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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07
BIRTHS.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Fohrer, PIG ".
Taylor ST.. son, July 8.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Silly, 213 n.
Walnut ST., daughter. July 4.
Mr. and Mrs. c. II. POehlman, 125
Wakewa av., son, July 4.
Mr.. and Mrs. Donald II. Eldredge
215 w Marion St. a son, July 3.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07

lett SIDE CnaJ i
could not walk
across the floor
unless / was all
bumped over,
holding tomyside.
il doctored with
several doctors
but found no re-
lief and they said
i would have TO
have an operation.
My mother in
sisted on nv tax
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07

wen- with a young man - years
old. who was real kind. but ! left
him because he did not dress like
other boys, and I would not go out
to dances with him on that account
/ Like him better, and could have
him back.
Nov I have no boy friend and feel
lonesome Sometimes feel Ike
asking the first one I mentioned 70
come 20 the house. and then ! change
my mind and turn my thoughts to
the other one
The first young man writes 20 me
and l know he loves me. The SEQ
ond one phones me q great deal
I'm lonesome for one. and then the
other. 50 what shall I dor I'm well
liked by al my friends, but can't
md one 20 suit me- ESTER
u STER; think you are hard 4
plecse. my dear. and advise yo'
- TO try TO learn 20 ike persons 70
what they are and not for what the,
wear. Why not be nice 20 everyon
and Try TO make yourself agreeable Z
ALI Then you viii not lack for Tea
friends from whom 20 choose.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07
DrAp ANNrr rArrRrr.

DEAR ANNIE LAURIE;
am Wild about a certain young
boy and Some girls say he likes me-
Somsumes he seems 30 nice 70 mo
and then again he isn't nice at all
Ike two other boys also, but I
IKE the first boy ! spoke Of better
than the second When I so any
place and he Is there, would you ad-
wise me not 70 pay any attention
% himf
also. BETTY.
DETTT: II tho boy Is nice 10 you.
* see no reason for you 20 disre-
- gard his presence. How can you
s.pect 10 be on friendly terms with
him II yeu ignore hImf
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07
49, - LAuRIE:

I am a business girl Of -. i
was "a love with q young man q
year and a half my senior and have
broken our friendship because he
wanted ms 70 marry him In years
time I didn't love him enough for
that
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07
ANOTHER WOMAN
ESCAPES
Mrs. McCumber Avoided aSerious
Operation by Taking Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound

Georgetown, m.-''After my first
baby was born / suffered so with my
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07
nIARRIAGE LICENSES.

D. Arthur Martin, ana Martha NJ.
Csicsics, both OF South Bend. Route
/.
Arthur W. Sottwedel, and Fay
Overhaul. both OF South Bend.
Peter PLATA, South Bend, and
Anna Guagerti, Benton Harbor,
Mich.
Clarence r. Freese, and Arabell
Kitchin, both Of South Bend.
The puse of a butterfly has been
m ca snred 10 heat so times a minuta.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07

Bramans hold the monkey sacred.
With a few exceptions, balloons
are found only in Africa.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07
TomorroW'S
HOROSCOPE
~rNurxnrxgr rrunEa1
By GENEVIEVE kEMBl
FRIDAY July 8

The si6ereal rule FOR this day points 20
PROGRESS IN all matters Of a professional.
literary or cultural nature. Writings
publishing. advertising and kindred aTts
should feel the hne impetus OF tbs
strong Mercurial vibration stimulated BY
the solar conjunction This force In
cites TO study and literary pursuits
Nevertheless. owing 20 the lunar posi-
ton Il would be wise 20 sign writings
and documents with caution. Domestic
affairs may meet With disappointment
Those whose birthday Il Is have the
forecast Of a prosperous year II they are
engaged IN professional or literary pur
suits They should DO careful OF their
writings and letters. a child born on
this day should be talented. versatile.
studious and literary. IL may have n
rowing dispositiOn. and not 90 given 20
saving money unless taught thrift early.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07

ner St. entertained II guests Wed
nesday evening with a personal
shower at her home. honoring Miss
Mary Katherine Shinville, whose
marriage viii take place next week.
Bunco was played during the eve
ming, the prize going 20 Mrs. Will
lam McQuaid. Garden flowers were
used in decorating the rooms, and a
dainty luncheon was served.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07

