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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
What Is Mothers

NO occupation!
When the federal census enumerator
came to your house he told you that any
woman who does not work for wages out
side Of her own home must be put down
as having mo occupation
Which left mother out
Mother. as Uncle Sam catalogs per-
sons, Is just mother that's ALL She works
for nothing and, as she draws neither
salary nor wages, Is classified as one who
does not earn her living by her labor
Let's see Who of the family is the last
one to retire. and who is the first one out
of bed in the morning?
Why, mother
Who gets breakfast and meantime calls
father and the rest Of the family a couple
OF times before she gets them up in time
to eat 1t and get father Off to his work
and the children ready for school?
Mother, of course.
Who washes and wipes the breakfast
dishes so that Mary may practice her
piano lessons? Who dresses the little ones
In time for school on week days and for
Sunday school on Sundays?
We'll, it's mother.
Who puts in the forenoon in making the
beds ard sweeping and busting and scrub
bipg the kitchen floor until. it is time
to set ready the MONDAY meal for the
hungry kids?
Who sees that the children's faces and
hands arc clean as they start back to
school? VINO washes and wipes the In
evitable dishes again? Who puts in the
afternoon sewing or baking or scheming
to keep fathers clothes clean and mend
ed and that the children are dressed
like other peoples children?
Mother again.
And who. when the children are tucked
In bed and father takes up his pipe and
slippers. picks up the darning basket or
the torn frocks and works on them until
bedtime?
Mother
And yet when the census man comes
along he puts down John Smith.
plumber: Mary Smith. music student;
Mrs John Smith, no occupation!'
Is it not about time the mothers union
should &C on a strike for shorter hours
and recognition of the union?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
The Yeast in Dickson

Hugh L. Dickson is a lawyer
Before he was lawyer he was loco
motive engineer.
One day his engine went over an en-
bankment and Dickson went with it. He
was badly mashed and when he got out
of the hospital both his hands were gone
A man without hands isn't of much
use in an engine cab.
So Dickson started to study law. He
couldn't pull throttle without hands,
but he could turn the leaves of Black
stone and Kent and Walker and the
Frest of them.
He also figured out a way by which
he could hold a pen between the two
stumps, which came in handy when
few weeks ago Dickson was admitted
to practice in the supreme court of the
United States and signed the roll.
That was a long trip for Dickson-from
the hospital to the supreme court.
But he made it by sticking to his law
books as he had stuck to his engine.
BY and by he was made general coun-
selor of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen and Enginemen, and things came
easier.
Dickson did not stand around, Micaw-
ber-like, waiting for something to turn
up. He went out and started some
thing.
He did not reason as some others might
do: Here I am a life cripple The rail-
road company owes me a pension. and the
world at large owes me living.
Dickson realized that If the world did
owe him living it was up to him to
collect it.
He was like that other lawyer, Senator
Gore of oklahoma, who went blind In
his boyhood Gore had his wife read
the law books to him. And he did not
stop climbing until he got into the
United States Senate.
Young man
Success in life is not a matter of hands
or eyes.
1t is a matter of grit-and of the yeast
that Is in you.
If the yeast that is in you Is poor
YOU are likely never to rise. And even
if the yeast is good, If it be not mixed
with energy and brains you will not
rise.
Do things seem to come your way
slowly or scarcely at all? Cheer up! You
have two good hands to fall back upon
and two good eyes to find the way
What you need is the Dickson spirit,
the Gore grit.
Make the best of what chance you
have If you have no chance, make one.
II YOU lose your hands, use the stumps.
If YOU go blind use other peoples eyes.
| And in due time you shall reap If you
| faint not.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
Cradles On fashionable
rom Success Magazine.

