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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

st. Louis Parsons will enter
tain this evening at her country
home on American lake. The
evening will be spent with a
beach fire and in boating and 9TH
er out-of-door sports.
Mrs. Edward Murphy enter
tanned at her residence on North
Alder street last evening with a
dinner in honor OF her son Floyd,
a graduate of the 1909 class Of
Tacoma High school, who has re-
Gently returned for his summer
vacation following his first year
at the University of Michigan.
Mrs. O. II. Drew will be hostess
this week with house party for
"a group of girl friends of her
daughter, Miss Mary. at her sum-
mer home at Long Branch.
Mrs. Hugh A. Ferguson has IN
vitations out for a Five Hundred
party on Friday afternoon at her
residence on Prospect Hill in hon
or OF her neice, Mrs. BBurkert, OF
Racine, Wis.
Mrs. II. b. Curran will entertain
at bridge Friday afternoon at her
country home at American Lake
in honor of Mrs. A de Y. Green
of Prosser, who with her bother,
Mrs. Thomas Cooper, of st. Paul,
is spending the summer in Ia
coma.
The AItrua Table Round will
entertain Monday, July 18th with
its annual midsummer picnic. A
picnic luncheon will be followed
by an executive session, during
which plans for the coming year
will be completed.
The Central w. @. T. U. VIII
hold meeting at $40 South
Ninth street Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock devoted to discussing
"Anti-Narcotics" with Mrs. D. ID.
Claflin as leader.
Miss Mary Stallcup has invita-
lions out for. a luncheon Friday
in honor of her cousin, Miss Shell
by Taylor, who is her guest for
the summer.
Fern Auxiliary o. e. s. will
moot Eridazr ALBANIAN at thc
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

Miss Mary Stallcup has invita-
tions out for. luncheon Friday
in honor of her cousin, Miss Shell
by Taylor, who is her guest for
the summer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

The overskirt knotted in black
will be wore again this season. But
the freak sash has been reduced to
a knot or a loop.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

A lace year is impending, and
frocks or dresses partially made
of lace. Women who are forum
ate enough to possess a little
real" lace, even though in poor
repair, are remounting the best
motifs on new net, and using then
in dainty schemes of ornaments
ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13
SWIEIIl'T'D

home OF Mrs. E. McMullen, 92S
South o street.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

Fern Auxiliary o. Il. s. will
meet Friday afternoon at the
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13
Dear Miss Grey:

am only Is and weigh 13d
pounds. 1 am overgrown in every
way and seem to be getting larger
every day. Please tell me some
thing to stunt my growth.
HOPELESS.
A.:-Don't worry. You viii
probably stop growing soon. Most
girls of Is feel awkward and in
the way. Take plenty of outdoor
exercise. Learn to swim, ride a
bicycle and run. Eat slowly, chew
carefully, and avoid sweets and
rich foods. If you are not excess
sively tall you need not be alarm
ed. You can always reduce fat By
eating less and exercising more.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

Try rubbing soap and chalk
aixed on miIdewed spots.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13
FASHIONS

The smartest ornaments for
coiffures are fruits. The most
popular fruit is the cherry, al
though grapes and other small
fruits are used.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

White gloves stitched with black
are considered a great deal more
fashionable than those stitched in
the self-same color.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

Do not use bread or cracker
crumbs without seasoning. No
amount of seasoning in a croquet
or other made dish win make up
for this omission.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

One of the newest rosettes for
millinery use is made of tiny flow
ers which are first sewed into e
chain and then wound round the
hat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13
ALL AROUND
THE HOrR|
RU Cxrfhia Ciro~t I
By C,ynthia Grey

Breadcrumbs are easily prepar-
ed il run through the finest cogs
of the meat chopper.
Try cutting horseradish through
a meat chopper instead of grating
it. 1t is much less trying to pre-
pare.
Never use any brass or silver
polish on lacquered ware. 1t will
mean reiacquering IL you do.
When cooking dried peaches
rub or cut off the skin. They will
have a totally different and more
delicate flavor.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

The newest novelty in ribbon Ii
made of white chiffon decorated
with gold threads and narrowed
strips of flowered ribbon.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

