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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-04
Suggestions In Packing

Every delicate garment should be sep
arately wrapped.
For this towels or sheets of tissue pa
per will serve, but they should be pinned
into place
Folds of newspapers should be placed
between the layers of the more perish
able things
The newspaper is very good because it
is SO unyielding that wrinkles and bumps
cannot dent it enough to mark the FAB
RIGS beneath.
It is useless to try and keep all the
heavy things at the bottom, the light
ones at the top. The trunk will prob
ably be stood on end or upside down
half of the time.
All one can do is to keep a smooth,
even surface for each layer.
Newspapers are better than anything
else for stuffing out bows and sleeves.
Tie in bottle corks WE'LL and put the
bottles in the middle of compartments,
and If packed solidly they will carry all
around the world
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Worlds Favorite Drinks

Japan-Sake.
Holland-Gin.
Russia-Vodka.
Mexico-Mescal
Borneo-Boral, rice beer.
India-Tala, palm liquor.
Arabia and Turkey-Coffee.
Morocco-Mahia. fig liquor.
Sumatra-Nera. a palm wine.
China-Mandarin, a rice wine.
England and Scandinavia-Ale.
Oceania-Palm and oocoanut liquors.
South Africa-Pontac, or Cape wine.
Burmah - Sh ou-chou. cocoanut
liquor.
Germany, Denmark and Belgium
Beer.
Ethiopia-Tullah, a beer made of bar
ley.
The Philippines-vino, a coooanut
wine.
Solomon Islands-Nehave, a cocoanut
liquor.
Corea-Cha, drink made OF the
paniz plant.
Jeva-Bram, a beer made from rice
and kantang.
Persia-Nubeez, wine made of
dates and raisins.
Scotland, Ireland, Canada and Ken
tucky-Whisky.
Tibet-Chong. a liquor made of
wheat, barley and rice.
MAZDA gasoar-Besa besa, liquor
made from sugar cane.
Abyssinia-Bouza. a beer made from
grain called dagusa.
Primitive Africa-Banana beer, fruit
liquors and honey and palm drinks
Siam-Baksoum, a beer made Of bar
ley and millet.
Siberia-Quas a brew made Of rs Q
and barley.
Italy, France, Greece. Spain, Austria
liza, Austria, Portugal. South America
and South Africa--Grape wine.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-07-04
July

There are many interesting facts CO.
nected with your birth month it it happens
to be July.
Originally called Quintils. on account
of being the fifth month of the year, and
Romulus giving it 81 days. it was deprived
of one by the Emperor Numa- However,
the missing day was afterward restored
by Julius Caesar, thereby the month TAX
ing its name from this Emperor, and is
typical of power as names go.
The Anglo-Saxons called this month
Hey Monath." because of the hay har-
vest. "Maed was another name
given to It, from the fact of the meads
being in bloom at this season OF the year.
Leo, meaning the lion. Is the zodiacal
sign for July. and signifies strength. The
sun is in this sign, after the 21st, up to
that date being in the sign Cancer.
The characteristics of those born in this
month are supposed to be love of nature,
industrious, domestic in your tastes and
very strong in your likes and dlslil1es.
Whatever task your hands find to do
will be we'll and easily accomplished.
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Dolly s Dialogues

The young man who Is anxious to
have his name in the papers as life
saver, and his chest decorated with
Carnegie medal should get busy for
the annual drowning season is at hand.
The crop of heroes each year is large,
and 1t is wise to heed the injunction
of starting early TO avoid the rush, and
securing from the clutches of old Nep-
tune an heiress who then and there
bestows her heart and bank account
upon the brave preserver of her life.
When the cry of Help, help" comes
from some frightened bit of femininity
who has gone out beyond her Depth
the big, manly hero has his chance to
dash out and do the grand rescue
act" to the intense admiration of the
spectators on the beach.
The long wavy hair OF the maiden Is
supposed to give a firm, strong hold
case on record where the llfe-sa
held firmly in his strong right hand.
swhile the maiden drtfted slowly out to
sea, and the young man discovered
that instead of being a "life-saver" he
was a hair restorer," which goes on to
prove that It Is the unexpected that al
ways happens.
Auctions speak louder than words
when you pay 81 for 50-cent sofa
cushion
Adam and Eve had their family
troubles, when Eve handed her spouse
/ the apple when it was raw, but this
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Week SEND

