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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
What Different Nations Cal
Each Other

The French call our country Etats-Unis,
but Vereinigte Staten Is the German
rendering of the same name.
Spain, to which we owe SO large share
of names in the new world is E3pana to
the Spanish themselves, Spagna to the
Italians. and Espagne to the French.
In the case of our chief metropolis the
word New" is generally retained In its
American form by the French and Ger
mans but Is translated by the Italians
and Spanish. The latter speak of Neuve
York.
The Mediterranean sea, called by the
Romans Mare Internum is variously
translated The Germans give the same
idea in Mittellandisches Nicer
To all Italians the Eternal City is Ro-
ma, as in Virgils time. The form used
by us is French, and the Germans write
simply Rom. London is Londres to the
French and Londra to the Italians. Paris
is spelled pretty much the same In all
languages, but is variously pronounced.
The most notable exception is the Italian
Parigi.
There are many places whereof the In
habitants would not know the name OF
their own city as given by foreigners
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Four o'Clocks

From Garden sonnets," by Samuel Min
turn Peck
The -Four o'clocks they are a drowsy
throng
To rise so late-long past the MONDAY
heat
The Morning-Glores they can never
meet;
Nor ever know the Mockbrds matin
song;
Nor qulvering dewdrops mid the grasses
long;
Nor scent the Roses waking breath, SO
sweet
'Tis strange it holdeth not Times flying
feet
To miss so much they do themselves
great wrong
These drowsy, idle Four OClocks And
yet
Mayhap they are not folly-crowned but
wise,
And mine the wit that that wanders far
astray;
Eleventh hour beauty-makers, they may
Far more of joy in their belated eyes
Than fairer flowers that bloom the live
long day.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
BAD LUCK PURSUES THE GIRL
WHO TRIES LITTLE MAKESHIFTS
Hurricane
Climb a Wne Fence S Repn


the girl in rose, "and one of my pet
denominations is the luck that follows me
whenever l happen to go in a little sec
ond-rate shop to buy something-a hat,
for instance--which I've seen advertised,
and rush down before l imagine any self
respecting female would be out of bed.
only to encounter some old cat. who says
to you in the sweetest way possible:
Why, | thought you never bought
hat from any place except Blanck's?'
You Just want to muzzle her or dish
out some prussic acid to her then and
there but all you can do is to smile and
tell a big whopper about the hat not be-
ing for yourself, but for one of the maids
a spinster aunt, or some person equal
ly as remote"
Zone of the worst experiences. think"
said the girl in blue. who was fast be-
coming contaminated by the bad luck
proposition (Which follows some folk who
try little makeshifts) as proposed by her
friends, is to wash your hair, and, to put
1t bromidically. not be able to arrange it
for days afterward and get an invitation
to go on an automobile party with your
best sutton Your refractory locks which
have been so neatly Numbered, refuse pos
itively TO stay in place. You want to
look well, but. how can you, all frowsed
up and disheveled like an Indian squaw?
You are compelled to keep on your hat
and veil all day. and look as prssy as
they make 'um, when your particular
stunt has been to look natural and not
fixy.
There are always a lot of old ladies
around who will tell you that the only
way not to be caught in such traps is by
never wearing a petticoat that isn't as
fresh and clean as it should be-" said the
girl in rose pouting, land never, oh!
never, to go down town or anywhere with
bum looking shoes on, and never SO far
forget yourself as not to take your entire
outfit wherever you visit, so that in
case Of emergencies you will be ready and
waiting. And that if your hair has just
been Iaundered, use a little bandoline to
keep 1t in place, and all that But that
sort of advice just bores me to death.
and what want TO know is what sort of
philosophy is it that when you don't do
these things. makes terrible, awful, fear
Jul catdstrophes happen?'
-That, I fear is one of the problems"
said the girl in blue, <hopelessly, 1.-The So
luton of which, like the discovery of the
fourth dimension, or How old is ANN
will have to be put off until we are fitted
out with nice new sixth sense"
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on her, while she tries first one School
and then another, one list of remedies
following another in quick succession?
And was one who wrote Lady to
the same practically inquiry more AFRO
CANT and disdainful of labor, or simper-
ing with 'prunes and "prisms 2"
And what of the woman who answered
Single, married, widowed, or divorced?'
Single. to my sorrow! Would like to
be widowed and soon' Did she joke or
was she sincere? Uncle Sam may be on
the helping-hand sidel
Was 1t imagination that dictated "Vic-
toria Eugenia, Maria There, Leopold
Emanuel, George Washington, John Ad-
ans, Thomas Jefferson, Lucille and
Topsy," as the 10 children of John and
Mary Smith? almost thought so, for
the man seemed too young-as well as too
cheerful, and too prosperous-to have it
anything more than a dream. But the
details were all there. with each name
Oh, Uncle Sam! Uncle Sam. The CEN
sus does not reveal II ALL
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Still in the Dark