Satin slippers are worn this
summer. The smartest are trim
med with beaded buckles instead
'of rhine-stones.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

The Central w. @. T. U. Will
hold meeting at $40 South
Ninth street Thursday afternoon
at o'clock devoted to discussing
"Anti-Narcotics" with Mrs. D. ID.
Claflin as leader.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

Mrs. Hugh A. Ferguson has IN
out for a Five Hundred
party on Friday afternoon at her
residence on Prospect Hill in hon
or OF her neice, Mrs. BBurkert, OF
Racine, Wis.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

Mrs. O. n. Drew will be hostess
this week with a house party for
a group of girl friends of her
daughter, Miss Mary, at her sum-
mer home at Long Branch.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

OF course. according to Mana
ser Beans logic. she could have
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

w. J. Bryan says the only way
20 settle the drink question IL for
every man to put up the bars
within him. This win appear :
fine solution to those who care 70
run their own bars on tho inside.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

About one In ten letters pass
ing through the Russian postof-
flee is opened on general princi.
pie.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-07-13

st. Louis Parsons will enter
tain this evening at her country
home on American lake. The
evening will be spent with a
beach fire and in boating and 9TH
er out-of-door sports.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
General Fuckers Railroad Plea

General Fuckers facts" in regard to
cism, to say the least. When he says As
per cent-af our blast furnaces are out of
blast he a lite overlooks the fact that we
Eaaie 1eooOp tons of pig iron in October
This is at the rRte of 100000 tons year,
. greater production than Alabama has
ever known. y,
And how and where did General Ruck-
or ascertain that the railroads are hard
up? The railroad returns fot September
are at hand. The Illinois Central earned
s41s,2 6s more in September last than 1t die
in September one year ago. The gross
earnings of the Louisville and Nashville
last September were ss42,37s irf excess o.
those of September one year ago
southern took in $1S9.917 more, and thu
Frisco s125,5s5 more. In the nine months
Of the present calendar year, including
eeptember, the gross earnings of the rail
roads were Increased 11.2 per cent, cross
ING the two billion line and going owe
no 900. 900 beyond it. The net earning
rose from SCI millions in 1909 to Gil millio
dollars this year, a gain of Just abou
SEVENTY million dollars clear money in min
months.
SO FAR as one viaduct is concerned,
be built by half a dozen railroads in orde
20 render grade crossing safe to larg
md increasing population, General Ruc4
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
Hotels with Wine and Beer

Il have visited few cities of considera-
BILE size where prohibition applied to ho-
tells" said r. c.. Romney of Philadel-
phia. 1.-THE fact is that I have been in
very few prohibition cities: but 1 would
have imagined that legislatures ii, passing
statewide prohibition bills wt.nld have
rrpdor sucr guests az might cab. Tor
it. Many men who stop at the high
class hotels like beer and wine with
their meals, to say nothing of cocktails
or highballs. But I find in Birmingham
that such things cannot be legally served,
and as a matter of fact they are not
served.
'I am not well informed in regard to
Alabama's political conditions further
than that it is solid for the democratic
party; but 1 would say 1t was a safe bet
that the legislature will modify the pres
ent drastic laws to the extent of allowing
hotels in the principal cities to serve
liquor. Prohibition is usually the sign
| of a small town. Certain it is that nc
city of great size will ever be without
| hotels with liquor licenses"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
Birmingham Draws crowd.

| IF the weather continues fair the Cen.
sus Jubilee will be distinctive success,
| said I. A. Weller, chairman of the pub
licity committee. Birmingham can al
ways count on drawing great crowds for
ever since the splendid success of the
Confederate reunion in 1908, and the ease
with which the thousands of visitors
were cared for and entertained this city
has enjoyed a reputation for doing big
things second to none.
Our publicity placards and badges
have attracted wide attention. l have
never known any little thing to be SO
popular as our flag badges bearing in
red letters on a white ground the legend,
lS2,6S Meet US at Birmingham Census
jubilee, November 22-23 l had 10000 of
these souvenirs struck off and they have
been in great demand. We could have
used three times as many
Birmingham has been in the spot
light almost from the time 1t became
established as an iron center; but its
new census figures and the fact that
il ranks as the third city in the south
makes 1t the most-talked-of city in this
country"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
Rendition Of Street Names

