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FOREIGN CAPITALS AND OTHER CITIES CONTRIBUTE GOSSIP
GREEK LEADER CAREFULLY GUARDED AT LAUSANNE.
LOS ANGELES CLUB PLAYING
INDOOR GOLF WITH MOPS
Lincoln Heights Social, Literary and Automobile Organization Has
Headquarters in City JaiL
DINNER-GIVING IS POPULAR
IN SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON
Small Dances and Many Teas Mixed In Between; Grand March Is
Led by Mrs. Coolidge.
THE SUNDAY OREGON'TAN, PORTLAND. DECEMBER IT, 1923
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BY STEPHEN GRAHAM.
(Ccryrlght; 1922. by The Oregonian.)
LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Dec. 16.
The Lincoln Heights Social,
Literary and Automobile club,
a strictly indoor organization with
headquarters In the Lincoln Heights
jail, is again looking: up in mem
bership. Police Judge Chambers,
who founded the club and who nom
inates and elects its members, is
again sitting In Judgment of vio
lators of automobile traffic regu
lations and with very rare excep
tions passing out Jail sentences for
speeding or reckless driving.
"Speeding has got to stop, even if
traffic has to be stopped," is the
dictum of Judge Chambers, which
is another way of saying that un
less the speed regulations are
obeyed, all the drivers In town will
be parked In the jails, while their,
cars stand idle.
In the heyday of muckraking a
few years back it was said that no
man had actually attained promi
nence Until he had achieved a grand
Jury Indictment. If Judge Chambers
retains his health and vigor it may
soon be said that to have lived In
Los Angeles and not served a jail
sentence argues a man or woman
totally lacking In "pep" and not
worth his salt. j
All Classes In Club.
All of which is all right for the
Judge, the law, and the crusade
against speeding, but what of the
Lincoln Heights Jail club, its mem
bership, its sports and pastimes?
The membership is all that could
be desired, embracing all classes, for
Judge Chambers is absolutely free
from even a suspicion of discrim
ination or favoritism, and demo
cratic and carefree withal. The
quarters are severely plain, with the
minimum of exposure, and some
what cramped, especially when ac
tive membership recently shot up
beyond the 200 mark, necessitating
the uso of triple-decked cots, placed
side by side in the steel "tanks,"
with only a narrow aisle left for
Ingress, there being very little
egress except at tho expiration of
terms.
They are early risers, the members
of the club, for a breakfast of beans,
bread and coffee, and then a bit of
exercise. The favorite exercise is a
sort of Indoor golf, played with a
mop and pall, and the champion
tosser among those now present is
a prominent realtor, as they call
them In Los Angeles, who was
caught hurrying to the railroad sta
tion to interest newly arrived set
tlers in lots in his new sub-division,
which Is only 18 miles out In the
desert but soon to be a part of a
great wonder city of teeming mil
lions. Flea Turned Down. '
His extenuating plea of great
emergency, patriotic duty and true
hospitality wrung the loyal heart of
the judge but his lips automatically
epoke the fateful "five days." A
broker and a sportsman, member of
this club, whose secretary down
town wearily reports that he la
"away shooting due k's," might
change it to "sweeping s"nipes" and
more nearly approximate exact
truth, for he has grown quite dex
WOMAN'S PARTY TO FOSTER
NUPTIAL CONTRACT MEASURE
Fair Promises Made Before Marriage Would Be Put Down in Writ
ing as Part of Future Domestic Pact. -
: BY CAROLYN VANCE.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Oreonian.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 16.
(Special.) Those fair prom
ises made by sweethearts be
fore marriage would be put down
in writing, if the national woman's
party has Its way.
They have prepared a "marriage
contract bill," which will be intro
duced in the first state legislative
meeting In January. Should this
bill be adopted by the various
states, marriage would be recog
nized as a business partnership.
Husband and wife under this law
would be legally obligated to stand
by the "agreement drawn up be
fore marriage." Such contracts are
not now recognized by law.
