Born. To Mrs. Marie Ames Byrd, of Winchester, Va., and Boston, a daughter. Mrs. Byrd is the wife of Lieut. Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, U. S. N., who flew to the North Pole and back from Spitzbergen last spring. Lieutenant Byrd's brother, Harry F., is Governor of Virginia.

Born. To Mr. and Mrs. George W. Lobs, Jr., a son, Gordon Moody, at Nanking, China. Mrs. Loos, who went to China as a Congregational missionary, is grandniece of Dwight Lyman Moody, famed evangelist.

Engaged. Henrietta Case Puller, granddaughter of Jerome I. Case (thrashing machines); to one Nicholas Danforth.

Engaged. John Trumbull Marshall, descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens; also of Jonathan Trumbull, Colonial Governor of Connecticut; to Catharine Van Dyke Bull, descendant of Jan Thomasse Van Dyke, founder of New Utrecht.

Engaged. Beatrice Munro Schurman, niece of Jacob Gould Schurman, U.S. Ambassador to Germany; to Holbrook B. Cushman. Mr. Cushman's sister married Ambassador Schurman's son.

Engaged. Henry Bradley Martin, son of U. S. Capitalist Bradley Martin, and grandson of the late Henry Phipps (steel); to Valerie French, granddaughter of the late Field Marshal French, Earl of Ypres; at London.

Married. Mulai Idriss, son and heir of the Sultan of Morocco, tc the daughter of El Glaowi, pasha of Marrakech; at Marrakech, Morocco. El Glaowi thus achieves his life ambition, to ally his family with that of Mohammed. Thousands of sheiks, nobly mounted, resplendent in white silk robes, multi-colored burnouses, attended. Beeves, steers, sheep revolved over log fires, fed 8,000 guests. Fountains radiated jeweled light, the populace danced in the streets, fireworks soared. Two other sons and a daughter of the Sultan having been wed at the same time, the potentate offered a new costume to any of his slaves who desired to marry immediately. Thirty-five marriages followed.

Married. Margaret L. Fiske, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Haley Fiske (Metropolitan Life Insurance), and cousin of Bishop Charles Fiske of Central New York, who performed the ceremony; to Martin Edwin Walker 3d; in Manhattan.

Married. Virginia Ryan, granddaughter of Financier Thomas

Fortune Ryan (street . railways, mining); to Edward Thomas Baring, of Baring Bros., London bankers; at Doughoregan Manor, Md.

Married. Natalie Mae Todd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Todd (ships); to one Thomas R. Lilly; in Manhattan.

Denied Divorce. Christian Arthur Wellesley, fourth Earl of Cowley, actor, descendant of Richard Colley Marquess Wellesley (famed Governor General of India, 1797-1805; Duke of Wellington's brother); from the Countess, onetime May Picard, Manhattan chorus girl; at London.

Died. Lieutenant Frank H. Conant Jr., 27, Navy aviator; off the coast of Mathews, Va., when his plane crashed into the sea (see p. 11).

Died. Robert Waterbury, 486 pounds, at Sioux City, Iowa, of apoplexy. There were ten pallbearers.

Died. Harry Houdini (onetime Harry Weiss), 52, famed magician; in Detroit, Mich.; of peritonitis, following a blow on the stomach, delivered by an inquisitive and injudicious McGill University student.

Died. Lloyd Bowen Sanderson, 61, dean of Manhattan shippers, general manager of Royal Mail and Pacific Steam Navigation Co., senior partner of Sanderson & Co.; in Manhattan.

Died. William Seward Webb, 75, railroad builder, (Wagner Palace Car Co., now the Pullman); at Shelburne, Vt.

Died. Princess Laetitia Napoleon Bonaparte, 59, aunt of King Vittorio Emanuele ILL; widow of Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, onetime (1870-73) King of Spain; daughter of Prince ("Plon Plon") Napoleon; granddaughter of Jerome Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon I and King of Westphalia, who married Elizabeth Patterson of Baltimore) ; hence cousin of Charles Joseph Bonaparte, onetime (1905-06) Secretary of the Navy and (1906-09) U. S. Attorney General; at Turin, Italy.

Died. Major General George ("Do-It-Now") Bell Jr., U. S. A., retired, 67; in Chicago, of pernicious anemia.

Died. Queen Fontana, 5, record-breaking hen, at Fontana, Calif., of natural causes. She had just laid her 1174th egg, as contrasted with the average hen's life capacity of 270 (2 years),* and left 400,000 descendants.

* But the record for a single year stands at 348. This feat has just been achieved by an academic white leghorn at the University of British Columbia.