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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

result is a financial harvest for soms dentist later in their lives.
 The teeth should be brushed at Yeast three times a. day; after each meal. IT it is impossible to use toothbrush alter eating, the mouth should be rinsed out with water, especially after eating sweets or acid fruits.
 I Use a modestly stiff toothbrush. This shoud be kept perfectly clean by rins- ing it thoroughly after use, and by dip- ping 1t occasionally into boiling water. Don't use a toothbrush after it has become jagged and worn, as IL Will irritate and tear the gums. Brush the teeth not only crosswise, but with an up and down movement. Brush the inner as well as tho outer surface. After you have finished with the brush. run piece of dental floss between the teeth. You will be surpris-. cd to discover how many particles or food the brush has failed to dislodge | Don't pick the teeth with pins or | other metal instruments. Don't attempt to crack nuts or break or bend any
 hard substance with your teeth. You are likely to crack tho enamel, or to
 break tooth.
 At the first pang of toothache, or on
 the discovery of a cavity, no matter
 how small, go to dentist. Delay
 may mean uptold suffering, great ex
 pense, and perhaps the loss ot tooth -Woman's World for october,
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ing of wild creatures in captivity for their pelts has become a new and ex- tensive industry and has proved to be fairly simple, inexpensive and yielding enormous profits.
 Of all the wild creatures raised in captivity the fox is the favorite, as he proves to be the least trouble and to yield the largest profits; and the result Is that fox farms are springin up all over the north, and the belts raised are far more beautiful in quality than those of the creatures in the wild state.
 This new kind of farming is most interesting, and men who have not made a success of general farming find this suited to their taste and fancy and are making money fast at 1t. and many an old abandoned farm in Maine. New Hampshire and the other states of the northern line has suddenly been re- claimed for fox farming.
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Gossip in the Shops

.H
 Telephone disks to slip over the mouthpiece of a public telephone should be a boon to those who live in terror of disease germs. Five cents will pay for a package containing eight disks.
 Lemon sqteezers in the greatest va rety are to be found in the shops. Some are of metal covered with porcelain. Others of the same design are with metal casing and an interior of porce- lain, which can be removed for wash ing The most attractive things of this sort however, are little china ones. The squeezer fits like a tight cover over little low pitcher, which is dec- orated around the sides with Dutch ships in deft blue. These are pretty enough to use at informal spreads when the hostess wants to concoct hot bite" in her chafiing dish for q lew friends.
 A food choper that not only chops
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Great Food Value of Cheese

When modern young man wishes to express his contempt for person or thing he alludes to 1t as a piece of cheese" which seems to convey for him the extremity of uselessness, in- competency and stupidity, ITO him everything that Toes not meet with bis appreciation. from president of tho United states. whose policies are inimi- cal to him own, ball player who is batting 300. an actor who fails to put his lines over or girl whose beau- ty and style do not appeal 10 him, is Il piece of cheese
 Aside from being inelegant, the phrase does an injustice to a food prod uct that recently has been coming into favor and receiving the praise of physicians as well as food economists.
 According to circular issued by the
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Aphorisms From Adown the
 Ages

Reading makes a full man.
 Modesty is a candle to merit. Style is the dress of thoughts.
 Jests often prove to be prophecies.
 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lin. gers.
 Who drives fat oxen should himseii be fat
 Confidence Is A plant of slow growtl In an aged bosom
 Attack is the reaction never think you hit hard unless 1t rebounds. Jewellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but cannot bear level ling up to themselves.
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aA--.y 11lAvo

Apple sauce is excellent in cake Stir up an egg, a cupful of sugar and a tablespoonful of butter; then add a gen erous cupful of pulped apple sauce and two cupfuls of flour, with which has been sifted teaspoonful of soda. Stir hard and season with spices to suit. This cake keeps moist for a long time.
 The wise housekeeper buys corn meal in smaller quantities than other flour, for it is apt to become musty.
 Any kind of steamed bread will ba tastier if 1t is baked 10 or 15 minutes immediately on being taken from tho steamer and before being removed from tho mold.
 Handy sink brushes may he made from worn whiskbroom. Even off the ragged edges with a sharp knife.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
Leap Year