This agreement may contain many
provisions that the affianced may
decide upon. For instance, the
terms might prescribeHhe term un
der which the future mother-in-law
may visit the family; it might de
termine just what nights hubby
"may go out with the boys"; there
might be a compromise on the elim
ination of the husband's be-fore
breakfast grouches by a corre
sponding elimination of the wifely
"curtain lectures." It might even
be decided whether the future heir
is to attend Yale or Harvard.
The national woman's party be
lieves that this bill will make for
better and more lasting marriages,
and would be a step upward not
only for woman but for the en
tire race.
"It Is not generally known," said
Alice Paul, leader of the party,
"that husband and wife may not
legally enter into a business part
nership under the laws of most
states. Neither would an agree
ment such as we propose be legally
recognized in the courts today. Un
der the present laws husband and
wife are not considered as part
ners, and any agreements entered
into upon marriage would be de
clared Invalid and would be totally
Ignored. We believe that marriage
should become an equal partnership,
and when it is dissolved, as one
out of every eight marriages
eventually are, the courts should
show no favor between the part
. ners. as they do now.
"We do not believe that law
should dictate the terms of mar
riage. The law should step in as
it steps into th affairs of a busi
ness partnership, only when the
two members cannot agree. The
present law says who shall ' have
the guardianship of the children,
who shall control the property, who
shall decide where the place of resi
dence should be, and many other
matters which should be left the
two individuals involved to decide."
The bill which will be introduced
In all legislatures convening this
winter read3 as follows:
"Husband antf"-wife, may;" either
before or after the marriage, con
tract with each other concerning all
rights, duties, obligations and lia
bilities growing out of the marital
relation and except as to the dis
solution of the marriage the law
shall hereafter regilate said rights,
. duties, obligations and liabilities
only In default of particular agree
ment which the parties to the mar
riage may stipulate as they please.
"Husband and wife may also
make any contract with each otherhigher went his demands. She sold
terous with a broom in pursuit of!
cigarettes and cigar butts carelessly
tossed aside by the brothers In his
particular tank.
The morning exercise over, how
ever, the members relax for the rest
of the day and evening. There Is
no worrying over what they'll have
for luncheon, they know; or what
they'll have for dinner, for again
they know mostly beans.
Card Gamea Pastime.
But the tired business man may
climb to the hurricane deck of his
cot and rest while his secretary and
clerk tell the world that he has
been suddenly called out of town
on important business. He was
called all right, and chosen, too.
With reading, smoking, gossiping
and card playing the members man
age to while away the pleasant
hours. So long as they preserve I
quiet and decorum they are not dis
turbed by Intrusions, and what could
be more innocent than a friendly
game of cards?
Gambling, of course, Is taboo. The
miracle of the , man who came into
the club with a deck of cards and
80 cents and left three days later
still with the deck of cards and
200 was nothing to publish to the
world. A thing like that is liable
to happen any day. Everybody
knows that skill and luck work
modern day miracles, so why get
excited about it? African golf is a
noisy and boisterous pastime, and
rightly enough Is frowned upon in
all polite club circles.
Early Riser Unpopular. 6
A confirmed dabbler in the stock
market, who drew a five-day sen
tence also drew upon himself the
wrath of his tankmates by having
his newspaper delivered at 4 o'clock
in the morning in order that he
might plan his deals for the day
and get his orders in for the opening
of the stock market, which happens
to be 7 o'clock, Los Angeles time.
When he took his leave, he told the
"grousing boobs" he left behind that
his haymaking 'before the sun began
to shine had netted him about
510,000 during his sojourn, and that
he was on his way to thank the
judge and ask him to make It six
months the next time. The boys
are still guessing whether he was
feeding them the old Durham or
whether he really copped the do-ra-me.
Judge Chambers in passing out his
jail stuff has not been inconsiderate:
he has permitted them to appear on
the following day, prepared in the
way of an overnight bag. Several mo
tion picture actresses have been
among the number, but the publicity
has been disappointing.
Society Matron Loses Bet.
One young society matron seemed
particularly hard hit by her sen
tence. Tears came to her eyes and
won her quick words of sympathy
that one of her gentle breeding and
refinement should have to suffer
the ignominy of a Jail term.
