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♦ , •* '"Mystery of the Cinderella “Slipper Bandit” <,Snatched 6 Tiny Pumps From the Cute Right Feet of 6 Pretty Girls AFTER ORDEAL Peggy O'Neil, 15, First Victim of the Pittsburgh Cinderella Bandit. She s Shown Caressing Right Foot, from Which the Unidentified Marauder Tore Her Slipper. rHE "Cinderella plan," 1930 model, is on the rampage— but with comically mdodra matte rather than sinister results. Choosing Pittsburgh for the arena of his activities, this furtive modern bandit, within three weeks, has held jp six young girls and deprived them if their right slippers. Then, satisfied with the acquisition of his leathern loot, he has made off into the night, leaving his “victims” shivering on the street corner, but, aside from cold toes, quite unharmed! It is interesting to- note that each of his victims had small, well-shaped feet._ The situation thus created is more problem for the psychologist than n. the detective, f<jr the motive which re ^S^flentlessly drive* the nocturnal marau S der to perpetrate his queer thefts is ' one of those distorted “secrets of the soul” which psycho-analysis seeks to solve, [t is. * form of what science class ifies as fetish istic impulse and is accom panied by black deeds such as mu tilation find mur der.' But in the in stance we are con sidering. no such blood stain obtain*. The “Cinderella ban dit’’ of Pittsburgh is in deed an astonishing person, but hi* thefts have done no injuries; there i? even a faintly farcical cast .to them. A reusDlet.ia a man or woman who, try a psychic twist, received generally in early childhood, confuses the human object of his affection with some physical or mental characteristic or possession of the loved one. Thus peo ple have been known to bend tneir whole emotional life on a lock of hair, a photograph, or even a handkerchief, a glove nr a rib bon. The fet ishistic craving for shoes is a not uncommon one. There are severs! reasons for this. As "babies, one of our first and deep est—though perhaps un conscious — impressions is the sight of our par ents’ feet as we crawl around on the floor. VV'c associate this sight of a mother’s or a father’s snoa loot, ps>.Ci)«lpg»lU,At4t-iMb-.--*W^ love, kmdneaa, protection, *afety. Other ronjantic illusions have clus tered abou^ the feminine shoe through out the ages. The Teutonic legend of Aschenbrpedel. counterpart of the Anglo-Saxon Cinderella, stresses the young hero's quest of the girl with the “perfect foot.” The medieval custom “Don’t Guess—Learn the Facts” GERARD W. SWOrE ''resident of the General Electric Co. V and Holed Industrial LeaHn . ET it done! Wanting to do a certain thing; hoping lo do it; even trying to do il; these are all right as far as they go. But the man to tie to is the one who gets it done.’* This is the doctrine which Gerard W. Swope, president of the General Elec tric Company, behoves in. To this doc trine he credits no small part of his success as an engineer and business man. How does Gerard Swope get things done? How has he done things during the years that have elapsed since lie went to work for the General Electric Company fn ISM at a helper at a dol lar a day? What quality was it that motivated him to make a huge con tract with the Chinese Government without authority and then to report the transaction to his superiors" About the Chinese contract, Swop* himself says, “I believed it was a good contract, so I acted on that belief. When I came back and submitted it to the company, it was accepted, be cause it wad- a good contract; one which they wer«glad to get.” “The chief thing is a firm faith in the facts. People talk about having ‘the courage of our con\*iction».’ But if our convictions are the result of knowledge,’I can’t see that it takes much courage to stand by them. “You wouldn’t need courage to tell me that two and two make four! In other words, if you are sure of your facts, it doesn’t take courage to state them. And if you act on your know!, edge of the facts, it isn't because you have faith in yourself, but-because vou have faith in the facts! It is the man who is guessing at things that needs courage and otif-confidence when he acta according to mere guess work.” Looking back, Mr. Swope says: ‘•My father never discouraged me or laughed at my attempts. He taught me not to risk failure on an uncertainty, but to act on knowledge instead of on guesswork.” When the dii#ctors of the General Electric Company finally found out that their erstwhile young dollar-a-dav helper was a man who never risked failure on uncertainty—one who in variably acted