By Percy Shaw Now let us settle back and wait GA leap year is before ns1, And tho we yearn to meet our ia'e' Let patience settle OCT us. Let us not forward be nor bold, But learn to bout and tremble, To drop our glance, our hands to lolo' TO trine and dissemble. And when she whispers, May call Just stammer that you'd rather Consult that sweetest man of all, Your dear, devoted father. ob how vorr heart will beat with pride As in the parlor sitting You hear her gentle step outslde Along your pathway Hitting And when she shakes your hand, no"
 you
 Will wonder what she brought you' A box of sweets, a novel neW'
 or roses that have caught you
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Weights and Their Equal in
 Measures

An ounce of butter, two level tea spoonfuls.
 An ounce of clover, four level tea spoonfuls.
 An ounce of mace, four level table spoonfuls.
 A pint of raisins. nine ounces Qightiy measured)
 An ounce of curry. four level table spoonfuls,
 An ounce of mustard, four level table spoonfuls.
 An ounce of thyme, eight level taole' spoonfuls.
 A pint of samp or coarse hominy 13 ounces.
 A pint of graham, seven ana thre' fourths ounces. s.fHzsr ere-'rH coffee five love
 7anH
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Bureau of Animal Industry. united States Department of Agriculture we
 make a mistake in not eating more cheese. Welsh rarebits and other cheese nroducts. Concerning the value or cheese as an article of diet 1t IS stated that one pound of cheese has nearIs
 tna son,e food value as two pounds or fresh beef or any other fresh meat. | It is worth as much as or more than
 pound of ham. and is more digesu- ble. It is equal to two pounds or eggs or three pounds of fish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
Care of the Teeth

There Is nothing so important, not only for good looks. but for good health, as sound, well kept teeth. And strange to say, there is nothing more frequently neglected even by people who consider themselves careful of their personal appearance.
 The teeth should be brushed at least neglect their teeth shamefully, and the
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Many CT man dat marries CT Peach" would CT broke de engagement only he found out she wuz CT Cling stone" Yassum.

How sweet twill be to sit and see Her womanly endeavor, To show her perfect liberty
 In efforts to be clever. Till when she cries in accents sweet, Be mine,' all caution spurning; How you will scorn all base deceit To ask, What are you earning? Vii you support me just like pa, With not a ban on smoking, Give me a valet and a car,
 And never be provoking?" And if she says she will, why you Can view her ring demurely. And tell her it would never do To marry prematurely. But when you arc sure hers income s
 sound.
 And her Investments splendid, You're very ready to be bound And known as her intended
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ssh

| Grant me q ,s aS l aaa,4s Ae,e Year What do you wish me from far or ne4. Show me your gifts and your treasures l rare,
 Read me your prophecies, dark or fair. Wealth will you scatter or fame, or power, Sympathy. knowledge or friendships dover Gems from the Orient. pearls from the sea, Pldedges and promises. Loves low plea ! What lies before me of loss or gain What is awaiting me, joy or pain? What is my portion of bale or bliss Fate's cruel frown or Fortunes kiss? Mysteries sacred, and sweet demands Ministry. sorrow and toiling hands. Lift back the curtain that I may know Whither my footsteps, this year, may Will there be fountains along the way: Cooling my thirst by the nighttime or
 day?
 Pillars of flame that will guide me
 alright? Balms that will soothe me, or darts and
 stings? Sandals for pilgrimage, soaring wings?-- Wings are for angels; if mine should
 grow, Life everlasting I then would know. Whate'er you wishthen, o bright New
 Year, Whether that wish bring smile or a
 tear Message and token 1t still shall be Sent by my farther through you 10 me. Lead where my path will from day to
 day, Still He will guide me along the way; This Is His covenant. tried and true "As is your day shall your strength hs
 too;'' This is the word which my doubt shall
 soothe, Crooked made straight and roughness
 made smooth" Naught will I question as on I plod- Whatever comes is the gift of God.
 MARTHA C. OLIVER.
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meat and vegetables, but also, it IS claimed, grates horseradish. cocoannt ! and chocolate. brushes ice and grlnos coffee. may be bought at reasohaoio prices are new culinary additions
 Waffle irons, with three eompait
 ,ts Each commandment can be taken ont of the iron casing that surrounds | if and washed separately. The easing does not need washing after each using as it used to in some of the older styies of irons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
A Sunday Thought

