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Jntaia flail*i (times INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. Daily Except Sunday, 25-29 South Meridian Street. Telephones—MAin 3500; New, Lincoln 8351. MEMBERS OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS. _ Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, G. Logan Payne Cos. Advertising offices j New f- ork Boston, Tayne, Burns & Smith, Inc. ■ _ § THOSE DOWNTOWN burglars were also shopping early. HAVE YOU bought Dad his slippers and smoking jacket? THAT SUBMARINE CONTROVERSY could be classed as “deep stuff.” TtlE FRIENDS of highways exclusively of concrete appea • to be dying hard. PROBABLY those Lake County policemen take lessons from the neighboring city of Chicago. IN OTHER WORDS if Miss Burnside objects to wearing a uniform she can become a detective. THE LONGER THE SESSION lasts the more likely another special seaslon to straighten out the mistakes of this one. THE REVISED income tax law will save money for married men. Unfortunately, however, it will be only a paper saving. THE CHIEF DIFFICULTY in limiting a special session to one day is the fact that most legislators insist on talking longer than that. THE CONFERENCE on the limitation of armaments is expected to adjourn about New Year's day by turning over anew leaf in behalf of most of the world. Highway Specifications The controversy over the material of which Indiana highways are to be constructed has come to the front again after lying dormant since the close of the Goodrich administration. At that time the State highway commission was notoriously partial to concrete roads and the controversy which is dividing the commission at this time is an inheritance of that regime. The specifications under which Indiana roads are being built were drawn under the direction of the commission of which L. H. Wright was a director. Mr. Wright, it will be remembered, resigned under fire at the opening of the McCray administration. The Wright specifications were openly favorable to concrete as n road material. They were drawn in such a way that the specifications for concrete roads could be easily met, while those for brick and asphalt roads were difficult to comply with. Many road experts contended that the concrete roads under the commission’s specifications were somewhat inferior roads, while under the specifications of the commission the brick and asphalt roads would be highways of the highest quality. Obviously, with this state of affairs prevailing, the brick and asphalt men would be left out in the cold. This condition was so marked that it became evident that this was the purpose of the difference in specifications. With the comfng of the McCray administration the promise was made that this state of affairs would be altered. An attempt is now being made on the part of a majority of the commission, it appears, to carry out this promise. There is no desire here to hold a brief for brick roads or asphalt roads as against concrete roads. But certainly no class of material should be given a monopoly as against the other. Let the specifications be so drawn that every one will be given a square deal and competition will be open to all comers.

Prison Systems at Stake It is not difficult to understand the mental functioning of a prisoner who, condemned to die, makes a break for liberty, but it is difficult to understand the operation of a system by which these dangerous and desperate characters are allowed to run at large. The news columns of the last few days have carried thrilling stories of prisoners, nearing the time when they would have expiated their crimes ou the gallows, effecting daring and successful escapes from supposedly impregnable prisons and again becoming ths menace they were when snatched up by the law. One of the most sensational breaks in criminal annals was that of Tommy O'Connor, the notorious Chicago gunman, who, due to die on the gallows Thursday, fought hi3 way out of the Cook County jail and buried himself in the “bad lands” which he had terrorized before landing in prison. O’Connor, realizing that he must die, probably will fight to the death if cornered, and the shame of it all is that he is liable to snuff out other lives as well. Then there was the case of Tom Slaughter, the "bad man” of the Southwest, who fought his.way out of the penitentiary at Little Rock just before time for his execution. Had not a “pal” whom he befriended betrayed him and killed him. Slaughter undoubtedly would hsve resumed his life of banditry. Prison discipline seems to have gone wrong elsewhere as well. In Michigan a warden was stabbed, a deputy warden beaten unconscious and his son probably fatally injured by convicts rioting at a motion picture show given for their entertainment. Punitive systems have been built up by evolution through the ages, or ever since man, combining for the common good, was obliged to take measures against the few who defy conventions and the rights of others. Modern prisons are conducted on the theory that kindness will convert a social violator into a useful citizen, yet an outbreak like the one in Michigan demonstrates that even this modern theory is bound to be overturned at times. Undoubtedly, when the facts are fully known, the escapades of O’Connor, Slaughter and the rioting prisoners at Marquette are due in no small degree to the management of the institutions.

