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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
St. Patrick's Hymn

An ancient Irish hymn said to have been written by Patrcius about A. D. i4o. when he was about to convert the chief monarch of the Green Isle. has the following stanza:
 ''I have set around me all these powers Against every hostile savage power Directed against my body and my soul. Against the incantations of false
 prophets.
 Against the black laws of heathenism Against the false laws of heresy, Against the deceits of idolatry, Agains, the spells of women. and smiths
 and druids,
 Against all knowledge which blinds the
 soul of man.
 In oiden times magic and black art. were supposed to be praotsed by old women and blacksmiths. Against these witches and wizards and also the druid, St. Patriek's hymn invoked the benisr power of his religion.
 The druids he feared were real or imag- mary survivors of the ancient religious cult of the Celts. then supplanted by Christianity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Sour Kraut as an Aid to
 Long Life

Ever since Ellie Metchnikoff, director of the Pasteur institute. Paris, announced his discovery of the little germ. con tained in sour milk and buttermilk, which tends to the prolongaton of human life many persons have acquired the habit of drinking sour milk daily. Many others, to whom sour milk is extremely distasteful. have reluctantly done without 1t while hoping anad longing for the discovery of some other equally efficacious prolonger of life.
 One has been found at last. II is a little germ contained in sauerkraut. A tactic acid bacilli has been found in sauerkraut possessing all the good quail ties of the tactic bacilli in sour milk. If you cannot take the sour milk 1t Is now suggested by MetchnilSoff that you try the sauerkraut treatment to offset the ravages wrought by time and old age on the human system. In the latest reports of work done by the Pasteur institute Metchnilloh cites a large num- bor of cases of men and, women who have greatly improved their chances of reaching ripe-old ags by partaking freely of sauerkraut
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

l "St Patrick was a gentleman
 Who came of decent people; 1 He built church in Dublin town
 And on it put steeple. | His father was a Gallagher, His mother was a Brady, | His aunt was an Shaughnessy, lis uncle an O'Grady."
 Old Rhyme.
 "St. Patrck's Day in the Morning wasn't begun properly if you neglected to have on your breakfast table pot of vivid little shamrocks. If nothing better than distant grand parent. it's a mighty poor American who can't establish some sort of claim to the "Ould Sod
 Even an aunt by marriage, not to speak of your grandmother swapping cats with somebody else's grandmother, justifies you in celebrating the day and "Wearing of the Green"
 Don't you think it is a good idea to set aside some day to let ones patriotism run riot anyway?
 "St Patrick's day in the Morning seems to me to fairly mark the line when winter should by every sign of spring in the calendar have finished passing.
 'If you've ever happened to be in St. Patricks own isle on this day. the loyal Irshman will tell you, you will know how the breakfast table looks."
 A pot of shamrock on the plate of the mistress and one by the plate of the mas ter of the house you'll see. In the old days, before prohibition had come into it's own it was the custom 10 drown the shamrock, in the generous draught of the demon that St. Patrick might have slain to excellent advantage, after he had finished ridding Ireland of the snakes.
 All that was left in the bottle after the drowning of the shamrock was sent down to the kitchen for the servants.
 In Ireland on this day the poor are al- ways remembered.
 There is "Patricks Pot of beer or whisky for the vagabond of tho road. and with it he is invariably offered oaten bread and fish.
 St Patrck--brave man, Nine hundred thousand reptiles blue
 He charmed with sweet discourses And dined on them at killaloe
 In soups and second courses; Where blind worms crawling in the grass
 Disguised all the nation, He gave them a rise Which opened their eyes
 To sense of their situation"
 It is a poor person who can't look back and sigh for the happier days of the long ago.
 There's certain satisfaction in sadness for dear forgotten things
 Memory has a lacquer all her own with which she washes over the days of the past.
 The good and loyal Trishman (even If he's never been in Treland) feels today a proper and most commendable "Heim- wah" of the Spirit,
 His loss is all the greater because he has difficulty in recalling memories of what he has never known. 70 was l but so fortunate
 As to be back in Munster; 1 'Tis I'd be bound from that very ground I never would stir: 1 For there St. Patricls planted turf And plenty of the prates, l With pigs galore, MaGras a store | And cabbages-and ladies. So success attend St. Patrick's fist l For he's a saint so clever. | O he gave the snakes and toads a twist ! And bothered them forever" l St. Patriclis mother, you remember wa: | Sheeah, and tomorrow is her birthday so keep your shamrock green and the house luck will continue so long as il l grows.
 She liked St. Patrick passing well. and good pot Qf green shamrock bought r her honor will not be poor investment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

