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0000000 EVENING -OAKLANI TRIBUNE- DECEMBER 31, 1912., HEART- -TRIBUNE'S PAGE FOR WOMEN -HOME cociety a farewell to the old year, A have mont nearly 200 dinner Country at Oaklanders Club the tonight Clare- will after which they will attend the ball at the club. The new year will be ushered in with the usual time-honored jollity. The ballroom will ibe gayly decked in red and green colors carried out in greens, scarlet berries and varlegated lanterns and paper bells. Among those who will preside at dinners preceding the dance are: Mr. and Mrs.

T. C. Coogan, Mr. 'and Mrs. Martin W.

Kales, Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Burgess, Mr.

and Mrs. C. E. Hume, Mr. and Mrs.

John Q. Brown, Captain and Mrs. C. A. Baker, Mr.

and Mrs. H. B. Griffith, Mr. and Mrs.

Joseph Durney, Mrs. T. A. Rickard, Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick Clark, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Sherwood and Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Butters. WEDDINGS TONIGHT. Two weddings of local interest will take place this evening, when Miss Leslie Manuel and Edgar Randall will plight their troth and Miss Irene Welp will wed Prof. G.

E. Mortensen. The Manuel-Randall nuptials are to take place at the Piedmont-by-the-Lake home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Manuel.

is to be an elaborately appointed affair. Miss Manuel has many friends who regret that her future. home will not be in Oakland. The couple will live In San Diego. Miss Irene Welp will plight her troth tonight at the Emanuel Lutheran church on Lafayette street.

She will be attended by Miss Augusta Young, and Miss Myra Burdick. As ushers will be Henry Sears, Spencer Pitchner and John Mortensen. SERIES OF DANCES. Mrs. Harry M.

Wright will give the next of a. series of dances at the Clare- mont Country, Club on the evening of January 7. EMITGAUR ASSEMBLY. The Emitgaur Assembly will hold its next dance on Thursday evening in the ballroom of Hotel Oakland, RECENT MARRIAGE. Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Elsie Skee and George Jordan, which was solemnized on Saturday evening at the bride's home in Berkeley.

Rev. A. Y. Skee, father of the bride, performed the ceremony. There were no bridal attendants.

After their wedding trip the couple plan to live in Berkeley. ALAMEDA GIRL ENGAGED. Miss Olivia Rudolph of Alameda has made known her engagement George D. Young, formerly of that city. The wedding is to take place in' June.

Miss Rodolph is gifted vocally and is a member of the vested choir of the First Congregational church. 3 WINTER PLANS. Mrs. Irving Wright sojourning in London and is being considerably entertained. Mrs.

T. Arthur Rickard is spending the winter at Westgate by the Sea. Mrs. Valentine Hush is in Vermont visiting her daughter, Mrs. Richard Wells, formerly Miss Jean Hush.

Miss Helen Kidd has taken apartments at Hotel Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Bell and Joe Bell will return in a few days from Santa Barbara, where they have been visit1ng the parents of Mrs. Bell.

Upon their return they will take apartments at the Hotel Oakland. WEDDING IN VALLEJO. number of Oaklanders will go to Vallejo this week to attend the marriage of Miss Marie, English and E. T. Willjams.

Miss Ilma Chase of Piedmont will be maid of honor and Mrs. Thompson matron of honor. The bride has many friends in this city. DANCE IN ALAMEDA. The much anticipated New Year's dance in Alameda will claim a large mumber of society folk from the bay cities.

The committee in charge of the affair is composed of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Davis, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry C. Miller and Dr. and Mrs. E. J.

Boyle. Among those who will enjoy the festivity are: Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brown, Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest D. Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Wethe, Mr.

and Mrs. McKee Sherrard, Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Van Sicklen, Mr. and Mrs.

William G. Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde D. Carman, Mr.

and Mrs. Chester N. Jamison, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L.

Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Corbuster, Mr. and Mrs.

William Pigeon, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Blanding, Mr. and Mrs.

Carl J. Rhodin, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Page, Mr.

and Mrs. Robert D. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Poindexter, Mr.

land Mrs. Joseph Ghirardeili, Mr. and Mrs. T. A.

Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Innes, Mr. and Mrs.

Oliver C. Haslett, Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Jones, Mr. and Mrs.

David H. McLaughlin, Mr. and Mrs. Percy E. Haslett, Mr.

and Mrs. Louis H. Biasell, Mr. A Sin of Beauty is a Joy Forever. R.

T. Felix Gouraud's Oriental Cream or Magical Removes Tan, Pimples, Freckles, Moth Patches, Rash, and. Skin Diseases, and every blemish on beauty, and detection. has stood the teat of 65 years, and in so ate it to properly made. no counter felt of Dr, Bayre asid to.

lady of the ton patient) you ladies use them the least harmful of all the or by all and Fancy. States, Canada And Europe. WOMEN IN THE NEWS WEDDING CEREMONY CONTAINS ONLY 17 WORDS Daughter of Robert G. Ingersoll Married With Rites She Devised. EW YORK, Dec.

this ring I thee wed in love: and truth for life -till death do us part." With this simple declaration of seventeen words, the sole binding vow between man and wife, Miss Maude R. Ingersoll, daughter of the famous unbeliever, Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, was united in wedlock yesterday afternoon with Wallace McLean Probasco, who came from Ohio to claim his bride. The service was performed by Rev. Dr.

John Lovejoy Elliot, assistant to Dr. Felix Adler of the Ethical Culture Society. It was. according to the very simple ritual of the Ethical Culture Society that the great agnostic's only remaining unmarried daughter was married. Power to perform the marriage services after the custom of the society was conferred upon Dr.

Adler by amendment of the domestic relations law more than twenty years ago. In 1902 the law was amended again to permit An assistant leader society to officiate at wedding ceremonies: The legality of the Eth1cal Culture -marriage is unquestioned. Thoug the bridegroom is an Episcopalian, Miss Ingersoll insisted that the marrlage rites established by the 80- ciety, in which she is an enthusiastic worker, should be those used at the wedding yesterday afternoon. Dr. Elliot made a brief address, setting forth the duties and understanding of the marriage.

relation. He spoke no longer minutes. Then the bridegroom produced the ring, and as he slipped it on the bride's finger repeated after the officiating assistant of the 80- clety the seventeen- binding clause. Whereupon kissed, and Dr. Elliot pronounced them husband and wife.

Appraises Clothing NEW YORK, Dec. Chancellor Garrison, whose wife is one of the handsomest and best dressed women of Hudson county, New Jersey, set forth yesterday in court of chancery, Jersey City, that the following was the" utmost extent to which a man could be asked to go In supplying his wife with outer clothing: A suit. $20.00 A coat. 18.00 1 pair of shoes. 4.00 1 pair of corsets.

1.00 The utterances was brought out by the application of Mrs. George G. Holton for alimony from her husband, who is suing for separation. Her counsel exhibited a letter of credit furnished her by Holton, in which it specified that she might not be trusted for clothing more than that itemized as above, except for corsets, for which she was allowed $2. "It Is common, the court knows," said the vice chancellor, "for women to spend $75 or $100 for a suit of clothes with which to go to bridge parties and cause their sisters to turn green with envy.

But it is no of a husband's duty to provide the means of causing other women unhappiness. "I have seen plenty of suits advertised at $20 in the newspapers and in shop windows. I have seen those suits when worn by women. They have looked good to me and have seemed amply becoming. I have seen women in $18 which looked fine on them.

Four dollars will buy as fine and neat a fitting pair of shoes as any woman: needs to wear. There isn't a married man in the world who does not know. that for $1 corsets can be bought which will set off a WOman's figure most engagingly. For $2 a really magnificent pair of corsets can be purchased." The vice chancellor said he thought Holton was treating his wife with the greatest consideration. Chinese Girls Arrive SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.

in gowns of the latest American cut and with picture hats surmounting their petite forms, the Misses Whang Jun Wha and Whang Lee Shing, daughters of a Chinese general who distinguished himself in the late struggle for liberty against the Manchu government, were easily the belles on the trip of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company's liner Siberia, which arrived here yesterday. On account of the terrific storin that raged practically all the way over from the Orient, the passengers had to spend their time in the great salon of the steamer. All kinds of merrymakings were contrived for Christmas by the Chinese girls and everyone took part in them. The sisters are on their way to Holyoke, where they will attend a seminary. They plan to stay in this country three years and then return to China to participate in the educational uplifting of the mass of the women there.

