WOMEN: Beastarians

¶ Recently, reports from San Diego, whether originating in the fertile brain of the press, or having some basis in fact, related how the great warships of the U. S., plowing the Pacific, encountered a school of whales, and, eager to find targets for their gunnery, released from their guns the steely messengers of death. The aim was true. Fragments of cetaceous blubber bounded high in the air. The school had learned its lesson. And The Christian Science Monitor commented: "War preparedness is bad enough...

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