Here is story Of the handwriting OF
Joaquin Miller. the Poet of the Sierras."
VINO has the reputation of being tho
worst penman in America since the days
of Horace, Greeiey..
TIe was invited by the secretary OF a
wall-known club to take part in some
festive celeb1ation Ills answer covered
four pages, but no one could dec1pher it.
There was nothing for it but to write
again to Mr. Miller, regretting that 1t
could not be determined whether his conn.,
munication was an acceptance or re-
fusai, adding: 'If you will be present OH
the date mentioned will YOU kindly make
a GROSS on the bottom of this letter?
If it will be impossible for YOU to APP
pear, will you kindly draw a circie?'
BY return OF post the letter came back
with a sign. appended according to re-
quest
But it was absolutely impossible for
anyone to say whether it was meant to
be a cross or circle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Hiding the English "Regalia'
Crown Jewels

Great secrecy is being observed as to
the present whereabouts of the crown
jew els known to visitors who inspect the
Tower of London as the "Regalia.' Us
ually they repose in glass case inclosed
In an iron cage in the Wakefield Tower
and the only means of access to them
is through a trapdoor in the flooring
within the cage, of which the governor
of the Tower and only one other per-
son possess a key.
The tower Is now undergoing repairs
with view to making 1t more secure
than ever before as a safe place for
these valuable jewels, and meanwhile
they have been sent to some other place
of safety. Some persons say they have
gone to the Bank of England, but others
declare that they have never left the
precincts of the tower at all. for there
are secret strong-rooms in the founda-
tons of the edifice to which only the
governor has access, and these would be
the natural hiding place for crown
jewels.
For nearly seven centuries the jewels
have been guarded in the tower of
London.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Humors Of the Census

That was certainly a proud father who
wrote for his first baby PIP" as the
age and Beginners English replying
to the query, do you speak Engish?'
To the later questions do you read
and writer" he answered hopefully, mot
yet but SOON"
To the first question a lawyer who
gave his age as 23-replied with great
confidence, "Fluently'-and I could al
most see him, trying his first case, with
"sperad eagle" oratory, before a Judge
who would have to curtail his eloquence
from the start,
Another, replying to Gan you read?
Write? said, naively: ct read this paper
and am writing these answers.
More than one woman might have an
swered as truthfully as one did to the
question: What Is your business. trade.
profession or occupation?' Invalid.
Can't you see her, keeping the entire
household on the ouivvy vivvy' to wait
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Canoes, and Seed Pearls

Canoes are coming in, again., like so
many old, things that have of late be-
come new. Coral and seed pearls are
other REVEALS. Canoes figure ON even
ing gowns and form clasps to cloaks
for evening wear, they look we'll on the
shoulders or on the front of the bodice,
and sometimes at the waist OF dresses.
Gold and brown are faxorite mix
ture, and several tones OF one shade.
Even for evening gowns brown sequins
blend well with gold thread, and gold
ffffets are worn in the hair. for evening.
urhe ,14etaf ia very thin and flexible. 1t
goes ON the brow and nape of the neck.
is arched over the head, another BAN.
deau appearing above the Psyche Knos
at the back.
Sometimes topaz or other Jewels clasp.
head adornments. Jewelled girdfes un-
der the bust, with a clasp in the cen-
ter of the front. are very much IN evil
dence In some of our evening gowns dis
tineuished for the most barbario splen-
DOR III lafllklltH
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
agrees to Wife's Ten Com
mandments

