The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 88

WW, If TIM Ik 1 aV sss sss it 1I 7 1 ALrHONSE McCORMACK, St. Louis insurance company executive, did not object to his wife seeing her mother at reasonable intervals, but he rebelled when his spouse began spending more time with his mother-in-law than she did with him and their two young children. Finally, when Mrs. McCormack proposed that they have a fifty-fifty marriage that is, she'd live six months" with her mate and six months with her mother McCormack took his marital troubles before a judge who promptly told Minerva McCormack that she might spend twelve months out of every year with her mother and not be troubled with the collection of alimony, because there wouldn't be any. During the most interesting proceedings Mrs.

Virginia McNutt, the mother-in-law in the case, was told flatly, when she sat in the witness stand, that if it were not for her the Mc-Cormacks might have enjoyed a tolerably happy and contented wedded life. Soon after Alphonse McCormack married Minerva McNutt he became aware that she had an almost constant yearning to be with her mother and he permitted her to visit Mrs. McNutt in California two or three times a year. These visits became increasingly long in duration and when the insurance executive sent his wife her railroad "fare home and asked her to return to him, she used the money to buy an automobile and returned in a leisurely fashion, bringing mother with her. In 1926, when McCormack was promoted, and began drawing a salary of The House in Si.

Louis Wlicre Mra. McCormack I Now Living Willi Her Mother, Mrs, Virginia McINutl. of one of their frequent arguments over the situation, Mrs. McCormack suggested to her husband the 60-50 proposition that is, of spending half the year with her spouse and the other half with, her mother. "My people," she "don't believe in spending all their lives with one man." I McCormack would not agree to such a plan, but made a counter-proposition, which his wife promised to accept on his terms.

He would establish his wife and two little daughters in a comfortable town apartment and live at a club, visiting them frequently. And he stipulated one thing that Mother was jr never to step across the thrcsh-old of the apartment. His wife accepted this restriction. After Mrs. McCormack had moved into the apartment she continued to spend much of her time at her mother's house, and before long couldn't resist "bootlegginjj;" Mrs.

Minerva McCormackr Who Lost tlie Divorce Suit When the Jude Learned That She Couldn't Slay Away From Her Mother, tive his freedom with no alimony penalty attached. Mrs. McCormack is allowed to see her youngsters every other Sunday, and to have them to herself one month a year. During this time, and all the time, she can now live with the mother, whose compan-t ionship seems so much more important to her than that of her ex-husband or anyone else. Flower Girl Nowr Famous Star rt i v- 7 1 -vN U'i Pottery Reprewntalion of the Type of Dog Which the Ancient Mavan, Mexican" iative and Luban Aborigines Lenjovcd at Food for Several Thousand Year.

UtHtTO tvOw I Tlie'HoiDoSof in the bedroom closet. Bet you tant find "em." McCormack did find them, pronto, and cut off his wife's allowance. She sued for divorce and $250 a month alimony. He filed a counter-suit, asking custody of the children. When the case came to trial the judge listened to the arguments and promptly granted the insurance execu HE workers in the Union Stock Yards at San Antonio, Texas, thought they had seen every thing in the way of cows until, a few weeks ago, they beheld a bovine monster among a carload of "beef critters" from the ranges of Gonzales.

This animal, a cow with the appropriate name "Texas Pride," stands nearly six feet high at the shoulders and the sharp tips of its -great horns extend another foot and a half into the air. When the cattle handlers put the extraordinary creature on the scales they found it weighed exactly a ton. Most of the cattlemen who have seen what would seem to be the biggest cow that ever lived believe it to be a biological freak, one of those unexpected and unpredictable animals that happens once in thousands of cases. The mother of "Texas Pride" was a cow of normal size and appearance, a Jersey weighing only 5M pounds. The sire was a registered Brahma brought to Texas from India.

The gigantic offspring of this set of parents bears a resemblance to both breeds. According to the former owner of the big cow, it was a normal calf at birth and showed no promise of its unprecedented bulk until it was several months CVUi tub about $20,000 a year, he bought a fine home in a fashionable suburb, hoping that his wife would be content to spend most of her time there. But she wasn't, and was more often at the rooming house her mother operated in another section of the city. Every day, almost, Minerva McCormack called on her mother, or that lady made her appearance at the mack domicile. In the course A Mexico as well as in Cuba.

But few of these interesting relics have been as artistically fashioned as the one photographed on this page. Apparently the Mayas and the Cuban aborigines did not worship their curious "hot dog," although it is possible that they did use pottery and stone likenesses of the animal as votive offerings to their deities. It is believed that mo.t of the representations of the dog which have been recovered were used as ornaments. Not only were the hairless canines used for food in individual homes, but it would appear from ancient carvings and Mayan codexes that they were the chief article of food in elaborate feasts attending religious rites. One of these carvings shows not only individual figures of the little fat dog, but scenes which able students of Mayan customs interpret as a wholesale slaughter of the animals, their preparation for cooking and the baking of them in huge ovens.

It is possible that the Mexican hairless dog, which is a popular pet in Central America today, is a relative of the "hot dog" of the ancients, but the similarity between the living canine and the one fashioned in pottery is not sufficiently strong to prove the relationship. Friday, if it ever did. It so happened that this day of the month never fell on Friday, but the 14th fell on Friday three times during the reign of Tilate in the years 27, 30 and 33 A. D. The year 27 is too near the beginning of Pilate's rule to allow for the period during which Christ preached his doctrines and the year 33 seems unlikely because Jesus "is supposed to have been baptized when he was 28 years old and the Scriptures do not indicate that his ministry extended over a period of five years.

