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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

terest. 1t is thestoweiing craness the steel
workers who poise on the dizzy heights
or a girder' or walk swiftly along mar
row steel path in calm defiance of death,
the riveters with their noisy steam ham
mers and the men who catch red hot
bclts IN buckets that give him unfailing
enjoyment. You and I, perhaps are as
much fascinated as the trap is. but we
feel, whether mistakenly or not, that our
time is more valuable than his and in
stead of lingering for hours, we pause for
a minute or two and then go on our way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

The president-elect is spending his last
week in New Jersey. He has declined all
Invitations for six months to come, be-
cause he does not know how long the
extra session will last, and his summer
plans are indefinite. He hopes TO go to
the Panama canal, but aside from that he
has no plans for the future He will prob
ably use little of his travel fund.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26
THE pApLoR ENTERTAINER

James Montgomery Flagg in the Amer
lean Magazine.
The parlor entertainer usually begins
his career innocently enough. Let's take
his growth step by jump. He has been,
say, rather successful writer for the
magazines, and through his talent and
his ability to placate office boys and ed
itors had gained a respectable footing on
the moving sidewalk of contemporary let
ters. He has every reason to hope for the
time when great magazine editors will
call him by his nickname and go to lunch
with him at the Players club. The flu
ture is glittering Kipling is shrinking
o. Henry's cutaway is getting bit tight
for him across the chest. He feels that,
as Gouverneur Morris would say, this is
the best of all possible worldsl
One evening, out of the Nowhere, comes
Lauder. He gives it without any an
lnouncement. The little gathering whoops
18th delight and someone says, That's
tho best imitation of Albert Chevalier |
ever heard--do it again,' From that mo-
nsent he is ruinedl
Some of the same people that were with
hln that evening are at the next party he
goes to, and they cry, Give us that AL
bert Chevalier stunt, Hank," And so it
goes. He is delighted with his success.
Nothing exceeds like success. His regu-
lar work while extremely promising, has
postponed payinent--his stunt has sue
ceeded instantly. 1t haunts him as he
tries to write that story for Munsey's.
He smiles TO himself as he hangs to his
strap on his way home in the evening,
so that those near him edge away fear
fully as from a mailman.
| He doesn't confine his imitation to even
ing parties. He will do it anywhere On
ferries, trains, in the park in restau-
rants anywhere a few friends happen to
be The years roll on and he still does
his Chevalier. He reasons it out just
as the vaudeville actor does; if he has
made hit, why tempt the fates by doing
something different? Why should he. in
i.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

The coal-ice combination is one that
catches the consuming public a-comlng
and a-going.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

New York's civic center promises now
to be near the City Hall, which is fright
fully downtown
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

s'i->ty AhiiiiohS ol uuildiS III ptthh HUH
have been shipped to Hong Kong as
freight, but those notes are printed for
China and they have not been signed.
The Farmers Almanac says. About this
time begin to look for Easter millinery,
shamrocks, marlk-down sales and the first
robin. Also the suffragists.
--------.s----
The New York sufragsts have opened
store in which comey young women
serve in sterilized rubber gloves. 1t is Sc
curing a big trade
The Baltimore Sun is led TO exclaim:
The hiker's foot is on thy shore, the girls
are at thy temple door, Maryland, my
Maryland.
BY practicing economy in other direc-
tions Vincent Astor can indeed afford to
be fancy farmer. He is one in a mil
lion.
EGGS are worth but 20 cents a dozen in
baltimore. The price in Birmingham is,
however, different matter.
The metric system was legalized in this
country fifty years ago, hut it does not
make much progress.
The trouble with that fund of the phil
anthropic Indianian is, the animals will
have to wait so long
New York's civic center promises now
to be near the City Hail. which is fright
fully downtown
The coal-ice combination Is one that
catches the consuming public a-comlng
and a-going.
a democratic administration is so near
one can almost hear the music of the
bards.
War in Mexico generally consists of
cowardly murders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26
HINTS TO HoIsEKErpERs

