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Today's Science
by DAVID DIETZ.

HE medical world next month viii observe the
OuOth anniversary Of the birth of Moses Maimo-
NOES the greatest physician of the Middle Ages
MalmOnideS. great Jewish scholar and philosopher
as Wei as a mathematician. astronomer and phy-
slcian, was born in Cordova. Spain on March 30
ll3o Persecution of both Jews and Christians bv
TIE MoSlem rulers Of Spain caused him. his brother
and his father to flee Cairo and there he rose to
fame, first as great Jewish teacher and rabbi later
as physician.
SO great was his fame among the Jews of his day
that they called him the second Moses" indicating
that he could be compared only to that Moses who
brought the Ten Commandments down from Mt
Sinai
His skill as a physician grew rapidlv and in time
he became the physician to Saladin the great and
powerful ruler OF the MoSlem world who defeated
King Richard the Lion Hearted in his attempts to
wrest Jerusalem from Moslem control.
Not only the court Of Salaoin but the common
people we'll knew Of Niaimonides and continuously
sought his professional advice.
A interesting light is thrown upon the life of
4 n Maimonides by letter which he wrote to one
Of his disciples in 1899. He was then 81 years old
He wrote:
Nov God knows that in order to write this to you
have escaped to a secluded spot. where people
would not think 10 find me. sometimes leaning for
support against the wall. sometimes lying down on
account Of my excessive weakness, for have grown
old and feeble.
My duties to the sultan are very heavy. I am
y
and when he any OF his children or any Of the
inmates Of his harem indiSpoSed dare not quit
Cairo but must stay during the greater part Of the
day in the palace II also frequently happens that
one OF the royal officers fall sick, and must
attend 10 their healing. Hence. a rule. repair
10 Cairo very early in the day. and even if nothing
unusual happens DO not return 10 Fostat until the
afternoon. (AiaimonideS resided at FoStat about a
mile and a half from Cairo)
Then am almost dying with hunger find the
antechambers filed with people. both Jews and Mos
lens MOBILES and common people. who await the time
Of my return. 6ismount from my animal wash my
hands. so forth my patients and entreat them to
bear with while partake OF some slight refresh
ment. the only meal take in the - hours. Then I
attend 70 my patients, write prescriptions and drec
tons for their various ailments"
HEUCH Of Maimonides' medical advice has sur
WI prisingly modern flavor. Thus for example
he summed up his theory Of health into two simple
rules: "A man should not eat too much, nor should
he give up exercise"
and again, he saws. IF person took as good care
Of himself he does OF his domestic animal. he
would avoid many diseases" How many modern
doctors have observed that their patients gave better
care 70 their automobiles than 70 themselves?
Maimonides an observer OF Nature and like
the modern physician he believed In giving Nature
q ehanca
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BisItOpric Cramps Style

CTILL, as a conscientious doubter your CORE
- spondent still feels the he did about
honorary titles It was only faint thrill, at BEST
to feel that he mail-order bishop but now that
it turns out there are than 900 of the honor
is thnned out to negigibilty. 1t Is scarcely more
distinctive than the title of honorary deputy sheriff
of Fairfield County, Conn, and just a shade above
the title of honorary Kentucky colonel. Perhaps
when every man is a king their majesties will feel
the same let-down
Moreover, what is this business about Archbishop
Huey Long of Louisiana? Does that mean that
Archbishop Long perform better marriages than
mail-order Bishop Pegler, D. D., and that Bishop
Pegler is forbidden to criticise him under pain of
discipline from the corner of 18th and arimer-sts
Denver, Colo?
Your correspondent, feeling that he is, somehow,
not the type doesn't want to be mail-order bishop
of the Liberal Church. Inc, anyway. A nice sight
a bishop would be walking into saloon or shooting
pool till all hours of the night down at the corner.
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blood, stained colors and thou
sands of dead bodies, half de-
voured by wolves-the battlefield
of the Moskowa.
The emperor went by quickly
and nobody stopped. Here and
there wounded men, who had been
left behind and we're still alive,
held out their hands toward him
in supplication.
