The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-30

dow beauties and more than one Is frank | ly gray haired
 | "The other day saw one wearing eye glasses. It must have been something | rather new because others around me were speaking of 1t.
 But what I saw in another window certainly capped the climax. The wax model was not quite so slenderly built few delicate lines in her forehead gave | the familiar middle-aged frown to her expression and there was just a sugges- | ton of the elderly sagglng of the mus cles under the chin. She wore a dis | creetly chosen dress of a shade of lav- ender with trimming of black and white and the whole effect was so original that it attracted more attention than all the other waxen ladies in the show window
 New York's originality again. l said to myself; what next? "
 l Women farmers, doctors, artists, teach CTS, engineers, architects, lawyers min | isters and aviators, as well as dress | makers, millners, mattresses and more | besides, are scheduled to take part in 1 the suffrage parade down Fifth avenue on May 6. Plans for the march are now practically completed, and with one ex- | ception 1t is said that every equal fran chise organization in New York city, to- gether with many out-of-town advocates | of votes for women," will be in line. | Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont's Political Equal 1 ity association is the one society which | Is not down for a place in the parade. Mrs Belmont, 1t Is understood, decidsd | that as an organization the members ot her association would not march; but | 1t is probable that many of those malk- ing up the Political Equality associa- | tion will be along as individuals. | Following the leading banner on | which will be written suffrage verse will come fife and drum corps or | Scottish pipers. Next in line It IS planned to have portrayal or the women of the old days. slight Wom- an in a Sedan chair, carried by four men in knick CT lockers, wigs and cock . | cd hats. will have their place in the | parade. Floats, showing women In earl | Ter home industries, spinning, weaving, | etc, will follow and then the women | of today, in their respective divisions, will march, There will be also delega- | lions of women physicians from Johns Hopkins, Baltimore and some voters | from the west.
 | A customer was protesting that his delivery hoy did not arrive promptly | on Monday and Saturday mornings 10 collect and deliver laundry. "Remem-
  ened So my boy rings him out or | bed twice a week, on Monday and Sat | urday. The tailor who presses his clothes calls on Tuesday. He takes those clothes back on Wednesday morning ats o'clock And on Friday the milk man batters the door until MT Slug | abed comes to pay his weekly milk oili. But if anybody has the nerve to ring that bell on a Sunday morning-well. I've never risked It. We're all his oc- casional alarm clock. He will not pat ronize us unless we agree to deliver al s o'clock In the morning.
 M H. Thomas of Dallas and E. A. Calvin, formerly president of the Texas Farmers union, and number or other well known southe ern cotton men, at tended the spinners' meeting in Bos- ton last week and were present at banquet given by Theodore Il. Price, at which the question of picking cotton by machinery was discussed. The south ern man told the spinners that 1t would be a great thing. Incidentally number of stories were told, and one of the best, 1t seems, was told by Booker T. Washington, who was one of the speak CTS We don't dislike the darkey down south," said one of the southern men who was in Boston. but we understand him. We know that he Is not going to be injured if we are ever able to nick cotton by machinery-as it seems we will be doing soon--but we know his little weakness. He is not a thief, but he will take anything that can be eaten" Washington understands his own race and its weaknesses and strong points. Here Is a story he told at Bos- ton.
 "A commission man down south agreed to buy a certain number of turkeys from
 "a T oh, do time the darkey brought in two or three fine ones. Finally one morning he brought in only one, and 1t was shot all to pieces.
 Here, you, said the buyer; I agreed to buy only coop turkeys; not ones you had to shoot. This turkey is full of shot. What do you mean?"
 'Jes' wait boss jes wait! I never shot no turkey. Amt all done bring you been good?'
 They have been all right, but look at this one!'
 :" 'Fo de Lawd, boss, I neva shot dat turkey: I neva shot no turkey. Has nah deliveries been good up to date. boss?'
 They were all right except this one.'
 "'Shucks, boss, don't say nothing. That ar shot was neva shooted at dat turkey; it was tended foh dis old nig- ger.
 '"The progress of the south in the last few years has no better illustration than in the variety of home manufactures that are displayed in all the stores and are preferred by southern people over the san,e kind Of articles made elsewhere" said Simon R. Golobart, president of large coal company of Chattanooga, Tenn.
 Through the efforts of the Manufactur- ers' association of Chattanooga, and the local papers the people there are realizing more than ever the benefits to be derived from buying goods made in Chattanooga. There are more than 500 different kinds of articles on exhibition in the rooms of the association, all made in Chattanooga.
 Edwin Booths Cigar Case