If you can build your stairways without
halusters-sometimes written bansters-
your boys trousers will last much longer.
Never throw hot water. on cats that are
fighting on your back porch. It makes
them howl all the louder.
A winter visitor whose room you may
happen to need should be treated cour-
teously, but you might give him the use
of an old oil stove.
dark colored pillow slip, changed oncs
a MONTH is good enough for a boarder or
member of the family who habitually uses
grease on his hair
Between keeping cows in your stable
and rentingsit FOR garage there. ia not
much to choose Chicago Tribune
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

The trouble with that fund of the phil
anthropic Indianian is, the animals will
have to wait so long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

A democratic administration is so near
one can almost hear the music of the
bards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

By practicing economy in other direc-
ttons Vincent Astor can indeed afford to
be fancy farmer. He is one in mil
lion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26
TELEPHONES

w. c.nnot hold mortnIity's strong
hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26
REMuNERATIvE RAGTIME

War in Mexico generally consists OF
cowardly murders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

The metric system was legalized in. this
country fifty years ago, hut it does not
make much progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-26

Eggs are worth but 20 cents dozen in
baltimore. The price in Birmingham is,
however, different matter.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
.Daysey Mayme
AndHer Folks
BY FRANCES L. GARsIDE.

TERE OF late scientists are dis
covering such large sized
germs in water that it is i'm
modest for one to get in a bathm5
with them unless one has on a bath
ing suit, and those floating around in
the air have names as long as a Rus
sian counts.
1t remained for the physician at
tending Daysey Mayme Appleton to
discover a new variety. In this way
has Daysey May ne at last achieved
distinction.
She had planned all during tho
piOus meditations of Lent to give
poker party after Easter, with cards
painted with such innocent symbols
as rabbits and eggs and lilies as the
favors. Then her mother fell sick,
and 1t was given up.
She would give a May Day festi-
val presenting each guest with
copy Of Wild Poems I Have Met" as
a souvenir. An aunt died. and ii was
postponed.
She would give a gab-fest July
Fourth. the amusement to consist in
blowing up firecraCkers and occasion
ally the neighbors, and her brother
broke his arm. The party was out Of
the question.
As the summer progressed Daysey
Mayme grew thin and haggard. The
was a drawn, tense look to her mouth,
such as you read of In the books, and
in her eyes there came that hungry,
longing look. always hungry, always
longing, for what. for what, for what
She grew so sick she vas sent 20
bed, guests came her mother sprainea
an ankle, her father lost all his
money. more guests came. and her
grandmother died.
Dsvsey Wayne, in her moments "
delirium, babbled about receiving
lines, banks of flowers, color schemes,
ices, favors, what's trumps, and l AN
so glad you came.
The physician shook his head
wisely.
She is afflicted with a germ of the
most virulent nature. 1t is called The
insectavum scenario festiviticus"
Lysander John turned pale; HIS wife
collapsed.
"Or, in other words" the physician
continued, the Party Germ. Until
your daughter gives that party. she
/ will never get the germ out of ner
system"
which explains why Daysey Mayme.
with two trained nurses in the re-
CelVlng line, gave party 10 neT
friends yesterday. She was getting
the party germ out Of her system,
Moral-When a woman has made
up her mind to give a party, make nc
attempt to resist her though the floods
come, crops fail, fires devastaae, fam
inc lays waste the land, and under
sirable kin arrive. For, having once
planned to give a party. she Will
never get back TO her normal self iii
she gets the insectavum scenario fes-
tiviticus out of her system.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
Mother and Father

Mothers fears that she may die are
based on the kind of stepmother their
Father viii bring the children; His
fears concern the man who will en-
joy his life insurance money.
The children are always more
grateful to Mother than to Father.
True Father has to earn the money,
but then, Mother has to coax it out
of him, and sitting downtown behind
desk can never be as hard work a S
coaXing money out Of Father
The public generally doesn't share
this opinion, but the Mother and
Father sitting in the audience, who
kept their lighter in school in spite
of her kicks and screams, and who
bought all the pretty white stuff she
is wearing, though depriving them
selves in doing it, are infinitely more
interesting than the Young Thing on
the stage. who thinks she knows al
about Life, and who doesn't know any
more about ii than a mouse that mas
lived all it's life inside a fruit cake.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
Gave Himself Away.