By dint of close application at home the sisters have already become fairly adept in talking the English language. During the ocean trip they availed themselves of every opportunity to pick up strange words. The storm encountered by the Siberia one day out of Yokohama was one of the worst in years. The Misses Whang never before had been on an ocean voyage, but the other passengers were unanimous in declaring that both had proved rare sailors. Mountainous waves broke as high as the peaks of the funnels, forcing five of the lifeboats from their davits and ripping the sheeting from their sides.

Part of the rail on the was carried away, while for five mammoth starboard, liner wag pitched and tossed about. The Whang sisters were accompanied by a brother, who will also go to school in this country. Tells "Divorce Plot" CHICAGO, Dec. elegantly dressed woman, much. at ease, recited calmly the details of what: she termed a "divorce from a witness stand in a Chicago court yesterday in a legal fight to win back a former husband, a multimillionaire, from whom she had sought and won, a decree of divorce.

This woman, who seemed to haye smile for every one the court, spectators, counsel--wAs Mrs. "Grace Brown Herbert Guggenheim Wahl. The mAn she constantly referred to as "William" was William Guggenheim, youngest of the seven sons of Mayer Guggenheim. Her appearance on the witneas stand brought to. an end a series ot delays extending over a period of years on a petition of the ME much married and much CAN WOMEN KEEP SECRETS? By 'LILLIAN RUSSELL Copyright, 1912, Lillian Russell 0000 0000 00000 00000 0000000 0 MRS.

JACK VAN SICKLEN, A CHARMING MATRON, WHO IS PROMINENT IN LOCAL SOCIETY. 'and Mrs. Isaac Ehrenberg, Mr. and prospective bride lived formerly in Berke, Mrs. Clarence E.

Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. J. ley and is well known there. B.

Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Smith, Mr. Glenn C.

Barnhart, Mr. and Mrs. Luther D. Dimm, Mr. and Mrs.

Harry G. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.

Rheem, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott B. Davis, Mr. and Mrs.

S. R. Talcott, Mr. and Mrs. R.

A. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.

Black, Mr. and Mrs Harry B. Haight, Mr. and Mrs. George T.

Gray, Mr. and Mrs. David F. Selby, Mr. and Mrs.

S. Montgomery Haslett, Mr. and Mrs. William R. Van Brunt, Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. L. Hynes, Mr.

and Mrs. Ralph Kirkham Blair, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Meyerstein, Mr.

and Mrs. O. Ellinghouse, Miss Isabel Curtis, Dr. and Mrs. H.

S. Kergan, Captain and Mrs. Lebheus Curtis, Dri and Mrs. Ernest G. Boyes, Dr.

and Mrs. Charles A. Dukes, Dr. and Mrs. J.

K. Hamilton, Miss Nora Harnden, Dr. C. L. Thompson, Alfred S.

Goggin, A. Dalton Harrison, Albert H. Lansberger, J. R. Henderson, John Cunningham, George W.

Lewis, Edward M. Shaw, Hallock Wright. MISS ROBERTSON ENGAGED. Miss Florence R. Robertson of the 1906 class of the University of California, has announced her engagement to Arthur Carnick of Eureka, Humboldt county.

The 69,236 PATENTS SOUGHT IN YEAR Nation's Prosperity Shown in a Number of Applications, Moore. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. The marked prosperity of the country is reflected in the receipts of the United States patent office from fees for applications, according to Edward B. Moore, commissioner of patents, in his annual report today to the secretary of the interior.

The total receipts of the office for the fiscal year endJune 30 were $2,094,059, compared with $1,987,778 for the previous fiscal year. The total expenditures were $2,025,912 and the net surplus of receipts over expenditures WaS $68,147. The grand total of net surplus over all expenditures is now Figures presented by Commissioner Moore indicate that the volume of business the patent office hag materially increased in the last fiscal year. The number of applications for patents for inventions aggregated 236 against 65,154 for the fiscal year ending June 3, 1911. The establishment of the patent office as an independent bureau of the government is recommended by Commissioner Moore.

