Evening star., 1937-06-26
i'm THE CURRENT MAGAZINES
July Bachelor Deals With Scents for Men and Air Conditioned
Parasos-Three Local Bachelors Featured-Coronet Tells
of Woman Who Was Army Inspector General

came down in its blight and fury. It
was the investors in investment trusts
who lost most consistently, says Mr..
Flynn. and as result common conf
dence in the trust is lost and the pres
ent-day would-be investor, unless he
can afford to buy expensive expert
advice. Is hard put TO it to find a
safe place for his money. Mr.. Flynn
feels that legislation should be passed
to prevent investment trusts from fall
ing into the hands of spectators, and
then everything will be nice again.
A N INTERESTING article in July
Coronet tells of the career Of the
first English woman doctor of medi-
cine, as far as records have been
uncovered TO date. She lived to be
II years OF age, she practiced con-
sistently and was army inspector gen.
eral 1t was not until she died, how
ever, and an autopsy was held, that
it became known that she was a
woman.
English law at the time forbade
women to enter into medical schools
her death occurred in 1865. So she
simply entered the university as a man
and remained man, to all profess
sional purposes, as long as she lived
DR.. James Barry was the name she
was known by, and she is reported to
have fought at least two duels-one of
them being with bare fists with a man
who dared to say that her voice was
Squeaky. She was esteemed so excel
lent doctor. however, that the breach
Of conduct was overlooked. After her
death it was learned that she had had
q child.
A HERETICAL statement by Hen
- dirk Wilhelm Van Loon occurs in
an article of Mr. Van Looms author
ship in the July Red Book and should
meet the unqualified approval of all
literary critics the world over. Says
Mr.. Van Loon (and his piece is called,
But Nothing, I Am Afraid, Can Be
Done About IT.:
The man who invented the print
ing press was really Enemy No. ! of
all progress Hooray!
We do not cuStomarily think in this
way of printing, of course And there
is nothing wrong with printing as
such, as Mr.. Van Loon hastens 10
say. The trouble is, in his language,
mot our lack of information but the
widespread distribution OF vas.
amounts Of information that lust
amt So Perhaps the trouble is with
the publishers.
Mr.. Van Loon then calls Prof.
Einstein in to back his opinion up.
Prof. Einstein is quoted as saying.
when told that publishers would like
a compact explanation of relativity
100 words so that they could pub
llsh popular works on the suhiec,-
Prof. Einstein is quoted as saying on
that momentouS occasion:
We meant well by all the people.
We wanted all the people to share
all the good things of this world.
But how can We hope to explain to
layman what it takes professional
~ years TO underStand?'
And sighed and borrowed a match
TO relight his pipe.
Mr.. Van Loon says that the profess
sor is not the only man whose GOOD
thinking hase been splashed about
to make royalties and add to the
general confusion. He offers the names
OF Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and
Thomas Jefferson. And he saws he
could NIL so more pages of the
magazines with examples of the same
kind. If Gutenberg had stuck to
his job as engraver instead Of get
ting himself all het up about this
idea OF cheap books We would be
about one thousand per cent better off
'han we are now Or so says Mr.. Van