a well-known university professor,
who has taken much interest in the
woman's suffrage movement, was
persuaded to carry banner in a pa
rade.
His wife observed him marching
with a detected air and carrying his
banner so that It hung Imply on its
standard, and later she reproved him
for not making a better appearance.
Why didn't you march like some
body, and let people see your ban
ner?" she said.
MY dear" meekly replied the pro-
fessor, did you Sc what was on the
banner? II said: Amy man can vote.
Why can't 70"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
Up-to-Date
Jokes

A well-known racehorse owner said
to veterinary surgeon:
How is il you haven't called on me
for your account"
oh" said the vet, Il never ask a
gentleman for money"
Indeed! Then how d'yOu get on if
he don't pay?"
why, after a certain time | con-
clude he's not gentleman, and then
J ask him.
Little jim, though he attended
Sunday school every week, did not
know quite so much about Scriptural
history as he ought to nave known
but when his sister asked him
Where was SolOmons temple?' he
was rather angry that she sould think
him unable to answer a simple ques
ton like that
Don't you think I know anything ?"
he asked
well. where was it, them" his
sister repeated, and then ne informed
her.
"On the side of his head. Of course
the same as other folks. 90 you
think I'm a dunce?"
Pat was a coal miner. He lay on
his back on the rough rock and ham
mered and wrenChed at a seam of
coal above his head hour after hour.
No sinecure, Ell? But one hot even
ing when he came home there was
no supper. He ventured to complain,
whereupon Norah said:
"Shure, it's a foine man to complain
ware, Me slavin' all day like a Turk
over the red-hot shtDve. an you on
the broad O. yer back in the nice, cool
mine,"
During the sermon at a certain
church baby began to cry, and its
mother Immediately picked 1t up and
began to carry It toward the door,
stop" the minister exclaimed.
Don't go away. The baby Is not
disturbing me-"
The mother continued her way to
the door with the very audible re-
mark:
"Oh, e amt, amt e? But you're
a-disturbin' Of I'M"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24

Think how much pleasure a child
gets from sCufiing the leaves on a
fan day, or in dOnning rubber boots
and wading through the puddles
when it rains. Learn to find delight
in rain or sunshine-summer or win
ter. Every season and every type
of day has a treasure to yield
IF you love Nature and her free
forall pleasures, you will naturally
keep out Of doors. Then you will aC
quire feeling of youth.
81 am careful Of my diet because
with impaired digestion or with more
pounds accommodating than 1t is com
Portable to carry life is not enjoy
able. / am careful to get enough
sleep and rest SO that when | am
awake ! will be truly awake and
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
HER CONDITION
QUITE CRITICAL
But Roleta Lady Built Up
Her Shattered Nervous
System BY Taking Car
dui, the Woman's
Tonic.

Roleta. Tenn.-Mrs. Lizzie Perry. IT
Roleta, whose illness for three years
caused her friends much worry, makes
the following staten nts for publicA-
ton:
Il suffered terribly for three years
from sick headac and was so nerv-
Gus at times I could hardly stand 4.
l had dragging pains, and pains in my
side.
Finally, got the blues so my mem
DRY got bad and I was hardly able
to go.
Il wrote you for advice, and after
taking three bottles OF ,ardui, the
womans tonic, am stronger than
ever before, do not have headaches
or those awful pains in side, and
feel like a new person entirely.
q can never thank you enough foc
what your medicine has done for me.
believe l would have been in my
grave had It not been for Cardui.
81 wish all women who suffer would
take Cardui. the woman's tonic, AMI
be happy and healthy"
The success of Cardui in benefting
sick and ailing women is due to the
fact that it is building tonic for the
nerves as well as for the physi al
system. It is composed OF purely veg.
etable ingredients, which act gently
and naturally, without bad after-ef-
fects.
Why not try Cardui for your trou-
bles?
" B.--Write to: Ladies' Advisory
Dept, Chattanooga Medicine Co. Chat.
tanooga, Tenn. for Special Instructions
and 50 page book, Home Treatment for
Women" sent in plain wrapper, on re-
Quest.-Adv,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
New Record Needed.

