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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
Dolly Talks About "W;11o,u P1uned" Working Girl

Black velvet it was, rolling in picture aeroplane in flight, forming a little valley in which was planted two enormous Ce- rise that nisnamed color for which no reason can be found) )-Williow Plumes
 1t would have been bad enough if the plumes had been black-but Cerise. that abominality in shade-that imitation of brilliant cherry. than which none ever grew with a complexion warranted to give mental astigmatism at a glance like that,
 Did you look at the poor little things face?' Betty asked pathetically.
 Tt was protected by a coat of white wash of some description and with rouge if that's any protection against the cold'
 'one of that type that Edna Ferber describes said Betty, whose minds are bounded on the North by the Nickle Pic ture Shows, on the East by I sez ter him. on the South by the gorgeous shop Windows and on the West by He sez ter me. Don't you remember?'
 Her hands were encased in summer weight gloves and quickly as she passed 1t was noticeable that the front finger tips were out and her wrists were barred between the short length gloves and the coat sleeves.
 1 Vanity said Betty, thou art IS years old and sadly in need Of good switch ing. Lacking parents who dare not dis cipline you. the Health authorities should not let you run unreproved You may not know the penalty" shouldn't say the queer little Human Being who was turning the next corner by this time knew anything, but this one girl that Betty and I happened to notice last Thursday morning is only one of a small army of underclothed little working girls in the great melee of hu- manity today.
 Any day you may see them. from the early morning hours when they go to their work, until late in the evening when they start back home. These same girls, with lovely faces under pitifully absurd hats
 Girls who ape the fashions of the dag zling creatures they see stepping from limousines.
 Girls who starve body and soul in order to possess a set of false eurls or a pair of high-heeled slippers with mother-of- pearl buckles.
 They all look like Casey's song:
 I'm going crazy,
 Don't you want to come along?9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

ments and dubious compacts with wild islanders.
 The appeal of this story to the perpet- lal boy in every man-the boy who stlll hopes for highwaymen and pirates and heroic reseues of wonderfully fair ladies. It is a yachting adventure, full of bluster- ing high spirits and contagious with the Joy of life. Priseillsa is Irresistible be- cause sine is spontafeous. In her Mir. Birmingham has created character the equal of Lalage and J. J. Meldon in her capacity for nirth-making. The sworn enemy of propriety and sedateness, she whistles across these pages like a riot ous young wind. carrying the atmos- phere of health with her. She is MT Blr- mingham's most invigorating heroine
 THE RED CROSS GIRL By Richard Harding Davis. Illustrated by Wallace Morgan. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
 Mir Richard Harding Davis, Past Grand Master in the art of story telling. appears at his best in his latest collec- ton of short stories done into an ex- quiste volume entitled 'The Red Cross Girl"
 Acquaintance with his past stories lends a pleasurable zest in the perusa1 of his new collection and in the seven stories teresting character
 Each has it's whimsical touch of hu- nor and It's intensely human touch. which appeals at once to the reader and makes a favorable impression from the beginning as what is to follow
 In 'eThe Red Cross Girl MT. Davis
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blooming cheeks and sparkling eyes tripped out into the Waiting Room from the incoming train.
 What attracted me to her was her sem sible dress
 She had a good warm coat on and high tan boots
 She disappeared into the Ladies' Room, and presently she arrived again. and you can imagine my horror when | tell you that she had changed her sensible shoes to hgh-hee slipers and silk stockings.
 She had checked her heavy coat, and in- stsshd of it she wore a Marabout stole and carried a large Marabout muff and h place of the nice thick cotton gloves she had on white kid ones-and alto gether was dressed up like "a horse and buggy
 She blithely sailed out into the cold and the rain-for 1t was a rainy day-and the last I saw Of her she was shivering and pinehed looking and with all her first beauty Of wholesome comfort belitting he station in life, gone, sine was standing outside waiting for a crowded car to take her down to the shopping district
 Between her and the little factory girl rolled several hundred years of prosper ity and advantage-yet what was the dif- ference in tho Final Analysise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

