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OAKLAND TRIBUNE APRIL! IS, ICii. HEAR! Qw; Flag If ill a- Powder I VOMEtl III TllE IIBVS I. r. TUESDAY EVENING. TRIBUTES Humorist Ade Gets Busy With Pen and Predictions THEIR TITLES ARE RO YA UnCOmKED hair SAVES HER i.

1 i "HE Shattuck Hotel ra Berkeley was the scene Jft I 7 a of a beautifully appoint- Ot ft ,5 AW ed luncheon today -when if Miss Miriam Pond en- 1 I rvla tertained sixty gnests if CCIlft the bay cities til Ik in, honor of Miss I fli I LAF-ATTrrTE. m-V Oeorgs Ads has offered his views on the woman suffrage problem, said If Ada's vrse roaJTy express his views, Isn't any doubt Id his mind that "The Httle ben. now sale the roost, said rules the rooster too." .) I "Within six months oar cosintryNi flag wtn be talonm powOer rg." the drem-silst aya. j. Ada's outburst is tn result of to-vttatlon from the oo-ed of Purdue TleA-verslty to contribute to xi iuraa of the Purdue Hxponsnt.

the ooOegs paper, Vhloh the girls have Just published. Of course they an tod it to be an unuu-Oly good Issue, in order to prove the superiority of a fvmintue staff onr the trouswrsd smoke nalsauioes who gsnaoral-ty edit the so It was Dfeturai enough to appeal to the "distinguished alumni," among whom werei-John Mo-Cutoheon and Ads. Wba.t If they were appealing to men to prove the superiority of womeo -inconsistent Nobody except a stupid men would think of bmou a Ade's praises of! feminine superiority, didn't please some, of the real bulldog- jawed college bare, who had a faint suspicion that the author of "The College Widow" was making fun ot them, but the verses appeared In the woman's number of the Kxponent. which as Issued recently. Miss Mary Ken nedy is tne editor Here is what Ade had to say: To the Edrtresst' For many months I have kept in the oorner oi my desk a stack of unfinished lyrics.

I have told myself that some day would them on someone. Now my chance haa arrived. will send these fragments to ths co-edltora of Purdue. Tou will find only one Tn of eaoh. I never got as far ae the second verse.

No. 1 is somewhat frivolous in character and might be sung by a Lafayette bird. Here It is: Some girls would be by the sounding sea, Where the rolling breakers beet) Some girls would stay on a Baeuntetir top In a quiet safe retreat; -lit' A 5 1 iH King George's sister, THE DUCHESS OF FIFE, and her royal daughters. Miss Esther Hjelte, who is prominent in musical circles here. party will be: Mrs.

G. S. Whitley, Mrs. Ira Sorrick, MrB. L.P.-Dlggs, Mrs.

Thomas C. McCleave. Presiding at the tea tables were Mrs. Walter Glenn, Mrs. George.

Jackson, Mrs Walter Gompertz and Mrs. Duchess of Fife, who was granted the style and title of the Princess Royal some years ago, is the eldest sister of the King and married in 1889 the first Duke of Fife. The Princess, with her daughters, the eldest of is Princess Alexandria, was born in 1891, and her sister, Priritess Maud, who is two years younger, are at present on a visit to Egypt, where this photograph has become immensely Some vegetate in a rural state "I 4 Among the placid yaps; -L While some are ripe for the sporty Of the hoorah city chaps. But If I had my sag Of some good plaoe to stay, I think Td rather sot tie down In some oollege town. 1 Refrain I want to live, in a college town Where men are thick as bees; Where the noisy boys in corduroys Are grouped beneath the trees.

SHE GIVES EDUCATION HARD RAP came In for a witty tirade. And Miss LIFE Los Angefes Woman Refuses to Become Target for Bullets; OS ANGELES, April IS. Because her hair down. Mrs. Herbert Btt-gone Wilcox declined to step from the hall to the porch yesterday, as her husband requested, and thus saved her life.

