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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

The ballot if the woman voter Is right is too fine d thing to let men con trol, and yet too vicious as it now stands, to continue In this dilemma one is in R quandary what attitude 10 aosume.
 What Is the nuclei of this discussion that is sweeping over the country? What Is all this clamor of the woman movement In our modern world? Shall call 1t the fear of sexparasitism? that fear that woman is sinking into such a condition, or is 1t the self confidence of the age?
 Looking back along the long line of woman history which she has been travel Ing for centuries winding in and out through the trackless desert of time, we find that she fades into obscurity, f the dark ages of woman history as we turn backward is on the downward slope. then that same woman history has found that the progress of the world has been her salvation then what is the real point at Issue.
 Modern civilization has raised woman from the position of the spinner and the burden bearer to that of recognized factor in the affairs of life. and the mere fact that she does not cast ballot does not deprive her of being a potent factor In the world force of today. We all know the size of the unseen dynamo it's power we recognize.
 Woman now stands on the spot where she can look down the long slope of the dark centuries and fully realize that she has risen rapidly; the wealth production free education free thought all argue progress. Has woman let slip her oppor- tunity? No Time runs like an elevator, both ways, the elevator that carried woman down the ages also brings her up and now she steps out into this world progress and asks. according to the woman voter, that her position be that more of quantity than of qual- lty. Conservation and combination seem to be the watch-doss of progress. In one way or another woman has conserved and combined those quail ties that make her position certain. There are certain ingredients necessary to make steel, just so with the worth while woman; steadiness of purpose. common sense and breadth of mind assures ca pacity.
 In taking a position in life. woman should be more a creative evolution or life force, shaping her life not in accordance with any predetermined plan. but she should grapple with the consclousness ot the hour; when she throws aside the cur
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
The Explosion of a Flower

From Harpers Weekly.
 Sometimes the floral spathe of a great palm tree will fly open with sound like a detonation in a mine. Such an event occurred in the botanical garden in AL giers recently. The spathe, nearly three feet long, was projected to great dis tance and for some moments the head of the palm tree was wreathed with golden The suns heat had roasted the flower to the color of rust. The director of the garden explained the explosion as being due to fermentation in the flower caused by the extraordinary dryness of the air. 4 violent sirocco had just passed Tn Algeria ostrich eggs explode in the same way and from a like cause.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
THE WOMAN WHO NEVER MARRIED
the Recip9 for True Happiness
Being Story Beautiful Well Spent and Containing the
 for Anyone Who Will Accept It

eral divorce law has given them free dom. My freedom Is like that of the birds-the air gives 1t to me. and my duties give me a love for mother earth. I do not long to forget single hour of
 my existence. It has been freighted with experiences that are fortunes to me; but if were young I'd find q common man and marry him.
 I'd lead the simple life and get the best of companionship. It is a most natural desire, that to have a close part Ter, one with whom you can share your blessings, and can whisper your heart aches and find sympathy. I often think of the child who was annoyed by the
 don't of the old maid auntio and when
 patience had ceased to be virtue, he called his father aside and asked, Dad. don't Aunties ever die?'
 1T have steered from this deep problem: ] have brewed my own tea and toasted by own bread, that mo-
 body will number my days. Woman Is natural home maker; her duties are necessarily engaging and she can ere ate her own comforts, but the man who misses his opportunity. who wan ders from boarding house to boarding house with only the solace of a smoke,
 without a promise of a home, has this old maids sincere sympathy. He may not need iT I know 1t does not carry with it the same fragrance as the pity of some pretty young girl, but he has 1t, just the same. and when pass him by I can almost hear him say, poor old spinster, l wonder how many cats you have reared.'
 "Womans life Is always a problem but the only way to solve 1t Is by accepting her share, with unfaltering courage. She never grows too old to want the love of human souls. I have never regretted my experience or De- ing in love. It taught me- that love is the sun of life,' most beautiful in the morning and evening, but warmest and steadiest at noon.
 T am grateful for the experience of my years and when I am gone and If you should say few kind words Of my life, please let this be your last sentence Her life was full of joy of peace. of love- Her work was diligent and she died never regretting she had | lived.'"
 We promised her that her will would
 be executed and then she turned the tables and said: What shall l say of you if you should go first"
 A codicil to my will is this.' she said 'To' you, I bequeath my own
 cook book, begun at the age of 16 end ed -. It carries recipes for the best of everything. and, last, my recom-
 mendation for living.
 Pour into each day your whole heart mix well both contentment and industry, Sift every word you hear or speak and preserve the truth. This combination makes the best cohdition, married or single.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