1.-THE retreat became a rout, an
entirely novel sight for Napoleon"
wrote his aide-de-camp, Count de
Segur. The emperor's only
thought was now to go into winter
quarters in Poland as quickly as
possible. And he urged the
empress again to obtain reinforce
ments from her father for
Schwartzenberg's army, which was
hard pressed by the Russian Ad-
niral Tchitchagoff and was fall
ing back behind the Bug:
Viasma, November 1st (1S12)
Mon annie, You will see by the
date of this letter that 1 am near
ing Poland in order to establish
my winter quarters there. There
will thus be 100 leagues fewer be-
tween us. The weather is splendid,
3 Or 4 degrees below freezing
point, glorious sunshine. My health
is perfect, my affairs in good
shape. All i lack is the happiness
of seeing you and telling you how
L love you. Kiss the little King
for me, write to your father that
/ request him to remember of
Schwarzenberg, to have him sup
ported by the corps in Galicia,
and to reinforce him. When you
write to the Empress, tell her 1
am 1t her feet. Adieu, mon annie.
You know how l think of you.
Tout a tot. NAP.
TOmOrrOw-"A Dying Army in
a Dead Land"
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Nationals; in all other countries by
United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Reproduce
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Moscow by the Emperor. Since
the previous day the Army had
been leaving the town uninter-
ruptedly, a huge column of 140,-
900 fighting men on the march
in the van with $50 guns still
preserved the fear-inspiring APP
pearance of old warriors, the rab-
BILE that followed looked like an
army of Darius, or horde of
Tartars.
There was to be seen, making
their way along in three unending
files, a confused throng of coaches,
gun limbers, Berlins and carts of
every description, with trophies
of flags and the gigantic Cross
of the Grand Ivan Church, with
which Napoleon intended to adorn
the Dome of the Invalides. Nor
tier, who covered the retreat, had
orders to blow up the Kremlin.
This was done on Oct. %.
"A vendetta!" writes Jemiri, the
severe censor of Napoleon.
Nay, in order to form a fairer
opinion of this deed of Napoleon's,
read his letters to Marie Louise.
Mo bonnie annie, ] have not
heard from you these last two
days. / have given you warning
that / was moving on and that
you must not be uneasy should
you be three days, as you may be,
without hearing from me. My
health is good, my affairs are 60
ing well. have left Moscow aft
err blowing up the Kremlin. 1t
would have taken 10000 men to
remain in possession of the city,
destroyed as it is; it interfered
with my operation. The weather
is very fine; it is misty from early
morning until 2 o'clock in the aft
ernOOn; then it becomes very fine,
and the sun is very warm; in the
evening, there is fine moon un-
til midnight. Such weather is
unprecedented. Ado, milo bene, be
cheerful and keep in good health.
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Upon their success likewise, to
a large extent, depends the peace
of the Far East, if not of the Paci-
f1c. For the best informed diplo-
mats agree there is definite link
between the peace of the Orient
and the peace of the Occident.
Success, the scurrying states
men insist, will mean the birth of
a new world confidence which will
set in motion forces leading to
business recovery, better times
and unemployment clear around
the globe.
THE visit of the Austrian
u leaders to Paris and London
is merely the latest of the
journeys which seriously got under
way about this time last year.
Then Europe was on the point of
dividing into hostile camps, any
one of which could easily start
another great war.
Louis Barthou, then foreign
minister Of France, feared the ex-
plosion might come at any time.
He set out to prevent it, if he
could. Already there were the
Locarno treaties safeguarding
Western Europe If similar pacts
could be devised to do the same
for Eastern Europe and the Dan
ubian states, he believed, the
peace Of Europe would be fairly
secure. Included, of course, would
be Germany.
To put this idea across, M. Bar
thou set out to visit practically
every capital in Europe. Other
diplomats took his cue-some TO
help his cause, others to wreck it.
One could hardly board any Of
the crack continental expresses
without running into some group
of the travelling statesmen.
It was on one such junket that
King Alexander Of YugoSlavia
was assassinated with NJ. Bar
thou, in Marseille. But the visits
kept on, NJ. Laval taking up for
France the job left unfinished
by his predecessors.
The visits are almost over. The
powers of Europe are now begin
ming to take their places. on one
side or the other. The big ques-
ton of the moment is what Herr
HITLER will say to Sir John Simon.
