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Dunstan Times, Issue 3135, 18 September 1922, Page 2

Two noted United States swimmers. Miss Marv Eagle, of Philadelphia, and Mr Frank Fisher, of Brooklyn, wrrrmarried while "treading water" in the sea off Atlantic City. The bride and bridegroom swam out in specially de-

signed bathing costumes, tolloweu n\ the ntavor (Mr F. L. Boder) and the registrar (Mr L. Clarence). The ceremony was performed with the bride and'bridegroom actually in the water. The Paris newspaper l/(Euvro is offering 800 prizes to school children for politeness, and in each school a prizewinner is to be chosen by his or her fellows. The competition has drawn from M. Lcfebvre. Director of Primary Fducatiou in the Seine Department, this definition:- "True politeness domes from the heart. ft consists in doing nothing that can. by hurting another, violate the human dignity with which each is endowed: in tolerating the faults that one docs not have or believes that one docs not have; in not demanding from others more thaoi one gives, and in frying to find out in others what is worthy of being loved." Whether a great-grandfather's curse is the cause of our succeeding generalions in one family being born with deformed hands and feet i- lo be the subject of a biological research in Nottingham. The question arose old ol the testimony heard at the inquest of a child' who 'died from accidental inattention at birth. The attending doctor said that the child, like the mother and the grandmother, has only one linger on each hand and one toe on each fool. The grandmother. Mrs Anne- Carter, said that shortly before her birth "my farther cursed mv mothcr because' she interfered with his stock-taking machine, saving thati he honed the baby would be born without lingers. When he learned that I hail only fun fingers and two foes lie was frantic and tore his hair." Three of Mrs Carter's IP children are similarly defective. Members of I lie Eugenic Education Society maintain that there is not sufficient evidence to show that acquired ■ haracterist n- are inherited. ' Thev sav thai Ihe dcfornni> niav have existed in the Carter lamily before the curse, buf had remained masked for a generation or Iwo. Dr Stanley Dodd. a Harley si roe I specialist! savs that he is inclined to attribute the deformity of Ihe grandmother to coincidence rather than the curse. '•Deformities undoubtedly are hereditary." he said. "A clubloof alien runs through several generationand missing teeth likewise. ' The pocket handkerchief was first known a, kerchief- couvre-clici- a covering for the head carried m the hand: ana ni hist pocket handkerehio, - a covering for the head held in the