I !- i ciety, -which looks' after the welfare of dependent children, had the father arrested in Los Angeles for failure to provide. He -was brought to Fresno in charge of a police officer. Let us legally adopt the girls and we will not demand the $400, was the bargain suggested by Mrs. Christie. Pay S25 for the expenses of the police department for bringing you here, and it will be all right with us, said the humane society. The bargain was made and sanc tioned by the court The Christies got the children, and the father his liberty, free from debt o o " PLANS MEMORIAL -TO AUTHOR OF "STAR SPANGLED BANNER" m K.Ssr CH4Rl3 HfiNW - NffiHAlTC In competition with noted sculp tors Niehaus of Cincinnati has won' the commission to design and recjt a monument to Francis Scott Key, composer of "The Star Spangled Banner." The monument will cost $75,000 and will stand in Baltimore. Niehaus is famous for his bronze doors of Trinity church in New York and portrait statues in, the capital at Washington. BETTY BROWN TELLS ABOUT STYLES Be prepared to be well cuffed by Lady Fashion this fall! Cuffs on your shoes, on your gloves, -a cuff like brim oil your turban and a band of fur on your skirt that looks like a cuff! But the cunningest cuffs are the turn-overs on the new street gloves. A gray or light colored glove has an inch-deep turn-back cuff of dark brown. Gay colors will glorify our clothes for the next six .months. Paris is wearing subdued colors, but Paris designers are sending us models in the gaudiest colors. Vivid green for evening wear, mahogany and the various wine shades for street frocks, black tints and saffron color for top coats. Shoes that lace 'way up almost to the knee and in chocolate brown, dark gray, lemon tints are good style. Spats button very high and the smartest are strapped at the top with a cldth strap fastened with a gold buckle. The Russian blouse of velvet in burgundy, green or taupe is charm ing for afternoon. In exclusive shops these velvet blouses trimmed with fur have the spotlight So many long coats will be worn this winter we may count on the vogue of the VERY short skirt. The long skirt robs the long coat of smartness. SWELL SWILL In a certain ' coast city many strangers take furnished houses for the winter, and a young woman there is fond of keeping tab on them and discussing their affairs. Of one family in particular she spQke- in de- tail, their wealth, their children, and, alas, the obvious aloofness of the rest of the winter colony. "I don't know nothing about 'em," she declared one day. "But I will say, my husband, who collects gar bage, says that they have perfectly swell swill !' mttftftfflAAAAAiAfitifcfcittfailM