Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 10

21, COURT TO STUDY SLINGSBY BABY Vnck Wiggiiy The Fad a Useful Device Russell) FAMOUS CASE WILL BE REOPENED IN JANUARY Millionaire Breaks Speed Records Wooing and Winning California Girl TITLE TO GREAT ESTATE INVOLVED Sir Edward Carson Eloquence Will Be Heard i i i i liy Lillian ADS and hobbies have, their places. They net be ruled out of the eaLegurv a useful 4-i vices. Indolence Is a crime which nature, never forgives. The hu man body was not planned fur Idleness. AVitliout exercise both the mind and the body degenerate.

The fad anorhobby provide a form of exercise hen others, are lacking. I l.now ninny fads seem trivial when compared with the more employments. Some are too trifling to be taken into consideration, yet each provides employment for somebody. It promotes action. Where there is incentive to notion all hope is not lost.

Through action there is mental development. It is time enough to criticise the fad when it displaces more serious employ ment of brain and muscle. The fad of today may become the common custom of tomorrow. Faddists display. -tbir products and others make their selections at will, sometimes adopting them an customs.

They are contributing something: to life, even -when it Is only to the gayety of the season or passing entertainment or amusement. You look over the wares on the shelves of the merchants before selecting what you want. In the same manner you consider the offerings of The publio take what it. wants and tosses the remainder into the scrap pile. A fad, will often elevate a person from a restricted sphere.

It niar remove one from a narrow rut, for it is generally something new ami novel. It diverts the mind from the usual and ordinary, at least temporarily. Sometimes the adoption of a simple fad will place the sluggish mental mechanism in op-eration and lead to more serious thoughts. It cannot be harmful to exercise the Inventive iiualltles of the mind in originating fads and fancies. The ability to recognize a novelty i worth while.

The recognition of the talent, even In a simple way, may lead to something better. But it Is the occupation provided-by the adoption of a fad that gives it it greatest value. It Is" better to be occupied with trifles than not to be occupied at Tho per-1 son who is too sluggish and indolent to even take up the little things in life is a sad spectacle. Some society fads are ridiculous in the extreme. They may even prove disgusting.

Yet thought ami mental activity precede their birth. They are the outcome of at least some mental activity. The idler Is the person most in need of fads. People who are engaged in serious occupations have enough demands upon them to prevent that Indolence which In crime against both the body and the mind. It Is the idler, that man or woman who in not called upon to take up a serious occupation, that needs one, whether it is In the nature of something serious or merely a' simple fancy.

are diverting. They raise the mind from the routine. They the action of the mind and body, if you have no serious employment and find yourself on the verge of indolence take up a fad. "When time hangs heavy on your hands look for a fad. If your work, becomes burdensome, seek fad as a diversion.

The fad has Its place in the system of things, it is always opposed to indolence and requires the action which is necessary to the development of the body and mind. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. KATHRYN" exercises: 1. Hold a pencil at arm's length. Draw it closely up to the bridge of the nose, looking closely at it all the time.

Do this ten times. 2. Raise your eyes as high as LOS AiX'fiELFS, Pee. Follewing Foeed-breaking romance of fourteen in which a Connecticut millionaire Ml Jove witn. a Cos Ana''H beauty and so-riety belle at first sight two ao, ami won her promise to marry liim davit later, Miss Mary Heppe'.

dangh'er Mrs. Kalherine lleppe of this oitv. ami Frederick Wsdsworth Arm-Id. Hartford, were married at liit'i noon today at the Cl.amcimy apartments. The ceremony was performed bV Ke.

Bilker P. Ie in the of relatives, only, as the whirlwind romance had swept the pretty bride off her feet aiid left no time to notify her host of friends in this city. The romance began two weeks ago at the Alexandria hotel, where Arnold and his mother were Arnold first saw Miss lleppe as she was participailng In the Christ church baliar. y4Ung--ta- met-hr. he haunted t)ia bazaar for three days until he secured an Introduction, only to find that their ami- -lies had been friends of many years' standing.

