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NRE INBRITSH CHAPEL Religious Ceremony Performed To-Day Before Many Notables in Madrid. RAIN DRENCHES CROWD. Guests Driven from Gardens at the Reception Given by Ambassador Willard. MADRID, Spain, June 11.—With the leaders of Spanish arjstocracy and officialdom attending, with prac- tically all members of the Diplomatic Corps in Madrid present, Miss Helle Wyatt Willard, daughter of Joseph E. Willard, American Ambassador to the Court of Spain, and Kermit Roosevelt, son of the former Presi- dent of the United States, were mar- Pied here to-day by church ceremony. ‘This ceremony was performed in the British Embassy chapel. The two ‘were joined by civil ceremony yester- @ay in the offices of a city official. The Rev. Dr. Watson, rector of the American Church in Paris, officiated. He was assisted by the Rev. Herbert Brown, chaplain of the British Em- bassy in Madrid. Mise Elizabeth Willard attended her Bister as maid of honor. The brides- maids wero Her Serene Highness the Princess Folla of Thurn and Taxts, @aughter of Prince Ratibor, the Ger man Ambassador to Alfonso's court; Miss Katherine Page, daughter of the American Ambassador to the Court of Bt. Jam 3 Mile, Gilone ‘eneur de Tuillieres of Paris and Miss Vir- ginia Christian of Richmond, Va. The couple plan to leave f.r Brazil to establish their home at San Paulo, where young Roosevelt is In the rall- road business, after a brief honey- moon on the Continent. In spite of a drenching rainstorm & large crowd of spectators gathered outside the American Embassy and the church to watch the arrival and @eparture of the bride and bride- groom and the wedding gue: The party proceeded to and from the residence of Ambassador Willard and the church in automobiles and Gala carriages. The bride was dressed in ivory @atin and tulle, with a court train, and wore orange blossoms arranged with old 1 and @ long vell of tulle The maid of honor was dressed in white satin, with a tunic of pale blue tulle, and the bridesmaids in white tulle with tunics. All of them wore lace touched with yellow and had yellow ribbons tied under the chin, and they carried bouquets of yellow orchids. The wedding breakfast was served at the American Embasay and a great reception was afterward held, but the rain made it impossible for the guests to remain in the gardena of the Embassy, which had been hand- somely decorated for the occasion, ~~. 5 “RVENING “WORLD, Craze for Immodest Dress Can JOMSS WILLARD | Ondy by Social Ostracism, Says Mrs. Palmer Be Cured Bavonrens Less Sensational Styles in Women’s Clothing De- manded by Federation of Women’s Clubs— Women Who Wear Indecent Garb Not the Ones Who Want the Vote. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. What one million women want in the matter of dress has at last been discovered. . Representatives of these women now gathered in Chicago for the biennial convention of the General Federation of Clubs have just passed the following reso- “Whereas, The General Federation of Women’s Clubs, in convention assembled, view with disapproval the present extreme tendency among American women to follow designs in dress regardless of beauty, comfort or modesty, and, “Whereas, This consistent patronage of foreign de- signs and foreign materials hinders a normal develop- momaut ment of American art and manufacture; be it therefore “Resolved, That this convention, in recognition of the rights and privi- leges of the individual, places itself op record as heartily in favor of the movement for simpler, more becoming and more modest designs in women’s clothes and urges the cooperation of all clubs and clubwomen of the fed- eration in a concrete effort to adopt styles in dress adapted to American needs, and to encourage American designers and manufacturers.” he wyontermise the Rainy || OUR STYLES MADE FOR UNDERWORLD, Day Club of America—organized in New York “to introduce such sani- SAYS FEDERATION CHICAGO, June 11.