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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

She's been waiting all this time, and
when she sees how that promise has
gone to the Limbo OF Forgotten Things
in your mind, she treats you to per-
fectly unaccountable season Of what you
call temperament"
You don't understand.
You feel that you have to learn all
over again-and you thought you knew
her so Well,
Then all of a sudden you meet another
kind of woman. placid, calm, perfectly
reliable as to the things she is going to
do, and say, and think.
You rejoice.
AT last you have found the ideal The
woman Of absolute united equilibrium
Folly of follies. You have merely
found the exception that proves the
rule.
What you have found is the feminine
brain that does not deviate that does
not turn upon itself with mystifyirs con-
volutions, merely because there is not
enough brain to be convoluted.
You have found a beautiful. smooth
blank.
Behind that placidity you think you
see sweetness Of temper. great self con-
|rol. Behind that chariness Of speech,
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have reached that closed door, is an icy,
devastating. keep your distance sweet
ness.
You never can tell about women.
You shrlvel in the freezing atmosphere
Of your adored lady's laughing sarcasm
and Indifference.
When she could be warmly personal,
she is innocently general When, by all
rights, she should be placing a flower In
your buttonhole or particularly noticing
your tie, she envelops herself with a
perfectly polite and sweet remoteness
that keeps you fun four feet away ma
terially. and about lo,coO miles off spir-
itually.
And you wonder why.
You think of all your sins and short
comings of the immediate present, and
you know there is absolutely nothing you
have done--(that she could have found
OUT. Foolish man. If you were better
versal I'm the lore of following that CIR
cuitous path of thought behind womans
fair face. you would bark back TO four
weeks ago--or four months ago-as the
case may be. when you promised her
something and then forgot all about It.
She hasn't forgotten
You bet she hasn't.
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same way, bur every one of us can work
in some way to make things better
That is the way to pay our debt for
tie blessings we enjoy.
That is the way to balance the account
and and be square with the world.
The ruins of dynasties past away
In eloquent silence lie,
And the despot's fate is the same today
That it was in the days gone by.
Age inst all wrong and injustice done
A rigid account is set,
For the God who reigned over Babylon
Is the God who is reigning yet
We think of divorce as a modern thing,
a development CT the past so years
Yet it has been recently discovered that
during the reign of Hammu-rabi, king of
Babylon, about 2230 b. c., divorce was al
most as common as with us.
Babylon was great and beautiful
charming of which those faroff times
could boast.
1t contained culture and learning,
wealth and art
Its hanging gardens were famous. It's
architecture was the wonder of that day.
1t was the chief seat of ancient civiliza-
ton.
1t was religious after q fashion--had
several religions, in fact Its priesthood
constituted g powerful hierarchy.
1t had amusen ents, material prosperity,
wide dominion.
Its women We're beautiful, yet their
virtue became byword
And Babylon fell.
Today only a heap of ruins in the
desert marks its site.
Its name has become term of re-
proach to all nations
Much of our Christian Bible is given
up to denouncing 1t.
The fall of it's womanhood is the
chief charge against It,
We must go back 1000 years to this
Babylon to find a parallel for the di-
vorce evil of our day.
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" HE end is in sight Shops are
concentrating, houses are being
demolished where they are no
longer needed. purchases of materials
are made cautiously, army officers are
speculating about future details, the
Federation of Womens clubs has held
its last annual meeting. And yet, not
withstanding the unmistakable signs
of an early end. there are at the mo-
ment more men actually employed on
the canal zone than at any previous
time--over 10000. The whole organi
zation is working at it's maximum ca
pacity.
Yes. this Is THE time to see the canal.
The hospitals and the penitentiary are
in smooth working order. The quarters
supplied by the authorities are fully
occupied--congested at some places, the
official reports say---and besides, whole
villages of unofficial commercial tene-
ments are crowded, really congested,
with laborers and their families. Con-
gestion of population and extortionate
rents are among the sights of the
canal zone which may be less in evil
dence next year than this. The red
light" districts of Panama and Colon
will no doubt remain. at least for
while. and the lottery (for these are
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rector of the photographic institute of
Geneva, lost his left hand for the same
cause, while his partner, DR.. Leroyer,
had sacrificed two fingers. Both are go
ing forward with their experiments.