Cradles are going out; children are not
wearing them any more. People tell US
that rocking is unhygienic; babies. ac-
cording to modern idea. should go to
sleep naturally In a stationary germ
proof bed, with antiseptic pillows and a
santized rattle Sentiment may save tho
cradle for little while. but sooner or
later it will go to the dusty attic along
with the haircloth sofa. Maybe the In
FAINT OF tomorrow will bear up somehow
under these accumulated misfortunes,
will struggle along somehow to maturity.
but what about the artists, the poets the
song writer's? What q world Of sentiment
and melody has been woven around the
theme of the mother and the gently
rocking cradle! What kind of song Will
the poor poet of the future be able
to make about an enameled Iron crib
with brass trimminGs3
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
Heart To Heart Talks
BY EDWIN A. NYD

fire. famed up and badly burned the
young woman about the neck
In suit for damages the jury awarded
verdict of 81, 600.
| The jury gave as a reason for the large
amount that the girls neck had been SO
badly scared she could not wear low
| necked gowns at social functions.
Perhaps the verdict was just, but
| Here Is we'll remembered case of an
| other girl injured by the negligence of
street car motorman-little Dorothy Me
Dermott of Newark, n. j., five years of
| age. >
A jury awarded Dorothy $500 for the
loss of her leg, which was none too much.
The case went up to the supreme court
of the state. and in giving the courts de-
cision Justice Garrison said:
THE verdict of $500 is too high. The
jury did not take into consideration the
great Improvement in cork legs
So on the second trial. because of this
heartless decision. the jury was COM
PEELED to cut the $500 in half.
Now
Looking on this decision and then on
that, we are confronted with the deadly
parallel:
For SCARED neck, $4,000.
For one leg. 5000.
why? Why the discrepancy? Is it be-
cause one girl is rich and the other is the
daughter of workingman? Such bold
statement does not sound good to Ameri-
can ears.
Measured not only by Justice but by the
need of the victims, the verdicts would
better have been reyersed-S00o for the
injured neck, $4,000 for the leg-notwith-
standing the cheapness of cork legs.
Please consider:
One girl has money, ease, luxury. True.
she has scars on her shapely neck, but
they may be covered. The other girl Is
made a hopeless cripple for life and pa
thetically handicapped for the human
struggle.
The one girl is well provided for and
need never labor with her hands, and the
$4,000 is no more to her than little pin
money. The other girl must help her
family and sooner or later earn her liv-
ing. And the family has already spent
most of the $1,000 for lawyers and doc
tors and hospital fees
Is 1t fair?
If so, what mean the words written
down in our constitution and laws-writ-
ten in the blood of our OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
which say that equality and justice must
abide in this free land?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12


A great friend of the world passed away
when Samuel l.. Clemens died.
He helped us.
He helped us by spreading everywhere
his atmosphere of good cheer.
They used to picture the saints with
bright aurae about their heads. Marx
Twain's aura was no small flame jus.
lighting up his wellkrown features. The
nirnbus that was about him shed it's light
around the world.
I tell YOU to make this gladstone
world for the people who live in it is Il
divine thing.
How we lesser lights have always
longed for Mark Twains gracious gift
of Frightening and sweetening human
life,
He was SO human.
There was no barb in that spontaneous
humor. Notably it may be said of him
that he has written no line that, dying.
he would wish to blot" And If you
read him at any length you always felt
your better nature stirred.
Why?
WHY did he ennoble and sweeten our
lives along with his bubbling mirthful-
ness? Because down deep he was serious
minded Below his humor were sensi-
bility and kndliness. His humor was
Incidental, a sort of by-product.
Underneath he was fine spirited. honest
lovable
That finer spirit of his blossomed early
in the sweet story. THE Prince and
the Pauper," and later 1t Powered In
his serious study of Joan of Arc.
What a kindly, quaint, bright spirit
abode with us and then went away
Much has been written of Mr.. Clemens,
and much will be written, but one thing
must be pointed out and repeated again
and again one thing that revealed the
ir nate soul stuff of the man.
Tt was his chvalric honesty.
When in 1895 the publishing firm Of
which he was chief owner failed Mark
Twain set to work like another Walter
Scott to pay his last dollar of indebt-
edness.
Every fiber Of his fine spirit scorned to
take advantage of the bankrupt laws. To
Kim such course was unthinkable.
And how we all followed him over the
land and across the seas as he went lee
turing to earn the money! And we were
nearly as proud as he was when 1t was
all paid. 81
That was Mark Twain's greatest gift
to his generation.
He could make men laugh and cry. for
he had great genius. but over and above
his genius he was an honest man.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
Formulation of New South WaIe.

