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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Suggestions for Housekeepers

When boiling fresh potatoes try putting
a sprig of mint in the water to give a
delicious flavor to the vegetables.
Plaster figures in hard or alabaster fin.
ish are easily cleaned by dipping a stiff
toothbrush in gasoline and scrubbing
into all the crevices.
If you have a black gown that needs
freshening cleanse it thoroughly with
clear black coffee diluted with water and
containing a little ammonia.
After the weekly washing rub a little
vinegar and spirits of camphor over the
hands. This will keep the hands in good
condition summer and winter.
Garments that are to be hung out to
air can be put on hangers rather than
pinned to the line. This prevents sag
ging or marking with the clothespins.
The meat ball. which must serve for
one home for dinner a week and which
so often pail from their mopotony, can
be made to have a deliciously new taste.
With a half pound of the meat mix
the crumbs of two or three well-toasted
slices of bread; soften the mass with
cream or rich milk and add half a cup
of stewed tomatoes. Roll the meat into
balls. season and sprinkle with a little
dry flour and brown them with butter
in pan not too hot.
Hard-boiled eggs may be prepared in
several ways for spinach. They blend
better with the succuient vegetable II
chopped finely and then mixed with a
drawn butter sauce. The mixture is then
poured over the spinach just before send
ing it to the table. Croutons of bread,
fried in olive oil or beef fat. may be
used with hard eggs. with the yolk dressed
with oil, red pepper and salt and put
back into the white. After being stuffed
the half eggs are turned bottom side up
arfd made into "porcupines" with the
crisp croutons.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Gertrude Anterior
About Americans


Gertrude Atherton. the novelist, after
spending the present social season in
New York, has made the following dis
coyeries:
American men have no subtlety.
The Englshman is-the ideal man.
The American woman has surpassed
the American man.
Society is on the water wagon.
The chaperon is disappearing.
Suffrage has supplanted bridge whist.
Society will never again have a leader =
Women are losing their "cattness"
American girls cannot be blamed for
marrying foreigners in preference to
American men," said Mrs. Atherton.
"The Engishman-in fact, all continent
tai men--knows better how to make love
and how to retain it. American men
have none of the subNety of-the we'll
bred Englishman--none OF his finesse, his
charm Of cory ersation or. manuef. II |
were to marry q shall not, tor my Dss-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Happy Homes

Homes would be happier
IF
Married people were as agreeable as In
the days of their counting.
IT
Each tried to be a real support ana
comfort to the other.
If
Household expenses were under and not
over the sum given for them.
IF
Married people remembered they were
married for worse as we'll as better.
If
People were as polite to each other II
private as they are in public; and
IF
Husbands and wives did not make the
fatal mistake of drifting into humdrum
machines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

food being sent daily to the mainland.
That the fish may be in the best pos
sible condition when it reaches its desti-
nation, 1t is packed in ferns, and when
the cases are opened the fish are found
almost as fresh as when packed. The
fern leaves, too, the people use for pack
ing away their vegetables and meat. I
was told that potatoes packed in these
fern leaves in the fall are surprisingly
fine in the springtime. I have some po-
tatoes packed away now, In Isle of Man
style, and shall be interested when spring
comes TO see how well they have kept"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Ny Lady Modish

TUNES for Summer Gowns.--Chiffon
tunics or those of printed messaline are
to be worn this summer over princess
frocks Of swiss or other sheer white ma
terial.
Popular Effects.-Black and white eff
fects. and also gray effects, will be
popular this spring.
Ribbon for Walking Ties.-wide rib
bon slipped through a single large eye
let will be in vogue on walking ties this
summer.
Length of Skrts.-The long skirt or the
skirt that touches is to be seen this spring
only on elaborate house gowns. Short
skirts will be the rule.
Black Velvet Slippers. velvet
slippers will be a favorite with lingerie
gowns.
Straw Rosettes on Hats.-Rosettes OF
fancy straw will not be confined to motor
bonnets: they are seen on some of the
early hats.
Figured Foulards with Borders-Foul-
ards of rich design come with a two
Or. three-inch border of harmonizing pat
tern.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
What the Shops Offer

