RARE ILLNESS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 354, 11 September 1933, Page 5

RARE ILLNESS

Women Goes Dumb From Shock , The wife of the Hungarian Prime Minister, General Gconboes. who died last month, aged 42, had seemingly recovered from a very rare illness.

In May, 1929, she attended, with her husband, the first Budapest performance of the American “Grand Guignol’’ drama “The Spider,” by Oursler Bmitano, writes the News Chronicle. After an r - '-meted pistol shot on the stage Mine. Goemboes fainted, and did not regain consciousness for many days. Then it was found tha.v she had lost her memory, and she remained dumb.

After a long time she regained ho power of speech, but her former command of several foreign languages had gone, and she had to be taught oven her native language again.

A year ago, she seemed to have recovered, and since last September, when her husband became Prime Minister, she had been able, to perform her public duties. Last month, however, she collapsed from heart failure.

I worship not at tomb nor carven shrine Where hones of dubious sanctity recline. The dead Mahomet means no more to me Than autumn’s perished petals ’heath the tree. I worship not the scouring of the cask — For me the Vintner’s “special” in the flask! And when for bronchial ailments I assure— Most precious Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, —23