We met one of those prim little ladies that we all call fold maids few days ago, but she does not use such a term in speaking of herself. She speaks of i've girls who have reached a thinking age." She seemed so satisfied with her estate, and intimated she did not mind defining her position, that we ventured to ask her why she never married. We remembered when she was young and pretty and enjoyed a frolc.
 Yet she never changed her name, and why?. She answers, mot because I did not have chance; of course. there never was a girl that could not have married something there were several that liked, and-who ventured to offer me their precious selves-but they were not the one. l had a mind picture of the man for my life companion. He must be tall and big, and smart, even smarter than anybody else. He must be brave, and true and strong; have force and char acter to command my love. Unless 1 could find that man 1 preferred to wait on and on. One day l found him-be- fore 1 knew his name l knew l had his picture, his image was engraven on my greatest expectations, it remained to be seen whether the man lived up to the standard.
 We met, and I imagined, in me, he had found what was lacking in both our lives.-the companion, with the requisites for congenial living. We soon realized that we were friends; we read alike, thought alike and the maps we had framed for lfe's voyage had the same outlines-we could ask nothing better
 We were too young to marry and neither had money. With our available income we would have starved to death or else imposed upon our friends. So we must wait and work. He moved to the city. where money grew faster, and 1 began to cultivate myself for the duties of home making. l collected the best receipts. had a poultry pen. I learned to handle the milk and butter, and 1 studied the orchard and garden; In fact, was getting ready for the ideal life with my perfect man. Could there have ever been greater happiness? He wrote daily letters, told me of his savings ac- count and how he walked to his duties, and how he longed for that home He never forgot his church. He loved the service; in fact with such d picture be- fore us 1t seemed that home was under construction. He spent his vacation with us, he had grown and to me greater and better.
 This friendship lasted for nearly two years, and he was compelled to postpone his second vacation, he had joined a club and spent much of ais idle hours among the boys I was first to note the change l need not see his face I read between the lines. The man was growing smaller; he had contracted instead of expanding and the picture had changed. tore mine, too, from memory's wall. it had no charm to me.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
By MRS. J. II. REID.

That is why am still Miss. Don't put me down as sour old mald' am not I have led very useful lie. ana l am a very happy woflan never have an idle moment and I only thl,lk or the past as l would very pleasant dream. An experience that comes III the lives of many who love at first sight had spent hours of those young oays in home of my own, had gathered the flowers from my own flower beds. and awaked to find that time grew thisties as well as flowers. I have not the com fort of the pipe of peace that the bache- lors have. I cannot sit amid the fumes of smoke from a good cigar and cancet the days that are gone and speak of what might have been.
 T must reckon with time and prove that useful woman has happiness, even in single blessedness and while man revels with his clubs and games Tor solace find the greatest pleasure in my needle. This has been my welded life. ! re- member in McGuffeys reader what hard time I had learning among the first les sons. Ann. can you sew? See, l can sewn And do you know uot day of my life I do not rejoice to exclalm that lesson, See, can sew'
 q have my home; what woman would be without one? The vines climb, and the breezes blow, the cock crows at the break of day, and I live in great happiness, with spare room for my friends, and who would be without friends! l wish you could see my workstand, 1t Is made from great big gourd that has r1illdewed with time It is mounted on corn stalks. I planted those gourd seed and the corn when I was practicing home making.
 q have gathered every fragment or the past and placed them where 1 would see them hourly; yes, just bits of wom- ans folly Not folly to love and plan for full life, but truly a sin to expect perfection in human nature, knowing even the weakness of ones self. would have given the world if could have loved an ordinary men. IT had never seen my model perhaps I could I never saw my ideal after knew he was made of clay like other 1olks. or perhaps others would have appeared even greater.
 Tt is blessed opportunity to be able to reflect cheerfully over the pictures you have drawn for yourself ,and t2 see the wisdom of fate. I view conditions now from a logical standpoint, and am glad that we were too poor to marry when the spirit moved us If we should have wandered apart afterward, both lives would have been spoiled. As 1t is, have had many laugh with friends at my great expectations We could never have been happy wit hour different ideas Of life that developed after we bad seen it apart I am glad to have known life as have
 q watch those who have married and drifted apart. The vow meant nothing when 1t required sacrifice, and the lio-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

