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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
A Directoire Figure.

For achieving the directoire figure
one must of course be very slim, and If
not naturally so, then the most strenu-
Gus processes must be resorted to. For
instance If you wish to look slim, and
you must in these days, do not dress
in white or light colored clothes.
Stripes are more becoming than
spots or checks, but narrow checks may
be worn.
Short skirts are banned, but flowing
draperies, on the other hand, give
grace.
A long center line of trimming from
throat to hem adds a certain hight; so
does a single fiounce at the bottom of
skirt
Many frills should be avoided.
A tight fitting gown is never becom-
ing to stout figure. Wear easilyft-
ting things. They will be far more be-
coming if one is inclined to be stout.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
ADJUSTMENTS.
May Robson at Jefferson.

May Robson is a dear little old Aunt
Mary. In the charming character come
dy which will appear at the Jefferson
theatre again tonight Miss Robson is sur
rounded by an excellent cast, and for the
joy of life, for the little laugh that Keeps
choking during the whole play, the three
ats are as chock full as is Aunt Mary
with eccentricities.
The lines are just ripping with bits of
fun. Kind hearted, kissing her truant
nephew one minute and then covering 1t
UP with a storm of words, a slap or a
shrug; dressed in all the petticoats and
TIE frllls of the country, with a face that
is especially pretty under the curls of
fused. said sweet soft things in low
tone, won the hearts and fell in love with
the ways of the city boys.
The regeneration was a quickly con-
trived party in her honor, where she
tasted of the pleasures of festivity. Then
back in the country, sleeping in an old
red chair, she enjoyed with the audience
the love making of her boy and his
sweetheart, and declared that when they
were married to the city she would go
and have an eye-glass on an umbrella
handle.
II was a treat to see Aunt Mary roll
cigarette, but she was amusing in so
any ways that it would be impossible to
recount them.
The cast of characters is one that would
do honor to any performance;
Betty Burnett, Burnetts sister. Lila Blow
Glover, Jacks chum. ..... Walter Poulter
Lucinda, Aunt Mary's property, body
an soul. ..........,.......... Nina odSille
Joshua, Aunt Mary's hired man...... -
........................... Harry Cowley
John Watkins, Jr., Denham Jack
................,''''. dck oloIey
Robert Burnett, Jacks chum.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. francis HerDlln
Mitchell, Jacks chum. Paul Decker
Aunt Mary Watkins. ..-....... May Robson
Mrs Daisy Mullins, villager..........
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ..Lela thompson
Messenger Boy ................H Harry Jones
Mr. Stebbins, Aunt Mary's lawyer.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Lester Waldee
james, the Burnetts butler............
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. George +, Hail
Maid Ethel White
The Girl from Kalamazoo. .............
Observation-Disclosures. Lillian WeStner
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
At the Gayety.

Sam Scribner's Big Show is lively
burlesque and the almost constant laugh
ter which filled the Gayety theatre at
the performances yesterday afternoon and
last night is a good indication that this
show will be splendid drawing scard
this week. -
The excellence of the programme must
go to Bedini and Arthur, who appear in
juggling act in the olio While juggling
acts have become so common that they
are as a rule tiresome to look at the
really wonderful tricks performed by these
two men, together with their ability as
comedians, makes this sketch about as
lively and entertaining as it is possible
to achieve.
a good looking chorus adds much to the
performance. They are possessed of abil-
.ity in the dancing and singing line,
while great hit was made in the drum
corps finale to the first act. These are
number of real beauties in the chorus
and feminine cast. Gladys Carlisle, Clara
Raymond and Guilia Albert being especial
ly endowed, while the audience would
be well satisfied If Miss Helena May re-
manned on the stage all the time In
addition to her beauty Miss May is also
possessed of remarkably sweet voice.
The "Brianzo Trio" in an italian sere-
made sketch are also very pleasing.
while the Columbia Musical Sextette COM
posed OF six girls, three of whom play
comets and the other three trombones,
received much applause. Their instru-
ments have a mellow tone and the entire
sextette displayed skill in handling them.
F'alardo and his ''Mummified Man i'm
per sonation and song received number
os encores, while his imitation of diff
ferent musical instruments was also well
reCeived.
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doesn't suffer in comparison with the
original scarecrow, who was Fred Stone
Beatrice Turner is a petite and ingenious
Dorothy Gale, while Joseph Schrode
make. one of the most comieal COWS
imaginable. zoa Matthews plays the lady
lunatie with much success and made a.
hit With her insanity parody, introduce
ing some local gags. Robert Burns made
the eowardly lion fit teammate for the
irolcsome COW James Wesley, the
original wizard" is still playing his old
part and dancing with the grace of other
Gays.
Tn, Wizard of o. may be styled an
exceptional musical bargain at popular
prices This week promises to be notable
at the Bijou. On account of its appeal
to children, the matinees will be featured
this week
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.Loves Fathers Memory.

