Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Cushing, III (Cathleen Vanderbilt) a son; in Manhattan. Mrs. Cushing is the daughter of Reginald Vanderbilt,* aged 48. Said Cholly Knickerbocker, Hearst's "Society Editor": "The infant will 20 years hence dance about at the same debutante parties with his auntie." Said Debutante, Society Editor for the Daily News, Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet: "Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt, not yet 20, is the youngest grandmother in Society. . . ."

Engaged. George D. Simon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Simon (apparel), of Manhattan, to Mary Alice Van Ells of Manhattan.

Married. Cameron Morrison, Governor of North Carolina to Mrs. Sarah Watts, widow of George W. Watts, millionaire philanthropist; at Durham, N. C.

Married. Clark Howell, 61, editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, to Mrs. Julian S. Carr, Jr., of Durham, N. C.; at Concord, N. C.

Divorced. Tennessee Mitchell Anderson by Novelist Sherwood Anderson, 48 (Winesburg, Ohio, The Triumph of the Egg, Many Marriages, Horses and Men). The charge was unjustifiable desertion; at Reno. Divorced. Anne Duffy (Nichols), author of Abie's Irish Rose, from Henry Duffy, actor.

Died. Mrs. T. Worcester Worrell, great-grandniece of Betsy Ross; in Philadelphia.

Died. Leon R. Taylor, 41, onetime "boy Governor" of New Jersey; of tuberculosis, in Denver. Aged 30, he became Governor when Woodrow Wilson resigned that position to become President.

Died. Victor David Brenner, 53, ranking medalist of the U. S.; in Manhattan. It was he who designed the so-called Lincoln penny, placed his initials (V. D. B.) on the first few.

Died. Joseph Edward Willard, 58, former U. S. Ambassador to Spain; of angina pectoris, in Manhattan.

Died. Walter George Smith, 70, President of the American Bar Assciation in 1917, recipient of the Laetare medal (the highest honor for Catholic laymen in the U. S.) ; at Torresdale, Pa.

Died. Charles Warren Lippitt, 77, onetime Governor of Rhode Island, manufacturer and banker; of arteriosclerosis, at Harmon, N. Y.

Died. James Yereance, 80, President of the Lord's Day Alliance of the U. S., President Emeritus of the New York Port Society; at East Orange, N. J.

Died. Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, 90, onetime Governor of Vermont; of apoplexy, at Brandon.

Died. Eliphalet Remington, 96, lone surviving member of the firm of E. Remington & Sons, founded in 1816 by his father; at Herkimer, N. Y. The gun and typewriter manufacturers were originally one company, but failed in 1886 and are now under separate interests, controlled by others than the Remingtons. He died impoverished by his gift (50 years ago) of $250,000 to Syracuse University.

*Last month a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. (the former Gloria Morgan) Vanderbilt.