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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-02
1910 Plain Shirt Waist.
"a to bust

Under-Arm Cores Extended to
Form Gussets.
The plain shirt waist that is made in
peasant style Is a new and smart one.
This one is finished with the regulation
box plait and with regulation sleeves,
but it is no trouble to make, as the
sleeves make part of the waist and do
not require fitting to the ~arn1holes, The
under-arm cores that are extended In
to the sleeve portions to form gus
sets provide additional freedom and
snug fit. In the illustration. French
percale is finished with simple stitch
ing. but waists of this kind are made
from all simple, s~easonable materials,
silk and flannel, as we'll as the wash
able ones. When the neck is finished
with a neck-band, the waist can be
worn with any preferred collar or
small view. the round collar is Joined
to the neck edge.
The blouse is made with two main
portions, that are Joined at the centor
back, and the underarm cores. The
openings In the sleeves are finished
with over-laps and the straight cuffs
are Joined to the lower edges. The
pocket can be used or omitted as liked
The neck can be finished either with q
iEeck-band or round collar.
For the medium size will be required
. 3-8 yards of material q, 2 Ia yards
So or Al inches wide.
The pattern, No. 707o. is cut in sizes
for a "a, SO. 3S. 40, AZ n "A inch bust
measure.
1t will be mailed to any address by
the Fashion Department OF this ape
on receipt of ten cents.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-02
Defined In Color.

Il suppose your new baby is q deli
cate pink" chaffed Brown NO" sad
White; shes a robust yeller."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-02

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-08-02

was an ample n my happy life with
Helen has abundantly demonstrated.
THE END.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
Trade Carnival Suggestion

Sol Caheen's suggestion that Bir- mingham have trade carnival in May is well worth considering. The Music Festival association has defi- ntely decided to hold festival this year the fourth week in May-the week of the National Good Roads convention. It might be we'll to have a trade carnival at the same time and make the week beginning May 22 gala time in every respect; the most festive week in Birmingham's s history.
 On the other hand, if trade car nival were held the first or second week in May, and be designed and carried out on the grand scale which MT. Caheen suggests, two great crowds of visitors would in this way be assured in the same month. But the main point was expressed by MT. Caheen when he said: Birmingham and the people of Alabama need an outburst of the carnival spirit. It has been a long time since they have had anything of the kind offered to them. If we would all get together I believe we could put on an enter tainment that would rebound to our credit and at the same time be good thing for the business men of the city"
 This is an age of stupendous un- dertakings and high pressure energy, and Birmingham is notably city of strenuous life. All the more then are carnivals and festivals needed. Busy people should never fail to remember the trite saying: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" A variety of diversions should be found in every large city. The music festi- val is to be on more attractive scale this spring than ever before, and if we have a trade carnival it should be attractive enough to draw people from the remotest parts of Alabama and neighboring states.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
The May EeatiYaI

Birmingham will not only have d three days music festival in May, at the time the National Good Roads con- vention meets here, but it promises to be the biggest festival event ever held in the south," said man who keeps in close touch with local musical affairs.
 'Victor Herbert, the composer-conduc- tor, will bring his orchestra and an ex- ceptionally brilliant galaxy of vocal ar tists One or two celebrities of world wide popularity will be engaged as extra attractions. Birmingham is especially fond of the Damrosch orchestra, and there is no question but what Damroscn would have been engaged for the festi- val this year could his schedule been arranged for the latter part of May. Ever since last fall he has been signed up for an extensive southern and west ern. tour this spring. When the festi- val association took the matter up with him recently the only dates he had open for Birmingham were the dates that he had understood were wanted by the To- cal management. May g. 10. Il, but after full consideration President Holcombe and his executive committee came to tho business-like conclusion that 1t would be best to have the festival during the good roads meet. An immense crowd will be here on that occasion, and vast fes- tival audiences are, therefore, assured for each performance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22

premier. The times were strenuous.
 The masses of the people were in re-
 volt against autocratic rule and
 Stolypin attempted to institute re-
 forms that would placate them. He
 did much toward giving Russia a
 parliament and constitution-much toward the extension of public edu- cation. and much toward substituting proprietorship for the community system of land ownership. He stood for reforms of all kinds suited to the Russian people, and his resignation, which has been accepted, is a dis tinct-1oss to popular government and a gain to the reactionaries in Russia. The latter could not control Stolypin, and they have at length driven him out of public life. Russia has lost perhaps the only man who could have gradually lifted her up to the stand ard of the more advanced countries of the world. At present she is back ward in education and development and generations of public education are needed in order to bring the inn mense population up to modern standards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
Chicago and Birmingham