Miss Helen Gould seems to have a
great deal of sentiment where the mem
DRY of her afther is concerned. She prac-
tically has never taken off mourning,
although she wears gray and white when
the occasion seems to demand that she
wear something else than black. Her fav-
orite house is at Roxbury. N. Y, and it
is the house where her father, the late
Jay Gould, was born. She has had it en-
larged and very much beautified this
summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
Tax Is Valid.

Montgomery, November 9.-Judge A. d.
Sayre of the city court has ruled that the
new franchise tax placed on foreignscor-
norations is valid and that those railroads
which are resisting payment OF them
have no right to recover the tax paid
under protest. 1t is also held that the
absorption OK certain Alabama roads in
the mast did not make a domestic corpo-
ration of the Atlantic Coast Line-that 1t
is foreign corporation and must pay the
tax. The tax amounts to about $15O,OOO
annually on the several railroad corpo-
ratiOnS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
Miss Thurston's Engagement.

Manager Douglas takes pleasure in an
nouncing the annual appearance here, at
the jefferson theatre, of Miss Adelaide
Thurston. next S turday, matinee and
night She will be seen in a new play
by Frederic Paulding, entitled 1.-THE
Woman's Hour" 1t Is described as an
American comedy of modern life, and
deals with types and conditions of fash
ionable society as it exists in New York
city today. II is comedy in the sense
that it exploits and satlrizes in good
natured way the failngs, folies and fol-
bles of the butterflies" of the ultra
smart set.
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CARS COLLIDE.
Six Persons Are Injured in Mont
gomery Wreck.

Montgomery, November 9.--Six persons
were injured and score or more shock
ed by street railway accident here this
afternoon. Brakes failed to respond on
a steep hillside of High street and the
car dashed down the hill, left the track
and nearly overturned. Two negro swo-
men, Carrie Reynolds and Caroline Ow-
ems, are the most seriously injured. The
former may die. Miss Mary O'Brien,
bruised about the head, is the most Sc
rtcusly injured OF the white persons.
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as 1t must teeth and have the whooping
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Miss Elizabeth Dearborn, Miss Nellie
Majors, Miss Florence Rogers, Miss Yer
non Marks, Miss Gertrude Sullivan, Miss
Lucille CASTOR, Miss Lnley Graham, Miss
Eula Drennen and Miss Eva Conner.
A card party will be given this after
noon at 2:3O o'clock by the ladies' aux
iliary of st. Vincent's hospital at the
home of Mrs. H. f. DeBardeleben, 2O6
South Fifteenth street.
The president of the Paul Hayne School
Improvement association has called
meeting of that organization to take
place this afternoon at O'Clock at the
school building.
The Birmingham Graduate Nurses asso-
citation will hold its regular monthly
meeting tomorrow afternoon at o'clock
at Hillman hospital.
The ladies' auxiliary of the Congrega-
ton BETHEL will hold an important meet
ing at the residence of Mrs. A. Rubel on
Seventh avenue.
Miss Gertrude Sullivan, who is spend
ing the winter in Yolande, was the guest
of Mrs. Houston Johnston Saturday and
Sunday.
Later in November Miss Nellie Nabers
will have as her guest Miss Mary Danner
of Mobile.
Miss Mary Shannon is the guest of Mr..
and Mrs Fac Drake in Huntsville.
1t will be learned with much pleasure
by Miss Florence Rogers many friends
that she is rapidly convalescing, and will
be able to return to her home the latter
part of the week.
Mr. Monroe Lanier has spent several
days in the city with his parents, but
plans to leave today.
Mr. Stephen Smith will go to Livingston
today to visit his mother.
Mrs. Charles s. Simmons has returned
after a stay of several days in Balti-
more and more extended visit later in
STAFFORD Springs.
Miss Mary Dabney and Miss Mary
Campbell are expected to return from
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
About Women.