"Oh, I don't mind doing time,"
she said, "but I had a bet of $100
with my husband that they'd never
catch me. I hate to think of his
joy when he finds it out, and how
he'll put it all over me when I
come out."
which either might make with a
third person."
It may be remarked that this con
tract spoken of iin the bill may be
made either "before or after mar
riage." "I'll make my contract before
marriage, thank you," a wise flap
per at the party headquarters re
marked. "I'd take no chances in
waiting till after marriage to at
tend to that little legal matter. A
man will agree to most anything
before marriage, but after well,
that's another story."
-
"But what about the women who
are already married who have had
no opportunity to make such a con
tract before marriage?" was asked
of Alice Paul.
"Married women could insist upon
any contract they please at any
time after marriage, and if our
bill becomes a law such a contract
will hold.
"The domestic relations courts
are full now of women who are de
manding things from their hus
bands which had been promised
'them, but which they did not get.
Under our law these husbands could
be dealt with just as any breach of
contract 1b dealt with."
Blackmail New Resource
of Vienna's Aristocrats.
Society Women Forced to Give
I p Vast (turns to Prevent Ex
posure Intrigues With Pen
niless Aiobles.
BY NORMAN H. MATSON.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonlan.)
VIENNA, Dec. 16. (Special C
ble.) Blackmail, according
Ca-
to
the police, has become
commonplace in the upper circles of
Viennese society. Before the war
blackmail was resorted to chiefly
by the demi-monde who extorted
; "V3116:? from some respectable mid-
die-aged man by threatening to tell
his wife. Now the blackmailer is a
man, generally a poor aristocrat or
jobless professional man.- The vie
tim is the wife or daughter of one
or tne multi-millionaires.
Not a . week passes that some beau
tiful fur-coated woman does not call
upon a certain high police official to
beg for help against one of the new
blackmailers. They are generally
advised to see an attorney before
taking direct action. Exposure
means ruin and a capable lawyer
can frequently settle the affair 'on
a lump-sum basis.
Recently the wife of one of Vien
na's richest .men met a well-known
rrtist. These are hard days for even
famoua artists .and this one. needed
money. He invited the woman into
his studio. She came twice and
both times he implored her to ob
serve her entrance and departure
and to count the hours between.
Then, one day in a discreet little
cafe he told her frankly all about
it and informed her that his price
was 50,000,000 kronen, otherwise he
would inform her husband. She paid.
Then there was the young wife of
a broker who met a charming but
impecunious architect. He . wrote
letters. His first request for a loan
to buy books was readily granted,
Then the kronen began to fall on the
exchanges. The lower it fell the
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daring a session of the ft ear East peace parley there. Latest dispatches state that fears are felt tnat he may he assassinated, and lie la care
fully guarded.
her jewels, her furs and signed notes.
Finally she .went to the lawyer wko
specializes In these cases "and he
bribed the architect out of Vienna
by paying his fare to Rome and
agreeing to. keep him there for a
year while he studied.
Still there is another case of a 17-year-old
girt After she had written
love letters to her cultured young
admirer (of the poor, of course), he
forced her to become hlo mistress by
threatening to show ,the letters to
her father. She, too, brought her
satchels full of paper money to the
cafe to keep him quiet and finally
tried suicide by gas. Fortunately
the blackmailer in this case was a
Serbian and when she confessed to
I the doctor he told her parents who
forgave her and the police hustled
the blackmailer across the border.
These are only isolated instances;
the police say blackmailing has be
come a daily practice, and they de-1
clare It to be one of the signs of
general decay of European morals. '
Hotel owners are saying thathey
cannot long stand the present
"strike" of the tourists. In the last
three months about 40,000 foreigners
fled Vienna. As a result the 200
hotels are more than half empty.
Many of the smaller hotels have
from 20 to 60 rooms and have only
two or three of them occupied.
Many others and particularly those
in the suburbs have closed.