T have watched many cities grow
 said R. T. Sawyer of Detroit. "but for town only 40 years old Birmingham easily takes the lead
 T have heard some of the older cit izens of Chicago who have recently been here-those who settled in the great lake metropolis soon after the civil war say that Birmingham reminded them of their city as it was 40 years ago, when they first saw it. Chicago had a larger population in 1870 than Birmingham has but there is the same interest in this city throughout the country that was manifested in Chicago S5 or 40 years ago. Thousands upon thousands of peo- pie felt that Chicago was a city of des- tiny and the same may be said in con- nection with Birmingham today. Chicago has surprised it's most enthusiastic prophets of the early days and Birming- ham will do likewise This town is cer- tainly headed for the 100000 class
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
TWO QUAINT TYPES


 "You wouldn't think that devotion to duty could be carried to ridiculous extreme in these careless days, would you?" young man asked who lived in Thirty-fourth street boarding house. Well, let me tell you about two old fel- lows who come under my observation every day. They are brothers. and must be pretty close to 60 Both are employed as bookkeepers by the same firm, big wholesale house downtown. They are inseparable, except that they positively refuse to take the same train, either going to, or coming home from business. They leave the house togeth- CT. walk to the Thirty-third street ele- vated station, and then toss up a coin to see which one takes the first train, and which waits for the next. l had mo- ticed this proceeding several times, and finally asked one of them about it..
 ".Well, you see, it's this way he said My brother and have kept the books for our house for great many years and we have an intimate knowl- edge of the accounts. If anything should happen to us both, a railroad &C., cident, for instance, 1t would cause the firm a great deal of annoyance. That's why we never take the same train
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
IS TIT WORTH wHILEs

By Joaquin Miller. Is it worth while that we jostle .
 brother.
 Bearing his load on the rough road of Is it worth while that we jeer at each
 other,
 In blackness of heart-that we war to
 the knife? @k God pity us all in our pitiful strife! God pity us all as we jostle each other; God pardon us all for the triunphs we
 feel fs When 2 fellow goes down; poor heart Pierced to the heart-words are keener
 than steel, -ss-
 And mightier far for woe or for veal Were it not well in this brief little jour
 ney, :
 tide, f We give him . Ash instead of serpent, Ere folding the hands to be and abide, For ever and aye, in dust at his side? Look at the roses saluting each other; Look at the herds all at peace on the
 plain; Man. and man only, makes war on. his And aotss in his heart on his peril and
 pain. sx shsmed by the brutes that go down on
 the plain. f Is it worth while that we battle to hum
 ble s3. Some poor fellow traveller down into the
 dust? stf 44 God pity us all! Time too soon will us
 tumble.
 : All of us humbled down into the dust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
Resignation of Premier Stolypin

The resignation of Premier Stoly- pin was brought about by the rejec- tion in the council of the empire of bill to grant self government to nine western provinces. The bill was one of the measures that M. Stolypin had devbed looking to more liberal and satisfactory rule in the vast empire. He has been opposed in all of them by the reactionaries, who want a minimum of popular action, and he has at length been driven out of of- flee. The council of the empire con- sists of ministers of state and other dignitaries, and none of it's members are elected. All are appointed by the Car, and it very naturally repre- Sents oligarchical rule.
 Peter Arkazhevich Stolypin served in various high stations from the time of his graduation at the Uni versity of St. Petersburg in 1884 un- til 1906, when, upon the resignation of Goremykin he was appointed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22

