Born, To Major and Mrs. Frederic Mclaughlin (Irene Castle, famed dancer) a baby girl (seven pounds); in Chicago.

Engaged. Miss Eleanor Sparks, daughter of Sir Ashley Sparks, Resident Director and General Agent of the Cunard Steamship Line in the U. S., to Jordan L. Mott III, great-grandson of the late J. L. Mott, famed plumbing manufacturer; in Manhattan.

Married. William F. Schlemmer, President of Hammacher, Schlemmer & Co., famed hardware manufacturers, to Mrs. William J. Wilkinson; in Mexico City. He was recently divorced there, Mrs. Wilkinson being named as corespondent by the first Mrs. Schlemmer.

Married. Rupert Hughes, 52, famed novelist, to Miss Elizabeth Patterson Dial, cinema actress; in Los Angeles.

Married. Vance McCormick, 52, onetime (1916) Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to Mrs. Gertrude Howard Olmstead, widow of Representative Marlin E. Olmstead of Pennsylvania; in Harrisburg.

Divorced. Allan A. Ryan, Manhattan stocktrader, famed for having "cornered" the stock of the Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1919-20, by Mrs. Sarah Tuck Ryan; last October.

Died. Elisa Fernandez de Robles, sister of President Ricardo Jiminez of Costa Rica; in Mexico City (where she visited her married daughters); struck by an automobile.

Died. Mrs. Ray Frank, mother of Leo Frank, who (in 1915) was lynched by a Georgia mob; in Brooklyn.

Died. Mrs. Katharine McMahon Johnson, wife of Robert Underwood Johnson, author and onetime (Feb., 1920-July, 1921) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, mother of Owen Johnson, novelist; in Manhattan.

Died. James Hoge Tyler, 78, onetime (1898-1902) Democratic Governor of Virginia, descendant of President John Tyler; at Roanoke.

Died. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, 79, Swiss epic poet and essayist, winner of the 1919 Nobel Prize for Literature; at Lucerne. He wrote in German.

Died. Mrs. Mary Lyman Eliot Guild, 96, elder sister of Charles W. Eliot, famed President Emeritus of Harvard University; in Brookline, Mass.