The tourist industry was almost
the only flourishing and profitable
industry of Vienna. To re-establish
it the hotel men urge greatly re
duced luxury taxes designed par
ticularly to tax the foreigner,
lower transportation tramst taxis,
trains and a removal of passport
restrictions. v
Berlin, say returning Viennese, Is
now one-sixth as costly as Vienna.
A good hotel robm costs 12,000 kro
nen (16 cents), while in Vienna It
costs at least a dollar.
Pin Pricking of Women Is
Laid to Auto-Suggestion.
Paris Police Think Most Cases
Are Imaginary.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonlan.)
PARIS, Dec. 16. (Special Cable.)
Every day and in every way
this Couei3m Is getting stronger and
stronger. Even the police now have
adopted it as an explanation for
crime. Auto-suggestion, the gen
darmerie have declared, is respon
sible for the wave of pin pricking
that has terrorized the women of
Paris.
For pin pricking in subways,
street cars and crowded department
stores is the rage this winter.
Last year it was throwing acid
on fur coats or slicing them with
knives when the wearer was not
looking. The police don't go so far
as to say that the damage wrought
to the fur coats was due to a spread
of Couelsm and that the women who
on returning home found their
sables out almost to ribbons were
the victims of auto-suggestion, but
they do insist that for every woman
actually stabbed with a poisoned
pin, there are 50 who only imagine
they have been stabbed.
Scores of women every week com
plain to the authorities that malic
ious individuals have stabbed them
unawares with shoemakers' heedles,
carrying harmless but irritating
poison.
"In the vast majority of these
cases," said the police, "careful ex
amination reveals no trace of a stab.
There can be no doubt that the
published reports of the compara
tively few actual cases have induced
a state of epidemic self-hypnosis
throughout the Parisian population.
Chinese Would Reduce Army.
SHANGHAI. A commission created
at Nanking by representatives of
Nanking publio organizations to
affect a reduction in the army pro
poses a rollcall of all the soldiery
in the provinces,.- contending that
this automatically will cut the total
number of troops, given as 40,000,
by not less than IS per cent, due to
absencies and vacancies. Follow
ing the rollcall It is proposed to dis
miss all under age and physically
unfit. The- -commission contends
tha-t its plan will reduce Kiangsu's
military, force 50 per cent within
two years and will cut the cash out
lay for troops to less than J5,000,000
a year. . ' . ,
Women Detectives Needed.
TOKIO. The need of women de
tectives has been felt by the metro
politan board of police and the new
inspector-general of the police, in
favor of the Introduction of women
to the police force, 4s organizing for
ts.work. . . . .
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NEW YORK RAISES YULETIDE
SYMBOL IN MADISON SQUARE
.
Municipal Christmas Tree, Dark Green and Graceful, Soon Laden
With Snow, While Shoppers Jam City Stores.
BY JESSIE L. HENDERSON.
(Copyright, 122, by The Oregonlan.)
NEW
EW YORK, Dec. 16. (Special.)
In a driving snow storm
which muffled the streets In
white velvet and turned tall build
ings to ghosts, the Christmas tree
was put up this week in Madison
square. Seventy feet It towered.
iLa?k green and graceful, and the
winged snow turned it in a quarter
of an hour to the sort of thing seen
for the most part around here only
on Christmas cards. "
The tree of light, the municipal
symbol of the Tuletide, is the one
bit of placidity in a town gone fran
tic with holiday shoppers. If, as
somebody has said, to cross Fifth
avenue nowadays is a career, to get
through a department store is a cata
clysm. How it happens that in a
field filled with race hatred, class
h.trM t main nM .fa shinned
hatred thr ran ho manv ner-
tanna nn an-lniiti t ft criwA mr mnnv
thin, t ,rm, nth.r n.r.n is a:
mvctfl vtr D.i.t tV,o Pnnf rainalna that f
thA nf f Atxra 1 e a etirae Btiharnva
vated and tubes and the ferries, taxis
or, rnc nra Ktcr. wiH .v,r-i
pers, bristling with bundles, worn
out with 'the struggle to get that
necktie for Uncle Ben and re
duced to that phase of the Christ
mas spirit which is capable only of
a hard bump or a dirty look for
every other strap-hanger.