Since the city has been pulled together
1t is seen that there are street names in
it that are freely repeated. When one
city has two or more streets bearing one
name trouble Is sure to come in the de-
livery of letters and packages, in diree-
tories, and even among people seeking
social acquaintance.
No state is permitted to have two post
offices bearing one name. and no city
should have two streets bearing name
in common. This is matter that the
City Council should straighten out, and
while it is correcting street names it
should see that houses are properly num-
bered. No well-regulated city has jar
gon of names and numbers. The matter
Is one that is easily remedied. It is sim
ply matter of detail and some authori-
ty, and then any confusion in the delivery
of letters or parcels would become almost
Impossible.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Census superyisor,. E,cellent wo,

census Supervisors Excellent Work
a citizens of Bessemer in speaking OF
the census Jubilee this week said: 1.-THE
people of Birmingham complain because
bessemer kicks so often at the treatment
received at the hands of the Greater
CITY, but a moments consideration will
SNOW that they have reason to feel
silghted sometimes. For instance Besse-
mer is the largest town in Jefferson
county outside of Greater Birmingham.
she has been interested in the growth
ana progress of the county, yet she is
left out when It comes to any celebra
ton.
Again, I do not think it would have
been at all inappropriate for the COM
mittee in charge of the arrangements for
the gala event to have at least invited
capt. John T. McEniry, supervisor of
the census for the Ninth district. to
nave taken part in the exercises. Cap
tam McEniry deserves great credit for
the census reports he made for the
Whoie district. Jefferson county and espe-
clally the city of Birmingham. He Sc
cured two-weeks' stay of time to re-
-S POpdtdtiOlt Ol Tic city III OlUCA
TO give the Chamber of Commerce an
opportunity to list all names that had
been left out by his enumerators, and
while very few additional ones were
round he exerted himself in every way
10 give the city everything she was en-
Titled to. A less careful and methodical
man would not have found as many
people as he did, for he was determined
TO do his whole duty. But in the cele-
bration he Is ignored in every way and
the slight is felt by his friends at home
and In other parts of the state. These |
things cut to the quick and. while they |
may not be intentional, they certainly |
should be avoided If possible. Bessemer
Will show 100 per cent gain in her popu-
alton, more than any other city outside
IF Birmingham IN Alabama. and she is
proud of her record"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
GoyernOr-eleCt FOSS' New Campaign

A dozen progressive republicans that
have been elected members of the Massa-
chusetts legislature can defeat Henry
Cabot Lodge, who desires to succeed him
self in the United States Senate. Cover
nor-elect Foss proposes to arouse public
sentiment so that that number will refuse
to vote to enter caucus or be bound
by caucus nomination of Senator Lodge.
Mr.. Foss opposes the reelection of SEN
ator Lodge because he is not in touch
with the progressive spirit of the times,
because he does not represent the men
and women in the ordinary walks of life.
Massachusetts thus presents an inter-
esting situation. She shows how rapidly
both parties are changing and perhaps
pulling together Mr.. Foss was formerly
a republican. firing of the control of
machines and special interests he became
n democrat, and as a democrat he won
a seat in Congress and then he was elect
ed governor of the state. Now he turns
about to begin an appeal to republican
members of the legislature 10 vote against
Mr.. Lodge. He proposes no doubt to
bring out public sentiment within that
party that will demand Mr.. Lodges de-
feat The two parties become In that
way a good deal entangled in Massa-
chusetts, but as only good can come
from the ENHANCEMENT alISshould be glad
It is to proceed. Mr.. Lodge has thorny
road to travel. Mr.. Foss stands for hon
est tariff revision downward, lower
duties on the necessities of life, free raw
materials, untaxed food supply, recipro-
city with Canada, and more democracy in
our form of government, and he intends
10 show where Mr.. Lodge stands on all
these questions.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
ART AND THE DIRECTORY
I'M the Youths Companion.

