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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Germs in Your Mouth

From the New York Press.
 Some time ago health faddists declared the tooth brush after drying was deadly instrument owing to the germs on it Perhaps the same might be said of nail brushes, hair brushes, side combs, round combs. and, to carry the matter further gloves and socks might be included Of course, germs are on tooth brushes and germs are on nearly every thing else, but tooth brushes certainly sco,ir most of the germs out of the mouth
 A bugologist experimenting on himself figured out that every morning on walk ing up there were many billion germs in his mouth, but by giving his mouth five cold water rfnsngs-good. big mouthfuls~ 3. 600, ,0o0,CoO of these were washed out Then he found cleaning the teeth with a bristle tooth brush dislodged and brought away more germs than five rinsings with clear water. And further experiment proved that the use of tooth preparations together. with the tooth brush brought away about all the germs. He rightly ridiculed the idea that tooth. brush. be- cause it was used only with clear water, could be dangerous. inasnIueh as such tooth brush would have few germs in decd as compared with the billion al ready in the mouth. Washing out the mouth with water is better than leaving the mouth full of germs. and washing the mouth out with tooth brush and water is still better. but washing with a bristle brush and a good tooth prepa- ration is the very best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Women Hold Pennsylvania Stock

From the Railway Age Gazette.
 Out of 73,354 stockholders of the Penn sylvania railroad, d return just made shows that 3i,712 almost halo are women
 The last returns of the kind, some two years ago. of the New York. New Haven and Hartford. closely correspond with those of the Pennsylvania and show that out of approximately 16,000 stockholders 200 or 45 per cent are women. The fig ures as they stand. which are more or less typical of the feminine stockholders in any steady railway dividend payer, especially in the older states are striking as proof of the extent to which d large dependent class holds interests in our con serVative railways. And it is a dependent class in two scnses-fnancial and mental. As class it not only needs the dividend, but must rely on the judgment of others In making an investment as well as in selling it out, Where there Is one woman who watcnes her stocks and bonds her self there are probably 20 who rely on the advice of others. Woman, moreover, as a stock owner, has temperamentaly q trait that exposes her 10 all larger invest ment risks. Tn her is peculiarly dev6l- oped that psychological tendency that prompts her to hold on'' to an invest ment by the mere force of habit. It is hard for her (much harder than for q man) 10 realize that a regular dividend payer, often inherited with parental stamp of confidence, has become q speen- lative risk. That such a class, largely outside of self protection, has acquired So great holdings in railways is surely q fact that ought to make the man who alt tacks railway revenues stop and think. Nor are the returns that are cited con- plete. They do not include railway bonds, | in which women have interests probably | larger in proportion than stocks: they do not include the trusteeships holding rail- way securities and so often appointed for women exclusively. and they do not in- clude the minor males under guardians and trustees who in the protective rela- tion arc obviously to be classed with women. If such could be grouped with the women stockholders in such a cor poration as the Pennsylvania. the exhibit would be yet more impressive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
The Woman Who Thinks Everything "Too Much
 Trouble'

The girl who gets into the way of thinking everything 'too much trouble misses much of the best of life. It is too much trouble to think. surely, or she could never wilfully make herself into the uninteresting little person sine becomes if she pursues the "too much trouble" theory faithfully.
 It is "too much trouble" to walk to the library. so new books that might have been had for the asking remain unread It's 'too much trouble" to play tennis or hockney, or indulge in any form of heathful exercise, to the con seauent injury of whatever good looks Nature may have given her
 Its "too much trouble" to answer let ters, so absent friends drift far away, and even the ties of relationship become loosened. It's too much trouble to make herself pleasant and interesting to her elders, for which reason she misses many pleasure that would willingly bestow on a more unsefish, less ndolent little girl.
 She finds it too much trouble to do things for other people, therefore people gradually find it too much trouble to do things for her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Queening Not a Lost Art