White satin crepe suitable for wedding
gowns or underslips for chiffon dresses
is selling for S1.49 a yard.
Asbestos table mats, to slip into en-
broidered cases, sell in all the shapes
from cents upward
Long gloves in apricot color which is so
popular this season, are selling for 81. "A
pair.
MORE sash ribbon in the pastel shades
has satin bowknots over the surface. and
sells for 70 cents yard. Striped pink and
white ribbon is selling at 50 cents a yard.
Gold and green ribbon having plain
green satin edge sells for 20. All of
these show the first spring styles.
Maids aprons, in all materials, with bibs
and without, range in price. from % cents
to Sc.
Tiny silver salt spoons in all the differ
ent shaped bowls sell for from 10 cents to
81 so each.
The three-cornered cabochons. to cover
the ends of feathers on hats come in great
variety, and sell for from sl.25 to So.
A silver bow. with rhinestone buckle
also for the hair costs SO .95. Spangled but
terflies in silver, gold and colors, sell for
50 80, and stand-up bowlSnots sell at s2.95
A wreath of silver oak leaves Is very
dressy and sells for $751;
Gold and ebony desk rulers are selling
| at 10 cents each.
| Bronze perfume bottles, three in one
are novelty, and sell FOR 70 cents.
| very elaborate Dutch silver vegetabl,
server in an openwork pattern sells fol
S.24
| satin-lined case of white kid, con
tanning half a dozen spoons in pale blu'
| Norwegian enamel with gold bowls, L
suitable for a wedding gift, and cost.
s24.S9.
| A silver almond set in the lotus leaf de
sign, including one large dish and six in
dividual dishes. costs $14.17, and is in
closed in a pretty case
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
An Humble Queen

Queen Adelaide, the wife of King Will
liam ~, was a woman of unaffected
piety and humility. These qualities were
conspicuous in the directions left in her
will:
II die in all humility. knowing well
that we are all alike before the throne
of God. and I request therefore that my
mortal remains be conveyed to the grave
without any pomp or state. | die in peace,
and wish to be carried to the tomb in
peace and free from the vanities and
the pomp of this world"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Notable Utterances

From Life.
DO not take any one except me too
seriously" -Peary.
II am not a candidate, but II duty
calls-"-Bryan.
"Out, damned surgent!,'-Cannon.
For me a foot of Areogapitica undeR
meath the bough. president Eliot. =
My country, tits for me!"-Aldrich.
Mr.. Hearst is one of natures noble
n."-Hearst.
IT do not remember. Rockefeller.
81 came, I saw, l buried me a brass
cylinder. DIR. Cook.
AT this thrilling moment the blear-
eyed hippopotamus charged full at me
and (See further installment in next
months Scribbler )"-Roosevelt
Like the parrot, methinks / have
talked too id much Minister Crane.
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signed by a crossmarlx by Indians and
others. The impression is to be made
with the right thumb placed after the
maine instead of the crossmark. as here
tofore. The thumb mark Is then witnessed
to make the identification certain, and
thus be an infallible method of identifi-
cation in case OF dispute or attempted
fraud
This was first done In the Indian ser
vice in 1905, when the system was adopt
ed as evidence of the authenticity of
written agreements with Indians, the
thumb print of the signers being required
in addition to their signatures or their
marks. The system now includes the en-
tire business of the department.
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The Age-Herald's Cook Book

old-Fashioned New England Pot Roast.
70 round of beef weighing ABOUT
four pounds, from which the 1as nas
been removed, in a deep, heateo pos,
and pour over 1t a quart OF noliins Mesei
containing two tablespoons o1 Nins saii1s
~ celery chopped fine, two bay leaves
ana a pinch Of sage, cover and COOK
turning several times. for three hours =
or until a fork will penetrate easny 70
the center. Lift out onto a dripping
nan, rub with butter, dredge with hour,
salt and pepepr, and brown In QUICK
oven for about 20 minutes. SKIM the
liquor in the pot, add to it a tablespoon
of caramel, coffee or the oottieo hi'oien
nononet 10 give it a rich color. and
thicken with tablespoon each of -four
and butter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

