The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-25


 the virtues of many commodities, salves ointments, pills, circuses. operas, con certs, ad infinitum.
 On every corner, street and alley one
 Is informed that he needs Dr. Quack's laxative, or Dr. Sharps pills, or Dr.
 Ketchum's hair vigor, all posters col
 ored, printed and illustrated in the most vulgar manner.
 These matters are not of slight im-
 portance either; for 1t is these daily
 sights which are constantly before the
 eyes of children, which go far toward forming their tastes, and have no doubt
 that this early unlovely training accounts
 in a measure for the number of cheap,
 tawdry pictures and prints found in the
 houses of many people on whom the ef-
 feet of these inelegant posters was not
 counteracted by corrective training.
 Mrs. A. M. Prescott and Master Guy Prescott will leave this afternoon for Los Angeles, Cal, where they will re-
 side in the future. Mrs Danforth and her mother, Mrs. Cobb of Montgomery, have returned from l Detroit, Mich, and French Lick Springs. MT. Thomas Ellis has returned from Tate.
 Mrs. Stella Caruthers is at Blount Springs for a few days. the guest of Mrs. Clifford and Miss Clifford. Mrs. Tom Joy and little daughter are at home after a few weeks sojourn in the east.
 Mrs. W. G. Harrison and children are back from Virginia, where they have spent the summer. MT. and Mrs. Beecher will leave | early in September for a delight tful eastern trip including many of the
 large cities.
 MT. and Mrs. Robert Cotton are
 erecting a beautiful home on Eigh- teenth street and Fourteenth avenue south.
 Mrs. James M Mason and children Augusta and James, Jr. will leave | for Lookout mountain this week. where their many friends hope baby James will get strong and well. MT. and Mrs. T. l.. Anglin MT. Ang- | lin's mother and MT. Anglin White have returned from Holmes Gap. MT. and Mrs. Frederick G. Macke and their little son Robert leave this morn l ing for Oden, Mich., where Maj. R. B. Allison. Mrs. Macke's father, is seri- ously i'll at his summer home on | Crooked Lake.
 Misses Minnie and Ruby Bishop have as their guests this week Misses Pearl Andes of Bristol, Tenn, Mabel Pratt of Tuscaloosa and Addie McCollister of Piedmont Ala. Miss Ruby Bishop has returned from | Cooks Springs.
 Mrs. T. w. O'Byrne and two sons,
 Fallon and Tom Elton, returned last | night from Chattanooga, Tenn, after | a summer vacation spent at the Look out inn. They are now at home at their residence, 2217 Seventh avenue. Mrs. B. Fa1lon and daughter, Miss | Alice Fallon, returned yesterday from | a summer vacation from Chattanooga, | Tenn. They have been staying at the Lookout inn, but are now at home at l 2217 Seventh avenue. i Miss Sallie Wick Nance of West Point, Miss, who has been attending the l Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, is
 now the guest of Mrs. William H. Hull l sey.
 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Burke will sail for l home, from New York to Savannah, on l August 27 after spending two months l with relatives in and around New York city, greatly benefiting Mrs. Burke s health.
 l Members of Joe Wheeler chapter, Chil- l dren of the Confectionery, East Lake chap | ter and all others interested are invited | to meet Mrs. Mary G. Pickens of Greens | boro, the state director of Children of the | Confederacy, at the home of Mrs. c. M. | Tardy this afternoon at o'clock. l There will be a regular meeting of | the Mercy Home board this morning at