From the New York Herald.
 The Kissing Walk, or Walking Kiss new phase of the enticing prac- tice of osculation, was brought to public attention in the supreme court before Justice Pendeton by a witness in the Harden-Hoops s150,0O alienation suit.
 Owing to the prevailing architecture of New York apartment houses, the new kiss possesses clements of popularity According to Miss Mayme McEnerney, a soft-spoken little woman, who was a nurse in the home of Percival Lee Har- den publisher of the Club Fellow, the prime requisite for the Kissing Walk is a long, dark hallway-the longer the better-though Miss McEnerney, not hay ing qualified as an expert, did not vouch for that.
 'Is used to see Mrs. Harden and MT. Hoops in a sort of kissing walk, or walk ing kiss, l guess you would call it' Miss McEnerney said coyly, in relating some of the incidents she observed in the Harden home
 ''Tell us all about it, said Mir Har- den's lawyer while every one leaned forward with eagerness.
 ''They would start at one end of the hallway, with their arms around each other, and walk to the other end, all the time partaking of one kiss"
 An audible chorus of yum yums'' echoed through the court room.
 Miss McEnerney hastened to volunteer that she hadn't been spying on Mrs. Harden. She happened upon the walk ing kiss quite unexpectedly while look ing after her charge, a baby niece of Mrs. Harden, who had a habit of crawl ing right into the scene of action.'
 The nurse testified that on many oc- casions, while she lived in the Harden apartment, in Central Park West, she had seen Mrs. Harden and MT Hoops Towing each other" When they were not kissing and hugging, she said they used to sit around and smoke scent ed cigarettes. When MT. Harden was not at home, Miss McEnerney said Mrs Harden called MT. Hoops Billy" and he called her rSweetheart," but when MT Harden was around their attitude toward each other was quite formal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
Congress of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the grant ing of it's charter by holding scien- tific congress in its buildings April 10 and II. The papers to be read on that occasion will cover such sub- jects as architecture, business ad- ministration, economics, public health and factory sanitation, industrial or ganization and training, power pro- duction and distribution, materials and manufacturing processes, and reclamation of arid lands. The ap- plication of science to the practical affairs of life will be surveyed and described, and among the speakers will be men of the highest distinction in specialized applied science.
 The Massachusetts institute in its fifty years of activity has accom- plished a far-reaching work in the advancement, development and prac- tical application of science in connec- tion with arts, agriculture, manufac- ture and commerce" Other excellent technological schools have been modelled on the Massachusetts "tech."
 A half century ago technical edu- cation received little attention in this country, but in recent years the de- mand for trained men in all branches of industrial development has be- come imperative, and this demand will continue to increase. The south has had for many years the Georgia Pathological school at Atlanta, an institution of very high rank, and since its establishment a number of | first-class technological institutions have been in successful operation in various southern states. Alabama has Auburn and a finely equipped engineering school at the University. Both Auburn and the University train hundreds of young men for industrial work, and many of their graduates will find ready employment in the Birmingham district.
 All educators who have to do with technology have special respect for the great institution at Boston, and the University and Auburn, along with other scientific schools in the south, should be represented at the congress next month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
LITERATURE OF MEXICO
n Inc plttsh,lrq Gazette- Times.

| From the Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
 There is one policy of Diaz that has
 hardly received the attention it's merits, | both because of it's uhiqueness among
 modern nations and it's peculiar benefits
 in regard to Mexico. This is the policy,
 pursued with reasonable consistency, of giving government positions to literary
 men, enabling them to live by serving
 their country when they probably could
 rot have lived from the income of their
 pens. Since the days of the Medicean
 court and Weimars golden age this
 policy of fostering literature has found no more illustrious exponent than Diaz.
 There was Jose Maria Vigil, for in
 stance, the most erudite scholar of
 Mexico-poet, dramatist, historian and philosopher. He was made librarian of
 the national library, which contains about 100000 volumes Juan de Dios Peza, whose poetic works have been repub- lished in Madrid and Paris, was secre- tary of the minister of communication and public works in his spare time. An tonic Penafiel, noted writer on arch geology, was director general of statis- tics. Eduardo Ruiz, the most popular story teller in Mexico, was solicitor gen. eral of the republic. Alfredo Chavero, many of whose dramas have been played throughout Spain and who has written the most important historical work pro- duced in modern Mexico, held several important government positions Justo Sierra, orator. poet, novelist and histor- ian, was magistrate of the supreme court and minister to Madrid. Joaquin Casasus, one of the worlds most noted financial experts has held some important govern ment posts while translating Longfel- lows "Evangelne" and the odes of Horace.
 A few of Mexico's men of letters have been able to make their living by their pens alone, and some of them have been journalists or churchmen. The great ma jority could never have eked out an ex- istence and written their works if it had not been for the wise and generous policy adopted by Diaz. In a country where illiteracy is still so prevalent as in Mexico the sales of books and the tangible rewards of authorship are cor slim. This policy has en- writers, afforded them leisure, made them independent of the rabble's for Mexico that the republic need not be ashamed of. Whatever criticism may be directed against Diaz as an admins trator, as a patron of letters he ought to be recognized as the chief influence that has brought Mexican literature to an eminent responsibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
THE PRESIDENTS SECRETARY

Writing in the issue of Harpers Week ly for March IS. Edward G. Lowry dis cusses MT. Taft's third venture in ob- taining secretary-Charles Dewey Hil- les. Neither of the Presidents previous secretaries was a success Fred w. Carpenter broke down under the strain and betook himself to Morocco as min ister. He lasted from March, 1909 until June. 1s1o Charles Dyer Norton, his successor, who had been an insurance agent in Chicago, lasted from June, 1s1J. until the present. ITO all intents and purposes MT. Norton broke the backbone of his usefulness to the President when the famous insurgent letter became pub lie at Beverly last summer. He never quite fitted into the Washington envirol- ment. Mir Norton was apparently curi- ously unable to sense the difference be- tween Chicago and Washington. His triumph and successes must lie else- where"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
THEATRE AND PUBLIC

