Nose

In St. Louis, on the campus of Washington University, there was much talk of inferiority complexes, much quoting of the nasal rodomontades of big-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac. A student named Theodore Hofman, 24, had killed himself. Wrote he:

"To the world:

"When I was a child, other children abused and mistreated me because I was weaker and uglier than they. I was a sensitive bashful boy and was teased because of my face and long nose.

"I was unable to speak to anyone. My confidence was gone. A teacher spelled my name with two 'f's' although it had only one, yet I became so backward I was unable to correct her and therefore spelled it out with two 'f's' throughout my school career.

"God forgive everyone for this. I'm afraid of the world, but I'm not afraid to

die. I face God with a clear conscience."

Author

In Budapest, Camillo Felleghy and his troupe of four strolling players hopefully mangled Shakespeare's King Lear before an impressed peasant audience who ended by calling for "Author! Author!" When Felleghy responded wearing a false beard hooked over his ears, bowing his thanks, three Shakespeare lovers who had seen King Lear at the Budapest State Theatre leaped to their feet, hurled eggs & onions at Felleghy-Shakespeare. rushed onto the stage and beat him with canes. In Budapest County Court they were fined 20 pengoes ($3.49) each.

Gossip

In New Orleans, claiming a male deaf mute had slandered her in deaf & dumb language, a female deaf mute shot him through the arm with a .44 pistol.

Mind

In St. Louis, told to get her mind off her troubles. Mrs. Edward E. Wall played solitaire for seven years, playing seven varieties, 65,707 games.

Birth

In Brooklyn, Mary Bronsky. 17, gave birth to a baby boy in a windswept door way, sobbed wildly, fled as passers-by gathered. She was found semiconscious in a nearby attic-bedroom. The hale child was rushed to a nursing home, thrived.

Junk In Chicago, R. F. Keeler. poet, and A. F. Meserve, bedtime story writer, parked their car in what looked like a deserted parking place, was in fact a junkyard, returned to find four junkyard employes busily wrecking their car.

Cistern

In Kerrville, Tex., when Eleanor Allen rode a horse into a soft, cistern the girl was saved with a ladder, the horse removed by filling the cistern, floating it out.

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