I generally find out they are quite differ ont from one another before l get through
 And the easiest subjects?" I interro- gated
 Are the people who have no decided views of their own." was the answer, but allow me to use my own judgment as to the best method of taking their pictures. Only recently I had a rather funny experience A pretty girl came in to have her photograph made, but she wasn't willing for me to have word to say about it. I was to press the button that was all-beyond that I had nothing whatever to do. She declared she wouldn't have profile picture, nor a full face, nor her head tilted, nor a three quarter length picture, but aside from that could make any sort of picture I
 wanted to- I let her get 1t all out Of her system, and finally she Topped down in chair-rather fell into it gracefully, and before she knew it I gave her head bit of a twist and tossed her hand light ly on her lap and requested her to stop drowning, and before she knew 1t had a lovely pose and from 1t l got beaut-
 ful photograph"
 Do photographers ever tell people to
 look pleasant any more?'' | asked. T don't think they do," MT. Wilson l laughingly answered. They've come to recognize that If they have to ASK any body to look pleasant they are apt to get a very unnatural expression and very poor pose. The photographer who says, Please smile, is another example of the workman quarreling with his tools.' We went through the beautiful studio, with all of its lovely draperies and ele- gant furniture, and MT. Wilson pointed out the various devices of the photogra- pher's art and when I asked him what the really proper term for photographer was-whether "art photogra pher.' ''artis- ] tic photographer" or what, he modestly said:
 q like the term. artist photographer"
 Even then I didn't exactly know what i he meant for the dozens of exquisite
 usual and very much out of the ordinary, 1 whether they were the work of an
 artist or of regular photographer '
 "Photographv in it's broadest sense" 1 MT Wilson told me- is a means of ex- presson, and while the fundamentals of
 art must be called upon to some extent
 to make photography artistic, the real l object nowadays Is to convey the tenn | perament of the subject--to catch the sub l feet as it REALLY is and get the per- , sonality Into the picture" 6
 Besides a great number livery striking | pictures of well known men in Brming- l ham and all over the state, the Stephen son studio has some very lovely studies
 in outdoor effects--wonderful trees an ] l landscapes and cloud effects that are 1 truly beautiful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
TO THE MEMBERS
 as. ALA. DIV. U. D. c.

Greeting: With this issue of The Age Herald 1t affords me great pleas ure to say to the Daughters of Ala bana that The Age Herald has kindly given space to the Alabama division each Sunday for the very important information which we must all heed, general convention. U. D. C., in Wash ington. November 12.
 I hope the Daughters of Alabama will show appreciation of this courtesy. l hope every member will not only pre- serve the information herein contained each Sunday hereafter for future ref erence but that each will pass on the news that The Age Herald will carry official information to the U. D. c. un- til December l. By that time 1t is believed we will come to some definite conclusion regarding our own official organ.
 The letter from our president-gen h. eral which follows. has been sent to presidents of all chapters except the few who hold meetings in October. If any president should not have received hers or should be absent, will not the members who see this transmit IL to their chapters? In this way every mem Der will be perfectly familiar with the work before us.
 Do not forget that your Alabama d. vision president has offered beau tiful silver loving cup to that member who will organize the greatest number of new chapters In order that we may make a showing for this at the Mo- vember convention in Washington we should form chapters Immediately children's chapters, also. For informa- ton regarding formation of chapters see constitution and page on general information in Mobile minutes. Help your division to make as fine showing as any other at the Wash ington convention. The next important obligation is the promise given at Greenville to our Alabama division deficit fund. Remember that the divf- sion scholarship and the money for Greenville minutes, new stationery. etc, must soon be met and after all bills have been paid there will not be sufficient money to meet the demand. If your chapter did not promise any thing at Greenville convention to the deficit fund, will you not do so now? Will not some members stir their chap ters up to this important obligation? And now in conclusion let me add to our presiding-generals greetings my own best wishes, and my love and deep appreciation of all your kindess to me. and of your splendid loyalty to your division. Faithfully yours.
 MARIELOU A. CORY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08