Another weeks ended but time sheds
no tears; another weeks wended to join
the dead years; the dead years and dusty,
an amounted host, too dead and too
musty to send forth a ghost! The week
has departed in sumptuous style; have we
since 1t started done something worth
while? Oh, say, have we handed some
pieces-of- eight to chaps who are stranded
and beaten by fate? Have we. who have
rubles to throw at the birds, been sooth-
ing folks troubles with nothing but
words? Have we been so CHEEKY that we
could forget the hopeless and weary, with
faces tear-wet? Are we, as we're keep
ing our jubilant jaunt, still deaf to the
weeping of people in want?. We're sell
fish old sinners, and everything goes,
while we have our dinners and seats at
the shows; we have to be prodded to
bring to our minds the people defrauded
of joys of all kinds. WALT MASON.
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A Relaxation

Few women know how to rest
properly without sleeping. The aver
age woman when she has a few mo-
ments to rest will sit in rocking
chair and rock vigorously
Nothing skaters the nerves more
than this habit, which seems chrome
with the American woman.
TIC rest so as to obtain the most
benefit when you have no couch and
but little time to spare, loosen COL
lar and anything else which Is tight
If possible.
Then select a comfortable chair and
lie back and put the feet on a COM
Portable footstool.
Do not sleep, read or think. Let
your mind be as near perfect blank
ness as is possible.
After a little practice one really
can achieve a blank mind. After half
an hour of complete relaxation of all
the nerves one feels rested.
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The Inevitable

like the man who faces what he must
With step triumphant and heart Of
cheer;
Who fights the daily battle without fear;
Sees his hopes fall, yet keeps unfalter-
ing trust
That God is God-that somehow, true and
just
His plans work out for mortals; not a
tear
Is shed, when fortune, which the world
holds dear
Falls from his grasp; better with love a
crust,
Than living in dishonor; envies not,
Nor loses faith in man; but does his
best,
Nor ever murmurs at his humble lot,
But with a smile and words of hope
gives zest
To every toiler; he alone is great,
Who by a life heroic conquers fate.
Sara K. Bolton.
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The Woman Who Cuisines

There Is a certain form of insincerity,
which is rightly termed gush, INDUCED
in most often by silly women and the
Jeune nile. 1t is that kind of fattery
which may be rightly described as lay
ing 1t on with a trowel
Men dislike women who gush; they dis
trust them. and not without reason. for
the deepest natures are the most re-
served whore their affections are con-
cerned.
Women who gush find themselves ION
the shelf" when their less obtrusive sis
ters are happily married. unless they are
fortunate enough to take N some guile
less man. but this does not often hap
pen. because. although man is fond of
nattery, 1t should be of that subtle char
acter which only a taotfu1 and clever
woman knows how to administer,
Perhaps this fattery would better bo
described as praise. which Is dear to the
heart Of all; but let It be sncere-any-
thing approaching gush is to be abb
horred
have met the gushing woman again
and again, and have found her nslncere
and shallow. She Is always more or less
affected. and her plausible manner de-
oeives a few. She Is simply silly. ready
to agree with you one moment and with
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Change Especial Change Things
Good Old Time

