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Old Resident Dies
After Long Illness

Albert NJ. Pruitt. 50 Of age.
and an old resident OF Casper. died at
eight o'clock this morning at the
family home. s36 South Spruce street
The deceased had been I'll for some
time and had gone to New Mexico on
this account He returned to Casper
q fortnight ago.
He was a member Of Wnverly
Lodge 244, A b. & A NJ. OF Waveriy.
Kansas. He Is survived by a widow
and other lelatives here.
The remains are being shipped to
Anicola. Kansas. for burial
, 1923-07-30
Indians to Dance
Tonight In Front
Of Tribune Office

Tho tribe Of Arapahoo Indians
who are in Casper at the present
time for the Rodeo will be on the
strcets tonight and will give several
Of their tribal dances In front Of
tho Tribune building mt sometime
between 8 and 0 o'clock.
All the romance Of the primitive
Indian is found in this group OF
first Americans and their appear
nnce ought not to be missed by
anyone DESTROYS OF having n treat
In n new way.
Tho Indians are encamped at tho
Rodeo grounds and many persons
have found IL interesting to watch
them at that place and see them as
they act in everyday Life.
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NEW YORK. July so.-rrene Cas-
tie. the dancer. today added another
touch of mystery TO her matrimonial
affairs when. returning on h steam
err Lafayette she announced that,
contrary to cabled advices. sho had
not obtained a Paris divorce from
Robert z. fireman. a manufacturer
Of Ithaca, N. Y, TO whom she was
married shortly after the death of
her first husband. Vernon Castle.
II nave not a divorce and 1 have
not instituted proceedings for one"
declared the dancer. who added that
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Castle Back in u. S.
Denies Divorce From fireman

her husband. and that friendly rela-
lions had been restored. Then came
word OF tho divorce granted.
a group OF newspaper men watched
tho dancer land today with five
trunks. nine bags, n pct dog and
one pet goat. Shaking her large fur
trimmed Partisan hat, Mrs. fireman.
after making the denial. said;
II don't see why the publla should
DO interested In my affairs. They
should be discouraged rather than en-
c~ouraEed about following my matri-
CONTINUED on Pago Seyon.)
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she would meet Mr.. fireman when he
returned to New York next week on
the Mnjestic.
She was firm in her denial. despite
dispatches received last week quoting
records TO show that she had been
granted a decree.
The matrimonial affairs OF Mrs.
fireman recently had been beclouded
several times.
After It had been reported that she
had instituted proceedings. dispatches
were received stating that she had
spent a weekend at. Deauvillo with
, 1923-07-30
British Interfere
In Cologne Trouble

COLOGNE. July BODY The AS
ISOLATED Press)6British troops inter
fered here yesterday in the only anti
Fascist day disturbance reported
throughout the Rhineland and tho
Ruhr. The military FLASHED with
German civilians on a street and n
citizen was wounded and there ar
rested Search of the home Of one
of those taken into custody resulted
in the finding of 800 pieces of dyna-
mite.
, 1923-07-30
Notes Retouched
On Preparations
Before Delivery

PARIS. July 3o.-By Tho Asso-
ciated Press)GThe French and Bel
gian notes in answer to the British
reparations communication were both
slightly re-touched before being trans
mitted for their expected delivery in
London this afternoon. This came as
the result of exchange Of views be-
tween Paris and Brussels.
It is asserted In well informed quar-
tiers that Premier Poincare's reply IN
set squarely on the treaty OF Yer
sailles and on the Frnnco-Belgian
policy outlined on January 11-that
negotiations with Germany are i'm
possible until her passive resistance
ceases, and that the evacuation OF the
Ruhr is impossible until the payment
of reparation is absolutely guaran-
teed-
The Belgian note Is In accord with
the French on these two points. It is
stated. although differing on other
features.
What were understood to be the
French and Belgian replies to the
British ~reparations communication
were delivered at the foreign office
Taste today. Count De St Aulaire and
Baron Moncheur. respectively the
French and Belgian ambassadors left
written. but no Identical documents
with Lord curzon. The italian I'm.
bassador saw the British foreign sec
Rotary. but submitted no note.
Premier Baldwin told tho house OF
commons today that no reply had yet
been received from France or Belgium
to Great Britains reparations COM
munication and that It is very doubt
full whether anything would be re-
ceived which could be published in
Thursdays debate.
, 1923-07-30
RESIDENTS ILLNESS CANCELS RE st Of TRI
BALL SCORES