William Winter in Harper's Weekly.
 "The public does and will attend tho theatre. no matter what is presented in it--not all the public. indeed. but large section of it. Not all the public, for the reason that, in New York and in many other cities, the better part of the community has been, for a long time and to large extent, practically alienated from the theatre, because of the wrong managerial policy largely prevalent in it. One spokesman of the new dramatic elevation, MT. l.. K. Anspacher, an- nounces that he has no patience with the critics who complain of the things of today'-in which case a multitude If his fellow citizens languish in his dis pleasure; for it is not professional critics alone, but a vast number of other per- sons, averse to dirt, folly. frivolity, pre- tension, arrogance, Injustice, extortion, and intimidation, who do not like certain
 things of today in the theatre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
Clerical Errors in Legislative Bills

SiSilSdl 1iIOIS Ill heSioidliNc DiilS
 The Birmingham commission bill will be returned to the house and sen ate for amendment. Governor O'Neal has discovered another clerical error in it. A line had been omitted. This is the second time the bill has been sent back because of clerical errors, and if clerical errors occur in one bill they undoubtedly occur in other bills. These troubles suggest the wisdom of getting clerks who can be trusted to transcribe bill without commit ting errors.
 The session is nearing it's end and there is little time indeed in which to correct the errors of clerks. Under one clerical error in this bill this city would have been compelled to have selected commissioners under 25 years of age. Governor O'Neal de- tected this error and sent the bill back, and now he finds an error re- lating to the eligibility of officers. One more clerical error will defeat the bill through the lack of time. The errors may have been simply stupid and then again they may have been something worse.
 The legislature of the Conner regime was afflicted in like manner, and a repetition of the trouble in the present administration calls for re- form in the selection of the clerical force of the two houses. Clerks selected by politicians are pretty sure to be clerks who propose to do a minimum of work, and until some one is held responsible for clerical errors in the enrolment of bills such errors will be committed. The true remedy consists in holding the clerk in each house responsible for the acts of his subordinates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
THE NEW THEATRES NEW SITE From the New York Times.

From the New 1Ork Times.
 The announcement this morning of the site selected for the new structure of the New theatre, a plot on the north side of Forty-fourth and the south side of Forty fifth streets, adjoining the Hotel Astor, will be received with satisfaction by all who hope for the ultimate success of size, and the situation, in the heart of the Times square district, and the the atrical center of Manhattan. could not be better chosen. There will be room for the opening of a new street at the east end of the theatre, between it and the hotel, from sForty-fourth to Forty-fifth street, which will provide ample space for the carriages at night.
 Plans for the theatre have not yet been made public. but we assume that the stage will be at its western end, with large vestibules and corridors on the north, south and east sides. Of course, the auditorium will occupy less space than that in the edfice in Central Park west, and will more closely follow the plan of the other New York playhouses. Manhattan is a city of recognized cen ters. The shape of the island and the methods of public transit have made this Inevitable. The New theatre will be in the established theatrical center, and its artistic influence will not be lessened on that account
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
The Commission Bill

T don't believe the bill providing for government by commissioners for the city of Birmingham is constitutional, said Walter Moore, member of the aldermanic board, yesterday.
 There Is no doubt but that the bill, when it is finally signed by the gov ernor, will be tested in the courts. And incidentally I am inclined to believe that before the governor signs it he will send it back for one other amend ment.
 Ut is clear to my mind that even if the bill, as a whole, is constitutional, there are certain sections of 1t which are not. For instance, I believe that 1t will be necessary for the three com missioners to run before the people in the general election of 1912.
 Judge Fort was compelled to run, was he not? Well, this is similar case"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-22
An Extra Session Not Needed


 If the members of the legislature desire to escape severe and general censure they will work today and from today to the end of the session to finish the business they were elected to transact. The business of the session must be rounded up in eight days, and this can be done if all will pull together and work over time.
 Much remains to do that should have been done earlier, but in eight legislative days the calendar of even the house can be cleared. But whether it is or not the state does not want an extra session. The revenue bill, the liquor regulation bills and the various appropriation measures can be passed this week or next, and then the average citizen is ready to see the session come to an end.
 The present legislature has not covered itself with glory and an ex- tra session would detract from the small appreciation it has earned. Such a session can be avoided if the mem- bers are willing to work from this time on until the close of the fiftieth legislative day. Work overtime would simply make good work un- dertime in the earlier stages of the