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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17

August brings a number of Americans to England who lease shooting lodges and moors in the north counties and In Scotland. There are fewer this year. comes the news from London than there have been for several seasons, and the large estates are nearly all leased to Eng lshmen. MT. and Mrs. John Magee have Uric with the surrounding deer forests. The grouse shooting there is first rate and the fishing is excellent Lady John stone, wife of Sir Alan Johnstone, and Mrs. Murray Guthrie have Quart castle on the Isle of Null. Lady Johnstone was Miss Pinchot MT. Charles Ogden takes Lord Lovat's entire estate each year. having missed only one August, when 1t was leased to Mr. and Mrs. William K Vanderbilt. This season he has "Fairle,' Beauty, Scotland. Mr. Howard Gould has Edradour In fact. he has taken four moors, three from the Marquis of Tulli- bardine, namely, Dunkeld. Strathford and Edradour, and as we'll Kindrogan, froin MT. Francis Balfour. During his stay in the north, he will reside at Dunkee House. AIr Paul NJ Mills has a place in Aberdeenshire. The Duchess of Rox- burghe is a Lowland hostess and she and the Duke of Roxburghe have many friends at Floors for grouse shooting and sal mon fishing. At Balmacaan, Mrs. Brad ley Martin is giving a succession of house parties, to which many of her American friends are asked. Mrs. David Beatty is the hostess at her beautiful home on Deeside, near Balmoral. Lord and Lady Fypie have large parties at Fyvie castle for the shooting. Lady Fyvie, we'll known as Mrs. Forbes Leith of Park avenue. New York, was a Miss January of St Louis Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whit ney go abroad each year for the shooting, hut they take small place and have only u few intimate friends. This year it was Little Dalby Hall in the Melton district which they have had on a short lease. Mir William Payne Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. James Burden and one or two other friends have been there with them It is, however, a great temptation for the English correspondents of certain Amerl- csn newspapers to give each year start ling figures of the enormous sum spent by Mir and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney on his grouse shooting. MT. Whitneys grouse shooting is invariably done in modest way.
 Commenting upon the early autumn brds of passage, Town and Country com ments upon the plans of number of
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17
Godey's Lady's Book

'Can you assist me in getting some of the old fashioned Godey's Lady's Book or Peterson's Magazine? l am more than willing to pay for the trouble. F. C. B.
 Unless "grandma's attic treasures" in- clude the coveted magazines, 1 am afraid you will seek in vain Tor them after all the years that have elapsed since the publication But I let down the net The constituency is capable of greater things than this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17
Dining Etiquet

"Kindly inform me how one should help oneself to olives and cheese-that is, con vey the food from the dish to individual plates-when no spoon or fork is offered? What should one do with coat, gloves and bag when dining at a restaurant?
 .'BLANcHE." If neither fork nor spoon is passed with olives and cheese, help yourself daintiiN with your finger tips, taking care to touch rothing on the dish except what you convey to your plate.
 The waiter should relieve you of your wraps. If he does not, lay them upon q chair next to yours or hang them upon hooks or racks meant to receive them lay your gloves beside you on the table or tuck them into your bag or pocket. IT tLe bag be small, lay it upon chair,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17
REVIVAL COMES TO
 CLOSE AT OAKMAN

Oakman, September 16.-(Special)-The rotracted meeting which has been in pro- gress at the Methodist Episcopal church for the past week. is over. The visiting minister, the Rev. James T. Self, deliv- ered some very strong and helpful ser mons.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17

Misses Elna Daniel. Bessie Hulto, We- nonah E. and Mayne F. Propst left Mon- day for college. The former will attend school at Athens. The remaining three will enter the Alabama Normal college at Livngston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17

Commenting upon the early autumn brds of passage, Town and Country com ments upon the plans of number of prominent society folk thus:
 Although many have declared their in- tention of remaining at Newport and other resorts until November, yet there have been a great many leaving for New 1orl. or other cities and for country homes, while the Hot Springs of Virginia is at the threshold of gay season. Well
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17

business transaction such as this.
 