FORBES FIELD, PITTSBURGH.
July 30.-Pittsburgh defeated New
York in the first game of today,s
doubleheader. by a score Of 5 to 4.
The Pirates were trailing 4 to o
when the ninth inning opened, but
they punched hits after n was
out and scored FIVE runs. Both
pitchers who started the game were
relieved.
After the widest scene Of excite
ment eve seer Mt Forbes field as
the Pirates scored their FIVE runs
IN the ninth inning Of the first
game, the police managed n get
the immense crowd of the field and
johnny Morrison and Arthur Nehf
warmed up for the second game.
Barnhart took RusseII's place In
right field and Gooch went In to
catch.
The second game started with
Nehf pitching for New York, Gowdy
behind the bat, while Pittsburgh
used Morrison and Gooch.
The Giants started of in the sec
ond game with three runs in tho
first inning on Frisch's triple, n
pass to Meusel. Stengci's triple and
n double steal Of Stengel and Kelly.
Tho Pirates came back with two
runs on Rawlings single. Carries
triple to left and Bigbee's out mt
first.
The Giants added seven runs In
the third on Frisch's double, singles
by Meusel and Kelly. passes to
Gowdy and Nehf. Young's double
with the bases full. n pass to Groh
and hits by Frisch and Meusel.
Kunz relieved Morrison after Young
cleaned the bases,
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Annoy China, July 2S.-By The
Associated PresseTwo gun boats Of
the Peking government steamed into
the harbor here at 2:30 o'clock this
afternoon and opened fire on the fort.
The guns at the fort returned the
ffra
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De UOdleC WllfhDuL dlIllCuity.
Salvage operations may require sew
eral weeks in order to be iishtened.
No trace has yet been found Of the
unidentified ship reported in distress
early yesterday at THE mouth OF the
straits Of Juan de Fuca by the Ia
toosh. government weather. bureau
vessel. It Is believed in some marine
quarters that the boat. which was
said to be drifting h~eiplessly, may
be the unidentified steamer which
ran down the Barkentine Monterrey
In the strait early Saturday morning.
disappearing in the darkness. An.
other theory is that an old derelict
may have drifted In from h ocean.
Other vessels which met with mis-
haps during the last three days as
a result of the dense fog ever hang
ing over Puget Sound and the straits
Include the transport Henderson.
carrying President Harding. which
ran into the destroyer Zeilin Friday
morning, the barkentine Monterrey.
victim Of a collision with an uniden-
titled steamer early Saturday morn
ing, the ferry boat Motor Prncesi
grounded Saturday noon twenty
miles inside the strait Juan oe T-cs
md the Mitsui Freighter Mandsan
sfaura and the steam schooner
Rainier which collided Saturday.
VANCOUVER. B. c.. July ooIThe
tug Tyee Of Seattle was reported TO-
day to have piled on q reef some
where in the strait Of Juan de Fuca In
a dense fog. making tenth YES
rel in trouble in these waters in four
DAVIS.
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DENSE FOG ON PACIFIC COASTS
CAUSE OF DISASTER TO SHIPPING
Ten Vessels in Trouble in Last Four Days Off Van
couver Coast-Sibenan Prince on Rocks but
Not Breaking Up at Last Reports.

SEATTLE. Wash, July 30-The
tug Tyee. reported rs piled on the
rocks in the straits of Juan de Fuca,
arrived at Port townsend, Washing.
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SEATTLE, July 3o.--With the salvage tug Algerine
standing by and preparations being made to tighten her car
go, the Furness-Prince line F~reighters Siberian Prince which
went ashore near Race Rock, on Bentinck Island, near Vic
indications of breakign up. It is believed she eventually will
, 1923-07-30
Weather Forecast

WYoMING-Generally fair tonight
AID Tuesday except probably Local
thunder showers extreme west por-
tion- Warmer tonight in north and
central portions
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ton, today. Shipping men expressed
the opinion that the vessel reported
in distress was the Seattle Halibut
Schooner Tyfe, which was known to
have been in the strait today.
, 1923-07-30
H lear I ATTACK
SAID Sc R|OUS 8;
NJ j 7
7 AXE VACATION
Consultation Of Four
Physicians A dvises
Head Of Nation That
He cannot Continue.