—The Gen- tary methoda in di as will secure for women health and comfort, while 1 Federation of Women's Clubs hae gone on record for dress re- being genuinely artistic, graceful and form. Resolutions were adopted inconspicuous. Further along ip the constitution calling the fashions of the day im- modest, uncomfortable and unat- one reads again the incisive pro- tractive. They asked for simpler, nouncement, tume shall be sanctioned by club.” I appealed to its president, Sra, Audtis Mi. Palmer, an to t more comfortable and more mod- treatment given the dress | it clothes. In the discussion of by the assembled American club- |] the question on the floor of the convention these views were ex- Pressed: women. “How can they do anything except condemn the unheard-of manifesta-| 1. Wood of New DOCTOR OWING ALIMONY TO GET OUT OF JAIL Hendrick Has Paid Nothing Since Divorce, When Wife Named Laura Biggar, Actress, Dr, Charles C, Hendrick, who has been in Raymond street jail in Brook- tym since Dec. 12 for failure to pay alimony to Mrs, Agnes Mary Hendrick, will be released at one minute after midnight to-night it Sheriff Swazey follows the usual cus- tgm. Supreme Court Justice Crane sustained to-day the writ of habeas corpus taken out by the doctor sev- eral di ago. The Hendricks were divorced on Feb. 4, 1907, when Mrs. Hendricks named Laura Biggar, the actress, and he was ordered to pay $50 a week. He has never paid a cent and the back alimony now amounts to more than $17,000. BODIES OF FOUR GIRLS ARE FOUND IN A CREEK Police Believe All Were Attacked Before Being Thrown Into Water. GAPULPA, Okla. June 11.—Work- ing on the theory that four young girls were attacked before their bodies were thrown Into Rock Cr the police to-day rounded up ad suspects while 4 curoner’s jury was holding an inquest. The bodies of the four girls, three them under fifteen years, were late y and ‘The victims were Be: Reynolds, Bertha Sanders, Beu! @anders and Vina Sand three Sanders xirls were sisters. eabinet maker's apprentice, was playing cards with two other youths tn the f the saloon of Fred Burzetti at Nor"s60 One Hundred and Sixth “day when an argument arose. ard loud conversation and, ted toward the rear of the Both took effect in he ts in Har- left breast and Jem Hospital in a critical condition. The Wiant of Cappesini and his escaped. s . tlons of modern fashion!” she ox: | claimed indignantly. “The clothes worn by many re- epectable women to-day are out- ragecusly immodest, outrageously indecent, outrageously unsuitab! outrageous in every wi They leave nothing to the imagination. | A thin, undeveloped young girl will pear on the street in a transparent frock and almost underclothing, looking like @ jcked crow. It is frequently im- ssible to distinguish fast woman and a virt an, except that the latter seems to outdo the former in the im- propriety of her tume. “Yes, I really think some decent women wear the most indecent clothes,” Mrs. Palmer added. “They do not recognize Iimits which are respected by women whose appeat- ance is their stock in trade, And it seems to me that the condition Is growing worse all the time. Never until this spring have I seen euch | low-cut dresses worn on the street. “When the programme for the fed- eration convention was being made up I myself wrote to Miss Mary Wood and urged her to include this question of dress restraint. At the meeting of the New York City Fe eration of Women's Clubs last win- t@ the Rainy Day Club presented a resolution that some sort of limit be placed on the shortness of women's skirts and the lownessa of ' their) tat Everywhere clubwomen are aroused on the subject.” THOSE WHO WANT BALLOT NOT) ‘Why do we dress 80 boldly if we wish to do big things? Why are we such slaves to fashion?” Mrs. C. L. Atwood of Minnea- polis: “Now and then we see on the street an exhibition of a leg which has not even the excuse of be uty of molding for such show- ing.” Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg, wife of the Mayor of Philadelph “French men design our clothe for the women of the underworld. All the colored ribbon in the un- id for the un- derworld and adopted here by women who could afford it.” Mrs. Robert J. Burdette of Pasa- dena: “T of to-day are ind not designed for goed women. | would not say that every woman whe wears an im- moral gown is immoral, because there are so many whe do not know that the world is judging them by the clothes they wear. But persenally | do not like to see ‘ong light wearing than her higher characteristi Mrs. Bates of New York can make any atyle immoral by the wi w ir our cloth we cai cording to fashion and still be modestly gowned.” I mentioned, “by pleading helpless. ness. They put the blame on the men dressmakers and designers.” “Perfect nonsense,” declared Mra, TO BLAME. Palmer. “Tho women are the court “Don't you think,” I suggested, | of last resort. To them the dress- “that men would have more respect for suffraye and the other serious reforms urged by women If the latter showed mure success in dealing with the clothes problem?” “It