another friend of mine accosted me with
the happlest of smiles and said:
How do you do? l have just had the
loveliest time l have ever had in all
my life. I've been away on my vaca-
ton"
What did you do?" I inquired of this
one.
For a moment her face assumed rather
a serious expression, and then quickly
lighting up, she said
do? Do? Why, we didn't do any
thing. 1t was vacation
Later I met a man of my acquaintance
looking very pleased and happy, and
said to him.
Must have had your vacation
Indeed l have" said he smilingly.
And where did you go?" I inquired.
Nowhere" he said promptly. Il stayed
at home with my family. doing the things
that I enjoy and that can't do all the
rest of the year"
How nice!' 1 exclaimed.
For instance, l didn't get up in the
morning until 10 o'clock, and that in
itself was great luxury to me-" he
said. Some days I didn't get out of
bed all day, but just smoked my old
pipe, and often didn't even put on de-
cent clothes when I did get up, and
then I lounged around in the library
under an electric fan and read all the
books I've been meaning to read the
past year, and SO enjoyed myself i'm
mensely. When l consider my home.
more comfortable than the finest camp
in the Catskills, and L mean to vaca-
ion that way every year hereafter"
Later I met another masculine who
had taken his vacation on sailing
vessel and had eaten badly cooked pork
and beans for four weeks but enjoyed
y iv,ac al b1iO trb with him a
chap who had sailed away early in
May on the Lusitania, because he
hated the water and wanted to make
a quick trip to the other side. where
he adored to spend his vacation.
After ALL" reflected, "a vacation
may be defined in the end Of the CEN
fury dictionaries as doing something
that you don't generally do.
When Marie Antoinette built her
dairy at Versailles and made butter
she was taking a vacation.
When Madame Recamier stopped
looking pretty-if she ever did-she
was enjoying a vacation.
When Mark Twain leaves off saying
clever things for brief hour or two
he Is enjoying a we'll earned vacation.
When the suffragette stays at home
and sews on buttons and refEains from
pitching stones at the premier's win
doWs, or making savage REMARKS 10
the members of the ministry in dear
old Lunnon, she is taking a vacation,
and If l were to go to a summer hotel
and play bridge from 10 a. m. until II
p. m, barring of course intervals for
dressing, refreshments and nap, that
would certainly be a vacation, is this
is not my usual way of disporting my
self (of which I am very proud, for
under those circumstances 1 should
consider myself a very worthless in
dividual.
But, as 1 remarked previously, 1t
would be a vacation, and at the same
time it would give the reading public
one also, which would no doubt greatly
rest and decidedly please all parties
concerned.
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A very clever friend of my acquaint-
aace. who has recently returned from
New York. in speaking OF the various
theatres he attended said that the thing
that impressed him more forcibly than
anything else was the clever little cur
tain talk that Miss Elsie Janis. the star
Of the best college play ever written,
The Fair Co-Ed,' made at the close of
her successful engagement.
After the usual "tafy' which she threw
at the audience in big punches, and
thanking you one and all for your kind
attention, etc" she bowed and smiled
and piroutted about the stage. and finally
exclaimed II love my work but oh, you
vaeation!" which expresses In common
parlance the sentiment of nearly every
man. woman and child OF our acquaint
ance.
There are SO many different ideas con-
corning the manner in which ones vaca-
ton may be spent that 1t would fill
volume to tell about It,
What is one mans meat is another
man poison" is a very trite but hack
neyed saying, but It expresses excellently
well the idea of vacation as 1t presents
itself to different people.
Now there are Angelica and Angus
tus, who being married to each other
for 10, these many years. have diametri-
cally different views as to their summer
vacation
Angelica sees in her roseate dreams
visions of a fashionable summer hotel at
a swell resort with herself and at least
six huge. trunks In one small room with
a still smaller window and the perspira-
ton rolling off Of her she turns
backward somersault in an effort to but
ton her own frock up the back, in the
absence OF hsr perfectly good maid, and
the failure of the summer hotel electric
bells to ring, so that the maid there can
be found.
visions OF babbling brooks. purling under
shady trees and himself on, messy
bank with a cigar in his mouth, rod
in his hand and a fsh-but he never
thinks of that, 1t is the fishing that he
enjoys and he can frame up the fish
stories afterward
Angelicas vacation would bore Angus
tus into nervous prostratlon, while Au-
gustus plans, II carried out, would send
Angelica to bed with an attack OF neuras-
thenia mixed with neuritis, and so 1t is
a blessed thing that they decide not TO
take their vacation together
Then of course there Is the summer
resort girl who is an annual institu-
tton. beginning the fall before to en-
broider, briarstitch and hemstitch her
waists and frocks and arrange her
hats and sing a rosary of her own:
The hours I've spent DER these dear
heart
Would make a string of yarns, to
thee
Which you would count, but they'll all
come apart
Before the season ends-for me!
But in the mean time they have an
swered her purpose, and she veri-
fies Caesars ambition, and in her sum-
mer diary may enter, to her credit: II
came, saw, conquered"
Then the summer man, of course, is
to be seen In his white fiannels and
silk shirts with as many hats as the
average woman, and SO many pairs of
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the first time going up disappointment
will follow.
If a jar of honey is the first food
to be taken in there will always be
plenty, but beware of loaf of bread
getting there first! 1t augurs that the
occupants may some day want for
bread.
Salt sprinkled on. the hearthstone, the
Welsh believe will keep away unwel-
come guests.
Never take peacock feathers with you
If you want good fortune in the new
house.
To break a mirror in moving fortels
not only seven years of bad luck, but
seven successive disappointments with
in IL months.
To take a cat brings good luck, and
IL a strange black cat comes In the
first night you will be specially for
tunate
To see a chicken on your doorstep
when you arrive means you will have
too much company
To drink the health of the absent at
the first meal In the new dwelling in
sures their speedy return.
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A New Drink