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for he forgets entirely that he addresses brother in
the cloth Instead of improving, your articles get
worse and today your unjust attack on honorary
Wretched mind
In II years 1 have conferred more than $4,000
doctor of divinity degrees and ordained 70 cardinals,
500 archbiShopS and more than 900 bishops You
to be attempting to spill the sacred beans and
your damnabe story against honorary titles is APP
preaching near the unforgivable sim However, will
forgive your most unholy utterance provided you
will cease to interfere with the good work OF one of
our archbishops, the Hon. Huey P. Long, United
States Senator.
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GiUeHS Up ia Arms

co far the credit for this pleasing lveliness be-
~ longs 70 the sO-called radical" group Teachers
are additionally a little timd when suddenly as
sailed by any such powerful force as the whole
weight OF the Hearst press But this time there has
Deen no disposition to take the attack lying down.
Certain eminent and orthodox old gentlemen with
long gray boards are suddenly breathing fire and
shouting, When YOU call that smile"
For instance, Willard E. Owens. who comes from
Mr.. Hearsts own kingdom of California has never
by the most remote fantasy been identified as rad
zeal and yet he is up in with the rest He was
startled yesterday to find himself quoted as criti-
eising those who are trying to put a soap-box in
every schOolroom"
Mr.. Givens' mild objection is that he never said
1t and that he feels he has a right to be consulted
before being quoted He doesn't want to be surprised
again
But think Mr.. Hearst is deserving of at least one
compliment As King George was the instrument
Whlch drove scattered cOlonstS into united nation
Just so has the attack of William Randolph Hearst
DIougnt 70 American educators for the first time the
necessity OF solidarity and organization.
Copyright 1885,
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Tout tot, two kisses for the Lit
tie King. Nap.
Flom (in) kOie, Oct. 22nd, 1812).
Ma bonnie annie, / have no let
tiers from you for three days, be-
cause three of my cOuriers have
arrived and are detained at post,
on account of the appearance of a
few regulars. / have sent out for
them and 1 shall receive them to-
day. My army is on the march.
have had the KremeIin blown up
and departed from Moscow. 1t
did not fit in with my plans to go
into winter quarters there. My
health is good, the weather is fine,
my affairs are going well. Ado
milo bene. Tout tot. Nap.
BorOsk, the gath, a. m.
October. 1872.
A T Tarontino, Koutousof was
N unaware of the general re-
treat of the Grand Army. Under
the impression that the Fourth
Corps of the Viceroy of Italy,
Eugene de Beauharnais, was the
only one on the march towards
Borovsk, he had detached against
it the $4,000 men under Doctorof.
But a Cossack having captured an
officer of the young guard at the
gates of Borovsk, Doctorof heard
that he was running up against
the whole of the Grand Army.
He determined to foreStall the lat
ter of Malojaroslavetz, and gave
notice of this at the same time to
Koutousof, who set his troops in
motion concurrently.
Early on Oct. "a, a furious fight
was started in the streets of
Maloj which was taken
and lost no less than seven times
in succession. At the end of the
day what was left of it remained
in the hands of the Viceroy, Eu-
gene.
The next day a letter of Ma
poleon's addressed to his dolce
amore announced this victory,
without mentioning how costly it
had been for the 1905 French
and italian troops engaged against
$4,000 Russians posted above
them; without referring to the
humiliation Of having had his
maneuver foreStalled and thwart-
ed by an old man, 'by a
Scythian!" and without revealing
the fact that he had come with
in an ace Of being carried off by
a party of Cossacks:
Ma bonnie annie, / have received
your letter of the 9th. All the
particulars you give me about the
Little King give me great plea
sure, and all you tell me of the
sentiments you feel so well be-
cause they are sincere and pure
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just as you are, are great COM
fort to me. If it were possible
may my love for you add to your
good qualities. And the regard in
which you are held by all is cal
culated to do so. You will read
the news in the Army Order.
am drawing nearer to you and /
will think about having you come
to Poland if your health permits
bearing such long journey.
Ado, milo doulce amOre. Tout
tot. NAP.
BOrOvsk, October 26th 1S12).
Write to the Vice-Reine that
the Viceroy has had fine fight,
that he distinguished himself and
that he is in good health.
Ma chere annie, / have received
your letter of October Sth. / am
glad to hear that you are in very
good health. / share your desire
to see the end of all this; you
must not doubt the happiness it
would give me to kiss you; you
must not be anxious or worry too
much. It may be managed pro-
vided your health is good enough.