In a way the joyous season Is
once more upon us, Joy, however
is an exclusive thing. It isn't cir
culating to any noticeable extent
at present among either restaurant
or motor owners. The reason in both
cases is the police. So venomous
have the police become in their ef
forts to make the town dry that
some restaurants are talking of
closing their doors at New Year's i
np Jinl-Hor . TVHa fa hnAanad thA nn. '
lice are arresting everyone who
flashes a pocket flask and taking
the proprietor along for good meas
ure. Moreover, persons who have an
aversion to arrest are doing their
drinking and eating in their own
homes, or in taxicabs hired for the
evening. All of which means that
the restauranteurs are distinctly out
of luck. .
So are the motorists. The new
"brake sciuad" has takeir upon itself
the task of cocking an attentive ear
in the direction of each motorcar in
the city. If there Is a wheeze or
rattle, the "brake squad" man backs
you into an alley, examines your
car, and if the brakes are loose
sends you to the nearest repair sta
tion at your own expense. This Is
an attempt to reduce the number of
street accidents from defective
brakes, 9000 such accidents having
occurred last year. '
Of course, this all in the interest
of public safety, but if a few more
restrictions and supervisions are
imposed on motorists it will- be
almost as much of an annoyance
to own a car as It is now to own a
tenement house.
The somewhat sluggish heart
action of the town was quickened
a beat or so by three ocourrences.
The firs( was the arrival or the
Speejacks, the 98-foot motorboat
which has Just finished taking
Commander and Mrs. A. Y. Gowan
arotmd the world on their honey
moon. The Chicago commander and his
bride were enthusiastically greeted,
when they docked at the foot ( of
East Twenty-third street, by friends
and movie camera operators, ana
seemed decidedly glad to get back
to civilization where bandits use the
homely blackjack and gun Instead
Of poisoned darts and boomerangs.
.
Another thrill was accorded the
town by the publication of a book
of verse entitled. "A Fifth Avenue
Parade, and Other Poems." The
book was written by Rev. Dr. Percy
Stickney Grant, rector of the Church
of the Ascension, and dedicated to
Mrs. Philip Lydig, whose engage
ment to the rector provoked a storm
of opposition among Episcopalian
officials because of Mrs. Lydlg's
two divorces.
And the third quickening of the
pulse beat came with the glad news
.X-.
that Professor John P. Tlernan he
of the many marital mix-ups has
decided to make his home here.
Professor Tiernan, who is the
brother of Peter Tiernan, an assist-'
ant corporation counsel, is dwelling
in a Manhattan apartment with his
first wife and three children, in
cluding Baby Billy, whose paternity
was the basis for the far-famed
suit against Harry Poulln of South
Bend, Ind. " Professor Tiernan re
fuses to tell his Manhattan address,
but let it be known that he is in
stituting action to annul his second
marriage" to Mrs. Blanche Brimmer
Tiernan, his bride of one day.
The thing which brought the
quickened heart beat was, of course
astonishment -at the fact that an
outsider could walk right into
Manhattan apartment
Yes, and
bring along his wife
and three '
babies, while other persons here- 1
f bouts 1were putting their offspring
n orphan asylums, chloroforming
lnB ana giving away me aog in
i a vain effort to induce finicky land
lords to put them on the waiting list
for a two-room flat which might
be vacant next July.
mha n.nuim ,,n1Iffl,,a-
The apartment problem, however,
I is not one of the things that trouble
Mathew Fleming Jr. This 9-year-old
boy has run away 24 times so
far, but this week his 25th run
away broke all records.
The enterprising young man suc
ceeded In amassing $3. With this
hoard, he boarded an elevated train
and for 14 days, barring a few min
utes for lunch and an hour off for
sleep, he rode up and down on-the
"L" and In the subway, covering
perhaps 1000 miles and spending
exactly $1. He was interrupted by
a woman who noticed the sleepy
boy curled up in a corner.