Ha Immediately killed himself with the revolver he had purchased to shoot her. Wilcox was a member of a rich California family and a cousin." by marriage of Ella Wheeler Wilcox. His brother, Charles E. -j Wilcox, resides in Alameda; has offices in San Francisco and large oil and mining Interests throughout the state, and a son by a former wife is a physician in San Bernhardt Is Held EL PASO, April 18. Sarah Bernhardt, who played a two night's engagement here on her farewell tour, was detained at the International bridge coming from Juarez, Sunday afternoon, arid forced to explain why she had three expensive Mexican fire opals In her silver hand satchel.

Miss Bernhardt, who had reserved two private boxes at a bull fight, which was called off because of the rebel siege, made a sightseeing trip to Juarez and purchased three expensive Mexican opals in one of the curio shops. She declared at the bridge, but at first refused Co 'pay, the duty on them which was de manded by the Inspector. Her manager finally arranged for the payment of the duty she was allowed to go. Actress Causes Battle CHICO, April 18. Enraged because woman vaudeville performer threw spotlight reflection from a hand mirror into his face and sanor 1 to him at a performance at the Iris Theater, an unidentified man attacked" Fred Worrall, son of the manager, in the theater this morning.

1. S. Worrall, the manager, rushed to the aid of his son, who was rolling on the floor exchanging blows wjith the stranger. The man was thrown into 'the street, but not before the son's face was badly cut and bruised. The stranger, who was a)o bleeding profuse ly, made a quick escape.

Contest Everts Wills SANTA CRUZ, April 18. What prom ises to a protracted contest over the 170,000 estate of tne late Jeannette Everts was begun yesterday in, the Superior Court here. Judge Buck of Ban Mateo county presiding. Mrs. Everts, who was an aged woman, executed a lengthy will a year previous to her death, bequeathing a large part of her property to various churches and charitable institutions, including the Young Men's Christian Association, the State i Women's Christian Temperance the Good Templars' Orphanage at Vallejo and four Protestant churches in this city.

Three days before dying she made another will giving her entire to her daughter, Minnie Sarah Chapman of Los Angeles. A strong array of legal talent Is engaged In the case which will hinge on charges of undue Influence andSi fraud. Harden to Wed Again NEW YORK. April 18. Percival L.

Harden, editor of Club Fellow, who re cently sued William T. a broker, for $160,000 damages for slienating the affections of his wife, Maude Sullivan Harden, now Mrs. Hoops, and got a verdict for J10.000 damages on March 22 last before Justice Pendleton of the Supreme Court, is to marry again, according to dispatches from Chicago. Mabel Doris Mercer, 22 years old, a former member of "The Earl and the Girl" company, obtained a license to marry Harden there yesterday. The first wife of Harden was Maude A.

Sullivan, a Chicago cloak model. On January 21, 1908, he obtained a divorce and the next day married Hoops. Actress Sues Mizner NEW April 18. Miss' Grace Van Studdiford, the actress, has brought suit foi J50O0 to repair damages done by the pet ape of Addison Mizner. Mlsner, an architect, and brother of Wilson Mizner, the playwright, ocupies a first-flooit apartment at 25 West Forty-fourth street.

Miss Van Studdiford lives on the top floor, and the ape climbed up the fire escape to her (rooms early Saturday. It demolished furniture, gowns, glassware and nearly killed her $350 Pomeranian. Hubby Was UnKempt RENO, April 18.V-L. B. Leavitt's slovenly, unkempt personal appearance lost him hjs bride of a week, according to the testimony of Mrs.

Frances the wife. In her suit for divorce heard at Goldfleld last. Saturday. The laws of Nevada, however, do not hold that a man's untidy drese In Itself is sufficient ground for divorce, so the young Napa woman Supplemented her complaint w'th charges of cruelty and failure to provide. GadsHi Is Disabled NEW YORK, April 18.

Mme. Johanna Gadifki, the smger, is suffering from sciatica in a hotel hare. It is reported she has been compelled to cancel her engagements for a spring concert tour In the West and wtil sail for Europe as soon as she is able to travel. ChoKes Son to Death SPOKANE. 'April 18.