CHAPEL CLOCK TOWER IS NOT TO BE REBUILT YET STANFORD Dec. 31. In spite of the fact that the Stanford Memorial Chapel is being steadily restored in a more substantial building than before, the large clock tower will not be rebuilt several years. The contract calls for a temporary roof, which is being made at the place where the tower should begin to rise, above the rest of the church The mosaic work will be completed before the tower is added to the structure, but this department of the restoration will not. be commenced for nearly a year, when the first shipment of the materials will arrive from Italy.

WANTS HER DECREE. NEW YORK, Dec. 81-Anna Held Ziegfeld, whose final separation from Florence Ziegfeld has been rumored for some time, will apply to Supreme Court Justice Amond today to have a final decree of divorce granted to her. She was awarded an interlocutory decree a few months ago upon evidence establishing her husband's I misconduct. is generally and flippantly remarked that women cannot keep secrets, but every woman knows deep down in her, heart of hearts that she holds dearly many secrets that no one will ever root out.

Te takes an intelligent woman to guard another's secret. But there are scores of women who hold secrets of vital importance to others without a thought of the magnitude of their value. A man pays woman a compliment when he confides his dearest secrets to her. It is human to sympathize, and generally a man tells his secrets for sympathy. Sometimes a man is clever enough to realize that a woman's intuition is better than his hours of reasoning, for deciding some vital question.

There are few women who would divulge a man's secret, knowing the value he placed upon I have known women who held secrets that could be sold for millions, yet they would starve before betraying a friend, and have done Few men can boast of a like act. The women who cannot be trusted are the egotists, women who like to be entertaining, whose vanity compels them to add another wonder to any remarkable statement made by any one in their presence. Such women are a menace to society. 4 -0- The decree forbidding members of the German diplomatic corps to marry foreign women is an insult to Americans, and suggests more than it expresses. For most of, the German diplomatic corps seek their offices for the opportunity to meet and marry rich American girls, or they are married to rich American women whose ambition and money obtain for their husbands diplomatic positions.

That such women cannot keep secrets can well be imagined, for they are light minded, as a rule, and are faithful to no country or family. Nature demands faithfulness. to one's native land, marriage demands faithfulness to one's husband; the combination is difficult. and the beauty of peaceful happiness must be unknown. A German woman, married to an American diplomat, would suffer in just the same way; she surely would be true to her fatherland.

It's human nature to love your own country more when in a foreign land than you do at home. Do we not see it every day from the invaders who with smiles insult 'us? -0- The keeping of a secret is neither a masculine nor a feminine trait, and I venture to say that a valuable secret is safer in the keeping of a good woman than in the keeping of a good man. When-: a woman has a sense of honor, and all clever women have, they are adamant and men are not. The German' decree is a gentle hint to Americans to keep their daughters at home. Ambitious women can dabble in politics here as well as abroad.

And as for men? Remember: Our good Americans will match the world in honesty, bravery, and good looks. What more can women ask? LILLIAN RUSSELL. Copyright Photo by Schloss, N. 1. 1 OIC dO Answers to Queries SUBSCRIBER--The first thing I should advise a woman to do who wants to get rid of superfluous flesh Is to look well to her diet.

It is hard to reduce one's flesh and few women are willing to give up the rich foods and take the exercise necessary to do It. No dried foods should be eaten no rich greasy foods, no sweets, and if you cut out the glass of water at your meals you will find that you will not want to eat 90 much. Eat only bolled or roast meats, no pork, and, eliminating all dishes containing starchy foods, a distinct difference will be felt in weight short time. Vegetables and salads should always form A part of the menu. Lack of exercise is one of the chief causes of obesity.

A three-mile walk should be taken every day and a five-mile walk' 1s better. Any exercise in the open air is good. A good exercise for reducing the hips and waist is to stand on the tips of your toes and stretching the hands, and arms up over the head as far as you can and putting all these muscles. on the stretch, then bending down at the waist and touching the floor if you can with the finger tips. A little practice will make this exercise easy.