Airplanes and Gas The theory advanced by Brig. Gen. Amos Fries, head of the chemical warfare section of the Army, and others that war can be made so horrible that its mere horror will prevent war is illogical and unsound. War since those first battles depicted by H. G. Wells in feis Outline of History has been growing more horrible with every conflict and yet there appears not to have developed, except during periods immediately following great wars such as the present period, any marked opposition to war. Before tho Germans invaded Belgium and brought upon the world its greatest war there was some slight conception among military and governmental leaders of how horrible war could be made. Forty years had gone into the preparation of its horrors and yet this fact advanced it rather than deterred it. General Fries advocates the development of poison gas as a means of keeping peace and his very argument for it turns into an argument against it. He contends that through the development of poison gas and through the development of airplanes 100 per cent casualties could be inflicted on unprotected peoples and troops. This, he says, would be an influence against war. Just stop and think for a moment what would havfe happened if such diabolical implements of warfare had been in existance in 1914. Does General Fries believe that the Germans would have hesitated to fly over Paris aDd deluge the city with poison? Does he think that the consequences would have been so horribe that the kaiser’s heart would have been touched mod he would not have ordered war? Rather, if the kaiser had had these things at his disposal before 1914 the war would have started before it did. With the development of airplanes and poison gas surprise attacks would be easily possible and the potentiality of entire nations could be wiped out before they had an opportunity to arise in their defense. The real danger of airplanes and poison gas is becoming more and more evident. A naval holiday would be a great blessing, but Isn’t there the bare possibility that navies themselves are becoming obsolete? With the development of the airplane and of poison gas trans-Atlantic or even trans-Pacific warfare of this character may soon be possible. No one would wish to put any obstacle in the way of commercial development of airplanes, but there should be some restriction of their use for preparedness purposes. This Is a problem with which this or some future disarmament conference must deal.'*'"

IN THE REALM WHERE WOMAN REIGNS

Keeping House With the Hoopers

[The Hoopers, an average American family of five, living in a suburban town, on a limited income, will tell the readers of the Dally Times how the many present-dar problems of the home are solved by working on the budget that Mrs. Hooper has evolved and found practical. Follow them daily in an interesting review of their home life and learn to meet the conditions of the high cost of living with them.] TUESDAY. Mrs. Hooper had promised to go up to the city with the Bride and advise her abcut the purchase of the new washing machine that she seemed determined to have. They were to have gone yesterday but on Sunday some friends of the Bride in the city had sent her word that they were coming to see her so there was nothing for her to do but stay home and entertain them. “I don’t believe it will be necessary for us to go up to the city anyhow,’ Mrs. Hooper had told her when she hud telephoned to say that they would not be able to go as they expected. , "Oh I don’t think I can get what I want in Mayfield,” objected the Bride. ‘I saw one in the window of a shop i Q city the other day that was advertised for use in apartments that didn’t take up any room hardly and I could use It In the kitchen because I haven’t any laundry.’* ts “I can’t imagine one as small as that, ’ said Mrs. Hooper skeptically. “What was it like?” “Just like a big double covered pan and it seemed to be set up on a peg, explained the Bride, “and when you hitched it to the electric light socket it wobbled around like a top that is spinning obit nut it kept whirliug slowly and rather unsteadily until the clothes were clean.” “The principle sounds all right, ’ acknowledged Mrs. Hooper, “although I’ve never seen anything like it in action, but