Mrs. H. H. Hill, wife of a prominent liveryman, choked her 6-year-oldL sop to death with a towel at Lewis ton, idaho. She was tempo rar- it Agnes; NEW YORK.

Miss Rep- pller addressed a large twidienfce at the Hudson Theater on the fads and frills of education." The fact that she contrived to poke fun at herself and the League for Political Education, under whose auspices she was speaklpg, only added spice to the She called her talk "Popularr "But" said Miss Reppller, "education never be popular-because the human mind instinctively rejects the idea of, getting down to work. It is because of the work in volved that modern education en deavors to put work in the form of Play." I f- Here Miss Reppller tackled the kin dergarten with a delightful satire "on the gingerbread methods employed to give. the infant mind something to feed upon. Teaching youngsters how to build snow houses and enow mei, a diversion at one of the kindergartens. I welcomed by' a wide circle of friends among the -local smart set.

ASSEMBLY DANCE. The Masonic Temple was the scene of a gay gathering of smart folk last night when the Berkeley Assembly held its dance, in wnlch 300 guests shared and which was one of the most enjoyable of the series. 1 1 Preceding the dance wert a. number of dinners, including that given by Mrs. Charles Butters at her beautiful home, "Rose Lawn, in Clare-mont.

Another delightful affair was given by Mrs. Harry Alleton Williams for her two daughters. Miss Florence and Miss Muriel Williams, debutante of the season. Miss Ethel Wrampelmler gave a dinner for Miss Edith Clapp at the family home of the Wrampelmiers in Piedmont avenue. About a score of prominent society women on this side of the bay make up the list of patronesses for the Berkeley Assembly and the dances during the season are always beautlfufty planned.

Among the members of the Assembly are Mr. and Frank Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Beir, Dr. and Mrs, Clark Burnham, and Mrs.

James Sterrett Wood. Mr. and Mrs. James von Loben Sels, Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Kellogg, Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Baird, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Butters, Mrs.

Henry Martinez. Mrs. Sellm Wood worth. Miss Lucy Harrison, Miss Helen Pennell. Miss Gladys Wlckson Miss Virginia von Loben Sels, Miss Carol Day, Miss Rowena Wilson, Miss Joy Wtjson.

Miss Dorothy Hart. Miss Miriam Clapp, Miss Helen Wes ton, Miss Dorothy Woodworth, Miss Dorothy Boericke, Miss Marjorie Page and scores of others. MAY WEDDIXG. 1 The wedding of Miss Eva 81avich and Cyrus William Abbott will take i piace on tne evening of May 10. Miss Katherine Madden and Mrs.

John Francis Slavich will be hostesses for Mss Slavich during the coming fortnight. T. TWENTIETH CENTURY CLTJB. "How Many People Should Have Life, Liberty and Happiness, and How May They Obtain It?" is the theme which was presented before the members and guests of the Twentieth Century Club this afternoon by Miss Har-riette Richardson of. San Francisco.

Miss Richardson is president of the San Francisco school of employment. The Twentieth Century Club, whose membership includes many talented women, depends largely upon its own club members for the programs and this week enjoyed a ktoud of soiurs bv Mrs. J. S. Mills.

In the receiving Hazel Cole. Pond. The quests were seated at tables, which were charmingly decorated' In pink roses, while great bouquets of the same flowers and a profusion of greens made an effective background for the gowns Miss Pond, who la well known on both sides of the bay and is an unusually gracious hostess, was gowned a French frock of electric blue oyer pink and elaborated in the pretty: new beaded fashion. The guest of honor wore a handsome gown of champagne colored messaline- Mrs. Pond, who assisted In receiving her; daughter's friends, wore gray marquisette over Miss Cole is the daughter off Mr.

and Mrs. Clarence Cole. Her) was announced at a card 'party given by the bride-to-be in Berkeley. The Ponds are prominent In this city and the college town. Mrs.

