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x i. i y. I .uiMmmmmmmmmmmmtmmmm Ws ".n-i of cure for the physical cancer. A woman found it, and in the radium ray which good women are directing on the moral cancers of the world lies its salvation. O Of 4 "TO-BE-BEAUTIFUL LEAD SIMPLE LIFE," SAYS PRIMA DONNA 0&?rtti J&iHiMg Carmine Melis. San Francisco, Cat., Oct. 31. "I just live the simple life that is all." This is Carmine Melis' reason for her wonderful voice and beauty. Car mine is a prima donna. She and Maiy Garden are rivals for the honor of "the most beautiful prima donna on the stage." "I am so careful what I eat just always the simple things. White meat, and never anything to drink but water and milk oh, yes, coffee, too. But never wine, champagne, or cocktails. "I love salads, but eat them I can-, not, for last year there was nearly a breakdown on account of the digest tion. Too many salads! But sweets ah! "I sleep at least eight hours, and every morning a bath I take very, very hot. The soap is made especial ly in Italy; in it is, I think, starch. "Never do I use cold cream! noth- ing on the face." With Carmine Melis exercise is an unknown quality. "Walk? Oh, yes, I like to walk but never more than three blocks. The motor car is best." ' Protection for her throat is like wise unknown. "I wear the collars never. My throat is better if it is free and I never take cold. "And I do not worry!" o o JANITORS' STRIKE PROBABLE Chicago flat dwellers today faced the prospects of a cold, cold winter and of shoveling their own -snow, when the call for a strike vote was sent out to 4,000 union flat janitors, as a result of bickerings between the union and several landlords. Mrs. Fred Crocker, owner of an apartment building, today gave in and employed a union janitor, after pickets had stqpped the delivery of groceries to her tenants for forty eight hours. Pickets continued on duty at two other apartment build ings where non-union janitors are employed. o o Mining in the United States is a gigantic industry, second only to agriculture, employing directly more than 1,500,000 men, and having a yearly output of $2,000,000,000. jLjjymj. iZriAll .1