Women everywhere are beginning to
talk of clean money, and they don't care
whether 1t is silver or gold or even paper.
but advanced knowledge on hyglenic sub
jeets makes it imperative that 1t be clean
possible, paying all bills with checks, says
the Chicago News, but once in a while it
is absolutely necessary to have real
money.
The Hoffman House is the only New
York hotel that has a woman hotel stew
ard, Miss Isabel Boyle acting in that ca
pacity. The manager of the hotel says
that having a woman steward is his idea,
and finding the right woman is also his
idea. She does all the marketing and
buying and is responsible for all the re-
serve stock of china, glass and silver
ware and cares for every detail.
Miss r. Belle Moore of New Hartford
is announced as a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for school commits
sioner In the First district of Oneida coun-
ty, New York. Miss Moore has ALWAYS
lived in the county and has taught the
district and graded schools for the last
10 years, says the Chicago News.
An American woman-Miss Sarah c.
Murray of Newton, Mass.-earried off
honors at the University of Munich this
year. Miss Murray is a graduate of Rad
cliffe and is but 90 years OLE. She not
only secured her Phi. D., for work In
philosophy and archaeology at Munich,
but her name is now on the honor roll
of the university.
There are now 5,5Oo.0O0 women workers
in England. There are, besides the 2.OO0.-
900 domestic servants, $4,000 women en-
ployed in textile industries, 100000 in
dressmaking, $4,000 In commerce and
nearly 100000 in farming. There are SIS. 1884
woman clerks, 100000 woman teachers
1900 musicians and actresses, 10000
nurses and 292 woman doctors.
cIiss Sadie American of the National
association of Jewish Women voiced
the sentiment of great many women at
the recent Fairgrounds congress when
she said that there should be more play
in the life of the child, and especially in
the life of the poor little institutional
mortal.
We SO often hear the expression, 'Ohi
she has the digestion of an ostrich and
we little realize how much truth there is
in such a statement
The ostrich. while one of the largest
is one of the most timid of birds, but the
chief characteristic Is the remarkable d.
geston with which this wonderful bird
is blessed.
He will gobble up bits of broken bottles,
nails, clothing and other more or less
hard substances without any ado. AL
though easily frightened, the bird when
aroused to anger is very fierce and kicks
savagely.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
Menu for Today.

BREAKFAST. ?
Baked Apples, With Cream.
Goldfish Balls.
Rolls.
Omelette Souffle.
Coffee.
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LUNCHEON.
Lamb Chops.
Saratoga Chips.
Brown Bread and Sandwiches.
Celery and Nut Salad.
Tea.
DINNER.
Cream of Potato Soup.
Broiled Lake Trout, Parsley Butter.
Mashed Potatoes.
Sphaghetti, With Cheese.
Stuffed Peppers.
Salad of Lettuce, French Dressing.
Cottage Pudding.
Cheese. go
Cafe Noir.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
"His Honor the Mayor"

No musical play of recent years has
met with a greater measure of success
than His Honor the Mayor" which
comes to this city at the Jefferson thea
tire Thursday, matinee and night. Little
Chip and Mary Marble take the leading
roles and will not appear here again for
two years. The seat sale opens this
morning at q o'clock
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10
Kitchen Hints.

