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THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY- OCTOBER. 19. 1928

Horton

After causing the arrest of her husband, Conway Horton, in Covington, on a charge of bigamy, pretty Mrs. Agnes Horton, 19, bride of 25 days, tied a stone to her wedding ring, walked on the suspension bridge over the Ohio River, leading to Cincinnati, and cast the diamond-set platinum ring overboard. Mrs. Horton, who formerly lived in Jacksonville, learned that her hunband had married Mrs. Julia Anna Kich in Charlestown, W. Va., 25 days after their wedding and promptly caused his arrest.

Shoes 150 years.oldi

This pair of baby shoes, 150 years old, actually worn by five generations of children and still in good shape, is in the possession of of Mrs. Charles N. Beckwith, Washington. They were original- ly bought in Greenock, Scotland, in 1770, by Mrs. Beckwith's great Eliza- great-great-grandmother;

Beckwith's beth King. Mrs. daughter is now ten years old, so` a neighbour's baby had to be borrowed to demonstrate the an- cient foolgear.

Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, wife of the President, has retained Miss Laura Harlan as her private and social secretary, Miss Harian, daughter of late John Maynard Harlan, of Kentucky, former Justice of the United States Supreme Court, acted in that capacity for Mis. Harding.

While motoring through Michigamme, Mrs. Henry Ford was bo sieged for her autograph by a crowd of “bungalow" girls from Chicago dressed in short overalls and shorter stockings. Mrs. Ford turned in Sir Thomas Lipton, famous scorn from the party. "You ladies and girls are showing very poor yachtsman, is in New York to chal-taste and worse judgment in coming into town garbed as you are. lenge, for the fifth time, for the without skirts and dresses," she said. "I do not want to sign my ntue America's Cup, which has been

for you and prefer not to look at you, I resent your idea of dress." held in America for 70 years. He expects to sail the race in 1925.

"General".

President Calvin Coolidge has taken up horseback riding for his outdoor exercise, and "General," one of the finest horses in the White House stables, has been selected as his mount for his rides through Washington's parks.

Sir Satyenaga Siahia.

This is a photograph of Sir Satyendga Sinhla, the only East Indian nobleman who has been given a seat in the House of Lords of the British Parliament in London.

U.S.S. Seattle

The armoured cruiser Seattle, flagship of the Pacific fleet, went ashore during a dense fog on a sandspit off Marrowstone Point, Puget Sound, Washington, but later was pulled off undamaged. Admiral H. E. Coontz, Commander of the United States Fleet, and Rear Admiral It. 1. E. Gregory. Chief of the Naval Bureau of Yards and Docks, were on board.

A schooner yacht. Not

ours.

belongs to a chap called Vanderbilt.

Andrew Mellon

Secretary of the Treasury An-

drew W. Mellon, who was in Eu rope when President Harding

President & Mrs. Coohdge at Wüte House

President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge were photographed at the

died, is shown leaving the main entrance of the White House, which they now occupy, Mrs. Executive Offices in Washington, Harding having gone to the country estate of friends near Washington. where he assured President President Coolidge, by continuing in his apartments in the New This is a picture of Senor T. Coolidge he would retain his Willard Hotel, remained out the White House longer than any Pre- Gomez, newly elected President of portfolio. the Portuguese Republic.

sident after taking the oath of office.

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