FFOm IfeNlous IuECD
  q brace of old maids on the important question of-wrinlSles.
 Tell me something about the new pro- cess of making pictures at home?" I asked MT. Wilson. as he showed me sev- eral of Birminghams most beautiful women whose photographs have been made by the, new method, known as Home Portraiture."
 Tt has only been a year or so that we have been able to make portraits at home," MT. Wilson answered, but now Home Portraiture Is an art in itself. We are able now to produce pictures of our patrons in their homes, in their own atmosphere and surroundings, which are often much more pleasing than studio pictures"
 Just what advantage has tie DOT trait made in the home over the studio pcture?'' l asked
 Tn making sittings at home We are shls fe gst beautiful effects and results
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
New State Officers

The new officers of the Alabama di- vision U. D. c. are as follows: Mrs Virginia Clay Clopton, Huntsville, honorary life president.
 Mrs. Chappell Cory, Roebuck Springs, Birmingham, president
 Mrs II: w. Christian, Mobile, first vice president.
 Mrs. B. T. Roberts. Clayton, second vice president. Mrs c. S. Tutwiler, Dothan, recording : secretary. M Mrs. W. K McAdory. Birmingham. corresponding secretary.
 Mrs k. B. Dickerson, Greenville, treas urer.
 Mrs J. Townes Leigh Montgomery, his torian.
 Mrs E. P. Garrett, Belle Nina, reg istrar.
 Mrs J. A. Rountree Birmingham Mrs. Alfred Benners, Birmingham
 Special Committees
 Mrs. c. A. Lanier, Alabama's represen- tative for Arlington monument, South Perry street, Montgomery.
 Mrs F. w. Webster, Alabama's repre- sentative for Chisholm monument, New Decatur.
 Mrs. A. W. Newson, chairman Gettys- burg, Ala, monument, Huntsville. Mrs. Leonard Hobart, director Children of Confederacy, Birmingham.
 Mss Mary Clayton, chairman Alabama Room. Confederate Museum Richmond, EUfaula
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
Seaboard On Tim, Line

Begs to announce we still have on our bargain counter some very entic- ing tours to New York, Washington. Atlanta. very low rates: New York. s41.s5; Washington. $23.25 Atlanta, s5-25; Wrightsville, s15 Electric light ed individual berth lights, fans, solid
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
Standing Committees

SOLDIERS HOME. | Mrs. c. H. Beale. chairman, Montgom- cry; Mrs. J. H. Kirkpatrick, Montgom- cry; Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, Montgomery; Mrs. William A Gayle, Montgomery' Mrs. George Stowers, Montgomery Mrs. L. S. Hanley, Birmingham; Mrs. A. B. Hough Union Springs. SCHOLARSHIP. l Mrs. L. M. Bashinsky. chairman. Troy; Mrs J. F. Frazier, Birmingham; Miss Meta Thompson, 162 Warren street, Mo- bile; Mrs. Edward Trimble, Montgom- cry Mrs w. T. Sanders, Athens. l EDUCATION. | Mrs C. c. Thach, chairman, Auburn; Mrs. Electra Semmes Colson. Mobile; Mrs Charles Henderson, Troy; hirs. Mary McCowey, Tuscaloosa; Mrs. w. T.. Palmer, Montevallo; Miss Mary Forney Jacksonville; Miss Julia Tutwiler, Liv- | ingston Mrs. A. D. Smith, East Lake; Mrs. Mary c. Pickens, Greensboro; Mrs | w. l.. Martin, Athens; Mrs. Lena Bos- tic. Marion; Mrs. Archie Carmichael. Tuscumbia; Mrs. F. H. Elmore. Mont gomery; Mrs. F. H. Carter, Bessemer; Miss J. w. Shaw. Birmingham; Mrs E. Y. Dent, Eufaula; Mrs M. w. Cam per, Florence; Mrs. W. w Whitehead Anniston.
 HISTORY.
 Mrs. J. Townes Leigh, chairman. Montgomery; Mrs. Ellen Peter-Bryce, Tuscaloosa; Miss Eliza Bullock, Mont 1 gomery; Mrs. Afford Benners, Birming i ham, Mrs. Harvey E. Jones, Montgom- cry; Mrs G. ". Taylor. Demopolis, Mrs. Memory Peebles. Athens
 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS | Dr. Thomas M. Owen, state depart ment of archives and history; Dr. George Petrie. Alabama Polytechnic in stitute; Prof Joel c. DuBose, Birming- ham. MT. George w. Duncan, Auburn Mir John l.. Moulton, commander Ala bama division, United Southern Con- federate veterans. Mobile; Mir. M. w Camper. Florence.
 CHAPTER EXTENSION | Mrs Charles G. Brown, general chair | man
 | First Subdivision-Mrs.H Harvey D. Ware chairman Florence Mrs. John Deiony, Tuscumbn; Mrs F. E. Cailen, Gadsden
 Second Subdivision-Mrs z. M Tardy, chairman Birmingham Mrs. Benjamin Russell Alexander City; Mrs. Charles G. | Maxwell, Tuscaloosa.
 | Third Subdivision-Mrs. J. Fl. Crenshaw, | chairman, Montgomery Mrs. A. l.. Eau | cett Prattvile: Mrs. E. NJ Byrne, Selma l Fourth Subdivision-Mrs. Henry Harris chairman. Union Springs; Mrs. J. L. Henry, Scale; Mrs. G. D. Rogers, Tus- | kegee.
 AUDITING.
 Mrs. John NJ Moulton, chairman, Mo- bile; Mrs. Jefferson Beeland, Greenville; | Mrs. s, E. Gardner Birmingham.
 HISTORICAL SOUVENIRS. 1 Mrs. ". L. Durr, chairman, Montgom- cry, Mrs. J. A. Rountree. Birmingham Mrs key Murphree, Troy; Mrs. l.. B.. 1 Whitfield, Court street Montgomery; Mrs. : II. E. Strlngfellow. Birmingham; Mrs. ! Frances Wilson. Hartford; Mrs. John Eberhardt. Montsomery Mrs. J. H. Chris tan. Mobile: Mrs. R. F. Elmoie. Demopo- | lis. PLACES AND EVENTS. x Mrs s3is P. Ross, chairman; Auburn, :, Mrs J. H. Bankhead, Jasper; Mrs. Jo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
 DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
By MARI7LoU A. CORY