Ve TOWNE GOSSIP; Copyright, 1921, by Star Compnaj. liy K. C. B. ! I HAVE two friends. • • • WHO LIVE in a suburb. • • • AND THEY have a daughter. • * • OF FOURTEEN years. • * • AND THEY' have a maid. • • * AND ANY time. • • • YOU HEAR them boast. • • • YOU MAY be sure. • • • IT’S ABOUT the maid. • • • FOR FIRST of all. • • • SHE’S A wonderful cook. • • • ANI) SECONDLY. • • • SHE’S A perfect thirty-six. * + • AND IF she don’twatch out. • • • FLO ZIEGFELD ’ll get her. AND ANYWAY, . * • I WAS over there. • • • TWO DAYS ago. • • • AND WAS nenrlng the house. • • + WHEN I saw the maid. • • • RUN DOWN the walk. • *. AND COME my way. AND SHE was dressed. • • • IN A little brown suit. • • • AND HAT to match. ... AND I said to myself. • • . AS SHE approached. * • • THAT OF all the maids. • • I HAD ever known SHE WAS the queen. • • AND THEN it happened. THAT ALL at once. • * • SHE tel SHED at me. AND THREW her arms. * • • ABOUT MY neck • . • AND AS ahe did. * • • I SAW right away. ... IT WASN’T the maid. • • . BI T IT was the daughter. ... OF FOURTEEN years. WHO HAD dressed herself. • * IN THE maid’s new suit. AND WAS making believe. * • AND HO I kissed her. • • * AND WENT into the house. • • • AND STRAIGHTAWAY. * * • WE WERE gent outside. • • * TO YVALK around. • * • WHILE THE maid came out. • * * AND SWEPT the walk. • • • SO THE neighbors could see. * . • IT WASN'T the maid. YVIIC HAD folded me. IN* HER fond embrace. • • I THANK you.

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it doesn’t sound as if it would take many clothes to a load.” “Well, I suppose it wouldn’t,” admitted the Bride, “but I haven’t a big weekly wash like yotirs and most of my pieces are small.” “That is all very true,” said Mrs. Hooper, “but if you buy a machine that will hold only pocket handkerchiefs and napkins and small pieces of lingerie which are about the only things a woman living in a small city apartment ever plans to wash, what do you think you’ll do about your sheets and your husband’s flannels and your housedresses “I suppose that’s so,” mused the Bride. “As I recall that machine now, I’m sure it would only hold very small pieces and not many of those at a time.” -“Well, if you are going to put money into a washing machine you don’t waut a plaything, but a piece of house equip-

Mem You May Marry By ETHEL R. PEYSER

Has a man like this proposed to you? Symptom*: Loves children. Whenever you are not with him he punctures the walks and talks by stopping to play and chat with them. Has all sorts of “kiddy” pals. You know he only wants to marry because of his passion for children. Before you are married you think this is a marvelous trait and you love him for his kindliness. He is a successful business man and manly. IN FACT There is nothing babyish about him. 'jT7\ Prescription to his bride: IT . Don’t forget to remember why you liked and ys married him. i Absorb This: CHILDREN ARE THE CEMENT OF MARRIAGE. (Copyright, 19*1.)

ment that will save you money in return and that you can use for washing all your clothes." "That’s true," admitted the Bride. “Id still have laundry bills if I had to send out my bed linen and all my big pieces.” “To say nothing of al 1 those wash rugs jou have on your bedroom floors that von can handle easy next summer in a washing machine instead of paying the laundry man two dollars apiece for washing them.” "Well, perhaps 1 hail better go to the hardware store In Mayfield, where you bought yours," agreed the Bride, "but it does seem that I need something different from the one you have. “There are other kinds," suggested Mrs. Hooper. “My argument is that you should get one big enough to. be practical, not one exactly like mine." The results of a long afternoon spent looking at the two or three styles of washing machines that the local dealer carried was that the Bride bought one for |175 dollars cash, which differed from Mrs. Hooper’s inasmuch ns it washed and wrung the clothes before they came out of the tub, doing away entirely with the need of a wringer aud making that handling of the clothes unnecessary. The menus for the three meals on Wednesday are: BREAKFAST. Stewed Prunes Cereal Waffles aud Syrup ropovers Coffee LUNCHEON. Rice and Nut Croquettes Bread aud Butter Gingerbread Fruit Milk. DINNER. Cream of Spinach Soup Fried Pan Fish Hashed Brown Potatoes Buttered Beets Apple Pie. —Copyright, 1921. CREAM FAKES. One-half cup butter; one cup boiling water; four egga; one cup flour. Place water and butter In saucepan on hot part of the range. As soon as bolljug point is reached udd flour all at once and stir rapidly until well mixed. Remove from tire and add unbeaten eggs, heating between each addition until well mlx2d and blended. Drop by spoonfuls of on well-buttered sheets, allowing one and one-haif Inches between. Shape with spoon; have as nearly circular as possible. Have the mixture slightly piled it. the center. Bake in moderate oven for about twenty-five minutes, or it may require thirty, according to heat of oven. With u pointed, sharp knife make a cut largo enough to admit of filling. I ill with cream tilling flavored with vanilla. Tlie above amount will make from fifteen to eighteen cakes, according to the size. If the cakea a-e taken from the oven before thoroughly done they will fall. CARROTS IN CREAM. Scrape, wash and cut, carrots in any shape you wish, in long strips about the size of a match, cubes, balls or with vegetable cutter. Cook in boiling salted water until tender. Senson with one-half cup of rich cream, ono tablespoon of butter, salt and pepper to taste. Simmer for’a few moments and serve. Serve with fowl or veal. SPANISH LAMB. Slice raw potatoes very thin and put them in the bottom of a greased baking dish till two inches thick. Season well with salt and pepper, aud one teaspoon-