 Verses
 "Can any of your readers give me any information concerning verses which dearly love. 1 cannot inform you as to the name but will give you a few lines: If she were with me, l soon would
 forget
 My pain and my sorrow, no more would
 fret;
 One kiss from her lips, one look from Would make me content and willing to
 die SARAH E. B." Referred to the collectors of old songs
 
 Clean White Wool Shawl
 "Can you or any of your readers tell me how l can clean q white wool shawl? l prefer to dry clean, if 1t is possible
 "B. II. Sift fine white meal into big pan and stir in for each quart q tablespoonful of salt. Mix well and plunge the shawi into it, treating it as if the meal were soap suds. Rub every thread between your fingers carefully to dislodge the dirt. When you have gone over il all throw away the soied salted meal and substitute another supply of the same. Dash" the sweater in this, as in rinsing water. and this done, bury it out of sight in the meal and leave il there for two days. Then shake out the meal.
 To Study Hair
 "I want to make a study of the human hair and scalp-its formation. growth, etc. Also it's enemies, the germs or mi crobes that attack it. Can any of your Cornerites help me by suggesting what
  this interesting study? I don't know whether you can handle my request or not, but your department seems a sort of universal supply bureau. So I risk my request. EDITH M. L." Readers who can answer the request by giving the names of works our member may find helpful in her studies will please the same to the Letter Box
 ''The Maniac
 Would you kindly tell me who is the author and where to get the poem called The Maniac. The first line is e l am not mad, but soon shall bel
 U. F. H." I heard the grewsome ditty 50 years and more ago. I never knew who wrote t. A wiser contemporary may recall the words and author.
 Hop Beer Will you please tell me through the Corner how to make hop beer?
 JOHN NJ" We have had divers recipes for the of ales and root beer Will some English born member oblige "John NJ" by forwarding really good for nula for hop beer?
 Foreign Recipes "A few weeks ago the following letter appeared in the Corner: Wanted Foreign Recipes. Some time igo there was an offer of Danish cooking 'ecipes from Mrs P. w." l should like 0 have her address and write to her for some of those recipes. Also some Nor vegian if they ever come to you, for my ,ook book, Cooking Recipes from All Ma ions" l wish to obtain more of these. 1 received two Danish recipes from lady n Chicago Also some nice Chinese recipes from Chicago. 1 wrote to a lady in Jersey City, N. J., for German recipes, put never heard from her MRS M R. As am still desirous of getting recipes Tor my book, l write to correct the mis- take of the last initial. L. It should be R. MRS. M. R." Thus far we have had not single let ter in reply to your first communicate Otherwise you would have heard from us. The second application may be more successful. I hold your address
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17
White Cake Filing

Boil together, without stirring, a cup ot granulated sugar and one-third of cup of water until the sirup threads. Have ready the whites of two eggs beaten stiff, with a pinch of cream of tartar. Beat the hot sirup very gradually into these egg whites and whip steadily to a thick white paste. Flavor to taste and spread Immediately upon the cake layers.-By of ~ I.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17

A revival meeting will begin at the First Baptist church Sunday. The Rev. Longcrier of Jasper will assist in the meeting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17
ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Ladies of Charity will hold meet ing tomorrow afternoon at St. Vincent s hospital to make final arrangements for block day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17

The Woman's Christian Temperance union will hold a meeting this afternoon at o'clock at the First Methodist church. The meeting is important, and all members are urged to attend. Atten- tion is called to the change of hour.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17
Sweet Cucumber Pickles