isn't the women who want the makers must look for a living, Isn't it plain that they'd have to submit to the women, if the latter would only take a firm stand? "One of the especially regrettable phases of the dress situation is tho ballot who wear ridiculous and im-|improper appearance of so many modest costumes,” Mrs, Palmer re-| young girls, both as to clothes and piled, quickly. ‘'s much more likely| as to makeup. How many girls in to be the silly, empty-headed women! their ‘teens adopted that dreadful whom nobody could hire to cast a vou vampire makeup last winter—chalky e. “The fact remains that the middle of each cheek! Often it isn’t fair to blame the mothers, for the make their entire sex a laughing ik in the eyes of men.” “Some women defend themselves,” habit of listening to what her mother says.” “Do you consider that extreme mod- Con’? USTEM To THEIR MOTHERS | something in his point of vie | elubwomen comb: | eat styles the white face, with @ spot of red in the | modern girl has almost outgrown the | ( IMMOOGLT CLOTHES” SOCAL OfTRacism ‘% THE Owty SpLUTION” PARS. AUSTIN M4. PALM ern fashions are conducive to im- morality?” I asked "y young men. “I think the modern man is much to be pitied. Wherever he gees he finds women exposin, re flesh and the lines the bodies in a way that is signed to attract masculine at- tention. Yet If he makes the ightest res} elaver. | “I remember reading quite recently } of @ young man brought into court for speaking to & woman whom he didn't know. He turned to her and asked bluntly, ‘Why were you dressed and painted in that fashion if you were not trying to have some one speak to you? And, really, there's “There certainly is,” I agreed. “But | how do you think this craze for sen- sational dress can be cured?” “Women are the only physicians for she averred, Let all | agree to make the penalty for the w modest dress. Let the devotecs of indecent fashions be ‘cut’ by the re of their acquaintances. “Sumptuary laws made by men would never be taken seriously, Women know how to discipline other women, and that's why, if @ million against immod- t must be felt.” > WORK OF WOMEN’S CLUBS CALLED TRUE RELIGION. Mrs, Pennybacker Appeals to Fed- eration Congress for Better- ment of Rural Life. CHICAGO, Juno 11.—Declaring her belief that “club work is true re- ligion,” and proposing that the Fed- eration join in an earnest campaign for the betterment of rural life, Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, president of the General Federation of Women's |Chubs, to-day addressed the biennial convention of tho General Confedera- | tion “Let us call for volunteers,” said Mrs, Pennybacker, “to carry the kospel the Ge Federation work to ry individual club at least id hear, as I have hea: y sick babies had t women door of | their lives courage: spl thowe hung ave been comf | tre you would n have overstated the matter when I claim that club work is true religion.”* $< —— | THAW TO DEMAND BAIL. Not Satisfied to Go to Pittsburgh Under Gua PITTSBURGH, Pa, June I1—"t don't know anything about this move to have Harry Thaw brought here in cus tody of 1 former 4 am act X am try ve hi Twill not be satiated “The case in which t Ited States mn with anything » Will be needed in which. the and must ey estate. Thaw and the other heirs claim they are ‘income’ and the amounts should be paid to them,” HELD FOR FORGERY, WOULD WED ANYWAY To Be Deported, Young Couples Ask Permission To Marry Here. Two pretty girle and their eweet- } she replied, “particularly in| hearte who eloped here from Muhlan, Germany, on the Kronprinsessin, Ce- celle last Monday, must return on the George Washington, which sails Sat- urday, according to the ruling of a special inquiry board at Elite Island to-day. The girls are Marie and Matilda Pilsch, sisters, and the young men are Jacob Breasner and Jansen Ger- hard, partners in the lumber business in Muhlan, “Jansen and I come of families who have wealth and social position, and our parents objected to our mar- riages with Marie and Matilda be- cause they thought them not quite so high in the soctal scale,” Dresner said, “We know we never could be marri at home and so w ran away.” But a cable arrived at the Depart- ment of Labor requesting that the young men be held for forging notes on the Rheinish Bank of Muhlan to the amount of $15,000. Dresner de- clared that neither he nor bis partner was guilty of forgery, The forgery charge doasn’s bother either young man, All they want to do is to be married and they wréte