"I like to see the signal lights
flash," Young Mathew explained.
Fingerprint Is Relied on to
Prove Art Da Vinci's.
Contest Over Disputed "La Belle
Ferroniere" Is Declared to Be
Widely Watched With Unusual
Interest.
BY JANE H. MOORE.
(Copyright, 1922, by The Oregonlan.)
NEW
EW YORK, Deo. 16. (Special.)
Nobody is watching with
keener Interest the contro
versy over the supposed Da Vinci
fingerprint- on the disputed "La
Belle Ferroniere" painting than lo
cal members of the International
society for popular identification.
If the 400-year-old fingerprint on
the painting owned by Madam An
dree Hahn corresponds wlth finger
prints on other paintings of undis
puted Da Vinci origin, the New
York attorneys for Madam Hahn
hope to win a damage suit for
$500,000 brought against Sir Joseph
Duveen, who cast doubt on the au
thenticity of the painting.
Meanwhile Captain Grant Will
iams, vice-president of the inter
national society for personal identi
fication, pointed out today the fact
that fingerprints much older than
even Da Vinci's are still perfectly
clear and practicable for identifica
tion purposes. And, as one result
of the dispute between Madam Hahn
and Sir Joseph Duveen, Captain
Williams hopes public attention will
be called to fingerprinting as a
means of protecting property,
The captain hopes, in fact, that
people will place their fingerprints
on such things as watches, cameras,
bits of valuable jewelry. If any of
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thev may be Instantly identified
even in the midst of a big pile of
plunder made up of similar articles
by comparing the fingerprints upon
them wltn tne nngerprint oi ine
orieinal owner. Captain Williams,
by the way, should know of what
he speaks. He was formerly- head
of the bureau of missing persons
in the New York city police depart
ment and is widely known as a fin
gerprint expert. It was he who re
constructed the ekull In the famous
Lillian White murder case last
spring.
"In 300 B. C. a woman was buried
in a tomb at Thebes," said Captain
Williams today. "I took the finger
prints of her mummified hands yes
terday and- they are as distinct as
Photo by Underwood
on the day she died, more than 2200
yeare ago.
"The hand, which -was presented
to me by an egyptologlst friend, had
shrunk somewhat through the proc
ess of mummification. It was etill
beautifully shaped, however, with
slender fingers. When I took an
impression in plaster of those aris
tocratic fingertips the marks were
plain enough for any expert to
read, (
"People will, I hope, begin to ap
preciate the tremendous importance
of fingerprinting as a result of this
Hahn-Duveen case. The aim of the
international society is helping the
average citizen by recording his fin
gerprints, not merely to tag the
criminal by this method: It is un
fortunate in a way that fingerprint
ing was first used as a: means of
identifying criminals, for it other
uses to the average law-abiding citi
zen are of even greater importance
and value. .
"The Hall-Mills murder case could
have been solved within 24 hours
had the bodies not been smeared
with many people's fingerprints be
fore the detectives got possession
of them. The boys who went down
on the Maine could have been Iden-
tlfied If their fingerprints had been
taken when, they went Into the serv-
ice and again after the disaster,
If a man is choked to death we
can
una nis slayer by means or
flngerprtnts on his stiff white col
lar. If a burglar touches a window
pane with his hand, the fingerprints
remain unless rain washes them
away or a strong wind dries them
up for about 90 days.
: "There would be almost no cases
of unidentified among our citizens
were fingerprints used as they
ought to be. Even if the hands and
feet because footprints are as good
as handprints were lost through
accident, a body may be identified
by comparing the texture of the
skin from some other part with the
previous fingerprint
"No two fingerprints are the same.
Every woman and man carries in
thr hnnd a positive means of iden
tification, both of the , body and
property.' The recent tragic mix-up
of babies in a local hospital could
never have happened if at birth the
babies' footprints had been taken
and recorded, together with the
mothers' fingerprints."
Moonshiners Contribute Badges.
SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 16.-Moon-shlners
of the northwest afe con
tributing badges for delegates to
the Northwest Association of
Sheriffs and Police convention to
be held at Portland, Or., from Janu
ary 18 to 20, 1923. The peace offi
cers' organization Is melting up
copper stills and converting them
into badges for the delegation. The
association includes in Its member
ship officers from Washing-ton, Ore
gon, Idaho, Montana, Alberta and
British Columbia.
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(Copyright, 1922. by The Oresonlan.)
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 16.
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dinners, debutantes and dances.
Dinner-giving is the most popular
form of entertaining for the really
smart set of Washington society,
and during the season most of the
social elect hardly ever eat at
home, unless they themselves have,
dinner guests. During the past
week there were . dinners galore;
also dances three balls, with a
number of small dances and many
tea dances In between.
Quite the most picturesque party
of the week was the one eiven by
Mrs. John B. Henderson for the
members of the Congressional club
with their men folk and a few of
Mrs. Henderson's friends from the
diplomatic corps and resident so.
ciety. This took place in, the hand
some new house at the corner of
Sixteenth and Fulton streets which
Mrs. Henderson has Just completed
and which is designed presumably
for an embassy or legation.
The affair had the form of s good,
old-fashioned house-warming. Old
time dances, the polka and the two
step, the lancers and the Virginia
reel, were the features of the evening,-young
people and those not so
young tripping it gaily to such
merry,- once-familiar tunes as
"Money Musk," "Charlie, He's a Nice
Young Man," and "Pop Goes the
Weasel."
Mrs. Coolidge Leads March.
As the music grew more a-nd
more lively. It developed Into a gay
cake walk, and finally broke up into
two and three sets for the Virginia
reel. "
The grand march was led by no
less a personage than Mrs. Coolidge,
wife of the vice-president, "stepping
out" with John B. Henderson Jr.,
son of the hostess. Hard upon their
heels followed Mrs. Henderson with
the French ambassador, M. Jusser
and; Madame Jusserand and the
ambassador of Peru, F. A. Pezet: the
minister rrom Switzerland and Ma
dame Peter; Senator and Mrs. Rob-
KINGS ARE GOOD FELLOWS, :
DECLARES REAR ADMIRAL
Only Trouble Is They Look So Much Like Real People Ex-Pay--master
Has Interview He Will Remember.
BY OTIS SWIFT.
(Chicago Tribune Foreign Newi Service.
Copyright, 1922, by the Chicago Tribune.)
ATHENS, Dee. 16. (By Tribune
Wireless.) "Kings are good
kings but the trouble with them is
they look so much like real people," 1
remarked Rear Admiral Samuel Mc
Gowan, retired paymaster general
of the United States navy, -who -is
now in Athens as business manager
for American Red Cross relief work
in Greece.
Admiral McGowan speaks as an
expert. He had just received an au
dience with King George of Greece
that probably will have a separate
page when the Greek history of
1922-23 Is written.
The veteran Yankee naval officer
requested an audience with the king
and was Informed that if he would
call at the palace the next day at
11 o'clock A. !., he would be re
ceived. Arriving at the palace on
scheduled time he presented his
name. A white kilted soldier from
the palace guaVd opened the door
and ushered the admiral. to a seat
In the opposite corner of the cham
ber, which seemed to be a Sort of
ante room to the royal apartments,
sat a husky good-looking young
naval officer.
"Admiral" Does Hla Beat.
Noting the broad gold band on the
sleeves of the youth's uniform, Ad
miral McGowan opened a conversa
tion. "You are an admiral, are you
not?" asked the American.
"Yes, this is an admiral's uniform
of the Greek navy," replied the
youth with a smile.
"You live here in the palace?" Ad
miral McGowan suggested.
"Mostly; I have a country palace,
too," the youth agreed.
"Well, 1 don't know this court
life cannot be so pleasant for
young man who has known life at
sea with a good crowd on a good
ship and the smell of fresh sea air."
"I get tired of it sometimes." said
the young officer, "it's a lot of
work."
"I know you have got to do it.
but don't get discouraged they
won't keep a smart young officer
like you on shore forever you will
be getting out soon. When do you
expect to leave Athens?'