aa $780,
SAN FRANCISCO. Caih.. July 30.
-tby The Associated Prcss)-PresL
dent Harding will be rushed back to
washington by special train as soon
as no RECEIVERS from his present nj.
ness sufficiently to travel. probably
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AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Al New York
Chicago LOO 900 10f-3 9 /,
Batteries-Leverette and SchaIk;
Jones and Hoffman.
-
At PhIadelphia-First game
philadelphia -o02 900 900, 8 1
Batteries-Shocler and SEVERED;
RommeI and Bruggy.
-
-
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SAN FRANCISCO. Calf, July 30,
-tBy The Associated Press.HPrerl.
cent Harding spent n fairly comfort
able night, according to a buIIetiu
issued Mt IL n IN. today by Brigadier
General Charles II. Sawyer. his mar.
sonal physician.
Hi condition Is acute and he ba,
temporarily overstrained his cardio
vascular system by carrying on his
speaking engagements while ILL.," the
bulletin added.
, 1923-07-30

NATIONAL LEAGUE
At Pittsburgh-First game
New York -..--002 DOL 1003i IL 1
Pittsburgh 900 900 OO5-5 IL 1
Batteries-Scott, Barnes and Sny-
der; Adams and Schmidt
At Pittsburgr@Second game
New York BOT 0S1 90 -
Pittsburgh 200 900 60 -
At Oincinnati-First game
Philadelphia LOO 100 001@ IL .
Cincinnati ---10i 100 10 - 10 1
Battcries-Winters and Wilson;
Donahue and Wingo.
At Cincinnati-Sccond game
Philadelphia 200 90
Cincinnati ---201 10
Batteries-Wednert and Wilson's
Harris and Hargrave.
At Chicago
Boston /. ---410 900 o -
Chicago 900 900 1 -
BatteriesNMarquard. McNamar1
and Smith; Osborne. Russell and
OFarrell.
At st. Louis
Brooklyn 100 90
st. Louis -----011 90
Batteries - Vance and Deberry;
Pfeffer md McCurdy,
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Batteries@Leveretto and Schalk;
Jones and Hoffman.
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At PhJladelphia-First game
st. Louis 033 900 000+ IL o
Philadelphia -002 900 000-2 8 1
Observation-Disclosures md Serereld.
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eyes, four things in all my troubles l
determined my child should have-beauty
of face and figure, sweet and sunny dis
position, appreciation and love for the
arts and ability to express herself in aes-
thetic mediums.
"And how can doubt the truth of pre-
natal influence since all the things that l
desired and set my will upon have come
true?
my child was girl, as l had desired.
She has such beauty of face and figure
that she was prize winner in a contest
where she had to compete with many
other beautiful girls. Her disposition is
exactly as | had wanted it to be. She
loves an,. knows the beautiful. She can
express herself in dancing, music, clay,
poetry and paint
'Since these things are so-since my
daughter is what she is, and that is what
| set my mind upon her being-I repeat
how can . doubt?'
So much for Mrs. Wilds story.
Mrs. Knapp before her daughter,
Dorothy, was born had no such struggle
with adversely as had Mrs. Wild. She
beauty of nature. She spent much time
in the fields. Often she would wander off
by herself and plead with nature to give
some of it's loneliness to her daughter.
She fixed her mind only upon beautiful
things, but she did not select any particu-
lar paintings or statues as did Mrs. Wild.
Like the other mother though. she read
the best books, heard the best music and
allowed no ugly thought in her mind nor
any ugly sight to meet her eyes.
And recently, at eighteen years of age,
Dorothy was chosen prize "Venus of
America" at beauty contest held re-
Gently in Madison Square Garden. Her
mother, like Mrs. Wild, believes that her
beauty does not have its sources in her
heredity, but solely in the will and deter
mination of her mother during her pre-
natal days.
But the widespread popular belief in
prenatal influence is discredited by
science. The medical world insists that
child cannot be marked" by any sight,
smell, noise, mishap or good fortune to the
mother before the child's birth. History
and literature is full of supposed in
stances, but medical science insists they
are all wrong.
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Summing up the position of the medical
world, DIR. Arthur C. jacobson, Associate
Editor of the Medical Times, recently
wrote:
eff there were anything in the doctrine
of maternal impressions, abnormalities
would be the rule and not the exception,
for it is impossible for prospective
mothers to escape being impressed by un-
pleasant sights and emotions. Pestalozzi
and Resnevic some time ago reported on
sixty women brought to the Rome
maternities from the earthquake district,
where they had undergone the greatest
terrors, some having been buried under
the ruins for hours. All the children
were normal. Two of the labors were
premature, but that is irrelevant to our
subject.
''Thc wives of drunkards sometimes
have feeble-mindeG children, and this
condition of the offspring has been
thought to be due to their mothers horror
and disgust of the fathers, but it must be