Pond Is president of the Xaurel Hill Club of San Francisco, one of the oldest organizations of that city, and is a member of the Twentieth Century Club of Berkeley fcnd of the Ebell Club of this city. Among the guests today were: JgHsses, Helen Mathews, Ethel Hazel Margaret Witter, Doris Schnabel. Ida Graft, Marquerlte Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Bessie Helen Carlisle, Alma Carlisle, Pearl Gelger, Lillian Gregory, Made-tine Cummin gs, Helen Adams, Gene- rieve Hilda Morgan, Alma Scott. Helen. Reef, Claire Bowman; Mesdames Edgar Thomas, William Wadsworth, Burlington- Carlisle, Shelby Cummlngs.

John Simpson, Chester Rlsterpart, Winner, Zeus, Paul I Ga- TTn, A. C. Truman. i LEAVE FOR DEBTEE. Saturday evening Dr.

A. J. Kelley and Mrs. Kelley left for Denver, where the new home is to be established. The charming matron will receK'e a cordial welcome from her husband's friends in Denver.

Beforje her marriage of i the. early February Mrs. Kelley was Mrs. Marjorie Craig Newell, a daughter of Hugh Craig Of Piedmont. For the last month or so she' and her husband were thehouse guests of her father.

A series of affairs were riven in honor of Dr. Kelley and his to-Ide. tS JK AT CARD TABLES. Mrs. Franklin Noah Dewey has issued cards for the evening of April 27.

She has asked about fifty friends for session at the bridge tables. TO LEAVE FOR EUROPE. Mrs. Harris Cebert Capwell will leave early in July jor Europe, accompanied by her two daughters. Dorothy ind Phyllis.

Miss Dorothy Capwell will graduate from Mills- College in June, the trip abroad is being planned especially for her. Miss Cap-well has -not yet made her formal 'debut, but will be one of the attractive debutantes of next winter. Bfor starting on their trip Mrs. Capwell and heT daughters will go to their summer borne at Brookdale for a brief visit. je TO BITLD KrXGALOW Mr.

and Mrs. Traylor Bell are plann-jl mg 10 duuo a Dungalow in SnnoL where they -will spend the late summer, closing their Piedmont home. EXJOYABLEi BRIDGE PARTT. In honor of Miss Charlotte Beach, a popular bride-to-be. Miss Lulette Jlau-vais gave a.n enjoyable bridge party yesterday afternoon at her home on Vernon Heights.

Among the guests were: r. i Mesdames. Roy Roy Baker, Charles Firebaugi, iank Cobbledick, So iilsses. Alma TJmphrey, Cleo Poseyu Marie JIcHenerv, Leila Xenna, ardt. Marshall, Kloise Geb- TO BE HOSTESS.

Mrs. Harry Chickerlng will honor the -Theodore Seymour Halls in a few weeks at "Rose Crest," the Henehaw home On Vernon Heights. Mrs. Hall, with her husband and small son, recently returned from Honolulu and has" taken up her permanent residence In this city. She will be remembered as Miss Ruth Hougrhton.

and iier marriage was a notable social eve-nt of two years ago. Since then the Halls have made their home in the Hawaiian islands, and the, return of the couple Is Tfadine Face Powder Produces a Beautiful Complexion. Soft and Velvety. I HE soft, velvety appearance remwiis I until washed off. Purihed by a ac process.

Harmless as water vents sunburn or return of discolorat Wkitm. Flith. Brumtu. 5ev br Toilet Co Miit Money back if aoc eatiretr vteued. Pcem io'oe ijy OwlDrus Co.

uaOL- fiancee of Raymond L. Lilla i I In Grwmm Boom i Arts) rr II -i OAKLAND'S BOYS AND GIRL; Girls' Aegis Makes Charles Duns comb. EBELIS 3L1M3IOTH CARD PARTY. I The formal installation of the newly elected officers was interesting ceremony at Ebell this afternoon, conducted by Miss Sarah J. Horton, a former president Jot the Oldest wo man's club in the.

State. At 2: 30, o'clock the guests of Ebell Building Association assembled for the large card party which has been announced for thesame afternoon. Mrs. Ralph Kinney, Assisted by a large number of womb, was hostess of the The "following devoted themselves making a success of the afternoonr On arrangements Mrs. Ralph Kinney, John Lynch.

