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Evening Star, Issue 18785, 8 November 1924, Page 10

In a village near Munich, in Bavaria, a young man, aged twenty-five, has married a widow, aged forty-five. The widow’s daughter, who is twenty-four, has manned th© fifty-year-old father of the young man. The father has thus become his son’s son-in-law, and tho young wife has become ■mother-in-law of her own mother. The eon is married to his stop-mother’s mother. Water is still brought to Athens, Greece, by the aqueduct built under the Roman Emperor Hadrian in tho year 146. The United States army showed much ingenuity in a recruiting scheme it adopted recently'. A huge rubber push-ball, 7ft in diameter and weighing 3501 b, was actually rolled across tho continent by a recruiting squad. It was painted red, white, jvnd blue, and when a crowd gathered on passing through a town, tho officer addressed it on tho advantages of an army career. It is said to have been a most successful advertising scheme, and to have resulted in largo numbers of young men joining the colors. Women in Constantinople are gradually attaining to something like the freedom their Western sisters enjoy. Owing mainly to th© quickness in learning languages, they have become acceptable members of the staffs of banks, post offices, and so on. Curiously enough, however, very few become nurses. In Turkey nursing is not thought “respectable,” It stands pretty ranch where it stood in England before Florence Nightingale made it respectable—and did so, oddly enough, by going out to Turkey, But there are Turkish women doctors. That is largely duo to a thirty years’ crusade of Turkey’s veteran doctor, Bessim Omer Pasha, who now has forty-five women students under hiav