Personally, I suppose, said Betty, as the wind whistled and whined around the corner of half dozen sky -scrapers, as we stood waiting for car the other day. that it's none of my business. but eth- ically and morally, think the situation ought to be taken in hand by the au- thorities. Look at her"
 The HER" indicated by Bettys eyes was a little gray-faced thing, an under grown girl. with wisps of blonde hair, and no chest to speak of, and one of those mashed-looking black hats.
 She wore slippers of suede with high Louis heels, and enormous buckles and her stockings were of the texture of cob- webby gauge.
 Her suit which was thin enough to dart straws through. revealed, by the way it lent itself to the November wind, that hers was indeed the petticoatless and almost underwearless condition.
 The coat cut very low showed waist cut in sailor fashion, with a "V' in front and all she wore at her throat was 2 string of cheap pearl beads.
 But her HAT.
 That was the most wonderfully and iearfully made thing that you ever be- heidi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
THE OLYMPIAN.t

THE OLYMPIAN." "A STORY OF THE CITY, By James 0ppenhein. Harper Brothers, New York.
 In ''The Olympian," MT. James Oppen- helm, who must not be confounded. as he sometimes is, with the author, who bears his .surname-Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim has written very graphic and inter esting story of young mans rise 10 power and to wealth in the great city. ,sThe Olympian" is an exceptionally good story and Mir Oppenheim has used all his best powers in character delinea- ton and plot. holding his readers inter- est from first to last
 The story tells of young man from 4 small Ohio town, who goes to New York filled with dreams of success and power.
 Kirby Trask. for such Is the hero's name, carries with him a letter of in- troduction to one of the ''big bugs" Jor- dan Watts, who, by the way, although a purely fictional character, reminds the reader so much of Andrew Carnegie that he can scarcely help thinking of him as the prototype.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

But it is always the same.
 They are an interesting phase of hu- manity of the big city's hfe-the girl who works whether she is making her living in a factory, or a department store or a lawyers office, or on a newspape
 Many of them are employed as Cash Girls, or Cashiers,
 Others as sales girls, or wrappers
 Some of the more pallid looking ones work in places where the air is close and fetid and they never have a chance to even snlff at the clear, beautiful, pure sunlight that God gives to every last one of His creatures.
 Betty and I have been making study of these girls.
 Betty still insists that the Health au- thorities, if none other, ought to look into the matter.
 The authorities wouldn't think of let ting a lunatie wander around the streets she argues, ''and these girls by their mode of dress, if in no other way, demonstrate clearly their insanity One morning we happened to meet some of the more prosperous ones witt flrs.
 '.But what good are the furs2n Betty asked. Their feet are still shod in fool : ish high-heeled slippers and thelr stock- ings are as thin as cobweDs' The Iurs, instead or pelng dfaND up around their throats. were thrown back artistieally. disposed to reveal low cut waists and the inevitable pearl necklace,
 There must be some sort of code Of fashion among them to wear the fnrs just one particular way" Betty observed, ''else why do they let them fall off their shoulders like that? Worn that way they are only frame, not any sort of protee- ton against the cold, and there's no question about them being cold. for their little blue noses indicate just how hard a fight they are putting up against the weather.
 Again we neet some with Pony Coats on. but to what good2
 They, too, were unfastened to reveal the foolish fancy waists underneath and al- ways the head is elaborately dressed and topped by q huge hat with nodding feathers.
 Betty shivered the other day.
 'It gives me the queerest sort of sen sation." she said It's fanciful 1 sup pose, but I've thought about them so much that seem to see painted death 's-head back of all that kalsomine and rouge and the hat seems topped with the pumes of hearse Ughw
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
Er confirmed Bachelor, Lil' Honey, is any Bachelor dat is liable ter marry ter morrow. Yassum!