The napkins will be arranged in fan tastic style, learned from waitress at a family hotel, and on each table will be a menu card written with much shad- ing and many f1ourshes. Green ink will be used, of course, and there will be vivid green shades on the candles. In- stead of flowers there will be, in the center of each table, miniature bay tree in green porcelain pot Small green champagne glasses will be used as individual compete dishes and will be filled with nuts and tiny green bon bons,
 Upon their arrival in the dressinig rooms the men will be asked to don green lawn ties, with silk shamrocks for boutonneres, while fluffy bows of green tulle for the hair and snakelike bracelets of green enamel will be be- slowed upon the women.
 The hostess will wear a white gown with green bodice and green paniers while mine host will have his dress coat faced with green and will wear green tie, with green buttons on his Waistcoat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
The Age-Herald's Cuisine
PADDY,S PINCH.


 Take the juice of six oranges, six lemons, one pneapple, a pound of white grapes and pound of sugar: squeeze, strain and stand on ice. Take one tum- bier of French brandy make a small spice bag, heat the brandy hot with the bag in 1t, and let 1t cool slowly When ready to mix the punch put a block of ice into the punch bowl pour over the fruit juice. the brandy. teacup of rum, a half cup of syrup of ginger and two quarts of apollinaris water. Cut In half few white grapes and a few very large raisins to float on the top. The punch is dangerously good, and to one without previous experience appar- enty harmless, but bewarel for tangle- foot turks within it's depths, and shades of long banished snakes may peep from over the rim and frighten into sobriety the ''loikes O him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
St. Patrick's Day Favors

St. Patrick's Day favors and table
 decorations are more various and at tractive tban ever before. and many of them may be easily made of paper. For the table there are cloths of white paper bordered with the shamrock or harp de- signs, lunch sets with, the same decora- = tions loilers and napkins in green and white. and small flags to be used in a stand for the centerpiece. or pinned ov the cloth at intervals for border. Ice boxes and bonbon boxes are surmounted with a. bit of the sod or with shamrock or tiny flags There are also ice boxes made of the black silk hat which figures as St Patricks Day favor. and the quaint poke bonnet which Is additionally Typical of the Irish village belle is charm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
In St. Patrick's S Honor

A woman who likes to get away from the beaten track is planning to entertain her friends on St. Patrlck's Day at cafe dinner. Small tables. seating only one couple. will be arranged against the walls of her dark pannellel aiming room, and after each course there will be a change of partners. Thus each story teller will need only one new Irish joke to carry him through the meal Partners will be found at first by means of the place cards, each table having a desfgn.of it's own, in green and gilt harps pipes, pigs and shamrocks. After each course the man picks up his napkin and water glass and moves at the next table
 The table appointments will be as much as possible like those used on cafe tables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

off a piece of cake and soda or ice cream. when they should eat fairly good meal to give them strength for the afternoon: but the majority of them, he says, think that would be a waste of time. Further. 1t is positive cruelty to children to orag them around from store to store for a whole or half a day, and often they have only a dish of ice cream for their luncheon. One of these days the shops are going to give pink teas to the women free to all, and then lectures will be delivered on How to shop and not get Tagged out" In the meantime it's up to women to help themselves and eat a little something lasting, and shopping will be joy forever while the money lasts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

