The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-10-12

our ken as any lady we ever knew, all the domestic virtues"
 There came a knight a-wooing soon thereafter, and he was clever withall and modest as modesty goes with men, and kind and gentle
 He boasted to his friends that he cared not for great beauty in women, nor yet intelleetuality; the latter he declared, was a prerogative of man, and he want ed no rivals in his own household.
 But instead he wanted wife whose home was her Kingdom, and who would see that things were kept in order and whose chief literature would be Mrs. Somebody-O Others Cook Book.
 He wooed and won, did this gallant knight, and yes, they did live happily as the story books say for a time.
 There was no burned beeksteak for breakfast
 His House in Order was always dis eernable.
 Never was there cup of poor coffee on his table.
 And every chair was dusted. even to the rungs on the rockers, which sounds like
 
 She proved good and faithful wife, did this Martha, ministering to her hus- bands wants, and seeing that his studs were in his shirt front, his shaving mug cleanly and his trousers pressed, and she stayed at home evenings and crocheted tidies.
 But listen
 The man made loads and piles Of money, and political bee got in his bonnet, and soon he bore his honors thick and fast upon him, and he became a, very we'll known citizen whom the papers referred to as among the prominent men of the town"
 He had to entertain persons of note, celebrities, men of affairs and his wife had to mingle with women of the world and do the 'sassiety act" as it were
 She tried sher best,a poor thing. She tried and tried and tried, but alasl all the dozens of pages of Mrs. Somebody Or-Other's Cook Book, which she knew by heart, availed her nothing, and the fact that she could tell when a soufle was done, and how to fricasse chicken, and all that, was as dross compared to what was now required of her.
 Her husband began to take notice." He observed how elegant and charming other mems wives were, and the savolr faire with which they did the honors of their homes.
 He weighed his poor little wife in the scales and she was found wanting.
 She, who had been chosen from all the wide world on account of her domestic virtues,'' to be his helpmate and com panion.
 At intervals now he began to make the declaration that after all it was not the l domestic virtues" that he most admired ], in a woman. Of course, they were all l right in their way, but he also admired a 1 woman who had a general knowledge of the world, and versatility, and who could tell clever story and quote Schopen- l hauer. and Ibsen, and G. E. D., and ". J. Bryan and George Cohen. Whereupon his model spouse became greatly offended. MORALE:
 'sYea, verify, although a man may marry woman, who is Hebe and Minerva 
 were Venus.  , was before her marriage, which was an event of the summer in Birmingham, Miss 1 Frances McCaa. are guests of Major and Mrs. Burt Erwin in KnoxAne. Mrs. Clifford Henderson has returned after a visit to Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Brown in Chattanooga. rsS Mrs. c. C. Lovelady and her son, Mir Robert Lovelady of Pine Bluff, Ark, are guests of Mrs. Loveladys sister, Mrs. w. N. Malone. Mrs. W. G. Kilgore of Memphis and her two children are guests of her moth- CT. Mrs. W. F. Conner.
 MT. and Mrs Milo Wheeler of New York are guests of their son, MT. Willard I Wheeler.
 Mrs. J. C. Conner of Florence. Ala. is l expected to De the house guest of her 1 daughter, Mrs. Mason billiard. | MT. and Mrs. F. N. Durham are in l Selma in attendance upon the Toner l F'owlkes wedding. | All chairmen of committees for Dime | Day are requested to meet in. the parlors | of the Hotel Hillman this morning at 10 o'clock. As many members as can pos-