a letter to Supt. Baker, in charge of the immigrant atation, asking permja- sion to be married on Ellie Island. Maybe before they sail the quartette will have thelr wish, for the girls de- clare they are still anxious to wed the youths, oe POLICE WILL ASSIST FAMILIES OF HEROES Big Athletic Field Days at Brighton Beach for Honor Legion Fund. Thirteen of the $600 boxes for the police fleld days at Brighton Beach race track, June 26 and 27, have been taken by prominent citizens, and Commissioner Woods expressed him- self to-day as much gratified with the Intereat being shown in the com- Ing exhibition of what his cops can do in athletics, The show ts to be given for the Honor Legion Fund, which is to provide for the care of the widows and orphans of policemen who die in performance of thetr duty. Box No. 1 will be occupied by Com- missioner Woods and Mayor Mitchel, The other boxholders announced to- day are Robert Bacon, George W. Perkins, William K. Vanderbilt, Vin- cent Astor, Payne Whitney, Harry Pay itney, Alexander M. W William R. Hearst, J. 1. Morgans é& Co, two boxes; eGorge F. Baker jr. and Ralph Pulitzer, All _kinds of police work will be shown by picked men of the force, and athletic contests will range all the way from’‘a foot race to aeroplane | Sighte, Out of lassitude, weakness, logs o Give the child Castoria. It wil operation, open the pores of the skin, carry off the fetid matter, and drive away the threatened sickness, | Genuine Castoria always bears the | AT IS, something is wrong with baby, but we can’t tell just what it is, All mothers recognize the term by the heavy breathing, and lack of interest shown by baby. These 4 | are the symptoms of sickness. worms, croup, diphtheria, or scarlatina. Do not lose a minute. SAY WOMAN SOL GEMSTOLEN FROM NVIXAR HOVE Young Mrs. Seymour, Lodging House Keeper, Arrested at Her Home. LOCKED UP, THOUGH ILL Former Convict, Alleged Leader in Burglar Raid, ; Now Out on Bail. Mra. Minnte Seymour, who has @ lodging house No. 116 West Forty- ninth street, was held in $3,000 bail to-day by Magistrate Nolan in the West Side Court for e@amination on Monday on the charge of receiving the $15,000 worth of jewels stolen from the home of Mrs. Harry Whitney MeVickar, No. & East Thirty-seventh | ” street, on last New Year's Eve. De- tective Martin charged, in a short aMdavit, that John Jordan, now under arrest for the theft, had con- fessed and said that he had sold the jewels to Mrs. Seymour for $5,000. She was arrested at lodging house late yesterday afternoon by Detectives Kenney and Martin of In- spector Faurot's staff. Before being taken to the Mercer street station for the night was at Police Head- quarters, of his morality ordinance and his bride went away. absence of the Coney Island sentative, however, other members, tho board got together and that they were siatore and sot censors of public morals. Several of the Aldermen made @ trip to Coney Island one of the re- cent warm days. They walked BATHERS AT CONEY ‘DONTHAVE TO DON MOTHER HUBBARDS; Board of Aldermen Will Let Police Censor Scanty Garb at Island. | Bose felt everything was for the ers complained againat and came back to New York impressed that “Coney Ialand in all right.” City Clerk Scully was instructed to-day by the Board to send to Police Commissioner Wood a of the testimony brought out at Aldermanic Committee hi against scanty bathing costumes, In other words the Aldermen are passing the complaints on te the police, MACHINIST MISSING, red With His Bankbook tn Min Pocket. Paul Muller jr, of No. 6 East One Hundred and ‘Thirty-ninth street, re ported to the polles of the Alexamger avenue station inst pight that father, Paul Muller, a machinist, who was in business at No. 162 East One Hundred and Ninety-first street, has When Alderman Robert Herman Bosne of Coney Island gets back from his honeymoon, which is through a country where there are no bathing girls, he will be shocked to learn that his friends in the Board of Aldermen have turned him down. Bosse is the father of an ordinance dead—which would compel the bathers of Coney Island, Rockaway and other beaches within the Clty) seen missing since Tuesday aflornoem, limits to wear mackintoshes, mother | when he went downtown to visit @ cone hubbards or other voluminous cover- | ¢ n Taberty atront rewarding @ meq n provement associations in Coney Is- land were heard by the board, Ter- ings were predicted for the if Mother Hubbards and did not become the | he had deposita of about ‘The man ts forty-five