Exactly what is it that causes women to speak of Type 61 Cadillac with such special enthusiasm?

Is it the car's beauty, or its comfort, or its dependability that accounts for the preference which they undeniably show for it?

No one who has seen the admiration in a woman's eyes as she viewed the graceful outlines, rich upholstery, and harmonious ap pointments of the Cadillac could doubt for a moment the appeal of its beauty.

Similarly, there is no question that women place a high value on the car's comfort, as revealed 'by the

restfulness of the cushions and the ease and evenness of its travel. But we doubt whether its beauty, or its comfort, or even its dependability is sufficient to explain wo men's favor for the Cadillac.

Isn't this favor due, rather, to their conviction that the Cadillac includes in full measure, not one or two but all of the qualities which they desire in a motor car?

Isn't it inspired by their knowledge that whatever they call upon it to do, from whatever standpoint they consider it, in whatever company it may be, the Cadillac stands out as a fine and exceptional car?

ORE THAN 30,000 SICILIANS are now homeless

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as a result of the latest eruption of Mount Etna, the When the huge largest active volcano in Europe. crater, towering about 10,700 feet above the Mediterranean Sea, began belching forth fire, smoke and lava, following earthquakes and ominous rumblings, the dwellers on the intensively cultivated slopes fled in terror. They abandoned to certain destruction their houses, rich vineyards, and fertile farms. Tho the property loss amounts to scores of millions of lire, the feeling in Italy seems to be one of thankfulness because this time the disaster did not take the awful toll of human lives that previous eruptions so often claimed.

of a gigantic ship slowly making its way through seas of red-hot

waves.

The fiery stream has reached the base of the statue. It threatens at any moment to overtop the summit of the spur and pour down into the town nestling below it.

The inhabitants of Linguaglossa believe that their saint has worked a miracle and saved the town. All day under a smothering downpour of ashes many of them knelt bareheaded in the main square around the parish priest facing the statue of the saint, while the church bells tolled incessantly. Some of the bolder spirits took turns in making dashes for the statue, braving the fierce heat of the lava and the overpowering fumes to take votive offerings to it in the shape of flowers and lighted candles. So terrifying is the sight of the glowing lava and so enervating are the heat fumes that only a few can be found to attempt this.

as miracles still happen in the twentieth century, then surely it is a miracle that the town of Linguaglossa still stands where it stood a week ago. The statue of its patron, St. Egidio, is still erect on a hillock overtopping the town, facing Etna's fiery blast and seeming to hold back the stream of lava with outstretched arm."

Probably the tensest, most dramatic episode in the eruption is this advance of the lava upon Linguaglossa, of which The Times correspondent says, in earlier dispatches:

The town of Linguaglossa is surrounded by molten lava on three sides. One stream of the lava now threatens Giarre, a town of about 20,000 inhabitants, but if the present rate of flow does not increase, it will be several days before the danger there becomes imminent. The inhabitants continued to flee from the danger zone, and their numbers have increased so greatly that, despite the utmost efforts of the population of Catania to shelter them, arrangements are being made to erect huts and tents to house the surplus.

About a mile and half above Linguaglossa there is a spur on the mountainside, on the highest point of which stands a marble statue of Saint Egidio, the patron of Linguaglossa. The statue faces the flaming crater with one hand raised as if in supplication. Only this spur, together with improvised trenches which were made in desperate haste by some hundreds of willing workers, stands between Linguaglossa and annihilation.

The lava flowing down the mountainside struck the spur and was divided by it into branches, one cutting off the town on the right and the other on the left. The spur looks like the prow

Learning that the people of Linguaglossa were carrying in procession to-day the staff of St. Egidio, which is supposed to have the miraculous power of stopping the advance of lava, the people of Castiglione marched to Linguaglossa, according to a Rome dispatch to the Central News, and forcibly seized the staff, intending to use it to save their own town. The struggle for the staff, it is said, was so alarming that military forces were called out, but in the meantime a bishop arrived and took possession of the staff.

Describing the veri

table river of fire, the eye-witness reporter goes on:

The lava has now cooled sufficiently to be covered in parts by a crust. It presents the appearance of a great mass of dough advancing almost imperceptibly but with deadly steadiness. As it rolls, it cracks in places and white-hot lava immediately spurts out, soon to cool in turn.

The scene seems to have been transplanted straight out of one of the cantos of the "Inferno." Clouds of smoke and ashes fill the air, obscuring the sun, so that the tragic panorama is lit only by the ruddy glow from the craters' mouths and by the spurts of incandescent lava issuing from the cracks in the crust. Terrific rumblings strike fear into the stoutest hearts, while the earth shakes almost incessantly. The air is a mass of hot, blinding ashes which assail the eyes and render breathing difficult. Groans, prayers and imprecations are heard on all sides, as houses fall under the relentless pressure of the lava.

The lava has cooled enough in some portions for it to be possible to approach the stream comparatively close. Villagers follow it step by step and watch it with rage in their hearts invade their fields slowly, but with devastating effect. As each favorite corner of their vineyards is invaded some pray aloud that the remainder be spared, some curse and some watch with stony expressions.

From an Associated Press story we learn that

Heartrending episodes are being enacted around Etna. In one case a woman refused to abandon her vineyard, declaring that her whole life had been given over to its cultivation, that its existence was her existence and its death her death. Rescuers