seph Johnston, Birmingham; Mrs. Eml met O'Neal, Montgomery. Mrs. VirginiF Clay Clopton. Huntsville; Mrs. John K Knox, Anniston; Miss Bessie Rathel5 Tuscumbia; Mrs Charles G. Brown. Bfr7 mingham; Mrs. w. M Adams, Clantons Miss Alma Rittenberry. Birmingham Mrs B. T. Roberts, Clayton; Mrs. w L. Durr, Montgomery; Mrs. Mccoy. Cuthbert; Mrs. Priscilla Goodwin Grandview; Mrs. A. W. Cawthon, Selma Mrs George c. Ball, Birmingham.
 Associate Members Highways Com mittee)-Hon. R. E. Spragins, Hunts vile; Senator J. H. Bankhead, Jasper. Senator Joseph Johnston, Birmingham Gov Emmet O'Neal, Montgomery; Gen George F. Harrison, Opelika; Gen. E w. Fucker, Birmingham; MT. G. NJ Cruikshank, Birmingham; Judge L. H Reynolds, clanton; MT. Peter J. Ham, ilton, Mobile; MT. Clifford A. Lanier Montgomery, Congressman Oscar Under, wood, Congressman R. P. Hobson, MT James A. Going, MT. H. C. Sexton, com. mander Sons of Veterans.
 Convention Committees
 Credentials-Mrs Dan Smith, chairman Avondale. Mrs. s. T. Frazer, Union Springs; Mrs. S. G. Wolff. Demopolisl Mrs. H. L. Martin. Ozark, Mrs. s. D Armstrong, Decatur.
 iiapiuueiice-Mrs J<lzzle B. Reeves chairman, Montgomery; Mrs. Charles J. sharp. Birmingham Mrs. J. P. McAdory Bessemer.
 Condensing Minutes-Mrs. Jessie Lamar, chairman. Montgomery; Mrs. Mary P Watt. Montgomery; Mrs c. A. Lanier, Montgomery, Mrs. G. A. Dyer, Birmins- ham; Mrs. R. U. Edmonson, Eufaula.
 Transportation-Mrs. M. D. Curtis. chairman, Camden; Mrs J. H. Falkner. Auburn: Mrs. Joe Nathan, Sheffield: Mrs c. W. McMahon. Livingston Mrs. E. T, Daniel, Ayondale; Mrs. Belle George. Clanton; Mrs. W. W. Williams, Birming- ham; Mrs. H. D. McCarty, Anniston Mrs. c. D. Hamilton, Greenville: Mrs Frank Wollenwerck. Montgomery; Mrs. Emily B. White, Troy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-08
 STUDIO EXHIBITS
 MANY PHRASES OF
 HUMANITY'S WHIMS

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