Miss Mary Cunningham. 1903 Bir-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07

Reservations for dinner at the
Country club were made last evening
by n. F. Feltes for six. II. +. Dalton
for four. and George BOur for a
party OF nine.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-07-07

Thirty members of the Portage
Home Economics club motored 20
Indian Lake. Mich, Wednesday for
an all-day picnic. A picnic dinner
was served at noon. followed by
bathing in the afternoon.
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
Scouting in the Dark Has It's Joys

finally mastered these into the tank he
goes.-sink or swim. He usually swims''
And dives. too. For being without sight
derived from seeing too much with too
much imagination.
Every Saturday morning the troop gathers
at the Lighthouse. Arm and abnominal
exercises precede the scout drill then the
whole troop marches to Central Park to play
games or to Jersey to hike and continue its
nature study.
The process Of playing a game when you
can't see your opponent and he can't see
you and YOU have to run along straight
lines and catch balls is what confronts the
scouts at the ball grounds. But all this is
expedited by systems devised by Mr.. Ander-
SON The boys are trained TO run in straight
lines by practice in lanes marked off by
ropes III the ball games the scoutmaster
shouts the name Of the boy whom the ball
Is approaching. The blind boy does not
actually throw a ball but i'm all games sub
stitutes rolling for throwing Knotting and
semaphore signalling are also among the
blind boys scoutcraft.
An important work rs now being done by
the New York Lighthouse for the Blind
through the summer school which the or
ganization maintains for scouts and all other
blind boys who care to attend. Handcrafts
are taught here and reading and thousands
Of sightless boys have benefited by this
training
I'm order TO continue this work among
blind American boyhood and to offer IL 10
the sightless boys of France and Italy, the
committee for lighthouses for the blind
is now carrying on a campaign for So
600. 000.
This is the campaign Of which President
Harding accepted the honorary chairman
ship on his recent visit TO New York, when
Miss Winifred Holt the founder Of the
Lighthouse, received him at that institu-
ton.
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
Much Charm and Novelty
In Her Iron and Mashfe Play

For close students of golfng style Miss
Cecil Lett ,hs methods are in some respects
the quintessence of charm, particularly
regards the movements for some of her iron
and mashie play. No finer mashie finish
could be wished for than that depicted in
one of the accompanying photographs but
in one respect at least her swing discloses
an oddity. This will be seen By referring
TO the pictures depicting her at the top Of
her drive and at the apex of her swing on
i full iron shot. The novelty is in the
position Of tho club. which instead Of having
its nose pointing earthward lies so that It's
face is canted toward the skies.
Miss Leiteh has very fiat swing. Evi
sently her left arm carries well out from
the body This and the solid palm grip OF
she left and the thrust of the wrist as she
comes TO the top Of the swing doubtlee-
would account for this peculiarity.
Slight as girl. Miss Cecil Leitch as
woman is sturdily built powerful one might
almost be justified i'm saying She has broad
shoulders and a wrist strong and ideal for
her purpose. which is the leading OF her
sex in affairs of the links. She is essen
tally the open air girl a walking testimonial
to the efficacy OF golf and the great out OF
doors as the giver Of health, strength and
womanly charm and II at any time DR..
Leitch Of Silloth had cause 10 feel concerned
for the health Of his offspring he must often
since have found time 10 congratulate him
self on his foresight In handing his brood
some golf clubs and balls and chasing them
out into the open.
Because in her first three tournaments Miss
Stirling has been forced 10 trail Miss Leitch
is no reason why Americans should repine.
In match play temperament has almost as
much 10 do with the result as ability. But
even should Miss Stirling fail to win the
British championship, or whether or not
Miss Leitch wins. all win be forgiven and
forgotten II the present British champion
remains true TO her word given last year, or
so II is said. 10 the London press. to the
effect that II Miss Stirling shoulo visit Great
Britain during tho season OF 1921 she Miss
eitch) would return the compliment by
visiting the United states FOR our national
championship.
III Miss Leitch feels that Il behooves her
to visit America for tho purpose of regain
ing any laurels she may have lost 70 Miss
Stirling al Turnberry, no one viii quarrel
with her motive. Tho main thing Is that
Americans want 20 sec this wonder girl Of
the British links in action at the earliest
possible moment
The New York herald., 1921-05-08