Late in January Sir George Turner, af-
flicted with leprosy as a result of a
heroic work for the lepers of South Af
rica, announced that he was going back
to devote his life to a battle with the
dread disease
At about the same time DR.. friedman
laid his famous tuberculosis cure before
the chief of the German public health
department and invited the severest tests.
This cure has long been a mystery. 9th
ers claimed to have discovered the secret,
one from a former employee of DR.. Fried
mann, another from culture taken from
a Friedman patient. 1t was to give
the public the real cure that DIR. Fried
mann took this radical step, though to
do so he handed to the world the results
of long years of patient research and
skill
1t is thus that men give themselves for
the health of their fellows.
There is infinite hope for an age in
which such men thus give life and limb
or the fruits of ife's work for the
good of mankind. There is no complaint,
rather a cheerful and matter of fact
surrender OF their all that others may live
To be worthy to live in time that pro-
duces these and countless other martyrs
to science it is necessary that we do
something.
L. is high standard they set before us.
But surely we are good enough sports to
accept the challenge.
We, too, will serve mankind, each in
his own way, in an attempt to play in
the high game of this second decade of
the twentieth century.
We may not be martyrs to science or
martyrs to anything else, but we, too,
can help on the worlds progress.
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XZES our sins are pretty numerous,
but we are going to grow out of
L them by the power of judicious
idealism. Dirt we have, and schisms we
achieve, and poverty, with all it's ills.
we even cultivate in blundering and
unintentional sort of way. Nevertheless,
whoever has studied the spirit of Br-
mingham will bear witness that it has
the sturdy will to emerge from the
chrysalis state into something radiant
and free
Hence I venture to go on with these
Lenten meditations. and find what else
is awaiting improvement or being left
unimproved Is snare and a civic sin.
The next ensuing suggestion is that our
civic system is chargeable with sinful
waste, and that falls into its place as
sin number 4. Indeed. it is not logical
TO put down waste itself as a chief civic
sin. with many manifestations. This 1
can illustrate voluminously:
l. There is waste in the police sys-
tenn because it is fundamentally archaic
and stupid. Who ever heard of a police
man knowing anything except the way
TO snap gives on a mans wrist? This
is his sphere of activity; to this he is
taught to restrict his attention. And yet
it is to be supposed that an Alabamian.
though a policeman, is as well endowed
in the matter of human intelligence as
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however. it has been tried with great
success in Europe.
As advocated in the United States the
mothers pension is supposed to cover
only cases of actual need-where the
mother has been left a widow or is in
INDECENT circumstances for other rea-
sons.
The argument in it's favor is not only
sentimental, but economic. 1t is claimed
on expert authority that it is cheaper
to give the mother certain stated
amount TO look after her little ones than
it would be to keep them in an institu-
tion.
Sounds reasonable. doesn't it?
Besides, it is better for the children.
Their mother is their natural protee-
tor.
A child needs a mothers love and care
as much as ii needs food. clothing and
shelter.
In after years it becomes better man
or woman because of the memory OF a
mothers love.
Such recollection lends moral stature
and spiritual background.
Who ever heard of any one shedding
tears or resolving to reform and lead
better life over the memory of an in
stituton?
Only the thought of mother can work
these spells.
We give countless millions to the care
of helpless adults, to the insane, the very
poor and the defective.
Yet these have no future. Neither are
they of any benefit to society.
Why should we not give to the care
of the children? They are the citizens Of
the future.
There exists as great sentimental rea-
sons to cherish them as to house the de-
fective adults In addition there is the
powerful economic reason that every dol
lar expended for them is more than re-
paid in their value to society. Charity
for them Is not a gift, but an invest
ment.
The most businessll<e way to make
this Investment is to place it in the
hands of their mothers. That plan in
sures the largest return on the money.
