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One of Mr. Ringling's agents prevailed upon her to travel with the circus and to pose as "the ugliest woman in the world" as a means of livelihood. Mr. Ringling is kind to his people and she is well cared for. But she suffers from intolerable headaches, has become nearly blind, and permits herself to be laughed at and heckled by an unfeeling people in order to provide the wherewithal to educate her four children. Beauty is but skin deep. Being a physician, I do not like to feel that TIME can be frivolous over the tragedies of disease.
HARVEY CUSHING
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Boston, Mass.
Woman Preacher
Sirs:
"Sixty plump matrons of Pastor M. B. Lord's Kensington Methodist Church at Berlin, Conn., measured out the substantial token of their esteem for him." (TIME, May 9, p. 21).
You will doubtless be interested to know that the pastor's name is May B. Lord, that she is not a "him," but is one of Connecticut's two famed Methodist women preachers. The other is Miss Elsie F. Stowe, pastor of the church at North Wilton.
PAUL W. STODDARD
New Haven, Conn.
Condensation
Sirs:
. . . As you have shown your interest in me as a subscriber, I will reciprocate by offering a criticism.
I find your reporting of events often exasperating as well as surprising in a paper which professes to aim at brevity. You reach the meat of an item by the most circuitous route. The reporter seems to have taken a course in the Circumlocution Office.
For example, if you wish to report that Bill Jones has painted his barn, you write:
"A lank, sunburned individual walked down the street. He stooped and had a two-days' growth of beard. He was encased in blue overalls, stitched with white. In one hand he carried a pail half filled with a dark brown paint; in the other a heavy brush. It was Bill Jones going to paint his barn."
Do you call this "condensation" ?
E. T. MERRELL
Framingham, Mass.
Paternoster
Sirs:
TIME, Feb. 21, printed an account of the Ceremonies incident to the proposal of the revised Prayer Book in England, and stated that the Archbishop of Canterbury repeated the Paternoster in Latin. . . .
I am not an Episcopalian but I have always understood that one important point in the Reformation of the Anglican Church was the elimination of Latin from Public Services.
. . . I have consulted a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church and he advises me that Latin is not used in public services of the Anglican Church although the Prayer Book gives the Latin heading for the Psalms and certain hymns.
I was interested in the question as my father, Edward Everett Hale, who was an Unitarian minister, once told me that the only Churches which could use Latin in public were the Roman and the Unitarian. The question came up when my father's organist asked if he had any objection to the singing of "Integer vitae" in Church. ARTHUR HALE
Washington, D. C.
Despatches had the Archbishop of Canterbury saying a paternoster. In London one High Church congregation holds services entirely in Latin; in Chicago one holds them partly in Greek.—ED.
"Babbitt Weekly"
Sirs: