Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1924, Page 38

MARY GARDEN CUTS WEIGHT BY SUNNING Lost 17 Pounds by Treat- ment at Monte Carlo, Singer, Returning, Says. By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, November 13.—Muary Garden has returned home weighing 17 pounds less than on her departure for Burope six months ago. She now | tips the scales at 112 pounds. 'arlo was the scene of her uction. She said it was | due to swimming in the Mediter- rancan and sun baths in her motor boat “My friends will be surprised when they see me in Thais with the waist | of a wasp,”, she said, when she left | the Olympic last night. She will leave | shortly for her operatic duties in| Chicago. i plaining how she banished the | 17 pounds, Miss Garden said she went | in her motor boat about two miles offshore. got out of her bathing suit, stretched herself on the deck and | “let the sun do its worst.” | “After sunning myself for an hour." she said, “1 dived overboard, swam about for 20 minutes and then went | ashore.” | She added she hoped the busybodies | ashore with binoculars strained their | eyes. i The singer was dresscd in a green broadcloth traveling suit, with brown | and green hat plumes to match. | fawn-colored hose and patent leather pumps. " She wore a bracelet of diamonds and emeralds and a double string of pearls. She brought 20 trunks filled with Paris gowns. Another passenger aboard Olympic was Carlos G. Basualdo, wealthy Argentine, who was recently reported as engaged to Leonora Hughes, New Y&rk dancer. He re- fused to comment on the reports, but said he hoped to see Miss Hughes soon. Princess Boncompagni of Italy, for- merly Margaret Preston Draper of | Hopedale, Mass, and Washington, also arrived on the Olympic the TN INCOME TAX PUBLICITY REVIVES SUIT IN COURT Plaintiff, Who Had Agreed t~ Com- Ppromise in Damage Case, Renews Claim for $100,000. By the Associated Press, NEW YORK, November 13.—One of the results of income tax publicity was illustrated when Norman P. Schloss, counsel Mrs. Fannie London of the x. who last week agreed to ac set- tlement of her $100, against Dr. George B. Ferguson for alleg malipractice, gave notice that would ask to have the se reopened. Mr. Schloss told Jus John of the Supreme Court that since l.ondon agreed to accept the from an insurance company on the assumption that Dr. Ferguson had no | money with which to pay fudgment | he, the plaintiff’s counse had learn- ed the physician had p the Government for 1923 of which indicated he had an income of at least $25,000 a Mrs. London alle; plaint that by Dr. Ferguson had sight of one of her cye After looking over the RED CROSS FUND DRIVES EXCLUDED FROM HOTELS New York Proprietors Regard Any Solicitation of Donations in Lobbies as Objectionable. By the Associated Press, . NEW YORK, November 13.—On the ground that solicitation of funds from guests is “incompatible with the best ideas of hospitality and en- tertainment,” 120 principal hotels, members of the Hotel Association here, have forbidden the Amerfcan Red Cross toe uxe their lobbies in nnual roil call. It is the first time o the roll call was established eight years ago that the Red Cross booths have been missing from the lobbies of the larger hotels. o s of the Iotel Association @ rule was passed two years o prohibiting the use of lobbies for “drives” of any sort. Since then, it was sald, an exception has been made every year to accommodate the Red Cross. The growing difliculty in explaining the action to “other worthy organizations” was partly responsible for enforeing the rule this vear, they said. $15,000 WAR MEMORIAL DEDICATED IN FREDERICK Special Dispateh to The St FREDERICK, Md. November 13.— Fifteen thousand persons joined Tuesday in the formal dedication of the $15,000 memorial, erected in mem- ory of service men and women of this section. The memorial stands in the Old Reformed graveyard, long ago abandoned as a cemetery, in which are buried veterans of five great wars, beginning with the Rev- olution. The dedicatory address was delive ered by Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Bal- timore, adjutant general of Maryland. Others delivering addresses were Judge Glenn H. Worthington, Joseph D. Baker and A. Le Roy McCardell. Prior to_the unveiling exercises a parade of World War veterans, school children and civic societies, in which 2,000 persons participated, was held. Fven a fretful, feverish, bilio r constipated child loves the pleasant taste of “California Fig Syrup.” This gentle, harmless laxative never fails to sweeten the stomach and open the bowels. A teaspoonful to- day may prevent a sick child to- morrow. It doesn’t cramp or overact. [IHHREHII Visit Your Friends T oo often we allow distance to becofixe an insurmountable barrier between ourselves and our friends. Your relatives and friends in out-of- town places are as near to you as your telephone. Give them the pleasure of hearing your voice; visit them from your own home—by telephone. 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