The second meeting was in Curonado. where Miss Heppe visited Mrs. Arnold after dally long distance telephone Imitations issued 'from Mrs. Arnold through' hr son. Miss lleppe was accompanied by her mothei and slKter.

On returning to the city Mr. Arnold, who had been unable to. secure a single conversation alone with Miss Heppe, because of the number of relatives constantly around them, proposed to the beautiful eirl last Saturday evening while driving her to a party, and while three other relatives were in the automobile wi'h them. The whispered proposal was accented in whispers and the young people did not break the news to their families tor two davs. The announcement was followed bv a whirl of shi pping and preparation for the wedding, for the bride, will make her home in Hurtfpnl, crrro stilt, lirxxixci ABOl'y YTH1TU HOI hi: WASHINGTON, Dec.

21. Dan Cunid is reported still hovering around the Whit House. According to rumor the new- mis- tress of the White House, upon her return with the President from their honeymoon, will -signalize her friendship for her friend and companion. Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon, bv announcing her engagement from the White House to the President's friend, physician and naval aid, Pest Assistant Surgeon Cary T. Grayson, V.

S. N. To those on the outside it' has looked as though another happy romance was running alongside that of the President during the past few weeks. Miss Gordon is Mrs. Wilson's most intimate friend, and Is adaugliter of the late General Gordon, a neighbor of the Boiling family in Wche-ville, Va.

According to report. Miss Gordon is In control of a fortune variously estimated at from J100.000 to $300,000. During the last few years ahe has maintained a house in Washington, where she has lived with a companion and chaperon. Khe has taken little part In society, but has been extremely popular with a muall group of distinguished Southerners. LOT IX CEMETERY IS ATTACHED BY WIFE SACRAMENTO, Dec.

21. The filing of an attachment on a lot in the city terae-tery owned by Harry Ditman Harms, a rancher living near Union House, to forc payment of alimony and divorce costs proves that almost anything can be at tached. The attachment 1s posted at the dlrec- tion of Mrs. Elizabeth Harms, the second wife of Harms, and It incumbers all of the -graves in the plot, with the exception of the one occupied by Mrs. llaiy Harms, the first wife.

The amount of the unpaid alimony is J225. the divorce decree calling for and ieew- ivirs. xiarins ai present Is living in Oakland The attachment stands out on the plat like a To let or Kor sale" sign, it 4 1 a.A Hinnn 4.. in the renter of the i.Iat 6" in tne tenter oi me plat. BASEBALL MAGNATE'S SOX SLE1 BY WOMAX KT TniTIS fn TW, "1 Three Weeks' mav be all rght in a book, but after mv exDerience I advise irirls to stick to the books." foAss summed up her experiences with J.

Paul- on Ball. St Louis Federal League (mag- nate, Klie told of her experience with Ball Just after she filed a $50,000 breach of promise suit against him. en A. Sir Kdward Carson, former attorney-! general of Great Britain, if to defend the estate of "Teddy" Slingshy, the baby whose case has been in the courts of two nations and whose parentage has been Investigated by deteciives Here and in England. The British probate courts recognized the child as that of Lieutenant Charles H.

Famous Slingsby Baby: At the top he is pictured with his mother; below, with his nurse. Slingsby. and heir to a great English es-tatCp lingsby's two brothers are fighting the case on appeal. The case, at the time allegations were made of the "substitution" of the baby on the birth records as the Slingsby heir, was investigated by Oakland and Kan Francisco detectives. Mrs.

Slingsby, whose home originally was in Ukiah, was accoiIed of adveHisIng for a baby, and ob taining "Teddy" from Dr. W. W. Tim If ti-nm itiuro-pft wnn really the cnild of a Santa Rosa high school girl. After an investigation the State Board of Health ordered that the child's name be changed in the state records from "tiUngsby" to the name of the other woman In the case.