One of the favorite drinks of society
women at present is coffee and rum.
Tea is provided, as usual, for all after
noon callers, but few women touch 1t,
preferring the coffee and rum, which
is genuine stimulant. and perhaps all
the more acceptable from that fact.
Mrs Harry Payne Whitney makes fresh
cups of coffee for each of her guests,
adding rum, lemon or cream, as the
taste Directs. The favorite mixture,
however, Is coffee and rum, blended in
the same way as in Turkey. Mrs. Taft
has introduced tho serving of coffee in
the afternoons in the White House, her
coffee service being of antique brass
of Turkish workmanship. Ia. wives
of all the members of the cabinet also
have taken to serving coffee, which Is
a more cooling drink for summer than
tea.
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Spring Neckwear

TN the matter of neckwear, while it
cannot be said that ruffs have disap-
peared, 1t must be admitted that they
have obtained less favor than ives pre-
dicted," said a modish recently, who is al
ways opposed to extremes of fashion.
Very few large ones or exaggerated
ruchings are to be seen this spring. Those
about an inch wide are preferred. Many
have an outside pleating of ribbon OF
silk, top support the white one of lisse
or tulle, or there is an outer quilting of
colored tulle, matching the dress or stock
This effect is very pretty.
The newest ruchings Out these are
still in an experimental state) are of lace,
in lieu of tulle. Novel shirtwaists for
schoolgirls and young women are of Ger
man linen. and these have little frilled
Dutch collars and cuffs"
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July Birthstone

The beautiful ruby is the July birth
stone, which signifies dignity, charity and
divine power.
The verse that accompanies 1t is this
'~rhe glowing Ruby shall adorn
Those who in July are born;
Then they'll be exempt and free
From loves doubt and anxiety"
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Scientific Hairpulling

It is the latest treatment designed to
make the hair grow.
1t is supposed to give a tipgling sense
of life" to the scalp
Also to produce a luxuriant growth of
hair.
The pulls must be steady and even, but
brisk.
Take one small strand of hair at a
time.
Pull 1t sharply enough to make the
scalp tingle, but not enough to irritate it.
This should be kept up all over the
head until the scalp Is in a glow
Ten minutes Of this treatment each
morning is said to strengthen the hair
and give 1t new luster.
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Autograph Verses

o, dearest Of my heart.
OF life from a part,
! think. I dream. pray for thee,
Just as / hope you do for me.
When the lessons of life are all over
And Death says that school Is dismissed,
May we all meet in Heaven, dear
And not one of our number be missed.
When twilight draws the curtain
And pins 1t with a star,
Remember me- dear
Though you may wander far.
True friends, like diamonds. are rare,
False friends, like autumn leaves. are
found everywhere.
Should oceans e'er between US roll,
Or distance be out lot.
Should we part to meet no more
Dear friend forget-me-not.
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Magnesia AS Cleanser

A writer in the current number of
The Housekeeper has this to say about
cleaning with magnesia:
II have recently discovered a way to
clean a white lace waist that Is equal
to any dry cleaning process have ever
tried and one that requires an outlay
of only few cents instead Of Tie dol
lars usually required to make a soiled
lace waist again presentable. This r.
nothing more formidable than simple
cake of magnesta, Rub the ma gnesia
thoroughly over the garment in Qucs-
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Dainty Tidbits