From the Youths Companion.
The man who wanted to consult the
directory was evidently of modest dis
position, one of those retiring indi-
viduals who hate to interrupt. He stood
first on one foot and then on the 9TH
err. watching the young woman who
had got possession of the volume. She
was nice, leisurely young woman, and
she had a large sheet of paper which
she had spread out on the drug store
counter beside the directory, and on
which she now and then inscribed a
name from the volume.
The man looked at the clock. He was
surprised to find that only one minute
had elapsed since he last looked at 1t,
for he had expected to find that the
minute hand had advanced anywhere
from 10 minutes to half an hour. He
coughed politely, and the young woman
turned and looked at him.
| "I beg your pardon" she said. "You
wish to look at the directory"
| Now that he saw her face. he real.
| ized that she was prettier young
woman than most men would be will
Ing RI interrupt. He shifted from on,
| foot to the other.
mo hurry" he said. Don't let M
disturb you"
She resumed the directory. Interim
nab1e minutes followed. At last sh
closed the book with sigh Of satisfac
ton.
"Thank you" she said, sweetly. "Pr
afraid l have kept you waiting Blu
YOU see, I'm going to write shor
story in a prize contest. and I reall
didn't know how to begin until pickle
out the names for my characters"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22

columns in length, which appeared in the
New York Sun of Sunday, is this para.
graph:
" 'Incessant grubbing up of ones con-
yictiosS and motives by the roots and
inspection of them with a powerful
microscope is apt to bring about dis
tracing vagares and discomfort for
the practitioner and his patients in any
land, particularly in Russia, where there
seems to be layer of mysticism in the
character of every individual, situated
at varying depths from the surface.
Dostoyevsky's novels are full of it, in
an intense but comprehensive and ar
tistic form; Gogol destroyed the second
part of his Dead Souls" when he lapsed
into the not uncommon stage of fanati-
cally mystical religious remorse toward
the end; Tolstoi would gladly have de-
stroyed his magnificent novels had it been
in his power, but like Turgenieff, the
only one of the famous quartet who was
not afflicted with unnecessary religious
self-searchings. Tolstoi was perfectly
sane Being human, he was conscious
of his fame all over the world; without
exactly calculating upon his influence,
he hoped in it; he could say, quite sim
ply and truthfully, without a shadow of
self-conceit. L. has copied me in these
stories" Yet, strangely enough, he had
more Influence outside of Russia than in
Russia, though none of the "Tolstoian''
colonies anywhere has survived long, for
the simple reason that their members, |
like Tolstoi himself. found his principles
Utopian and impossible of execution.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
What We Are Calahratlne

A census jubilee is a celebration o.
census results, and it is well to see this
morning just what those results are.
In the first place we are celebrating the
officially ascertained fact that Birming-
hams growth in the decade is unap-
preached among the cities of the coun-
try that have crossed the 100000 popula-
ton line. That growth as officially stated
was 245.4 per cent and the sole rival is
Los Angeles. which grew at the rate of
2l1.5 per cent. The difference of "a per
cent exceeds the growth Of most Amer
lean cities in the decade
We celebrated an unexampled growth
among cities Of all sizes with the sole
exception of Oklahoma City and Mus
kogee, two cities that scarcely existed 10
years ago in a state then unborn
But, says the Atlanta Journal, the
growth of Birmingham rs not hard to
explain" One would think that Atlanta
had not'added any territory. whereas it
did annex in the decade districts con-
tanning according to various estimates
from 1890 to 5000 people. and yet its
entire growth has been but 72.3 per cent.
Ex-supervisor smyer, who had charge
OF the counting Of this congressional dis
trict 10 years ago, has gone over the fig
ures of the territory within this city al
present and he finds that that territory
shows growth in population of 1o2 per
cent A similar analysis would, it is be-
lieved, make Atlanta's real growth about
35 to 20 per cent. Jefferson county as a
whole grew at the rate of 81 per cent
The cities in the south that have
grown the fastest are as follows:
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22