Sydney. June 11.-(Special. ACCORDING
to the official estimate, the population of
New South aWles at the end of March
was 1855, $50, showing an increase for the
quarter of 1926, the highest for many
years. The years increase was Al, 600.
Assisted immigrants from TIE United
Kingdom during the quarter numbered
1919
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
Love Abides

How far will love goY
If it is the right Sort if it is Invested
of all selfishness, it will go to the very
end.
Which is the sort of love manifested by
]. NJ Barrie, the author and playwright
toward his former wife
Throughout his domestic disaster Mr..
Barrie's genuine affection has been the
marvel of the little minds and hearts that
do not understand.
1t is the story on the side of the faith
full wife and traitor friend, of hospitality
abused and a husband wronged. Both the
wife and Cannon. the young dramatic
critic whom Barrie had taken into his
home and helped, pleaded guilty.
What would you have done?
Turned against woman and friend,
doubtless, or If of violent frame of
mind you might have killed the raise
friend-or the wife.
But. you see, Barrie really loved his
wife. and love does not turn from its
own, much less desire to Kill It's own
Though cruelty wronged, love abides
Even in getting divorce, SO she might
marry Cannon Barrie tried to save ms
wife from publicity, though in vain.
He smoothed the financial pathway OF
the pair. settling an annuity on his ex-
wife, and gave her a beautiful home.
He made all possible arrangements for
the wedding. signified his desire to be-
friend the couple and wished them every
happiness
Could love go farther?
In his great magnanimity of soul Bar
rie rivaled If he did not exceed John
Ruskin when the latter willingly gave
Ibis wife over to Sir John Millais and
kept both of them as his friends.
| How far will love go?
| 1t depends altogether on the sort OF
love and the lover. A great love, real
lover, will go far.
| Contrary to the popular thought, the
love that meets disappointment and faith
lessness with frenzy and violence is not
! love at ALL 1t is passionate selfishness.
| Love abides.
| Love suffereth long and is kind. 1t may
be sorely grieved and sadly disappointed.
| but It abides.
Love is more than sentiment or sensa-
ton, more than enjoyment or gratifca-
| ton. Love Is eternal.
! The world needs such examples as
those of Ruskin and the author of Sen
| timental Tommy and Peter Pan" to
show 1t what real love really is.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12

In New York city the automobile Of q
beautiful young society girl was run down
~ : street car. The gasoline cauxht
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
Aesravating Courtesy.

In his Life of Gladstone" Lord Nor
ley somewhere notes that Mr.. Glad
stone affirmed that be did not remem-
Der ever to have been at loss for
sword This was an error. Mr.. Glad
stone was once in the midst of a ire
mendous denunciatory speech in the
British house Of commons. The right
honorable member and his satellites
he Numbered. glaring across at Mr..
Disraeli And then a sudden inter-
ruption threw him for once off his
balance. Amid the tense silence Dis
raeli leaned forward. murmured sweet
" the word satellites" and Glad
stone. bowling to the courtesy. pro-
ceeded with his denunciation.
minister Gazette. sasM SSes 60
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
Funny For Her.

A New England lad was infently
watching his aunt in the process Of
making pies and cake. He seemed
very much inclined TO start CONVEX
sation. an inclination. however. which
the aunt in no way encouraged She
continued in silence to assemble the
ingredients of a mammoth cake.
Tell me something funny. auntie.
finally ventured the boy.
Don't bother me. Tommy" said the
aunt. How can l when I am making
cake?"
''Oh. you might say. Tommy, have 4
piece of the pie I've just made That
would be funny for you. Exchange.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Mrs. Geo. F. Smith and Mrs. Ira
II, Miller went up to ST. Augustine
his morning to spend the day with
Nr. and Mrs. Claud S. Smith and
little son, Vernon. Mr.. Smith joined
ais wife and son a few days ago at
st. Augustine, where they have been
visiting since leaving here, and will
return with them to their home at
Birmingham, Ala.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
Drivinq the Fact Home.