To get best results with rice, wash
quickly in cold water and drop slowly
into water that is boiling rapidly. Rice
prepared in this fashion will be soft
and mealy, yet whole, in 20 minutes or
half an hour. Have plenty of water
in the kettle and drain the rice direct
~ it is cook ed-before the water stops
boiling.
Save fuel by washing beans and all
dried fruits until the water poured off
is clear. Then soak over night, COW
ering them with warm not cold, wa
ter.
To get best results with macaroni.
do not break it before cooking. Drop
it whole into sailed boiling water, cook
20 minutes, drain in a colander, coil
1t in the baking dish, pour cream
sauce over it and finish off with grated
cheese and bits of butter Bake golden
brown. You lose much of the SUBJ
stance in breaking 1t in short lengths
before cooking.
Mix prunes and raisins for a supper
dish. The raisins give the pruns a
tang that is savory.
To make the mint jelly, so popular
and expensive-at exchange and tea
rooms, try this recipe: Wash and
bruise a bunch of fresh mint; cover
with pint of boiling watsr and sim
mer very gently Is minutes. Strain and,
to every pint of this liquid, while hot,
allow package of ready-to-use lemon
jelly powder. Add sugar to taste. Stir
until sugar and jelly powder are dis
solved. Mold and set on ice to harden.
Garnish with fresh mint leaves.
Europe December 10. Miss Dabney's pa
rents, Dr. and Mrs. ]. d. Dabney, will
entertain at reception in her honor on
the evening of December rs.
Mrs. Jonas Fox is in Chattanooga, where
she was a guest Sunday at the marriage
of her nephew, Mr.. David Newman.
Mrs. Fred Lowery will return tomorrow
to her home in Chattanooga after visit
to Mr.. and Mrs. Frank H. Bell.
Mrs. R. ]. Rittenberry and Mrs. Bax-
ter Rittenberry are guests of the latter's
relatives in Campbellsville, Tenn.
Miss Marie Smith is expected to return
home Thursday or Friday from a visit
to friends in Jackson, Miss.
Mrs. Kirkland Glover has returned from
Camden, where she was the guest of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. ID. Gilbert
DIR. ]. II. Edmondson has returned from
Philadelphia.
1t is a matter of pleasant interest in
Birmingham to note the recent election of
Hon. Frank G. Hall of Rushville, Ind, to
the post of lieutenant governor of that
state He is a cousin of Mrs. Frank G..
Alexander of this city.
The friends of Miss Margaret Ander-
son, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. An
derson, will be glad to learn that she is
from her sudden illness.
One trial will convince you The
GawlS is the place.
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Curing the Measles.

Measles are not at all dangerous If the
victim be properly protected. 1t has been
a notion of all mothers for hundreds of
years that every child must have the
measles, and the earlier the better, just
as 1t must teeth and have the whooping
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10

Southern railway, the only
afternoon train to Washington,
Philadelphia and New York.
Through sleeper with dining
car service unexcelled.
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NEW CROF

NEW CROP
Shelled Pecans
New Crop Pecans in Shell
Fancy Mackerel
Mince Meat
Olives
Olive Oil
CLARKE BROS.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-10

Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Edward q.
Williams entertained at a charming aft
ernoon tea in compliment to her house
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Mr.. Owen Watkins entertained the
Watkins-Ber bridal party at dinner last
evening at the Country club. His guests
included Mrs. Clarice Watkins, Mr.. Ly-
man F. Berry, Miss Daisy Watkins, Mr..
Edmund Berry and Miss Mamie Sue
Berry.
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One trial will convince you The
Gawk is the place.
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The many friends of Mrs. Oliver Chali-
foux will be delighted that she is again
able to be out since a siege of scarlet
fever with her young son, Oliver. The
sign was removed Saturday.
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Drawings by Charles Livingston Bull