i" COUTING without eyes-do you think
you can do It? Lynx eyed scout and
- eagle eyed, and so on down the length
and breadth OF the animal kingdom are the
terms that Cooper and Henty and Oliver
Optic fastened on the mighty scouts of yore
The idea OF a blind scout who knows the
birds by their call and the flowers by their
touch and the ways of the road by expert
ence never entered into their lists of the
great
Yet there are in New York more than two
score blind scouts. They are all between
tho ages Of twelve and fifteen. all boys all
keenly interested i'm the affairs OF boys and
boys heroes And they are the members
az the Boy Scout Troop of the Lighthouse
for the Blind, III East Fifty-ninth street,
the only troop OF blind scouts in the country.
It was several years ago that the nucleus
Of the troop OF this kind was formed to
insugurate a permanent programme for the
development OF the blind boy who because
Of his handicap. seemed cut Off from the
normal boys whole world OF sport only
such things az were obviously impossible
for him. such as map making. were omitted
from the regular scout programme.
'In training blind boy athletically we
lay special emphasis on all exercises of self
defence" says Howard Anderson. scout
master of the blind troop. Naturally the
blind boy has to combat a more difficult
world than the boy who can see. We there
fore emphasizing the importance Of boxing
to keep them alert and quickly responsive
by having races and playing games"
Swimming. according to Mr.. Anderson. is
the easiest sport for the blind boy, and the
one he takes TO most naturally and enjoys
most I'VE go through the arm and Ieg
motions with the boy, and when he has
The New York herald., 1921-05-08

things albeit very sound way. judging
by results. Nevertheless she has some little
tricks which the average professional would
be very careful to warn his pupils against
copying.
To begin with, Miss Cecil Leitch is palm
eriEper, Being told by Harry Var
don that she had this defect. if defect one
might be allowed to call ii in the face OF
such play, she promised to correct her grip,
and thereupon conceived the idea of blend
ing her hold upon the club into something
which she termed a modification of the
Varlon grip. But if there Is anything of
The Vardon grip about Miss Cecil Leitch's
hold recent photographs of her do not dis
close it, save on the putting green, when
she overlaps the little finger of the right
hand the index finger of the left For
the rest she takes a hold not as If she were
waving a fan but as if she meant to put
all her heart and soul into the contact of
club and ball with her right hand we'll under
he shaft of the club and the left hand
remarkable for the expanse of knuckle
which it exposes to the camera.
In short, as she takes her stand address
ing the ball all the knuckles of the left hand
can be seen distinctly. OF the right only the
knuckle is visible. The club, instead of slip
ping down to the first and second finger
joints. is kept up more toward the palm and
the web of the thumb, the fingers doubling
back on the top Of the shaft. Neither thumb
lies along the shaft, but instead both arc
laid over the outside of the grip.
The stance of Miss Leitch is very appeal
ing, for she drops naturally into that pose
which one is apt to associate with the pro-
fessionals or those who have come by their
game naturally or have played 1t since child
hood. Known as the open stance. this atti-
tude of address affected by Miss Leitch
brings the right foot a trifle further for
ward than the left, the ball nearer the right
heel and the right shoulder slightly lower
than the left
George Duncan. the British open cham
.pion, has remarked upon the wonderful nat
ural balance of Miss Leitch which enables
her to use the open stance very success
fully. This idea of perfect balance is what
one Immediately gets by looking at the
photograph of the Silloth girls stance. 1t
enables her to carry back the club in per-
feet rhythm and to snap everything into the
ball on the down swing. shoulders, waist.
hips, arms and wrists after the manner Of
the recoil of a spring
The New York herald., 1921-05-08