In England, when tho case came to trial, the judge, declar- is that he saw a strong resemblance be- tho hai.v Mrs slinushv. de- in favor of the child. The two hrother ot Lieutenant Slinssby at onco appealed. Sir Kdward Carson, who is one of the most famous barristers in the United Kingdom, will defend the baby in the high courts of England -and in the House of Lords, If the issue goes so far. Christmas Festival Planned by Battery The members of Battery Field Artillery, N.

G. are planning to give a Christmas fevsiival and dance at their armory on the evening of December 28, and as lias always been the case, a good time is assured to everybody present A beautifully decorated tree will be a leading feature and at an opportune moment Santa -Clans will appear and distribute presents to everybody with all the good wishes of the season. Thers will be fruit and candy for the kiddles and ''Josh" "presents for the members' of the batten-. "After the distribution of it 1 1 1 I i Longenrs Goes Sfctin (By Howard R. Garis.) F-nzzy -Wigv.

rat lady who kept the hollow stump bungalow in order for I le Wiggily Jmars, the rabbit gentleman, was coming home from the store one day when she saw Just ahead of her. Sammie I.ittletail, the rabbit boy, and Johnnie and Cillie Hushv-tail, the two squirrel chaps. The little animal boys were talking very earnestly about something. Johnnie say to Sammie. Uo ft-" replied boy.

"He likes you, Billle .1 too. Sammie." said the other li speak to I lule Wiggily iirst. and then, 1 d0 we'" usk him." 1 Promised Sammie. "ell. I wond.ii- what it is tlieVre going to ask- le thought Jane as site kept on.

"1 think 1 11 take a short cl home, get there before hose animal and tell Cncle "iggly bed bettir watch out. They may be going ,10 pliy a joke on hirn." Oh. I guess they're onlv going to ask me to give tliem a said toe rabbit gentleman tn Nurse Jane when she had told him what she had heard. "We have some lollvpops in the cupboard; haven't we?" "Yes. but I don't believe they're coming for them," said the imiskrat Indv.

Pretty soon along came Sammie I.ittletail and Johnnie and Billie Hushv-lall. They tapped on the bungalow door and when iule Wiggilv opened it and smiled at them. Sammie said; "Oh, Uncle Wiggily. will vou please come skating with us? The duck pond frozen over and the ice ia tine. Coma and have a skate with us!" "Hless niy silk hat!" laughed the rabbit gentleman.

"I am too old for thai. My skating days are over, liesides. 1 have the rheumatism. Is that all you were going to usk me? I thought you were coining forrfnllypops:" Sammie and Billie and Johnnie louked at one another. "Me er-I that is, we well.

We could ask you for lollypops if you wanted us to." said Johnnie, sort of wagging his tail, bashful-like and shy. "Of course 1 want you cried Uncle Wiggily. "What a re" "lollypops for If not for animal boys and girls, I'd like to know?" So the rabbit gentleman brought the funny, candles, with a stick fur a handle, and the rabbit chap and the hoys had a nice tune. Then Johnnie said: "Well, If you won't come skating yourself, l'ncle Wiggily, will you come" and watch "Yes. I'll do that," promised the bunny who always like to do what he could to make Jus little animal friends happy.

"And maybe you cohld tlkle on the sh.i-dPery ice," said Sammie. "That wouldn't hurt your rheumatism." "Maybe not," naid Cncle Wiggily. So off he went with the rabbit and llm squirrels to the frozen duck pond. The animal boys put on their skates! which were made from pieces of hard wood, with wild grape vines for" straps, anil they bewail to skate up and down, while Uncle Wiggily watched. But pretty soon the old rabbit gentleman began to cet cold from standing still, so he said to himself: "Well.

I am getting pretty old and rheuinatlekle. but I guess if I can dance the peanut flip 1 can slide on the ice. So here goes'." He took a little run and slid along, turning slowly around like the hands of the clock, only faster. by, -that was fun: cried I le ig-gily. "I haven't slid since 1 was a boy.

Here goes for And he slid again. "Say. that's great!" cried Sammie and Billie and Johnnie, who were skating farther off on the pond. "You're a good slider. Uncle Wiggily." "I in glad you think so, answered n- cle Wiggily.