Wash small cucumbers and lay them for three days in brine so strong that II will bear up all egg. Drain and lay in fresh water overnight, Line a kettle with grape eapes and put the small cucun- bers in layers in il, sprinkling each layer very lightly with a dusting of powdered alum. When all the cucumbers are in the kettle, cover them with three layers of grape leaves, then pour in cold water until the contents of the vessel are GOV cred. Put on closely fitting lid and set the kettle where the pickles will steam but not boil, for six hours At the end of that time drain the cucumbers, throw them into cold water, and leave for sev- eral hours. then drain again and pack In jars. Fill each jar to oyerfiowing with spiced vinegar. To prepare this season each quart of vinegar with six blades of mace, six alspice, eight whole cloves, eight black peppers cupful of gran ulated or light brown sugar. Bring to a hard boil. stirring well, and pour into the jars. Do not use these pickles in less than three months-By request of l.. C. II.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-17
MARION TARLAfTD'S HELPING ! HAND HINTS FOR THE HOME
By MARION HARLAAD

thing for nothing in the line of regular business transaction such as this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Advance Step by Methodists

The Methodist church, the northern enc, has just taken what it regards as one of the most important in the whole his- tory of it's benevoence. Further. it re- gards the step also as furthering unity within itself beyond almost any other taken since it's benevolent work was founded. The step consists in bringing under one commission, called the commis- sion on finance, home, foreign and other mission work, education and all causes for which people in Methodist churches are asked to give, apart from support of their own churches themselves. The step is much greater than a duplex envelope, and goes much farther than the every member canvass recommended by the laymen's missionary movement
 Heretofore Methodist societies carry ing on work outside of local churches, and appealing to Methodists for money to prosecute them, have managed each it's own affairs, gotten as much money from Methodsts as possible. and made re- ports to Methodists of the manner of ies expenditure. Each society issued it's own literature each sent out it's own men to make appeals for money. Competi- tion and overlapping were inevitable. Hereafter all societies appealing for money will submit their desires to the commission on finance. Such of these as are approved form parts of one com prehensive budget This budget is ap- portioned among the churches, and it is recommended that weekly, not annually. as heretofore, Methodists be asked to give or lay by specified sums of money
 Tn the issue of literature, in the making of appeals by secretaries and mission aries in pulpits, and in general publicity, all societies in American Methodism stand on the same basis The needs of all are presented. There has been set up no expensive machinery for Metho- dists to pay for since the societies are themselves to provide the speakers to make the appeals, and bear their travel ing cost If a speaker go out from the foreign board he speaks also for the home and vice versa. The new plan, legally started at the general conference last May, has just been put Into opera
 ton, literature explaining it 10 the church.
 es not having yet been prepared The
 plan is regarded by Methodists as busi-
 ness one of far reaching merit and con sequence.
 '',rhe Federal Council of Churches. !"
 said one of the Methodist secretaries,
 "brings religious bodies in America into cooperation. In precisely the same way this commission on finance, and It's new plan affecting Methodist benevoience, brings Methodist missions and other causes appealing for money into close re- lation and cooperation. There is to De not merely a gain in receipts, and saving of expenses. but there VIII result to American Methodism wide knowledge of itself by its supporters. and sym pathy of lines of work other than that in which particular people are inter ested, that is bound to prove of tre- mendous value. 1t is Methodist con tribution to unity within itself that has
 long been needed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
New Federal Council Head

The Federal Council of churches has elected, at it's quadrennial meeting just held in Chicago, the Rev. Dr. Smaller Matthews of Chicago as president, to sue ceed Bishop Hendrix of the Methodist church. south, who has been president since the organization of the council. The change from south to north means also a change from Methodist to Baptist. Pro- lessor Matthews is at the head of one of the largest religious federations t--e Protestant world has vet known. carry
 ing on work that touches the whole coun- try and in some measure Protestant mis- sionary work of the whole world.
 Professor Matthews is Maine man just turning 50, or will do so in few months. He has been prominent in the Christian world of affairs for years, his latest connections, up to his election as head of the council. being the editorship of the Biblical World' and religious director of the great Chautauqua reading and other work of education. He has long been dean of the Biblical depart ment of the University of Chicago, a de- partment which he created. He has been a prolific writer on religious topics, his Social Gospel" being the standard au- thority in it's field. His election to the federal council does not mean giving up any of the other positions mentioned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
LIVE CHURCH NEWS
 OF WHOLE WORLD
Body of Late Pope Still Lies
 at St. Peters
NEW COUNCIL HEAD
The Rev. Dr. Smaller Matthews Suc- ceeds Bishop Hendrix-Advance Step by Methodists-The
 Smaller Bodies Uniting