Give us, oh give us the man who sings at his work. Be his occupation what it may. he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sul l. 1iness He does more in the same time, he will do 1t better. he will preserve lon ger.=Thomas Carlyle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

After that the Boston and Maine built it's own line to Portland from the Maine border, and the end of the Eastern was soon reached.
 Those were good old days" for rail- road men, when locomotives were named as well as numbered, and when the conductor was the biggest man in the eyes of the travelling public than the president
 But the days of economic manage ment and high efficiency did not come until the days of absorption. consoli- dation and concentration had arrived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
Leap Year

James Mccarthy. in the New York
 Herald.
 Iris leap year. girls, and don't forget The privilege of the suffragette. With bashful, hesitating beaux, Pluck up your courage and propose Untie old Precedents red tape And let no guilty man escape. She who hesitates is lost. So land your man at any cost If you have youth as well as beauty The leap year cry is. "Do your duty Say. Horace dear will you ze mine? Of all mankind for you I pine" If he happy year should wish you, And slyly try to dodge the issue, Just get grip on his coat And put the question 10 a vote. If he votes "No" and you vote "Yes." Throw out no signal of distress. Hip, hip, hurrah. 1t is a tie Blest be the tie that binds" you cry.
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throws and score them. not bewail his luck
 If am Sopbocles. I am not mad; and if l am mad, I am not Sophocles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
DOLLY LAUNCHES SOME IDEAS CON CERNING THE BRIDGES OF TOMORROW
Tomorowlhe Japanese ana ih Thew Mothers Advice Which TOOK uh.t Dav in the Scheme Eternity AnywThe Silver Today tor
 the o

..s ..., o,-
 AT day she worried and framed up ex- cuses for not having paid it, and hnally in the middle of the night she became so exasperated that she got up and went into her sisters room and told her about 1t, aid her sister said:
 why don't you open it and see if 1t lS a hill?"
 Which she did, only to find to her great ioy that it was not--but instead, nlce. fat check from a rich old aunt, who said she hoped it would be pleasant surprise.
 All of which showed that she nhShl have had a beautiful day and night or real pleasure if she had only opened the en- velope instead of the same length or tlme spent in worry and misery.
 Another thing
 There isn't any use of being unhappy or l worrying over being HERE-at the plsc' where we are-instead of sitting on | shining rung of the Ladder Up Wonder where some people insist on telling us we | belong.
 Most of us belong exactly where we ag' for there is no position, great or small e,ir THINKING makes It so'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
The Age-Herald's Cuisine
FIG COOKIES

Take two cups of flour, one half cup of sugar. one egg. one half cup sweet milk, one teaspoonful of baking powder. small piece of butter; mix hard ana roll out in a sheet spread the mixture | of figs on dough cut or roll out and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
Orrine Cures WhiSkey
 and Beer Habit


  
  Drnkr the moth uho 0
  obtained will be refunded Can be  good repor of deemed o telling all oRRINE Eugene Jacobs Drug Store 1904 Second Avenue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