He kept on having fun ana so did the animal boys, tmtil, all ot a sudden, Sammie I.ittletail- ttMpned and fell down, bumping his head so bard on the Ice that his eyes closed tightly, and it looked as if poor Sammie never open them again. "(ih. dear! This is too bad!" said Uncle Wiggily. "Too "We mu.st go for Dr. Possum at once!" chattered Hillie and Johnnie Hushytail.

"No. we must do better than that." said Uncle Wiggily. "We must carry Sammie to the doctor's office. Sammie needs medicine right away, or he may die. I'll carry him to Dr.

Possum's house. The shortest way is right across the ice." I'ncle Wiggily picked poor Sammie up In his paws, and started across the ice, the rabbit gentleman began to slip and Slide and. could not move faster than a crawl. "This will never do'" he cried. must hurrv! 1 know what I'll do.

I'll put on. Sammie' skates and skate with him to the doctor's. I haven't skated In years, but when you have to do a tiling, vou just have to; that's all:" Quickly I'ncle Wiggily put on the rabbit boy's skates, which fitted him pretty well Then, with Sammie in his pavfs, Mr. Ingears skated to Dr. Possum of-.

are Just in time:" cried simi "If vou hart not saaieo oere Willi Pammie, he might never have gotten well even with all the-rnedicine 1 could give him. But he'll soon, be all, "aiuI so Pammle was, and Cncle Wifcr gilv was very glad be skated, even if it did hurt his rheumatism a little. i "It only goes to show you never vnti can go unui as he carried Sammie home. So everything came ou all as i always try to make it, and if the feather fn the lady's hat doesn't tickle the trol ey car njnvio'iui i'nni nnn mi (A lit 1 It Ml pennies, 1 11 tea tall XL tLUVHV Wlfcgily in a hole RabelaiTBanished; Davis Is Censor PXN FRANCISCO, Dec. CI.

After carefully pondering the contents of Rabelais for several weeks. 'Collector J. O. Davis decided yesterday that it is rOT. proper reading.

A rXpy of the famous work; sent here from-f-ondnn was barred from e'Mry and ordered shipped hack to that wicked city. one at the custom linn questioned his Judgment, for they all bad time to read It. Rabelais wrote droll stories, eo droll thnt the laughter they have aroused-has echoed down the ringing grooves of change since the world was frankly PAgan. lie was frank. He discussed not mentioned In polite "T'ndoubteaiy Tavls 1ft Tight.

The book would cause a riot in Powell street. unfortunately, the dictate of the Collector of Customs Is not of much force 1n the world of art and letters. Nobody ercts monuments to Rabelais, but lu classic is always nvallabo and lives his laughter and recoupment the world over. K. OF.

V. ENTERTAIN. Under the direction of a committee headed bv H. D. Lovett.

chairman, the plans" for the Christmas tree entertainment to he given by Paramount Lodre. No. 17, Knlphts of Pythias, on Wednesday evening, have been completed. The affair will be held in Pythian hall, 24 3 Twelfth tll ho a nrnr-rnm Hven Voting people and dancing for YEARNED FOR WORLDLY WOMEN. I new YORK, Dec.

21. "Sir, he insulted, me. He called me his nominal wife," said Mrs. I-Myth Slioi.inBer today has'mae! forty-two charges against her husband. among which is that be repeatedly told, ie preferred "flat-breasted womsn i with red hair, women who are trained, i experienced and worldly." py XOVHNFV -1 MKOA.

Dec I'a'rlor of Native Daughters will hold a whist nexti ThMrsday evening In Native Sons hall on Park treet, near Central avenue. i LIO.I.W RUSSELL. I you can, as if. looking at the ceiling. Then hiok down, the nose crossing the eye.

This must be done five times. Care should taken that the eyes ore not strained. lo the exercises slowly an gently. 3. Look as far to the as you can on a direct line with tha tye.

