Born. To Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones II, a son, Robert Tyre Jones III; in Atlanta.

Engaged. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of Poet-Pundit Matthew Arnold and great granddaughter of Headmaster Thomas Arnold of Rugby; to Harry Forsyth. Her mother, Mrs. F. W. Whitridge, of Manhattan, is Matthew Arnold's daughter, Lucy, who was in part responsible for his visits to the U. S. (1883 and 1886). The fastidious Arnold, England's apostle of culture, was little pleased with the U. S., but felt much the same toward the England of his day. Upon his death in 1888, Oscar Wilde remarked: "Poor Arnold, he won't like God."

Married. Beatrice Munro Schurman, niece of Jacob Gould Schurman, U. S. Ambassador to Germany; to one Holbrook B. Gushman; in Manhattan.

Married. Fifi Widener Leidy, 23, daughter of Joseph E. Widener (Philadelphia capitalist-philanthropist-art patron); to one Milton C. Holden, 35; in Philadelphia. Early this year she divorced her first husband, Carter Leidy, with whom she eloped when she was 17.

Married. Marion Angell, daughter of President James Rowland Angell of Yale; to William Rockefeller McAlpin, grandnephew of John D. Rockefeller; in New Haven.

Married. Ruth Fahnestock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harris Fahnestock; to A. Coster Schermerhorn, broker; in Manhattan. The bride drove to and from St. Thomas's Church in a brougham drawn by two perfectly matched sorrel horses, driven by the coachman who had officiated in the same capacity for the marriage of her parents.

Married. Ralph Barton, 35, artist, caricaturist; to Germaine Taillefere, 34, French composer; in "a small Connecticut town," following three weeks' acquaintance. This was his fourth marriage. He met his wife at an Alfred Knopf soiree; courted her in French. Anita Loos, whose Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Mr. Barton illustrated, was a witness at the marriage.

Died. Henry Simon, 52, President of the French Chamber's Finance Commission, cubist painter: in Paris, of apoplexy, shortly after leaving the Chamber.

Died. Robert LeGrand Johnstone, 56, President, Chicle Products Company (chewing gum); in Ottawa, suddenly, of heart failure.

Died. Charles Ringling, 62, one of the seven famed circus brothers, sixth to die; at Sarasota, Fla., of cerebral hemorrhage. Beginning a seven-man show (themselves the artists) in their home town, Baraboo, Wis., in 1882, they acquired profits the first season of $60 apiece, which they spent on evening clothes and silk hats. By 1890 they were competing with Barnum & Bailey, whose circus they finally bought (1907) for $410,000, gaining thereby practical circus monopoly of the U. S. and Canada. During this material growth they rose from boyhood self-education to culture. Brother John (sole survivor) was recently revealed as an art collector (TIME, May 10); Robert, son of the late Charles, sings opera in Munich; wherever the circus of late years has gone, a private dining tent, with an English butler, has been set up alongside, in case one of the brothers should drop in. Art Collector John and the late Charles have also shown financial genius, many times doubling by investment their income. Charles was the most picturesque of all, a sentimentalist. Said he: "I go out to the 'menagerie,' and look my monkeys and tigers and lions in the face. It is there I see my measure. . . . When a tiger snarls at me ... I look him in the face. . . .What have I done that I shouldn't do?"

Died. Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, explorer, naturalist, sculptor; in the Belgian Congo, of hemorrhage. (See p. 10).

Died. William Henry Porter, 65, "systematizing genius" of J. P. Morgan. & Co. and the director of its open market operations; in Brooklyn, N. Y., of heart disease, while walking with his wife. At 25 he was the youngest cashier in a major U. S. bank (Chase National). It was he who stimulated the trade acceptance, or bill, market in the U. S., whereby a merchant with time paper on his hands could easily discount it at a bank. He was taken into Morgan partnership in 1911, simultaneously with Thomas William Lamont.

Died. Austin Phelps Cristy, 76, founder and onetime editor and publisher of the Worcester (Mass.) Telegram; in Worcester, by suicide. Starting the paper with $300 capital, he sold it for more than $1,000,000.

Died. Claude Monet, 86, chief painter of the impressionists; in Giverny, France. After early discouragements from his father and the critics, he won, some time before old age, universal recognition for his singularly poetic landscapes, examples of which are frequent in U. S. museums. Georges Clemenceau, his life-long friend, was with him at the end, inconsolable.

Died. Deborah Revere, 90, great-granddaughter of Paul Revere ("One if by land, and two if by sea"); in Montclair, N. J.

Died. Sport, St. Boniface dog, which bit a woman who was pulling its mistress' hair; in Winnipeg, by chloroform, following city trial and sentence.

An epitaph was last week discovered at Wetumpka, Ala.:

Here lies the body of Solomon Peas, Under the daisies and under the trees. Peas is not here--only the pod, Peas shelled out; went home to God,