Mrs. M. de L. Hadley. i On finance Mrs.

Eva Powell, Mrs. E. C. Morrison. A On refreshments Mrs.

Louis Ghir-ardelli, Mrs. William R. I. vis. j' i i SOROBJTTX CELEBRATES ANNI VERSARY.

Fifty or more sorority maids, mem bers of the Delta Delta Delta, Berkeley Chapter, celebrated the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the Berkeley house by a banquet last night. The festivities were held at the chapter house, 2500 College avenue. The active members of the sorority under whose auspices the banquet was given are: Misses Rosalie Ogden, An-nalie Hopkins, Mildred Druhe, Eliza beth Morrison, Florence Wheeler, Gwendolen Powers, Gertruae Menihan, Margaret Locan, Jessie Harris, Helen Frisbie, Edith Edith McNath, Helen Young, Marion! Marguerite Ogden. Agnes Ehrenberg. Bertha Bart- lett, Harriet Ehrenberg, Gughelma Roeth, Helen Beckwith, Isabelle Fowler, Alma Scott, Laura Robson.

Irma Boveaux. Jt CORY-GOODFELLOW VCFTTALS. The Cory-Goodfellow nuptials were solemnized yesterday at- beautifully appointed church wedjflng at St. James "church, Bishop S4sord officiating, assisted by the the Rev. Harvey S.

Hanson. tjf The bride's sister. Miss fJdith Cory, acted as maid of honof and Hugh Good fellow attended his other. The bride's father, L. Ii.

Cory, is a leader of Uie bar of Fresno -county. After the ceremony and luncheon at the Corey home, the Couple left for their honeymoon trip to the Hawaiian world," she answered, asserting for the first time In her testimony the teachings of her "Then you love your mjsbandT" "I don't feel anything but compassion for him." "You say youT husband never had an affinity? "He was too stingy to have an affin ity." -r. "You have accused him of Improper conduct with other have you i "Well, when I saw him kissing the hired girl one day XI told hiin he would have to cease such Icjmduct in my presence. I saw him go into her" room also, and I didn't consider that Tthe proper kind ef conduct for a maxrle'l man, and I told him so." "Is that all?" He told me of another 1 woman he made love to. but, he was very careful not to let his experiences with other women cost him anything-.

He told me he gave that woman sewing: machine oii and sewing machine Billings also testified that her husband "wired" her room" and installed a "buzzer la. It. High School; Contents Are Clever Each night a light In the parlor bright. And a song in the key of With a real Diitch lunch For the midnight bunch, A college town for me. The above is hardly in harmony with a serious Journalistic venture by young women, so I hasten to add No.

as an antidote: I You've heard the chanticleer declare That when he flops his wings and crews The sun emerges from Its lair And o'er the earth a splendor threwe. mighty herald of the dawn. Tour- occupation now is gone; The" cockadoodle of the men No longer awes the cackling hen. For I am quite prepared To demonstrate to you. The Little hen now rules the roost.

And rules the rooster, too. Refrain happy, fast approaching day. When woman has her own sweet way; Within six months our country's flag Will be a talcum powder rag. DEBATERS AT WORK PREPARING FOR CONTEST The mter-school debate between thw Oakland and Berkeley High schoola May in Chabot hall, will be one of the moet interesting events of the school year and will be attended by the members of the student bodies of both The boys on both teams are delving Into books and gathering all the material possible on all phases of the question, "Resolved, that the Panama Canal should be The Oakland High school, which will argue upon the negative side of the question, will be represented by Harry Creech, Ralph Hegan and Monroe Friedman. The affirmative side will be supported by the Berkeley boys.

They ar'i W. Neal, Eugene Sturgls and tfoseiA. Sturgis. 11 i A Skin of Ilea fit Is a Joy vevew. T.

r-elix Uourtud's On. Cream or Magloal lieewtifler. Ptsore rai. nean. tm dntactioiu i Im Stood tM tM of pm, su4 ae fearmius tatH lobane proymrif v- i em.