Pope Plus X is in hie 18th year and in good health, but were he to fall critically i'll, 6 situation demanding immediate ac- tioh would exist concerning his tempor- ary burial. Were nothing done. an an- cient custom of the Catholic church would have 10 br broken When the late Pope Leo XIII died, his body was placed in sarcophagus, which can be seen by all visitors to St. Peters, prom inently placed above a door leading to the great dome and at the left of the entrance to the chapel, where the can ons of the Cathedral hold daily services. This has been the sarcophagus wherein have been temporarily laid the bodies of dead popes of Rome for centuries.
 Sometimes during their lifetime, but cftener by directions left in their wills, Popes provide permanent resting places for their bodies. which are removed to these permanent places after they have lain q time in the historic papal sarco- phagus. What was at first a conven- fence has come to be a custom, hard to be broken. Pope Leo XIII ordered, through his executors, Tadolini of Rome to make a monument This was long ago completed and for two years has the main altar in the church of St. John Lateran.
 It is customary not to remove the body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
The Most Sacred Spot
The Christian Herald.

Ine CnflSlla0 Herald.
 The one spot which. more than any other, has controlled the history of Eu- rope lies, strangely enough. not in Eu- rope itself, but in Asia For the possess sion of the site where Christ 'suffered. was buried and rose again more blood has been shed than for any other. An immense number of lives were laid down during the crusades; and for GOO years before the Crusades, and even to the present time, a constant stream of pil- grims has poured into Jerusalem to wor- ship at the spot made sacred by the eru- cifixion of Christ.
 From the fourth century after Christ until 50 years ago this site was gen. orally conceded to be within the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Now two sites dispute the claim of being the actual Golgotha. This latter claimant is known as sGordon's Calvary" though to an American, pr. Harlan P. Beech of Yale university is due the actual discovery of 1t, General Gordon, the hero of Khar- toum having first secured for it general recognition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
THE PERFECT GIRL
 WEARS NO CORSETS

Ann Arbor, Mich, Letter to the St. Louis
 Post-Dispatch.
 Miss Miriam Hubbard, daughter of FL bert Hubbard. recently pronounced "the perfect girl'' physically by the director oi the girls gymnasium at the University ol Michigan, has fine curves aside from those of nature. She plays baseball and is known in East Aurora. N. Y., her home town. as one Of the best pitchers whereabouts.
 Miss Hubbard wears no corsets. Ali home she wears no hat, winter or sum mer
 Most of us eat too much, wear toe much, sit indoors too much, idle toe much pamper ourselves too much she says
 T think almost everybody bundles UT too much. They wear theil. clothing toe tight so that they cant breathe, and when they can't breathe their heads get
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
Smaller Bodies United


 United brethren and Methodist Portes- tant bodies have just held, through dele gated committees a meeting to see what can be done to get together in organic union. The three bodies tried some years since to go into three-fold union, congregationaIlsts being the other body. At the time it was discovered that the two now seeking union on their own account had more in common, and were in greater sympathy than the New Eng land body. Both the present conferreed are strongest in Ohio and the eastern part of what may be called the middle west. and 1t is stated by the press of both that the unity plans are well re- eeivxed.
 Already Kansas City University. con- trolled by the Methodist Protestants, and Campbell college of the United Breth. ren have agreed to come together, and there are other institutions that are coll
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15
The Pulitzer Estate