Sarah Comstock in Golfers Weekly.
 There don't seem to be couples streWn along the way as of yorc,' l commented as we entered the quadrangle of Stanford university and came under the old. silent spell of mission roofs mad reaching corri- dors.
 There's no summer school this year ex- cept few classes and little tutoring. explained the matron We halted beside a sophomore who was desecrating her va cation with the composition of Latin prose.
 But even during the college year il seems different to me-" pursued the ma tron. 'Its years since I took my degree here, and I've kept in touch with the place ever since. The boys and girls are not together in the squad as they used to be- I'm glad of it. If I'd gone to a girl 5 college I'd never been married at 21."
 Again the sophomore glanced up at the matron who had gone to college so many years before, and who thought these days were not like the old days. Because of some invitation in her eye T strolled back to the prose composition later on.
 Don't worry about'anything you hear the sophomore adjured me as l sat down beside her on one of the good old stones of the quad. When they begin to knit in the chimney corner they think the oll days were the only pickle in the barrel of our history.
 Maybe the last generation did queen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Leap Year

 Well. Doris dear, the time has come, a The one year out of four When maidens fair may pick and choose And even up the score. Iris your turn now to talk of love,
 'Ts my chance to be wooed; Upon my bachelor reserves You may at last intrude. A I daresay you have found me slow, Your patience have tried, For blessgyour heart, each time we met It seemed my tongue was tied. Whenever have meant to say:
 Let's go through life together" I've mumbled stale and silly things About the doggone weather. Because. you witehl you were so cool, So ''absent" and serene. That. as the slaIig expression goes,
 You fairly "scared me green.'' An arrant coward? Dull. perhaps,
 At guessing you so quick, But now It's your time, lady mine
 Let's see you turn the trick. That little sniffyaair of yours
 Has very plainly said YOU deemed it quite an easy thing / To ask girl to wed. Now. put your courage to the test
 Youre blushiIigslike a roseD I double-dare yo,is Doris dear,
 To come here and propose!
 Sara Beaumont Kennedy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Styles and the Suffrage

Being recognized author on the ques- tion of equal suffrage. Mrs. Ida Hu3- ted Harper ouSlt to know whereof she speaks in declaring that nothing has done so much harm to suffrage in the past % years as the way women have dressed in the last year or two.''
 Their hats and hatpins, their exposed figures, arms and ankles, their divided skirts and their open work stockings. have in Mrs. Harper's opinion, made men be- lieve that women are unfit for the suf- frage or anything but dress and bridge and the most frivolous amusements. l"
 It would therefore, seem that dress re- form should precede ballot reform. But is it really true that the intelligent, earn est. serious minded women who see in the ballot means of improving woman's s economic position are hindered in their propa ganda by hatpns and wide hats? Has the inmodesty in the dress of some women. of which Mrs. Harper speaks, men to believe that most women are unfit for the suffrage? Her structures on the extremes of womens styles may be we'll deserved, but it seems incredible that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