Dr. a hmrr Mad to or it. toa (a rinti u.m- I fiti rvi the laat harmful Via I Kf urnt 'f as IroeitoJMiantaUkeCatctaCaaaaAd FKRD T. HOPKINS I Vr ST CreavC -tfuoee -etrecV rv HP tell Cream Reppller gloried in the assertion that every Harvard professor can tell. the "freshies" who have been to kindergarten from those who' have not by the "softness of their mental fibre." In other words, the children of today are guarded from all activity.

The moment' any study means work it is too bard. From the children she progressed to adults who like to acquire a tabloid education by attending i lectures. Reading clubs are established, In Miss Repplier's opinion, for persons who do not dare to tackle books alone and therefore approach them as an army. I The Information handed out at convention and mothers' congresses and meetings of social workers also came under the ban. Mothers in the old days, said Miss Reppller, never thought of deserting their families to talk about how they should be brought up, but" now no place Is too remote.

Appearance at MISS HELEN BRECK, one of the editors of the Girls' Aegis, the official paper of the Oakland High SchooL athletics; Marguerite. Black. Josh editor; Erva Ghlradelll, organizations; Helen Breck edited the school notes and Ruth Pond, Alumni notes. Jean Scuphraro, writing a story entitled "A Key Route Incident." won the first prize for the best story. The seoond prize was won by Mariqulta de Laguna, who wrote "The Easter Dove." Mathilda Ben.

composed a modern ballad entitled "The, Aviator and the Lark," and Katherine Wood contributed an Indian story. Marion Hook wrote a weird story called "The Sea Nymph," which Is very well written. The joshes were especially good, as are the school and alumni notes. The I1 pages devoted to organizations and ex- changes are also very -creditable. Mi 'j-f STINGINESS IS A CURES FOR AFFINITIES 1 I PRIZE STORIES! ARE FEATURE OF JOURNAL The semi-annual edition of the girls' Aegis, published by the girls Of the Oakland High school: made Its appearance yesterday afternoon.

It contains several prize stories, a frontispiece, several pages of jbshea, editorials, school notes, athletic and many other original ideas that go to make up a good publication. The issue manifests the spirit of Easter in its- cover, frontispiece and illustrations. The cover, which was designed by Anita Miller, is of light blue with an appropriate border and the name of the Issue In white. Margaret Morrison, who has been on the art staff of the Aegis for several terms, and a leaning member of the Sketch Club, drew the fovmtisptece which won the prise and erght other illustrations. Ethel Schellhaas.

who is also one of the leading members of the art staff, contributed several drawings and cartoons, and Doris Badglay, Caroline Love-joy, Clyida Russell, Ruth Barker. Ruth Wad dell. Cleo Damianakes, Maybelle Hudson and Alice Barker contributed the KANSAS CITY. Girls, marry a stingy man if you are of "a jealous disposition and if you dort want him to have an affinity. This bit of advice was given on the witness stand by Carrie May BilJ lings.

Christian Science healer of 1109 Garfield avenue, in Judge Seehom'a court in her suit against her; husband, William F. Billings, Socialist, The Blllingses have been much in court since they married in 1SS4. Billings told about it the other 'day. She has it-ft him many times, bufeach time the case was dismissed before It came to trial. Mr.

Billing? is contesting the suit. "Have you any affection for your husband now?" Mrs. Billings was asked by his attorneys oh rose -examination, "No." "How long since you ceased to love him?" V' "NoCeince a year before I left the last MrF. fillings had written a letter, to her fusband in which 'she told nim ne so considerate u.d kind to her. Perhaps I wrote that letter In one of my loving moods," she explained.

"Do you have those loving moods very often I want- to -toee and -do- tove the. whoiel ily deranged and had been carefully I otner illustrations. guarded by her mothar for fear she Th Paper was edited by Mlgnon de would hasm her While her Neuf, assisted by Norma Dearborn. The mother was preparing breakfast the i associate editors on the Aegis staff in-crazed women- took th -child's life. eluded Claire Co Tin, of exchangee and i 3.

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