The youth Bmlled and looked em
barrassed. "I really don't know, for it de
pends on how the people like me.
I may be here permanently and I
may get out at any time. Anyway,
I am doing my best on the job and
I hope to make good."
No one Interrupted the conversa
tion for half an hour and the two
men chatted pleasantly for half an
"I hear they want
more Bovrd
That must mean me"-
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ert L. Owen, Senator and Mrs. Will
iam A. Calder and a whole line of
notables. Can you picture It ail
these dignitaries frolicking about-
the French ambassador with his
head a little one-sided?
Great logs blazing In the open
fireplaces contributed a home-like
touch to the reception room and the
library used that eveu.ng as A prom
enade and the smoking room, and In
the lofty dining room the supper
table groaned under all sorts of
old-fashioned goodies Virginia ham
and hot biscuits, creamed oysters
and salads and innumerable delec
table ices and confections.
Mrs. Henderson has striven since
her husband's death to dispose of
her property to only smart people'
who build huge homes, and she her
self has built fully a half dozen
mansions and then sold them to em
basies and legations or wealthy
people' until there is a cluster of
magnificent homes thereabouts on
Sixteenth street. .
Senate Women Hold Luncheon. '
The senate women had their first'
luncheon of the season Tuesday
wiht Mrs. Coolidge, wife of the vice-
president. Presiding was Mrs. Mar
shall, wife of the former vice-presi
dent.
Monday Mrs. Coolidge accom
panied Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Gros
venor of Kensington, Md., to attend
the dedication of a new building at
the home school for deaf children.'
Before her marriage Mrs. Coolidge
was a teacher In a school in New
England for the deaf and dumb,
founded by Mrs. Grosvenor's father;
the late Professor Alexander Gra-"
ham Bell.
There were three large balls dur
ing the week, one on Tuesday given
by the Roy McKinley Baeford unit
of the American Women's Legion,
the proceeds being given for the
blind and maimed soldiers. Thurs
day's ball, an annual affair and a
very smart one always, was given
for the Columbia hospital, and Fri
day's was called the "ball of th
nations," and was given for the
benefit of the women's universal a'..i
liance at Wardman Park hotel,
feature of a two-day bazaar. J..
hour, swapping yarns of naval life,
commenting on the high cost of
dress uniforms, the ridiculous prices
of gold epaulettes these days and
the general dullness of life on
Finally- the young man rose an
extended his hand, saying:
I am afraid I must go. I have
an appointment with some friends
in a few minutes. I hope to see you
again."
Dining last night at the Hotel
Grande Bretagne, Admiral McGowan
rnet a foreign office official and
commented on the lack of hospi
tality at the palace.
"I went up there at the right time
and presented myself, but they juBt
shoved me into an ante room and
left me there. I stayed around for
half an hour talking with a young
navy chap and then I got ttred and
came back here. I never saw the
king at all."
The Greek official looked puz
zled and grieved.
"X cannot understand Monsieur
L'Admiral. I have just come from'
the palace and there his majesty
himself assured me that he haa seen
you and spent a delightful and
charming half hour in your jom-t
paay."
TIME AMD HALF IS DENIED
Rail Labor Board Upholds Pre
vious Maintenance Decision. .
CHICAGO, Dec. 16. (By the As
sociated Press.l The United States
railroad labor board in a decision
issued Friday upheld its previous
stand in denying maintenance-of-way
men their request for time and
one-half after eight hours' work
and on Sundays and holidays. -
By the board decision the presr
ent ruling is a prorata rate for the
ninth and tenth hours and time and
one-half after that hour of work.
The request for a ruling on con
tract work, the decision stated, had
been answered in previous deci
sions. These declared such con
tracting an attempt to avoid the
provisions of the transportation act.
Rulings favorable to the employes
were contained in the decision In
. that employes' time must start and
end at designated assembling points
and supervisory forces shall be
compensated on the same overtime
basis as the men supervised when
the general force is required to
work in excess of eight hours. The
last ruling applies to foremen em
ployed on a monthly basis.
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