Ubiquitous Mussolini

Some months ago, one Miss Margaret L. Johnstone of Glen Ridge, N. J., U. S. A., lay abed in Venice, stricken with typhoid. An Italian nurse restored her to health; and, for her services, Miss Johnstone presented to her, in addition to her ordinary fees, a necklace bought at an important jewelry shop. Correspondence between nurse and former patient brought out the fact that the jewelers had substituted a cheap necklace for the one purchased by Miss Johnstone; the latter, naturally becoming angry, wrote to the shop. Then, apparently, overcome by vexation, she wrote also to Mussolini--the Mussolini whose first name is Benito and whose title is Premier of all Italy. Premier Mussolini, whose whole time has been spent combating one political crisis after another, did not answer the cry for justice that emanated from Miss Johnstone; but he spoke; and the reverberations of his voice carried to Venice and penetrated the walls of the important jewelry shop. Three weeks after Miss Johnstone's appeal to Mussolini, she received a letter from the jewelers--they had rectified their "mistake" and were "very, very sorry."