There are various methods. diplo-
matte or brusque. Of notifying an un-
satisfactory employee Of his dismissal.
The pink envelope. says writer in
the Boston Record. is the recognized
messenger OF fate in many business
offices. but there are other ways.
The most picturesque and original
Of methods was that which Uncle
Jimmy" Gilbert used to use In his
printing Office. When new man
came Uncle Jimmy drove a nail in
the wall for him to hang his hat and
coat on.
Some morning the man would come
to work and find the nail driven in
up to the head. He knev that he was
through then.
There Was Fruit.
Jack-So your efforts to win the rich
heiress We're fruitless. eh? Tom
Fruitless. Oh. no! l got the lemon
Boston Transcript
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
ITCH RELIEVED. AT ONCE.

That terrible itch disappears with
the first drops Of a simple compound
of oil of wintergreen, thymol and glyc
crime mixed in d. D. d. Prescription.
This soothing, healing lotion, used ex-
terhally kills the eczema germ in
stantly. Heretofore the d. d. D..
remedy has only been sold in $1.00
bottles but as a special offer, any
sufferer in this town who has never
tried D. D. D. can now try this rem
edy in a special bottle at 25c. 1t cure
the Itch instantly. WE KNOW this.
Atwood Pharmacy.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
Waited Twenty Years For a Solution

Waited Twenty Years For Solution.
A bit of pure and harmless mischief
at recitation at Yale was the device
Of a member of the class of 10, who
introduced at recitation a turtle covered
by a newspaper pasted on the shell.
The tutor had too much pride to come
down from his perch and solve the
mystery Of the newspaper movement.
but twenty years after. meeting a
member of the class. his first and alb
rupt question was. mfr. W., what
made that paper move?"
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Mrs. Herbert Crouch, of Buffalo,
". Y, who is spending few weeks
in Daytona, returned Monday from
trip to ST. Augustine, where she had
accompanied her husband on his way
North, and joined her mother, Mrs.
c.. F. Flint, on North Beach street.
Mrs. Flint is a sister-in-laW of Mrs.
d. C. Kennard, at Kingston.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

VIM NJ Moore came in from Eus-
It's Monday evening, being detained
several days longer than expected.
lie made the return trip across the
country with horses and wagon, and
had the misfortune to have one of
his team go lame on the way. He
reports having shipped 1900 boxes of
oranges and grape fruit from his
grove from which he expects good re-
turns as the fruit was in fine condi.
ton. -4
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Owing 20 Mrs. d. A Blodgett be-
ing Unexpectedly called to Grand Rap
ids, Mich, on business, Mrs. Donald
McLean's visit to Daytona and the
be deferred for the time
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
AIsatian ECO Women.

A favOrite trick Of Alsatian market
women is to place six or eight Adde'S
cent eggs In a small basket and to de-
clare that those are all the absolutely
fresh ones they have. The victim buys
them. thinking that i the wQman
were dishonest she would have offered
more fresh eggs" Afterward the
market woman takes six or more out
of larger basket which is carefully
covered over.
Silence is one of the hardest argu-
ments to refute-BillingS
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Mrs e. A. Sanford and two grand
daughters, Elizabeth and Isabelle Lee,
Of Ocean Grove, N j., who have been
spending the winter at the Magnolia
left Tuesday morning on their return
home, where Mrs. Sanford was unex-
pectedly called on business.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Mrs. L. c. Canova came over from
Palatka Tuesday afternoon and Miss
Alfna Canova followed in the even
Ing for d visit of a week or more
with Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Jones OF
Volusia avenue.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
LOCAL ITEMS.

Messrs. Hulitt, senior and junior,
and friend, Mr.. Sewer. were OUT on
their usual fishing bout both Monday
and Tuesday, tempted by the fine
weather.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Schoff, mother and
little daughter, of Cadillac, Mich,
who have been sojourning on First a1,
enue, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. L. Reynolds, left Tuesday morning
on their return home.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Byron Stewart and Morgan Robin
son returned Monday from Nashua
by train, not caring to make the re-
turn trip by automobile and as their
time here is now limited to afew
weeks, Mr.. Stewart shipped his car
from Nashua to his home at Oswe-
go, n. Y
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

County Commissioner S. B. Owen,
of Oak Hill, accompanied Commission
er w. D. Bradshaw to Daytona yes
terday afternoon on his return from
the board meeting at DeLand.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09
A Relief.

