The Day Book from Chicago, Illinois • Page 5

WPjyy SHE LAUGHED HER WAY FROM CONVENT TO STAGE Ruth Donnelly When Ruth Donnelly was a mere slip of a dimple-cheeked girl, back in Sacred Heart Convent in New Jersey, she couldn't make her smile behave. In the midst of the most solemn service she would startle the quiet, black garbed sisters wtih a peal of silvery laughter, and despite the resultant punishment she would repeat the offense again and again. Finally the good sisters gave her up as a bad job and returned her to her uncle, Mayor Donnelly of Trenton, N.J. Little Ruth continued to laugh her way merrily through" the, world, while her "headland wondered what they would eventually do with her. Miss Rose Stahl, the star of "A Perfect Lady," solved problem.

After a year in the chorus to gather assurance, Miss Stahl placed the 18-year-old girl with her in "Maggie Pepper," and after two years graduated her as the finished product. WORKINGS OF BIG BUSINESS COME TO LIGHT Now and then when a man gets his foot caught in the wheels of high finance and howls, facts in the working of big business are uncovered. Harold F. McCormick of the International Harvester and cousin of the owner of the Tribune, is among ten accused of running two inventors out of business. Suit for $500,000 was filed yesterday.

In 1909 Herbert Wilson, 1221 Lawrence and Henry Murphey of Granville, DL, organized a company to manufacture a moisture-proof package. Their success on a small scale attracted some wealthy men and the Hygienic Liquid Package Co. was incorporated. The two inventors charge that the ten men as directors put them out of the business, destroyed the machin; ery and discontinued the manufacr ture of the article. Others hit in the suit are: Honore Palmer, A.

Sprague Joseph B. Terbell, Edr ward L. Pollock, Harry W. Davis, J. C.

Van Riper, Charles R. Brown, Carl R. Latham and Wm. M. Chadbourne) DOES "STUNTS" DEAD New York.

While performing one. of his most dangerous "stunts," Otto Kline, circus cowboy bareback rider, was thrown and received injuries from "which he died in Bellevue hos-j pital. PRETTY GIRLS TO WAIT Cleveland. Pretty girls will place negroest as waiters on-Wheeling Lake Erie train dining cars after. May jJKHB jfMrfj-A mmmmmmtmm.