The VicerOy has had a glorious
fight, in which he inflicted 5000
or 5000 casualties on the enemy.
He is in good health, inform the
Vice-Reine of this. Kiss my son
twice and never doubt your faith
full husband (?). NAP.
BOrowsk, October 26th (1812).
DETWEEN Oct. 26 and Nov. l
ID there is gap in the
emperor's private letters. These
days were some of the most tragic
of the retreat.
After Malojaroslavetz, both adj
versaries had fallen back. And
all of sudden there loomed up,
with its trees Topped off few feet
from the ground, and it's hillockS
ravined, a sort of eXtinguiShed
volcano-a volcano strewn with
helmets and cuiraSses, broken
guns, fragments of uniforms, of
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Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

TINE funnel chest the chicken breast the round
i shoulder in children and grownups are signs OF
bad body formation and result from bad habits OF
sitting, standing and lying down. They shoulo
warn you to maintain good posture, no matter
what your activity may be.
An article just published by Hygeia, the 9alth
magazine, gives these 10 commandments Tor 'ood
posture:
stand tall Sit tall Walk tall and "chesty" w h
weight transmitted to the balls of your feet. Draw
in your abdomen, pulling it back and up Keep
your shoulders square and high, but not hunched
Pull your chin straight back Flatten the hollow OF
your back by rolling your pelvis down and back.
Separate your shoulders from your hips as far as
possible Lie tall and flat Sleep tall. Think tall
CUTTING occupies a tremendous amount of a
- chd's time from the day it enters kindergarten
until it completes its education.
Although it may observe an excellent posture
when standing walking or running and even
when lying in bed the amount Of time spent sitting
incorrectly in school may overcome all the Denent
derived from observing good posture elsewhere
However the question Of posture concerns not
ONLY children in school, but all who sit at their
work Another group who suffer with bad posture
are singers dancers, and musicians, who spend many
hours in certain positions and develop strange
curves of their bodies.
The organ most largely concerned in posture
is the spinal column This is made up OF many
segments, which fit together In line with certain
curves. These curves developed by the spine to
on two legs
WHEN the spine curves in other ways as
w result of disease or of bad posture, symptoms
develop in addition to the odd appearance.
Many persons get bad posture from wrong habits
of standing sitting, walking and sleeping. They
slide down in their chairs develop strange at
titudes to meet the fashions. This is particularly
the case in girls.
Bad posture also results in cramping Of the
organs within the abdomen interfering with action
of heart, lungs and diaphragm.
Another factor involved in bad posture is strain
on the eyes If child sits in proper relationship
to its work the eyes will be at correct distance
from the work and the illumination will be thrown
on the page satisfactorily
The most modern schools take account Of all
these factors and arrange both pupil and desk
properly.
Q-From what animal does nutria fur come?
Alt is the plucked fur or pelt Of the coypu,
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den to charge fees or accept gratu-
tiles for his service. On the theory
that a free marriage would be
worth no more than it cost and
probably would come unstuck in a
short time your correspondent has
performed no marriages. In fact,
the warrant was put away among
the letters which are going to be
answered one of these days and
was forgotten until this day when
a reminder come from the Rev.
Frank H Rice, D. d, the founder
and proprietor of the church of
which your correspondent has the
honor to call himself bishop.
n !. Il,
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wv 4Nt1I4'
If these visits eliminate in a
pan entente based on
the proposed series of non-aggres-
sion and mutual aid pacts between
the Great Powers and groups of
powers, peace will be more nearly
assured that j. has been since 1918.
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dAlN EAAAAAAAAACNA etNAOAa abSeANN IA 1900
Farley. The Kingfish is more
closely guarded than the Presi-
dent. Several of his bodyguard
accompany him everywhere,
armed with sawed-off shotguns
carried in specially made brief
cases. The large staff of eX-
ira clerks and stenographers in
Huey's office, needed to take care
of his daily flood of mail. are on
the pay roll of the state of Louisi-
ana. No other member of Con-
gress enjoys such a privilege. If
they hire extra clerical help they
pay for it out Of their own
pockets.
A FTER Huey had finished his
n investigation into the plot
against his life, he sat down in
a Baton Rouge lunch room with
Paul Anderson Of the st. Louis
Post dispatch, ordered a huge
platter of cabbage and spare ribs
and opined:
We'll, I've picked lot of poll
teal candidates in my day and
there's one lesson I should have
learned: Never pick one who has
a happy home and family"
"Why?" queried Mr.. Anderson,
who is happily married.
