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...next morning Mrs. Coolidge received a visitor in the person of Miss Marguerite Lindsley, forest ranger. She, clad in green riding habit, carrying a gun, informed Mrs. Coolidge that at the Montana Agricultural College she had belonged to Mrs. Coolidge's sorority, Pi Beta...
...sense he is Destiny in his world. A forest to him is a stage setting; a beggar in the street, an actor; an inflection in his neighbor's voice, a situation; a church service, pantomime. He transports them all through his mind to their fate on the stage, where he orders them as he thinks they should be ordered. Staging Everyman before the ancient portals of the Salzburg cathedral, he might be seen posting the saints, instructing the angels, calling up to the high tower whence emanates the voice of Deity, "Speak louder...
...Forest Hills, L. I., U. S. women were destroying chances of British women for the Wightman Cup. Helen Wills, to describe whose game sporting writers resort to increasing jumbles of superlatives, was worthy of their praise and easily defeated Joan Fry and Mrs. Kathleen McKane Godfree. Molla Mallory, with more difficulty, did the same thing. Miss Wills and Mrs. Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman won a doubles match for the U. S.; Eleanor Goss and Charlotte Hosmer Chapin lost one. Helen Jacobs lost the only U. S. singles match to Betty Nuthall sixteen-year-old-English girl who defeated Mrs. Mallory...
Died. James Oliver Curwood, 49, conservationist and famed author of many novels of the Northwest, including The Flaming Forest, The Country Beyond and A Gentleman of Courage; from blood poisoning, at Curwood Castle, near Owosso, Mich. When 17, he traveled over a thousand miles in a carriage, selling patent medicine; afterwards he studied at the University of Michigan; and then, for seven years worked on the Detroit News-Tribune, as reporter, feature writer, assistant editor and finally editor. He then devoted his time to fiction...
Frank X. Shields is National Junior Tennis Champion. Shields, New York youth, ploughed through five bitter sets at Forest Hills, L. I., to win 7-5, 6-8, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4, from Julius Seligson, also New York. Shields was tired but happy. Last winter he was beaten for the Indoor Junior championship by this same Seligson...