Therefore, computing the case from the known appearances of the new moon in Babylon and simultaneously in Jerusalem the Saviour was crucified on the 14th of Nisan in the year 30 A. which, put in terms of the calendar in present-day urp, would have been the seventh of April. The problem of thus fixing the date of one of the most tragic episodes in the history of the world was far from simple because the astronomers had to delve deeply and painstakingly into the ancient records of the beginning of Babylonian months in order to determine exactly when the crescent of the moon would have become visible in Jerusalem after sunset But their figuring wa3 carefully done and, applied to the accepted details of the Crucifixion as recorded in the Bible, seems supply the answer to a question Bible students have been puzzling with for so long. It a of Saviour'sDaaih 3af' Mr. Alphonse McCormark, the St.

LouU Insurance Man, Whom the Court Granted a Divorce Because His ife Couldn't Be Kept at Home More Than Six Monthi of the' Year. mother into the quarters from which she was technically barred. One flight Alphonse McCormack dropped into the apartment unexpectedly and heard a great scurrying of feet and closing of doors while he waited for his wife to answer his ring. When he entered his little daughter, Patricia, greeted him with, "Hello, papa, Granny dest went and hid in the Kitchen closet, and Auntie Margaret Mil Mujrtirt I Seen Wearing One of the Costume Inspired hy Her Early Lift as a Flower Girl. She DeMjrns and Sews Her Own Since ('lollies and Owes Her Success to Her Original Creations.

in which she interprets the spirit of various flowers in terms of flowing motion. The idea of all her dances is entirely and peculiarly her own, and every one of the beauteous costumes in her wardrobe wa3 designed by the little French dancer, and sewn by her own fingers. The artistry of her gowns has attracted the attention of various theatrical costumers, who have offered her large sums to design original creations for them, but she has declined these offers, explaining that all hef free time is taken up in conceiving and learning new flower dances and making the dresses necessary to the interpretation. Int. mI BtiUis Hri'rvtd old.

Then, to his consternation, the calf began to grow at least twice as fast as the ordinary 'heifer and, when it was a yearling, was as large as a full-grown cow. The rate of growth continued and, at six years, "Texas Pride" is, undoubtedly the most ponderous cow ever seen in the country of the Longhorns, or anywhere else. Despite its great bulk and weight, the biggest cow is well proportioned and gets about as easily as her normal sisters. She was not brought to th San Antonio stock yards to be slaughtered, but as the property of Dan Quill and Grover Edwards, both of whom are connected with the yards. Quill and Edwards have yet to decide just what they'll do with their big bossie.

They may use her for breeding in the hope that her offspring will be as unusual as she is, or there is a possibility that they may exhibit her about the country or dispose of her to a circus. Scientists who have examined "Texas Pride" are of the opinion that she ct-tfiined her unusual size for the same reasons that human beings occasionally grow to a height of seven feet or more because the glands controlling growth functioned abnormally. It is their opinion that any ralves that the biggest cow has will be normal and that it may be years before another such animal will be born. 4" i k4 FOR several thousand years the long extinct Mayas and the aborigines who once roamed the jungles of Cuba ate "hot dogs" that were really dogs and actually hot The ancient pottery figure shown on this page is, in the opinion of scientists connected with the Field Museum of Natural History, a true picture of the canine that was a food delicacy in the days when America was young. Various inscriptions attest to the popularity of this dog as an article of diet.

According to these old records, the highly prized "hot dog" of the Mayas and the primitive Cubans was a special breed on which hair never grew. Another curious fact about the animala was that, although they could whine, they had no equipment for barking. It appears that the creatures were bred by the thousands and that their masters fattened them just as farmers fatten pigs for market today. When the dogs were just the right size they were killed, cleaned, stuffed and rcasted in primitive stone ovens. Usually they were eaten while they were smoking hot.

Various representations of the hairless, barkless dog, done in pottery and stone have been unearthed in the Maya ruins of Yucan and in other parts of ToFixExaccD FOR many years, Bible students have tried to compute, by a careful check of the Scriptures.the day of the month on which Christ was crucified on Calvary. And, at last, with the help of learned astronomers, they are more or less agreed that the Messiah -died on the cross on the 7th of April in the year SO A. D. According to the Bible, the Crucifixion took place on the eve of the Jewish Sabbath that is, on a Friday. It occurred during the rule of Pontius Pilate, who governed Judaea from 26 to 36 A.

D. and either on the day the Jews were to eat ihc Tassover or the day following. Working from these accepted fact and with the knowledge that Passover always was eaten on the 14th of the Je wish month, Nisan, the problem was to compute in which year of the governorship of Pilate the 1 4th -or the 15th of Nisan fell on a Friday. Nisan always began on the night of the new moon and, because astronomers are in possession of dependable records showing when the new moon appeared over Babylon during the period in question (and because Babylon is approximately in the same latitude as Jerusalem) they know with fair certainty when Nisan mu.t have begun. The next step in the astronomical approach to the problem was to determine when, during the governorship of Pilate, the 15th of Nian fell on a ate Mi Livia Miicuet, the Pretty French Dancer, Who I la Become the Favorite, of Audiences Thrnimh'out Italy.

WHEN she was a little girl in short dresses and braids, Livia Muguet sold flowers in a Paris theatre. She loved her flowers for their beauty and fragrance, and was fascinated by the dancers, who moved so lightly and gracefully on the stage. Her pretty blooms seemed to her like dancers at rest and the dancers seemed, in their bright costumes, like flowers come to life to express the beauty that was in them. Today Livia is the favorite dancer of the Italian stage, and nhe has earned her success by her extraordinarily sprightly and graceful "flower dances," If- kf iMkii Wwkir. "Texas Pride.

the Champion Cow, Whi.h Weighs Eiarily a Ton. and Which It the Largest Animal Ever to Be Seen at ihe tr.ion Slock Yards at San Antonio, Texas..