Rolling is excellent for reducing the hips. I shall send you dietary for reducing the flesh and the rolling exercise for reducing the hips if you care for them and will send me B. stamped, addressed envelope. A de REUNION OF COLLEGE GIRLS. The women of the class of 1901 at the University of California will hold a reunion on Saturday afternoon at the Hotel Oakland.

A luncheon will precede an Informal social hour. A 4 ENTERTAINING FRIENDS. Mr. and Mrs. G.

E. Grant are entertaining as house guests Mr. and Mrs. William Steele of New York. A CARDS AND MUSIC.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Gustafson entertained a number of their friends Saturday night at their new home on Twenty-second avenue. A very enjoyable evening was spent, the time being devoted to cards and music.

The prizes were won by Mrs. Hensen and Mr. Paterson. At a' late hour dainty refreshments were served to the following: Mr. and Mrs.

G. Hedlund, Mr. and Mrs. A. F.

Hillstrom, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Peterson, Mr.

and J. Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. G. E.

Aitken, Miss L. Aitken, Mrs. P. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Clark and Mr. and Mrs. G. Gustafson. CHINESE ADOPT AMERICAN BOY Wealthy Oriental and Caucasian Wife Take Child Into Home.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. Teeter, an American boy of two years, is today most important member of a household presided by a wealthy Chinese, who is legally his father. The boy is now son of Lute W. Jimmie, a Chinese merchant, and Mrs. Jimmie, Lute's Caucasian wife.

The adoption of the American boy by the Chinese was first legal proceeding of its kind with successful culmination in the history of the state. When the child was but a day old he was found by Jimie on the doorstep of a neighbor, where he had been abandoned. Jimmie's petition was filed several days ago, and after a thorough investigation, Juvenile Court officers submitted recommendations upon which Judge Coney's order of adoption was based. WILSON AND FAMILY TO MINGLE IN SOCIETY CHICAGO, Dec. 31-President-elect and Mrs.

Woodrow Wilson and the Misses Wilson have been invited to attend the Arabian Nights ball to be given Friday evening, January 10, for benefit of two Chicago hospitals. As Wilson 1s to speak before the Chicago Commercial Club on January 11, it is thought likely he will accept the This would give him a chance to see all Chicago society together. THE BUSY WOMAN'S DAY. It begins early, ends late and is full of work. She often has kidney trouble without knowing it.

Her back aches, and she is tired and worn out. Sleeps poorly, is nervous, no appetite. Her bladder gives her trouble, too. Foley Kidney Pills will cure all that and make 'her strong and well. They are the best medicine made for kidney and bladder disorders -Wishart's Drug Store.

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The only way to get them out that I know of is to comb them out. Take a small strand of hair and grasp it as near the roots as you can, then comb the hair from the bottom up, being careful that you do not break the hair. SCHOOL AND PLAYGROUND SENIOR GIANTS OF FRANKLIN WIN GAME In an exciting 11-inning baseball contest the senior Giants of the Franklin school managed to defeat, the senior TIgers by a 13 to 8 Yesterday's contest puts on an even standing for the championship of the school and tomorrow afternoon the deciding game will be played. The game yesterday afternoon was replete with sensational plays and the score was a toss up until the last man was out. When the Giants came to bat in the eighth inning the score stood 8 to 3 in favor of the Tigers.

A rally which netted three runs made score board read 8 to 6 in favor of the Tigers. In the ninth inning with two down and one man on, D. Jefferies slammed one out for a home run, tying up the score. That ended the scoring until the 11th, when the Giants landed on the ball for five runs. The Tigers made a hard but ineffectual attempt to put over a couple of runs in their half of the 11th, but to no avail.

Batteries---Giants, Bassett and Brining; Tigers, Boyer and Lee divorced wife of the youngest of the seven smelter kings to have set aside a divorce granted her in Chicago in 1901. The chief basis of her contention was that neither she nor her husband was a resident of the state of Illinois. "After my husband left me," the witness began, "I was called to Lawyer Werner's office. That was in 1900. "Did you meet anyone there?" she was asked.