At political meeting in the town Of
A, the candidate was considerably
heckled by the opposition, who had at
tended IN strong force. But after smart
ly turning the Interruptions to his own
advantage for some time, little man in
the middle of the hall stood up and
shouted: You speak like gramo-
phone"
Instantly the candidate replied: Yes,
my friend, I speak like a gramophone. I
speak from that which is within me-"
Like a flash Of lightning the retort
came back: Yes. and you want a new
record very badly"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24

he inspires. a happiness has come to
her that nothing else in life can ever
equal.
But when, as in so many tragic cases.
be is only flirting, he commits a crime
so serious it is incredible that those who
wish to keep the hearts of young wo-
men sweet and trusting and pure do
not devise a serious punishment for his
kind
1t is as if he got his hands on a
priceless volume and wrote a vandaPs
word on the opening page. Though he
may have broken no law in the stat
utes, he has violated a moral law by
destroying one girls faith.
The Tombstone.
I'VE are engaged girls write me ev-
cry day, ''and he says he loves me. but
he is always flirting with other wo-
men"
He doesn't love you, Little Girl The
man who loves a girl enough to make her
good husband has no room in his
eyes and mind and heart for any but
her
"A lover" wrote George Denison
Prentice. sees his sweetheart in every
thing he looks at"
He sees her so continuously. so clear
ly, so surely. he does not know there
are other women in the world. For him
no other woman exists Though the
girl he loves be cross eyed and snub-
nosed, he never knows that there sits
on the other side of him a girl more
beautiful.
He doesn't know it because he is NOT
a flirt, and, therefore. is sincere and to
be trusted
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
TRY INDIFFERENCE.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
am IS and in love with a man
three years my senior, and we are .
employed in the same place. s
When 7 was first employed there
he spoke quite often TO me. Now
he never shows tine slightest at
tention to me. Kindly let me
know how l can gain his love.
ANNA BELL.
l am afraid that in your eagerness
for love you have showed him you
care for him.
Don't speak to him; don't look at
him. If there is any chance for his
caring for you, your indifference will
awaken his interest quicker than an
attitude of interested anxiety.
I am so anxious for you to know
the Joy Of loving and being loved that
| don't want you to lose It.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24

II believe divide my idea of keep
ing young into three parts. LEARN
TO ENJOY. II you can't have big
things, want all the little things you
can have CORRESPONDENCE hard.
LEARN TO RELAX. Get the utmost
good out of the blessings of sleep and
rest. and don't overdraw on your
bank account of youthful vitality.
And here is my final rule: DO EV
cry LAST LITTLE THING gYOU
HAVE TO DO JUST AS WELL AS
YOU KNOW HOW. Your best Is
never too good for anything you set
about accomplishing. If you are
enjoying what you DO and doing It as
well as you know how, there Is no
such thing as an irksome task in the
world"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
YOU DON'T LOVE HER.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
] am deeply in love with a girl
10 years Of age, and we have been
keeping company for the past
three weeks. But every time I call
she tells me Of all the presents
she receives from other young
men Should I keep on calling,
or give her up? B H S.
If you loved her you would not ask
if you should give her up. That is the
last thought that would enter your
head.
Her recital Of the gifts other men
give her Is in bad taste; so also is
her acceptance Of such gifts.
/ hope she tells you in a spirit of
and is not mercenary.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
BY MAUDE MILLER.

N ONT you love youth? Don't you
want to be young and feel
young and look young?
Il want to stay young. l want to
be buoyant and youthful always.
And since just wishing does not ac-
complish much in these days. when
all the fairies are banished, I have
planned how TO so about being young
always young" So began my chat
with Dorothy Webb. the golden
haired girl who brings the spell of
youth and gayety into your hearts
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
TRY STRATEGY.
Dear Miss Fairfax.