their work they cannot hope to reach the
top notch.
That's just the way 1 felt about 1t,
said Miss Black with the brightest, hap
piest, sweetest smile imaginable-so gem
uine that her sincerity and happiness fair
ly radiate over the tiny little place where
she presides, and which has made me
think of her as "A rose in a garden of
roses
| You see, tried to do other things, and
l just did not like anything but flowers.
she continued. 81 have loved them ever
since I was a little girl, and I seem al
ways to have been associated with them
where"
Are you successful in cultivating
them?' l asked, las well as in selling
them"
ooh, that's one of the big things of the
| future" said she with her engaging
SMILE" I only opened this little shop last
October and started on very small scale.
I have made a neat little sum each month
and Its all due to my friends-they' We
been so good to me and have taken so
| much interest in me. | took a little
niche in the wall. first. just to see If
things were going to be as I wanted
them, and now my business has grown
| so large that ] have had to increase my
quarters and get more space"
THAT sounds like a great big business
man., said 1, greatly interested IN her
story
You see,' said Miss Black. chat I
mean some time to cultivate all my own
| flowers, and not have 10 send away for
| lots of them as | do now. I think / In
herit a talent for raising flowers from
| my mother, who is wonderful about those
things She can put stick in the ground
and ! believe it would grow
(Which Is talent as we'll as ar
fists skill or a musicians magic touch
| suggested
II think perhaps it is,p replied Miss
Black II think, as you suggested, that
the love OF things that one is associated
with has a great deal to do with one's
success, and If that is the case, why. |
ought to be the most successful florist in
the world I like to handle flowers and
work with them and decorate things. and
particularly the beautiful baskets that |
have arranged for various luncheons and
dinners this season for the different hos
tesses. Frequently I have had my Gus
| toners phone me and say:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

Every success in life is spelled after a
different fashion. Its accomplishment is
largely matter of conjecture, and it con-
sists of so many different qualities that
the real meaning of the word is lost
Then. too, so many conditions have to
do with the different view points of sue
cess. the principal of these being what
some people call environment" while
others call it sphere of action" Here
are the different phases of ambition as
well which enter into the picture, while
necessity oftentimes urges on continu-
ously and mercilessly.
An eminent sociologist who has given a
great deal of time TO the question: says
that success means in the fullest sense
OF the world:
1.-THE doing of the things that come to
us to do, In the very best manner they
can be done"
What does this mean 10 a woman?
Everything.
Many eminent authorities have said
that the successful woman Is found only
within the narrow confines of the home
where her real sphere Is limited to the
four walls, but that is an obsolete idea
now, for the great heads of the world
have recognized that every avenue that is
open to men is also open to women, and
consequently some of the most successful
women of the world will go down in his
tory never having had a home, or hus-
band or children or anything except their
work to fill up their livesi
In every city and town of this great
country there are women who are singled
out as followers of their own ideals along
these lines, whether from choice or ne
cessity, and the only thing that is re-
quired in womans work today is that
Success marks the endeavor.
Right here in our own town there is a
young woman. Miss Charlotte Black, who
stands at the head of the column next to
reading natter when it comes to sue
cess, and I have been so impressed with
what she has done, and more particu-
larly with the manner in which she has
done it, that I want everybody else to
know about 1t, too.
IT have chosen to sell flowers" she
said, as I chatted with her a few days
ago in her pretty little shop at Five
Points" because love them So
Which is the first element of sue
cess I said. For unless a person loves
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| V
Dolly's Dialogs