The Pulitzer Estate
 From the New York Times.
 Joseph Pulitzer late proprietor of the New York World. who came to America practically penniless. and who at the close of the civil war, in which he served as a gross estate, taxable in New York state, of SIS. 200, GOO. E. Halsey Malone of the law firm of Hornblower, Miller & Potter, rep resenting the estate, will make public copies of the official appraisal of Mir Pulitzer's estate under the New York state inheritance tax laws.
 MT. Pulitzer left more than $1,500,00O in public bequest and this is exempt from taxation He gave 51,000,Go0 to Columbia university to supplement s1.OOO,0OO given in his lifetime for school of journalism, and s250,0 600 to the same university for scholarships. He also left s5000 900 each to the Philharmonic Society and the Metro politan Museum of Arts. s50,000 for a fountain at Central park, and $750O0 for statue of Thomas Jefferson. besides $5010 to the Childrens Aid society. The courts held that the bequest for the foun- tain and statue were taxable, because they were not exempted under any spe- cihc clause of the inheritance tax law, and it was said that the bequests to the Philharmonic society would also be taxed.
 MT. Pulitzer s will was made public on the evening of November 1S, 1911, the day before it was offered for probate. At that time the value of his newspaper proper ties was estimated at s12,0O0,0O0, and it was predicted that his total estate would amount to at least $30,000000. He left his newspapers. the New York Morning and Evening World and the St. Louis Post Dispatch, in the hands of trustees. The New York Times in dispatch from St. Louis, published on November 14 pointed out that the appraisal of MT. Puitzer's estate would be between $1s,000,090 and S2O, 100000.
 In May, 1877. MT. Pulitzer married Miss Kate Davis of Washington, a niece of the late Jefferson Davis. He left five chil- dren-Joseph, Jr., Ralph, Herbert Con- stance and Edith. In 1866 Ralph Pulitzer married Miss Frederick Vanderbilt Webb, daughter of w. Stuart Webb. Joseph Pulitzer Jr.. married in 1910 Miss Eleanor Wickham of St. Louis.
 Minor computations which are now being made have delayed the completion of the appraisal of the property Hear
 ngs on the estate have been conducted by William Law Stout. special counsel for state controller, before Joseph I. Berry transfer tax appraiser. at 165 Broadway Special efforts were made to keep all de- tails of the appraisal secret until the date of it's filing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

muddled. The trouble WI most is that they don't exercise eaf En a1 it's rather difficult to understsaa now they can. in clothing that restricts every nor nal movement. I eat what please, but not too much"
 The physical director Of Michigan uni- versity says that Miss Hubbard has double the strength and twice the lung capacity of the average woman. while only carrying the average weight. At first it was announced that she was the only perfect type in a class of f66. but later the statement was made that she is the most perfect type of woman who has entered the university in the 13 years records of the students have been kept.
 Miss Hubbard is r years old. Her de- scription, as given by the physical direc- tor, is: Tall and slender, without very great curves: weight 1S1.5 height, 66 I inches lung capacity 2iS: strength test, 1919 pounds: lungs and heart in perfect condition.
 She attributes her physical superiority to work in the fields and sunshine In her fathers school she has been accustomed to doing the work the boys did. and has always taken all the exercise consistent with her years and strength.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-15

sidering the same step. United Breth- ren admit that their educational work is in an unsettled condition, with the future dark one. It is stated +ha1 ef. forts will be made if union is effected, to consolidate churches Tn towns con taining two or more. It is also stated that churches are to retain their names, United Brethren and Methodist Protestant as the case may be.
 The union will mean a body of nearly 800. GOO communicants, and at least 2,)00,oca adherents, and an income of about Sl5.- 0000OO a year. Both bodies are organized for vigorous missionary work. The headquarters of one are at Dayton, O., and of the other at Baltimore.