that it is a little and a lean possum, for
the big and fat possum takes to the
sapling nearly always.
But uncle insists on telling the big tree.
because he hopes for a coon or a FAM
lily of coons, and fond as he is of pos
sum, he would exchange a hgs,s;nn, fof
them fer l.. sieu lie er, snd ,,a,,a hn
ioe9ss - to the palate e vour 49, led
M. tree -alls, the Co Il a
and If 1t is a coon, there is a fighsf to
the death. If Tige is not an educated
dog he is sure to get licking. for your
raccoon is fighter to the death when
prone on his back. and with teeth and
claws armed for the conflict.
And when the spoil is taken. whether
possum or coon, the hunters make their
way home. In either event the game is
served in the kitchen, or was in the days
Of slavery. If a possum, the carcass was
treated as that of a pig-scalded, picked,
and dressed, and suffered to take the
frost on top of the cabin at least As
hours If a coon, 1t was skinned and
| likewise frozen.
The old auntie parboiled the possum
with salt and pepper and sage. Then
she roasted him with sweet 'taters, and
served him with corn pone, and the loin
of the beast was hard to beat The coon
was a leaner dish; but the old uncle
and the aunt, his wife, seemed to enjoy
it more than they did the possum. How
ever that may be, all the luxury pur-
veyed to human palate at home or
abroad, at Sherry's here, or at the Star
and Garter there, never gave to palate
more pleasure than the possum and the
coon to those who sat at meat In south
ern kitchen in the long ago, as many a
white boy did.
He who has not gone possum hunting
with an old negro man in the late fall
and nigh winter has missed much.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22

| From the st. Louis Dispatch
Indignant at his demand for contro
of her 100000 dowry and $4,000 in
come. Miss Betty Maben. daughter OF
an American steel magnate. summary
cancelled her engagement to the Count
Mario de Naseimento of Portugal.
Miss Maben is to be congratulated
| on escaping the clutches of a titled
mereenary. Other American heiresses
have been less fortunate.
Anna Gould's exciting experiences
with the dissipated dandy Count Boni
de Castellane, RECALLED the public for
years, and occasionally are brought to
mind even Yet by some new vagary of
the divorced and dlsgruntled count
Helen Mortons marriage to the Due
de Valencay. widely heralded as a love
match, proved more like a lucifer
match. The charming daughter of the
former Vice President resorted to the
divorce court after an extremely brief
and costly welded life.
Pittsburg society is not easily star
tied. But it gasped with surprise when
the roue Earl of Yarmouth kept the
wedding guests waiting an hour in the
church while his attorneys wrangled
in the vestry to enforce his demands
for larger share of the Thaw mil
lions as the price Alice Thaw should
pay for his tawdry title. The mar
rage proved the complete failure to
which it was plainly destined from the
moment of Yarmouth's financial pre-
nuptial coup.
TIE recent death of Prince Franz
Hatzfeldt relieves Clara Huntington of
husband who enjoyed international
fame as a rake
The latest instance of the union of
American beauty and money to a for
eign title is in Chicago, where M. H.
Kngallen is seeking to free his daugh-
ter, Irma, from the youthful Count
Mourik de Beaufort, her husband of
lis da1Sfter's case, neatly expresses
the general experience. mo American
father" he says, Il don't care how
many millions he may possess-is rich
enough to afford a title for his daugh-
ter, Blue-blood husbands come high.
The American girl should marry a real
man, with red blood, and not blue
blood. in his veins, one who will work
and support her, instead of demanding
an allowance and living in idleness."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-11-22
STANDS BY HIS RELIGION

From the Philadelphia Times.
Rev. DR.. Henry Haslam, pastor OF
Gethsemane Baptist church at Eighteenth
street and Columbia avenue, was deliv-
ering an address the other day at min
listers meeting.
II once knew Baptist, an old man
of the hard shell order. To him the
Baptist religion was the only one.
| lone day a friend of him, who was
Methodist, stopped him on the street.
You know there are other ways be-
sides the Baptist way of getting to
heaven, he said.
my Baptist friend drew himself up.
| That's true, there may be- he said,
with whitening scorn, but no gentleman
would take advantage of them ="