Swordfish

Off Catalina Island, Mrs. S. M. Douglas caught a handsome swordfish, wanted to mount it in her boudoir. Mrs. Douglas took her catch to Mrs. Charles Parker in Los Angeles, had it painted a delicate pink "to match the drapes." Taxidermist

Parker, no novice at fish painting, once tinted a broadbill purple for R. H. Grey, brother of Author Zane Grey, who assured her that was the way they looked under water.

Widow's Mate

In Manhattan, Mrs. Nelle Brooke Stull, founder and president of the Widows' & Widowers' Club, arrived from Elyria,Ohio, to perform her "favorite chore," that of "Hymen's assistant." Countess Eugenie Zicha of Prague had also arrived in Manhattan. So had Jacob Miller of Ontario and Theodore Kabelac of Philadelphia who eyed each other coldly, were united only in eagerness to meet the Countess. Fairly bubbling with excitement, roly-poly Mrs. Stull toddled about her hotel room to get the Countess and her two breathless suitors "properly introduced." After a study of their handwritings and an earnest consultation with the stars, she said, she had picked Messrs. Miller & Kabelac out of all the male members of the Widows' & Widowers' Club as ideal suitors for the hand of the Countess.

Mr. Kabelac, who seemed the sprucer, less bashful of the two, spoke right up: "I'd be glad to marry her if Mrs. Stull says it's all right." Stolid Mr. Miller tried to look at ease. It took the Countess only a jiffy to pick Mr. Kabelac.

Burbled Mrs. Stull, striving to get her short arms about the happy couple: "They are both dear, darling doodles and just think, it was my Widows' & Widowers' Club that brought them together."

Unhappy Mr. Miller was able to discern one ray of light. That was the Widows' & Widowers' Convention at Atlantic City over the weekend. Said he, bravely: "I'll get a chance to look over the seven or eight hundred other women and we'll have applejack and peanuts."

Only snag in the course of the romance was struck when Mrs. Stull heard that marriages in Manhattan required three days' notice. Miserably she fretted. "These laws! What is even a love expert like me going to do against such man-made barriers? Love is beautiful. Love is spontaneous. Why must man thwart it?" Not long to be thwarted was Mrs. Stull herself, who took advantage of the hitch to explain her mission: "I am the love fixer. I make men and women happy. My theory is that every Jill has her Jack." By way of proving her theory she has brought to gether 600 grateful couples. Twenty-seven babies bear all or part of the name Nelle Brooke Stull. For every visitor she has a copy of a booklet about the Widows' & Widowers' Club. Excerpt: "Mrs. Stull is a veritable bundle of energy, pretty, vivacious and possessed of magnetic eyes, the color of sapphires." When Mrs. Stull discovered that Mr. Kabelac and the Countess could be mar ried at once, she proudly gave the bride away, left for Atlantic City "where 500 of my boys and girls will be gathered to cele brate my birthday." Best news on Mrs. Stull's birthday was from Mr. Miller. Mr. Miller was holding a dance in celebration of his engagement to Mrs. J. E. Barker, thrice a widow.

Threat

In Camden, N. J., when her husband threatened to kill her, resourceful Mrs. Paul Swicord leaped upon his lap, kissed him repeatedly until police came to her rescue.

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