It was the Working Girl who was talk ing.
 "If I had a daughter" she was saying. "Id make her work one year, whether it was necessary or not, just to teach her the value of certain things"
 What things?" asked one of the other two girls who happened to be in the coll versation. Couldn't you spare her going into the worlx-a-day world and teach her business things at home.'
 Going out into the worl-a-day world is the only way to teach some girls-I might say ALL girls-the value of a dol lar and more important still, the value or a minute Not of the last minute or the minute to come, but of the PRESENT MINUTE" said the Working Girl.
 ''You know what I'd do?' she contin- ned enthusiastically, Ito add the last fin- ishing touch to the perfect woman? q have a rubber stamp arrangement and I'd brand right over her heart a clock a. clock that would GO-to teach her the value of TIME
 "One of those wooden clock arrange ments in a railway station that remains FIXED,' suggested Jane.
 ''But you know just the same by glanc- ing at it. the Working Girl finished out the sentence, that this train leaves at 1920, or 12:15, or $40. Catch my point It's this way: No woman has any right to keep a train full of people waiting un- til she pulls in at the very last minute"
 The other two girls, Jane and Mary, looked at her in astonishment
 Neither seemed to comprehend in the vaguest way what the Working Girl was driving at.
 The Working Girl said presently:
 "When l get to the office late in the morning I quickly notice the bad influence it exerts over the other girls. I may be only tiny bit of a cog in the great ma- chinery, but I can stop the wheels as eff fectively as if I were a Motor Engine. It's power that every last one of us has and power Is a fearful responsibility un- less it is used in the right direction"
 Lots of men feel that way about it. too," said Jane after a pause, but as for me, I never could see any sense in having ones life dominated by clock. Even an ancient sun dial in d garden makes me sad to look at it, and 'Tempus Fugit to me is the most melancholy truth in life"
 NO it isn't" the Working Girl replied. unless one calmly sits down and lets the sands of life slip through ones hands doing nothing. Life never has any special significance until woman has learned the value of the passing hour-the present day"
 Let me tell you a story continued the Working Girl "I once visited a family where the grand old man of the estate ran everything like clock work. If the girls stayed out until midnight at a dance they HAD to be at o'clock breakfast the next morning They might sleep all morn- ing. but they HAD to be at Lunch. They might sleep all afternoon, but they HAD to be at dinner. I shall never forget the visiting girlwho was late for breakfast one morning. The old gentleman made it a point never to say grace until every one was present Ten minutes passed; 15 and then 20, and still we waited. Pres
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Everybody Has an Auto

Minna Irving in Leslies When the fields are bright with blossoms
 Or the roads are white with snow, can hear the merry honlling
 Of the horns where'er l go As the cars in long procession
 Speeding by are lost to view Everybody has an auto
 Oh. I want one, too. Black, and brown. and brilliant yellow,
 Red, and blue, and gray, and green, Touring car, and giant racer
 Runa bout and limousine. Underslung, torpedo bodies,
 Models old, and models new, Everybody has an auto
 And want one, too. Young and old. and high and humble.
 Lawyer, doctor. millionaire, Actor author, priest professor,
 College boy. and maiden fair. Butcher. baker, grocer, farmer
 Lo no matter what they do. Everybody has an auto,
 And l want one too.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
For the HouseWife's Scrap
 Book

A pinch of baking powder and pinch of sugar added to the batter in making popovers is liked by many.
 A delicious appetizer is a cheese canape. Remove the crust from nicely toasted bread, and cut in triangles or srps, sprlnkled generously with grated cheese. seasoned with cayenne and salt. and put in the oven till the cheese is melted. Serve immediately.
 In making fondant for candy. If 1t grains, you have boiled it too long The difficulty may be rcmedled by adding {. little more water and boiling 1t again. It is wise plan to make fondant the day before you make the candy.
 If the chocolate Used in making ice cream is first cooked with the sugar in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

more about the quad-rnore openly she proceeded. but we don't let grass grow under our feet.
 But there's u lot of boys. and dandy ones, too can't afford to take us to the entertainments, with flowers and car riage especially, and we like them just as wcll-better. | do, if they're the boys tllat are making their way through " insisted the sophomore. q know lot of boys that are popular and they have to queen on dollar or less, and that's a treat to them--they can't do il more than once a week or even d fortnight.
 'They call up and ask when they can come-you see. if a girls d hard student she refuses to queen during the evenings early in the week and some arc SD pop uar that they have their free evenings engaged way ahead. Then the boy comes. and they go over to Sticky Nilsons Stick has two places, one on the campus and one on palo Alto, and If they 20 to town the ear fares added. They have a sundae and maybe he buys a box ot candy, and they stroll in the moonlight. You sec, the car fare and the sundae and tho candy foot up about Il dollar, and the moons turned on gratis all within the reach of the hunblest student
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Cats as Life Savers
rom the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe
 A new use for cats, parrots and other household pets has been discovered by Dr. Colin A. Scott, professor of psycho- ogy at the Boston Normal school. lie is reported to have said to an audience of public school principals in Chicago that one reason why people commit suicide is that they feel their own uselessless, and that If an unmarried woman has Il cat a parrot to care f~- H thing to live foi Hsr fHs.l taking her own Tiff
 Anything else t#Hl Hz interest in life w
 equally well-a fac
 garden whist nov work. crocheting,
 number of possib
 woman interested Even for elderly all z...usioned haehe- Tor maids, who find the world a lonesome place. there are countless fascinating sub-i jects of interest.
 Perhaps cats are among the least prom ising of such subjects for cats generally are selfish and self centered. They take all they can get and give as little as they can. No woman really ever owned a cal. The eat owns the woman. And possibly that is why the psychology professor suS- gested cats as prevention of suicide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Tomb of Omar Khayyam