sisters took to the links with much zest
as duclxlings take to water. At least two
others of that remarkable family, Edith and
May, have gained renown on the golf
course, and the only reason that they are
not in the front rank of women players is
that their sister has fit to usurp that
privilege for herself.
But while heredty, precept, example and
so forth may have had their share in fash
ioning this wonderful woman of the links,
let II not be thought that she has come by
her honors lightly. Natural ability there
must have been To begin with, of course,
but if chess prodgies are born golf is not
a gift of the gods. It's innermost secrets
and treasures are there for those who would
seek them. but to reach the goal one must
also travel DOWN the road of hard work.
Miss Leitch undoubtedly has worked over
these mashies and brasses and drivers and
cleeks harder than most realize Phoenix
like. too. she has built some of her greatness
up on the ashes OF defeat and disappoint-
ment, for while she went far the semi
final the first time she entered the British
championship, that being at st. Andrews in
1908, when she no more than seventeen.
It was six years later. six years of grim,
determined ploddng in the face of fate,
before she found herself in the final bracket.
And then. If the gods at length had re
Tented, the ven was Ifted ana tOfth upon
the centre of the stage stood Miss Cecil
Leitch the laurel wreath at last upon her
brow.
How often Miss Leitch would have won
the championship had that strange perver-
sty Of fate which in her early years a
championship aspirant not again interjected
itself in the shape of the war is open to
conjecture But for the European strife
Miss Leitch by this time probably would
have had a record unparalleled. Undoubt-
edly the var smothered some OF her very
best championship golf and perhaps kept
her name from being emblazoned Ger the
horizon and from going down the ages as
the greatest woman golfer Of any past
present or yet to come. Nevertheless. 1t is
something to be able to carry over the
championship from 1914 to 1920 and to re-
tain 1t in the latter year evidently with
glory, power and skill undiminished
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
Her Many Startling Fests
And Few Sensational Defeats

In the last ten years or Miss Letch has
some startling feats to her credit and very
few defeats that smack Of the sensational
TO consider the latter FIRST as being the
more easily disposed of, there Is the one
astounding example as furnished by tho
match with Miss Joyce Wethered at Sher
ingham last year. Miss wethered's margin
Of victory was only 2 and l. but the sensa-
tional element enters into the case by the
disclosure that Miss Leitch was up on the
first half Of the thrty-six hole contest and
still in that position with nine more to play.
or these remaining holes Miss Wethered
won five consecutively. a feat worthy OF
being shouted from the hilltops against
player OF the calibre of Miss Leitch
There is also on record a score OF 90 made
by Miss Leitch in 1913. the year before she
first won the championship. That was made
on the occasion of The international matches
for prizes valued at $1,000 For that tourna-
raent the Silloth girl missed her train or at
east arrived very late and, apparently in
her agitation of mind and perhaps her
cagerness to get in her round before the
The New York herald., 1921-05-08

affair broke up. made many slips that her
total showed 48 for each half
Such mishaps as these only serve TO
demonstrate that Miss Cecil Leitch is
human. On the other hand. she has some
marvellous achievements to her credit. many
of ker best rounds, games which have set
the whole world of golf talking. having been
played against men. Miss Leitch it was
who was selected to show how the sexes
measure up at golf.
In this series Of interesting experiments
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
Miss Leitch's Present Position
Much Like Vardon's Decade Ago

However there are certain other facts to
he considered in connection with such an
argument When Harry vardon was at his
best he had such other stars to contend
against as James Braid and J. II. Taylor
both of them five times winners of the
rritish open championship Vardon did not
afways win in tournament play. but he de-
feated the others more often than they de-
feated him, and il was this edge which he
had on his opponents individually that won
far him the name of being the greatest golfer
Of all times
Miss Leitch is pretty much in the same
position to-day as vardon occupied some
ton or fifteen years ago. From group OF
high class performers she stands forth just
Ear enough for her superiority TO be noticed,
losing here and there as this one and the
other flashes a superative game occasion
ally. but showing maximum of that super
iative brilliance herself, more than taking
the measure OF each one individually and in
opcn competition reaping so decidedly the
lions share Of the honors that all dispute
a. TO her superiority is set at rest.
Granting that as matters now stand
women's golf in Britain is on slightly
higher plane than American womens golr.
the history of the champions in their re-
spective spheres reads very much alike.
Both Miss Stirling and Miss Leitch have
held their championships over the period
of the war retaining the titles on the re-
sumption OF competitive play and therefore
resurnng where they left off. During the
war Miss Leitch acted as an assistant In
the town clerks office at Carlisle and then,
like Miss Stirling learned to drive motor
truck or something Of the kind And to
carry the analogy stil further Miss Letch,
like Miss Stirling, is the daughter of Scot
tsh father and an English mother, the
British champions father also being a
doctor
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
By KERR N. PETRIE.