a woman in Cairo. ILL.,, recently
Threatened to sue for a divorce, says
the Atchison Globe Her husband
pfo1nised to be good He signed the fol-
lowing ten commandments of his wife's
making and which were filed with a no.
tary public.
am thy love, thy wife; thou shalt
have no other love but me-
Thou shalt not take upon thy heart
my stenographer or any other love
|nirate.
Thou shalt not promise to love me in
xaln.
Remember thou come home on the Sab
18th. Six days mayest thou wander.
hit not at nights; nor the seventh day,
|wuich Is the day of thy wifes.
"a Aonor thy mother-in-law. that thy
n3ko may be long in the land we love.
Thou shalt not carry a latch key
4hou shalt not return to thy happy
A1|ne at o'clock in the mornings
1Tue doors will be bolted If thou doest.
& Thou shalt not grumble at thy lot.
Thou shalt not object to buttoning
~ gowns; nay, even If they be 800
~ kton dresses
E. &tou shalt not covet the sweet tenn
OF thy neighbours wife.
Z lrp Frederick L. Douglas of Georgia
outly attracted attention by the un-
M features of connubial contract ex-
~ between her and her husband. She
missed to live within her husband s
5wance. and not to want an automo-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Some Styles for Summer

The effectiveness of the bathing suits
always must depend largely on their
lining.
For spinsters, plenty of makeup is
desirable in the summer. However, they
should be careful in the selection of the
eligibles to whom they make up.
Unfinished material can be left to the
debutantes, as usual.
The lobster belt does not find much
vogue in the warm weather.
Trimming promises to be as prevalent
as ever, and no more popular than for
merly with the trimmed
Suede slippers In delicate shades are an
original aid to mountain climbing, and
will not scratch the mountain.
Thick veiIings should be wrapped
around the intentions when starting out
on a moonlight stroll with a victim
marked for matrimonial sacrifice.
Dark, soft tones will be decidedly in
evidence on hotel piazZas and cottage
verandas after the lights are out.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
The Khaki Suit

They were discussing clothes for the
summer vacation when the avowedly
practical member of the group was ask
ed her opinion as to the most important
article of her wardrobe,
Il never should be without a khaki
suit, she answered without an instant's
delay Last summer during our two
months walking trip In Norway and
England, ! fairly lived In that suit and
you may smile when I tell you that at
the end of the season it looked most
respectable. You see 1t has a wonderful
advantage over linen, or In fact, a suit
of any other wash material in that 1t
does not wrinkle easily and does not
show the dust Of travel so much. All that
Is necessary is to scrub the collar and
cuffs of the coat little occasionally with
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Then your hostess does the very thing
that Is a pest and an abomination in the
sight of any respectable person. observed
the girl in blue
by offering you her Clothes" said the
girl In rose. interrupting the other and
proceeding with the remark: Your hos
tess, of course, is the fairest, latest, and
fortiest of matrons, and you'd look like
Edna Wallace Hopper in one of Marie
Dressler's gowns and thereby fail to i'm
press the docks and counts and dis
counts not to speak of the millfnaires
who happen to haunt the neighhorhood-
And all Of your days before, when you
have lugged your complete wardrobe, /"
said the girl In blue, around the country
wherever you happened to roams not one
single dock or hone millionaire has ever
crossed your track"
Il Just hate hard luck artists said
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
The Woodland Concert

r. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
I'm out here in the woodlands, and nave
a concert free;
The mocsin' bird up yonder is singin'
sweet to me!
Not a cent to pay,
An he's singin' all the day,
Just like twas his intention to sing hD
soul away
Out te~a in the woodlands-far away
from town,
An he shakes the blossoms no
showers music down!
Happy as can be
Where the blossom-seats esfree,
o the mockin bird up yonder-hes singin'
sweet for me! -
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volunteer to assist you in disengaging
it?
"Or why is it," she continued that at
another time you get an economical
streak on you and wear your old shoes
downtown that are run down at the heel
and a fright to behold. while you are
saving all your good ones TO take away
on your vacation trip. that the wind sets
up the most unearthly howl, blowing like
a hurricane and revealing your pedal ex-
tremities TO the world at large?
It's a case Of
:" The wind 1t blows and shows her skirts
AS he watches her go by;
But Luck is good and sends the dust
To blow in the Bad mind eye =
Quoted the girl IN blue Il suppose one
might go on forever and day adding
why's to your list ad inhuitum, whatever
that may be, without ever coming upon
wherefore for a single one OF them"
81 suppose that's true" said the girl in
rose land I'm always running up against
such propositions. For instance, you are
invited to spend your vacation at
friends camp in the Adirondacks. You've
been there before and found it one of
those quiet back woods-y places that a
real camp ought to be like; q do-as-you-
please, dress-as-you- please place. and all
that sort OF thing. In former years you
have left all your pretty frills and furbe-
lows in your trunk, while you were there,
and they had stayed packed until your
return. So profting by that experience
you leave your good clothes at home and
take nothing except strictly camp garh
| and congratulate yourself upon what a
thoroughly sensible, practical person you
are, and then just about the time you
arrive at your destination. towit the
camp, what do you find? No longer the
lovely, sequestered, secluded spot It used
to be. Nearby a half dozen niIlionaires
have built bungalows within the past IL
months, and there is a brand new hotel
within walking distance. And SO as soon
as you arrive your hostess begins to chat
| about dances, and dinners, and balls and
all the gay times you are going to have"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
London Ways

Apropos of the failure of the Cafe de
L Opera in New York to induce people to
dine there in European fashion. in even
ing clothes, it Is perhaps interesting to
note that not only Is London becoming
more and more dressy every season, but
that Paris. according to an observer who
laments the fact, is following London's
lead. This man. who had not been in
Paris for some time, returned to London
deploring the change. He thinks the
genuine love of good plays, the genuine
admiration of good acting, the whole
quality of the artistic pleasure which
Paris used to find in plays is dying.
Lovers of the theatre used to run over to
Paris from London now and then to get
away from the casual British attitude
and to find themselves once more in an
audience that had a true critical appre-
citation and enjoyed having 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Some Bad Names

From Judge.
For bank cashier-Rob.
For coal dealer-Pete.
For a slovenly man-Tony.
For a burglar-Jimmy.
For poor man-Bill.
For brave man-Hen.
For a chiropodist-Corny.
For a bad-tempered woman-May.
For any empty man-Phil.
For an easy man-Mark
For a doorman-Mat.
For a fly man--Nat.
For a grocery man-Sandy.
For a bankrupt man-Owen.
For a sandwich man-Ham.
For any oyster man-Noah.s
For an undertaker-Paul.
For milliner-Hattie.
For a deceitful man-Frank.
For lady cashier-Tille.
For farmer-Jay.
Fdf a OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
For a builder-Jerry.
For an egotist-Me-thuselah.
sNo "R"-Wfh apologies to London
Punch for infringement of copyright
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
The Age Herald's Cook Book
STRAWBERRY SPONGE.

Soak half a package of gelatin for two
hours in half cupful of water. Mash a
quart Of stra wberries and half a cupful
of sugar, and let the mixture stand Boil
half a cupful of sugar with a cupful of
water gently for 20 minutes. Rub the
strawberry mixture through a sieve
NOW add the gelatin to the boiling syrup
take from the fire at once and pour the
gelatin mixture into the strawberry pulp
Place in pan of Ice water and beat for
hve minutes. Add the whites of four
eggs and beat till the mixture begins to
thicken. Pour into a mold and set away
to harden. Serve with cream and sugar
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Some Table Suggestions


Flat Goldfish cakes are sometimes used
in place of toast as foundation for
poached eggs.
Sliced bananas eaten on top of the
cereal with sugar and cream are de-
licious.
Try eating &c" sugar on cereal as
change from powered.
Sponge cake as a foundation for straw
berry short cake makes nice change
from the biscuit dough.
Leftover -egetables make delicious
salad
Green .iint jelly seems to have been
especially designed for the spring table,
so refreshing does it look.
Stewed prunes are much richer If soak
ed for several hours before stewing.
Cream cheese to which little har-Te-
due is added makes a most tasty filling
for brown or graham bread sandwiches
Very tasty, indeed, are tender, young
carrots, diced, boiled in sailed water and
served with cream sauce.
II the sliced pineapple seems tasteless,
add a pinch of salt.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Flypaper and Ants