Each of us can help in this worthy
cause by seeing that the legislators OF
our respective states exact mothers pen
sion legislation.
IL you think well of it why not write
to your state senator and representative
to that effect?
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velocity and deadliness of execution.
Tipped with triangular flints with
rough edges and pointed sharpness.
they were driven with an aim so un-
erring and with such force and celebrity
that they could be shot through a man
or beast at the distance of 100 yards
With a culver full of these arrows
strapped to his back, the brawny war
rior would sally forth an object of
terror.
Fortunately for the Spaniards, they
were prepared with armor sufficient
to Withstand these crude weapons for
each soldier wore a coat of steel, a
helmet and breastplate and carried a
shield of metal. Their horses were also
protected with coats of steel With
their biscayan lances, broad swords,
arquebuses. erossbows and small
piece of artillery the Spanish felt Sc
cure against the primitive implements
of the savage. Though thus secured
against savage attack, DeSoto and his
men soon learned that theirs was not
a primrose path through the American
wilds. The Indian proved to be a ter
rible antagonist with his foxy stra-
tagem and his primitive method of
warfare. These pampered sons of
Spain, petted and nourished in man.
sions and in palaces of luxury, had
daily to fight for their lives on the
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HEART TO HEART TALkS-By James A. Edgerton

Even Rome was not so bad, although
Rome also was lax. and Rome also
fell.
These are the facts, pointing like
warning fingers out of the ages.
Their moral is so obvious that 1t need
not be pointed out.
We may all have our opinions about
divorce and kindred things, but even
the babel of opinion grows silent be-
fore these awful witnesses from the
past.
We cannot argue with these gaunt.
accusing fingers.
Over and over again we have heard
the truth that the temple OF civilization
is reared upon the cornerstone. of the
home.
Babylon's cornerstone crumbled. Her
house fell and great was the fall of il.
TIL enolse thereof still echoes along
the ages.
The other day it was found that
three-fourths of the homes of Boston's
aristocratic Back Bay section are child
less.
No: I am not saying that we are go
ing the way Babylon went-nothing of
the kind.
But
The law of cause ana effect has not
DttI Icptdicu.
Facts are facts and righteousness is
righteousness.
Likewise
The God who reigned over Babylon
Is the God who Is reigning yet.
A short time ago the newspaper re-
ported the first mothers pension ordered
in Philadelphia.
~ de-. -, III al
though there has been more or less agi-
tation in its behalf for the past few years,
and some progress has been made in Illi-
nois and elsewhere.
Now comes the welcome news that
mothers pension legislation is before the
legislatures of many states.
While the idea is new in this country,
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prise of his pursuer: s.Slay me not. too
am a Christianl The half nude savage
was taken 10 DeSoto, his body smeared
with divers paints. his hips swathed in
a fawn skin girdle, and his head be-
decked with coronet of pretty feathers.
He told the story of his capture and wild
life to the Spanish commander, and placed
himself at his service. Ortiz proved TO
be a valuable ally to the troop in ae-
auainting DeSoto with the methods of the
savages, and in serving frequently as
an interpreter
DeSoto found the aborigines to be
far more formidable fighters than he
had expected. While their implements
of combat were rude. yet when Weld
ed by the Indian they did deadly ex-
ecution The chief weapon of warfare
of the Indian was the bow, the char
acter of which made. it an object of
terror. The bows were made of sun
cured hickory saplings the size of a
mans wrist and eight feet long. Curved
and secured by strip of rawhide, the
bow was no mean instrument of peril
in the hands of the muscular savage.
To the flexibility of the hickory bow
and the elasticity of the thong was
adjusted the skill and aim of the prac-
tised warrior The arrows were fin
ished with a view to accuracy of aim,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-03-02

People go up hill by marching and
climbing.
The world is constituted of the people
who are in it. We are among these peo-
pie. and the world is what we collectively
make it.
If the world is growing better, as we
SO often hear, it is because we are maxi
ing it better.
Are we individually doing our part?
Can we each of us say, II left the world
a little better for my being here?"