"Johnny," said the boys mother. II
hope you have been nice. quiet boy
at school this afternoon"
That's what I was" answered John
ny. 81 went to sleep right after din
ner. and the teacher said she'd whip
any boy in the room who walked me
up."-Boston Post.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Miss Alderman and friend, Mrs.
Mary Day Kenmouth, of Louville, N.
Y. who have been spending the week
at the Burdick home on First avenue,
have gone to Orlando ON a short Wis
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

*WANTED-Good man to take care
CT nursing. Enquire of DIR. j. p.
Esch, Peninsula Drive, Daytona Beach
Phone $50 dist
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Com J. H. Allen was in the city
from Monday evening until yesterday
afternoon, from Allenhurst, coming
up on the steamer Constitution and
returning by train.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

Thos B. Stout, manager of the Fos-
:er Company store at New Smyrna,
vas in the city yesterday. coming up
ay train in the morning and return
ng In the afternoon.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

"a Welch 6-cylinder, passenger
touring car for rent. Phone 112, Sar-
atoga Inn Garage. George w. P. Des-
jardines. 25-tf
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

*"For Rent" Furnished Rooms,
For Hire" and "TabIe Board" pIa
ards at the Daily News office. If
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

John-one Of youf ers1
to speak to you. sir.
Master-Well. say nj B
home. IS
John-Ah right. siz. r.
light one Of your b.
be more likely to bell
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1910-03-09

sPosT CARDS OF BARNEY OLD
FIELD AND HIS LIGHTNING BENZ
ON SALE At LEsEsNE's KODAK
slAQE, =. - e-tf
Miss Mary Phillip. of Buffalo. N.
r, who is spending short time in
Daytona, is pleasantly located with
Mr., and Mrs. F. A. White, on Pal,
netto avenue.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1910-09-29
STORING MOISTURE IN SOIL
Eight Essential Factors In Conserving
Water to Aid Various Grow
Ing Crops.

Eight essential factors In storing
moisture In the semi-arid regions are
given below:
/. That land which is under thor
ough cultivation absorbs water much
more freely than land not under culti'
vation, or which is covered with grass
or for any reason has hard surface
2. That laad under thorough cultiva-
ton loses but little water from below
the first foot by surface evaporation.
so long as the mulch is kept in good
condition.
3. That a growing crop uses water
from the land in proportion to the
growth of dry matter in the crop.
4. That land under summer tillage
or thorough cultivation from May l to
September l has accumulated more
water in the first six feet of soil than
similar land growing crop. The
water so stored has been equal to
from 40 TO so per cent Of the rainfall
for the same period. The moisture
content on summer titled land In
creases below the six-foot area and
is apparent to depth of at least ten
feet.
s. That water stored in the subsoil
to depth of at least six feet is avail
able for the use of farm crops, and
that alfalfa is able to draw water from
much deeper area.
6. That abundance of water in the
subsoil is great protection to the
| hat nj eft
ure in the surface soil, while 1t may
favor the immediate growth of the
plant, does not protect 1t against pro
longed drought. The protection of the
crop against drought is in almost ex
act proportion to the total availabl,
soil water within the reach of the
crop.
Z. That grass crops (alfalfa ant
bronze grass) dry and subsoil to sucl
an extent that the first crop follow
ing grass is wholly dependent ION tn
seasons rainfall for it's moisture SUI
ply.
s. That a rainfall of from quartz
to a half-ipch may have a decidedl
beneficial effect upon a growing GRO
and It is of great assistance in secul
: irg a good stand at seeding time
Such a rainfall has little or no effec
in increasing the water in the lowe
soil unless the surface is alread
moist from previous rains. Less tina
half-inch of rain falling on dr.
mulch does not wet the soil belo'
the mulch and is soon evaporated
the sun ard wind.