pink Killarney roses. Use silver candle sticks and silver and green shades. Above the table invert an umbrella of smilax, edged with fringe of pink roses and lined with silver gauge. Use green and white china, and lay beside each lady's plate a pink Killarney rose to. which the place card may be tied with a silver ribbon. At the mems plates use button- hole bouquets of shamrocks with a si- yer knot of ribbon holding the place card. A papier mache half potato holds olives beside each plate, with a little green flag stuck in the midst. The salted almonds are held in tiny silver three legged pots. The floral decorations used about the room should match those of the table. A large green cabbage Jack Horner pie is filled with favors and passed after the dessert. The. menu, as Irish as possible in it's various dainties, is suggested below:
 MENU. s4
 Killarney Cocktails. Caviar Toast. Little Neck Clans.
 HaddocS, Green Tartare Sauce.
 Irish Pigeon Pie. Pistachio Ice.
 Beef Anjou.s Mushrooms.
 Chantecer Salad Cheese Straws Pistachio Cream in Candy Killarney
 Roses.
 Turkish Coffee Shamrock Cakes.
 Forbidden Fruit Cordial
 recipe is also given for the famous "Paddys punch," for no Irish feast is complete without punch of some sort preferably. a good natured one, warranted to produce sunshine and smiles in the partaxers thereof
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
A Shamrock Dinner for St.
 Patrick's Day

Feast days and fast days follow each other in rapid succession in this first spring month, but even in the midst of the grayness of Lenten shadows there is always a special dispensation for this dear old Irish holiday, and iollity and feasting come as a matter of course.
 For the shamrock dinner the hostess may proceed as follows
 Lay the table with an under cloth ot silver gauge, yelling 1t with hunters S green chiffon. For the center piece use mirror oblong in shape, edged with heavy banking of shamrock leaves and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Orrine for Drink Habit
 TRY IT AT OUR EXPENSE

We are in earnest when we ask you to give ORRINE a trial. You have nothing to risk and everything to gain, for your money will be returned, if after trial, you fail to get results from ORRINE. This offer gives the wives and mothers of those who drink to excess an opportunity to try the ORRINE treatment. It is a very sim pie treatment, can be given in the home without publicity or loss of time from business, and at small price.
 ORRINE Is prepared in two forms: No. 1. secret treatment, powder; OR RINE No. ?. in pill form, for those who desire to take voluntary treatment. Costs only s1.00 a box. Come in and talk over the matter with us. Ask for booklet.
 Eugene Jacobs Drug Store, 1904 Sec ond avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

of St. Joseph all about 1t and she kept praying that the handsome suitor would come.
 One day-St. Joseph's Eve it was-whan the snow was falling thick and fast, she lost her temper with the long suffering saint and she told him that she had no further faith in him. To show him in what little esteem she held him. she hurled the little statue out of the window with all her might Outside she heard a cry. Because she was so lonely she went out side to investigate it.
 There at her very door, with the blood streaming from his noble forehead, lay handsome young man--the very image of the Romeo of her dreams-and she had nearly killed him with the little statue of St Joseph
 You know the ending?
 He was brought into the house and be- cause she had so nearly killed him, it was only lady like of her to nurse him back to health and happiness.
 Don't you know St. Joseph nearly split his sides laughing over the joke for of course the two were married and-its none of your business or mine to pry into annals of the after life, but let us hope they lived happily ever after.
 Pretty little story, isn't it?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
"St. Patrick's' in the Shops

Pagoda shaped parasos. with the ends of the ribs turned up like flower and finished with little gilt ball, arc seen in all shades of green.
 Summer portieres for cottage use are shown in yellow scrim with green stripes and green fringe.
 Tapestry table covers, with green cen ters and Persian colors are seen.
 Mission screens. threefold and paneled with green burlap, are lovely. Footstools in different shapes, covered with Japanese art mating, in green tints are novel.
 Luncheon sets of tan linen. the edges scalloped with green, are effective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Household Hints

Noodles cooked in boiling salted water and then drained are delicious if served with a sauce made of brown butter in which a generous amount of very fine bread cumbs have been cooked.
 f bread cumbs are to be kept for any length of time. put them in tightly corlxed wide necked bottles or in tin cans, taking care to have the crumbs perfectly cold and dry when put away: otherwise they will grow musty, if not moldy.
 After boiling ham, remove the rind and then rub as many crumbs as possible and most generous amount of brown sugar; cook the ham now for at least an hour and half in a moderate oven. You will be surprised what an entirely differ ent flavor the meat has from that which is boiled and not baked a
 Save the peelings from the peaches which are to be pickled or canned, and also the pits. These make delicious jelly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
The Irish

