Miss Lillian G. Carter, of Atlanta, Ga., who inherited $2,000,000 from her father, Josiah Carter, still declares that she will devote her life to settlement work. She does not care to be a social butterfly, she says. Close Call for Aged Woman. When Mrs. Marcus W. Church, seventy-one years old, of Wheeling, W. Va., was overcome by a paralytic stroke, a maid sent at once for Mrs. Church’s son, Frank Church, who, on reaching home, thought his mother was dead. He called an undertaker, who arrived two hours later. When the undertaker began preparations to embalm her, Mrs. Church sat up, rubbed her eyes, and asked: “What’s the matter here?” A few minutes later she was able to be about the house, and in the evening she partook of her dinner as usual. “Ferocious” Bear is Captured. The bear that has been bothering people around Poland, Ohio, has been caught. Like an ordinary criminal, the animal was run down by a posse. A crowd of men and boys tracked the animal to a hiding place in a thicket, and then “rushed” the place in a body. They found bruin in the spot, but he didn’t want to fight. On the contrary, he seemed glad to see the crowd, and wanted to play. It was then found that he wore a muzzle, and was hungry. The bear hunters were at a loss to know what to do with their catch until a gypsy appeared and claimed bruin as his own property. Regains Voice Calling Cat. Mrs. Grace Lambert, of Pinewood Avenue, Toledo, Ohio, was able, the other day, to use her voice for the first time since March 4, 1914, when she lost her speech following a long attack of bronchial pneumonia. Mrs. Lambert’s voice suddenly returned when she called “Pete,” the family cat, to breakfast. When Ballet Skirts Grew Short. In the earlier days of the ballet the dancers were dressed in the elaborate and fulsome costume of the period--the women in hooped petticoats falling to the ankle, with their powdered hair piled up a foot or more upon their heads, the men in long-skirted coats, set out from their hips with padding. So long as this costume was worn, the dance was necessarily confined almost entirely to the dignified and gliding movements of the minuet. It permitted none of the airy and intricate steps which are peculiar to the technic of the ballet proper. Noverre, the eighteenth-century maître de ballet, who is chiefly responsible for giving the ballet its present form, wrote as follows: “I wish to reduce by three-quarters the ridiculous paniers of our danseuses. They are opposed equally to the freedom, the quickness, and the prompt and animated action of the dance.” Mlle. de Camargo, the famous dancer, started the innovation in dress. She was the first to execute the entre chat, a light and brilliant step, during the performance of which the dancer rapidly crosses the feet while in midair. In her dances, therefore, she took the precaution of wearing the caleçon, from which the tight-fitting fleshing of the ballet dancer was subsequently evolved.