ful of finely minced onion. Moisten with gravy or white sauce. Add several layers of thinly sliced cold shoulder of lamb roast, season, and pour a small can of tomatoes over it. Cover with buttered bread crumbs, and bake covered, about one hour. Remove cover next fifteen minutes to brown it. Serve with one-half cup peas, freshly heated, over the top. Helpful Household Hints To Remove Oil Spots—Should you be so unfortunate as to get machine oil on your sewing, either silk, woolen or cotton materials, sprinkle the spot very freely with talcum powder, roll up and put away until next day. Shake out the powder and the oil goes out with it. To Remove Ice Cream Stain —Sponge with chloroform or ether. When this

dries, rub in powdered French chalk to get out the fatty portion of the cream. Leave the chalk on all night. Library Notes New fiction books at the Central Library includes: "Atlantida” by Pierre Benoit; “Sons Aud Lovers" by I). H. Lawrence; “Manslaughter" by Mrs. A. I). Miller; aud “Deadlock” by D. M. Richardson. New non-fiction books at the Central Library include: “American Rural Highways” by T. R. Agg; "Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century" edited by K. M. Alden; “American Standard of Perfection” by American Poultry Associatl 'ii; Four One Act Plays” by Lewis Beach; “The Shorter Bible," “Short History of the English Drama” by B. G. Bravvley; “New Homes For Old” by S. P. Breckenrldge; “Selection From The Poems of Giosue Carduccl" by Car ducci; “Three One-Act Plays” by Harold Chapin; "Machine Shop Drawings” by F. 11. Colvin: “Handbook Os Petroleum, Asphalt And Natural Gas” by Roy Cross: "Life of Augustin Daly" by J. F. Italy; “True Tales of the Weird” by Sidney Dickinson; “Studies of the Human Fig ure” by U. M. Ellwood; "More Hunting Wasps” by J. H. O. Fubro: “Topographb: Maps and Sketch Mapping” by J. K. Finch; “Ten One-Act Plays" by Alice Gersteuherg; "America’s Power Resources” by C. G. Gilbert; “Constructive Rural Sociology” by ,). M. Gillette; "Handbook Or Y’rSemite National Park" edited by A. F Hall; "Ilow To Eat" by T. C. Iluikie; “Turns About Town” by R. (’. Holliday; Trend of the Race" bv S. J. Holmes; “Teaching and Addresses” by E, A. Kimball; "Journal Bungalows issued by the Ladles Home Journal;” “Book or Jack London” by Charmlan London; “Architectural Rendering In Wash” by 11. V. Magonigle; “Art Appeal In Display Advertising" by F. A. Parsons; “Modern Methods of Ford Repairing'’ by J 11. Pile; “Machine Drafting and Empirical Design" by Walter Rautenstrauch : "Asphalt Construction for Pavements anil Highways" by Clifford Richardson; “Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada” by C. F. Saunders; "Modern Printing" by John Southard; "Sex, for Parents and Teachers’’ bv W. L. Stowell; “Natural History Studies” by J. A. Thomson; “Some Stumbling Blocks of the French Language ami the Way to Avoid Them” by O. N. Trtcoehe; "Europe Since 1870” by E. R. Turner; “Beverages and Their Adulteration" !>y 11. W. Wiley; “Elements of Railroad Track and Construction" bv W. L. Wilson; “Literary Memoirs'of the Nineteenth Century” by G. K. Woodberry; and “Three One-Act Pin vs" by Stark Young. Three new books at the Business Branch are: “Here Type May Serve You," by .T. M. Bundscho; “Management of Men.’’ by E. L. Munson, anil “Year Book of National Association of Cost Accountants.” Now books at the Teachers' Special Library are: “Course In House Planning ami Furnishing," by C. W. Calkins; “Sense Training for Children’s Development in the Form of Simplified Games and F.xercises," by 11. A. Wrlghtson. New juvenile books at tho Central Library are: “Americanization of Edward Bok," by E. W. Bok; “Commercial Geography,” by A. P. prigham; “Good Wolf” by Frances H. Burnett: “Travels In History.” by S. L. Clemens: “Argosy of Fables," edited by F. T. Cooper; “Elementary Economic Geography." by C. R. W. Dryer; “Animal Life in Field anil Garden.” by J. H. C. Fab re; “School History of the United States.” by A. B. Hart.; Tales of True Knights.” by G. P. Krapp: “Book of Bravery,” edited by 11. W. Lanier; “Brown Wolf, and Other .Tack London Stories,” by .Tack London; “Games for Play Institutes;” "Larger Types of American Geography," by C. A. McMurry; “Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories," edited by F. K. Mathlews; "Kingdom of the Winding Road," by Cornelia Meigs; “John Baring's House.” by Elsie Singmaster; and “Soolook, Wild Boy," by It. J. Snell.