 But don't seem to share her horror of such things, for I don't see them in the same hideous light
 I guess it's my sense of humor that saves me,
 There are days when I've stood on a corner and even laughed as they came hippety-hop down the streets over the cobblestDnes at the crossings. in slippers that have tortured ther poor feet until they can scarcely walk. feet which ice and frost have smitten and left throbbng and aching with hurt
 They anluse me=these girls-their ru- ing passion-YANITY- dominating all sorts of physical sufferings. walking gamely along. trying to pretend they are as happy as they think they are good looking and smart.
 There Is a certain type of girl under grown and stunted, with beetle black eyebrows, heaVy mouth, sodden skin un-
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 tells the story of a multi-mililonaire philanthropist daughter. who masquer- ades ass Red Cross Ciirl.y and fin her rounds meets the "star reporter on one of tue big Metropolitan newspapers.
 Ontxof this acquaintance grows q very pretty romanco, which MT Davis tells with cleyerness and charm.
 The Grand Cross of the Crescent tells about show 2 young college man made up for his fathers injustice to a simple, unworldiyg and conscientious old profes- sor. and is told in very attractive man ner
 For comedy and real humor "The h. vasion of England' The Sailorman' and "The Mind Reader furnish all that can be desired while "The Masked Man has a great deal of dramatic intensity and an absolutely farcical denouement.
 THE PLACE OF HONEyMoONs." By Harold MacGrath. Illustrated by Ar
 thur l. Keller. The Bobbs Merrill Com-
 pany, Indianapolis.
 Harold MacGrath has so firmly estab- ished himself in the regard of fiction lovers that 1t is an accepted fact that any book from lhis pen will be interest ing, entertaining and unusual. and his latest novel. "The Place of Honeymoons. 5 Is no exception to this rule. It is Mac Grathian throughout, charming in set ting. cosmopolitan in air and American fin spirit The authprs unusually fruitful imagination has Men given full chance to dispaly itself and his delightful gift of narration makes every paragraph orig inal
 Grand opera singers have frequeutly been utilized as the herones of novels, but it is doubtful whether any author has ever conceived of more delightful character than the one which MI. Mac Grath presents. It is the fortunes of suet q singer, whose name is plain Irish Nora that ,the author invites his readers 10 follow Her abduction at efhe lfands of a princely suitor who wishes to make her his morganatic wife; her belief that this abduction has been arranged by Court landt, the American hero. who happens to resemble the prince; her summer rest ing days at beautiful Lale Como. where her train of admirers follow; her rela- tions with delightful old father who Ina $ been prize-figbter, and her mother who intends to enter the best circles and yainlys endeavors to veneer her honest, Inxable husband into a society gentle man--tIlese are Jew of the things that furnish the incidents which form the stock of the story.
 Romance. pure and simple, is the prin. .cipai motive of the tale. but 1t is TO- nance which is clothed in the element of mystery and which haffles the reader until the author sees fit to clear if up near the end. It Is mystery story then. which keeps the wits working all the time. but 1t Is in no way concerned with crime or the pursuits of criminals. The characters are all interesting, so thnt the smaller things which they say and do. re worth following with attention.
 courtlandt Is q fypIcei Aaccrath hero.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
"A WRESTLING WOMAN.

By Robert Halifax. Frederick A. Stokes
 & Company New York.
 "A whistlng woman and growing hen"-are not always so unsuccessful az the proverb says.
 Tn his story. "A whistling Woman Mir Robert Halifax depicts an attractive. hard-working London girl engaged to a serious, poorly paid clerk. He will not marry her because he can't afford it. She loves him passionately and holds him by main force. The little every day things, the life of drab side streets, the small difficulties which seem SO insuper- erable, the flashes of joy and drama, are told by one who loves and knows human ity.
 Little Miss Summerbell. the warm hearted. impractical Sunday school teach CT. Mir Casswade. the imperious but sus- pected bully of Barking Town; the philo- sophie barber; Mrs. Whambiey of in- numerable predigested foods-these and others MT. Halifax portrays vividiy in a novel in which realism is joined with sanity. color and joy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
oRUTHERFoRD AND SON

"A PLAY IN THREE ACTS" By Githa
 sowerby George II. Doran & Company.
 New York.
 grim and impressive study of one man. and the people he grouped about him and subordinated 10 his iron will, Is the story of Githa Sowerbys of Ruth erford and Som
 The mastering passion of old Ruther- ford was his business. not because of the money it produced, but because it was his own creation for him. beyond family affections. it held the supreme claim
 The play deals with the crisis which came to him when those whom his mas sive personality had oyershadowed. rose In revolt against him. He Is unconscious of any Injustice yet they all accuse him. From one he has withheld love. from an- other success, from another the sparkling freshness of youth which was his right. The theme is the domestic revolution of our own day-Eow it has arisen and why.
 When this play was produced in Lon don Miss Sowerby shared the fate of Byron-she awoke. to find that she had become famous over night With her first production she had taken her place
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17