on knowledge instead of on guesswork, they made him presi dent of the company and incidentally one of the world's kings of industry. By HERBERT L. IIERSCHENSOHN. (Hhriirian and Surgeon) A GOITRE is an enlargement of the thyroid gland. This gland, which is shaped like a li, is situated in the lower part of the neck. It consists of two lobes, one on each side of the trachea, or wind-pipe, con nected by a band of tissue called the isthmus. The isthmus crosses the front of the trachea. It can be felt moving up and down when swallowing, if the thumb is placed in the notch at the top of the breast bone, the sternum. In about fifty per cent of ■ the thyroid glands a third but smaller lobe, shaped somewhat like a pryamid, projects upward from the isthmus, the gland then more closely resembling a W. The entire thyroid gland is enclosed m a double -capsule of tissue. The outer capsule is loosely connected and can be easily peetett off. The inner capsule, TiQwever, hugs the gland quite closely, sending hands °f tissue into the body of the gland, dividing It into smaller compartment*. Each compart ment. is further aiTbd^vided into micro scopically email spaces filled with a substance which contains iodine. Iodine is necessary for the body. There are certain diseases, as influ enza, typhoid fever, rheumatic fever, tuberculosis, etc., in which a quantity of iodine, is highly deairable, the iodine playing an important part in the gen eral defensive mechanism against in fection. There are also certain eondi The Abo»e Sketch Show' (t) “Adam's ipplr’’ % (B) Thyroid tJUnd (C) Trachea or Windpipe lions in life which require additional amounts of iodine, such as puberty and pregnancy. If the iodine output jsjiot great enough to mdet any of the ahov* conditions, the thyroid gland enlarge* with the hope that more iodine will form as a result of the'overgrowth; This enlargement is called- a simple goitre. If the diet or water has no iodine, the'thyroid will, enlarge to meet METHOD OF THEFT *'The man, young, 1 pardonable end • wift In hid ) movement*, 1 dexterously I twidtd Ike I object of hi* f deaire from i the atartled girl’d foot; regaind kid motor car, and make* off in the direction of ■ - the auburb*." of doing homage t-o a beautiful woman by drinking a toast to her out of her slipper still obtains in Poland, and was popular yit'ji the blades of" the gay nineties. The techniqyc of the Pittsburgh slipper thief was interesting. One clue to his identity, which, however, yielded the police nothing de finite, was his employment of « uiuo cuu(ic, i np in»n, wjio js described as young, personable and swiftr in his movements, would pull up at the curb, jump from the wheel, dexterously twist the object of his de sire from the startled girl’s foot, regain jiti M" rri fi*1'* off » »* «* cylinders, in the direction of the suburbs. i His first episode was staged when Peggy O’Neil, 15, and pretty, was strolling along a rather unfrequented street at dusk. She heard the hunt of a motor. Then the next thing she knew she “felt a snake-like grip around my ankle,” and her right foot had been de-slippered. Eleanor Trybylek, 17, had a similar encounter with the “Cinderella man,” as did Lois Clark, 18; Christine Yeuber, 19, whose strap less slippers made her an easy prey, Catherine Pate, 22, and France* Sobics, 21. The girla were unanimous in de claring the stranger worked without gun or other weapon. During his dep redations he never spoke — another feature that made'detection hard. Still another fact stood outj It was in variably the right shoe upon which his longing was centered. He never touched the left, nor did he try to rob" the girls, though all were carrying sums of money and some displayed jewelry-. The only occasion when he didn't employ his automobile was when he approached Miss Sohies, who was standing on a street comer ear'y in the morning waiting for a girl-friend What a Goitre Is, How It Grows and Its Treatment this deficiency. It is for that reason that this type of goitre it teen more frequently in certain parts of the world than in others. aS*c' There is another type of goitre which has nothin? to do with a deficiency of iodine in the body. It is called exophthalmic goitre, exophthalmos meaning bulging of the eyes. Although some authorities claim that thit type of goitre . causes extreme nervousness, there are as many other authorities who taka the opposite view, that is, that an unstable, irritable nervous system is the cause of the goitre. Such nervous instability may be due to dis agreeable social or business conditions, fright, worry, mental shock, or con tinuous