The man who holds the key to his
Iady's heart should be sure that there
is not a duplicate.
Did you ever notice how few grass
widows you find in weeds? They are
generally in clover.
In either case, the automobile or the
horse, its W (h) eel or whoa"
The ways" of most men are all right,
but it's their ways that keep you
guessing.
Mason and Dixon's line is not half so
important to the average woman as the
waist line.
Tt takes a mighty clever woman TO
talk all the time and say nothing.
Now that the airship is a reality the
lover who has sighed for his sweet
heart ito fly with him can carry out
his wish.
The only time some women ever ask
their husbands advice is when they in.
quire lis my hat on straight"
Nothing is so likely to make won.
an attend church on Sunday as to have
her new. hat finished on Saturday.
The woman who forgets herself is a
freak.
+, A 1ashy woman is not always bril-.
liant.
Marriage is the Keely cure for loves
intoxication.
Spring Weather Prediction: "Straws'
Chats show which way the wind blows
Some women are aWful1y clever about
sitting up in the dark for their hus-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
A New Subject in Art

Daysey Mayme Appleton got out her
paint brushes todf1y and began work on
what will be her masterpiece: A picture
of a beefsteak
When completed it will be displayed in
a bookstore window on Commercial, for
week. for the public to see it, after
which it will hang in the Appleton dining
room.
the room, long considered high art for
dining room decoration. will come down
as rapidly as Daysey Wayne can replace
them with paintings of pork chops. strings
of weiners, ETC., says the Atchison Globe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Jokes Is Jokes

Speaking of high btows and their lacM
of humorous appreciation. it will be worth
your while to read what Ellis Parker
Butler the inimitabie author of funny
tales; the man who wrote Pigs Is Pigs,
which is one of the best hits of literary
humor of the present day, has to say In
this respect. In Jokes Is Jokes, Mr. But
Ter uses his famous character. Mike Flan-
merry, the Expressman, who gives his ver-
sion of the attitude of thigh brows' with
regard to the newspaper comic supple
ments. 1t is one of the funniest and best
stories you have read In a long while.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
A ROSE IN A GARDEN OF ROSES
Selling FowrsNiss Charlotte
Points shopEaser Flowers
In GrePr


Il am at a perfect loss to know how
to arrange a centre piece for my table
today; the flowers you sent are very
pretty, but I can't make them look right
in the vases"
And then I am just delighted, for I
love to do that sort of thing more than
anything in the world
1T is refreshing to see anyone with
your enthusiasm l said, delighted with
the spontaneity and vim with which this
clever young woman reeited to me her eX-
perience in the big business world where
there is so much competition and riy-
airy.
You would laugh at me I know, said
she enthusiastically, when I tell you that
whenever I arrange a box Of flowers and
send them out 1 always ask my little
messengers. who happen, by the way. to
be two little brothers. what the Gus
toner has said about them. Boy like, they
frequently reply:
"Why, that's not business-like; we
didn't see the lady that bought them;
somebody just took them at the door,"
And / actually get almost discourag ed,
because l expect them to say something
about the beautiful things that | love SO
much
And you have moved into your new
quarters just in time for Easter, when
people want so many flowers l said.
Yes. and I have Just the loveliest lot
of flowers that you have ever seem" said
Miss Black, for the Easter season. My
books have lots of orders on Them and
will have so many handsome palms and
ferns and the loveliestl of Easter lilies
ar'n't the spring flowers just too pretty
anyway" she continued, as she showed
me great clusters of roses, Killarney
and La France, American Beauties and
brides roses, jonquils, lilies, hyacinths
and all sorts u beautiful spring flowers.
As l left the little shop I reflected upon
many things connected with this brave,
clever young woman who has taken the
burden of a business career upon her
slender girlish shoulders, but if I am
any judge of human nature, success will
follow in her wake, for her cheeriness,
her happiness and her sincerity are so
contagious, so real, so absolutely woman
ly that once one pays a visit to her and
buys of roses red one will always
want to go back just for glimpse OF this
sweet young girl, and her flowers and
her work.
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Metempsychosis !.

