View with Alarm: Dec. 31, 1923

Having perused well the chronicle of the week, the Vigilant Patriot views with alarm:

A prayer for paralysis in the U. S. Senate. (P. 4.)

Hell-and-Maria going into another rumpus. (P. 8.)

Indirect costs that seem to pyramid and pyramid. (P. 5.)

Heavenly flowers falling from ceilings. (P 31.)

“A sweet, pretty, 20-year-old girl” who regrets nothing. (P. 11.)

The cancer death rate still climbing. (P. 21.)

Mussolini’s latest and negative decision. (P. 11.)

Horace Walpole—age could not wither nor custom stale the vigor of his prejudices. (P. 10.)

Napoleon’s nasty, nasal habit. (P. 10.)

A Millerandian boomerang. (P. 10.)

The reason Battistini never crosses the ocean. (P. 15.)

Postmasters for Dinwiddie, Meadows of Dan, Beaver Dam, Disputanta, Saltville. (P. 5.)

“More women than anyone could count” (P. 16.)

What Lillian may have asked for. (P. 24.)

The national game of politics—too dirty for a good clean woman. (P. 31.)

A woolen union-suit in the German Embassy. (P. 7.)

An “apeman” who was a woman. (P. 21.)