Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-24
TWO LICENSES.
| GIRL; HER HEAD
IS ALL A-WH|RL
Her Heart Goes Out to Both, but
to Make a Choice j.
She's LOath. !.

TRENTON, Aug. 24.-Miss Isabelle
Conroy is facing the most serious prob
lem of her career. inasmuch as both
Edward Billings and Arthur Dennis are
carrying marriage licenses, on eac OF
which is inscribed her NAME. Both
have shown the licenses to Miss Con-
roy, but she has not as yet announced
her intention, telling both suitors she
is going to consult @ lawyer and act
upon his advice.
Miss Conroy admits that she cares a
whole lot for both young men,, but says
her affections for them are equally d.
vided. She intimates that she would
make no objection to marrying one
of them, but says she does not think it
would be proper to take both.
II like both the boys and they came
to see me frequently, but / arranged
their visits so that they would not
meet" Miss Conroy said. She added
that she thought one of them would
propose, but says she had no idea that
both would rush off and get marriage
licenses without consulting her. BILL
ings declares that he has courted Miss
Conroy for six months and took 1t for
granted that he was the only, only.
"'Why. the night before ! got the liz
cense,' he said. I'VE talked as though
everything was arranged: she kissed
me and told me that she did not care
il ! did not have a big income"
Dennis also admits that he never
asked Miss Conroy to be his wife, but
he AYERS: 81 was so sure Of her that
after taking gu the marriage license
IN rergular form I engaged a minister
and paid him his fee in advance"
The first time the suitors met at the
Conroy house was when they went to
present Miss Conroy with, their respec-
tive marriage licenses. She tainted
when both exhibited tho documents.
Hear of the Tube Skirt IT'S Next
PARIS. Aug. 24.-The tube" skirt Is
about to supplant the ''hobble" skirt
This is news of doubtful welcome to
many modists who are homeward bound
after making their purchases of fall
and winter clothing in Paris.
The famous d~ressmakers of the
French capital. whose word is law, are
the inventors of the tube" design.
The skirt is narrow, but plain, and
is not bound in. It Is a most marvellous
thing. The P~arisians, by the way,
have actually adopted the American
short skirt.
stole for Sweetheart, She safd.
NEW YORK. Aug. A.-Dinah Sim
monds, aged % years. a servant, who,
while In the employ of George L.
Combes. of 601 Nostrand avenue.
Brooklyn stole jewelry valued at sa39
on February 3 last, pleaded guilty in
h Gates Avenue Court yesterday be-
fora Mo OfofratA Ua%n~-
held In $1,000 a for the grand Jury.
She said a man with whom she Ia In
love urged her to steal.
Girl swfnis SIX Miles I'm MoonNxht.
NEWPORT, Aug. 24.-Miss Constance
Warren. whose athletic feats have
made her the wonder OF the cottage
colony. swan from Bafley's Beach, a
distance OF six miles, by moonlight last
night, duplicating tho achievement Of
Miss Eleanora Sears two years ago.
Miss Warren swan the course In two
hours and fifteen minutes. Miss Sears
SWAN four miles v the Same course
in three and one-half hours.
Miss Warren, who IL the daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Henry Warren.
was followed by the boat in which she
made her record row Of ten miles last
month. just before her thirty-miis walk
to Tiverton and back.
Women's Smoking Room In Theatre.
CHICAGO. Aug 2A.-A new music
hall with a women's smoking-room, In
which all kinds Of cigarettes Will be
provided to patrons free, is to be built
on the site of the Continental Hotel at
Madison street and Wabash avenue.
William Morris is behind 1t.
The plan is to construct a building
twenty stories high and costing $1,000
600. Part Of the building will be given
over to offices. but besides the theatre
there will be a roof garden. Chairs will
be used in the theatre instead of the
regular stationary seats, and 1t is said
that not only will the fair patrons be
supplied with cigarettes. but they will
be able to buy light luncheon and liquid
refreshments.