little overdressed Russian Toy Doll girls trip and fall down the other morning, blinded as she was by the pouring down rain and the big bag that she carried empted it's contents at his feet.
 He stopped to help gather them up
 aHe enumerated them thusly:
 One Powder Box.
 One Rouge Box.
 One Mirror.
 One Lip Stick.
 One Powder Rag.
 One Bottle of Cheap Perfume Che de- clared he knew that the perfume was cheap. because 1t broke and spilled and he amelled iD
 Well, what are you going to do about it?" another man asked Betty as she waxed indignant over the situation. Its true that the age working girl dcesn't make large salary, but if she has money to buy Willow Plume-and even the shortest of them cost like smoke and silk hosiery and Pearl Necklaces, she might take the same money and buy sensible clothes for herselfi
 Betty conceded that he was right, T still insist that it's a matter of health she said presently. The poor deluded girl who knows no more about i her precious body than to deliberately court pneunonis, pleurisy and tubercu- iOniS.6 pY uitSHiHs III dif3 6utH 5lliN luSH- lon. ought 10 be detained and a court specialist appointed to treat such cases ?
 "A court, are you suggesting2'
 i'I am," said Betty. "A sort of Court of Hygiene You might call it that. Such a court might handle 8 lot of things, but first of all it would have plain clothes people out in the early mornings to haul these poor little foolish girls in and threaten to fine them if they are caught out on cold days in their foolish finery.n
 Of course all thnt sounds very well. but Betty has grown morbid and wretched over these poor little girls she sees dressed go foolishly and imprudently.
 The saddest part of fl all is," she in- sists. "that on the street nobody sees them except to think what little fools they are"
 But I'm not so sure about that and doubt very much whether they dress for the crowds on the street
 A great many women dress for one an- other, and 1 don't know that wisdom about clothes ever comes to any woman naturally
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
IF YOU ARE A DRINKING MA N

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 We are so sure that ORRINE will ben eft you that we say to you that If after a trial you fail to get any benefit from its use, your money will be refunded. When you stop Drinking" think of the money you'll save; besides, sober men are worth more to their employers and get higher wages
 Costs only s1.00 box We have an interesting booklet about ORRINE that we are giving away free on request. Call at our store and talk it over.
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He is wealthy, is reputed wild, but is in reality merely whimsical: delights in ad- ventures and feminine charm, and yet is introduced to the reader as past 30 and without wife. Prom the moment of his introduction he attracts attention, and the various twists and turns Of the narrative show him in SC many lights that he is a source of wonder to the reader until his actions are fully explained in the de- nouement
 No less distinctive than Courtlandt s the ex-prize-fghter. He is aptly de- scribed as being more. able to tie his ad- versary in d bow-knot than to tie his own white lawn crayat. When this man, Harrigan, is described it Is almost al- ways in terms Of the ring, in clever re- hinder of his former life. His adoration for his beautiful and talented daughter; his patient desire to please his wife even to the extent of studying silly books on etiquette; his willingness to go to large parties, but shyng at small Intimate companies; his pleasure in recalling his old victories and his frankness in ac- knowledging the one time he was sur passed-all constitute an original and att tractive figure.
 There -is never time when MT Mac Gr9th has. to resort to forced or artncial sitpatons in order to stimulate interest. His entire narrative deals always with things as they might be in real life and whether the reader is with Nora in her prison near Versailles, or Is an onlooker at the events which occur about beautiful Bellagio attending q conventional ball, dinner, an afternoon tea, he always feels in intimate touch with whatever happens It requires art to write in this vein, and 1t is an art of which MT. Mac Grath has a plentiful store. The cat which all this time is concealed in the authors bag is not once even allowed to meow That is perhaps the most re- markable thing about the entire book. for the reader has no idea of the big, pleasant surprise in store for him.
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marrying mar, yet in spite of that she seems to enjoy his attentions and goes along meeting him systematically and al the same time analyzing his emotions as she proceeds to fall more deeply in love with him.
 The girl keeps her self-respect, be t said at all times, although the reader is on pins and needles wondering if each succeeding chapter will not reveal the fact that she has put her foot through the Seventh Commandment and thereby brought things to climax
 The girl escapes after most hazard ous and perilous experience, and after all is said and done the reader wonders:
 Whats the use of the book"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-17
HER SOUL AND HER BoDYo
BY Louise, Closer Hale. Moffat. Tar

By Louise, Closer Hale Moffat Yard
 & cq@pany. New York
 An interesting theme always is the struggle of the poor girl in the city and In her story. Her Soul and Her Body. /" Louise Closser Hale bas> shown unusual merit as writer and character builder
 The heroine whom the author has chosen is a girl from the country, who goes to the big city to study dancing. | She has left behind her the honest country lover whose suit she has spurned and soon after she gets to Boston she meets and becomes infatuated with the invariabisktype of city man who Is on the track of just such girls and cares nothing more for them than to have a good tlme.'
 The man takes the girl to dine at sec ond rate eating place and on several oc- easions she goes to his apartment with him.
 He very frankly tells her he is not a