If not, we are a hindrance rather than
help to mankind.
That is about the worst thing that can
be said of a man.
1t convicts him of getting something
for nothing.
He receives the advantages of civiliza-
ton, culture, free government, enlighten-
ment, great inventions, religion, art, lit
e,atllre humane institutions and general
advancement.
The only way he can make repayment
for these blessings is by adding some
thing to them.
He cannot pay the past That is gone.
But he can pay the future.
This is the course of life
We repay our parents for their care of
US by our care OF our own children.
Ii we shirlz, we are getting something
for nothing.
Here is story of some people who are
doing a very definite service to make the
world better:
The Babies Welfare association of New
York city recently reported that the death
rate Of infants under one year old had
fallen in the past year.
During the year 1912 there were 1929
deaths of such inlants as against 1908
the previous year.
Yet the births in 1912 exceeded those of
1911 by 1881.
The decrease in infantile mortality was
due to the work of so societies banded to-
gether in common campaign.
We NAV not he able to work in the
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YU/HEN you want to boost a
M friend don't tell him how
w good he is; tell others

w friend don't tell him how
w good he is; tell others
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tence.
Your telling him may give him self
confidence and may give him a swelled
head. It stands about the same chance
of doing harm as good.
But there is no mixed or doubtful re-
suit about telling it to others That
can only result in doing him good
Each of us can remember men who
have been started upward by that sort
of boosting
Some one drops an incidental re-
mark:
Hello! There's young Brown He's
making good"
lust mental seed sown. but 1t takes
root and grows.
A few days later Browns name is
mentioned in the presence of one who
heard this remark. The associated
ideas work and he replies:
Yes, hear good reports of him."
That seed also falls in fertile ground.
Meanwhile the friend is not idle. BY
y
sings Browns praises. If wise and
tactful he is careful not to overdo it.
In short time there is a whole har-
vest Of good thoughts and words about
young Mr.. Brown.
BY and by some employer wants a
man for an important place.
What about this young fellow
Brown" he muses.. .I have heard him
well spoken off,
He investigates and If he finds moth
ing of moment against the man all
these words in his favor have weight.
Result-Brown receives the offer Of
the important place.
Then it is up to him. If he makes
good the world is before him.
He got his chance because a friend
spoke of his good points-to others.
That method of boosting, or some
thing very like it. has been used more
than any of us probably imagine.
Nor has it been set in motion as the
result of collusion. 1t came about SIM
ply and naturally because one man be-
lieved in another and wanted to help
him on.
If you would boost your friend.
praise him--to others.
have always observed 1t is these quar-
ter hours that decide the fate of battle
Napoleon.
owe everything in the world to being
always a quarter Of an hour beforehand -
Admiral Nelson.
nc Of the secrets Of most great gem
erals As that they strike first.
This was true of Napoleon. 1t was also
true of General Grant in our own civil
war
II was true OF Admiral Nelson, the
greatest English naval hero.
All of us have to fight battles--if not
with bayonets. then with muscle. brain
or moral forces. Competition Is a battle,
and we are all competing In one way or
another.
Energy, promptitude and swift action
are as necessary in peace as in war.
The man wins who goes after thing
while the other fellow is thinking
about It. e M
OF course. wisdom and common sense
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The Last Word

"Charey, dear" said young Mrs. Tor
dns. I'm going TO be suffragette and
march in a parade
You are. eh,'
"Yes. l feel 1t my duty to show an
active interest in politics.
II see. Well. what are your views on
Schedule X of the tarin?'
That's not politics. That's the alpha
bet.'
well. how about direct primaries or
the initiative and referendum
"oh. | never pretended 10 know much
Latin"
How about banking and finance?"
why. they seem all right. dent
they?'
"fou see he shouted triumphantly
you don't know thing about the sub
jects that are being discussed
well. Charley, DEAR you mean we'll
Of course. But l must say that 1t seems
very stupid and silly of you to learn all
those hard words aud puzzle over prob
lens tc show your interest in politics
when we can do so simply by marching
n parade - Washington Star.