Dear Miss Fairfax.
Met two young ladies two years
ago, and became engaged to- one
of them year ago We expect
TO get married this year, but this
other young lady is in our way,
Wherever we go she goes with ".
l do not speak to this young
lady, and I don't want her to
come up to my lady friends home.
but she is there when | am there.
She comes to my home on Thurs
days. NJ. c.
am quite sure you have exercised
a mans privilege and complained to
your f1ancee. and just as sure that it
was without effect.
Suppose you try being little at
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24

while she lives the part of Yvette,
THE Doll Girl" at the Globe Thea
ter in New York.
The Secret.
ITO keep young | think you simply
must FEEL YOUNG" she said, and
that is d matter of habit! Take a
keen interest in everything. There
are so many things to enjoy out Of
doors. Go out and enjoy them. You
know NATURE OFFERS HER EN-
TREATMENTS AND PLEAS
URES FREE OF CHARGE.
IF you want to have the magnetic
and fashionab bic beauty Of youth then
! Insist that YOU must cultivate a
habit Of enjoying Don't want all the
big things Of life that are out of your
reach.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
you HAVE 8LUNDERED.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
am nineteen. and in love with
a young man of twenty-five We
have known each other going on
four years. l have told him that
I loved him. But he has never
said he loved me. We are not en-
gagged, nor has he ever spoken Of
marriage. He seems to be very
quiet while in my company DO
you think he really loves me, or
how could | find out, as | love him
dearly. HEARTBROKEN.
You made q serious mistake in tell
ing him you loved him II means you
gave your heart to a man who had
made no effort to win it and, conse-
quently, does not prize it.
You lost by certain course. Try
the opposite course and you may win
Don't care for him so much, and lei
him see it.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
Advice to the EoveIorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

tentive to this other woman. | an
positive your sweetheart will resen
it, and show her resentment by keep.
ing the troublesome third party away
AS A GOOD FRIEND.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
I am girl of eighteen and
some time ago became acquaint-
ed with a young man of twenty
one. For two months we have
kept company steadily, but a
month ago he stopped calling.
How should | treat him when he
passes. me on the street? / can
remember nothing I have said or
done to make him act so.
e H. P
Treat him as you would any other
friend. Be agreeable. indifferently so
and do not ask him why he no longer
calls.
This will cause him to think you
haven't missed him, and he will grow
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
An ELOQUENT Answer.

Tommy-Pa, why do people talk
about the patience Of Job?
Henpeck-Because they don't know
your father, my son.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
A Following On.

The doctor had passed TO his rest.
The cortege was leaving his door,
No one attended the funeral
The patients had gone on before!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24

it."-Punch
THOSE who take the name OF Love
lightly; those who make declara-
lions in the moonlight they have
no intention Of upholding in tht\ search
ing light Of day; those who cheat and
lie in the game of hearts, will as surely
be some day overtaken by punishment
as if they had been dishonest in a man
ner more amenable to the law.
Those who use hearts for playthiugs
will some day realize that their own
hearts are being battered about. Fir
tation is "a spoon with nothing in it,"
and something worse-it is a double
edged weapon, and he who thinks to
wound others finally hurts himself more
grievously.
1t is a silly practice that becomes a
habit. The boy who can't look al a girl
without making eyes develops. unless he
is careful, into that most detestable OF
all creatures, a man fiirt He ogles in
his youth to the amusement Of the SEN
sible, land ogles as he grows older to
their eternal disgust
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24

Funeral Designs and Flowers
FOR ALL OCCASIONS.
Atlanta Floral Company
455 EAST FAIR STREET.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-09-24
The Trifer.

The man hirt is never true to any
woman. He is never good business
man. He is never a hard worker He
Is never among those who are respected
and reverenced If, when in a bank, he
makes eyes at the stenographer, the
vigilance given his bank account is dou-
bled. His word is never as good as his
bond and, though he may have a good
brain, just so long as he winks and
stares and smiles at every pretty girl,
he is believed to be Anticipated.
He is on a mental footing with the
simple man who thinks he is still child,
and drags a toy engine at his heels
Flirting is the childish toy that he still
clings to when the time comes to put
away childish things. He is not en-
titled to respect any more than if he
stopped on his way to work to engage in
a game of marbles.
Men scurn him. I'd women-Ihe sane,
sensible Nud-distrust and despise him
The mother recalls with a pang that
when she was young and impressionab BILE
she admired and believed him, and she
watches him when he approaches her
daughters as if he were a venomous in
sect
He is the olighting parasite on the
female heart. He is the degree OF
sweetness that sickens and nauseates
Incapable OF feeling any sentiment, the
tragedy is that he IS not incapable Of
Inspiring IL