remembered that the very drunkenness of
the fathers proves them to be possessed
of defective nervous systems Here her
edity and not maternal impressions clearly
account for defects.
"There is a total lack of nervous con-
nection between mother and unborn
infant. Moreover, the alleged cause of
the marking generally takes place at
period not coincident with that of the
embryonic evolution of the part affected.
Councilman, the Harvard pathologist,
dismisses entirely maternal impressions as
a cause of malformations. He declares
that there is no proof that maternal inn
pressions can have any effect upon the
developing child. All malformations seen
in man, he AYERS, are found in the lower
mammalia, in whom the influence of i'm
pressions cannot be maintained. They
are also met with in birds, in which case
we would have to suppose that an
emotional experience acts on the hen
during incubation and is transmitted by
her to the egg which she is hatchingv'
Therefore, according to the consensus
of medical opinion, Mrs. Knapp and Mrs.
Wild wasted their time in their well mean
ing but useless efforts to "mark" their
Forthcoming babies with beauty of fea-
lures or figures. The two prize winning
girls, according to medical science, would
have won the beauty prizes just the same
if their worthy and ambitious mothers
had never given a thought to prenatal
influence.
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be deformed, or be weakened physically
or mentally by frights or unfortunate ex-
periences of the mother, then the reverse
must also be true.
eff a mother set deliberately about it
her child could be made beautiful, be
given charming character, come into
the world with both physical and spiritual
strength and strong leaning to the
aesthetic.
fIn other words, if a child could be
made ugly by mother looking upon some
ugly object, then it must follow that a.
child could be made beautiful by the
mother looking at only beautiful things.
"And if tie sorrow, the depression, the
worry of Il mother, could make its inn
press upon the unborn child's character,
then it must follow that if she tuned her
mind to beauty, peace. the inspired
thoughts of great writer's and the inspired
harmonies of great musicians, why, then
the mother ought to be able to mold her
baby's spirit into the same beautiful
shape.
'EThere are always two sides to every
thing. | determined to take the brighter
side.
49, first | deliberately forgot the past,
with it's troubles and it's heartaches. |
looked only toward future which knew
some day would be new and brighter
dawn of new ano brighter life than
had ever known.
"When this was done / anchored one
constant thought firmly in my mind-that
my baby should be girl. | simply would
note onsider the possibility of a boy. All
through the time, night and day, I kept
the thought that my baby would be a
daughter.
"Day after day, whenever l had an
hour that could spare, would go to the
Brooklyn Museum and live among the
statues and the paintings. Quickly
most, those / wanted to affect my child
There was one group that stood out above
all others to me. 1t was a Venus and
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Adonis, and the bodies of both were truly
beautiful. =
"And at about the time that 1 centered~
my mind on these statues | found pict-
ure which was my ideal of what wanted
my daughters face to be. 1t was maya
zine cover by Philip Boileau.. I carried
this picture with me everywhere.
81 would spend hours in the museum
looking up from it's face to the two
statues and trying to make in my own
mind a girl composite of those wonderful
bodies with the Boileau face.
"At night when | would go to bed |
used to lie awake, tracing in my mind
over and over again the beautiful curves
o" the statues and the beauty in the face
of the painting. | would go to sleep with
that picture in my mind and in my dreams
| would see the three merged into one
beautiful being.
"Would my dreams ever become reali-
zation? l did not allow myself ever to
doubt that they must so become.
"There were many days that life was
dark to me, when it seemed as if every
thing was against me. At such times, If |
could not go to the museum, | would take
the Boileau picture and look at the yellow
golden hair, the big eyes and the long,
dark eyelashes, and pray that my baby
would have at least that same kind of
hair and eyes and lashes. At once my
worry would leave me.
"And all this while was not forgetting
the spiritual beauty that desired for my
baby. 1t seemed to me natural that if
wished my child to love art, | must visit
the famous art galleries. If | wished
my child to love music, then | must
attend the finest concerts. If | wished it
to be a great writer, then | must study
the best books. did all these things. 1t
was difficult, for was very poor. But
somehow | managed it.
81 read the lives of great women, mem
orizing passages that impressed me most.
| read Shakespeare and Swinburne and
Poe and Kipling. My favorite book, per-
haps, was Omar Khayyam, and to this day