"Yes, my counsel, Mr. Werner, Dan Guggenheim and my husband." "What was said?" "Dan Guggenheim told me." replied the witness, speaking In an audible tone, "to go to North Dakota and get 8. "Anything else?" "Well, he said he would not permit me to live with William." "What did you say?" refused. Dan Guggenheim then said: 'Mr. Untermyer will take care of our He also told me if I did not North Dakota they would take Wilfiam away from me and send him to Europe." Suffrage on Stage NEW YORK, Dec.

over the footlights is the no newest mode. of campaign for women's vote. Mrs. O. H.

P. Belmont will supervise the presentation of a. series of suffrage plays at a promtheater the early spring. It was (learned Suffrage vesterday. Club, 100 from members of the 16 to 96 yearg old, will compose the cast.

They will be tutored by Mrs. Jessie Warner Stuart, dramatic teacher of Chicago. Rehearsals will commence January 'JUVENILE DANCER SCORES HEAVILY JULIET SPARWASSER. In a number of entertainments given during the winter season, Juliet Sparwasser, a juvenile dancer, has contributed her talents. The young amateur is winning laurels among the actor-folk of the east bay region, where youngster made her bow about a year ago, There are many gifted boys and girls of this city who will appear in singing and dancing stunts during the spring, when folk-dancing will be revived in the public schools.

O. H. S. SOCIETIES PLAN BRILLIANT DANCE The semi-annual dance of the Senate and Ecclesia Literary Societies of the Oakland High School will be held on Friday evening, January 10, at the Oakland High School gym and will be the first important event -pf the year for the high school students. The dance committee will issue 300 Invitations to the young people of the school and their friends.

The Metropolitan Dance Orchestra under the direction of SE. Elmo. Powell swill furnish the music for the evening. The newly installed floor will be used for the first time. Artistic decorations and programs will be in evidence.

The committee in charge of the dance Includes: Lloyd Cobbledick, chairman; Harold Nold, Clifton Gordon, Harold Aydelotte, Jack Learner, Celia Waterman, Eva Sharpe, Olive Hayes and Corita Jacohe, The members of the junior class will give an afternoon dance towards the end of January in the Oakland High gym. Low Senior dance will probably be held' on January 24, at the high school. BIG MAY DAY FETE IS PLANNED FOR PLAYGROUNDS With the assistance of the supervisors of playgrounds, George E. Dickie, superintendent of the Oakland Playgrounds, is arranging a May-day festival, which will consist of the customary May queen celebration and a demonstration of playground activities. There wtt be championship baseball games between the playground teams composed of boys and girls, Basketball contests are also scheduled for the day.

Volley ball will be among the sports. One of the plans of Superintendent Dickie is a general field meet of all' the playgrounds, in which track events will be run off by the champions of each playground, botft boys and girls participating. More interest is being shown in folk dancing and several new national dances will be introduced in the playgrounds before May Day, when the dancers will show their skill before the spectators. Another feature which tends to make the May Day fetes more popular is the extension of the neighborhood movement. There are two large municipal clubs in operation at present one, the first in point of age, in the Mosswood clubhouse, and the other, of later origin, in De Fremery Park.

WANTS BOSTON TO AID GRAND OPERA BOSTON, Dec. forthcoming session of the Massachusetts legislature has a new item of business before it in a petition from Mayor John F. Fitzgerald of this, city for the subsidiizng of the Boston House. The mayor belleve that the institution is responsible operas the attraction of. a certain amount business to Boston, as well as for glv! the city an esthetic standing, and proposes that tHe city appropriate the use of the opera house each year amount not exceeding that of the estate tax for which the assessed.

DIPLOMATS LAID UP AT WASHINGTON; FIVE WASHINGTON, Dec. invaded the diplomatic circles," and members of the foreign colony are up. The minister from Chile, Senor Eduardo Suarez; the minister from Cubar Senor Lodo Don Antonio: Martin-Rivero; Dr. Don Carlos M. de Pena, minister from Uruguay, and Columbia's diplomatic representative, Senor Don Julio Betancourt, are all confined to their legationary restdences.

Countess von Bernstorff, wife of German ambassdor, also is among the invalids, being so ill that she has canceled all her social engagements..