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LV/ HEN the learned scribe remarked
. that man is fearfully and Won
derfully made, where were his

A.
M that man is fearfully and won
derfully made, where were his
wits? How did he happen to overlook
woman, when holding forth an example
illustrating fearfulness and wonderful
ness of making? II there is anything
more wonderful, more incomprehensible,
more un-get-at-able than the workings
of womans mind, show it to US. A
mans mind may be fairly we'll Judged
by his life. One may rightly appraise
the mental workings going on behind
that noble brow. by his words and his
actions. Not so with women. Never
think you may draw logical conclusion
as to her thoughts. by what she says,
or what she does. Never make the mis-
take of thinking you know what a
woman thinks
You don't; ever.
just when you think SO, take my word,
you are furthest off.
Her words may indicate certain view
point; her actions likewise.
But look In her eyes.
Back Of the surface innocence and can
dor you see an unfathomable something.
and you cant decipher It, As matter Of
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must be used. But where one man has
lost through rashness, ten have failed
through procrastination.
John Wesley once remarked to q dila-
tory cab driver, 'I have lost 10 minutes
forever" That is loss which can never
be repaid. There may be other 10 min
utes, but these never return.
Moreover If we get in the habit of
procras tinating these others will be lost
In the same way.
Time is but the opportunity to achieve.
We talk of killing time but the phrase
is misnomer. All that we kill is our
own chances.
Time to the wise man is a treasure to
edge, wealth, fame, attainment or service.
Time to fooi is but an invitation to
folly. means of self destruction. Time
to the idler is. bore.
Usually it is safe to judge a man by
the value he places on time--it is a re-
lection of his own real value.
Time is the one thing we cannot hoard.
we must use II or it escapes us.
Some poet has said that opportunity
knocks but once on each OF our doors, but
III reality every moment is an oppor-
tunity.
Time is the great democratic comes
aike 70 all. But, neglected, this hour
now--returns no more forever.
10 Napoleon, Nelson or Grant quar-
ter hour means the difference between
victory and defeat; to all OF us it may
mean the difference between success and
failure.
Ihe other day DR.. Paulin Merry, former
deputy for Paris, died as the result Of an
operation at the age of 3d.
me operation wss on his right hand be-
cause OF injuries received during x-ray
experiments Despite injuries and warn
ings he had kept on with his work. He
died martyr to science
A short time earlier DR.. Simon, di-
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The God who reigned over Babylon
Is the God who Is reigning yet.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-03

terial of which the wrap No 1874 is de-
veloped and brought up to the minute
in style With d square mole collar. 1t
can be used for carriage wrap, or, if
copied in black or dark colors, it will
be equally attractive for afternoon.
The most artistic evening gowns of
this season reflect the new art ideas in
combining queer colors. The dress on
the left of this page IS one such effect
developed in white satin souple for the
foundation, with an over drapery of
cerise satin striped net. the stripes of
which are placed al right angles 10
give the becoming lines. There is
white lace in the bodice, laced with
gold cord. and gold tassels weight the
corners of the Tnodlsh tunic. This mod
ell can be copied with pattern No. 1888,
and viii be one Of the best for use in
remodeling a dress Of last season. II
suggests also a becoming style for a
stout figure The price of each pat
| tern illustrated is Is cents
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-03

re EPARTMENT stores. specially
shops and even jewelers. are
''A showing a greater assortment of
bags and reticules than previous holi-
day seasons have disclosed. There is
no limit to the number which can be-
utilized in the fashionable wardrobe,
for they are as varied as the gowns
themselves and chosen to match or
suit this and that costume.
Just now small silk or velvet opera
bags with gorgeous mountings or with
rich embroidery are carried to the OPP
era or evening musicale. Two of the
latest opera bags are illustrated here
with and have designs which may be
reproduced by the skillful needlewom-
an with designs of pattern No. 14141.
These are made of silk with embroid-
cred sections mounted over pieces Of
pasteboard in the shapes shown. A
combination Of silver or gold thread
embroidery with beads is even richer