PUSS IN BOOTS JR.

Br David Corx “ Now, when the Robber Kitten commanded Puss Junior and Tom Thumb to hold up their hands, our two small travelers just looked at him. "Hold up your hands!" he shouted again and this time you may be sure Puss and Tom obeyed, for they didn’t want to run the risk of being shot, you see, and the muzzle of the pistol which the Robber Kitten held in its right paw was close to Puss Junior's head. • “Why haven’t you got more money?” cried the Robber Kitten, angrily. “I'll try to oblige you the next time,” answered Puss Junior, with a grin. “Yes, I’ll wear diamonds when I come through the ‘dreary wood' again," said Tom Thumb. “We didn’t expect to have the pleasure of being robbed." Well, this mads the Robber Kitten laugh, and after putting the money in his pocket, he looked about him. And then, all of a sudden, “He climbed a tree to rob a nest Os young and tender owls; But the branch broke off and he fell down, With six tremendous howls! Howls, howls, howls! With six tremendous howls!” "That Just serves him right," whispered Tom to Puss Junior, “and I'd tell him so if It weren't for that pistol." “So would I,” said Puss Junior, “but he has the better of us, for we have only our swords.” Well, liy this time the Robber Kitten hail gone away, but Tom Thumb and Puss Junior were so angry at being ' robbed that they followed him, hiding I behind a tree whenever he turned around. “Goodness, gracious me!” whispered Puss Junior from behind the tree where he and Tom were hiding. “That kitten Is getting to be a terror.” "Isn’t he, though," replied Tom. “Just look at his whiskers. They are. bristling like bayonets.”—Copyright, 1921. (To Be Continued.) Giant Ginseng Root Found in W. Virginia MARLINTON, W. Va., Dec. IS.—E. M. Smith, a well-known hunter of this city, discovered the largest ginseng root ever found In this section of the State while hunting for pheasants on Red Lick Mountain the other day. Mr. Smith became entangled in some sort of plant and after investigating found It to be a giant ginreng stalk four feet high. He dug it up and sold the root to a local grocer. There were between seventy anil eighty marks or scars on the curl of the root, each showing an annual growth, which indicates that the plant had been unmolested for well on toward one hundred years. A large quantity of ginseng is dug in this section of the State for shipment lo China, where the natives have great faith in its medicinal qualities. TWO HOURS MORE WORK. LONDON, Dec. 13.—Dorsetshire policemen have agreed to work ten hours a day instead of eight to save the expense of increasing the force.

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By GEORGE McMANUS.

ADVANCE SEEN IN EUROPEAN WAR RECOVERY Economic Gains Slow aiid Difficult, but Gloom Is Disappearing. U. S. WITHOUT VOICE Special to Indiana Dally Times and Philadelphia Public Ledger. BY HERBERT HOOVER, Secretary of Commerce. \ WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The economic recovery of Europe is necessarily slow aud difficult. It contains great dangers, but it is not at all as gloomy as some statements would make it appear. Year by year since the armistice, the combatant states (except Russia) show steady gains in social and political stability; they show great progress in recovery of agriculture, industry, foreign trade and communications. The one field of continuous degeneration is that of governmental finance —that is the unbalanced budgets, the consequent currency inflation, etc., of certain countries with its train of credit destruction. The commerce of the world obviously suffers grievously from this failure in fiscal finance and apprehension that flows from It, and unless remedies are found the great recuperation in the five great fields of social, political, industrial, agricultural and commercial life of the past three years is endangered. Its effects spread constantly outside the borders of those states predominantly concerned anil substantially check £ur recovery also. GERMANY HOLDS MOST DANGEROUS SITUATION. The most eminent and dangerous of these unbalanced Inflation situations is Germany. Her case depends upon the method and volume of reparation payments. As the United States does not participate either in its control or its receipts we have no voice or right to Interfere. In any event this is peculiarly an European matter and must be adjusted by the parties at interest. It is earnestly hoped the present negotiations upon reparation may succeed in finding a- sound basis to secure permanent economic and political stability to Germany and certainly of regular payment to the allies. With this effected the way is open for constructive consideration of the situations In other states. The American people never hhve been and will not be remiss in participation in these further measures, but our people cannot successfully enter until those who control reparations have settled this major issue upon so sound an economic basis that we can look upon the future of Europe with confidence. Outside of the government finance of a limited number of states the outlook is very encouraging. Any general survey of the social situation in Europe will show that the danger of “bolshevism” is passed, partly through improved standards of life and partly through the salutary lesson of Russia. Democratic institutions are gaining strength among the 150.000.000 people formerly supporting autocracies. In Russia itself extreme communism Is slowly boiling to death

in a caldron of starvation and its leaders freely acknowledge its failure. NUMBER OF MEN UNDER ARMS DECREASES. In the field of international political relations, aside from conflict in Turkey, war has ceased and treaties of peace are effective throughout the world. Russia no longer threatens any serious military offensive. The warring states have settled for a time their major territorial issues and while there are remote forces of instability such as irredentism, yet the new boundary alignment is securing acceptance and the agencies for allaying international friction are proving themselves steadily more effective. There are bright prospects of limitation in naval armament. Agreed limitations In land armament are not very hopeful but the economic pressure of taxes and unbalanced budgets is slowly disarming Europe and it will disarm more of them yet. The number of men under arms has decreased by fully a million in the past twelve months. In the field of economic life, the progress of agricultural and Industrial production year by year since the war is very marked. Famine has disappeared from Europe except in Russia. Except in countries where credit machinery is cheeked by danger fiscal bankruptcy such as Austria, their food, fuel and clothing supplies are sufficient albeit at a low standard, of living in some places, but. even in these countries the standards are much higher than the low point after the armistice, and are thus not such a factor of discontent. Populations have fairly settled to work and Industrial efficiency and productivity Is being steadily restored. The private credit institutions of the world are demonstrating their ability to handle the international trade and credits except for those regions excessively disabled by the currency demoralization. Transportation and communications have been reconstructed. There are some useless hindrances to freedom of healing processes of commerce through artificial barriers between the new nations but the processes of healing are going on. Generally there Is progress and the problems yet to be solved are being steadily narrowed and their solutions better understood.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. She Gets Divorce on Way to Wedding RENO. Nev.. Dee. 13.—When Nathan Bentz. aged 65, went to the county clerk's office recently with Winifred Roberts, aged 31, to secure a marriage license his soon-to-be bride was compelled to shout in his ear so that he could understand what was expected of him in the way of responses, fees and signature. Mr. Bentz gave his residence as Santa Barbara. Cal., and. told County Clerk E. H. Berner that his divorce cost him SIOO,OOO. The divorce was at Santa Barbara Feb. 4, 1916, Mr. Bentz alleging that his wife had deserted him. Until about an hour before securing the license Miss Roberts’ name was Mrs. Winifred Wanderleacb. She was divorced in district court, upstairs from the clerk’s office, on the grounds of extreme cruelty on tlie part of her husband, who was served in Shanghai, China, with the necessary papers. She gave her address as Reno in securing the license. Her divorce was not contested, and the court granted her petition for the restoration of her maiden name, which she kept just long enough to get the license and find a minister—about an hour.

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