Chopped figs added to a nut and apple
salad give delicious flavor.
To improve the somewhat tasteless cell
cry salad with mayonnaise, cut up in 1t
small blocks of cranberry jelly.
A spoonful of orange marmalade in a
cup of tea is very good, and a change
from the slice of lemon
Preserved tomato sauce poured over
vanilla Ice cream is delicious.
Bread pudding is good favored with
chocolate.
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ton, paying extra attention to the more
soiled places, roll 1t in a cloth and lay
1t away for several days; then shake 1t
lightly to dislodge any of the chalky
substance that may cling to 1t, and
you will behold a metamorphosed waist
that will delight your eyes with Its
freshness.
Grease and dirt may also be re-
moved from silk and wooden cloths by
the use of magnesia. Scrape Quantity
upon the spot. cover with brown paper
and place a hot hat-iron over L.. The
heat of the iron acts upon the magne-
STA in the same way that 1t does upon
the French chalk our grandn,others
used to employ for the same purpose;
and when the iron and the paper arc
removed and the magnesia brushed off,
the offending spot will have disap-
peared.''
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Moving Superstitions

There are all sorts of oid-time super
stitions as to what one should or should
not do when moving into a new house.
Here are q few:
Don't take an old broom to a new
house If you do this home will never
be well kept.
If window blinds are moved to the
new house the sorrows OF the past will
go, too.
Upon entering new house, Il the
owner passes some one on the stairs
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wardrobe you'd think he was getting
ready to open shoe shop. He dgnces
with all the bellies at the watering
place. he plays bridge with the old
danes, he drinks with the sports and
he does everything that is required of
the real summer man.
And then there is the great big, old
fat fellow at the seashore who is the
delight of the photographers and the
summer poets. when he appears in his
bathing suit and they ask;
Have you heard the ocean moaning
Moaning ever soft and low?
IT'S because that fat old bather
Stepped upon its undertow.
There is one point, however, upon
VIII ich most people agree regarding
summer vacations, and that is that Wis
iting is the one thing they do not wish
to do.
l came upon a very clever woman
few days ago whose petulant look i'm
mediately convinced me that her ex-
preston and her summer vacation were
related to each other-even though dis
family.
Whats the matter?" I asked, land
where have you been? l have missed
you for the past 10 days"
Visiting" she answered with the
most bored look.
why, [ can imagine nothing more
plea SAINT" l rema rked.
Well some people may like 1t, but
excuse me, she said. Il like to visit
In the winter time but so help me
goodness l never expect to make a
visit in the hot broiling summer time
again."
What happened-do tell me-so I
can avoid such experiences" 1 i'm
plored.
This is what occurred" she replied. IT
was entertained. Every minute of the
day and nearly all night 1 was enter
tained entertained, entertained! Never
have I been entertained in my life
before, and I hope 1 never shall again.
l had hoped to go and stay with this
sweet woman whom | love so much and
just lounge about and enjoy the rest
and the quiet, but the dear good creature
of course she didn't mean to bore me-
her intentions l know were the very best,
but / believe one reason why good in
tentions have earned for themselves such
an evid reputation as paving stones, in
certain very warm place, is not from
repentance but restlessness. And so she
had my visit every day of it, planned
out exactly as If l were a garden, and
she, the gardener, landscapng me. Morn
Ing and afternoon we did something or
other, and with my old maidish custom
of sleeping Immediately after lunch each
day, and never arising from my downy
couch before 8 O'Clock, I thought l would
lose my mind. We motored to see this
thing and that thing, and the other until
I was nearly distracted, and my two
weeks were no more Of a vacation than
a lecture on Rome or a treatise on the
Ichthyosauridae.' -
Of xrh lob, 70 hat vo,tr
hostess had mistaken idea of hospitality
at least with you" I observed. MANY
another guest would have been delighted
to spend such a vacation"
After my little talk. with this martyr
whose vacation had been suoh failure,
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
A Sea-Lover


She said, 20 I long and yearn this
year
For the sea-my own blue sea-
Where l can roam with no one near
And dream, and muse, and be free
i long to lie where the pillows roll,
And the white gulls skim and dart
Yes, that alone Is life to the soul
And peace TO the tired heart!'
She went-and sat in a swaying chair
On a wide veranda's space
And she gazed and gazed at the women
there,
And she never once turned her face
From the chic creations and costumes
fine
Then, back to her home with a sigh
OF hearts content 1T was Just
diyinel
Oh, the glorious sea and sky
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kind, but does not wear out half so
soon. The shininess soon wears off.
See that screens are carefully busted
every day; it keeps them in better con-
dltion and Is more hygiene. They can
be beaten lightly With a brush and
then rubbed off with a soft cloth.