spruce woods were full of me,-moose, deer hares,
and wild birds innumerable, with rowing caribou
herds the wide barren beyond the hill ridge.
Nevertheless the great gray wolf would not spare the
possessions of the settlers. His pack haunted the
fringes of the settlements with needless tenacity
which seemed to hold a challenge in it, direct and
nsolent defiance. And the feeling of resentment
throughout the valley the point of crystaiz-
ing into a concerted campaign of vengeance which
would have left even cunning strategist as the
Gray Master no choice but to flee or fall when some
thing took place that quite changed the course OF
public sentiment Folk disagreed about it that
all concerted action became impossible; and each
one left to deal with the elusive adversary in his
own way.
This was what happened.
IN cabin about three miles from the nearest neigh
Dor lived the Widow Baisey, alone with her
Paddy, lad of under ten years old, and little for
his age One midwinter night she was taken desper-
ately i'll and Paddy, reckless of the terrors of the
midnight soltudes ran wildly to get help. The
was high and full, and the lifeess backwoods road
was a narrow, bright, white thread between the
silent black of the spruce forest. Now and
then as he remembered afterward, his caught a
sound of light feet following him in the dark beyond
the roadside But his plucky little heart too full
of panic grief about his mother, to have any room
for fear as to himself Only the excited amazement
of his neighbors, the fact that he had made the
journey in safety, opened his eyes to the hideous
peril he had come through.
Willing helpers hurried back with him to his
mothers bedside. And the way of them,
keen huntsman who had more than once pitted his
woodcraft in vain against that of the Gray Master,
had the curiosity to step off the road and examine
the snow under the thick spruces. Perhaps magma
ton msled him, when he thought he caught
glimpse of savage eyes, points of green flame, fading
off into the black depths. But there could be no
doubt as to the fresh tracks he found in the snow.
There they were,-the footprints of the pack, like
those of so many big dogs,-and among them the
huge trail of the great far striding leader All the
way almost from his threshold, these sinister steps
had paraleled those of the hurrying child. Close
to the edge of the darkness they ran,close within
the distance of one swift eap-yet never any closer!
Why had the great gray wolf, which faced and
pulled down the bull moose, and from whose voice the
biggest dogs in the settlements ran like whipped
curs.-why had he and his stealthy pack spared this
easy prey? 1t was inexplicable; though many had
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steer now and then, and remember that they, at
least, were not troubling him.
AS for the English speaking settlers, their enmlty
cooled down to the point where they could no longer
get together any concentrated bitterness. 1t was
only big rascal of wolf, anyway, scared to touch
a white mans child and certainly nothing for lot
of grown men to organize about. Some of the
women jumped to the conclusion that a certain
decacy of sentiment had governed the wolves in
their strange forbearance while others honestly be-
Ieved that the pack had been specially sent by
Providence guard the child through the forest
his sacred GRAND.
But ALL whatever their views, agreed in fouting
the young school teachers uninteresting suggestion
that perhaps the wolves had not happened at the
moment to be hungry.
AS it CHANGED, however, this very rational
explanation of Kane's far from the truth. The
truth was that the great wolf had profted by his
period of captivity in the hands of masterful man.
Into his fine sagacity had penetrated the conception,
hay perhaps but the less effective that mans
vengeance would be irresistible and inescapable if
once fairly aroused. This conception he had en-
forced upon the pack. 1t was enough. For OF
course, even to the most elementary intelligence
among the hunting, fighting kindreds of the wild, it
was patent that the surest way to arouse mans
vengeance would be to attack mans young. The IN
telligence lying behind the wide arched skull of the
Gray Master was equal to intricate and less
obvious conclusions than that.
A MONG all the scattered inhabitants of the Quaf1-
Davic Valley there one who devoted
quite so much attention to the wonderful gray wolf
did the young school teacher His life at the
Burnt Brook Crossroads, his labors at the little
Burnt Brook school, were neither SO exacting
exciting but that he had time on his hands. His
preferred expedlents for spending that time were
hunting and studying the life of the wild kindreds
He was good shot with both rifle and camera, and
would serve himself with one weapon or the other
as the mood seized him When life his dinner
went i'll with him. he found himself fretting hope
lessly for the metropolitan excitement of the little
college city where he had been educated, he would
choose his rifle. And, wide reaching, so mys-
terious the ties that enmesh all created beings
that it would seem to matters up and relieve
his feelings wonderfully just to kill something II
preferred the
Naturally, Kane interested in the mysterious
gray wolf than in all the other providers of the
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theories good enough to be laughed
to scorn by those who had none.
The habitants, of course, had all their
superstitions confrmed,-yet with
a certain respect and refinement of
horror added: Here was a "loup
garou" so crafty as to spare, on oc-
casion! He must be conciliated, at
all costs. They would hunt him no
more, his motives being SO inexplic-
able. Let him take a few sheep or a