We'll, you take some fellow
who has a nice little wife and
nice little home and put him in
Office and after a few days the
papers begin shooting at him and
the opposition begins calling him
all the names under the sun and
pretty soon he comes to you and
weepS on your shoulder.
His wife, he says, wants him to
quit. The neighbors won't speak
TO her. The neighbours children
raise he'll with her children. And
so this guy gets to be regular
washout.
But, on the other hand" con-
tinued Huey. you take some
horny-handed hard-boiled guy
who doesn't get along with his
wife and put him in office and the
papers can call him names and
the opposition can lambaste him,
but does his wife mind?
mol Nothing they can say is
half as bad as what she calls him
every morning.
NNE of the tragic things about
~ every White House incum-
bent is q condition which best can
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The LOVE LETTERS c
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The Retreat from Moscow

THE mood of lethargy
and self-deception in
which Napoleon seemed to
acquiesce" - so Jomini
writes - twas bound to
come to an end, and the
awakening was terrible"
Any sort of offensive
against st. Petersburg was
ont of the question. Could
Napoleon have proceeded to
Volhynia, by way of Kiev,
he would have been able to
get fresh supplies for the
army; but, in that case, he
would have had to leave the
three army-cOrps on his
left wing at the mercy of
the Russians.
Napoleon was in doubt what to
do. He recalled the adventure OF
Charles XII of Sweden, and his
hopeless wanderings in the Rus
sian deserts-for he had read an
account of these in a work by the
Swedish Chamberlain Alderfeld.
He had made a point of borrow
ing it from the imperial library.
Napoleon contented himself
with returning to Smolensk by a
new route which had not been
laid waste by the invading army.
The sick and wounded were
evacuated to that town from Oct.
Is EDWARDS.
Ma chere Louise, / have received
your letter of Oct. /. You were
perturbed at not having any par
ticuIars about my entry into Mos
COW. / hope you will have had
some on the End. You will have
observed the folly of these peo-
pie who have set fire to their own
country and thus ruined it for
centuries, for Moscow was all the
more beautiful and astounding a
city in that it was almost the only
one of its size in this immense
country. Let me hear from you
soon that the Little King is well
and that you are satisfied and
more particularly that you are in
good health. Adieu, mon annie.
Tout a tot. Your faithful and
loving husband, NAP
Moscow, Oct. Is Qsi2).
ON Oct. 10 Napoleon informed
~ the empress that he was going
into winter quarters. The one
thing which he would not admit,
and could not bring himself to
write was that the army was re-
treating.
Ma bonnie Louise, / am writing
to you just before setting out on
horseback to visit my OutpOstS. We
are having warm weather here.
glorious sunshine, as bright as one
can have in Paris in April. We
have had no cold weather as yet,
we have not yet experienced the
severity of these northern chimes.
1t is my intention to go into win
ter quarters shortly and hope to
be able to have you come to PO-
land so that we may meet. Kiss
the little King for me and never
doubt the feelings of your loving
husband. Nap.
Moscow, the 18th, a. m. (OctO-
Der, 1872.
This was the last day spent at
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EUEnouNh
By
WESTBROOK PEGLER

IN recent essay the subject of honorary titles,
l. your correspondent confessed to being an honor
airy deputy sheriff of Fairfield County, Conn. be-
Ieved to be the only rank in the world inferior to
that Of honorary Kentucky colonel but completely
forgot another honor which conferred oR him
without warning about year ago.
Your correspondent is a mai-order bishop and
a D. D. of the Liberal Church of Denver, Color and
empowered to perform marriages, although forbid
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mat ne Would Iay me even IOugtI
ODDS and that my notion Of his
political ambitions and potential
tiles was fantastic and ridiculous.
But know better than DR..
Prank. More than 10 years ago
Mrs. Frank said TO me, "Of course,
Glenn IS eventually going TO the
White House" And she didn't
mean for supper. Mrs. Frank is a
determined woman and has the gift
OF intuition.
As a matter Of fact, Glenn
Frank fits. the Republican require
ments exactly. He Is liberal enough
10 fall into the group which the
Herald-Tribuue vaguely labels