Then move tho eye from tight to left in the same way. Do not strain "the eye. The exercises should be the morning only and without facing the light, in about a week they may be done both night and morning. SKI.MA Write again. Yon Inclose envelope for neglected reply.

to WORRIED READER Stir a teaspoonf ul, jif pow.derFfr-. and five drops, of tincture of ben ruin into four- ounces ot rose 1) water ami then add finely pow dered -oatmeal and almond me in nuantities sufficent to make a paste. Hcfore retiring spread this on the hands and cover them, with large gloves. Rub off on arising In tile morning with a cleansing Some beauties" whoS hands are among their greatest attractions, never put warm water on the hands except cmqe a day, when they are scrubbed thoroughly at night with warm water and castile soap. Vse the ua warm as possible to obtain th 3f best effects.

Replace the soat water with cold and allow this run over the hands until it has become rery cold. Then plaster the hands with the pate. ELSIE- fief ore' nsjnr the green soap batho the face ln warm water, not too hot, but so the heat will be pleasant to the skin. When the skin looks pink and feels ami warm anoint it with the green soap. Rub It well Into the pores for throe minutes.

Rinse the soap from the face with warm water, using a camel's hair complexion brush, so as to remove all the soap and as many of. the blackheads as will come; then use cold water until the face Is thoroughly cool. Wipe the face thoroughly with ster-ilUed gauze or cheesecloth. Fill the skin with cold cream, Just "dabbed" on all over; let it remain half an hour, then wipe otf any that is superfluous with at sof cloth. The amount of dirt that comes will be tnerpdjble.

Continue the treatment even' night until thy blackheads have dsappeared. Hetty To take the 'Epsom saltb baths for reduction first u'ssolve two pounds of the salts and one-ouarter of a pound of the common washing oilii In a bath tub full of water hot as you can conventiently stand it. Kemain in the bath for twenty luln- i(es at least. Then get out of the tub roll up a blanket and lie down rind sweat for twenty minutes. Th baths should be taken every day, as nn occasional one Is of.no value in reducing.

carry the largest stock on the Pacific Coast. on Freres a large ship- NECKPIECES, MUFF, i FERNS ten, of which Ball was the leading spirit, When they reached Svdnev in January, 1114 Ball promised to marry her. she states In her petition, but he failed to Ufep his promise. Elslng recently returned tn Amer- ra an(j has been plaving in vaudeville in pan Francisco, she savs. DUCHESS TO HELP PAY MANCHESTER.

1AJI L'JSi I 'f tl. I lifr 1M Manchester (formerly Helen Zimmerman cnHravurini, tn out her husband's financial affairs in order to save him from public examina- tion in the bankruptcy court. She strenu- objects to this proceeding and to ward lt off a certain per cent on the dot- lar. it is said, will be offered the dukes creditors bv trustees of the Zimmerman RECEPTION" TEACHER. SAN LKANHKO, Dec.

21. Miss Flora Downer, who recently resigned her position as a member of the grammar school staff, was given a reception by her 'L' raw in a vaudeville sketch. The trip to SviJ- marriage will take place shoitlV. Her ney took three weeks, she sad. On the engagement to.

John Gallagher, a busi- ship she became a member of a party of.nessman, has been announced. SAN" FRANCISCO- More FUR. Very Specially Priced for Christmas Buying i'j. As' representatives cf Revillcn Freres, the world's presents refresh-mots will be served tfnnntrrTmT'raoUt gentleman leading furriers, we of made-up Furs 200 of the newest, smartest nter by our buyers in New York ten days ago half of the manufacturers' regular prices. Samuel Rosenheim Sued for Divorce Mrs.

J-'annie If. 'Myeri-Rosenrfelm, daughter of the late DaniePMyer San I ummej, iiiia oern muiu an Interlocutory, decree of divorce from mun ituuu.r.1. III 111" BU1L WIUUIl H'lC tUUHHClH.CU III vCiiy several months ago. At V6 MrS' Rsenhplm nt Reno for the purpose of starting her di- vorce, her brother was there and was also being sued for divorce in San Fran- r.COi Attorney Rosenheim entered suit In the iorii courts, alleeimr desertion. hl pleadings in the Reno or XfeP Btetiheims were married In Sep- tember.