Lefty is 10 years old and fat and chubny and supporedly (by her family) unnm- aginative.
 our families never know anything about our dreams though, do they?
 Ietty's young lady sister met me at the door the other afternoon complaining that her mother had gone out and that Letty had been crying the whole livelong time' and she couldn't get her to tell what was | the matter.
 | 1 knew that the child would tell me- ne- cause she's done so before l Let me talk to her. You go into an other room on some pretext or other, and nave us alone" said.
 sana sea...Hs Lattv said:
 lne beeauFs--1srAa I'm crJ- iag asii
 .hsz ss.... faalf
 sass se. sea n Ae W eapa trty aanf eefe
 siF' sisrs Fli H 1a8 as 1 I promised tuees. As have 10 ask her permissiot. t s l fish ib, and she put her little arms around my neck and said plaintively: I'm crying cause I know when I get l to be a grown lady.1m goin' to be an Old Maid'
 What woman with an ounce of heart in her bosom could smile in the face of such a tragedy df such it really is), even if 1t might be 15 years in the future? So
 I comforted her as best I knew how, even described the grand man. who would woo and win her, and I arranged all the details of the wedding, even to the bridesmaids boquets of Killarney Roses, which interested Lefty as long as the telling was going on, but presently saw that she was again slipping back into the Slough of Despond."
 I argued with her that she owed it 10 her future husband to remain cheerful pending the day of his arrival.
 You must not even doubt his coming" I advised. because that would be dis trust. You must love him with a. true Browning devotion. and all that" begged. which of course brought on more talk as to who and what the Browninss were like, and ] fell to telling her all knew on that subject and finally her lit- tie fat shoulder shook with emotion, and she said, sobbing afresh:
 "Then another thing I know, when go off to Boardin' School the girls ain't going to like me-.
 Which just settled it, as far as I was
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concerned, because I didn't seem 10 nave any power of persuasion left.
 rbin,sina if oyer afterwards, the little episode impressed me with the fact that this child was just an example of what happens to most of us women-ahd lnae ls the greatest sorrows we have are those we we are called upon to bear which never realls happen. ,,ooa,,s. We meet today with blind eyes, because they are so busy strainng themselves o,-a, orey what MIGHT happen-TOMORROW Why think of TOMORRoWY
 with TOMORROW. according 10 oui old friend the Tent Maker oi NasIa,pu, i've may be ourselves with festeruay Seven Thousand Years o, None of us can know what TOMORROW will bring forth or what duty we may p' asked to face and the things .,ial ion, ., smile back at us, in an entirely difeteh
 have an interesting belle ssvNiamentalS.'
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enough strength o1 Character nHaf t without everlastingly whining ani crying about our lot in life.
 You are nothing extraordinary if you have a voice like an angel chained to a dish pan; neither am I a wonder though l can evoke harmonles from any kind of q musical instrument-if l only didn't have to peck away on a typewriter every day,
 Get that attitude out of your mind quick
 Don't lose the SILVER of Today, dreaming about the GOLD of Tomorrow
 If you think that system of double entry bookkeeping" isn't kept on this earth it's because you haven't opened your eyes all these years you've been here.
 The Recording Angel has his Day Book, and if you please side by side he writes what we did with our YESTERDAYS-- and from that he draws our deserts for TODAYS. And let me tell you, My Friends, that TODAY has a mighty field glass turned in your direction and mine to carefully determine what kind of TO- MORROwS we deserve,
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  EaHH-t
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
Raising Foxes More Profit
 able Than Crops

Since the demand for elaborate furs became practically enormous the breed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

ttf a ctenosl ea#hs h' ur ief onae
 aH6H aHsH dHsa lsH n ounce of cinnamon, four and half teaspoonfuls. I'd ounce of grated chocolate, three tablespoonfuls.
 pint of maple sugar broken into 1bly pieces, equals one pound and ounces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
ToMoRROwi

TDMURRUW
 Toworrow-but the chances are that something good will happen just as well as something disagreeable-so why worry?
 Treat tomorrow like distant relative, until it arrives on the first stroke of the alarm clock, then-it isn't TOMORROW any more-but TODAY-and today is never anything to dread.
 Whats a mere day-ln the scheme of Eternity, anyway?
 l once knew a woman who received d certain letter in the morning mail.
 She was so sure that it was "bili" tand she dreaded them worse than the piague) that she put it aside without opening it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

a suggestion 4.~ H g az they see a domestic these little elementals fly about ..aa busy and take fiendish joy in helping 1t on.
 Maybe you know the story of the Moth- CT who left home one afternoon and said to her small boy:
 "Wnie, if you take the hammer while I am gone and break my mirror, I'll wear you out when I get back"
 Willie had never thought of such 3 thing, until his foolish mother put the idea in his head. and accordingly, as soon as she was gone he promptly took the hammer and smashed the mirror.
 A mere suggestion was sufficient for Young America as it Is to the little "Ele- mentals' of the Japanese.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04
My Lady Modish

Many medium and large miliineIs shapes show a tendency to follow oon- net lines, as their brims droop d. 'ne sides in polk fashion.
 New separate skirts are shown Tn vel, f,,o ,,oiles A few show fringe trim ming and long tunic effects.
 