TIME consistency with which Miss Cecil
Leitch the British champion, led
Miss Alexa Stirling the American
champion. in the first three tournaments
in which the latter has competed abroad
mas gone far toward convincing golfers in
the United States that there is something
to the claim that the English girl is indeed
queen of most that she surveys in the realm
of the tee, the putting green and the
bunker.
Miss Stirling had not lost a match in five
years in her own country but the moment
she started out to -cavort across the green
sward with her gofing British cousins at
Ranelagh at Burhill and at Brookwood
she found that there were several others
who could accomplish from tee to pin
much as she could do herself and that these
others. moreover were always intent upon
one question. namely whether these best
efforts of theirs would be good enough to
forestall Miss Leitch in her quest of the
honors
In game in which pit cut purposely in
the ground may change the complexion of a
match ana Wnefe the missing OF SNORT
putt or two may discount superexcellence
in. other respects it would be unwise for
any one to count another championship
already won for Miss Leitch or to fall into
the mistake of saying that Miss Strings title
quest abroad came to an end with her medal
play defeats on the three courses named
An matter of fact Miss Leitch won in only
one of these events, at Ranelagh while she
was second and only stroke in front OF
lass Stirling at Burhill and only three
strokes better placed in the third competi-
tion where she took better than sixth
place against the American champions
ninth.
The New York herald., 1921-05-08
What Miss Leitch Owes TO
Paternsf Guidance on the Links

How much Miss Leitch owes to paternal
not to say professional guidance and fam
ily example for her present exalted position
in the realm OF the mashie- niblick can only
bc guessed at. With her sisters she had the
doctrine of fresh air preached and the elc-
mcntary principles Of hygienics expounded
10 her at an early age, with the result
that all FIVE OK the now celebrated Leitch
The New York herald., 1921-05-08

receiving a half" or in other words. nine
strokes on eighteen holes. she defeated the
renowned Harold III. Hilton at Sunningdale
and Walton Heath by and /. That was in
1911. Two years ago, or. to be exact, in
November. 1919. she defeated j. Fl. Taylor
and 2 under the same conditions. She
also played Hilton another match at Wor-
plesdon and finished all even. the only con-
cession allowed her this occasion being
that calculated to even up the contestants
IN physical power, Miss Leitch using the
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-09
BRATTLEBORO PERSONAL


George Wellman is in Boston this week
on business.
Fred Mickey of Turner's Falls was a
visitor in town yesterday with friends.
Miss Carrie Leach has resumed work i'm
Mrs. G. ii. Smiths millinery store, after
Il few weeks vacation.
James Brown of Rutland, who is EN-
ployed by the telephone company, is here
this week doing some cable work.
Miss Bessie Kendall is having a several
months leave of absence from her work
in the office of the Dewitt Grocery COM
pany.
Miss Clara Adams has finished work
for the Vermont Silk company. She will
go Saturday to her home in Charlestown,
y. H., to remain indefinitely.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Wood of Winches-
ter, y. H., and f. Baker of Chicago were
guests at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Darling recently.
DIR. and Mrs. f. X. Lynch left by au-
tomobile today for Boston, where DIR.
Lynch will attend sessions of the Amer
lean Medical association. They plan to
return home tomorrow night.
I. C. Bradley. f. Il. Putnam. Dr. \.
H. Pettec and J. II. Ryder returned yes
terday from a Canadian trip of nearly
three weeks part of which they spent
at the Scott fish and game club.
Mrs. Fremont Hamilton, Mrs. Austin
f. Miller. Miss Josephine Toedt. Mrs.
Jesse +. Haynes. Mrs. w. II. Haywood.
Mrs Bert Sargent of this town, Mrs. III.
\. Staten of Vernon and Mrs. L. II. Rich
ardson of Wiliamsville went today TO
Rutland to attend the annual meeting of
the grand chapter, Order of the Eastern
Star.
Henry c. Culver. one of 272 persons
to graduate from Wentworth Institute.
Boston. Tuesday of this week, arrived
yesterday at the home of his parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dewitt G. Culver of Chaplin
street He took course in electrical
construction. DIR. Ira y. Hollis. presi-
dent of Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
gave the principal address.