1301. At lliat 'time Mrs. Rosen- helm the divorced wife of A. W. Mver, a San Francisco attorney.

ln )ier complaint against her second husband. Mrs. Rosenheim alleged that ha lltt(i iled to support her since 19u8," the hpr father died, leaving her with a fortune. The Northeast Corner -4' -1 1 I Fur Neckpieces, Muffs'' and Sets in Skunk, Biack Fox, Taupe Fox, White Fox, Cross Fox, Red Fox, Black Lynx, Ermine, Fisher, Fitch, Mole, Marten, Mink, Opossum, Rer-sian Lamb, Raccoon, Hudson Seal, Wolf. For Clever Coats in the new, short, flare and belted effects gray and tan mix- tures striped novelties in brown and blue plain blue coatings corduroys in green or brown and in zibelines.

Many with fur collar and cuffs. Fur Coats in Persian Lamb, Caracul, Muskrat, Near Seal and Hudson Seal. FUR-LINED COATS, FOR AUTO WEAR. this will be followed, by an evening of dancing. Since the organization of the battery It has been the custom Lo hold a Christmas festival every year.

Attaches Cemetery Lot for Alimony SACRAMENTO. Dec. 21. An attachment on a cemetery lot owned by Harry D. Harms, in which there are seven graves, one of them being that of his first wife, was filed today for Mrs.

Elizabeth If. Harms by her attorney. Mrs. Harms is seeking to recover alleged unpaid alimony amounting to SSliii. The attachment notice was fixed to a stake driven In the center), of the The attachment papers shew1'' lts to apply to all of the plot "save and except that part ln which Mary Harms Is buried." Woman Fast-Doctor.

Released on Parole OLTMPIA, Dec. 21. The stale prison board has granted a parole to Linda Burfield Huzzard, fasting specialist, to become effective December 26, upon the completion of the two-year minimum of her manslaughter sentence. Mrs. Hazzard was given a two to twenty-year sentence, following the death of Miss Claire Williamson, a patient at the Hazzard sanitarium at Ollalla In 1911, after thce months' almost total abstainer from food at the direction of the practitioner.

JI1AV IHl.l-, UJt vrvv.l', J.Jjl',.-lHJ.. DANV1LLK, ante with the Dec. accord custom of making a $19-50 FECIAL SALE For Stvlish Coats Novelty check coat injrj? in light blu. andtairn3ouble ih jusi receavea worn Kevii i w-c 1 ment of CROSS FOX Open Thursday and Friday evenings before Christmas until 10 o'clock. Washington and 11th Streets A aA 71 W7i A 1 -j Over secured at about SETS AND SKINS, which will" be piaced on sale faced length with belt; fur-trimmed fur fabrics, corduroys, black basket weaves, blue-gray zibelines and' a dozen other i this week at specially low prices fashionable fabricsf-in belted am.

flare effects. I $17.50 For a Coats in blue, black and brown, with fur collars. 1 ty XMAS mixtures in gray, blue, tan and green; fur fabric and plush coats, with opossum, lynx or skunk collar and cuff and others. women master of their lodge, 0 i EVERYTHING FOR THE HOLIDAYS LARGEST STOCK LOWEST PRICES. Call and Inspect Our Assortment GILL'S FLORAL DEPOT CORNER 21ST AND TELEGRAPH AVENUE.

AW For Our Handbook of New Hoses For 1918. Danville Orange elected Mrs. Myra More to occupy the chair vacated bv Mrs. Mina Williams. Other officers elected were Miss Elizabeth Wood, sborefary, Bnd Mary Podva.

treas- urer. 1 'J 77. f. tiiuij wr- in. I MAR.T1NEZ.

Dec. 21. Walter P. I king, aged 49 years, a mining man pt asion, i.aiavpras ii.uni... day claimed as his bride Miss (ler- It rude P.

Freiday, 1. of Lexington. (Neb. King is one of the wealthiest mining men in the Sierras. I.