Il know that there are several ways to
rid ones refrigerator of ants said a
woman the other day, ''but I think the
best thing Is to arrange 1t so they will
not get In at all. simply put piece Of
fly paper under each of the four castors
of the REFRIGERATOR The ants never get
any further than the fly paper on their
journey of investigation
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

a sanitized rattle. Sentiment may
save the cradle for little while, but
sooner or later it will go to the dusty
attic along with the haircloth sofa. May
be the infant of tomorrow will bear
up somehow under these accumulated
misfortunes. will struggle along some
how to maturity, but what about the ar
lists, the poets, the song writer's What
a world of sentiment and melody has
been woven around the theme of the
mother and the gently rocking cradlel
What kind of song will the poor poet
of the future be able to make about
an enameled iron crib with brass trim
mngs!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

and them" asked the girl in blue, in
a quixotic tone.
why, you proceed TO shock her into
speecblessness,' announced the girl in
rose" by the delectable announcement
that your organizes and swsses, yea
even your Powered organdies and dotted
swisses, your mulls and your lawns, and
linens are discreetly reposing in your
boudoir Just one thousand and seventy
five miles away, even as the crow flies. !"
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How to Face Life

If you will sing a song as you go along
In the face of the real or fancied wrong
In spite of the doubt If you'll fight it out
And show heart that is brave and
stout,
And you'll laugh at the jeers and refuse
the tears,
You'll force the ever-reluctant cheers
That the world denies when the coward
cries,
To give to the man who bravely tries.
And you'll win success with little song
If you'll sing the song as you go along
r. McClain Fields
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Why He Was Successful

From Life.
Some said because he had sand.
Some, because he had ginger
Some, because of an iron constitution
Some, because of his brazen impu-
dence
Some said he was a man of finer clay
Some called him the salt of the EARTH
Some said he was true as steel
And some said it was only because Of
his fathers tin.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Youngest Matron in Diplomatic
Circles

Nine. r. de Lima Silva. wife of the
Brazilian charge d'affaires in Washing
ton, is the youngest matron In the dplo-
matte corps IN the national capital. She
is only II years old, is strikingly attrac-
tive, and exceedingly popular. She is the
daughter of the Mexican minister to
Great Britain, and before her wedding
had been out of the convent school only
a few months. She has large, dark eyes
and auburn hair. Until the death Of
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

Ambassador Nabuco in Washington last
January De Lima Silva was in Lon
don, attached to the Brazilian embassy
there. He was. engaged to the young
Mexican girl only short time when he
was directed to come to Washington.
Because of the youth of the girl 1t had
been intended that the couple should wait
a year or so before getting married.
When, however, De Lima g Silva got
orders to come to Washington the couple
were married and their trip to Washing
ton was their honeymoon.
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why. oh why?" asked the girl in the
rose frock, cut high, with a Puritan in
tention, but otherwise indiscreetly youth
full, 'is 1t that on the very day you try
to save laundry bills and put on an old
silk petticoat frayed at the edges and
anything but immaculate, that something
happens and you have to climb over a
barbed wire fence and get the ruffle of
your skirt caught and every member of
the party you are with, men and women,
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bile: she agreed to restrict her light
reading to two novels week; she gave
her word to pursue serious study under
her husbands direction; she consented
not to CAD and shop about every day
in the week; not to play bridge more
than three times in seven days; not to
initiate actresses in attire or manner,
and not to threaten to go home to
mamma more than once a month.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10
Sensitive Women

Women are much to sensitive in every
day life, for ultra-sensitiveness Is only
ahother form of vanity and self con-
ceit. The woman who is really self-for-
getful is never affronted, because she Is
90 busy thinking of others that she is
not thinking about her own dignity It
does not bring real happiness to possess
oxaggerated vanity that is wounded on
the slightest provocation.