yea feet 7 Inches in height, 170 welght, and had light ‘hair, and wore a blue # Instead of the alleged immodest cos- ja married and the father of five tumes, dren. “Ankle Beau ” Is Only Hose jeep— Well ed men Ghe was taken before Deputy Com- missioner Rubin, who questioned her for nearly an hour. Then Mrs. Sey- mour was questioned by Inspector Faurot, but neither the Commissioner Ror the Inspector would say whether any facts of value resulted from the examination. Detectives Kenney and Martin, who have been working on the case sinve the burglary, eay that they have pos- itive information connecting Mrs. Seymour with the disposal of the Jewels, even to the price obtained for them. Mrs. Seymo: young wom- an, well dressed and of good appear- ance, was ill at her home when the Getectives arrived, and they called an ambulance to take her to Headquar- tere, After being locked in a cell, she was allowed to see no one, al- though permitted to send messages to several friends, who, has served they say, burglary in this State, and who they oharge was leader of the burgiar gang. Soon after the MoVickar bur- Glary he went to New Orleans, but the detectives were on his trail and captured him within a few hours of his return to New York He was held in §7,600 bail in Yorkville Court and has not been tried. The McVickar burglary was a dar- Mrs. McVickar bad gone the day before New Year's to spend the holiday with relatives in Albany, Jeaving her maid in charge of the apartment. Early in the evening of Deo, 81 the maid went out for dinner, leaving the apartment locked. When she re- turned, @ little over an bour later, jsbe found the a| wardrobes ransacked, and the small hich Mrs, McVickar steel safe, | returned she reported to the police that the safe ad contaired upward of $10,000 worth of jewels, besides papers of value and @ small sum in cash. The dotectives’ Investigation convinced them the burglars had gone yp to the apart- ment in the elevator and, after forci! the door and removing the safe, ha: called the elevator to ti top floor then carried the tafe out of the buildl —_—_—>——. GIRL BURGLAR CAUGHT | UNDER A MAN’S BED Had Gray's Silverware in Suitcase When He Jumped Out and Nabbed Her. BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 11.— ‘Prosecutor John P. Gray caught a girl burglar, twenty-one years old, pretty and well dressed, in his reat- dence on Laurel avenue, Gray was awakened about 2.90 by his wife, who said she heard a noise in the room. Jumping from the bed, | Gray landed in a suitcase filled with silverware and Jewels. As he lit the electric ight he was surprised ton 4 small shoe be- neath the bed, He was about to kick it out of the way when he saw it en- cased a human foot. The arrest of Elizabeth Snyder followed. In the City Court she pleaded gullty to a charge of burglary, Tho polloe asked that sentence be deferred for a week that they might inquire into her real identity. Sorts know the im of well-clad pattie the low shoe season, That is why NOWSEME, with its meat ap) ance, snug fit and ab. sence of seams, is so popular. 1,000 Women’s Blouses At Less than Wholesale Cost Having purchased the stock and samples of a leading waist manufac turer retiring from business, have marked them at prices to sell at once. This season's smartest styles in Crepe de Chine, Chiffon, Tub Silk, Pongee and Shadow Laces; fit and workmanship perfect. Values up to 3.00, at 1.45 Values up to 6.50, at 2.45 Broadway, tnand Oth Sts. te ANDREW DAVEY 40 Mopern Grocery Stores ENORMOUS REDUCTIONS im many articles of food all thie month in erder te peaeee oteck for annual inventory, commences ig redeemable for 90 S. & H. Green Trading THIS COUPON 's redermeti of b0e of more if sented on or before June 18th at aay ANDREW DAVBY ‘A SUGGESTION \ Ib. Tea..... 25c «s Coffee... p W.—Jone 11, 1014. w ALEXANDER SIXTH AVENUE AT NINETEENTH STREET Children’s ‘“‘Hard Play” Shoe— ideal for beach or mountains—t ANDRE f appetite, inclination to sleep, It may be fever, congestion, | start the digestive organs into toe piece prevents ‘“stubbing-out"== orthopedic lines ensure comfort and normal growth. Tan or black calf with oak-leather. soles, sizes 6 to 12, $2.25; 1244 to 2, Uptown Stere 543 Fifth Avenue along Surf avenue, saw some of the bath- Ings while walking through thoe|cha which Charles ave the Inventor, recently made applica streots, for # patent Miller took with Aim Clergymen and members of im-|bankbook on the Yorkvile Bank, where a

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