They have way of saying things, Just in the proper way: NO better optimists you'll find,
 Though you travel all the day. The Irish have breezy way,
 Of making you believe, That you're. the greatest thing on earth , Without meaning to deceive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Eve Up to Date

Fringes have appeared on about every thing that it is possible to put them on.
 Black and white seem to have gathered added strength in fall millinery fashion.
 Sashes are of every varienty and they hang at the back, in front and at the sides.
 Plaid waists in bright colorings are among the novelties in sem-tailored styles.
 Large bows of ribbon, taffeta. satin or velvet are a strong style point in mil linery.
 Skirts are surely becoming wider: sores arc fuller and pleats are constantly in- troduced.
 There is without question desire to bring the normal waist line into fashion again. though the flat hip is still main, tained.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
The Day We Celebrate

Hooray for Saint Pat, Put some green in your hat, And sprig of the same to the left of your chest;
 And wear wide band, Say the width of your hand. Of just tke same color athwart of your breast
 Be lively, be quick! Get out your black stick, And brandish it peacefully high in the air; -ft-tt And if we've a horse, big white one of course Come join the parade on tho street and the square. If so ye've a thirst So big ye nigh burst Hang on to the same till the sun has gone down,
 For sure all the scene Should be fashn' with green. And the red is no hue for the Irishmans town
 Step steady step true, Look spick, span and new. Behave like a sweetheart yc're tryin' 10 charm.
 Look out who Ye rap. Though a bit of d scrap or and on through the mornin' will do ye no harm.
 If so ye see snakes Remember they're fakes Just visions and dreams comin' out O your boots.
 For good old St. P. Drove 'em all in the sea. And them that ye notice are but sub stitutes.
 glad day it is, \ day fnil of whizz; "A festival joyous, and gladsome and gay
 The first of the spring, With the birds on the wing. And all the green things of the world on the way
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Why Women Shoppers Tire

Why women are so Tagged out after a
 days shopping. says the manager of a
 big department store, is because they don't take the proper food. for luncheon
 They'll shop all the morning. then lunch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
A Lenten Sunday Thought

Never was sincere word utterly lost. Never was d magnanimity fell in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
All de worl luvs CT Luver, kaze hit laks ter see CT man mek CT fool of uv hisself. Yassum.

ground but there is some heart to gree and accept it uneNpectedy.-Em Emerson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

Fringes have appeared on about every thing that it Is possible to put them on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

Tapestry table covers, with green cen
 IS and Persian colors are seen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

iission screens, threefold and paneled tn green burlap, are lovely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

Luncheon sets of tan linen. the edges calloped with green, are effective.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

St. Patrick's mother, you remember. was Sheelah. and tomorrow is her birthday so keep your shamrock green and the house luck will continue so long as it grows
 She liked St. Patrick passing well. and a good pot Qf green shamrock bought in her honor will not be poor investment
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
Dolly Recalls Some Customs Of St. Patrick's Day
  On Pot Warm Patrcks St. Joseph's Near Together

"St, Patrick was a gentleman Who came of decent people; He built church in Dublin town And on it put a steeple. His father was Gallagher, His mother was a Brady, His aunt was an O'Shaughnessy, lis uncle an O'Grady."
 -Old Rhyu1.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-05

DOZNGS OF THE VIC
Vienna. = Austrian military
aviator fell with his monoplane.
Killed.
Rome.-Mrs. Carlos Pfister,
wife of Lieut.. Pfister of the Ital-
ian navy, committed suicide here
today. Dependent over incur
able illness.
Dayton. = Booth Harrington,
Indiana playwright and novelist,
engaged to marry Mrs. Susanna
| K. Robinson.
Findlay, O.-Frank P. Stei-
man, 50, married 3 times, cut his
throat and died.
Murphysboro, Ill.-Fire, start
! ing in Lucier Opera House, de-
stroyed entire Lucier block. Loss
100000.
0pThgI1eIQ, MaSS.-f1ram w.
Johnson, Bull Moose candidate
for vice president, wound up
, 20,OOO-mile trip by predicting
that Taft would not get one cleo
tora1 vote.
Ne wYork.-Twenty members
of Republican national commit
tee, prefer Gov. Hadley, Mo-, as
successor to Sherman on Repub-
lican ticket.
New York.-Frederick New
ell came home and found wife ly-
ing in gas-hlled room with
wounds on throat and wrist. At
tempted suicide.
Washington. = Chicago Civil
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-05


