As the wife of a Christian Scientist, Mrs. George Bernard Shaw hesitated for just one day, last week, when her 72-year-old husband caught influenza, and then, despite his protests, called a physician.
The husband of Mrs. Shaw recently sold to an English review a cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment "because the inventor was both an American and a Jew." His courage was such that his insinuations—although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians—were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy.
Charlotte Frances Payne-Townshend and...
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