish physi-
clan that actually existed in the seven
tenth century. DR. Asuero initiates his
prototype as far as the drinking of
water is concerned. but not in the SAN
culinary feature of the method, which is
the reason that most of Dr.
ASueros patients recover, especially
from chronic diseases. while few of DR.
protegeS survived TO tell OF
such happy termination TO their mala-
dies.
The local profession, represented by
the physicians and students of medi-
cine attending the lecture. though they
seemed impressed with the proofs and
arguments adduced. have remained
some what non-committai Is 10 whether
hey are contemplating tho use Of
principles in their Treatment
If the sick. They are withholding
Judgment until they see the effects of
Lhe. method upon pa tients DIR. AEuero
mas treated IN Buenos Aires.