Major Sykes was shown the tomb near a shrine that stood in a garden of roses. ''The bones of Omar Khayyam, who as a Sunni (an adherent of heterodox Mo- hammedan sect lis held in disfavor by the fanatcal in Persia, do not" he says, ''rest inside the chamber, but turn ing to the eastern wing an uninscribed plastered tomb was shown us, and here Omar Khayyam is buried. One advan- tage at least is preserved to the poet, which is that. as he foretold, the trees shed their blossoms on him twice a year: in other words, the blossoms of the fruit trees in the garden are carried to his grave. Travel and Explorat tion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
In the Shops

Silk lximonos in plain colors. we'll made, with stitched satin bands down the front and sleeves.
 good grade of white shirt waist for early spring wear.
 Egg tongs, to take eggs out of boiling water. which are among the newest arti- cles for an up-to-date kitchen.
 Guaranteed watches of nickle plate arc novelties
 Extremely pretty bonbon dishes and baskets, in plated ware.
 Low necked nghtgowns. made of ba- tiste, nicely finished. with embroidery and torchon lace.
 An excellent line of white Turkish edg- ngs and insertions.
 Figured dimity petticoats, made with wide bordered flounces, are very pretty for lingerie frocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
The Riddle of Life

From tic Popular Science Monthly.
 By the riddle of life, not everybody wifi understand the same thing We all, however. desire to know how. life orig ina ted and what death is, since our ethics must be influenced to large ex- lent Through the answer to this question We are. not vet able to give an answer to tIie question as to how life originated on the earth. We know that every i'ving being is able to transform food stuffs into living matter; and we also know that not only the compounds which are forIned in the animal body can be produced artifcially. but that chelni- cal fractions which take place in living organisms can also be repeated at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Idiotic Interrogations

Why is determination always grim? Do the waves dance at fish balls?
 Did you ever see the shadow of doubt? When a doom is sealed can it be steamed open?
 Is .the finger of scorn part of the hand of Fate?
 How large scale is required to weigh the consequences?
 Is a man a burglar who breaks into a precipitation?
 When a man courts danger does he take flowers or candy? Is there an asylum for people who ave blind to their own interests Boston Transcript.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
TAe Age-Herald's Cuisine
POTATO SALAD

f POTATO SALAD.
 Cut cold boiled potatoes into shreds Ike shoestrings. Now cut. them across in small dice. AIince young green onions enough to flavor and mix. Peel solid, long cucumbers; place in ice water for an hour: slice through the center in halves; carefully cut out the center. making cu- cunlber boats; cut the center fine. mix with the potatoes and onions. Mix all to- gether plentjfully with a boiled salad dressing: fill the cucumber boats; sprinkle with finely cut parsley. Decorate with q few slices of hard boiled eggs. Serve o.i lettuce leaf.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
IS Greatest Women Named
 by Mrs. Taft