leader of Black Hand gang that 3
times attempted life of John l.,
Adams, Scion.
Rock Island, Ill. = Michael
Murray, SO, serving Today SEN
tence, shot and killed by Edward
Fenwick, deputy sheriff, when he
tried to escape.
Constantinople. AZ members
of crew reported drowned by
laundering of Turkish steamer
Chanlee in Black Sea.
San Francisco.-Paciic Mail
liner San Juan, bearing bodies of
Z Americans killed in Nicaragua
revolution, arrived here.
Osawatornie, Kan.-Mrs. c.
w. Perdue, IS, and her 6-months'-
old daughter burned to death in
fire of mysterious origin.
Berlin.-Lieut. Gen. Paul Won
Windheim, Inspector general of
cavalry, thrown from horse and
killed at Doeberitz.
London.-Reginald McKenra,
home secretary, prevented from
making speech in Holborne town
hall by. uproar caused by suffra-
gettes.
Dallas, Tex.-G. H. Rose was
so affected by sacred music that
he walked into police station and
confessed to killing w. H. Nor
ris in Covington, KY, "a years
ago.
Hoboken, N. 1.-Two local po-
licemen are in hospital, one with
fractured skull, other with bullet
wound, because each mistook
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-12-26
OPPOSE CONTRACIIN PENITENTIARY
Investigators Will Report in Favor of
Some Other Labor System

Contract labor will be condemned in
the report which will be submitted to
Governor Goldsborough by the special
commission which has been investigat-
ing the conduct and management of the
Maryland Penitentiary.
The commission will not IN its first
report make any definite recommended
tions as to the method to be employed
in place of the present system, but it
will give the result of the present sys-
TEN. but it will give the results of It's
Investigations of those penal institutions
in which the State-use system is en-
ployed.
While the report has not been drafted
and will not be submitted to the Cover
nor until after January l, these conclu-
sions, it is understood have been reach
ed. The Commissioners, Eugene
O'Dunne, David H. Stewart and Geo.
L. Jones, began several days ago to
prepare ind Independently rough drafts of
these findings. These will be SUBMIT
ed to the commission at SUBSEQUENT
meetings, and final draft be written.
On the subject of contract labor the
Commissioners will say, it is understood
that this is not the best method that
can be used They will recommend the
substitution of some other system. pro-
vided one can be devised, that will keep
the prisoners employed.
Without coming out definitely in favor
of the State-use system, by which the
prisoners are employed in the manufac-
ture of articles used in State institu
tons, the Commissioners will report the
beneficial results observed at those
prisons where this method is employed.
They will suggest that the method to
be employed be made the subject of
careful investigation before the next
meeting of the Legislature, so that
some comprehensive plan may be EN-
bodied in bill to be submitted to it.
On the subject of the present and past
management of the penitentlary one of
the Commissioners said, the report
would no doubt be disappointment to
those who expected a wholesale con
demnation, 1t is said the report will
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-12-26
PARCELS POST.

On January l. Uncle Sam will put
into operation the new law provid-
ing for handling parcels by mail
at rate fixed by Zones, that is to
say within prescribed radius nearest to
the point of mailing, very low rate
will be made. increasing from Zone
to zone according to distance. Packages
are limited to eleven pounds and certain
reasonable dimensions. Marketing like
butter, eggs, ETC., can be sent by mail
short distance with little packing, and
for longer distances by being securely
packed according to prescribed regula-
tons. All interested in the possibilities
of the new system should obtain from
postmasters full information. By many,
the cheapening of transportation charges
on marketing is expected to aid in re-
ducing the cost of living and in bringing
the producers and consumer into closer
relations. What effect the new law
will have upon the country merchants is
not quite clear. The country store
keeper is a necessity and he comes into
close personal relations with his Gus
toners, supplying their needs and offer
ing medium of exchange for many of
the products of the farm. If his Gus
toners do use the parcels post to buy
from mail order houses in distant cities
so can he use it for many articles order
ed by him from the wholesaler.