Co 1928. by American Weekly In
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~ ALL the ancient delusions per-
haps there is none more persistent
or widespread than the popular be-
lief in prenatal influence on the charac-
ter, features and figures and nervous out
fit of the unborn child. The old Greeks
believed that prospective mother might
influence the physique of the coming lit
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birth
at may seem strange to many persons,
especially mothers, that l should love
Omar Khayyam in preference to all the
other great works of literature. But I
truthfully believe that | found more to
further my wishes in this poem than in
anything else | read. The rhythm the
sensation of sunlight and dancing that is
in SO much of it, the philosophy that en-
ables one to see that the troubles of the
day are really nothing, all these helped
me greatly.
"And then one day my baby came. 1t
was a girl!
and all that had dreamed about and
hoped for had been built into the most
beautiful child in all this world. The
doctors said they had never seen any
baby like her. She was like an angel,
they said. Why, one doctor, knowing that
| was still in destitute circumstances, of
fered me $4,000 for the baby All the
money in the world couldn't have bought
her
For | knew that | had succeeded.
Looking into her little face | could see
that it was the image of the face in the
Boileau painting. And l knew then that
her figure would develop along the lines
of beauty of my statues.
Her figure has developed along these
lines, and to this day she has the same
bright-colored hair, the same dark eye
lashes and when her face is in repose,
the exact expression of. my Boileau pict-
ure-that I carried about so long and
looked at so earnestly!
''"To-day my daughter is fifteen years
old. And all through the years I have
continued her training along the same
lines that began months before she was
born. | have read her the same books
that | had read during that time. l have
taken her to the same museum and shown
her the same statues and paintings.
"She is a member of the Metropolitan
Grand Opera Ballet. and takes part in
every ballet, either dancing or singing.
She could be a sculptress if she wished;
she can mold face or statuette in clay
in a few minutes. She can draw and
paint. She has written many beautiful
poems.
Great Britain Rights Reserved.
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up and down and whinnied like horse.
And now the mothers of two recent
beauty prize-winning daughters declare
that their concentration of mind and de-
termination to give birth to beautiful
babies resulted in bestowing upon the lit
tie ones the marked beauty of features,
eyes, hands and complexion which were
not warranted as the natural heritage
from their mothers or fathers.
One of these mothers is Mrs. Ruth J.
Wild, who lives in Brooklyn; the other is
Mrs. Virginia Knapp, who lives in
New York The pictures of their daugh-
tiers, whose beauty, sweetness of DISPOSE
ton, talents and appreciation of the aes-
thetic are attributed by each of the moth
ers to the influence of prenatal impress
siOnS, are shown on this page for each
reader to judge how the theory worked
out in their appearance, at least.
Mrs. Wild, it seems, had much greater
difficulties to overcome than Mrs. Knapp,
since she was abandoned, so she says, by
her husband and left in condition of
sorrow and comparative poverty.
"Sixteen years ago, and just about this
time of year." says Mrs. Wild, 'my hus-
band left me- | suddenly found myself
destitute, friendless and after a time,
realized, destined to become a mother.
"For days | was in despair. And then
it came to me that if my baby was to have
its fair chance in life | must not let my
self give way to my sorrow. 1t came to
me that if | sank down and let my misery
rule me that it would be sure to handicap
the child. 1t might make of it physical
weakling or a nervous one.
Cor my sufferings might mark it
That is, cause it to be born with some
blemish or deformity which would hold
it back from happiness and success all Its
life!
81 had often read of how such things
have their influence upon an unborn child
How marks or deformities' are often the
result of fright or injuries to the mother
had heard many stories of prenatal in
fuence, and / could not help but believe
there was something in it. At any rate,
felt that l could not afford to run the
risk of having my baby bear scars and
blemishes that my own hardships might
unless could prevent it, infiict upon it.
81 reasoned that if a child could be
made ugly either in body or in spirit, OF
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tie one by keeping her
thoughts and her eyes
upon statues of Apollo,
and the belief has ex-
listed to the present day.
The New York courts
recently had before it a
$150,00O damage suit
against the Borden Com
pany because one of its
milk wagon horses fright
ened the young wife, and
the child who was born
soon after tossed its head