Tn the opinion of Mrs. William Howard Taft. the Presidents wife. the list of the IS greatest women the world has produced should read as follows:
 queen Victoria, Rosa Bonheur. Jean d Arc Maria Mitchell. Cecile Chamnade, Jane Austen. Charlotte Bronte Frances Willard. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony, George Eliot Mme. Curie. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lucretia Mott, Margaret Full Ter queen Elizabeth. Queen Lulsa of Prussia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
Eve Up to Date

Fashion seems unwilling to part with stripes.
 First spring suits are shown in coarse weaves
 .r ..- ssas Peasant sleeves are noticed on many coat models.
 Black voile skirts are plentiful In carly showings. 2
 Tho vogue of sashes are every day more emphatic.
 New colored embroideries are very
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

any intelligent man-eyen though he may be member of the legisature-would base his reasons against woman suffrage on the size of women's hats. It must be admitted however. that the hats of some women are so big that it would be impos- sible without removing them, to get into the ordinary voting booth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
A Lenten Sunday Thought

The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.-Chalmers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

minutes of and still no sign of her. At exactly the car we were to take dashed by-and still she wasn't there At last she ripped off the car and smilinglv greeted me. when I was chewing nails and as mad as a March Hare. Once we got together she said sweetly:
 Is our car here?
 T told her what had happened. It was exactly 2:10 and the car had been gone her what had detained her she merely said:
 Oh I didn't bother about rushing. thought we could catch the next car if we missed this one
 q wanted to kill her. The next car, by the way, was a half hour off"
 And bout the other necessary attrb- utes in llfe-money?" asked ono of the girls.
 "Of course I couldn't teach her the value of money. except by making her work for it and see how hard it is to earn a dollar. A dollar isn't anything but dollar except to the person who has re- duced it to the equivalent of so many hours earnest and painstaking labor"
 How you do talk" Mary observed in- tolerantly. Docs making your own liv- ing make you see things that way?" Daily work the Working Girl replied, ''is sort of q Chamois polisher, my dear: it may not be an advantage weighed from every side, but 1t does keep ones glasses clear. The woman who works gets a pretty good idea of how things really look out in the world. Dollars and clocks and time have a value to the girl who works, to say nothing of the importance she comes to feel is attached to being known as a RELIABLE PERSON"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

same rate and temperature in the labora- tory. The gap in our knowledge which we feel most keenly is the fact that the chemical character of the catalyzers Che enzymes or ferments) is still unknown. Nothing indicates however. at present that the artificial production of living
 matter is beyond the possibilities of i science.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10

double boiler it will blend better and will not have raw taste when the cream is made
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-10
DIR | N K Fl A B TT
Reliable Home Treatment

Thousands of wives. mothers andisis- oaRINE, because it has cured their loved. ohes of the Drink, Habit" and thersiay hrcs.'-E- hap3iness to their h-rns, Can De given secretly. OR RlNE costs only s1.00 per box. Ask for Free Booklet Eugene Jac1bs' Drug
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-11-23
DEATH KNELL Is
SOUNDED TO THE
HAREM SKIRTS
War m Europe Brings the Bulgarian
Cloak, Montenesrin Walking Suit
and Grecian Bloomers Out.

CHICAGO. Nov. cc.-The Turks
greatly lcssened influence in Europe
will be- reflected !u The styles ut wo-
mems clothes dJ.inr the next six
months The harem skirt Is doomed
In its place will be- found the Scrv-
ian skirt. II will be- full ~ the top
and drawn in around the bottom As
the Arab draws his yoluminous. sheet
lihe robe around him
The SeryIan skirt was d-cre.d at
the opening session today Of the Na-
unual tlOaE. Suit aud skirt Mauu.ac-
tur"-~ association ~ tine Hot.l la
sale. lh- decree Will be- verified to-
morrow. when the new sfylos are
displayed on living models in tho
hotel parlors.
The Haihau allies have gained a
pronounced vicfory in au women s.
styles for fhe near future There will
be th" bulgarian cloak. the Moutcnc-
g.in walking suit and Grccian Bloom
ers