Edgar A. Guest in Detroit Free Press.
A chicken lived. chicken died;
It's drumstick and its wing were fried
Its feathers by dealer dried,
And, very shortly after, dyed.
Soul, it had none; admitting that,
How comes it? There, upon her hat,
It's plumes-a mortal chickens
A glorious bird of paradise.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
A Christening Romance

Caroline Lady Sage and Sele, who died
at Hereford, where she had resided
since her marriage lin 1850 with the six
teenth Lord Sage and Sele. Canon of
Hereford Cathedral. was the third daugh-
ter of the first Lord Leigh, and sister OF;
the Dean of Hereford and the late LortM
Leigh. Her husband had the remark
able experience of christening the lady
who afterward became his wife.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Japanse Wives

In Japan the wife is inferior to her hus-
band and also to his parents, with whom
she resides and is obliged to obey. Kiss
ing unknown in Japan. and the kiss as
practiced by other nations causes great
amusement. Japanese husbands and wives
never walk out side by side, and il the
wife predeceases her husband he does not
attend the funeral, but sends the chill
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Ferns for Packing

while in the Isle of Man last sum-
mer," said a clever woman the other
day. 81 was indeed surprised to find
what constant and general use'is made
there of the leaves of the fern. OF
course, fishing is one of the echief means
of support in this island off Britain, sea
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

and held in place under the brim by
elastics. AS it is very soft, ones head
does not look as if tied up in a paper
bag. as might be imagined
When not in use the protector can be
crushed into small space in bag or coat
pocket. II motoring in hat that one
wishes to look respectable at the end Of
the trip. this protector is almost as useful
to keep out dirt as 1t is as rain pre-
xreufjz-p
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

Orders have been issued TO the agents
in the field of the Indian service to re-
quire thumb-mark signatures by Indians
who are not able to write.
Thumb mark signatures are now re-
qn1ed on all checks. receipts and other
official papers, which were formerly
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20
Flame Fancies


MARGARET o'BRIEN DAVIS.
Over the Goals lean and dream
Weaving a thousand fancies;
Watching the pale and the rudy CLEAN
As the freight f1ickers, and dances.
Dances and dies in last mad whirl,
A symbol of joys we've tasted;
9cornful disdain in its dying curl
OF living so needlessly wasted.
Over the Goals 1 lean and dream;
Out of their hearts rise faces
Smiling. with eyes of affections CLEANS
Back to forgotten places
Faces that whisper and smile and fade
ssNever a-back returning;
Hands that In quiet are peacefully laid
To fall-and the Goals are burning
III.
over the Goals lean and dream
Blue flames light UP the embers;
Flick ring and dying and living. they seem
Like soul that forgets-and remembers
Like the memory fend they bend Ger the
Goals
with swirls and caresses and lashes
And kill while they kiss, like some hid
eous ghouls
Leaving me-nothing but ashes!
".
Over the ashes I lean and dream
With a pitiful sense Of losing;
Gone is the kindly and comforting beam
But the darkness was not of my choos-
ing;
go as Isbend DER the Goals that are dead
And sigh Ger the whitening embers
Have YOU blame for the hope that to
ashes was wed.
By the flame like the soul that remem-
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For the Motorist

novel hat protector that proves Il
boon in dusty as well as rainy DAYS is
made of ruoberized silk to look like
patching cap, only larger 1t can be
pulled over the hat at a minutes notice
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A Thought

No distance of place or lapse of time
should be allowed to lessen the friend
ship of those who are thoroughly per-
suaded of each others worth.-Home
Chat.
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New Workers Eating Less Meat

The restaurants are beginning to be af-
fected by the anti-meat crusade. Even In
some of the best downtown lunch places,
whose customers think as little of the
amount of the check as anyone, the con-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

"He was equal to the OCCASION" and
that is the only equality which is rec
ognized in good fellowship.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

This is the time of the year wnen
the amateur poet stores away ms un-
accepted frozen verses, ana gives
his attention to the rhyming of high
temperatures.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-20

Lots of women have married men of
steel" only to find out to their great
disguest that they've just picked up a
bit of scrap iron"
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Spring is that silly season " men w w
think" we're in love when we NM"
we're not.
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band. knowing that IL they saw light
they'd probably not come in all night.
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Indian Thumb Mark Signature

Birmingham, March, 1910.
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The man who holds the key to his
Iady's heart should be sure that there
is not a duplicate.