mental over-exertion. Focal infections, such as diseased tonsils, infected teeth, and even chronic ap pendicitis have also been held re sponsible, It is this type of goitre which is accompanied by weakness of the nvusclei, tremor of the hands, and •erious heart trouble. Despite its name, there is an actual bulging of the,eyes in only one-third of the cases. This is due'to an in creased deposit of fat bthind the eye ball, pushing it forward. It may also b* due to an accumulation of fluid ut the soft tissues in bL«ck, of the eye. If iodine administered to cases of exophthalmic goitre for eny consider able length -of time, the' gland does not diminish in else as does the simple goitre, but instead, the condition be comes greatly aggravated, the thyroid enlarging to even greater proportions. r».t Rrll.la llahlt vhrn Mr. Cinderella approached tealthily on loot, did his job, and took o his heel*. Her description of the tnaii, tin ihnaiiing his youth, good look * ami xpen. ivr clothing. pave rise to a sus> 'icion that, he \\a.. u student under ■oing a fraternity imtintion. Such turns have been •'palled'’ by under raduntes, but it was not thought powerful and beautiful, was engaged . for diplomatic reasons to a young ! kinsman, but refused to marry him. Investigation showed that she was truly fond of hor fiance, but that the ' jiftryfcular kind of leather of which his | shoos were made was repulsive to her, t The problem was finally solved by a simple expedient. Experiment* were made by shoemakers with various kinds of leather, metal, cordage, and ribbon, till the proper mixture was ar rived at, and a pair of hoots that charmed the countess could be manu factured. When he wore these, her cousin completely enraptured her. Sh« became his wife and adores him to this day. but only when ho is appropriately shod. She cannot tolerate tne sight of him in his bare feet. This case is so fantastic that one might be inclined to doubt ita authenticity, were it not for the fact that highly reputable ALSO ROMEO Catherine Pate, 22, Shewing Har Stacking-Clad Right Feet from Which the My»teriou» Thief Removed Her Shoe While She Wan Taking a Walk in the Pittiburgh Street*. likely in a case involving aa ntany h* six girl". ' Krafft-Kbing, famous psycho logist, ■ point* to a number of e as n * h i'storic* of shoe fet ishism. One of his patients, of distinguished ancestry, fail in love when he wa« seventeen with a young woman notable for her “very elegant boots.” From the particular he passed to the general, so that event ually he becama a nigbt prow icr». ioomn|. ior women op licateiy.siiud. Tfcjuihpft&ui ie-ba French with high heel and of a deep black, like the original. Though a cultivated person, ho el«fy»’ biu*htd when f*et were hientioneo. Another patient, at seven, became infatuated with big teacher's shoes. Though often spanked for it, he could not resist patting them whenever the chance presented itself. At eighteen lie opened a fashionable shoe shop for, women. His private collection was enormous. There is also the itse of a French countess who was subjected to so vio lent a boot mania that her reason was despaired of, The noblewoman, rich, / “ALU IN FUN" Chrittide Yeuber, 19, Who Regerdec (he Lou of Her Slipper More or Le»i 4> p JLoke.. ..“1 don't see whet possibls good tny shoe would do him,” She Smiled. scieatista investigated the curioua wn< up. Another case is concerned with the activities of a Swedish boy of fourteen, . who used to steal his aunt’s shoes ana chew and swallow bite of the leather. And there are literally thousands oi allied examples «f fetiahiatie activity —but none more picturesque than that of tha romantic, elusive Pittsburg! "Cinderella man.” Bu awmw-<Mf>)Kt-Mx ! -■ rAwti-aal “A bold plan laid . . lilt gran and quitl poise She sat amid tin noise. She watched the dancer* sway and whirl, She saw the smoke rings twist and curl, ' ;\<j question*, no surprise Stood in her youthful eyes. But cold and tindijtnsiytd She heard a bold plan laid, .1 grimy secret told, A jealous lover scold. . . . And hcr^prudent face revealed no sign That she was a child of nine. r r r^TRAXGE freak of chancer Across the table, , ^ Swathed in a cloak of gleam ing sable— .1 mode! out of a fashion page— f.oiled a lady of doubtful aye. Her every gesture, every feature. Told of a petulant, selfish creature, (jay. unbridled, loud, She led the laughing crowd, Rancd her glass jin a rowdy foa', • IJrped coquettishly to her host. . . . But her eyes betrayed in their mud dled shine ^ That she in truth was the child of nine.
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