 Two millinery styles that are po,ns strongly featured for early fall are the soft white and light eolored fehs anu the colored and black yelours. l decided taste is expressed Tor oiscn ae 5iifa. or rather. for white ana 4A,EeE aHinafin-s in fall costumes j Ihla ls es8ecia aH ''ss'
 ssaA aeH tH a9s 3ffres pi1ee aula s cr5Haa slia asHs sHs sna t.InInss. ] #iH Netfe 70 snt e costume isaea.
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isr 3a
 
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 Hiis eau szs
 a W au' Ie @ 4aIina
 a1aHa HH lot q aa5s The Hef to te aH have da home aa. It sliaH are c ea The Nnls stnrf
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concerned. because I didn't seem to nave any mower of persuasion left
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-08

voice, for the admiral had not heard
them enter.
AT the call he raised his head and
took of his Mandarin spectacles. Like
all sailors, be never had any trouble
In seeing distances clearly. The diff
Guilty lay in books. letters and small
type.
what Is It. Lcura?"
This Is Mr.. Fitzgerald. the new
secretary" she answered blandly.
"Aha. Bring a chair over and sit
down. What did you say the name is.
Laura
Fitzgerald"
"Sit down. Mr.. Fitzgerald" repeated
the admiral cordially.
Fitzgerald desired but one thing-the
privilege Of laughter!
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him. You will find your noises are
entirely those Of Imagination"
Have it that way" she agreed pa
tiently.
But here's Mr.. Fitzgerald still"
said the admiral pOintedly.
"Not long ago you said to me that II
ever saw the son Of David Fitzgerald
to bring him home Till yesterday I
never saw him; only then because Mrs.
Cold6eld pointed him out and won
dered what he was doing with tray
Of statuettes around his necE. As |
could not invite him TO come home
with me, | did the next best thing. !,
invited him TO call on me. | was told
that he was fond of adventures. so II
gave the invitation as much color as
| could. Do stand pardoned?"
Indeed you do cried Fitzgerald
So this was the Kllligrew his father
had known?
David Fitzgerald your father;
That makes all the difference in the
world" The admiral thrust out OIL
hand. your father wasn't a good
business man. nor was he in the navy.
but he could draw charts Of the At
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-03-08
CHAPTER ".

PIRATES AND PRIVATE SECRETARIES.
Ut was little station made gloomy
by a single light. Once In so
often a fast train stopped. II
properly Jagged Fitzgerald, fee
ing wholly unromantic. now that be
had arrived. dropped his handbag OIL
the damp platform and took his bear
ings. 1t was after shutdown. The sea,
but a few yards away, was a murmur
ing, heaving blackness. save where
here and there a wave broke. The
wind was chill, and there was the
hint of q storm coming down from
the northeast.
ANY hotel in this placer be asked
Of the ticket agent, the telegraph oper-
ator and the baggageman, who was
pushing a crate Of vegetables on
truck.
Swans hotel; only one"
'Do people sleep and eat thereT
eff they have good digesdOns."
Much obliged. Is there a house
hereabouts called the top O. the hillr'
Come over here" said the agent
''See that hill back there. quarter Of {
mile above the village; those three
Hghtsi Well. that's it They usually
have a carriage down here wher
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1910. by BObbs- Merrill cOmpany.l

they're expecting any one
who owns iii"
"Old Admiral Kllligrew. Didn't you
know itT'
"Oh. Admiral Kllligrew; yes. Of
course. I'm not a guest Just going
up there on business. Worth about ten
millions, isn't he9"
THAT and more. There's bis yacht
In the harbor. Oh, he could burn up
the village, pay the insurance. and not
even knock down the quality Of his
cigars. Hes the best old chap out.
None of your red faced, yo-hoing,
growing seadogs; just a kindly, gen
erous old sailor. with only one bee In
bis bonnet"
what sort Of BEEF"
Pirates" in a ghostly whisper.
Pirates? Oh. say. now" with a
protest.
Straight as a die. He's got the finest
library on piracy IN the world. every
thing from the Pirates Of Penzance' to
The Life Of Morgan
But there's no pirate ahOat these
days"
mot on the high seas. no. It's Just
the old mans pastime. Every so often,
be Goals up the yacht. which Is seven.
teen knotter. and goes OF to the south
seas, hunting for treasures.